Similar Stories to Health Care: Deal Or No Deal? Senators Begin Work on Bing News

Scroll through TikTok or Instagram and you’ll be inundated with protein-centric recipes. Maximizing protein is a huge trend right now on social media—and not just in the usual suspects, like your dinner or post-workout smoothie. High-protein coffee, desserts, snacks, and more are now on the table. High-protein recipes aren’t new, especially for gym-goers and proponents of a hearty breakfast, but they’ve exploded on social media over the past few years.

President-elect Donald Trump has tasked businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with running a “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), with a goal of reducing the size of the federal government. Their efforts have received significant publicity in the weeks since Trump’s victory. Yet, skeptics have wondered how much they can accomplish with no statutory authority. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The history of an earlier commission that worked to ferret out inefficiencies and cut government waste indicates that much will depend on whether they can get buy in from Congress.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries. But the framework proposed Monday also raised concerns of chip industry executives who say the rules would limit access to existing chips used for video games and restrict in 120 countries the chips used for data centers and AI products.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. President Joe Biden is down to his last week in the White House and he’s about to discover how little his half-century of service to the Democratic Party gets him once he is back on the outside.

As Democrats brace ourselves in disbelief for the second inauguration of Donald Trump as President, it is important we face an uncomfortable truth: too many people feel that their government is failing them. Indeed, in too many cases it is. American opinion surveys suggest that public trust in government is near historic lows.

Last Monday, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued a rare “particularly dangerous situation” (PDS) red flag warning to Los Angeles and Ventura counties about incoming strong winds. “This is about as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather,” the warning for Tuesday through Thursday said. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Over the next three days, fires whipped by gusts of up to 100 m.p.h.