Month: June 2023

The husband of Nikki Haley, the Republican presidential candidate and former South Carolina governor, is preparing to deploy to Africa with the Army National Guard, a military tour expected to last a year and for most of the Republican primary race. The deployment of National Guard Maj. Michael Haley was confirmed Friday by a person familiar with his plans. The person asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. The deployment, his second in an active role overseas, was first reported by The Associated Press. It will overlap with much of the…

Congress has sent legislation to raise the debt ceiling to President Biden, ending a months-long saga that took the United States days away from a possible default. The legislation was the product of months of maneuvering between Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), culminating in furious negotiations and an aggressive effort by leaders from both parties to sell the deal to their caucuses, which included a number of reluctant legislators. . Here are some of the fight’s biggest winners and losers. WINNERS Speaker Kevin McCarthy There’s no doubt that McCarthy has emerged as the big winner of the fight, even…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – After months of denial, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose admitted that a proposal to make the constitution harder to amend is “100 percent” because of efforts to legalize the abortion Advocates have argued that Issue 1, which would make it harder to amend the Ohio constitution, is actually about trying to make it harder for abortion to be a constitutional right. But on November 17, 2022, Secretary of State Frank LaRose said otherwise. “I should never deal with this kind of change,” said the secretary. Ohioans will likely have the option this November to enshrine reproductive…

Congress has sent legislation to raise the debt ceiling to President Biden, ending a months-long saga that took the United States days away from a possible default. The legislation was the product of months of maneuvering between Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), culminating in furious negotiations and an aggressive effort by leaders from both parties to sell the deal to their caucuses, which included a number of reluctant legislators. . Here are some of the fight’s biggest winners and losers. WINNERS Speaker Kevin McCarthy There’s no doubt that McCarthy has emerged as the big winner of the fight, even…

Comment on this storycomment One thing people are learning about AI tools like ChatGPT or image generators is that they’re very good at approximating how things are supposed to be, but they only get to the about 90 percent of the way. The generated images include alien hands or fingers because the tools know that bodies have appendages and that’s good enough. The text used in the images is jumble of letters or lettery things, because to something that doesn’t understand the meaning the text conveys, it looks exactly like the text looks. ChatGPT provides credible answers to user questions:…

Former President Barack Obama recently wrote a Twitter thread praising the political situation in Minnesota, where the 2022 election left Democrats in control of the House, Senate and governorship. They responded with an incredibly aggressive legislative push: among other things, they restored voting rights to formerly incarcerated people, made school lunches free for all students, and made public college tuition free for families who earn less than eighty thousand dollars. Whether this is cause for celebration depends on your politics. But whatever your point of view, one thing is clear: Here in Massachusetts, where the 2022 election also left Democrats…

CIA Director William Burns stressed the importance of keeping communication open between China and the US. In an attempt to improve communication between Beijing and Washington, CIA Director William Burns visited China last month for talks with his Chinese counterparts, a US official said. Burns’ visit in May, which was first reported by The Financial Times, comes as Washington tries to ease tensions with Beijing and restore lines of communication amid fears that miscommunication between the two global powers could lead to conflict accidentally News of the visit to China comes as US President Joe Biden’s administration has pushed to…

06/02/23 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – On October 19, 2020, 51 former intelligence officials signed an open letter concluding a New York Post article about then-candidate Joe Biden’s son had “all the classic markings” of the Russian disinformation. The letter was used by the press to ignore the story and by social media companies to censor content related to the story. Even the US government used the letter to justify taking certain actions. The Post story has proven accurate. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) joined Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) and committee colleagues in sending a letter…