Will Thibeau, a former Pentagon AI official, warns that "doomer"-driven AI regulation could hand China an edge and entrench an OpenAI-Anthropic duopoly.
The Biden administration proposed this week to speed up the process of approving geothermal energy projects by exempting them from early-stage environmental reviews. If the Bureau of Land Management finalizes its proposal, geothermal energy projects on public lands will no longer have to undergo environmental impact analysis for early stage confirmation that an area is...
A South Carolina man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the murder of a Black transgender woman. In February, a jury convicted Daqua Lameek Ritter for the 2019 killing of Dime Doe on all charges, including one hate crime count, one federal firearms count and one obstruction count. Ritter is the first...
Vice President Harris on Friday defended her reluctance to break publicly with President Biden, calling it a “tradition” among vice presidents not to criticize their bosses. “I mean to be very candid with you; including Mike Pence, vice presidents are not critical of their presidents. I think that really, actually, in terms of the tradition...
A Republican-led super PAC is running contradictory ads in Michigan and Pennsylvania about Vice President Harris’s stance on Israel in an apparent effort to target Arab and Jewish voters in the key battleground states. In Michigan, Future Coalition PAC has run several ads emphasizing Harris’s support for Israel and suggesting that pro-Palestine protesters “hate her.” ...
Fox News is disputing a claim made by former President Trump that "people from Fox" helped write jokes he delivered at a Catholic charity banquet this week. "Your material was real funny, who wrote it," "Fox & Friends" host Steve Doocy asked Trump during the former president's in-studio visit to the program Friday. "I had...
The Harris campaign on Friday launched a series of ads specifically aimed at winning over young male voters, including a first-time political ad on the sports betting platform DraftKings. The Harris campaign announced it would run digital ads on Yahoo Sports, which has 405 million monthly views and a predominantly male audience, as well as...
Bruce Springsteen is sounding off on Donald Trump after the former president spent much of a recent campaign event listening to songs, with the "Born in the U.S.A." singer saying that "swaying to music" is his job. “The whole thing of standing and swaying for 40 minutes at your town hall? I mean, swaying to...
In key Texas state race, Rep. Cuellar's sister throws in with Republicans against Democrat who beat her A member of a powerful and embattled Democratic South Texas political family has thrown her weight behind the Republican candidate in a pivotal race for the state legislature. This week, the campaign of former Uvalde mayor Don McLaughlin...
Former President Donald Trump will visit Ashevllle, N.C., a city devastated by Hurricane Helene last month, to deliver remarks and see the damage first-hand on Monday. The visit will bring Trump to a part of a crucial swing-state hit exceptionally hard by Helene. Vice President Harris visited Asheville earlier this month to tour the devastation...
Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) slammed former President Trump for his profanity at Thursday's Al Smith dinner, a Catholic charity banquet. “This is somebody who’s just being horrendous at that dinner,” Comstock said on CNN on Friday morning. “Swearing in front of priests. Who does that? That is just a hot, horrible mess. We...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has suspended some election deadlines and rules in Florida to ensure flexibility for voters and election workers in areas affected by hurricanes Helene and Milton. In an order issued this week, DeSantis altered deadlines for election supervisors to send out mail-in ballots and delegate polling spots. The Republican governor also...
