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The bloc’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, ignored the 1,600 drones launched by Ukraine as over 60 million people cast their ballots EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has lashed out at the results of Russia’s parliamentary election, dismissing it as a “veneer of democracy.” The senior EU official, a noted Russia hawk who was appointed, not elected, to her post in 2024, made no mention of the 1,600 drones Ukraine launched into Russia during the vote.Her claims of democratic dysfunction did not include Ukraine’s own indefinitely suspended elections, but stuck to a vote whereby some 60 million people cast ballots…

Denver DSA mayoral candidate Shontel Lewis/Image: Video screenshot. Shontel Lewis, a Democratic Socialist running in the Denver mayoral election, has a unique spin on her prior arrest for the theft of food stamps. She says it makes her more qualified to hold office. In 2008, while she worked at the Department of Human Services East Food Stamp Office, Lewis used that job to take public benefit money that belonged to other people. According to the police affidavit reported by the Denver Post, she searched EBT systems for inactive accounts that still had money and reissued benefit cards from those accounts. She…

Researchers have revealed that 45 data center projects worth $68 billion were blocked or delayed by local pushback across the United States between April and June. Bloomberg reports that the projects, tracked by Data Center Watch, a project of the AI intelligence company 10a Labs, made up more than half of all new large-scale developments the group monitored during that period. Data Center Watch’s lead analyst, Miquel Vila, said opposition to the industry is broadening. “New groups continue to emerge, opposition is appearing across a wide range of states and jurisdictions, and online petition signatures continue to grow,” he said.…

Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang rejected warnings that AI could wipe out humanity within years, calling such predictions unscientific and irresponsible in an interview with CBS News. In an interview with CBS News, Huang pushed back on warnings of AI doom that have circulated widely in recent weeks. “2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be the end of the world,” he said. He called the AI doomsday framing harmful, adding, “Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible.” Huang was responding to comments made earlier this month by…

On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Rep. Ed Case (D-HI) said that Democrats need to bring in people from the DSA and progressive left because “the alternative is that the party can perfectly represent some of the constituencies within the party and be a beautiful minority party, and I’m not particularly interested in that. So, yes, this party needs to make that accommodation.” But also that the election will hinge on who represents the mainstream of the electorate. Host Dasha Burns asked, “Rep. Case, you also — you recently fended off a primary challenge from a progressive candidate. I’m curious…

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) on Monday expressed frustration over the ongoing war in Iran and its impact on Iowans’ pocketbooks, publicly distancing herself from President Donald Trump ahead of November’s rapidly approaching midterm elections.“Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran,” Hinson said in a post to social media on Monday. “We need to use every option at our disposal to provide some relief from high prices.”It’s the second time Hinson, the GOP candidate in Iowa’s critical Senate race and a loyal ally of Trump’s,…

Washington has offered to implement an AI incident notification mechanism with Beijing ahead of talks between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping The US has proposed creating an alert system with China to notify each other when artificial intelligence incidents become serious enough to threaten national security.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the proposal after talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on Sunday, ahead of a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington this week.“We want a shared vision of common goals and common threats,” Bessent told reporters. “We think that just…

Macomb County, Michigan, with its heavy blue-collar population, was responsible for President Trump winning the swing state in 2016. Macomb County’s blue-collar vote helped put Michigan — and the presidency — in Donald Trump’s column in 2016. After the state was handed to Joe Biden in November 2020, that same county forged some of Michigan’s most relentless election-integrity fighters. Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini (R) Fast forward ten years to 2026, and Macomb County Clerk Anthony Forlini is on the ballot as the Republican candidate for Secretary of State, replacing the nation’s most corrupt Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson. For…

The Chinese Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday morning that genocidal dictator Xi Jinping will be traveling to the United States on Wednesday for meetings with President Donald Trump and other senior American officials. President Trump invited Xi to America in May during his own visit to Beijing that month, seeking to stabilize the bilateral relationship as the United States contends with a host of unethical behaviors from China, including intellectual property theft, transnational repression, predatory lending to poor states, and the promotion of communism. International observers expected much of the conversation between Xi and Trump this week to focus on…

On Friday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire,” Rep. Ed Case (D-HI) said that, in past elections, “all we did was to say how bad the other side was without offering our own alternative” and “I hope my Democrats learned that lesson and learned how to talk to the voters that are going to decide whether Democrats do prevail in the midterms.” Host Dasha Burns asked, “Rep. Case, a lot of Democrats are trying to make this election about the president, a referendum on Trump. Is that enough? Do Democrats need to do more to build an affirmative vision and party platform…