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A Bay Area congressman rolled out a new plan that aims to make Bay Area waters safer for migrating whales.
This comes after a dead whale was spotted this week near Alcatraz, marking the ninth dead whale reported in Northern California waters in a matter of weeks.
“Just over a month, we have seen a total of nine whales, dead in either San Francisco Bay seven of them, or in the outer waters along the coast bringing us up to nine,” said Dr. Jeff Boehm with the Marine Mammal Center.
Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-Calif., is probing whether the nation’s top financial regulators are examining a number of trades placed moments before President Donald Trump provided a major update on the Iran war.
A bipartisan duo is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s attempts to end a program that lets hundreds of thousands of foreign students work in the US for a year after graduation. Reps.
In many ways, Trump’s second inauguration created the perfect visual for Democrats both worried about A.I. and cognizant that the technological earthquake could become a potent wedge issue in 2028. After all, Trump had packed the front rows of his indoor coronation with Silicon Valley oligarchs and billionaires—Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai—who had thrown money at him and enjoyed lowered regulations in return.
Americans are understandably anxious about artificial intelligence, and politicians are eager to assuage their fears before the midterm elections. When confronting the perils of lost jobs and skyrocketing utility bills, some of my colleagues feel compelled to hit the brakes on President Trump’s all-gas approach to AI. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), for example, recently called for a moratorium on data-center construction.
We must resist that urge. No amount of regulation will stop AI development. Slowing innovation will ensure that China writes the rules for the next century.
As the battle over Warner Bros. Discovery grows, two Democratic lawmakers are warning that their party may try to block or unravel any acquisition by Paramount when it returns to power.