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Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said if the Democrats win the majority in the midterms, they haven’t ruled anything in or out in terms of impeachment. Partial transcript as follows: JEFFRIES: Well, we’re focused right now on taking back control of the House of Representatives. That is the only mission that’s important, so we can lower the high cost of living, lower the cost of gas, lower the cost of groceries, lower the cost of housing, certainly fight to make health care affordable for every single American, and combat the unprecedented corruption that’s…

Raad Alanbagi (Credit: HSI) Homeland Security Investigations special agents have arrested Raad Alanbagi after an HSI-led investigation uncovered information tying him to prior service as a high-ranking Iraqi intelligence officer during the Saddam Hussein era. HSI Detroit announced the arrest in a social media post, stating that special agents discovered information linking Alanbagi to Iraq’s intelligence apparatus during Saddam’s rule. “HSI special agents arrested Raad Alanbagi after an HSI-led investigation uncovered information tying him to prior service as a high-ranking Iraqi intelligence officer during the Saddam Hussein era.” .@HSIDetroit gets results. HSI special agents arrested Raad Alanbagi after an HSI-led…

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said “the lack of intellectual curiosity” in the White House is stalling the government from setting up artificial intelligence (AI) guardrails. Partial transcript as follows: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: If they’re out there on the campaign trail now, they’re not going to feel distant from it. This is a real grassroots rebellion going on. CHRISTIE: Yeah, you can feel it. You can feel it. This is a — this is a parents at their kids’ soccer games issue, in the same way it’s an issue inside universities and in other places…

The US president has argued that Washington cannot afford to slow down as China rapidly closes the technological gap US President Donald Trump has brushed aside mounting warnings from leading artificial intelligence executives that increasingly powerful AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, insisting that Washington’s priority should be defeating China in the technological race.Speaking to reporters in Ireland on Sunday, Trump acknowledged that some safeguards could be introduced but suggested the dangers were being exaggerated by unspecified “negative forces.”“We’re leading China in AI, we’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly I want to keep it…

Mexican authorities said they arrested an American who allegedly was bringing ammunition into Mexico for a drug cartel. The woman had 5,400 rounds of ammunition with her when she was detained, Mexican authorities said, according to the New York Post. The name of the woman was given variously as “Yanet ‘N’” and Yanet Dowden. The second name was based on a report from the Mexican newspaper Excelsior, which said an Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry identification card calling the suspect “Yanet Dowden” was found on the suspect. The card said she was a “Level II correctional officer.” The…

Mexico’s top military official confirmed that his forces have not shot down or intercepted a single cartel drone along its northern border after recently having announced a team-up effort with U.S. authorities. This as U.S. forces shot down more than 300 drones so far this year. Earlier this month, Mexico announced the start of operation Aguila Alta (High Eagle), a joint operation between U.S. and Mexican authorities where they would share information and have each side work to intercept cartel drones. For the operation, Mexico’s Army revealed that they had deployed 800 troops in the western part of the border.…

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said President Donald Trump is a “barbarian in the White House.” Partial transcript as follows: WEIJIA JIANG: We go now to Michigan’s Democratic nominee for Senate, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. He joins us from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Good morning, Dr. El-Sayed. Welcome to Face the Nation. EL-SAYED : Good morning, Weija. Thanks for having me. JIANG: So, I do want to ask you about AI, but let’s talk first about the RNC convention because you were a main character. Several speakers mentioned you. Everyone from the president, the vice…

Three Democratic representatives visited a group of illegal aliens with criminal backgrounds and deportation orders on Wednesday. Rep. Analilia Mejia (N.J.-11) and Rep. Rob Menendez (N.J.-08) visited the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in New Jersey while Rep. Gwen Moore (W.I.-04) visited the Leavenworth Detention Center in Leavenworth, Kansas. Following her tour of Leavenworth, Moore filmed a video outside the detention facility which was later posted to X. “I’m just leaving the Midwest regional reception center owned by ICE,” Moore said. “The good news is that the people we visited said that they’re being treated like human beings. The really…

For the second time in recent weeks, Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents found illegal aliens locked inside freight cars as temperatures in the region continue to exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The latest incident involved three illegal aliens locked in a hot freight-train auto hauler with no means of escape. On Monday, agents assigned to the Uvalde Border Patrol Station conducted a search for illegal aliens on rail cars at a freight train siding near Knippa, Texas. The corridor is a major freight route between the U.S.-Mexico border and San Antonio. The arduous task involves daily searches of hundreds of…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) international travel courtesy of private benefactors is the subject of a federal criminal investigation, the San Francisco Standard reported Saturday. The Standard recently reviewed subpoenas issued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), specifically a U.S. Attorney’s Office in California. According to the digital news outlet: The subpoenas — which were issued in early September and requested testimony and communications with the governor, among others — seek six years of records involving the California State Protocol Foundation, a nonprofit that has paid for Newsom’s overseas travel, as well as communications with a circle of his current…