Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk said Wednesday he would take Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on in a cage fight if he is up to it. After meeting with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Capitol Hill, Musk was asked by reporters if he is still planning to cage fight Zuckerberg. “If he wants to,”...
CEOs of leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies, civil society leaders and senators met Wednesday for a closed-door discussion about the benefits and risks of the technology, as lawmakers grapple with how to put guardrails in place without stifling innovation. More than 60 senators attended the meeting that featured a 22-person panel, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, X owner...
Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn’t respond to warnings from Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) about the Jan. 6 insurrection in the days before the riot, according to a new biography on the Utah Republican. In an excerpt of the biography by McKay Coppins published in The Atlantic on Wednesday, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) reportedly...
Half of voters who said they support President Biden in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary also said they were open to voting for another candidate, according to new poll released Wednesday. In the new Quinnipiac University national poll, 51 percent of respondents planning to vote for Biden in a hypothetical 2024 presidential primary said they might...
The White House is raising the alarm on students’ chronic absenteeism, saying there needs to be an “all-hands-an-deck approach” as the issue could be contributing to learning loss. “A necessary step to ensure students benefit from all that schools have to offer is to support students’ consistent presence in the classroom—which is why the Biden-Harris...
A federal appeals court issued a setback to special counsel Jack Smith by largely siding with Rep. Scott Perry (R-Penn.), whose phone was seized by FBI investigators working on the Jan. 6 investigation. The ruling from a three-judge panel on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for D.C. shields from prosecutors Perry’s communications with other...
NBA player Brandon Hunter, who played short stints with the Boston Celtics and Orlando Magic in the mid-2000s, died Tuesday after collapsing after a hot yoga workout in Orlando. He was 42 years old. A Cincinnati native, Hunter was a college standout at Ohio University before playing in the NBA and enjoying a long career...
President Biden holds a slim 1 point lead over former President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up ahead of the 2024 presidential election. In a Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday, 47 percent of registered respondents said they would vote for Biden, while 46 percent of respondents said they would cast their vote for Trump. By...
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is pressing U.S. Southern Command to reschedule “without delay” two canceled showings of the Christian thriller “Sound of Freedom,” according to a new letter obtained by The Hill. In the letter, sent Wednesday to SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Laura Richardson, Rubio writes that he was “alarmed” to learn of the decision to cancel the...
The AI debate in education is shifting to equity, as schools are dropping their bans on ChatGPT and artificial intelligence has been added to numerous learning platforms. Used as a tutor or as an assistant for teachers to create more personalized lesson plans, AI has brought great hope for the future of technology. But that hope is also crowded by...
Attorneys for Hunter Biden filed suit Wednesday against former Trump administration aide Garrett Ziegler over his alleged role in distributing embarrassing private emails and photos from a laptop Ziegler claimed belonged to the president’s son. Ziegler and ten unnamed defendants accessed Biden’s cell phone data and distributed private emails and photos showing him in compromising...
The final inflation report of the summer came in hotter than expected, but prices still seem on track to keep cooling off in the fall. Consumer prices rose 0.6 percent in August and 3.7 percent over the past 12 months, according to Consumer Price Index (CPI) data released Wednesday. The August report marked the second...
Public affairs broadcaster C-SPAN plans to launch a new app for connected TV users in the coming weeks, the outlet's leaders say. C-SPAN "Select" will first be available to some 12 million customers of Comcast Xfinity's X1 service. Plans are also in place for the app to be available via Xfinity's XFlex, and Xumo platforms once...
Support for former President Trump has ticked up in a new GOP primary poll, while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s support has dipped. The new Quinnipiac University poll found that support for the former president stood at 62 percent among Republican-aligned voters, up from the 57 percent he garnered in August. DeSantis received 12 percent, continuing a decline...
Roughly 6 in 10 American voters in a new Quinnipiac University poll support an age cap as an eligibility requirement for presidential candidates. The poll found 61 percent of voters support a maximum age limit to be eligible to run for president, while 34 percent of voters do not back the idea. The results come...
A high-ranking FBI official involved in the Hunter Biden investigation refuted key testimony from an IRS whistleblower who claimed the top prosecutor on the case was stymied by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in bringing charges outside Delaware. Thomas Sobocinski, the FBI lead on the team investigating Hunter Biden, spoke with House investigators last week,...
The Biden administration in a recent court filing forcefully pushed back on claims that the Medicare drug negotiation process is unconstitutional. Medicare's ability to negotiate drug prices has plenty of legal precedent and manufacturers are not being forced to participate, the Biden administration said this week in response to a lawsuit from drugmaker Merck. According...
The New Hampshire Secretary of State on Wednesday said there are no legal grounds to not allow Donald Trump on the primary ballot in the state. “There is no mention in New Hampshire state statute that a candidate in a New Hampshire presidential primary can be disqualified using the 14th Amendment of the United States...
New video surfaced Wednesday showing Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) being escorted out of a performance of the musical “Beetlejuice” on Sunday night. The 9News video contains more than four minutes worth of surveillance footage taken from various angles. It begins with a shot from within the Denver theater, where Boebert is seen arguing for about a minute...
The White House on Wednesday defended a deal with Iran to unfreeze billions of dollars in Iranian funds in exchange for U.S. prisoners, insisting it was not a ransom payment in the face of GOP criticism. “This is not a payment of any kind. This is not a ransom. These aren’t US taxpayer dollars. And...
A new COVID booster will soon be widely available.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) announced Wednesday he will retire from the Senate at the end of his term, dealing moderate Republicans and those opposed to former President Trump a major blow. Romney said in a statement that it’s time for a new crop of political leaders to step in. “I have spent my last 25...
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who have been tasked with leading an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, met with skeptical Senate Republicans Wednesday. Jordan said he would lay out the “facts” Republicans believe warrant a deeper investigation into what Biden knew about his son,...
An “armed, dangerous person” was reported Wednesday afternoon at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill, less than three weeks after a gunman shot and killed a faculty member on campus. UNC Chapel Hill sent out an alert at 12:54 p.m. Wednesday reporting an armed and dangerous person on or near campus. The alert...
Fulton County’s District Attorney Fani Willis (D) on Wednesday insisted former President Trump and all of his co-defendants in the 2020 election interference case be tried together in October, despite already-emerging skepticism from the judge. “The State requests this Court to keep all defendants together for trial … until the Defendants have presented to this Court...
