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Obama says Democrats should have a ‘very clear plan’ on AI policy

By Monica Alba and Raquel Coronell Uribe Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize developing a plan around artificial intelligence, saying that’s what he would be doing if he were running for president in 2028. In remarks at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser Thursday, Obama said that while he was neither an “accelerationist” nor a “doomer,” the AI bell is not one that could be unrung, and that Democrats ought to flesh out an agenda on the topic. “If I were running for president next year, this would be one of my central agendas, and I would have a very clear plan,

Second federal judge freezes Trump mail ballot order with Supreme Court poised to weigh in

By The Associated Press A federal judge late Sunday ordered that the U.S. Postal Service not implement President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail balloting, adding another obstacle to the administration’s effort to rewrite election rules as the Supreme Court is poised to weigh in on the matter. The nation’s highest court already is considering the administration’s appeal of an order by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani in Boston prohibiting the Postal Service from enforcing its new rule on mail voting before this year’s midterm elections. Late Sunday, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols in Washington, D.C., handed down a similar

‘Like an apocalyptic movie’: How Americans remember the 9/11 attacks

By Michelle Garcia After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the oft-repeated refrain became “Never Forget.” Twenty-five years later, it’s clear that many who were around on that day have not forgotten how that day changed us, as a country and as individuals. NBC News asked followers on social media to share their memories of that day — the things they will never forget about one of the most pivotal days in American history. A harrowing morning 8:50 a.m., New Jersey: My husband and I had been in the building the evening prior and now this was happening! I watched the towers tumble

As Trump pushes for data centers, voters in key midterm races say they don’t want them

By Jonathan Allen, Frank Thorp V and Marshall Crook DES MOINES, Iowa — Dawn Vogel, a Republican county supervisor in rural Buchanan County, Iowa, doesn’t have a lot in common with the leading democratic socialists in Congress. But on this bit of policy they agree: Data centers are proliferating across the American landscape too fast. Vogel voted earlier this year for a moratorium that temporarily bans data centers from setting up shop in her heavily Republican county, which favored President Donald Trump 63% to 35% in 2024. In Washington, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. — the nation’s two most prominent

NAACP Warns Federal Polling Presence Could Have Chilling Effect on Black Voters

By Phenix S Halley With the 2026 midterms approaching, the NAACP is raising alarms over a planned Justice Department presence at polling places, questioning whether deploying more than 1,000 federal personnel to voting sites could have a chilling effect, particularly Black voters. The nation’s oldest civil rights organization launched an investigation into the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) election-monitoring plans and filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records about the proposed deployment. The NAACP wants the details about where federal personnel will be sent, what authority they will have and how they will be trained. As The Root previously reported, the Trump administration has

Trump administration threatens to cut Smithsonian support in latest claim of ideological bias

By Megan Brand The Trump administration is threatening to withdraw support for the Smithsonian Institution, accusing its leadership of presenting a “radical ideology” that weakens “shared American identity” in the latest effort to pressure the institution to change its presentations and practices. The Interior Department sent a letter to the Smithsonian last Friday, which the department posted online, laying out the administration’s criticisms of the institution and requesting an in-person meeting with its board. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and White House domestic policy assistant Vince Haley said in the letter that the Smithsonian “enjoys support for executive departments and agencies” before they threatened

Postal Service work to comply with Trump’s executive order is rushed and sloppy, a whistleblower contends

By Nicholas Riccardi The U.S. Postal Service is poised to launch a hastily built, error-riddled computer system that could jeopardize the process of mail voting relied upon by one-third of all voters, according to a whistleblower statement released Tuesday by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal. The effort is part of the implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting and has been temporarily halted by a federal judge. The ruling is being appealed by the administration and the directive may ultimately end up back before the U.S. Supreme Court. The disclosure from the unidentified whistleblower contends that the Postal Service has been scrambling to try

Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92

By Sian Cain Gloria Steinem, the American feminist and journalist whose activism helped push through greater rights for women around the world has died, aged 92. Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her”, a statement shared to her Instagram page said. “Gloria’s near-century on earth were years well-lived, and she continued working for equality until the very end,” the post added. “Gloria’s greatest gift was her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard. Her words, actions, and example gave people permission to be their

Federal judge blocks Trump’s latest order limiting birthright citizenship

By Gary Grumbach and Kyla Guilfoil A federal judge reinforced the constitutional right to birthright citizenship Wednesday, blocking President Donald Trump’s latest executive order to limit it. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman wrote in a 35-page ruling that Trump’s August order seeking to limit which people born in the U.S. can become American citizens “is almost certainly unconstitutional.” Boardman cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling that Trump could not go forward with a separate 2025 executive order that sought to limit citizenship at birth. “This Court must, once again, preliminarily enjoin enforcement of the President’s most recent attempt to strip the right to citizenship from

Judge blocks Trump’s Postal Service regulation on mail-in ballots

By Lawrence Hurley and Gary Grumbach A federal judge Thursday blocked a Postal Service regulation that would exert control over mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections in the latest setback on the issue for President Donald Trump. The recently finalized measure would implement a key provision of Trump’s executive order on mail-in ballots that would add a new level of bureaucracy to the elections process, which is typically administered by states. The executive order directed the U.S. Postal Service to, among other things, track mail-in ballots and potentially reject those submitted by people not on a federal list of eligible voters. The

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