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$20B Investment In Data Centers • President Donald Trump announced a $20 billion investment for data centers in the United States by an Emirati company led by billionaire Hussain Sajwani, a close business partner of the Trump family. The announcement


follows a pledge made in December by Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son to invest $100 billion in the United States. Sajwani’s investment


feeds into an existing boom for constructing data centers for artificial intelligence and expansion of cryptocurrency, as well as in other elements of an increasingly digital economy that needs greater computer processing power.


at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre


Haute, Indiana, filed emergency motions in federal court, seeking an injunction to block their commutations. The two maintain their innocence and believe accepting their sentences commuted would put them at a legal disadvantage in seeking an appeal, according to NBC News.


Spring Forward for Last Time? • Daylight saving time returns next month — possibly for the last time. The twice-


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a-year ritual of adjusting clocks forward in spring and back in autumn is under increased attack, with President


Donald Trump vowing to end it, saying it is inconvenient and costly. “The Republican Party


Death Row Inmates Fight Commutation • Two prisoners whose death penalty sentences were commuted by then- President Joe Biden in December are refusing to sign the paperwork to accept his clemency, NBC News reported.


Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis were two of the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were spared by the president, converted to life in prison without parole. On Dec. 30, Agofsky


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will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” Trump wrote on social media. “Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.” In 2022, the Senate


passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. It stalled in the House because lawmakers could not agree on whether to make daylight saving time permanent or keep standard time year-round.


Congestion Toll Hits N.Y. Drivers N


ew York City’s first-in-the nation congestion toll took effect Jan. 5, and


some drivers responded by altering their license plates to avoid paying the new fee. The toll system imposes a $9 charge


for vehicles entering the central business district in Manhattan between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m., dropping to $2.25 during off-peak hours. The New York Post reported seeing one vehicle plate with the letter “L” covered up by white paint and another that had apparently attempted to conceal the letter “E” and a zero with gray paint. If the cameras are unable to read a jerry-rigged license


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plate, they cannot charge the driver’s account. The toll was introduced by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a


Democrat, to fund a $15 billion mass transit capital improvement plan.


Daylight saving time


starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.


College Tuition Rising More Slowly • Students are paying significantly less to attend public universities than they were a decade ago. Figures compiled by


the nonprofit College Board indicate the average student attending an in-state public university this year faces a tuition bill of $11,610, down 4% from a


decade earlier adjusted for inflation. But the real savings


come in what the average student actually pays after getting grants and financial aid. That’s down 40% over the decade, according to the data.


Meanwhile, at


private colleges, tuition continues to rise, but at a much slower rate. It has increased 4% over the past decade, when taking inflation into account, a big change from the two decades prior, when tuition increased 68%.


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