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The Washington Post reported Monday that due to an alleged Iranian threat to assassinate President Trump, he secretly swapped planes before departing the July NATO summit in Turkey — leaving senior administration officials, staff and members of the press corps on board.
"The Israelis passed a tip, a concern, that the plane and potentially the president was under threat," says Dan Lamothe, one of the Washington Postreporters who broke the story. But it turns out the "CIA had low confidence" in the Israeli tip, according to a more recent Post story Lamothe co-authored on Thursday. "I think that kind of leaves the Secret Service in a tough spot of assessing: What do you do in this zero-fail mission to keep the president safe?"
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When the dust settles on this contest, it will probably be the man who critics said was too boring to win statewide in Wisconsin, that deserves most of the plaudits.
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The retreat by the Justice Department effectively allowed a pillar of the Prohibition-era National Firearms Act to lapse.
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Militaries across the world are in an "AI arms race," says Heidy Khlaaf, a chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, which just released a joint report with Airwars titled "Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain."
"What it is is a series of different types of AI algorithms that are chained together, each with their own pitfalls, each with their own flaws," she says. "And these systems build off of each other and feed into one another to, unfortunately, end up resulting in civilian casualties."
This can lead to faulty targeting because "humans are prone to just accepting recommendations of AI algorithms without corroborating that evidence," adds Khlaaf.
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Live audio, a new format and new voices have transformed and unsettled the court's signature public ceremony.
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Progressive Democrats have been gaining ground in primaries across the country, but recent wins and losses in Michigan and Wisconsin show the strength and the limits of the movement.
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The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. But the fleet has largely sat idle for months.
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The Milwaukee County executive, who won a tight primary race against Francesca Hong early Wednesday, could become the first Black governor of Wisconsin.
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Darline Graham and Ralph Norman emerged from a special election sprint on Tuesday to succeed Lindsey Graham. She will sell her closeness to President Trump. He will tout his conservatism.
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South Carolina Republicans moved to a runoff to decide their Senate nominee. Voters picked a progressive Democrat as their candidate for Senate in Minnesota, but in Wisconsin, a moderate eked out a narrow victory in the contest for governor.
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A moderate won the closely fought Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin, the latest contest between the party's progressive and moderate wings.
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She will leave the administration at the end of August, President Donald Trump announced in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.
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It seems that centrists and the left can work the pragmatic side of the street.
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The agent, Adam Saracco, was charged with misdemeanor after the altercation at a gas station near Chicago last year during the Trump administration's crackdown there.
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Prosecutors say Heidi Beirich was romantically involved with an informant who was receiving payments. Her lawyer called the case an effort to "silence political opponents."
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The White House aides Natalie Harp and Dan Scavino were among those traveling with the president on a military jet.
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The conflict in the Middle East has pushed up oil and fuel prices, and also disrupted supply chains.
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From London, we revisit the Gaza Tribunal, an independent, nongovernmental inquiry into the United Kingdom's complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The tribunal, held nearly one year ago, was chaired by our three guests: former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, Israeli professor of human rights law Neve Gordon and Palestinian legal scholar Shahd Hammouri. Their new book is titled The Gaza Tribunal: Britain's Complicity in Genocide. We discuss the recent apology from Prime Minister Andy Burnham over the Labour Party's early support for Israel's assault on Gaza, the United Kingdom's crackdown on the Palestine Action protest group under counterterrorism laws, and whether British policymakers will face any accountability for participating in "one of the biggest crimes in humanity."
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A Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin remained neck and neck early Wednesday, leaving a national battle between progressive and moderate wings largely unsettled.
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The Ohio Republican had released documents through a publicly accessible Dropbox account this month, seeking to fend off allegations of domestic abuse.
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Francesca Hong, the democratic socialist running in Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor, had a double-digit lead in polls as recently as last week. Then she lost. What happened?
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A coalition of social justice organizations is celebrating a recent decision by Citizens Bank to divest from private prison companies that operate immigration jails for the federal government. The financial institution has faced significant pressure from protesters for providing more than $2.5 billion in financing to CoreCivic and the GEO Group, which work directly with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. While the bank denied that activist pressure affected its decision, the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition counted it as a victory.
"It was absolutely thanks to the incredible work of the activists," says Jake Ephros, a Democratic Socialist member of Jersey City Council, who helped push the municipality to pull over $200 million in city funds from the bank.
We also speak with Rev. John Edgerton, senior minister of Old South Church in Boston and a board member of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization. He credits "a broad movement" with the victory. "The pressure became too much for Citizens to bear, and they had to do the right thing."
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Israeli settlers torched two mosques over the weekend in a new wave of violence targeting Palestinian towns and villages across the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli military forces on Saturday detained over 70 Palestinians in raids across the occupied territory. This follows the killing of at least four Palestinians in the village of Tal on Friday, when Israeli settlers and soldiers opened fire on residents attempting to protect their homes; two Israelis were also killed.
Palestinian journalist Mariam Barghouti says the Israeli army and Israeli settlers "should not be seen as separate" as they carry out "a familiar pattern of collective punishment." She also stresses that anti-Palestinian violence in the occupied West Bank cannot be divorced from Israeli repression in Jerusalem and its genocide in Gaza.
"This is a colonial regime that is engaging in crimes against humanity," says Barghouti. "How those crimes look may differ, but in the end they serve the same purpose, and that is ethnically cleansing Palestinians in order to build this Greater Israel in the region."
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We speak with Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, a longtime critic of U.S. foreign policy, in a wide-ranging conversation about Iran, Cuba, ending military funding for Israel and more. Last week, McGovern joined the entire Democratic caucus and four Republicans to pass a resolution calling on President Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from hostilities against Iran.
"It's just like Iraq," says McGovern. "We're getting involved in a quagmire here, an endless war."
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The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Thursday in the blockbuster case over whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity from prosecution in the federal election subversion case. Follow here for the latest live news updates, analysis and more.
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Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, blue states are holding steady, but battles to reign in abortion are playing out in Republican-controlled ones.
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