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The government awarded Acquisition Logistics a $1.24 billion contract to build and operate an immigration detention center, dubbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as Camp East Montana, which opened last month in West Texas. Jason Allen spoke to Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar about what she saw there.
NAIROBI, Kenya and NEWPORT BEACH, Calif, Sept. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Daystar University, one of Kenya’s premier private Christian liberal arts institutions, and MindHYVE.ai, Inc., a global innovator in artificial intelligence, have entered into a landmark partnership to embed ArthurAI™, MindHYVE’s agentic AI learning platform, across Daystar’s academic ecosystem. Daystar + MindHYVE.ai: Redefining Higher Education with ArthurAI™ This partnership positions Daystar as one of the first universities in East Africa to implement a comprehensive AI-powered learning environment at scale — directly addressing the needs of Kenya’s over 500,000 higher education students, many of whom face challenges of access, personalization,…
Gemini Space Station raised $425 million in an initial public offering, pricing its stock above a marketed range, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.The cryptocurrency firm led by the billionaire Winklevoss twins sold about 15.2 million shares for $28 each after marketing them for $24 to $26, the source said, requesting anonymity ahead of an official announcement. The IPO values Gemini at $3.33 billion on a non-diluted basis, according to a Reuters calculation. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The price range was lifted earlier this week from $17 to $19, underscoring…
[WASHINGTON] US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Thursday that hundreds of South Korean workers arrested during an immigration raid had the wrong visas and that Hyundai Motor should have called him to secure the right ones.“I called up the Koreans, I said, oh, give me a break. Get the right visa and if you’re having problems getting the right visa, call me,” Axios quoted Lutnick as saying in an interview. REUTERS
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, is asking the Social Security Administration for information following allegations that Department of Government Efficiency employees uploaded a live copy of confidential SSA information into a vulnerable cloud server. In a letter addressed to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano, Crapo wrote that “given the large amount of sensitive data under SSA’s control, I consider the protection and security of [personally identifiable information] held by the agency to be a matter of first importance.”The information at the center of the whistleblower’s complaint is a copy of the SSA database containing personal information for each person issued…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Lisa Cook, governor of the U.S. Federal ReserveAnnabelle Gordon | Reuters | Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLawyers for President Donald Trump on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to let his bid to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook take effect before the central bank’s rate-setting committee meets next week.The request to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit came two days after a lower-court judge blocked Trump from removing Cook from her post while her lawsuit proceeds.The Federal Open Market Committee, which includes Cook, is set to…
The Bank of Thailand has attributed the baht’s surge partly to the rally in the yellow metal and vowed to rein in any wild swings[BANGKOK] Thais are poised to buy more gold for a fifth straight year, as a rally in the local currency makes the bullion cheaper, complicating efforts by the central bank to curb the precious metal’s influence on the baht.With gold prices climbing to new highs, more Thais are turning to the yellow metal for higher returns and as a safe haven against mounting global and domestic political uncertainties, said Nuttapong Hirunyasiri, managing director of MTS Gold…
Charles B. Rangel, the former New York congressman who represented his Harlem district for forty-six years, died on Monday, May 26, 2025. He was 94. Rangel was first elected to Congress in 1970, when he unseated Adam Clayton Powell Jr, a 13-term incumbent, according to the New York Times. He went on to serve longer than almost any other New Yorker, 23 terms. He Led a Life of Service Rangel, known as Charlie to many of his friends, was the last of New York’s Gang of Four. An influential quartet of Black leaders, which included New York City Mayor David …
Members of Congress are curtailing outdoor events and public appearances in the wake of the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, underscoring rising anxiety over political violence on Capitol Hill.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, is postponing a rally scheduled for Sunday in Raleigh, North Carolina, that had been planned in conjunction with the state Democratic Party, an adviser said Thursday. “After yesterday’s events, we are postponing out of an abundance of caution. We hope to hold the event at a later date,” a senior adviser said. The North Carolina Democratic Party also confirmed the event has been postponed.Two…
Without opportunities to transfer skills to the workplace, the value of training quickly dissipatesCHALLENGES in upskilling and reskilling have eclipsed longstanding worries about foreign manpower as the most prevalent manpower concern after manpower costs, indicated the National Business Survey 2025 – Manpower and Wages Edition published by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF). Nearly half of all companies – up from just a quarter the year before – cited skills development as a major pain point. Last year, Singapore’s training participation rate fell to a nine-year low of 40.7 per cent. This begs the question: Why do so many companies hold back…