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Don’t Create a Captured Regulator for AI The artificial intelligence industry has managed to produce a regulatory debate in which nearly everyone’s preferred solution happens to suit his business model. Apparently, some tasks still require human intelligence. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei wants outside evaluators and government-assisted coordination to slow development. Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang put their faith in competition and liability. Huang told a Salesforce audience last week that safety is “an engineering problem, not a legal one” and that “we don’t need any new laws.” Some conservatives have warned against regulatory capture while treating product liability as a sufficiently…

Jayden Williams — the now-former mayor of Stockbridge, Georgia — was removed from office less than a year after being sworn in. Williams, who made history as Georgia’s youngest elected mayor at 22 years old, was impeached by the Stockbridge City Council after he was accused of misusing city funds and exchanging sexually suggestive messages and explicit photos with an 18-year-old high school student, according to multiple reports. “The City of Stockbridge confirms that the City Council has taken formal action concerning the Office of Mayor,” the city said in a statement on Sunday. “The Mayor has been removed from office.” Williams — who recently…

Kamala Harris will join Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s open Senate seat, next week, marking her latest involvement in the midterm elections.This comes as the former vice president — who lost Michigan in 2024 to President Donald Trump — announces more campaign appearances alongside Democrats, including Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia.Harris has not yet said if she will be running for president in 2028.“I’m just really looking forward to having her here, and she is somebody who so many folks in communities like Detroit look up to as an inspirational leader,” El-Sayed told POLITICO in an interview on…

Paris is reportedly pushing to lift EU sanctions on Alisher Usmanov to secure the release of French nationals held in Azerbaijan France is pressing the EU to lift sanctions on Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov in exchange for several of its citizens detained in Azerbaijan, including a man convicted of spying for Paris, according to media reports.Last week, France unexpectedly broke ranks with most EU members and joined Slovakia in refusing to back an extension of sanctions on Russia unless Usmanov was removed from the blacklist. Bratislava had already been holding up the renewal, demanding the delisting of Usmanov and fellow…

WHERE ARE THE AUDITS?Lawmakers Put California Controller Malia Cohen on a 14-Day ClockBy Chris Bish – The Bish ReportEight Republican Assembly members are demanding that State Controller Malia Cohen produce records showing how her office audits state spending before taxpayer money leaves the Treasury. Assemblyman Carl DeMaio summed it up in four words: “WHERE ARE THE AUDITS?” Republican Controller candidate Herb Morgan followed with: “Follow the money. Verify the payment. Make the receipts public.” The questions come as California pours billions into projects whose costs have exploded, while the state still lacks a reliable final accounting of its COVID-era unemployment…

Saudi Arabia said its air defenses intercepted a Houthi drone south of the Islamic holy city of Mecca on Tuesday, thwarting an attack that crossed a major “red line” in the conflict. Saudi military spokesman Col. Turki al-Maliki denounced the drone incursion as a “hostile and terrorist attack” conducted by the “terrorist Houthi militia.” Al-Maliki accused the Houthis of targeting “the birthplace of revelation, the land of the message, and the destination that draws the hearts of millions of Muslims from around the world.” “The security of the Two Holy Mosques and the pilgrims is a red line,” he declared.…

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced a resolution Tuesday to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” reading eight articles on the House floor that accuse him of violating the War Powers Resolution of 1973 in the Iran conflict. Massie entered the resolution as privileged, a maneuver that forces House leaders to take up the measure within two legislative days. He read the articles aloud for more than an hour before closing out his introduction. The Kentucky Republican said in a news release that Hegseth had abused his office and needed to answer for it. “Secretary Hegseth…

The top Democrat on the House education committee is potentially facing a second challenge to his leadership amid broader frustrations over the caucus’ long-standing deference to seniority.Rep. Bobby Scott already set out to defend his record on the House Education and Workforce Committee last week after Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) launched a formal bid for his spot on the panel. Now, one of the Virginia Democrat’s allies, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), says she is “not ruling anything out” about making her own run.“I want the best leadership for the committee. I’ve been on the committee for a long time and…

Hashim Thaci ha been found guilty of the murder of 96 political opponents and suspected Serbian collaborators The former leader of the NATO-backed Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has been found responsible for war crimes committed by the militant group during its NATO-backed campaign to break away from Serbia in the 1990s.Hashim Thaci, who served as the first president of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, has been found guilty of the murder of 96 political opponents and suspected Serbian collaborators, the verdict said. He was also convicted for the unlawful detention and torture of hundreds of people.The 58-year-old Thaci, who was…

Brandon Johnson Press Conference / Screenshot Chicago’s far left Mayor Brandon Johnson is taking a page out of Zohran Mamdani’s playbook and claiming that ilegal immigrants play in essential role in America. Newsflash for the mayor. No. They don’t. Johnson was making his comments in response to the Trump administration’s move to block illegal immigrants from receiving any kind of welfare. This is something that Democrats simply can’t or won’t understand. Johnson also obscured the difference between legal and illegal immigrants, a tactic often employed by liberals on this issue. Breitbart News reports: Chicago’s radical Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson joined…