Politics

‘States should have a say’: Candidates for governor race to take on AI regulation

Gubernatorial candidates across the country are racing to stake out positions on AI as the battle over regulating the technology intensifies.They’re watching as sitting governors of both parties tu...

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Mike Waltz has quietly signaled he’s looking past the UN

Failure doesn’t have to kill ambition. Mike Waltz ought to know.After the infamous Signal chat debacle, which contributed to President Donald Trump's decision to oust him as national security advis...

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My Current Model of What Happened to Elon Musk

This is cross-posted from my SubstackElon Musk appears to have gone crazy. What happened?There are several hypotheses to explain his behavior:Sleep deprivationSubclinical bipolarI thought both of t...

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Citing Trump, GOP regulators reject gas plant for Amazon data center

Republican regulators on Friday threw a wrench in Amazon’s plan to power a $10 billion data center project in North Carolina — citing President Donald Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge.The GOP-co...

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Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google sued over call to ‘pace’ AI development

SACRAMENTO, California — AI giants Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google are facing allegations of collusion following recent calls for a coordinated slowdown of AI development, according to a civ...

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GOP campaign ads are mostly avoiding Trump: GOP strategist reacts

President Donald Trump may be omnipresent in American politics, but one place you won’t find him during the midterm elections: starring in Republican TV ads. A new CNN analysis shows that Trump is...

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Trump says he’s banning media outlets, including POLITICO, from White House

President Donald Trump said he would ban reporters from three publications, including POLITICO, from the White House, he wrote on Truth Social Friday.“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly ...

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Florida’s governor race heads to Virginia, as Jolly highlights data center debate

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Amid a mounting national frenzy of artificial intelligence worries, Democratic nominee for Florida governor David Jolly visited northern Virginia’s “Data Center Alley” this w...

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Trump says US and Denmark have reached new security agreement in Greenland

President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. has reached an agreement for “permanent control over security” for Greenland that would enable a broad expansion of the American military presence o...

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Newsom signs executive order to explore new AI rules, consider ‘kill switch’

California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday to speed up two AI laws he recently signed and explore proposals like requiring that AI companies develop a “kill switch” for their ...

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Robert Kraft Claims His Donations Help Palestinians. Turns Out He’s Funding Friends of the IDF.

Billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wants you to know he has spent “decades” supporting the Palestinian people. Days after pressuring pop singer Ed Sheeran to drop rapper Ma...

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Hill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong

Sensitive F-35 fighter jet technology was unexpectedly diverted to Hong Kong this summer, sparking an inquiry on Capitol Hill and raising the possibility that China could have access to key compone...

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Spanberger slaps new guardrails on data centers

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) on Friday unveiled what she called the "highest standards in America” for data centers, including what she said is the country's first crackdown...

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Senate roadblock sparks new competition over data center bills

A House-passed bill aimed at shielding Americans from rising energy costs from data centers has been put on ice for now in the Senate — and lawmakers are already jockeying to push their own alterna...

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Bill Cassidy slams RFK Jr. over measles outbreaks but demurs on confirmation vote

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy issued a sharp critique of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement, as his department is drastically remaking federal child ...

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Republicans wanted to run against Mamdani. They're running against Hochul instead.

NEW YORK — Not too long ago, Republicans were salivating at the thought of using New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a far-left boogeyman. Instead, moderate Gov. Kathy Hochul has emerged as the G...

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It’s Jon Ossoff’s Moment

If you’re a Democrat, attending a Jon Ossoff rally feels very good. Therapeutic, even. Many Democrats feel as if every day of the second Trump administration has brought some fresh horror: a discou...

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As data center backlash grows, another GOP governor draws a line

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) is moving to put new guardrails on data centers seeking state tax breaks as Republicans confront mounting voter anxiety over the power-hungry facilities.Lombardo’s new ...

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Widely touted AI tool from FAA will be modest in scope after airline pushback

Airline industry officials have finally stopped panicking about the Federal Aviation Administration’s soon-to-launch artificial intelligence tool for managing flights and easing congestion in air t...

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Why Israel Isn’t Leaving Gaza Any Time Soon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the United Nations in New York, NY, on September 20, 2023. Benjamin Netanyahu’s likely success in the upcoming Israeli elec...

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‘The Best Thing That Happened to Him Was Losing in 2020’

Few reporters understand as much about Donald Trump’s thinking, motives, and behavior as Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Haberman has been covering the president closely for more than a decade a...

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