Kalshi bettors picked Alina Habba as the favorite to replace Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary, but President Trump's former personal attorney quashed rumors she's taking the role.
As of this week, no bill in Congress would ban Flock Safety's automated license plate readers outright, even as a bipartisan chorus of lawmakers, most of them Republicans, has spent the past several months introducing or promising legislation to rein in the technology.
Trump weighed in on Flock cameras for the first time on Monday, telling a reporter the technology has "pros and cons" and that his administration is studying the issue, with an answer expected "over the next couple of weeks."
Senate Republicans are sounding the alarm that one of their seats is at stake due to artificial intelligence data centers, adding this could cause lawmakers to be wary of supporting such contentious projects in the future.
Two French documentary filmmakers and their Togolese fixer have been jailed in Togo after more than three weeks in custody in the West African nation, an advocacy group said Thursday, amid strained relations between the government and French media.
The United States sent 20 deportees to Liberia, who arrived on Thursday as part of 1,200 migrants that the African country will receive under a new deal.
Democrats on Thursday narrowed the list of potential host cities for their 2028 presidential convention to Boston, Denver and Philadelphia as their party looks ahead to a wide-open primary to succeed President Donald Trump.
The debate over fairness in women’s sports has bounced back to center court, with Sophie Cunningham becoming its latest flashpoint. After telling ESPN she believes women’s sports should be reserved for biological women, the professional basketball player spent two weeks in the throes of a national firestorm as rallies of support erupted outside WNBA arenas […]
If your impression of San Francisco was formed during the pandemic, it is time to update it. The city portrayed as a dystopian collection of homeless encampments, open-air drug markets, boarded-up storefronts, and empty office towers still exists in the public imagination. Some of those problems remain, but that version of San Francisco is increasingly […]
We have seen outsize investor focus on inflation and the Federal Reserve’s response to it. But while monetary policy gets most of the headlines, the much bigger long-term economic threat is our rapidly growing federal debt. The deficit is around $2 trillion out of a $7 trillion federal budget (about 30% of spending!), which must […]
The November midterm elections will be the first national election in which generative artificial intelligence is cheap, convincing, and carried in everyone’s pocket. The concerns being discussed are not hypothetical. The Los Angeles County’s registrar has reported that AI was used during California’s June primary to manipulate publicly available footage of ballot counting to gin […]
Americans have good reason to worry about the rapid spread of Flock Safety cameras. More than 6,000 governments in 49 states now use these swarms of cameras to monitor cars, tracking their movements throughout the day for law enforcement purposes. While catching criminals is always important, people fear their privacy rights are at risk, and […]
MyPillow founder Mike Lindell on Wednesday said he’s prepared to spend “upwards of $1 million” for a private recount of ballots cast in the Minnesota Republican primary for governor. State House Speaker Lisa Demuth (R-Minn.) beat Lindell by 11 percentage points, but Lindell has refused to cede to the lawmaker, citing concerns with voting machines...
Former official David Mansdoerfer argues that bureaucratic delays at the FDA threaten American leadership in the growing regenerative medicine sector and give international competitors like China a strategic advantage.
