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White House releases AI policy blueprint for Congress

The White House on Friday published a long-awaited policy wishlist for the federal regulation of artificial intelligence that it hopes Congress will codify into law.The light-touch framework blends...

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The world's 10 richest families

Billionaires have proven a popular punching bag in entertainment in recent years, from movies like HBO Max's dark comedy "Mountainhead" to apocalypse-themed billio...

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What Cesar Chavez’s biographer says now

LOS ANGELES — Cesar Chavez’s reputation has been shattered by the sexual abuse allegations against him revealed this week. Miriam Pawel, the journalist and historian of the farmworker movement, sai...

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The Slow, Then Sudden, Death of the Hawkish Democrat

The speech that arguably won Barack Obama the presidency was delivered six years before he ran for the White House and four years before he reached Congress. In October 2002, Obama, then a state se...

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Shutdown enters critical phase as TSA shortages expected to expand

White House officials and Democrats on Capitol Hill know the shutdown pain is about to get a lot worse.But neither side is blinking — yet.In the weeks ahead, long lines and canceled flights, so far...

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What’s Going on With the IRS?

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Education Department lays out plan to move student loan portfolio to Treasury

Education Department officials announced plans on Thursday to gradually move the nearly $1.7 trillion student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department — one of the most high stakes moves the Trump...

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Trump’s regulators approve TV merger that set off conservative media feud

The Federal Communications Commission approved the $6.2 billion merger of Nexstar and Tegna, creating the nation’s largest broadcaster in a deal that set off a fierce power struggle within conserva...

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‘Perfect storm’: Wall Street turmoil muddies Trump’s pitch to boost 401(k)s

President Donald Trump set out last year to open up an opaque corner of the financial world to more everyday Americans saving for retirement.Now, the market is starting to crack.The Labor Departmen...

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Trump stretches ‘America First’ on Iran. His voters are going along with it.

President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is testing the bounds of his “America First” agenda. So far, his supporters are sticking with him.New results from The POLITICO Poll show that Trump’s 2024 vote...

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This Military Tragedy Became a Blockbuster Movie. Here’s What It Didn’t Tell You.

In the flickering darkness of a nearly empty movie theater, Nick Baggett, a retired Navy SEAL, watched a private screening of a Hollywood film about one of Naval Special Warfare’s most famous missi...

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‘Praying’ to Rob Bonta: Hollywood workers pin hopes on AG to stop Paramount deal

LOS ANGELES — To some employees at Warner Bros. Discovery — the media and entertainment conglomerate that rival Paramount Skydance has agreed to purchase for about $110 billion — Rob Bonta isn’t ju...

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Trump digs in on Powell, suggesting DOJ probe should continue

President Donald Trump is facing a head-on collision with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, and he’s not changing course.Trump on Thursday signaled support for a Department of Justice criminal i...

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What Paul Ehrlich’s Fear of Scarcity Did to American Politics

When the Stanford biologist and science writer Paul Ehrlich died last week at 93, the obituaries that followed were a fascinating exercise in editorial balance. As usual, most hesitated to speak to...

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Pentagon weighs sending more troops to Middle East

The Pentagon is considering sending more troops to the Middle East, a move that threatens to escalate the Iran war and violate President Donald Trump’s promise not to engage American servicemembers...

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US acknowledges gaps with Israel on Iran war objectives

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told lawmakers plainly Thursday that the United States and Israel have different goals in the war in Iran — one of the clearest indications yet from ...

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Federal workforce unhappy, disengaged, new survey finds

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought reportedly said in 2023 and 2024 he wants to put federal workers “in trauma.”He appears to have done it.A new survey of federal workers found th...

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New Washington state law bans law enforcement from covering face

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Thursday signed a law prohibiting law enforcement officers in the state from covering their faces to hide their identities — a response to concerns about identificat...

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The IRS Is in Trouble

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Strike on key Iranian gas field is a new phase of the war. Trump blames Israel.

The widening attacks on energy infrastructure in the Middle East have created a rift between the White House and its Gulf allies while increasing fears of a global recession.Israel’s targeting of t...

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The GOP is dismissing Joe Kent. They might come to regret it.

When Joe Kent resigned as the U.S.’s top counterterrorism official over dissatisfaction with the Iran war, President Donald Trump and much of the establishment GOP shrugged him off as a nobody who ...

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