Texas offers Trump land on US-Mexico border for potential mass deportations – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Texas offers Trump land on US-Mexico border for potential mass deportations – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump. Texas originally purchased the 1,402-acre property last month. It is located in rural Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley. Republican Dawn Buckingham, the Texas Land Commissioner, sent a…

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News Platform Fact Sheet, 2024

News Platform Fact Sheet, 2024

In a fragmented media environment with seemingly endless sources of information to choose from, Americans’ news habits have changed dramatically in the 21st century. Today, an overwhelming majority of Americans get news at least sometimes from digital devices. This fact sheet looks at the platforms Americans turn to for news, including patterns and trends. News…

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Medill’s 2024 State of Local News report expands what it qualifies as local news — and asks readers to point out what it missed

Medill’s 2024 State of Local News report expands what it qualifies as local news — and asks readers to point out what it missed

The third annual State of Local News report, released by Medill’s Local News Initiative Wednesday, chronicles declines in local news across the United States by essentially every important metric: number of newspapers; publication frequency; employment; circulation and readership. The grim numbers on those fronts are unlikely to surprise anyone, but it’s still striking that some…

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Democracy Dies Without Local News

The rise of the internet 25 years ago promised a new era in access to information. We now understand that this revolution led to both a flourishing of knowledge and an explosion in news and information from unverified sources. At the same time, the shift in advertising to the web undermined the … Source link

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2024 New Jersey general election results: Presidential, U.S. Senate, House and local elections

Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts. With a win in Wisconsin, Trump cleared the 270…

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US ahead in AI innovation, easily surpassing China in Stanford’s new ranking

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The U.S. leads the world in developing artificial intelligence technology, surpassing China in research and other important measures of AI innovation, according to a newly released Stanford University index. There’s no surefire way to rank global AI leadership but Stanford researchers have made an attempt by measuring the “vibrancy”…

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