00:00Here's everything that happened in America in the last 12 hours.
00:03Tennessee halted all remaining 2026 executions after death row inmate Krista Pike miraculously
00:09survived a botched lethal injection attempt, prompting Governor Bill Lee to order an immediate
00:14independent third-party investigation after she remained alive despite receiving two full doses
00:19of pentobarbital. California led a coalition of seven states in filing a major lawsuit against
00:25the Trump administration, fiercely accusing the White House of unconstitutionally withholding
00:30$810 million in voter-approved federal funds through an illegal pocket rescission scheme.
00:36A second federal judge blocked the Trump administration's controversial $100,000 fee
00:41on new H-1B visas, ruling that immigration agencies completely bypassed mandatory rulemaking steps
00:48before enforcing the massive financial hurdle on employers and non-profits. President Donald Trump
00:53demanded the immediate resignation of former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, launching
00:58the fierce political attack after a federal watchdog report exposed a staggering $1 billion
01:04cost overrun during the central bank's headquarters renovation. South Korea unveiled a massive strategic
01:10implementation plan to inject $22 billion into a Texas gas-fired power project, anchoring
01:17a $350 billion energy deal with the United States to supply electricity to booming AI data centers.
01:24The United States Department of Energy conducted a high-stakes, subsurface, non-nuclear chemical
01:30explosion in Nevada, deploying advanced chemical explosives and radio tracers to radically improve
01:35the military's ability to detect clandestine, low-yield foreign blasts. Pennsylvania health officials
01:41confirmed a tragic fifth measles-associated death as total cases skyrocketed to 943, revealing
01:48that all five victims were completely unvaccinated while the CDC stands ready to deploy emergency
01:54epidemiological teams. An immigration judge ruled that the United States government can legally
01:59seek the deportation of a prominent Wisconsin mosque president, finding that the long-term permanent
02:04resident posed an active national security and foreign policy threat. The United States Senate blocked
02:10the high-profile Ratepayer Protection Act regarding corporate data center electricity costs, failing
02:15to secure the mandatory 60 votes after Democrats blasted the bill for not forcing tech giants to pay enough.
