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#national-security

Donald Trump has cleared the way for Nvidia to begin selling its powerful AI computer chips to China, marking a win for the chip maker and its CEO Jensen Huang, who has spent months lobbying the White House to open up sales in the country. Before Monday's announcement, the US had prohibited sales of Nvidia's most advanced chips to China over national security concerns.

All asylum procedures were suspended indefinitely "until we can ensure that every alien is vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible," Joseph Edlow, director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), posted on X. Further restrictions have since been imposed on nationals from 19 countries. These include entry bans and the suspension of all immigration applications and naturalizations. The granting of permanent residence and work permits, known as green cards, has also been suspended for people of the nationalities in question.

The US plans to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban to more than 30, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, has announced. Noem, in an interview on Fox News's The Ingraham Angle on Thursday evening, was asked to confirm whether the Trump administration would be increasing the number of countries on the travel ban list to 32. I won't be specific on the number, but it's over 30, and the president is continuing to evaluate countries,

The Trump administration is targeting upwards of 2,000 Afghan immigrants, and ICE leaders are being required to report daily about how many detentions they've made in their regions,

The planned investments are part of a wider $1.5 trillion effort known as the Security and Resilience Initiative (SRI), which was announced by the world's largest bank in October. Days after launch, J.P. Morgan revealed its first investment as part of initiative: a $75 million equity investment in Perpetua Resources, which is aiming to become the first US-based producer of the versatile critical mineral antimony, which has applications in the defense sphere for items like batteries and ammunition.

"Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom-not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS," Noem said. "WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE."

December 23rd, 2025. That's the day DJI will automatically be banned from the United States - unless Trump steps in. You'll still be able to fly your existing DJI drones and film with existing Osmo cameras. But DJI will be barred from importing any new products into the US, and the FCC can retroactively ban imports of old DJI products too, after a waiting period. Not just drones, by the way - anything with a wireless radio.

In response to the shooting, Joseph Edlow, director of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), said on X: "I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern." Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Cuba, Venezuela among countries listed The full-scale review of residency status, at the behest of President Donald Trump and carried out by the USCIS, comes after the suspect from Wednesday's shooting was identified as Afghan national Rahmanullah L.

The Department of Homeland Security has determined that the suspect was "flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021" and "his status was extended under legislation signed by President Biden." Zoom in: Trump said the attack "underscores the single greatest national security threat facing our nation," pointing to millions of immigrants in the U.S. whom he said were "unknown and unvetted."

The inquiry, dubbed "Operation Red Sunset," led by the Department of Homeland Security, reportedly examined whether the company's machines could be remotely manipulated for espionage or sabotage of critical US infrastructure. Bitmain denies these capabilities, but investigators have reportedly tested its equipment at ports and dissected chips and code to assess potential threats. The company's hardware has long attracted scrutiny. A 2017 Bitcoin Magazine report suggested Antminer devices contained code allowing remote shutdown, which Bitmain said was a theft-prevention feature later patched.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

PNT is the bedrock for virtually all modern-day activities from finance to transport that depend on access to reliable and accurate information. Examples cited include satellite navigation services that help people get from A to B, but also timing signals - without which mobile phones and even stock markets could not function properly. Indeed, the UK government cited a study showing that just a 24-hour outage of satellite navigation services could cost the UK economy £1.4bn.

To be clear, YMTC is not an ordinary China-based company. YMTC reached the Entity List after first being placed on the Unverified List in October 2022 when BIS was unable to complete end-use checks to verify that exported technology was being used as declared. Under President Biden, YMTC was added to the Entity List based on findings that the company creates a major risk of diversion (sharing key technology) with other parties on the entities list, including Huawei and Hangzhou Hikvision.

"Government intervention in the economy in the name of national security is most clearly warranted in cases of market failure," a new report from a bipartisan task force organized by the Council on Foreign Relations says. "Today, the market failures that loom largest for U.S. national security are shortfalls of private capital in strategically important areas and over-concentration of critical supply chains in unfriendly countries," the report adds.

Australia passed legislation in 2023 to mothball the planned embassy building after officials deemed it to pose a security threat. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said at the time that his government decided to revoke the lease over the specific risk posed by the site, located about 300 metres (328 yards) from Parliament House. Russia, which blasted the move as Russophobic hysteria, challenged the legislation in court, arguing that it was not valid under the Australian Constitution.

I do not think we truly appreciate how disruptive, how devastating, this could be "That's one phone network not working for less than one day," he said. "Imagine the implications if a nation state took down all the networks? Or turned off the power during a heatwave? Or polluted our drinking water? Or crippled our financial system?"

If it happens, the deal would mark the end of months of uncertainty about the fate of the popular video-sharing platform in the United States. After wide bipartisan majorities in Congress passed - and President Joe Biden signed - a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. if it did not find a new owner in the place of China's ByteDance, the platform was set to go dark on the law's January deadline. For a several hours, it did.