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The Trump administration has ordered Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek's products and services removed from every civilian federal agency's IT systems, and banned government agencies from buying any new ones — the most sweeping US crackdown yet on a Chinese AI firm inside the federal government. The Department of Homeland Security published the order on Monday, directing agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its models from government systems. It also bans the acquisition of DeepSeek products — including tools from its affiliates — across civilian agencies, under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018. DHS said DeepSeek's models pose "multiple threat vectors." The department warned that if US government employees or contractors used the products, sensitive data could be transferred to the People's Republic of China, and that use of the models "could produce actionable intelligence on US...

Washington, D.C. — October 20, 2026: President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are set to announce a $25 million Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program on Tuesday afternoon, offering cash rewards of up to $30,000 to Americans whose tips lead to a successful fraud prosecution. The program, dubbed WHIP, will be administered by the Department of Justice, according to the White House. Anyone who submits a tip to fraud.gov that results in a fraud conviction or a significant federal enforcement action is eligible for the reward. Trump and Vance are scheduled to unveil the initiative during a joint appearance in the Oval Office later Tuesday. Zero tolerance The initiative is the latest move in the administration's aggressive push to eliminate fraud across the federal government. Trump established a Task Force to Eliminate Fraud in March and put Vance in charge of it. "Every day, President Trump's Task Force to Eliminate Fraud is zeroing in on the rampant abuse of taxpayer...

More than three decades after the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, newly unsealed federal court documents suggest O.J. Simpson may have had help disposing of the murder weapon — a knife police never recovered. The revelations come from a 1996 letter from an assistant U.S. attorney to a federal judge, unsealed at the request of The New York Times. The letter sought a reduced sentence for convicted drug trafficker and prison escapee Joseph "Joey" Ippolito, who had become a federal informant after Simpson's 1995 acquittal. In it, the prosecutor wrote that Ippolito had become "privy to many facts" surrounding the case, including "Mr. Simpson's alleged domestic violence, the Simpsons' narcotics usage, Mr. Simpson's attempted flight from justice, and his disposal of the murder weapon." "While Ippolito ultimately was not called as a witness he was arrested and began to cooperate as that trial drew to a close my conversatio...

MUNDELEIN, Illinois — Five adults were found shot dead inside a quiet suburban Chicago home late Sunday night in what authorities have ruled an apparent murder-suicide, stunning a village where violent crime is a rarity. Mundelein police officers entered the single-story home on Wellington Avenue around 11:45 p.m. Sunday after the daughter of the homeowners, calling from California, asked for a welfare check because she could not reach her family. Inside, officers found three men and two women dead in several rooms, each killed by close-range gunshot wounds. Two handguns were recovered at the scene. Deputy Police Chief Rick Wilfenger said investigators believe four of the dead were family members, while the fifth was in a domestic relationship with the suspected gunman. Two of the victims lived at the home. On Monday, after autopsies conducted by the Lake County Coroner's Office, the deaths were officially ruled a murder-suicide, according to NBC 5 Chicago and CBS News Chicago. Aut...

WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned U.S. senators on Monday that Ukraine has almost completely exhausted its stockpile of American-made Patriot interceptor missiles, and accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of personally stalling the transfer of replacement missiles that NATO allies have already paid for. "Right now, a new missiles package is waiting for Mr. Hegseth's signature," Zelensky said during a virtual meeting with a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers. "And our other partners, including those in Europe, are also waiting for American approval to transfer Patriot interceptors from their shelters, European shelters, to us. So the missiles are ready, and they could already be in Ukraine." The comments were first reported by the Washington Examiner and follow a Washington Post investigation into why the Trump administration has not signed off on the transfers. Under U.S. export rules, European countries holding American-made Patr...

Published: October 20, 2026 President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday, October 19, establishing a new Women's Health Division within the National Institutes of Health and a White House Women's Health Task Force — a move driven by First Lady Melania Trump, who called it a "transformative moment for women in America." At a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House, the president and first lady signed the order together, smiling as they passed it between them and exchanged pens. What the order does The executive order, titled "Advancing Women's Health to Improve Outcomes in All Phases of Life," directs the Department of Health and Human Services to: Create a dedicated Women's Health Division within the NIH focused on research into diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect women — including maternal health, mental health, endometriosis, infertility, fibroids, menopause, Alzheimer's, heart disease, osteoporosis, an...