Federal prosecutors are investigating California's spending as the Trump administration ramps up a nationwide fraud crackdown.

New York Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman and Minneapolis officials dismiss due process in case involving shooting of woman who sped toward ICE agent.

President Donald Trump's military authority in Venezuela was challenged on Thursday when Senate Republicans rebelled and supported a bipartisan attempt to rein them in.

Iowa Rep. Randy Feenstra raises record $4.3 million for governor race in just seven months, setting new GOP fundraising milestone in off-election year.

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said he supports the U.S. acquisition of Greenland, saying the territory has "massive strategic benefits for the United States."

A federal judge in California has rules that Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman contains sufficient evidence to warrant a jury trial, rejecting attempts by OpenAI's legal team to have the case dismissed.

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House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY), House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) told Breitbart News that Republicans have been forced to clean up Democrats' healthcare "mess;" they will invite health insurance executives later this month to testify on how to lower healthcare costs. 

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Leftist groups quickly mobilized to protest Wednesday after a woman was fatally shot during an incident involving ICE agents in Minneapolis.

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Nine Republicans voted to advance the Democrat-led health care bill Wednesday, defying the GOP to extend Obamacare subsidies.

Republican Reps. Nick LaLota of New York, Thomas Kean of New Jersey, Mike Lawler of New York, Ryan Mackenzie of Pennsylvania, David Valadao of California, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Max Miller of Ohio, Rob Bresnahan of Pennsylvania, and Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida joined Democrats to bring a vote on the health care subsidies that expired at the end of 2025.

'DEMOCRATS have increased health care costs exponentially.'

Notably Lawler, Fitzpatrick, Bresnahan, and Mackenzie also signed onto House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' (D-N.Y.) discharge petition last month that would have forced a House vote to extend the subsidies.

A final vote on the bill is now expected to take place Thursday.

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Lawler defended his vote aiding Democrats, saying the solution to fix the "broken" health care system is "through a bipartisan approach."

"Republicans and Democrats can agree that our healthcare system is broken and must be fixed through a bipartisan approach," Lawler wrote. "Enough of the blame game on both sides. Let’s focus on actually delivering affordable healthcare for Americans."

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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has maintained that the Affordable Care Act, especially the COVID-era subsidies, are responsible for skyrocketing premiums.

"Obamacare was created and passed entirely by DEMOCRATS," Johnson said in a post on X during the 2025 government shutdown. "Since Obamacare took effect, health insurance premiums have SKYROCKETED. The Obamacare COVID-era subsidies were also passed entirely by DEMOCRATS, and set to expire at the end of this year."

"DEMOCRATS have increased health care costs exponentially, and are now shutting down the government — as they try to cover up THEIR OWN FAILURES and somehow blame Republicans."

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Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) are introducing legislation that will codify into law a fortified "public charge" rule to prevent welfare-dependent legal immigrants from resettling in the United States.

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As the Trump administration continues to meet resistance from blue-state governors across the nation, California is now reaping what it sowed by illegally issuing trucker licenses to foreigners.

On Wednesday, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced that it was "reckoning day" for the state of California and its Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom.

'Gavin refused. So now I am pulling nearly $160 MILLION from California.'

In a social media post, Duffy explained the Trump administration's "demands": "Follow the rules. Revoke the unlawfully-issued licenses to dangerous foreign drivers. Fix the system so this never happens again."

Duffy's post comes after months of demanding that California revoke commercial driver's licenses illegally issued to foreigners. Duffy provided a short video showing that Newsom had many opportunities to comply with federal law.

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However, "Gavin refused," Duffy said. "So now I am pulling nearly $160 MILLION from California. Under @POTUS, federal dollars won’t fund this CHARADE."

The funding will be withheld from California beginning in fiscal year 2027.

California agreed in November to revoke every illegally issued license within 60 days. As of the January 5, 2026, deadline, California has failed to follow through on this agreement, leading to the major withholding of federal funding.

At least 17,000 licenses were expected to be revoked on Monday, per the original agreement.

According to a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration audit reviewed by Fox News, more than 20,000 active non-domiciled CDLs were issued in violation of federal rules. The FMCSA reportedly described the situation in California as a "systemic collapse" of the commercial licensing program.

"Federal regulations are clear: states must correct safety deficiencies on a schedule mutually agreed upon by the agency, and California failed to meet its commitment to rescind these unlawfully issued licenses by January 5," FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs said, according to Fox News.

"We will not accept a corrective plan that knowingly leaves thousands of drivers holding noncompliant licenses behind the wheel of 80,000-pound trucks in open defiance of federal safety regulations," Barrs added.

California DMV spokesperson Eva Spiegel responded to the loss of federal funding in a statement: “We strongly disagree with the federal government’s decision to withhold vital transportation funding from California — their action jeopardizes public safety because these funds are critical for maintaining and improving the roadways we all rely on every day.”

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While most MAHA-minded Americans are cheering in light of the CDC’s latest alteration to the U.S. childhood immunization schedule — which dropped from 17 to 11 diseases — BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales believes it’s “not enough.”

“I don’t want that to distract you from applauding what is happening now, because it’s all good changes. He can’t just like totally just bust up the entire system immediately. He’s got to get there,” she explains.

The new schedule also doesn’t recommend against getting your children vaccinated for certain diseases but instead breaks a longer list of diseases down into three categories.

In the category that’s recommended for all children, there are 11 diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal conjugate, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, HPV, and varicella.

RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and meningococcal are now in the group that’s “recommended for certain high-risk groups or populations,” and rotavirus, COVID-19, influenza, hep A, hep B, and meningococcal are in a third group titled “recommended based on shared clinical decision-making.”

“I don’t agree with any of these,” Gonzales says.

“So there is still work to be done. However, if they want to stair-step this, the way that they have stair-stepped everything else, they would do it in this way,” she adds.

And while Gonzales doesn’t believe the Trump administration has gone far enough, the left of course is claiming it's gone too far.

“There’s always the fearmongering. ‘Oh my God, RFK is taking away our right to vaccines. How many children, how many beautiful children are going to be killed because RFK didn’t give them their precious chickenpox shots?’ Well, actually, spoiler alert, zero probably,” Gonzales says.

“But let’s just be clear ... no vaccine has been eliminated. OK. The CDC is still requiring insurance companies to cover the vaccines if people want them,” Gonzales says, before playing a clip of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) claiming otherwise.

“You promised that you would not take away vaccines from anyone who wanted them,” Warren yelled at RFK Jr.

“I know you’ve taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, senator,” he responds.

“I’m not taking them away,” he added, while she continued to argue.

“Elizabeth Warren,” Gonzales comments, annoyed, “has to be the most insufferable on the Senate side.”

“Just the shrill, just like the Karen energy of like her voice makes me want to jump off a building,” she adds.

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While Democrats and their media lapdogs wail about “affordability” and chant that the sky is falling, the numbers keep humiliating the "experts."

President Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday evening that he held a conversation with radical Marxist Colombian President Gustavo Petro and invited him to the White House — while an anti-Trump protest organized by Petro was underway in Bogotá.

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Wednesday during her show's opening monologue, FNC's "The Ingraham Angle" host Laura Ingraham warned that overheated rhetoric from Minnesota Democrats could cause more violence, especially aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

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Tim Walz has effectively declared Minnesota to be at war with the federal government.

We have recently seen a renaissance of the terminal, a return to a mode we thought we had left behind.

Tech is associated with perpetual progress. What explains this seeming regression?

In computing, the new is usually synonymous with the sleek and the visual. The resurgence of the command-line interface, the text-based terminal with its blinking cursor on a monochrome screen, is therefore a development both unexpected and revealing. Developers who spent decades in the comfortable, pixelated embrace of graphical user interfaces are turning to minimalism. This turn is not merely a retreat into nostalgia or a quirk of programmer preference; it is a shift in the cognitive geography between human and machine under the influence of AI.

We find ourselves in a 'man-computer symbiosis.'

The heart of this revival is the emergence of CLI-based AI agents. These are harnesses for large-language models capable of processing language, writing code, and executing tasks. They have transformed the terminal from a niche tool for the specialist into a versatile assistant for the layman.

The CLI is quite a different medium from the GUI. While a GUI is spatial and image-driven, the terminal is rooted in language and sequence. We issue commands to achieve practical ends, a mode of thought that encourages a logical, sequential engagement with the world. We find ourselves in a “man-computer symbiosis,” as J.C.R. Licklider imagined in the 1960s, a partnership where the computer frees human intelligence from the drudgery of mundane tasks. The new AI agents handle the keystrokes and complex syntax, allowing a user to manipulate data as if using a “second brain” integrated directly into his workflow.

Sound familiar?

The dream of the automated servant is as old as myth. In the "Iliad," Homer describes the “golden handmaidens” of Hephaestus, endowed with movement and perception, who assisted the god at his forge. Aristotle speculated on a world in which the shuttle might weave without a hand to guide it, eliminating the need for human servitude. For most of history, these possibilities remained fantasies. When computers finally arrived in the mid-20th century, they were indeed programmable servants but esoteric ones, requiring punch cards or green-and-black text terminals.

By the late 1980s, the mouse-and-icons paradigm of Apple’s Macintosh and Microsoft Windows increased the accessibility of computing. The GUI was more intuitive, an interface that did not require you to memorize arcane commands. The general public grew accustomed to clicking buttons, and the terminal was relegated to the realm of system administrators and developers. The comeback of the terminal in the mid-2020s is therefore significant. The terminal has become the stage where an AI that writes and runs code could operate with freedom. We are returning to Aristotle’s vision: Every user now potentially has a digital apprentice.

LLMs are designed to handle text, and the terminal presents the computer’s functions in exactly that form. The CLI is a universal interface, a lingua franca that allows an AI to interact with digital tools without the difficulty of navigating pixel-based GUIs meant for human eyes. Command-line tools possess a Lego-like composability; they can be chained and piped together in ways that GUI applications rarely allow.

An AI agent residing in the terminal benefits from a unified environment with low friction, with no need to hunt through menus; it calculates, types, and executes. Developers are moving away from previously dominant integrated development environments to these command-line agents. Whether OpenAI’s Codex CLI, Anthropic’s Claude Code, or community-driven projects like OpenCode, these platforms share a core mechanism: a conversational command-line where the AI interprets instructions and takes actions on the user’s behalf.

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The effects are immediate and striking. Tasks that once required specialized training, such as querying databases, deploying websites, and analyzing logs, are now performed by marketing teams and graphic designers who simply ask the agent to do it. Natural language has become a new programming language for the many. There is a rise in “conversational computing” with a “text-first” ethos, a digital minimalism that values the intentionality of a text window over the cacophony of apps and notifications. The terminal also becomes a learning environment: Because the AI explains the commands it generates, a novice can pick up understanding that a closed GUI would hide.

Outsourcing problems

Yet this shift brings its own set of concerns. When AI tools handle the details, what do we lose? We face the risk of simulated competence in which people “seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing,” as Socrates described those reliant on writing. Just as writing externalized memory, these agents externalize problem-solving. There is the danger of de-skilling, of losing the ability to troubleshoot or understand underlying concepts, if the AI always mediates the complexity.

The hope, of course, is that these tools will let us transcend previous limitations. By automating the drudgery, they might unleash more creativity. The terminal is less anthropomorphic than a voice assistant; it remains a text-based workspace in which the human and the computer engage in a loop of iterative help. The CLI renaissance suggests that looking back to older paradigms, such as text over graphics, can better move us forward. Language is the universal interface of knowledge and may now become the universal interface for action. Whether we use this return to cultivate deeper skills or merely as a productivity hack will shape the society we make. We are left to decide whether we will be sedated by convenience or inspired by new frontiers of art and knowledge.