We do want to turn now to another developing story that we are tracking. The increasing likelihood of a government shutdown in the next few days. The White House now threatening mass firings of federal workers if the government shuts down with funding set to lapse in less than a week and Congress deadlocked on a way forward.According to a memo obtained by NBC News, the White House's Office of Management and Budget is asking federal agencies to prepare for a quote reduction in force, indicating it's prepared ...

The company will be valued at around $14 billion. We actually think this is a good deal for investors, but ultimately the investors are going to make the determination about what they want to invest in and what they think is a proper value. The most important thing is that it does protect Americans data security.and ensures Tik Tok is still accessible. ...

If I could make it 100% MAGA, I would. Now that uh Americans will have operational control, do you want to see the algorithm suggest more MAGA related content. Prioritize.I always like MAGA related. If I could, I'd make it 100% MAGA related. I It's actually a good question, but I would. Yeah, if if I could make it 100% MAGA, I would.But it's not going to work out that way, unfortunately. No, everyone's going to be treated fairly. Every group, every every uh philosophy, every policy will be treated very fair ...

Next, sir, we have an executive order on Tik Tok. From the first days of your administration, you've charged a team from your from your administration led by Vice President Vance uh with ensuring that we can uh preserve Tik Tok as a platform for the 170 million Americans who use it while ensuring that their data is properly protected as required by law. With this executive order, uh you will be effectively bringing into effect uh the agreement that will save Tik Tok and ensure that it can operate safely and ...

Next sir, we have an executive order on Tik Tok. From the first days of your administration, you've charged a team from your from your administration led by Vice President Vance uh with ensuring that we can uh preserve Tik Tok as a platform for the 170 million Americans who use it while ensuring that their data is properly protected as required by law. With this executive order, uh you will be effectively bringing into effect uh the agreement that will save Tik Tok and ensure that it can operate safely and ...

The uh shooter used the ICE tracking apps. Anyone who creates or distributes these apps that is designed to spot, track, and locate ICE officers are well aware of the dangers that they are exposing to law enforcement. It's a casting call to invite bad actors to attack law enforcement officers.It's no different than giving a hitman the location of their intended target. And this is exactly what we saw happen in Dallas. ...

Amazon and the FTC have reached a settlement of $2.5% billion over claims the retail giant tricked users into purchasing Prime memberships. The lawsuit was actually filed back in 2023 under the Biden administration with the trial lasting just 3 days. CNBC senior markets correspondent Dom Chu joins us with more.Dom, what exactly were the terms of that agreement. This agreement includes a billion dollar in actual penalties and $1.5% billion in payouts to customers. That translates into roughly $51 for each pe ...

This is the moment more than 20 masked and hooded people stormed into Heler Jewelers in broad daylight Monday. Some of them armed with guns, others with crowbars. Police say the mob then helped themselves to a million dollars worth of fine jewelry.>> When they went in, they they basically uh took over the store. They went to all the jewelry display cases and began just smashing the display cases at will, using the crowbars and and the pickaxes and basically taking whatever uh jewelry was available. >> When ...

FBI agents executed a search warrant at the sniper's residence yesterday and there found a collection of notes. First, I want to point out that one of these notes or papers, the sniper explicitly states, "Yes, it was just me." That statement appears to be correct at this point in the investigation. Notably, these loose notes included a game plan of the attack and target areas at the facility.He called the ICE employees people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck. He wrote that he intended to maximize leth ...

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