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Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order that would seek to challenge state efforts to regulate artificial intelligence through lawsuits…
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The ‘Surge’ of Troops May Not Come to San Francisco, but the City Is Ready Anyway
[ad_1] After months of deployments by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the National Guard across American cities, federal agents have been preparing to…
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The Long History of Frogs as Protest Symbols
[ad_1] Think of it like “Where’s Waldo?” for the anti-Trump movement: Last Saturday, as some 7 million people filled American cities for the latest…
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The Trump Administration Is Coming for Nonprofits. They’re Getting Ready
[ad_1] Some organizations, says Stahl, are considering what it would mean to dissolve themselves and start up again as a limited liability company. In…
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$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech Workers
[ad_1] After a six-week work trip Xiayun, an employee at a semiconductor company in Silicon Valley, had landed at her hometown in China for…
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Brendan Carr Isn’t Going to Stop Until Someone Makes Him
[ad_1] To Genevieve Lakier, a professor of law at the University of Chicago whose research focuses on free speech, Carr’s threats against ABC appear…
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US Tech Giants Race to Spend Billions in UK AI Push
[ad_1] Microsoft and Nvidia have unveiled plans to invest up to $45 billion dollars into the UK economy, in a move that will bolster…
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A Vigil for Charlie Kirk
[ad_1] Young people dominated the hospital crowd, which makes sense, since Kirk’s major accomplishment was to promote his brand of rightwing politics to a…
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Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Death
[ad_1] Far-right influencers and violent extremists are posting identifying details about people they view as celebrating or glorifying the murder of right-wing activist Charlie…
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‘War Is Here’: The Far-Right Responds to Charlie Kirk Shooting With Calls for Violence
[ad_1] “You could be next,” influencer and unofficial Trump adviser Laura Loomer posted on X. “The Left are terrorists.” Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist…
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A Crypto Micronation Is Making Friends at the White House
[ad_1] When I visited the Free Republic of Liberland in April 2023, on its eighth anniversary, there was little to indicate that the tiny…
Pop Culture
MAGA Jokes and Mega Outrage With Roy Wood Jr.
[ad_1] Van and Rachel react to Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally (6:28) before comedian Roy Wood Jr. joins to dig into controversial jokes…
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The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe
[ad_1] A TikTok video of actor Brian Baumgartner, from the American version of The Office, calling for the overthrow of the president of a…
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Obama Talks to the Brothas, Plus Chris Spencer and Lynnette Grey Bull Join the Show
[ad_1] Van and Rachel discuss Liam Payne’s death and graphic photos posted by TMZ (5:25), react to Barack Obama addressing Black male voters’ lack…
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Instant Reactions to the Tim Walz–JD Vance Debate With Semafor’s Benjy Sarlin. Plus: Gabriel Sherman on Writing ‘The Apprentice.’
[ad_1] Hello, media consumers! In a special bonus edition of The Press Box, Bryan has two guests. First, he speaks with Semafor’s Benjy Sarlin…
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Love, Hatred, and Boosie. Plus, Representative Maxwell Frost on the Future of Politics.
[ad_1] Van and Rachel remember the lives of Dikembe Mutombo and Kris Kristofferson (:15) and debate the appropriateness of a sexy TD Jakes R&B…
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Janet’s Kamala Escapade and ‘Evolution of the Black Quarterback’ With Michael Vick
[ad_1] Van and Rachel discuss Beyoncé’s exclusion from the CMAs (5:47) before reacting to the fallout from Janet Jackson’s questioning of Kamala Harris’s Blackness…
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Watch Kamala Harris Take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview
[ad_1] In a wide-ranging WIRED Autocomplete Interview, Vice President Kamala Harris touched on everything from her debate with former president Donald Trump—which she found…
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US Senate Warns Big Tech to Act Fast Against Election Meddling
[ad_1] Andy Carvin, the managing editor and research director of the Digital Forensic Research Lab, tells WIRED that his organization, which conducts a vast…
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Suspected Trump Gunman Was Once Charged With Possession of a Weapon of Mass Destruction
[ad_1] Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspected gunman involved in an apparent assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at the Trump International Golf Club…