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The AI Construction Boom Is Hiding in Offices If you are looking at the headline data in the government’s economic report, it is easy to miss the artificial intelligence investment boom. Take this morning’s construction spending report. The main Census release does not have an AI data center line. Instead, data center construction is lumped together with lots of other spending on business structures in the broader “office” categories. And that can create the misleading impression that office construction is booming. It jumped one percent in April and is up 9.4 percent from a year ago. An office construction boom…

During an interview with MS NOW’s “The Weekend” panelist Eugene Daniels, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) acknowledged shortcomings in the Democratic Party’s approach to addressing the concerns of black voters. The longtime South Carolina Democrat called on his party to “get back to some basics.” “What’s your honest assessment about how if you zoom out, right, not just South Carolina, not just black voters, but how does the party actually change the way that folks view the successes, the failures, and the future that the Democratic Party is promising?” Daniels asked. Clyburn replied, “I think that we have to get back…

Along with The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur, Hasan Piker, another left-wing streamer, has had his British visa revoked ahead of several events The UK authorities have denied The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur entry into the country days ahead of two events where he was due to speak – apparently over his repeated criticism of Israel. Uygur’s nephew, Hasan Piker, who is a left-wing political streamer in his own right, has said his British visa has also been revoked “at the behest of Israel.”On multiple occasions over the past few years, pro-Palestinian activists have accused the UK’s Labour government led…

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is blaming the far right in both the United States and Mexico for the tensions between the two governments in the fight against cartels and the politicians that enable them. During one of her speeches, Sheinbaum claimed that the tensions were not Trump’s fault but the fault of far-right groups in both countries that opposed her political party for ideological reasons. Sheinbaum did not directly address the drug trafficking allegations and criminal indictments against top politicians within her party that triggered those tensions. In her speech, Sheinbaum claimed that she has a good relationship with U.S.…

U.S. Navy Captain and Presidential Physician Sean Barbabella reports that President Donald Trump “remains in excellent health” and is fully fit to serve as president of the United States following his latest physical on Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The White House released a letter from Barbabella last Friday night. “President Trump remains in excellent health, demonstrating strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and overall physical function,” he wrote in the summary. “His demanding daily schedule, including multiple high-level meetings, public engagements, and regular physical activity, continues to support his overall well-being. Cognitive and physical performance are excellent. He…

With rivals sidelined and the opposition shaken, the next vote may decide whether Ankara’s current system survives Türkiye’s domestic political landscape has entered a phase in which judicial decisions, intra-party struggles and strategic calculations by the authorities are becoming increasingly intertwined.The arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul from the center-left opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), in 2025 and the subsequent court decision to remove Ozgur Ozel from the leadership of the CHP and transfer control of the party back to its previous leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu represent two connected episodes within a broader political process. They suggest that the…

An AI-powered medication monitoring system failed to detect months of fentanyl theft by a nurse at Tennessee’s largest hospital in Chattanooga, according to state nursing board records that raise questions about the effectiveness of artificial intelligence systems used in hundreds of American hospitals. CBS News reports that at Erlanger Baroness hospital in Chattanooga, anesthesia staff noticed about a year ago that a nurse showed signs of impairment on duty in the surgery center, including slurred speech and difficulty staying awake, according to a Tennessee Board of Nursing consent order. The nurse failed a drug test and was terminated. He later…

President Donald Trump said Monday that talks with Iran continue after announcing a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The president made the announcements in a pair of Truth Social posts. “Talks are continuing, at a rapid pace, with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” he wrote. In a separate post moments earlier, he said that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed not to attack one another following calls with both sides. “I had a very productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no Troops going to Beirut, and…

A professor at Grambling State University in Louisiana says he will fail any student caught using AI. “I get paid the same whether I pass you or fail you,” he said. “I tell students that ChatGPT is disallowed from their writing process, that I can immediately tell when ChatGPT has been used, and that I will fail the student on this assignment if it is used,” theatre professor Neal Hebert told the New Yorker in a roundup of instructor testimonials on AI’s impact on their profession. Hebert added that he would even “potentially” fail a student “for the entire course, if we go through a formal…

On Saturday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” guest co-host Anthony Coley said that New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) did the right thing by securing the area outside the Delaney Hall immigration facility, but he says that “with a word of caution,” “Because the New Jersey State Police are the ones who came in, they are patrolling the area, and they don’t have the best history, even going back to the ’80s and ’90s, about policing black and brown communities.” And he hopes the protesters are peaceful. Coley said, “What’s interesting here, we’ve got reporting on the ground that…