The Trump administration Monday beat back doomsday demands -- and calls by former President Barack Obama -- to hyper-regulate artificial intelligence, arguing the chilling warnings put forward by industry leaders and Democrats are a coordinated election-year ploy.
A bill to stabilize intercollegiate athletics by setting national guidelines for the new college sports economy is on the cusp of passing through Congress, Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it is repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas and announced it is taking a separate but related step to prevent future administrations from regulating climate pollution from power plants.
Rahm Emanuel over the weekend asserted that it was historic — unprecedented — that the CEOs of the biggest artificial intelligence companies want federal regulation of AI. Emanuel is trying to argue that, of course, we need federal regulation of A.I. today, if even the biggest businesses in the industry want it. The premise of […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) Senate campaign received nearly $54 million from the GOP-aligned Senate Leadership Fund’s (SLF) Texas affiliate, according to a filing. The Austin-based Texas PAC donated more than $53.8 million to Paxton’s campaign, based on filings to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). The committee is affiliated with the SLF, which is...
The Supreme Court refused to clear the way for President Trump’s mail-in voting plan for the midterms on Monday over the dissents of two conservative justices, keeping intact a judge’s block that declared the plan unlawful. It’s the third time the Trump administration brought the plan to the high court’s emergency docket after groups have blocked the effort. Previously, the...
U.S. diplomatic facilities in four Gulf countries suffered around $184 million in estimated damages from Iranian military strikes, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog made public on Monday. The posts are located in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Pentagon watchdog said in the 44-page report, the first...