Author: i2wtc

Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to allow his deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area, as the Republican president moves to dispatch military personnel to a growing number of Democratic-led locales and expand the use of the armed forces for domestic purposes.The Justice Department asked the court to block a judge’s ruling that halted the deployment of hundreds of troops over the objection of Illinois state officials and local leaders, while litigation challenging Trump’s plan continues.Given events on the ground, the judge questioned the administration’s stated reasons for sending in the military. A…

Shares of Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk dropped Friday, after President Donald Trump said his administration aims to cut the cost of brand name GLP-1 weight loss drugs to $150 per month, a fraction of their current list price.”In London, you’d buy a certain drug for $130 and even less than that … $88 as of… a month ago. And in New York, you pay $1,300 for the same thing,” Trump said during a Thursday afternoon event about in vitro fertilization at the White House. “Instead of $1,300 you’ll be paying about $150 and they’ll be paying $150 so we’re…

The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has issued two regulatory frameworks — the Digital Identity Regulations 2025 and the National Data Exchange Layer (NDEL) Regulations 2025 — to modernise Pakistan’s identification system and advance the government’s Digital Pakistan vision. The frameworks were developed with the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication and approved by the Ministry of Law and Justice. Under the Digital Identity Regulations, NADRA will build a national digital ID ecosystem, enabling citizens to verify their identities online via biometric and digital credentials. This will allow access to public and private services — including banking, taxation, healthcare,…

A demo setup of racks of AI servers connected with Credo cables, displayed at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose, California.CredoIn July, Elon Musk posted photos from inside an xAI data center called Colossus 2, which the artificial intelligence startup aims to turn into a massive supercomputing facility in Memphis, Tennessee.Musk’s pictures, posted to his X feed, didn’t show off the pricey Nvidia racks that are filled with powerful graphics processing units. Rather, he focused on the wires behind the servers, including one image with thousands of neatly organized purple cables connecting the computers together.Those purple cables are the…

George Santos, who was expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives, arrives for the sentencing in his criminal corruption charges at Central Islip Federal Courthouse in Central Islip, New York, U.S., April 25, 2025.Shannon Stapleton | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Friday evening said he has commuted the prison sentence of George Santos, releasing the disgraced former Republican congressman immediately.Trump, in a Truth Social post, wrote that Santos “was somewhat of a ‘rogue,’ but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison.”Santos, 37, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison after pleading…

Spokesperson says both countries actively communicating but ‘no formal govt currently exists in Kabul’ The current Afghan Taliban regime in place in Afghanistan is not truly representative of the Afghan people, said the Foreign Office on Friday. FO Spokesperson Shafqat Ali briefed the media on the prevailing situation. Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul and the Afghanistan embassy in Islamabad are both fully functional and routine diplomatic communiqués are continuing, he said. Yet, the spokesperson declared, “no formal government currently exists in Kabul, and a group is holding power by force”. The current administration in Kabul does not represent the Afghan people,…

Boeing 737 Max aircraft are assembled at the company’s plant in Renton, Washington, U.S. June 25, 2024.Jennifer Buchanan | Via ReutersBoeing has won regulator approval to ramp up production of its best-selling 737 Max jetliners to 42 a month, a milestone for the manufacturer nearly two years after the Federal Aviation Administration capped its output after a midair near-catastrophe.In January 2024, the FAA restricted Boeing to building the planes at a rate of no more than 38 a month — though it had been below that level at the time — after a door plug from a nearly new 737 Max 9…

Oracle’s extended rally, which has been driven by the company’s increasingly central position in the artificial intelligence boom, hit pause on Friday, with the stock tumbling 7%, its worst day since January.The slide came a day after the software company revealed a long-term outlook, boosted by AI, at an analysts’ meeting that was part of the Oracle AI World conference in Las Vegas.Oracle said on Thursday that it expects $166 billion in cloud infrastructure revenue in the 2030 fiscal year, up from $18 billion in fiscal 2026. The company now sees $21 in adjusted earnings per share on $225 billion…

K-P CM says he must consult PTI founder on the new cabinet and key governance issuesKhyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi. SCREENGRAB Newly elected Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi has written to the Chief Justice of Pakistan and also filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court, seeking permission to meet the incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder, Imran Khan. The request, routed through the K-P Advocate General, asks the chief justice to direct the jail superintendent and the Ministry of Interior to facilitate the meeting, Express News reported. In his letter, Afridi stated that after the resignation of former chief minister Ali…

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support of President Donald Trump potentially sending federal troops to San Francisco, where his company is based. “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” Benioff wrote in a post on X.The Trump administration recently deployed the National Guard to Portland, Oregon and Chicago, sparking protests and lawsuits and resulting in citizens and immigrants being detained without legal representation.In a story published late…