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President Trump's super PAC will not reimburse the government for taxpayer money spent on campaign-style ads promoting the administration.Why it matters: Taxpayers have footed a multimillion-dollar bill for the advertisements, which some critics of the president have called "government…
President Trump's Justice Department moved to revoke citizenship from 40 naturalized citizens accused of crimes in recent months, representing what Attorney General Todd Blanche called the "largest denaturalization effort in modern history."The big picture: The Trump administration has made…
Hackers in underground cybercriminal forums are on shopping sprees for new AI tools, according to research shared first with Axios. Why it matters: AI is making once-specialized hacking capabilities cheaper and easier to buy, potentially transforming far more criminals into dangerous hackers.By the…
A new crop of powerful, Western open-weight AI systems are mounting a comeback, with fresh models from Reflection and Mistral narrowing China's recent lead.Why it matters: These models and others will give businesses and governments alternatives to the closed ecosystems of OpenAI and Anthropic, as…
Scratch the surface of the year's biggest stories — the Iran war and AI — and both are bound up in the costs of energy.Why it matters: Prices for gasoline, diesel and power are playing a prominent role in some of the tightest races for control of Congress.The war has kept gasoline prices way above…
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's Top Glove on Tuesday reported a near tripling of its annual net profit as stronger demand for rubber gloves helped it pass
President Trump has long nicknamed his opponents, and now, as November approaches, he's even trying to dictate the vocabulary around key issues. The big picture: Trump's latest effort to reshape political language follows his longtime political strategy: Define the terms of the debate, and you gain…
Two big unknowns stand in the way of determining how serious the plague threat in Russia is and whether travel advisories, restrictions at U.S. ports of entry or other precautions are warranted.
LOS ANGELES — Bryan Johnson, the face of the longevity movement who believes he may never die, announced recently that he had an incurable autoimmune disease — and his critics cheered, he told "The Axios Show" in an exclusive interview Monday."I mean, I think people really want me to die.
President Trump's newly minted "Super Intelligence" task force faces a daunting mandate: reconcile fiercely divided cabinet factions to forge a tech policy that keeps pace with the blistering AI race.Why it matters: The task force brings the administration's scattered AI work under one roof, but it…
Everytown for Gun Safety, a group that advocates for stricter gun laws, is teaming up with House Democrats on a $10 million ad campaign to boost former gun safety advocates now running for Congress, Axios has learned.Why it matters: That's a significant sum at a moment when Democrats are raising…
The 2026 midterms are shaping up to be the most intensely observed, recorded, dissected and challenged election in American history.Why it matters: A small army of partisan and nonpartisan observers will show up.
TAIPEI -- Taiwan's foreign minister launched a new quasi-diplomatic mission in Arizona during a three-day visit to the U.S., as the Asian tech power r
An intra-party debate over how best to deflect Republican attacks on transgender issues has Democrats angrily sniping at each other just weeks out from the midterm elections.Why it matters: This is not the position Democrats hoped to be in two years after their 2024 election loss, which many in the…
The U.S. military evacuated a dozen B-1 bombers from the RAF Fairford airbase in the UK over the weekend, the Pentagon said. Why it matters: A U.S. official said the base was under threat of attack by Iran.
The White House is monitoring reports of a suspected plague case and related quarantines in Russia, a Trump administration official told Axios on Sunday.Driving the news: Russian health authorities have taken precautionary measures in response to the death of a woman who worked at an anti-plague…
A closely watched Nvidia-backed startup called Reflection is preparing to shake up the AI race with a powerful open-weight system that could threaten Chinese upstarts and U.S.
Two members of Iran's delegation to the UN General Assembly in New York were "kicked out" of the country on Saturday, several days after they were asked to leave, a U.S. official said. "Secretary Rubio means business.
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