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Anyone hoping California Gov. Gavin Newsom or some other Democrat will take Joe Biden’s place on the 2024 presidential ballot is likely to be disappointed.Despite renewed anxiety over the president’s age, party officials and pollsters say swapping him out is a bad idea, and nearly impossible without Biden’s sign-off.“No one who’s done this at this level thinks that removing the sitting president of the United States, who’s a Democrat, from your ballot is remotely plausible,” said Cornell Belcher, one of former President…

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Tuesday objected to a request to pass by unanimous consent a bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee to strip big tech companies of legal immunity for child pornography and other child predatory material posted on their social media platforms. Wyden argued the legislation would weaken the encryption safeguards of popular websites and apps and inadvertently make it easier for predators to gain access the communications and photos of children.…

Pennsylvania’s governor and the chief executive of natural-gas driller CNX Resources are pursuing a fracking business model. Pennsylvania’s governor and the chief executive of natural-gas driller CNX Resources are pursuing a fracking business model. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all…

After a bruising, losing battle over Proposition HH, a breakneck special session and a public plea from Gov. Jared Polis for local governments to lower their property tax rates, further relief appears to be a trickle more than a torrent for Coloradans. Few local officials have taken up Polis’ request so far, including in metro Denver. And Douglas County, which separately had pursued a 4% across-the-board cut to residential property values, was rebuffed Monday when a unanimous state board rejected the move, citing fairness…

Calling the rapid growth of artificial intelligence tools a “moment of revolution,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that the government must act quickly to regulate companies that are developing it.The New York Democrat said he is working on what he calls “exceedingly ambitious” bipartisan legislation to maximize the technology's benefits and mitigate significant risks. While Schumer did not lay out details of such legislation, he offered some key goals: protect U.S. elections from AI-generated…

What happens when a satellite gets destroyed in orbit? Typically, weeks, months, or even years of planning and logistics precede the launch of a replacement. However, Space Force has hatched a plan to ambitiously cut that time down to a mere 24 hours, and the latest test of that plan could happen any minute.Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their ViewAccording to the Space Force FAQ, the newest military branch exists to organize, train, and equip space forces “in order to protect U.S. and…

Rep. Joseph Morelle (D-N.Y.) has unveiled a bill to make the sharing of deepfake pornography without consent illegal, a response to the accelerated advancement of artificial intelligence and digitally manipulated content.  Morelle’s office said in a release Friday that technological progress has allowed for rapid growth of deepfakes, with a 2019 report finding 96 percent of deepfake videos online were pornographic and exclusively targeted women.  Morelle said in the release that the legislation would take…

After already having their pool sizes reduced in Las Vegas, Nevada residents may be facing some new water rules: getting their taps turned off if they use too much water. A new bill introduced in the state Assembly last month would allow the Southern Nevada Water Authority to limit how much water its customers in the Las Vegas metropolitan area can use in the event of the federal government deems the Colorado River too low.Assembly Bill 220, sponsored by Democrat Assemblyman Howard Watts, dictates that residents will only…

Reminder: The Times wants to know what you’d like to see in this newsletter. Please take a minute to complete this short survey. I really value your feedback. Years ago when I was reporting a profile on Kevin McCarthy — the Bakersfield Republican who is now the speaker of the House — I was surprised to learn that he was friends with Karen Bass, the Los Angeles Democrat who is now mayor.They had met in Sacramento in the early 2000s when both were members of the Assembly. After McCarthy was elected to Congress, Bass became…

The race for a hotly contested Los Angeles-area congressional district had not been called, but Democrat Christy Smith sensed she would end up on the losing end. And she felt there was a clear reason why.“Our campaign got next-to-zero outside resources to fight this battle. In fact, I was fighting the institutional power of my own party from the outset of this race,” Smith said in a scathing series of remarks on Twitter. With no help on the airwaves and little elsewhere from Democratic Party committees and PACs, “we…