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Inside John Thune’s AI dilemma

John Thune has urged Congress to act on artificial intelligence for years. Now, as concerns about the rapidly advancing technology explode, the Senate majority leader is moving carefully.A former C...

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‘Profoundly unhelpful’: Texas Republicans worry Bo French’s xenophobic posts make a tough year worse

Texas Republicans were already fretting about slipping support with voters of color. Then Bo French got on X.The Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner posted a photo of a crowd of Univ...

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Can anyone hold back the AI juggernaut?

The increasingly urgent pleas from leading tech executives to slow the advance of artificial intelligence are confronting one daunting obstacle: It’s not entirely clear how they should do that.Woul...

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How anti‑bribery laws apply to Trump’s promise of $5,000 payments

In his keynote address to the Republican midterm convention on Sept. 9, 2026, President Donald Trump promised that if Republicans retain control of Congress in November, he would authorize a US$5...

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How the 1980s Permanently Shaped America

—fotograzia—Getty ImagesLike most Americans, I arrived at the election watch party on Nov. 4, 1980, expecting a long night. It was a little before 9:00 p.m. in Chicago. By 9:05 the television netw...

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Russian Elites Are Fighting for Unchecked Power

Ignoring a problem is rarely enough to make it go away. Take civilizationism, an approach based on shared culture taken to the level of civilizational identity. Also called civilizationalism, the i...

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DeSantis dismisses claims that Alligator Alcatraz violated detention standards

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis brushed off a new report Monday from the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog that found the immigration detention center in the Florida E...

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Texas GOP candidate stands by xenophobic comments following backlash

Bo French, the GOP nominee for a spot on the Texas Railroad Commission, doubled down on Monday on a xenophobic post that disparaged Asian American students at the University of Texas after receivin...

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Newsom says he won’t run for president if Harris runs again

Gavin Newsom will pass on a presidential bid if Kamala Harris runs again, he told CNN in an interview posted Monday, effectively giving the former vice president the right of first refusal in the 2...

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A Bigoted Outburst Against Texas Sports Fans

On Saturday night, college-football fans in Texas were blessed with a moment of collective ecstasy. Their Longhorns were playing Ohio State, the nation’s No. 1 team, and trailed by 20 points. Then ...

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EPA scraps climate curbs for U.S. power generation

EPA on Monday landed a major blow against current and future greenhouse gas regulations for power plants, the largest U.S. industrial contributor to climate change.The Trump administration rescinde...

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Mitch McConnell expected to return to Senate this week

GOP lawmakers believe Sen. Mitch McConnell will return to the Capitol this week, ending a three-month health-related absence, according to four people granted anonymity to disclose private conversa...

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Hegseth allies campaign to put loyalist in Army secretary job

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon allies are waging a behind-the-scenes campaign against administration officials vying for the Army Secretary job — an unprecedented effort to get the Defense secretary’s spo...

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Gas Prices Could Cost Republicans the Midterms

One might expect Donald Trump to be concerned about gas prices. Less than two months out from the midterms, gas costs 37 percent more than it did a year ago. Home-heating oil was up 52 percent as o...

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Harris backs AI slowdown amid growing safety fears

Kamala Harris joined calls to slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development, warning Monday that the technology could “escape human control” without stronger safeguards.“The frontier of...

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EPA rollback may worsen Trump’s Supreme Court climate headache

The Trump administration's move on Monday to undo EPA climate rules could further complicate another wing of its strategy to quash U.S. greenhouse gas policies — its Supreme Court bid to derail law...

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Is AI Really an Existential Threat?

This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss whether warnings from leading artificial intelligence companies that AI could pose an existential thr...

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Anthropic envoy says AI progress will ‘move at the speed of trust’

CANBERRA — Former U.S. Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich travels between the U.S. and Australia as Anthropic’s international special envoy, a role that has placed him at the center of an increasi...

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New York City leads lawsuit against Trump’s ‘public charge’ immigration rule

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and mayors around the country announced a joint lawsuit Monday seeking to stop President Donald Trump from making it harder for lawful immigrants to re...

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Iran war coverage led to firings at Stars and Stripes, former publisher says

Max Lederer, the former publisher of Stars and Stripes who was fired by the Trump administration from the military-focused newspaper last month, said on Monday that the paper’s critical coverage of...

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DeSantis calls opposition to AI protections a ‘losing position’ for Republicans

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Opposing new artificial intelligence guardrails would be a “losing position” for the GOP in the midterm elections, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday, reaffirming his case to regu...

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