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President Donald Trump’s refusal to regulate AI could put Americans at risk of attacks from biological weapons.In an interview between CBS News contributor Chris Krebs and President Joe Biden’s former adviser Ben Buchanan (who now advises Anthropic), the two men discussed the implications for AI on biological weapons."I would look at these current models not as cyber models, but as generally capable models,” Buchanan told Krebs. “They can do expert tasks in a wide variety of areas, not just in cyber, also in bio and the like." A

President Donald Trump is showing off a new portrait painted for his upcoming 80th birthday — and users are pointing out an obvious inaccuracy.“‘Why are his eyes open? It’s not natural,’ one user commented on X, while another posted a photo of the president with his eyes closed in the Oval Office, appearing to be asleep, writing, ‘This is a far more accurate depiction…’” reported The Daily Beast's Wiktoria Gucia. Another person was reported as posting “What’s wrong with this one?” while attaching a picture of Trump with his eyes closed. Still another user

President Donald Trump is promoting his Great American State Fair as a pro-America concert intended to celebrate America’s 250 year anniversary — yet there are competing visions for how to celebrate the country’s semiquincentennial.“One month from America’s 250th birthday, events and celebrations to commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence are as fragmented as the nation’s politics and culture in 2026,” reported Mike Magner from CQ-Roll Call on Sunday. Describing Trump’s event as a “campaign-style MAGA rally” which numerous artist

President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a way to pay his supporters from a slush fund in a manner he and his backers hope will be secret.“The promised end of President Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund won’t necessarily stop the Department of Justice (DOJ) from making payouts to those who argue they’ve been wronged by the government and who are instead eyeing new pathways to access federal money,” reported The Hill’s Rebecca Beitsch. “After acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the controversial fund would ‘not be moving forward,’ Sen. L

President Donald Trump is constantly lying, but according to a prominent political philosopher, it is not because he intends to deceive. He is actually doing something far worse — and it is starting to impact even his own supporters.“For much of his political career, dishonesty has been without cost for Donald Trump,” wrote Vanderbilt University political philosopher Robert B. Talisse for the Emporia Gazette on Sunday. “He entered into national politics with the birther lie, claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., and that did not prevent Tr

President Donald Trump, as a Republican, should theoretically support fiscal conservatism. Yet according to a report by a financial journalist, under Trump America’s national debt and deficit are ballooning to dangerous levels.“The price that the U.S. government has to pay to borrow money for 30 years has already punched through 5 percent a year, its highest level since the financial crisis of 2007,” reported The Washington Post's Matthew Lynn on Sunday. “For 10-year money, the annual price is 4.6 percent and climbing. Amid all the noise about the rise of artificial in

Adults accept it as conventional health wisdom that we require eight hours of sleep each night in order to be healthy. Yet an expert on human evolutionary biology recently argued that this might actually be misleading.“Do you lose sleep over whether you sleep too little or too much?” Daniel E. Lieberman, a professor at Harvard University, wrote for The New York Times on Sunday. “You can now relax, because scientists have figured out precisely how much sleep you really need. In a recent study in Nature, an international team of experts reports that the ‘sweet spot’ for adults is between 6 hours 24 minutes and 7 hours 48 min

President Donald Trump has weaponized the Justice Department so egregiously, he has literally destroyed an important pillar of American life, at least according to one conservative commentator.“President Trump's $1.776 billion weaponization fund to compensate January 6th rioters for their troubles is now (probably—perhaps mostly) dead,” The Bulwark’s Elliot Williams wrote on Sunday. “But that doesn’t mean that you should stop paying attention to it.”Williams pointed out that, despite Trum

President Donald Trump is attempting to compromise future elections by targeting election workers to gaslight America about his 2020 defeat, according to a Georgia election worker.“We are responding to ‘Fulton seeks to block federal subpoena targeting 2020 election workers, May 5,’” wrote Election Protectors United of Georgia’s Jon C. Greaves in an editorial for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that was published on Sunday. “As registered voters from Fulton County and beyond, we deeply value the selfless staff and volunteers who fac

I started in radio news as a teenage reporter at WITL-AM/FM in Lansing, Michigan, then the number one station in the capital city. I began reporting from the Capitol and City Hall, and was writing and reading the morning newscasts within a year.The station owner was a hardcore Goldwater Republican, our news director was a liberal but Libertarian-curious Democrat, and I was a long-haired anti-war hippie member of MSU's Students for a Democratic Society.I did the news there for years, and nobody ever told me how to spin it or what to insert or delete. I knew that I couldn’t bias it to reflect my own opinions: the news — accurate, factual, honest information — was sacred.It was also t