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Placeholder #5 — The Gettysburg Address [news]

TEST POST — placeholder content. Real local reporting will replace this within 7–14 days. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that […]

Placeholder #3 — Federalist No. 1 [news]

TEST POST — placeholder content. Real local reporting will replace this within 7–14 days. To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its […]

Placeholder #2 — The Bill of Rights [news]

TEST POST — placeholder content. Real local reporting will replace this within 7–14 days. The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as […]

Placeholder #1 — The Declaration of Independence [news]

TEST POST — placeholder content. Real local reporting will replace this within 7–14 days. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the […]

Salesforce Posts Record Q1 as Agentforce ARR Surges 205% to $1.2 Billion

Salesforce posted record first-quarter results with its Agentforce AI software crossing $1.2 billion in annual recurring revenue — a milestone that highlights how quickly enterprise AI software is scaling from pilot to production across U.S. businesses. The headline numbers Salesforce announced Q1 fiscal year 2027 revenue of $11.1 billion, up 13 percent year-over-year, beating analyst […]

Pentagon Awards Dell $9.7 Billion Microsoft Software Consolidation Contract

The Pentagon has awarded a five-year, approximately $9.7 billion blanket purchase agreement to consolidate Microsoft software and cloud licensing across the entire Department of Defense — a contract structure that signals where large-organization IT procurement is heading and that has direct implications for any Aiken-area employer touching defense-adjacent work. The structure of the deal The […]

Micron Crosses $1 Trillion Market Cap on Surging AI Memory Demand

Micron Technology crossed the $1 trillion market capitalization threshold for the first time this week, driven by an 18 percent single-session stock surge and a price target reset that reflects how dramatically AI infrastructure demand has reshaped the memory semiconductor industry. The pace of the move Micron’s stock rose more than 18 percent on Tuesday, […]