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U.S. citizen who was shot by immigration agent in Chicago files lawsuit alleging he fired from behindCHICAGO — An American citizen shot by a Customs and Border Protection agent one year ago during a sweeping immigration crackdown in Chicago filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Monday, alleging the agent lied about the shooting and fired into her vehicle from behind. Federal prosecutors initially accused

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Trump names national intelligence director Jay Clayton to lead a new federal AI task forceWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday tapped Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence. Trump is calling it the “Super Intelligence Force,” because he has tried to rebrand AI as “super intelligence.” The announcement comes after Trump hosted top

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FCC considering changes, possibly ending, program that offers discounted internet to schools, librariesA federal program that has paid out billions of dollars to local schools and libraries to offset the cost of internet service is in danger of being curtailed or even eliminated, leaving district administrators and library officials concerned about how they would bridge the financial gap. The E-Rate program, overseen

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U.S. and Australia suspend consular services in Brazil ahead of election citing security concernsRIO DE JANEIRO — U.S. consular services and the Australian embassy in Brazil closed Friday citing security concerns, two days before the country’s presidential election, authorities from both countries said. Also on Friday, Brazil’s federal police said they executed search and seizure warrants in Sao Paulo and the Federal District

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Marc Levin and Khalil Cumberbatch: Partisan loyalty now drives Americans’ trust in justiceAmericans have rarely trusted their institutions less. In June, Gallup found average confidence in the 14 institutions it tracks was near a record low. Some 9% of the public trusted Congress, 27% trusted the Supreme Court, and 45% trusted the police. The criminal justice system, as a whole, ranked near

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House committee backs bill sparing communities from ‘fake’ data center proposalsMore than a hundred data center proposals have popped up like mushrooms on the Pennsylvania map, and a House committee on Wednesday attempted to validate the “real” ones by backing a plan to weed out many others believed to be speculative grabs for money. The House Energy Committee approved a

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Glassport becomes latest Allegheny County police force to sign ICE agreementGlassport police have signed a cooperation agreement with federal immigration authorities after the agency detained more than a dozen people in the small Mon Valley borough earlier this year. The department, which formalized the arrangement Sept. 23, is the latest Allegheny County force to sign a 287(g) agreement with U.S.

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Wes Moore forms bipartisan governors group on AI, citing federal inactionBALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland is forming a bipartisan group of governors to respond to mounting concerns about the threats posed by artificial intelligence as he argued that states need to fill a void left by the federal government’s inaction on the issue. In an interview, Moore, a

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Former Pittsburgh cop known for investigating animal abuse settles lawsuit against cityA former Pittsburgh police officer who spent the bulk of her career enforcing animal cruelty laws will receive an $85,000 payment from the city to settle a federal employment lawsuit. City Council could vote on the payment to Christine Luffey, who began her work in the police bureau in July

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Republican redistricting in Texas and Florida may not turn out as Trump had hopedHARLINGEN, Texas — Eric Flores, a former federal prosecutor and Army National Guard infantry captain, was one of the Republican Party’s prized recruits in this year’s midterm elections. With help from a redrawn congressional map in Texas, he seemed primed to dislodge longtime Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez in a region

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Gretchen Givens Generett: AI belongs in education, but not at the front of the classroomPennsylvania state Sen. Lindsey Williams plans to introduce legislation to ban AI educators from replacing human teachers as heads of classrooms. The Human Students Need Human Educators bill would apply to public and charter schools from kindergarten through 12th grade, as well as Pennsylvania’s public universities, the State System of

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AI ads are popular in the 2026 midterms, but state laws haven’t stopped a lack of disclosureIn what appears at first to be a typical campaign advertisement, two people introduce themselves as Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul while strolling through a park on a beautiful sunny day. But as the 43-second video continues, Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, and Hochul, the governor of New

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Federal court says Pentagon can label Anthropic a supply chain riskIn the latest twist in Anthropic’s dispute with the Pentagon, a federal appeals court on Friday rejected the artificial intelligence lab’s challenge to the government’s labeling of it as a supply chain risk. The decision allows the Pentagon to continue to remove Anthropic’s Claude models from its systems and bar

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Kosovo man admits to running website dealing in stolen personal informationA man from Kosovo pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Pittsburgh to running an illicit website dedicated to selling stolen personal information online. Ardit Kutleshi will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mark Hornak on Feb. 9. Kutleshi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering and aggravated identity

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McCormick floats dedicated department to handle AIU.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Squirrel Hill, says putting AI regulation in the hands of the federal government poses risks and instead offered a different solution that he believes would be better equipped to handle the evolving technology. “I do think the idea of an industry-led group, maybe FINRA-like, where they

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Republicans say Democrats are extremists. These Democrats want to convince voters that’s not trueCOLUMBIA, S.C. — As Democrats try to take back control of Congress, they’re trying a familiar tactic to win over voters in conservative areas — they’re criticizing their own party. They’re complaining about former President Joe Biden, promising to work with President Donald Trump to secure the border, insisting they’ll

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‘AI is inevitable’: Fetterman, McCormick back AI, balk at calls for regulationU.S. Sens. Dave McCormick and John Fetterman on Friday roundly rejected calls to regulate artificial intelligence, pushing back on skepticism from within both their parties and touting AI development as an “existential competition” with China. The two appeared via video call at the AI Horizons Pittsburgh Summit, a two-day event

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Senators from both parties voice criticism about Pentagon briefing on U.S. defense strategyWASHINGTON — Tensions are mounting between the Pentagon and Congress over the flow of information to lawmakers about the U.S. military’s priorities, with both Democrats and Republicans accusing a Defense Department leader of being frustratingly opaque. Some senators from both parties say they were left deeply unsettled Thursday after the

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Judge imprisons former coach, ex-PNC worker who stole intimate images in Snapchat hackOne of them was a high school coach with a master’s degree in education. The other has a degree in mathematics and worked for PNC. Now, both of them are going to federal prison after admitting to illegally hacking into the Snapchat accounts of unknowing victims and selling and trading

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Former Syrian official convicted of torture under Assad faces sentencing in the U.S.LOS ANGELES — A former Syrian military official convicted of torturing prisoners during the rule of former President Bashar Assad is facing a possible decades-long prison sentence in the U.S. A federal judge in Los Angeles is scheduled to sentence Samir Ousman Alsheikh on Thursday. A jury found him guilty

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