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Five things to watch for in the third Republican debate
Five Republican presidential hopefuls will meet Wednesday night for the third GOP debate, with Donald Trump once again skipping the event. Here’s what we’re watching.
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NBC’s partner for GOP debate is Salem, promoter of 2020 election denial
How Salem Media Group, home of pro-Trump talk radio programming and producer of the discredited ’2000 Mules,’ teamed up with NBC News for the 3rd GOP debate.
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Top takeaways from 2023 election results — and what they mean for 2024
Democrats have another good election, the role of abortion rights and what it all means for Youngkin and Beshear.
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Abortion Rights Fuel Big Democratic Wins, and Hopes for 2024
Election results from Tuesday showed that Democrats, independents and even some moderate Republicans can coalesce around the issue.
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House Censures Rashida Tlaib, Citing ‘River to the Sea’ Slogan
Twenty-two Democrats joined most Republicans in the rebuke of Ms. Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, accusing her of calling for the destruction of Israel.
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House Republicans Toil for a Spending Strategy With a Shutdown Close at Hand
Speaker Mike Johnson is facing many of the same challenges his predecessor did as he looks for a way to avoid a government shutdown that will be acceptable to his deeply divided conference.
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Where Trump Counties in Ohio Voted to Support Abortion Rights
Ohio’s referendum drew support from both liberal and conservative areas of the state, and polled well ahead of President Biden’s results three years ago.
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As Pandas Leave D.C., Is Panda Diplomacy Over?
The giant pandas are leaving Washington. Some fans find it unbearable.
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A Federal Right of Publicity for the Age of AI? Unpacking the Proposed NO FAKES Act
Artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes—video, audio, or photographic content that mimics some or all of the characteristics of one’s identity—have captured the wary attention of the public, politicians and the entertainment industry, among others. While copyright laws have been frequently invoked when considering generative AI training and outputs, concerns have been raised about whether current state right…
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Early Responses to Proposed AI Regulation
As a follow up to last week’s article about the Biden executive order on artificial intelligence (AI), this is a brief overview of one of its provisions that has proven to be controversial — namely, the additional scrutiny that the government plans for AI models and computing clusters over a certain size. The order states that the Secretary of…