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“What if the weakest president we’ve ever had were re-elected?” the video poses right off the bat. Apparently we’d see a lot more cliche AI-generated art. Republicans have waged a full-on attack against President Joe Biden—who just announced his re-election campaign for 2024 today—with a scrapbook video of AI-generated images portraying a bleak portrait of America under Biden’s rule.Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?The video, titled “Beat Biden,” was released on the Republican National Committee’s official YouTube…

Activists protest outside the Interior Department in November. Photo: Jemal Countess (Getty Images)The Biden administration on Monday gave the green light to an enormous oil and gas project in Alaska, following months of increasing opposition from environmental activists who say that the approval runs counter to the administration’s promise to act on climate.The Interior Department released a record of decision Monday approving the Willow Project, an $8 billion oil and gas drilling project owned by oil giant…

Photo: Pool (Getty Images)House Republicans this week rammed through an ill-constructed, self-aggrandizing “anti-censorship” bill supposedly aimed at preventing federal agents from pressuring tech companies to stifle conservatives. The bill, inspired in part by Republican outrage over Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story and other so-called Twitter Files revelations, passed 219-206 in a straight party-line vote. The bill’s almost guaranteed to die in the Democratically controlled Senate.As written, the…

A black plume rises behind a home in East Palestine on Feb. 6, 2023.Photo: Gene J. Puskar (AP)Stop me if you’ve heard this phrase in the past week: “No one is talking about the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.”There’s a potential ecological disaster unfolding in Ohio, and residents are still searching for answers nearly two weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed near the town of East Palestine on the border between Ohio and Pennsylvania. Federal and local authorities, as well as the rail company,…

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)President Joe Biden responded to senators’ calls for more information about the three unidentified flying objects that were shot down in the last week. He spoke to the American people in an address meant to alleviate fears but may have raised more questions about the unknown objects.His press conference comes after senators left a classified briefing on Tuesday with confused reactions, saying they hadn’t received any clarification about what the three flying objects were. Republicans and…

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan has taken the lead in attacking big tech over supposed “collusion” with the government.Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)The House Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday that it had subpoenaed several of the biggest tech CEOs in the U.S., from Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Meta, for documents and communications related to more vague and so-far unfounded hints of government “collusion.”According to a release, Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, the House Judiciary Chairman, said they called on…

Who knew such an innocent-looking balloon could be a spy.Photo: Larry Mayer (AP)It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… Chinese spy balloon? According to China, the answer could be “maybe.” The Chinese Foreign Ministry addressed the balloon incident in a daily briefing on Friday and stated it was “verifying” the situation, according to Reuters. Reports of a giant white spy balloon in Montana, which houses one of the nation’s nuclear launch facilities, captivated the internet on Thursday, capturing the attention of U.S.…

Texas Senator Ted Cruz discusses social media censorship at a committee hearing.Photo: Alex Wroblewski (Getty Images) Senior Republican leadership gave the public a sneak peek into their priorities and plans for tech legislation in the coming year, and it essentially all revolves around two words: conservative censorship. Yeah, here we go again. In letters sent to the CEOs of the five largest tech platforms, House Judiciary ranking member Jim Jordan cried afoul of the companies, who he said were “out to get…

Communication about climate change between the United States and China screeched to a halt in August amid escalating tensions over contested Taiwan. China cut off climate cooperation at the time, but now talks have resumed, as first reported by the New York Times.01:43The New Black Panther Debuts at Disney Parks Avengers CampusToday 1:19PMPresident Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping met in person on Monday in Indonesia for the first time since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. The Bali meeting lasted about…

President Joe Biden speaks before boarding Air Force One at Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Sep. 9, 2022, after attending a groundbreaking for a new Intel computer chip facility in New Albany, Ohio.Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta (AP)Since taking the White House in November 2020, President Joe Biden has issued repeated calls to amend one of the most foundational laws governing the internet, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. His latest call to do so came Thursday during a “listening…