Donald Trump returned to the Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday for Day 10 of his hush money trial.
The 77-year-old listened to more testimony from Keith Davidson, the lawyer who represented both Stormy Daniels
This article is part of a series, Bots and Ballots: How artificial intelligence is reshaping elections worldwide.
Callum Hood has the power to undermine any election with a few keystrokes from his Boston apartment.
Hood, a British researcher, fired up some of the latest artificial intelligence tools made by OpenAI and Midjourney, another AI startup. Within seconds of him typing in a few prompts — “create a realistic photo of voter ballots in a dumpster”; “a photo of long
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There are three main forces driving the conflict on the Colorado River. The first is an outdated legal system that guarantees more water to seven Western states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—than is actually available in the river during most years. The second is the exclusion of Native American tribes from
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We are heading into a rematch that promises to be weirder than any presidential election we’ve ever experienced. Let’s review where things stand.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
Where Things Stand
More than two years ago, I wrote my
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — There were Adrián Beltré and Joe Mauer. This was their first Hall of Fame election. They won’t need a second. On Tuesday, they became baseball’s newest first-ballot Hall of Famers. And that stamps them as baseball royalty, connected forever to this special stamp of greatness.
Beltré reeled in 95.1 percent of the vote. That’s the same percentage as a guy named Babe Ruth. If he ever needs to impress people at a party over the next 40
This story was originally published in German by WELT, a sister publication of POLITICO in the Axel Springer Group.
Nate Lin wants to be prepared for war.
On a Saturday morning in November, Lin, a 35-year-old Taiwanese man, practices how to apply a tourniquet to his right arm. In this fictive scenario, he’s been shot and is in danger of bleeding to death.
“It has to be pulled tighter to stop the bleeding,” warns the instructor.
It’s not the kind
These are real headlines.
But they’re not from the fall of 2023. They’re from 2019, when Joe Biden’s third bid for the presidency appeared to be crashing and burning. In 2019, there were plenty of polls that suggested Biden would lose the race for the Democratic nomination. And if by some chance he got the party line, there were plenty of polls, focus groups, and analyses that said he would be a weak challenger to Donald Trump.
It turned out … Read more
The president’s blank-check support of Israel’s war on Gaza is alienating many of the Black and brown voters he needs to win reelection.
I am neither Israeli or Palestinian, nor am I an expert on Middle Eastern geopolitics, terrorism, security, or colonization. I