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Customs and Border Protection will host the 2025 Trade and Cargo Security (TCS) Summit in New Orleans, LA, on May 6-8, 2025.
The 2025 TCS Summit will be open for the public to attend in person …
Seven Republican senators have sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick urging the Trump administration to withdraw the Biden-era Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Rule (AIDR). The senators argue that the rule, which imposes tiered restrictions on global access to U.S. AI technology, threatens American innovation and global competitiveness while failing to adequately counter China’s ambitions.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee, has called on the Department of Commerce to immediately block exports of Nvidia’s H20 and other advanced AI chips to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), citing national security concerns and reports of undue influence in the administration’s export control decisions.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth raising concerns over the national security implications of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs. Shaheen warned that tariffs imposed on imports from nearly every country risk undermining the Department of Defense’s purchasing power, weakening industrial supply chains, and driving up costs for defense contractors—particularly small businesses.
Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party today released a report identifying DeepSeek, a Chinese AI platform, as a direct threat to U.S. national security.
Residents in select ZIP codes across California and Texas will soon be subject to heightened federal financial surveillance under a new order issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The move significantly lowers the threshold for reportable cash transactions from $10,000 to just $200 in 30 ZIP codes along the U.S.–Mexico border.
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