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TSA Agents Finally Get Paid After Trump Signs Order Summary: AP reported that, by early afternoon, TSA agents began receiving pay. Reuters reported that as many as 50,000 TSA agents would receive paychecks as early as Monday. Trump officially issued a presidential memorandum on Friday instructing DHS to pay TSA agents. TSA Agents Get Paid  AP News reports that most Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents received paychecks on Monday after missing two paychecks during the ongoing government shutdown. Here's the headline from AP: TSA says most of its workers got paid Monday for at least...

"We Can't Move Forward": Brookfield-Backed Compass Abandons Virginia Data Center Project Compass Datacenters is abandoning a massive data center project in Northern Virginia after what Bloomberg described as "intense pushback from local residents." The retreat comes as local opposition to data center buildouts accelerates nationwide, with residents increasingly furious over surging power demand, soaring electricity bills, land-use battles, and transmission lines cutting through neighborhoods and farmland. We were the first to describe the epicenter of the data center buildout revolt in the Mid-Atlantic area, all the way back in the summer of...

Pro-Iranian Hackers Breached US Infrastructure, Feds Say Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Pro-Iranian hackers have breached critical U.S. infrastructure, according to a joint warning issued Tuesday by several federal agencies. High voltage power lines run through a sub-station along the electrical power grid in Miami on Jan. 14, 2026. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The advisory came only hours ahead of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday deadline for Iran, warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran refuses to open the Hormuz Strait to oil traffic. Trump later suspended...