Artificial Intelligence Summary

## TIER 2 STORIES (Brief RSS Summaries - mention if relevant):

- Trump announces plans for new Navy 'battleship' as part of a 'Golden Fleet' President Trump claims the warship will be "the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built." A month ago, the Navy scrapped plans to build a new, small war...

- Congressional probe of DCA collision faults Army, seeks Pentagon review The bipartisan review of the collision near Reagan National Airport reflects a concern with the militarys tendency to fly aircraft in congested areas without transmitting their location data....

- U.S. military hits alleged "low-profile" drug vessel in Pacific, killing 1 The U.S. military says it struck a vessel that was allegedly carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific on Monday, killing one person part of a months-long campaign of boat strikes near Latin America....

- 12/15: Face the Nation This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," President-elect Trump promises big change for America's role in the world but with much of the world on fire, will his policies extinguish the fla...

- Search suspended for swimmer missing at Pacific Grove's Lovers Point in possible shark attack Pacific Grove police identified the missing swimmer as a 55-year-old Monterey County woman and said that search efforts were suspended on Monday....

- Power mostly restored after massive San Francisco outage affects 130,000 PG&E customers Pacific Gas and Electric said about 5,000 customers were still without power Monday after a massive outage over the weekend affected about 130,000 customers....

- Mercedes-Benz to pay nearly $150 million to settle states' emissions allegations Mercedes-Benz USA and parent company Daimler AG agreed to settle allegations the automaker secretly installed devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles to pass emission tests....

- Judge orders plan to return ex-CECOT detainees to U.S. or give them hearings A federal judge gave the Trump administration two weeks to submit a plan to either return a group of men previously held at a notorious Salvadoran prison to the U.S., or give them a hearing to contest...

- Blumenthal seeks details on White House ballroom from architect, dinner attendees Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal is pushing for more information on a White House ballroom project championed by President Trump, sending letters to the project's architect and some fundraising dinn...

- Partial release of Epstein files draws backlash against Trump administration The Justice Department released more of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein over the weekend. But the partial release, full of redactions, came after a deadline Congress set for releas...

- Loved ones await news after fishermen vanish off Florida coast The family of 57-year-old Randall Spivey and his nephew, 33-year-old Brandon Billmaier, are praying for answers after the two experienced fishermen were reported missing. The two set sail from Fort My...

- Barry Manilow reveals lung cancer diagnosis, cancels concerts due to surgery The singer said an MRI showed a cancerous spot on one of his lungs after he recovered from a lengthy bout of bronchitis....

- 5 dead, 1 missing after Mexican Navy plane crashes in Texas Five people were killed after a small plane belonging to the Mexican Navy crashed in Galveston, Texas, on Monday, officials said in a statement....

- WATCH: Holiday MIRA-cle: Girl who had near-fatal brain injury goes Ho Ho Home Three months after brain surgery and intensive rehabilitation, 11-year-old Mira walked out of Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla, New York, on her own....

- WATCH: Why gas prices are falling and what it means for your holiday plans Matt McClain, petroleum analyst with GasBuddy, joins ABC News Live to explain whats driving lower gas prices and whether they are expected to keep falling into 2026....

- WATCH: TSA hits high note for Christmas The TSA Choir performs Mariah Careys classic All I Want For Christmas Is You for travelers at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport....

- The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need Chinas Batteries, Badly. As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, Chinas battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry....

- Trump Announces New Trump Class of Warships The president said development of the vessels would help maintain military superiority and improve the industrial base, but analysts suggested they were the wrong approach to current threats....

- Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service....

- Mexican Medical Plane Crashes in Galveston Bay, Killing at Least 2 The plane was carrying four civilians and four crew members when it crashed into Galveston Bay, the Mexican Navy said. Two people on board survived and another was missing....