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The Defense Department is investigating Senator Mark Kelly after he and other Democratic lawmakers released a video urging the military to refuse illegal orders
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Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s administration has vowed to fight back after a federal judge threw out criminal cases that the president demanded against former FBI Director James Comey<\/a> and New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/a>.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie ruled Monday that the interim U.S. Attorney who signed off on the cases, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed to her position<\/a> \u2013 making the indictments themselves invalid.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that Halligan was \u201clegally appointed\u201d and said, \u201cI know the Department of Justice will be appealing this in very short order.\u201d
Comey and James are among several Trump enemies being targeted by investigations.
Also on Monday, the Department of Defense<\/a> announced it would investigate \u201cserious allegations of misconduct against\u201d Senator Mark Kelly<\/a>, a former naval officer, after he participated in a video, encouraging active military service members to ignore orders that violate the Constitution.
Kelly and several other Democratic lawmakers released a video last week urging the military to \u201crefuse illegal orders.\u201d Kelly is the only one to face a Pentagon probe because he falls under the Defense Department\u2019s jurisdiction.
Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords has responded to a Pentagon probe into her husband, Senator Mark Kelly.
\u201cIntimidation tactics are not going to keep @SenMarkKelly<\/a> from his duty to protect our constitution,\u201d Giffords wrote on X Monday.
The Defense Department announced earlier Monday that it received \u201cserious allegations of misconduct against\u201d Kelly, an Arizona Democrat and retired Navy captain, and that it was conducting a \u201cthorough review\u201d on the matter.
Kelly was recently in a video alongside several other Democratic lawmakers urging the military to disobey illegal orders.
President Donald Trump\u2019s Justice Department suffered two unqualified losses on Monday when a federal judge tossed out cases against<\/a> former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie did so on the grounds that Trump had unlawfully appointed Lindsey Halligan to be interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
It is just the latest embarrassment for the Justice Department under the Trump administration. Remember, Trump tapped Halligan to serve as interim<\/a> U.S. attorney after her predecessor reportedly did not have enough evidence to criminally prosecute James<\/a>.
James and Comey have long been on Trump\u2019s enemies list. While the indictment was ostensibly for allegedly lying when he testified before Congress in 2020, Trump despises Comey for his leadership during the probe into Russian interference<\/a> in the 2016 presidential election. That played a role in Trump sacking Comey as FBI director in 2017.
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Senator Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat who served in the Marines, told CNN Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will \u201cnever ever ever be even half the man that Senator Kelly is.\u201d
His comments come after the Defense Department announced that it received \u201cserious allegations of misconduct against\u201d Senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat and retired Navy captain, and that it was conducting a \u201cthorough review\u201d on the matter.
Kelly was recently in a video alongside several other Democratic lawmakers urging the military to disobey illegal orders.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt<\/a> said she\u2019s developed post traumatic stress disorder while working under President Donald Trump<\/a>.
But the source of her distress isn\u2019t reporters, despite their unending barrage of queries<\/a> about the day\u2019s headlines. Instead, it\u2019s her grueling schedule<\/a>, which has caused her to spend long hours away from her family, she told The Daily Mail<\/em>.
\u201cHonestly, I have PTSD about making plans, so I just don’t,\u201d the 28-year-old griped to the outlet about arranging time off with her husband, 60-year-old real estate developer Nicholas Riccio. \u201cIt’s very difficult to make plans in this job.\u201d
\u201cMy husband and I had three different mini weekend getaway vacations this summer. All three got canceled due to foreign policy events,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cWe just roll with it. If there’s a night where I happen to become free, then we take full advantage of that as a family.\u201d
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That\u2019s one giant leap for AI.
The Trump administration is unleashing thousands of massive data sets \u2014 compiled by agencies throughout the federal government \u2014 and the capabilities of America\u2019s world-renowned national laboratories into a government-wide effort to supercharge scientific research using Artificial Intelligence<\/a> to merge all the information in hopes of developing new drugs and other major breakthroughs.
President Donald Trump<\/a> signed an executive order on Monday establishing what the administration is calling the Genesis Mission, with top administration officials predicting that the new effort will go down in history as having equal importance to America\u2019s race to the Moon more than five decades ago.
Michael Kratsios, the director of of the White House Office of Science and Technology, described the new Trump administration AI project as the \u201clargest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program\u201d during a call with reporters earlier in the day on Monday.
He explained that the project\u2019s \u201cnational AI for science effort\u201d would leverage \u201cthe unmatched computing capabilities and resources of the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories to unlock federal data sets, enable autonomous, closed loop experimentation and massively accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs,\u201d such as the rate of new drug approvals that have \u201cflatlined or declined\u201d over the last few decades.
Read on…<\/em>
Read all about Trump\u2019s 28-point plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war from James C. Reynolds<\/strong>:
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a George Republican, has said she will not be endorsing anyone to replace her in a special election.
In a surprise announcement Friday, Greene said she was resigning from Congress early next year.
Read more about her decision to resign here: <\/a>
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon establishing a mission to fast-track artificial intelligence innovation in the energy and science sectors by giving higher education institutions or companies in the private sector access to some government databases.
The mission, known as \u201cGenesis,\u201d will unlock certain federal data sets to allow companies and researchers to accelerate discoveries, automate experiment designs and generate predictive models, according to a Trump administration official.
One example would be using the datasets to help accelerate drug approvals, which officials say have flatlined in recent years.
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