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Get you up to speed: Trump to headline “Golden Age” event with top officials, tech executives
President Trump is scheduled to speak at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington on Tuesday, where he will deliver “an address to the nation.” The event will feature notable guests including Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, and various Trump administration officials.
The event will take place at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, located several blocks from the White House, and will feature a morning address by Mr. Trump followed by panels on various topics, including artificial intelligence and energy. A dinner and afterparty, sponsored exclusively by Horizon Events, are noted as not being official White House functions and not funded by the government.
President Trump is expected to meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson and tech CEOs on the same day as the event, as discussions continue on regulating the development of advanced artificial intelligence. In light of recent calls from AI executives for limits on the technology’s rapid development, Mr. Trump has warned that such restrictions could allow China to advance ahead of the United States.
What remains unclear — The specific details and goals of the unprecedented innovation from the White House mentioned in the event invitation are not disclosed.
Trump to speak at event featuring top officials and tech executives
President Trump is slated to speak on Tuesday in Washington at an event that he has billed as an “extraordinary gathering of America’s greatest leaders, builders, innovators, and citizens,” according to invitation materials obtained by WTX US News.
The event will showcase the “people, ideas and innovations building America’s Golden Age,” according to the invitation materials, which said that Mr. Trump will deliver “an address to the nation.”
The invitation touted special guests that include SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown and Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar, among others.
Several Trump administration officials are also named, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. Karoline Leavitt, the former White House press secretary, is also named as a special guest.
“Together, we will celebrate the beginning of a new Golden Age — and reveal a bold vision for our nation’s next 250 years,” a note from Mr. Trump reads on the invitation materials. It adds that attendees will “be among the first to experience an unprecedented innovation from the White House — one that will forever change how your government recognizes you, respects your time, and serves you.”
Mr. Trump’s note added, “This will be more than an event. It will be a first look at America’s future.”
An agenda for the daylong event — which is set to take place several blocks from the White House at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium— listed a morning address by Mr. Trump and several panels on artificial intelligence, energy, space and other topics in the afternoon. It does not include a list of speakers.
The invitation materials for the event next week said that a dinner and afterparty are “sponsored exclusively” by a group called Horizon Events. It said the dinner and afterparty are “not official White House functions and are not paid for with government funds.”
Mr. Trump is expected to meet on the same day as the event with House Speaker Mike Johnson and tech CEOs, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Axios first reported on that planned meeting on Thursday.
The event comes as the Trump administration and tech industry leaders weigh whether to put guardrails on the development of advanced artificial intelligence.
In recent weeks, executives at frontier AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have called for limits on the speed of AI development in order to manage the risks posed by the technology. Others, including Nvidia’s Huang, have argued that some warnings about AI dangers are overblown.
Mr. Trump has expressed skepticism, warning that limits on AI development by U.S. companies could cause China to take the lead. He signed an executive order earlier this year that allows companies to voluntarily submit powerful new AI models to the federal government for review before they are released to the public.
WTX US News has reached out to the White House for comment.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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8:17 am
Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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