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Centrists Are Soft-Launching the Idea That We Have a Little Too Much Democracy

Images of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Joe Biden, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are displ...

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Chicago mayor bets progressives will turn out for him in announcing reelection bid

Mayor Brandon Johnson is launching his reelection campaign Sunday despite daunting approval ratings, betting the progressive coalition that helped elect him in 2023 is stronger now than it was four...

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Mullin seeks to win over immigration hardliners with messaging blitz

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has launched a PR blitz to save his floundering reputation among immigration hardliners who think he’s soft on deportations. So far, it’s not working.Th...

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Tech companies must be primarily responsible for AI safety, Mike Johnson says

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday said he would support talks with tech leaders on artificial intelligence, but insisted that developers — not Congress — are responsible for ensuring their produ...

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AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System

Politicians have no shortage of ideas about how to rein in AI: a 100 percent federal tax rate on data-center incentives, a pause on all development of advanced AI, new standards to block AI agents ...

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Altman: IPO unlikely this year

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he didn’t think the company’s highly anticipated IPO would happen this year, in an interview released Saturday.“Now would be an ill-advised moment to go public,” he said....

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Anthropic CEO seeks immediate slowdown on AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for the immediate slowdown of artificial intelligence development, warning that recent advances in AI have begun to outpace the industry’s ability to u...

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Republicans fear they have a North Carolina problem

DALLAS — Republicans are increasingly worried that North Carolina’s Senate race is slipping out of contention.For months, they had argued that a post-Labor Day infusion of cash could jolt new energ...

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Republicans assess Trump’s convention with a shrug

DALLAS – Republicans breathed a sigh of relief that the GOP midterm convention didn’t go poorly. But many aren’t convinced it will help in November.On flights out of Dallas Friday morning, Republic...

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White House unloads on violent ‘criminal alien’ nabbed after investigators uncover election offense

A Bahamian national who arrived in the U.S. during President Gerald Ford’s administration and was living with a green card while racking up a violent rap sheet before investigators found he voted i...

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Convention puts GOP’s reality on display: Midterm policy agenda is skimpy

DALLAS — Republicans used their midterm convention this week to ask voters to preserve their congressional majorities and let them “finish the job.”But with few consensus legislative goals, it’s fa...

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‘I don’t have any’: Trump brushes aside concerns over AI’s existential risks

President Donald Trump downplayed concerns about the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence raised this week by some AI researchers, saying late Thursday he was focused instead on the U.S. l...

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OpenAI reveals another rogue AI attack

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence launched a cyberattack against an online service months before a July hack against startup Hugging Face, the company confirmed Friday, a revelation that could ramp ...

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Court deals first blow to Trump’s coal rescue campaign

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected an Energy Department emergency order that kept a Michigan coal plant running months past its planned retirement date, delivering a stinging first blow to ...

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We’re on the brink of a world war that ends with nuclear weapons – Carlson to GU (EXCLUSIVE)

The conservative journalist spoke with Afshin Rattansi about the “greatest betrayal in the history of American politics” Conservative journalist...

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Republicans just opened the floodgates on spending for Ken Paxton

DALLAS — Texas Republican Ken Paxton is getting a major infusion of financial help in his Senate battle with Democrat James Talarico.A new super PAC linked to Senate Republican leadership has purch...

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California wealth tax proponent threatened labor officials, law firm’s report finds

The labor leader championing California’s wealth tax threatened other union officials as he sought to build support for the measure and previously assaulted a labor official, according to an indepe...

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A federal health program for 9/11 responders is still short-staffed

Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the number of first responders and survivors suffering from illnesses related to that day is still growing. But the federal health program re...

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Political unity permeates 25th anniversary of 9/11

NEW YORK — At Friday’s 25th anniversary commemoration of Sept. 11, there were no arguments. There were no boycotts. And no first responders turned their backs in protest.The energy at ground zero w...

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Senate AI safety bill’s path forward remains unclear

A bill led by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune on the catastrophic risks of artificial intelligence faces an uncertain future as the parties remain far apart on ke...

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We’re on the brink of world war that ends with nuclear weapons – Carlson to GU (EXCLUSIVE)

The conservative journalist spoke with Afshin Rattansi about what he called the “greatest betrayal in the history of American politics” Conserva...

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