Lockheed-Martin donates $1 million to Trump inaugural committee

Lockheed Martin, the multinational defense and aerospace firm, is one of the latest big businesses to donate a million dollars to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.  Recent major donors include Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Amazon, Apple’s Tim Cook, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman.  Lockheed committed the money Dec. 2. But it also donated $1 million to

DHS Extends Deportation Protections to Nationals From 4 Countries

Those countries include Ukraine, Sudan, El Salvador, and Venezuela, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has extended protections from deportation to individuals, including those who entered the country illegally, from Ukraine, Sudan, El Salvador, and Venezuela, with just 10 days to go before the Trump administration takes office.

Days After Scrapping ‘Politically Biased’ Fact-Checkers, Meta Axes DEI Programs: Report

Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, is cutting its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for hiring, training, and picking suppliers. The company has also eliminated its DEI-focused team and will instead build programs “that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background,” according to

Biden extends legal status of nearly 1 million immigrants

The Biden administration on Friday announced it would extend the temporary legal status of nearly 1 million immigrants from El Salvador, Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela, utilizing a program that is expected to be curtailed by the incoming Trump administration. The announcement will allow Salvadoran, Sudanese, Ukrainian and Venezuelan immigrants who currently have Temporary Protected Status

Biden Says Intentional Power Outages Caused Water Shortages During Los Angeles Wildfires

It comes as fire officials attempt to make progress on containing several fires around the city. Amid concerns about water supply to put out wildfires that have burned thousands of buildings across Los Angeles, President Joe Biden said that intentional power outages caused shortages. Biden said Thursday that he spoke with California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold TikTok ban as deadline nears

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked her first questions of Francisco after nearly an hour of arguments, questioning whether the issue is really about TikTok’s association with ByteDance. “If TiKTok were to, post-divestiture or pre-divestiture, come up with its own algorithm, then when the divestiture happens, it could still operate,” she told Francisco of the law.