(Headline USA) Sophisticated generative AI tools can now create cloned human voices and hyper-realistic images, videos and audio in seconds, at minimal cost.
When strapped to powerful social media algorithms, this fake and digitally created content can spread far and fast and target highly specific audiences, potentially taking campaign dirty...
(Headline USA) A brawl broke out over nominations for Democratic Minneapolis City Council candidates, leaving at least two people injured, a newspaper reported.
The scuffle arose during the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party’s endorsing convention for Minneapolis Ward 10, held Saturday at a magnet school in the city, the Star Tribune reported.
Video posted...
(Headline USA) Democratic Minnesota senators held firm despite only a one-vote majority Friday to pass gun control legislation.
The proposals include a red flag law. The provision is part of a broad public safety budget bill that also contains expanded background checks for gun transfers.
The bill passed 34-33 on a...
(Headline USA) A Michigan girl was able to escape an attempted kidnapping when her brother used a slingshot to strike the would-be attacker, authorities said this week.
Mlive.com reports that the Michigan State Police arrested the accused assailant in the city of Alpena on Wednesday.
The 17-year-old assailant’s name has not...
(Headline USA) Ron DeSantis, Florida’s conservative governor, warned of a Republican "culture of losing," on Saturday at an event in Iowa.
DeSantis, gave a formal speech promoting his willingness to embrace conservative cultural fights and sprinkled his remarks with indirect jabs at Trump.
"Governing is not about entertaining,” he said. “Governing...
(Headline USA) Tribal officials have drafted regulations to make the border-crossing process easier, working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's recently formed Tribal Homeland Security Advisory Council, comprised of 15 Native officials across the U.S. to reduce border security.
If approved, the rules would become the first clearly established...
(Headline USA) Just ahead of what could be a record-breaking summer travel season, pilots from one of the nation's biggest airlines marched in picket lines at major airports on Friday as they push for higher pay.
The United Airlines pilots have been working without a raise for more than four...
(Headline USA) A dilapidated greenhouse at a Northern California nursery was home to dozens of illegal immigrant farm workers and their families who were living in tiny and unsafe dwellings without ventilation, authorities said Friday.
Officials found 62 makeshift dwellings inside the greenhouse on a property in rural Monterey County.
The shelters...
(By Susan Crabtree, RealClear Wire) Over the last month, TikTok has three times interrupted or shut down content on an account airing a powerful documentary about Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong entrepreneur, newspaperman, and pro-democracy activist imprisoned for more than two years for his role in criticizing the Chinese...
(By Steve Wilson, The Center Square) Twenty-five of the nation's 26 Republican governors have asked the Biden administration to shelve its intent to expand Title IX protections to transgender athletes.
The letter, led by the signature of Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, says the U.S. Department of Education's proposed regulation should...
(By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Groups of mostly single military age men are encamped on the sidewalk and alleyway next to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in downtown El Paso even after many had been cleared out earlier this week. Thousands had congregated in the area after being released...
(Headline USA) McDonald’s and a franchise holder are at fault after a hot Chicken McNugget from a Happy Meal fell on a little girl's leg and caused second-degree burns, a jury in South Florida found in a case reminiscent of the famous hot coffee lawsuit of the 1990s.
A second...