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News: Reps. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) are urging four federal agencies to address potential election-integrity threats posed by artificial intelligence, including the spreading of inaccurate or biased information. In a new letter, the bipartisan duo called for “the development and deployment of appropriate monitoring and mitigation capabilities” and pushed for… Read more »

The lawmakers, led by Reps. Mike Lawler and Brad Sherman, warned the White House of Turkey’s ‘constant and growing anti-Israel rhetoric’ and its relations with Iran A bipartisan group of House lawmakers wrote to President Donald Trump on Thursday to “express deep concern about any effort to sell F-35s to Turkey.” The letter comes after Trump and Vice President JD Vance publicly… Read more »

New York House Republicans are ramping up a pressure campaign against Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., citing her failure to combat rising utility costs in the Empire State. The group of lawmakers, led by Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., is calling on Hochul to scrap the state’s 2019 climate law that they blame for "skyrocketing" energy prices. "Utility bills are at the center of the… Read more »

Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) will oppose a War Powers Act resolution designed to restrain President Trump on Iran, the two lawmakers tell Axios. Why it matters: Their opposition to Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie's (R-Ky.) resolution, which Khanna and Massie plan to bring to the House floor next week, will make it harder to pass. Gottheimer's… Read more »

Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), the chair and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, are set to introduce a bill on Monday to disrupt the finances of the Iranian regime and its allies and expand internet access in Iran. The Iran Human Rights, Internet Freedom and Accountability Act would create a… Read more »

New Post reporting reveals the widely hated congestion-pricing scheme isn’t delivering on its promises. Let’s hope President Trump can soon make good on his promise to kill it. The tech company TomTom reports traffic in the zone has dropped about 4% in the first third of the year, in contrast to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s claim of an 11% drop. Plus, businesses tell The Post that… Read more »

The final step in the long process of becoming a United States citizen is to take the Oath of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony. But across upstate New York, hundreds of would-be Americans have been left in limbo after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services indefinitely canceled ceremonies in at least seven counties, according to county clerks who spoke with the Times… Read more »

For most of this year, caseworkers in Rep. Suhas Subramanyam’s office have struggled to get through to federal agencies, as mass layoffs rippled through the Trump administration. His staff was starting to make inroads again with certain agencies, like the Internal Revenue Service, the Virginia Democrat said.  Then, the shutdown came. “They have gone back to not being responsive.… Read more »

Five years after the coronavirus pandemic, the state Department of Health is pleading ignorance about one of its most hotly debated policy choices of the crisis – a directive that sent thousands of infected patients into nursing homes. Responding to queries from two elected officials, the department refused to say whether it now considers that March 2020 policy to have been consistent… Read more »

Ali Gul Haidari was a platoon sergeant in one of the Afghan Army’s most elite commando units partnering with U.S. Army Special Forces troops for missions to retake district centers from the Taliban in north and eastern Afghanistan. Haidari and his Afghan teammates blended in with their U.S. counterparts “down to the ballcaps and Oakleys,” a still-serving Special Forces officer… Read more »