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On November 24, 2025, the President signed an executive order that creates the “Genesis Mission” and directs the Department of Energy (DOE) to build an “American Science and Security Platform” to use federal data, DOE supercomputers, and outside partners to train big AI models and run AI‑driven experiments; the order names the Secretary of Energy as the lead and the White House science adviser to coordinate other agencies. The order says DOE must, for example, list at least 20 priority science and technology challenges within 60 days, identify computing resources in 90 days, pick initial data and a data‑use plan in 120 days, review robotic lab capacity in 240 days, try to show an initial operating capability in 270 days, and start annual reports within 1 year. It affects DOE and its national labs, other federal agencies, universities, private companies and researchers, and trainees the order says it will fund or place at labs; it also says collaborations must follow laws on classification, privacy, intellectual property, and export controls and is explicitly subject to available funding. This matters because the order says the effort will speed scientific discovery and strengthen national security and economic goals (for example in biotech, semiconductors, energy, and manufacturing), but those claimed benefits depend on future budgets, legal limits, and how the government manages data, security, and intellectual‑property issues. Read full document →
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The order, signed on November 24, 2025, starts a formal process to consider labeling certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” (a U.S. immigration law label) and as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” under emergency economic law; the order directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the President within 30 days and then to take steps within 45 days after that report. The order says these chapters have helped or carried out violence (it cites events after October 7, 2023), but that is the administration’s claim. If those chapters are officially designated, the U.S. government can cut them off from money and business with Americans, freeze their U.S. assets, and work with partners to limit their activities. This affects the named groups and anyone who gives them money or does business with them, and it matters because such designations bring legal penalties, make travel and immigration harder for members, and can change U.S. relations with countries where those chapters operate. Read full document →
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- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services changed how Medicare pays for dialysis: starting January 1, 2026 the basic per‑treatment payment goes up to $281.71 (and that same rate will pay for dialysis for people with acute kidney injury), and dialysis centers, hospital dialysis units, and clinicians who bill Medicare must follow the new rates then. CMS also created a new extra payment for facilities in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands (capped at 25%), will end the ETC payment experiment on December 31, 2025, and changed rules about temporary drug payments so drug makers must apply for special transitional payment within 3 years of FDA approval for applications filed on or after January 1, 2028. In addition, three reporting measures will be dropped from the quality program starting with Payment Year 2027 and the patient experience survey will be shortened for Payment Year 2028. These changes matter because they change how much Medicare and patients pay, how dialysis clinics get paid for new drugs and equipment, and what clinics must report; CMS estimates about $180 million more in payments to dialysis providers in 2026. Read full document →
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