Will Thibeau, a former Pentagon AI official, warns that "doomer"-driven AI regulation could hand China an edge and entrench an OpenAI-Anthropic duopoly.
Democratic strategist David Axelrod said he would be a "fool" to try to predict the outcome of the 2024 election, arguing that the polling margins he's seen are "way too close to call." "I'd be a fool to answer that question because you're talking about margins we have never seen before in polling," Axelrod, who...
Former President Obama took a swipe at former President Trump's competence Friday, mocking the GOP nominee for his recent rhetoric. “He called himself ‘the father IVF,'” Obama said during a rally in battleground Arizona. “I do not know what that means. You do not either. He said January 6th was ‘a day of love.’ You...
Former President Trump weighed in on Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar earlier this week, saying “that's sometimes what happens.” “My reaction is, he was not a good person,” Trump said Friday while visiting battleground Michigan, according to a video shared by an ABC News reporter on social platform X. “That's my reaction. That's sometimes...
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Saturday that a drone was launched from Lebanon toward Netanyahu's home in Caesarea. Netanyahu and his wife were not home at the time of the incident and no casualties were reported, according to The Associated Press (AP). "A UAV was launched towards the prime minister's...
Reducing overall methane emissions is the best lever we have for reducing near-term warming. Aquatic methane could be the best lever for reducing overall methane emissions; it’s time to pull that lever.
Former President Trump is enjoying a small but measurable shot of momentum as the race for the White House enters its closing stretch. Polls have been edging in Trump’s direction since Vice President Harris hit her two high points — around the Democratic National Convention in late August and following her first and only debate with...
Northern New Mexico Indigenous communities and environmental groups are calling for the reconsideration of federal plans to run a new transmission line through an ecosystem they say is both vulnerable and critical to local tradition. The plans, proposed by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Energy, involve the construction of a 14-mile,...
FREEPORT, N.Y. — A top House Democrat said this week that if the party wins the majority, its first priority in the next Congress will be election integrity — an issue that’s been front-and-center throughout a campaign in which former President Trump has floated baseless claims of voter fraud and laid the groundwork to challenge the...
Presidential candidates Vice President Harris and former President Trump are picking up momentum in the final weeks of the election with visits to Georgia and Pennsylvania on Saturday. Trump will visit a regional airport in Latrobe, Pa. on Saturday for a rally with voters. Former Pittsburgh Steelers wide-receiver Antonio Brown will reportedly join the Republican...
Vice President Harris next week will campaign across the "blue wall" states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where she will be joined by former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for a series of events targeting suburban voters. A senior Harris campaign official said the vice president and Cheney will take part in conversations in the suburbs...
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Republican challenger Eric Hovde squared off on a debate stage Friday evening in Madison in a fiery exchange of attacks that showed how intense this race has become after largely flying under the radar for months. Hovde wasn’t as highly touted a Senate Republican candidate as some others trying to...
Walmart reached a proposed settlement agreement about its distribution of prescribed opioids on Friday according to Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. This settlement includes three separate shareholder cases, each of which alleged Walmart did not properly oversee the dispersion and distribution of prescription opioids under the Controlled Substance Act. The agreement is still subject...
