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Still the favorites, Republicans have grown nervous about a House special election that could show whether the political environment continues to shift leftward.
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The Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership says its members have been blocked from ministering at an ICE detention center near Chicago.
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The measure has prompted a backlash, but the top Senate Republican appeared inclined to preserve it, arguing that it would protect the body against investigatory overreach.
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A new report titled "Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals" from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence industry's high resource consumption threatens the world's climate goals, despite rosy prognoses of AI's projected benefits. Co-author Jean Su says that the increasing use of AI for military applications offsets any positives it offers for climate change mitigation. "What we need to do is empower communities and countries, especially in the Global South, to ask what is the public benefit that they are supposed to get from AI, and weigh it very carefully against the severe cost to their climate, to their electricity prices and to their water."
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The panel will probe multiple controversies Mills (R-Florida) has faced since joining the House, including allegations he benefited from federal weapons contracts.
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The 34-year-old democratic socialist has faced frequent public attacks from the president and has vowed to resist his agenda.
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Rep. Ralph Norman (R-South Carolina), who introduced the resolution, said it was "beyond comprehension" that Plaskett would communicate with Epstein during a hearing.
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The only person in Congress to vote against the bill was a right-wing congressman from Louisiana who is an ardent supporter of President Trump and has espoused conspiracy theories.
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