About half concerned Republicans could try to overturn midterm results: SurveyA new poll released Friday suggests half of Americans are concerned Republicans may try to overturn the results of November’s midterm election. Fifty percent of respondents to the New York Times/Siena University survey said they were either "very" or "somewhat worried" the GOP may use “illegal means” to overturn the election, compared to 49 percent...The Hill16h agoWhole story →GovernmentEducation
Paxton sues OpenAI, Altman for failing to warn Texans about ChatGPT's 'dangers'Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Friday, accusing the company of failing to warn consumers about the potential dangers from its AI models. The lawsuit alleges the ChatGPT maker is running afoul of a Texas consumer protection law and kids' online safety law, underscoring warnings about the...The Hill18h agoWhole story →CommerceJustice
Collins says certain Canadian goods now tariff-exemptSen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced Friday that nine categories of Canadian products “crucial for Maine’s agricultural industries” will be exempted from U.S. tariffs. The types of exempted goods include paperboard cartons, plastic boxes, refrigeration equipment, agricultural cleaning and sorting machinery, packing and wrapping machinery and seaweed…The Hill19h agoWhole story →EconomyFood
Trump says wind turbine part imports cause national security issue, but doesn't impose tariffsThe Trump administration has determined that imports of wind turbine parts pose a national security threat, but it does not appear to be opting to tariff them. President Trump issued a memo Thursday saying “wind turbines and their components and subcomponents are being imported into the United States under such circumstances as to threaten to...The Hill20h agoWhole story →Economy
Cognitive surrender: Artificial intelligence’s threat to democracyWesleyan University computer science professor Sebastian Zimmeck argues that artificial intelligence poses a threat to democratic citizenship by encouraging cognitive surrender and requiring both individual critical thinking and robust regulatory oversight to protect personal agency.The Hill23h agoWhole story →EducationJustice
Trump election advisers donate Bosnia consulting fee to presidential libraryPresident Trump’s political advisers James Blair and Chris LaCivita confirmed Friday they donated their full fee from their consulting work for a pro-Russian political party in Bosnia-Herzegovina to Trump’s presidential library. “Yes, it’s true we donated our full fee. I love the President and am eternally grateful for the opportunities he has provided…The Hill1d agoWhole story →CultureGovernment
Wall Street Journal editorial board hits Marshall for backing Social Security tax increaseThe Wall Street Journal editorial board on Thursday took GOP Sen. Roger Marshall (Kan.) to task for backing an elimination of the cap on income subject to Social Security taxes. Marshall, the Journal editorial board wrote, is in “favor of what would be one of the largest peacetime tax increases in recent decades” by advocating...The Hill1d agoWhole story →Economy
Ty Cobb predicts Trump will likely skip deposition, dismiss BBC lawsuitFormer White House attorney Ty Cobb said President Trump would likely skip a mandated deposition or walk out in the middle, which he predicted would lead to the eventual dismissal of the president's lawsuit against the BBC. Cobb joined CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday night after a judge said Trump must sit for a deposition...The Hill1d agoWhole story →CultureJustice
Congress should reassert its role in trade policy after the midtermsAlong with higher oil prices associated with the Iran war, Trump’s tariffs are highly unpopular with the electorate.The Hill1d agoWhole story →PlanetSecurity
Anthropic’s AI oversight isn’t democratic enoughRepresentatives looking out for the public’s interests should be embedded in all teams building advanced AI.The Hill1d agoWhole story →Technology
Trump says Reflecting Pool 85 percent full: 'Looking really good'President Trump said early Friday morning that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was 85 percent full and “looking really good” after months of a multimillion-dollar renovation project. The president also alleged in a Truth Social post shared shortly before 1 a.m. that the pool “hasn’t worked properly since 1922.” “We have cameras set up to...The Hill1d agoWhole story →Culture
We analyzed Judge Reyes’s record in Trump cases. Here’s what we foundThe Trump administration wants to boot U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes from the battle over East Potomac Golf Links, insisting she has shown open hostility. President Trump called her a “crazed lunatic” on social media. The appointee of former President Biden has been assigned nearly a dozen lawsuits challenging major Trump administration actions, The…The Hill1d agoWhole story →JusticeTechnology
Free lunch, transgender athletes: Voters nationwide face major education decisionsVoters across the country are making big decisions about the education of their children at a local, state and federal level in this year's midterms. Ballot initiatives, school board elections, governor races and Senate spots are all on the line as parents head to the polls thinking about AI, school choice and what topics should...The Hill1d agoWhole story →EducationJustice
Inside the unlikely coalition taking on prediction marketsA fight over who can regulate prediction markets and whether they constitute gambling is creating strange bedfellows, as the two sides dig in for a protracted legal battle with millions of dollars at stake. The commercial gaming industry finds itself aligned with tribal gaming and unions, as they argue states and tribes should be able...The Hill1d agoWhole story →EconomyJustice
Trump announces he'll use Defense Production Act to increase domestic gas productionPresident Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on Thursday, announcing that the government would be spending $150 million toward boosting domestic gas and diesel production as the White House looks to ease consumer pain at the gas pump. The announcement was made in a presidential memorandum earlier on Thursday, but the president detailed the exact...The Hill2d agoWhole story →PlanetEconomydefense production act invocation
