🇺🇸The United States currently doesn't manufacture a single advanced semiconductor for AI systems on its territory, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said.

"Yes, we need manufacturing in America. Fundamentally, this is a national security initiative. The United States of America really makes no leading-edge chips on our shores today," Raimondo said at the Ronald Reagan National Defense Forum in California.

She added that even the chips marketed under the brand of US technology company Nvidia are all made in Taiwan.

In August 2022, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order to implement the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which includes more than $52 billion in subsidies for US semiconductor manufacturers in an effort to counter China's growing technological clout.

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Muslim groups in swing states vow to end Biden’s reelection chances

Pro-Palestine protesters and Arab and Muslim groups around the nation have been demanding that Biden call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and do more to protect innocent Palestinians in Gaza. The group says that the movement is designed to leverage the power Muslim Americans have through their votes.

In 2020, roughly 59% of Arab Americans supported Biden, but that support has evaporated in the shadow of the war in Gaza. In a poll released on October 31, support for Biden among Arab Americans had dropped to just 17%.

“We are joining the national movement to abandon Biden and we will campaign against you along with our political allies,” activist Zade Al Ali said at a November 22 #AbandonBiden press conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The Biden administration has not responded to media requests about the coalition.

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🇫🇷 If Israel intends to completely eliminate Palestinian movement Hamas, the war will last 10 years, so Israel should more clearly articulate its goal in the conflict, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

"I believe that now the Israeli authorities will have to define their goal in a more precise way ... The complete elimination of Hamas - what is it, and does anyone think that it is possible? If this is the goal, then the war will last ten years," Macron said at a press conference on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai.

The French president also added that "the destruction of an entire territory or the bombing of all civilian potential" is not "a good response to the actions of a terrorist group."

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🇺🇸💰US spends 50% more on ammunition due to Ukraine's high artillery burn rate - Pentagon

"Ukraine's high burn rate for artillery has hammered home the need to invest even more in munitions. So compared to the defense budget from just five years ago, we're putting nearly 50 percent more money into munitions," Lloyd Austin, US Defense Secretary, said.

He also noted that the production of artillery shells in the US will quadruple during the Biden administration.

The Pentagon chief also stated that the US will continue to support Ukraine amid ongoing hostilities in the Middle East, adding that the outcome of the Ukrainian crisis will define global security for decades to come and the United States has no option to "sit it out."

At the same time, the Pentagon still refuses to provide data on the level of support for Israel.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Latest updates on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict:

▪️ Israeli PM Netanyahu says war will continue 'until we achieve all our goals';

▪️ The military wing of the Palestinian movement Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said it had fired rockets at Tel Aviv in response to civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip;

▪️ Air raid sirens sounded in central and southern Israel, and for the first time in 11 days an alarm was heard in Tel Aviv, a Sputnik correspondent reported;

▪️ The blame for the disruption of the humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip lies with the radical Palestinian movement Hamas, which, according to the Israeli side, refused to release 17 women and children from hostages;

▪️ Israel will continue to fight in the Gaza Strip at least until the radical Palestinian movement Hamas fulfills agreements to release hostages, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said;

▪️ The Israeli army said its air force attacked Hamas targets in Gaza, the IDF drone eliminated 5 militants of the movement.

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📹 Russian paratroopers, supported by artillery and the Kornet anti-tank missile system, destroyed two Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicles in the Zaporozhye region.

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❗️An estimated 100,000 Australians marched through the centre of Melbourne today in support of Palestine blocking roads for the 8th week in a row.

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❗️Australian Police officers stage a protest of their own demanding higher wages and walking off the job during mass pro-Palestinian rallies in Melbourne today.

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🇺🇸 Republicans have 'duty' to launch Biden impeachment inquiry - US House Speaker

Republican lawmakers have enough votes to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, House Speaker Mike Johnson told a US news network.

He stressed that Republicans "have an obligation to do this" and that they "cannot stop the process.

Johnson called the Biden impeachment inquiry a "necessary step" and vowed that GOP lawmakers would not use the probe as a partisan tool against the Democratic Party.

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🤔 The moment when Klitschko becomes the voice of reason?

"People see who is effective and who is not. There were and are many expectations. Zelensky is paying for the mistakes he made... There was too much information that was not true," he said.

The Kiev mayor added that he was not surprised by the decline in Zelensky's popularity and believes that he is paying for his mistakes. Also Klitschko said that at this moment the existence of Ukraine in the future seems questionable.

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📹 Crews of Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces launch missile airstrikes against military facilities and equipment of Ukrainian units in the Donetsk region.

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