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Vice President Vance went back to his native Ohio last week to hold a rally and cast his early ballot in what have been — at least to many in the national political press — surprisingly difficult Senate and gubernatorial races for his party. They shouldn’t be so surprised. The big-ticket item is the Senate…
Iowa Senate candidate Josh Turek (D) and Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) are set to clash in their second debate on Tuesday as they fight to succeed retiring Sen. Joni Ernest (R-Iowa). The debate will offer the candidates a chance to reiterate their stances on the Iran war and fuel prices, which proved to be a…
Democrats are leading Republicans on the generic congressional ballot by 7 points, according to a new poll — underscoring the Democrat-friendly environment three weeks out from Election Day. An exclusive NewsNation-Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) poll, conducted by AI research platform TrueDot.ai and released on Tuesday, showed Democrats leading Republicans 49 percent to 42 percent on…
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As the midterms approach, Donald Trump is continuing to make strongman moves: banning reporters from the White House; trying to remake Washington DC’s architecture in his name; putting “Dear leader”-style videos on television. But historian Timothy Snyder tells Kai Wright that what this really is, is a sign of weakness. And even as the Democrats seemed poised to win the midterms, Snyder argues that the Democrats need to take bold, decisive action if they do win. They have to investigate cases of obvious personal corruption among the people surrounding Trump and try everything they can to get money out of…
Chicago police on Monday said they recently used newly discovered DNA evidence to tie the 1960 murder of an eight-year-old girl to one of its own former homicide detectives. Thomas McInerney had been dead for 20 years by the time authorities issued a statement identifying him as the killer of Gloria Kowalewicz – well after he retired from the Chicago police department (CPD) and two federal public defender’s offices in Nevada where he worked as an investigator. Nonetheless, the CPD’s statement expressed a hope that the news about McInerney “brings a measure of closure to all who knew Gloria and…
Saltmarsh is spreading back across the Ribble estuary on England’s north-west coast. In Cornwall, ancient oaks stand within one a fragment of one of Britain’s ancient temperate rainforests. Elsewhere, land is being left, managed or reshaped to give wildlife a chance to return. These are the landscapes artist Rebecca Howard has spent the past year painting for A Year in the Wild, an exhibition that documents nine UK rewilding projects. The works capture wildflower meadows in Yorkshire, beaver reintroduction in Devon, turtle dove conservation in Somerset and the restoration of saltmarsh in Lancashire. What unites them, Howard says, is…
While marquee races from Maine to Michigan get all the attention, and draw in a ton of money, a significant batch of lower-profile contests across the US could result in upsets. Democrats have a strong edge heading into November’s US midterm elections, polls show. In recent days, election prognosticators have shifted even more races in favor of Democrats. Still, some races have openings for Republicans to pick off an incumbent Democrat, or win over voters for open seats. Republicans are pouring money into these places in hopes of minimizing their losses. Mid-decade redistricting in red states also may help Republicans…
Donald Trump is a “corrupt, senile felon” whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton, “godfather” of the technology, in a wide-ranging interview where he doubled down on recent warnings that AI models pose an existential threat to humanity and scoffed at claims the industry could regulate itself. The pioneering computer scientist, whose work helped lay the foundations of modern AI, has since become one of the technology’s most vocal critics. His latest remarks come after a tumultuous month during which a growing list of senior AI scientists and researchers have joined Hinton…
Scant Funding, Few Standards: Pennsylvania’s post-conviction issues stem from its failure to invest in or set standards for legal defense for poor people.. Crushing Caseloads: Lawyers hired under a flat-fee structure that’s banned in some states fell months or years behind, stranding dozens of clients in prison.. Infinite Extensions: While prisoners face strict deadlines, their lawyers can typically take all the time they want. Some kept clients waiting as long as a decade.. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.. In 2020, seven years after he was appointed to represent a client who…