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Biden tells climate activist to ‘shush up’ during speech on democracy

President Biden told a climate activist to "shush up" during his speech honoring the late Sen. John McCain in Arizona on Thursday.

House Republicans unveil stopgap bill to avoid shutdown, but can it actually pass?

House Republicans finally unveiled their long-awaited stopgap measure that includes a wishlist of arch-conservative priorities and is all but guaranteed to be rejected by the Senate.

To avert climate catastrophe, the US needs to do more than Meatless Mondays 

Without a dramatic reduction in U.S. meat consumption, we will be unable to avert a climate catastrophe. 

FBI arrests Proud Boy who disappeared days before Jan. 6 sentencing

The FBI has arrested a member of the right-wing extremist Proud Boys who disappeared days before he was set to be sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Christopher Worrell, 52, is in custody after the FBI served a warrant at his Naples, Fla., residence Thursday, according to a spokesperson for...

Schiff: Feinstein accomplishments made US, world a better place

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), one of the candidates running to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2024, paid tribute to the groundbreaking California Democrat after her death was announced Friday morning. “Today, the nation has truly lost a giant of the U.S. Senate, California has lost its trail-blazing leader, and I lost a real friend and...

Open AI exec warns AI can become ‘extremely addictive’

OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati urged the conducting of close research on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technology as it advances to mitigate risks of it becoming addictive and dangerous during an interview Thursday.  Murati, a top executive at the company behind the popular ChatGPT AI tool, warned as AI advances it can...

Watch live: House votes on bill to avert government shutdown

The GOP-led House is voting on a short-term spending bill that would keep the federal government running while budget negotiations continue. As it stands, government funding expires after 11:59 p.m. Saturday. It remains unclear whether Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) can round up enough votes in his own party to pass the package. No Democrats support...

Former Detroit police chief, a Republican, planning Michigan Senate bid: report

Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig is planning to enter the race for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat, sources familiar with the matter told the Associated Press. Craign joins a list of GOP candidates trying to flip the seat after Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) announced in January that she would not be seeking reelection. Craig is...

Two decades after 9/11, Congress must restore FISA to its original purpose

We can and we must reform the misguided moves made after 9/11, which threaten the constitutional rights of all U.S. citizens.

When does a war reach a turning point? History supplies some answers.

With the all-out war in Ukraine now 19 months old, we should probably view it, tragically, as still a fairly young conflict. 

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