President Donald Trump announced $500 billion of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States .

Trump made the announcement at the White House alongside Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son , Open AI CEO Sam Altman , and Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison .

The executives said that AI held enormous potential to transform the country and for every American .

Donald Trump jolted America out of decades of bad energy policy with the stroke of his pen.

The age of climate extremism is over; the age of energy realism is upon us, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: The American power grid is weak; over half of the country faces dangerous energy shortfalls over the next decade .

The New England grid is burning oil to keep the lights on during this lethal spell of single-digit cold.

President Trump wasted no time signing a slew of executive orders on Day 1 , including those that: - Direct DOJ not to enforce TikTok “divest-or-ban” law for 75 days .

- Halt 78 Biden-era executive actions.

- Withdraw from the Paris climate accord.

- End all federal cases and investigations of any Trump supporters.

- Revoke protections for transgender troops.

- Pardon about 1,500 people criminally charged in the Jan. 6 attack, while commuting the sentences for six .

President Donald Trump slammed a reporter during a press conference on Tuesday for repeatedly interrupting him.

Trump was asked about some of the people that his administration pardoned who were involved in the January 6 riot in 2021 .

The reporter tried to pit Trump against Vice President JD Vance by asking him why Vance was “wrong” about something that he said.

Gov. Hochul 's $252 billion redistribution plan jacks up overall spending $9 billion from last year’s outrageous price tag.

But it boosts the state's operating outlays a whopping 7.9% (multiples of inflation), to a stratospheric $143.8 billion .

The Empire State's per capita spending as of 2022 — $ 15,368 — was higher than every other state except Alaska , 50% higher than national average.

State Department Secretary Marco Rubio will institute a review and reapproval system for all official travel conducted by members of the State Department .

Rubio ’s new travel approval system may also be used to ensure that State Department officials do not further left-wing political aims while on trips to foreign countries.

Jessica Stern , the former Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual , Transgender , Queer , and Intersex Persons , traveled to at least 22 different countries on all six continents as she spread transgender ideology on the taxpayer dime.

“ The Brutalist’s ” director Brady Corbet responded to the backlash against his choice to use artificial intelligence in his post World War II era movie to “preserve the authenticity” of the actors “performances in another language” Corbet also responded to accusations that AI was used to create part of the end of the film, which showed a sequence of completed buildings and architectural drawings supposedly designed by Brody 's character.

Frida Ghitis : In an open society, perspectives on reality confront one another in forceful competition.

She says Biden administration tried to impose by threat or mandate a version of reality that brooked no discussion.

The administration became, in its own eyes, the guardian of truth, but it was almost invariably wrong.

Ghitis says Biden people, being wrong on almost everything, decided to sanctify error.

The open society was closed for repairs until further notice.

Frida Ghitis: In Biden 's farewell address, he railed about misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power’ She says the justification for destroying the open society was that ordinary people can’t handle the truth.

Ghitis asks: Will Trump and his fellow rebels succeed where the Biden cabal so dismally failed? She says Thomas Jefferson understood that the question of state guardianship over truth was of supreme importance.

President Trump and his administration have been left an extraordinary number of messes to clean up, both at home and abroad.

Nothing, however, is more important, than the restoration of the open society to Americans of all persuasions, he says.

In his first day in office, he signed an executive order that declared “Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society”.

President Trump 's new order on the U.S. Refugee Admissions program will likely follow a similar pattern.

Trump invokes Section 1182(f ), the statute at issue in the travel ban.

He deems the entry of all refugees to be detrimental to American interests.

Trump allowed for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

In theory, at least, some refugees can be admitted, so long as they do not pose a threat.

Gov. Hochul pledges two cops on every overnight subway train.

It's the latest in a trifecta of subway-crime gimmicks, none of which address the system's underlying problems.

In 1965 , violent crime was becoming a problem for the first time ever on the previously safe subway system.

Nicole Gelinas : It's fine that Hochul wants to pluck a good idea out of the 1960s .

But without succeeding in at least a partial return to pre-1970s philosophies, it's an exercise in nostalgia.

Gelinas says it's not clear whether an officer a subway car away could have prevented some crimes.

Peter Dutton's announcement that the LNP will offer a $ 20,000 annual tax deduction for small business to claim food and entertainment at clubs, pubs and restaurants comes as something of a surprise.

Business lunches are the least likely to improve productivity or business viability.

Dutton may be calculating that voters no longer care about good government and have accepted that the spoils system is here to stay.