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The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced nine new appointees from the Biden-Harris administration to join the department under Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.

Blinken: ‘I am encouraged and grateful that @UNESCO members have accepted the U.S. proposal'

Following a proposal sent June 8 to the United Nations Education, Culture and Science (UNESCO) Director-General, the United States outlined a concrete financial plan to repay its estimated arrears of $619 million and expressed its desire to rejoin the organization as early as July.

Suleyman: ‘Anyone can experience the power of a personal AI’

Industry-accepted benchmarks and leading users agree the best AI performance is provided by the company’s H100 Tensor Core GPUs, including for the large language models (LLMs) underlying generative AI.

Sindelar praises largest property tax cut in Texas history: ‘Everyone will pay lower taxes under this plan’

The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is marking the passage of Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 3 by the Texas legislature, delivering the largest property tax cut in state history, and fulfilling a promise by Gov. Greg Abbott to provide relief to taxpayers and stimulate economic growth.

Antoni: 'American families are being forced to eat the rotten fruit from the tree of government overspending'

Amid the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data releases this week showing a 0.2% increase in June's inflation, with a 3% increase over the past year, wages are slipping and fueling concerns among analysts and Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni is urging policymakers to act urgently on government overspending.

Savit: 'This new bill would give CFIUS new teeth'

Adam Savit, director of the China Policy Initiative at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), said the newly introduced "Protecting U.S. Farmland and Sensitive Sites From Foreign Adversaries Act" is notable for several reasons.

Federal judge Spero rules IRS request for user information from Kraken 'not overbroad'

As part of a court order, the digital asset exchange company Kraken will be mandated to provide the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with select user account and transaction information from 2016 to 2020.

Gibbs: Children 'are a product of the environments into which they are born and raised'

A series of reports authored by experts in early childhood policy at the Center for American Progress (CAP) recently brought attention to the significant influence of social determinants on the health and development of children.

Huang: ‘Digitalization will enhance the industry’s efficiency, productivity and speed’

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang recently outlined how robotics simulation offers virtual training and programming that can leverage physics-based digital representations of environments, robots, machines, objects and other assets.

Haaland: Ocean Wind 1 project creates 'good-paying union jobs while combatting climate change and powering our nation'

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced approval of an offshore wind project off New Jersey, on July 5. This is the third offshore wind project approved by the Biden-Harris administration.

'Transportation should never divide communities,' Transportation Secretary says in announcement about new pilot program

Public transportation should be about bringing communities together, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a news release last week

DOE Secretary Granholm: 'Ensuring America is the global leader in the next generation of clean energy technologies requires all of us — government and industry.'

Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy announced its intent to invest up to $1 billion in a demand-side initiative called Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs).

EDU's Lhamon: 'Congress promises every student a right to fully participate in educational programs without harassment based on sex'

A public school district in Wisconsin has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education to settle violations of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: ‘New types of supercomputers are just coming online’

During a keynote address Monday at the Berlin Summit for the Earth Virtualization Engines program, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told delegates that AI and faster computing will assist climate researchers in performing the miracles they need to accomplish to make advances in climate research.

Vilsack: Working forests 'are critical to the health of our planet and the livelihoods of millions of Americans'

The federal government is investing $188 million to conserve thousands of acres of working forestland across the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced last month. The funding will support 34 projects in 22 states and one territory to sustain more than 245,000 acres of working forests.

Heritage's von Spakovsky: 'The Supreme Court erred' by ruling that state courts can create congressional district boundaries

The Supreme Court of the United States recently addressed a case involving a challenge to North Carolina's congressional districting map.

Buttigieg: 'FAA will continue to work with airlines to manage weather & reduce delays'

The recently released Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) reveals a consistently low cancellation rate below 2% for the first four months of 2023, reflecting significant improvement compared to previous years. However, severe weather during the July 4 holiday period caused an increase in delayed and canceled flights.

Crenshaw to lead task force to battle cartels who 'are killing tens of thousands of Americans' with fentanyl

Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) has been chosen by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to lead a task force created to combat Mexican cartels and the fentanyl trade, Crenshaw announced July 6 in a release from his office.

Granholm: 'Investing in America agenda has led to a surge of solar manufacturing announcements'

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced $45 million to enhance domestic solar manufacturing.

Fauber: 'We are excited to partner with Microsoft to set the standard for how generative AI will pioneer new advancements'