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Generative AI applications have become publicly accessible over the past year, opening up huge opportunities for creativity and confusion. Recently, the campaign of presidential candidate Ron Desantis shared apparently fake AI images of Donald Trump and Antony Fauci. A few weeks earlier, a likely AI-generated image of the Pentagon bombing prompted brief stock market falls and a statement from the Defense Department. With the campaign already underway for the 2024 election, what impact will these technologies have on the race? Will domestic campaigns and foreign countries use these tools to influence public opinion more effectively, even to spread lies and…

The United States is at a crossroads. the accusation of former President Donald Trump by the Justice Department of the Biden administration represents a pivotal point in our national history. As a society, we are beginning to get serious about rebuilding Americans’ badly eroded trust in our institutions. Or do we continue to pursue our political vendettas blind to the fact that we have entered a dangerous time for our democracy. It’s clear to me, after watching news coverage of the impeachment, that many media commentators still haven’t grasped the dangers of this moment. Perhaps after the attack on the…

Activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court during the annual March for Life in Washington, DC OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP via Getty Images When Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, many white evangelical Protestants not only saw the Supreme Court’s ruling as a political victory: it was a spiritual victory. For decades, religious conservatives have been singularly focused on ending the constitutional right to abortion, a priority few other demographics shared. White evangelical Protestants, a group that, since the 1980s, voted mostly for Republicans — were much more likely than other religious groups to say abortion was a…

The City of Pittsburgh this week took steps to resolve a long-running legal dispute involving its police bureau and to invest in technology that could provide evidence in similar disputes in the future. Without discussion Wednesday, the council approved a $275,000 settlement to settle a lawsuit filed after a 2020 protest in East Liberty resulted in nearly two dozen arrests and conflicting accounts of the conduct of police and protesters . The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six adults and a child weeks after the June 1, 2020 protest, one of countless demonstrations across the country that followed the…

Alex Soros, son of billionaire financier George Soros, met with senior Democrats shortly after taking the reins of the powerful Open Society Foundations (OSF), continuing his long-standing trend of meeting privately with influential politicians and publish the meetings publicly. The meeting appears to be his first with federal lawmakers since he took control of his father’s robust multibillion-dollar nonprofit network that injects large sums into leftist efforts. On June 11, OSF announced that Alex would take over the network after the elder Soros did not want to hand it over to any of his children. George, however, finally said, “He’s…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that, if elected president, he would seek to close four federal agencies as part of an effort to shrink the size of government. “We’d do Education, we’d do Commerce, we’d do Energy and we’d do IRS,” DeSantis. he said in an interview with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum when asked if she was in favor of closing any agencies. “If Congress works with me to do this, we can reduce the size and scope of government,” he added. “If Congress doesn’t go that far, I will use these agencies to push back against the woke,…

Two years after taking the stand at one The investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has found that former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian engaged in serious corrupt conduct. Berejiklian is ICAC’s latest high-profile political victim, but not the first. The former prime minister joins a long list of powerful political careers derailed after being investigated by the country’s oldest corruption watchdog. NSW Premier Chris Minns says he does not believe members of parliament should automatically resign or be suspended amid an ICAC investigation. Here are some big names that have been researched, with mixed results. The first great…