North Carolina and Virginia continue to be top performers, ranking first and fourth on this year 's report.

The report ranks state highway systems across a range of metrics, including capital and maintenance spending, rural and urban pavement quality, traffic congestion, bridge quality, and safety.

It also shows congestion falling generally, driven by a larger decrease in morning traffic congestion.

Meta will start testing Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram , and Threads in the U.S. on March 18 .

Meta announced in January it would move to a community notes-based approach.

The notes are limited to 500 characters and require a link to support them.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk appeared on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday to plug the flagging car brand.

The pair looked like they were on a date, but this was a very expensive commercial for Tesla .

It would be unfair to categorize the commercial as nothing but a commercial — because a bigpart of it was about payback to former President Joe Biden .

Donald Trump is dangerous, exceedingly so, but getting boring, says Renfield Renfield .

Renfield : Trump is a bully with less brawn and brain than he thinks, but excels at survival.

Trump is conniving, manipulative and has managed to survive flying on the seat of some thin pants since his father sent him out to collect rent as a budding slumlord, Renfield says.

Donald Trump is a boring, boorish grifter hell bent on declaring this the “Golden Age” of America by totally destroying it.

He thinks he can get away with whatever he wants because he’s done it his whole life.

He acts like the Energizer Bunny to obtain the only goal he's ever had: Avoiding responsibility for anything he's done his entire life.

Joe Biden administration officials rushed to approve as many projects as possible before incoming President Donald Trump could get his hands on it.

The Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office announced a $6.57 billion loan to Rivian , a luxury electric vehicle manufacturer, to finish construction on its new factory in Georgia .

The accelerated timeline also increases the likelihood that some of these deals, perhaps undertaken in haste, will prove poor investments.

Frida Ghitis: Tech billionaires are taking over American government and American media in a spectacular revenge of the nerds.

She says they reject public service, choosing to hoard their wealth or spend it on vanity projects rather than use it to aid the far less fortunate.

Ghitis says Jeff Bezos is trying to curry favor with Trump because he wants to be spared some pain in the trade war.

Frida Ghitis: Elon Musk is a self-styled “free speech absolutist” Ghitis says he's seen his encroachments on the free press spoken of in the language of liberty and freedom is especially cynical.

She says tech titans like Musk say criticism of me trespasses on free speech; censoring views I disagree with does not.

Ghitis writes: With Trump in office, speech has been constrained in ways that are best characterized by various ignominious -ists: McCarthyist.

David Lammy , the UK ’s Foreign Secretary, has lent his voice to the growing call for reparations for former colonies in the British West Indies .

Lipton Matthews argues that foreign aid has been unable to foster sustainable growth in developing countries.

He says market-oriented reforms and investments in human capital that facilitate technological adoption are more effective means of economic transformation.

Haiti provides another cautionary tale of how foreign aid fails to create sustainable development.

The Haitian case epitomizes a broader trend: when aid is given to countries with fragile institutions, it exacerbates existing problems rather than solving them.

Instead of pursuing reparations that mimic the failures of foreign aid, policymakers should focus on pro-market reforms that empower their populations.

The CHIPS and Science Act was one of Biden ’s main legislative accomplishments.

It was a massive $280 billion funding bill meant to move semiconductor production to the U.S. Semiconductors are electricity conductors that are essential to the functioning of almost any modern electronic technology.

Critics say the CHIPS Act hasn’t won universal praise since it was enacted in 2022 .

Alabama lawmaker proposed an amendment to the act that would remove diversity-related requirements.

Sen. Todd Young , R-Ind., who helped introduce the CHIPS Act to the Senate , said he was open to working with Trump to address his criticisms of the act.

A spokesperson for Young ’s office told The Daily Signal that Young has had good conversations with the administration about the program.

China 's DeepSeek AI assistant became so popular within the first few hours of its release that the system’s servers crashed due to the large number of logins.

Like it or not, America is in a tech race with China , says Frida Ghitis .

Ghitis: All China has to do to unseat the U.S. as the unquestioned preeminent global power is develop better tech faster and cheaper than the US can.

U.S. tech companies have been somewhat held back by regulations in the last four years . While those regulations weren’t totally inappropriate (AI safety is something this administration could probably be a little more concerned about — but that’s another article), the development of DeepSeek and Manus does demonstrate that we’ve fallen behind. Now that they’re out, the race is on..

The Department of Justice submitted its revised proposed final judgment on Friday .

The DOJ and the attorneys general of 11 states brought the case against Google under the first Trump administration in October 2020 .

The case continued under the Biden administration, and in August 2024 , Mehta ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.

The revised proposal on Friday mostly repeats the strong structural remedies originally proposed by Biden administration.

GE Aerospace announced it would invest nearly $1 billion in its U.S. factories and supply chain in 2025 .

The company builds and designs “jet engines, components and integrated systems for military, commercial and business and general aircraft.

The investments will be distributed in the following areas: $113 million in Greater Cincinnati ; $70 million in Muskegon , Michigan ; $16 million in Durham , North Carolina , and $5 million in Lafayette , Indiana .