The House voted to pull U.S. forces from the Iran war — a war Congress never authorized. Senator Tim Kaine says both Republican-majority chambers have spoken, and appropriations powers are the next lever.
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The bulletin opens with a jarring lead: two people are dead and five injured after a shooting erupted at a food festival near Seattle's iconic Space Needle. Among the wounded was a 2-year-old boy, and a 56-year-old woman remains in serious condition. Fire officials and police are on scene, and at least one person has been taken into custody. The crime scene — a festive public gathering in the shadow of one of America's most recognizable landmarks — underscores the randomness of the violence and sets a somber tone for the rest of the broadcast.
A shooting at a food festival near Seattle's Space Needle killed 2 people and injured 5, including a 2-year-old boy.
Two people were killed and five others injured — including a 2-year-old boy — in a shooting at a food festival near Seattle's Space Needle. At least one suspect is in custody.
The House voted to remove U.S. forces from hostilities with Iran, a rebuke to President Trump over a war Congress never authorized.
Senator Tim Kaine noted both Republican-majority houses of Congress have called for ending the Iran war.
Nobody really distrusts Flock. They distrust the government agencies controlling the data. The technology is neutral; the problem is the absence of laws strong enough to prevent misuse — from tracking abortion seekers to surveilling a cop's own wife.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
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