Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and her undersecretary for nuclear safety Jill Hruby will announce a “major scientific breakthrough” on Tuesday, the Financial Times reports. can be a success an experiment to obtain more energy than is put in from a fusion reaction.
The FT article had three unnamed sources who confirmed that such a development had taken place, but the department tried to prevent the paper from being bought before its official announcement.
“Preliminary diagnostic data indicate another successful test at the National Ignition Facility. However, the exact product is still being determined and we cannot confirm that it has exceeded the limit at this time,” the department said.
“This review is in progress, so it would be inaccurate to publish the information before this process is complete.”
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And now it's 100% official: Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago special master case, following the 11th Circuit's ruling that she lacked jurisdiction to do all of this.
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The ruling by Judge Aileen Cannon, who had originally granted the former president’s request to appoint a special master in the case, came after an appeals court ruled she never should have made that decision.
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The end of the special master review came after Trump’s legal team decided not to appeal the matter to the supreme court, where the former president has been on a losing streak lately. Trump had requested the appointment of a special master after federal agents searched his south Florida property in August, arguing a review was necessary to keep prosecutors from using documents covered by executive or attorney-client privilege in their investigation. Critics claimed the special master process only served to frustrate the federal inquiry into whether the former president unlawfully took secret materials with him after leaving the White House last year.
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Good morning, US politics readers. The price of gasoline and other energy sources are always a liability for American presidents, and Joe Biden is no exception. But what if those no longer mattered? That’s the promise from a breakthrough in fusion power made by American scientists, who managed to get more energy out of a reaction than they put in, the Financial Times reported over the weekend. The government hasn’t announced the experiment’s results yet and it will probably be years, if not decades, for fusion to become a major part of the electrical grid. Nonetheless, the breakthrough will likely be welcome news for a White House keen to tout its dedication to promoting carbon-free energy sources.
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Here’s what else is going on today:
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Congress is up against a Friday deadline to fund the government or risk a shutdown, one of a host of year-end legislative priorities the Democratic majority is trying to get through before Republicans take the House next year.
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Biden’s lone public event will be a visit to a Marine Corps Toys for Tots event at a military base just across the river from Washington held at 12:40 pm eastern time.
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will be joined by national security adviser Jake Sullivan at her briefing today, at 3 pm eastern time.
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Green’s comments were not received unequivocally by Joe Biden’s White House.
Press secretary Andrew Bates He responded angrily, according to CBS News. Here’s what he had to say:
“It goes against our fundamental values as a country for a member of Congress to wish for the January 6th massacre to be worse and boast that he will achieve an armed uprising against the United States government. This violent rhetoric is a slap in the face to the Capitol Police, the DC Metropolitan Police, the National Guard, and the families who lost loved ones in the Capitol attack. All leaders are obliged to condemn these dangerous and disgusting ideas, to defend our Constitution and the rule of law.”
Over the weekend, one of Donald Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress emerged to make the case that he was responsible for the next insurrection, the Guardian’s Ed Pilkington reports:
Far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is bragging that if she and former Donald Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon were in charge of organizing a riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, the violent mob would win and everyone would win. “would be armed”.
The notorious agitator made his comments about the deadly Jan. 6 attack Saturday night during a speech at the New York Young Republican Club gala on Park Avenue in Manhattan. Hatewatch monitored the event on behalf of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Greene, who entered the U.S. House of Representatives last year as a newly elected representative from Georgia, said, “January 6th happened, and the next thing you know, I’m here with Steve Bannon organizing everything. I’ll tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had put this together, we would have won. Needless to say, he would be armed.”
He continued, “See, that’s the whole joke, isn’t it? They say it was all planned and I say are you kidding me? A bunch of conservative, pro-second-amendment folks went to the Capitol unarmed, and they think we made it up? I don’t think so.”
In a blow to Trump, the review of the Mar-a-Lago documents is officially over
The federal judge is officially over Donald TrumpBloomberg reports that Mar-a-Lago’s effort to secure a court-ordered formal review of documents by the FBI has slowed the investigation into whether he illegally withheld government secrets after leaving the White House:
And now it's 100% official: Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago special master case, following the 11th Circuit's ruling that she lacked jurisdiction to do all of this.
Previously: https://t.co/cNd2MgyEfe
And: https://t.co/hT34UZLxwd pic.twitter.com/sYHyBz9K7B
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) December 12, 2022
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Judge’s verdict Aileen CannonIt came after the appellate court, which originally granted the former president’s desire to appoint a special master in this case, should never have made this decision.
The end of the special master’s review came after Trump’s legal team decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court, where the former president recently lost. Trump requested the appointment of a special master after federal agents searched his South Florida property in August, arguing the investigation was necessary to prevent prosecutors from using documents covered by executive or attorney-client privilege. Critics argued that the special master’s process served to derail a federal investigation into whether the former president illegally took classified materials with him after he left the White House last year.
Bernie Sanders may be a fellow independent, but he said he’s willing to meet with Arizona Sen. Kirsten Sinema over her decision to quit the Democratic party last week, the Guardian’s Ramon Antonio Vargas reports:
Popular progressive U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders will consider endorsing any Democrat who may challenge House colleague Kyrsten Sinema after she recently left the party and declared herself an independent, alleging that she “helped subvert” some of Congress’ most important decisions. will do. legislation.
Sanders’ comments on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday added to the chorus of dissent against the Arizona lawmaker, who has bucked the agenda of the Joe Biden White House and other progressives, including voting to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and wage reform. A filibuster to pass the Senate Voting Rights Act.
Show host Dana Bash, an independent from Vermont who votes with Democratic interests, said that members of the left-wing party in Arizona “are not very keen on someone who is helping to sabotage some of the most important legislation that protects the interests of working families. and the right to vote, etc.”
Moving from our potential merger-powered future to issues not a minute ago, Maya Young reports that after all ballots cast in the Nov. 8 election have been recounted, a new winner has been determined in the Massachusetts local race:
A recount in a Massachusetts political race has flipped the state House election from Republican to Democrat by one vote.
Democrat Christine Kassner defeated Republican challenger and five-term incumbent Lenny Mirra earlier this week after a recount that cut the candidates’ slim deficit to one. The candidates were all vying for a seat on the North Shore, a coastal region between Boston and New Hampshire.
Before the recount, Mirra led Kassner by 10 votes out of more than 23,000 ballots cast in that district during the Nov. 8 midterm election.
The 10-vote deficit was within the legal limit for a recount. On November 30, Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin ordered a hand count in the general area, where Mirra held a slight advantage.
After officials recounted those votes on Thursday, the results were 11,763 to 11,762.
Kassner was ahead by the smallest margin.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and her undersecretary for nuclear safety Jill Hruby will announce a “major scientific breakthrough” on Tuesday, the Financial Times reports. can be a success an experiment to obtain more energy than is put in from a fusion reaction.
The FT article had three unnamed sources who confirmed that such a development had taken place, but the department tried to prevent the paper from being bought before its official announcement.
“Preliminary diagnostic data indicate another successful test at the National Ignition Facility. However, the exact product is still being determined and we cannot confirm that it has exceeded the limit at this time,” the department said.
“This review is in progress, so it would be inaccurate to publish the information before this process is complete.”
A US lab is reportedly making the merger leap to push Biden’s clean energy agenda
Good morning, US politics readers. The cost of gasoline and other energy sources is always on the shoulders of American presidents and Joe Biden not an exception. What if they mattered? The Financial Times reported over the weekend that this is the promise of a breakthrough in fusion power, where American scientists are able to extract more energy from the reaction than they do. The government has not yet released the results of the experiment, and it will likely take years, if not decades, for the combination to become a mainstream part of the electricity grid. Still, the jump is likely to be welcome news for the White House, which wants to demonstrate its commitment to promoting carbon-free energy sources.
What else is happening today:
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Congress is opposed Friday’s deadline to fund the government or risk a shutdown is one of the year-end legislative priorities the Democratic majority is trying to accomplish before Republicans take over the House next year.
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Biden’s only public event will visit the Marine Corps Toys for Tots event at a military base across the river from Washington at 12:40 p.m. ET.
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre the national security adviser will also participate Jake Sullivan In a briefing today at 3:00 PM ET.