Politics

Justice Department asks California judge to pause its Anthropic appeal

Department of Justice lawyers on Wednesday asked a federal judge in northern California to pause its appeal of a March ruling that temporarily blocked the government from designating the artificial...

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Lawmakers are shown how ‘jailbroken’ AI can plan terror attacks

Department of Homeland Security researchers showed lawmakers just how easy it is for bad actors to weaponize artificial intelligence models to build a bomb, plan a terror attack or launch a cyberat...

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Laura Loomer Loses Defamation Suit Against Bill Maher Over "Who's Trump Fucking? … Might Be Laura Loomer" Lines

From today's decision by Judge James S. Moody, Jr. (M.D. Fla.) in Loomer v. Maher: Plaintiff Laura Loomer is a well-known conservative investigative journalist. Loomer is also a "conservative, Rep...

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Trump’s Enormous Gerrymandering Blunder

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term.When President Trump last summer implored Republicans to launch a nationwide gerrymandering blitz t...

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A government spy program may outlive its deadline — and face a secret court fight

The Trump administration could continue operating a controversial electronic surveillance program through next year even if Congress fails to renew it later this month — but doing so could thrust o...

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Trump weighs consequences for NATO allies on 'naughty' list

The White House has developed something akin to a “naughty and nice” list of NATO countries, as the Trump administration looks for ways to punish allies who refused to back the Iran war.The effort,...

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Inside Grindr’s political power play

Call it a case of strange bedfellows.Grindr, the LGBTQ+ dating app, has expanded its political presence in both Washington and California as it seeks to flex its influence muscles on a range of pol...

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Coalition repairs, red-meat speeches and personnel moves: The White House jumps into midterms mode

The White House is diving deeper into midterm mode.Administration officials this month called in disgruntled parts of the 2024 coalition — from podcaster Joe Rogan to the Make America Health Again ...

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Transcript: How the Media Failed the Palestinians

This is a lightly edited transcript of the April 22 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Perry Bacon: I’m the host of...

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How Democrats Can Lose Michigan, Again

Over the past 15 years or so, Democrats have won a lot of races because the opposing party’s primary voters decided to nominate right-wing ideologues (Christine O’Donnell, Todd Akin, Kari Lake) rat...

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Iran reports seizing 2 ships in Strait of Hormuz hours after Trump’s ceasefire extension

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two foreign ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, according to a semi-official state news agency, a major escalation coming just...

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Capital control: States strip power from cities, counties

Michigan’s rural counties were blocking solar energy projects, so Democratic state lawmakers quashed the opposition by passing new statewide standards.Local opposition was mounting against data cen...

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Gas prices are still high. The midterm clock is ticking.

The White House is using everything in its toolkit to try to bring down energy prices — but GOP campaign veterans say time is running out if the party is going to avoid a disaster at the ballot box...

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Data center moratorium a fault line in Dem primaries

Democrats' split over data centers is opening a gaping fault line in key House primaries.Democratic candidates in battleground districts across the country are embracing a left-wing proposal to hal...

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Patel lashes out at press over story painting him as drunk and AWOL

FBI Director Kash Patel lashed out at the news media Tuesday with a combative public rebuttal to an article that claimed his drinking had sometimes left him difficult to contact, alarming colleague...

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Virginia voters give Dems big win in the gerrymandering wars

Virginia voters on Tuesday approved Democrats’ effort to gerrymander the state, giving the party an edge in its bid to reclaim the House in November.The new map would give Democrats the chance to f...

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‘The GOP should’ve done more’: Virginia Republicans point fingers after gerrymandering loss

After a narrow loss in Virginia, Republicans are pointing fingers as President Donald Trump's national gerrymandering fight slips into a stalemate.Multiple Republicans say the party should've spent...

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The Vatican vs. Mar-a-Lago

Pope Leo XIV is making it impossible to reconcile MAGA politics with Catholic faith.Within the US Catholic church, Leo’s interventions may decisively undercut those who have argued for a “seamless ...

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Iran talks on hold over Trump's blockade

Iran is refusing to send its negotiating team to Islamabad to continue talks this week until President Donald Trump lifts the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, according to two Middle East off...

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Trump’s surgeon general pick faces mounting GOP opposition

A new wave of attacks from conservatives is further imperiling President Donald Trump’s pick for surgeon general — and testing the power of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Hea...

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Trump bucks New York Republicans in race to replace Rep. Elise Stefanik

ALBANY, New York — President Donald Trump endorsed the CEO of a sticker company to fill outgoing Rep. Elise Stefanik’s House seat — a nod that’s at odds with the New York Republican Party.Trump ann...

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