Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has selected a new team to help shape policy for the Pentagon. The Department of War’s (DOW) new Defense Policy Board roster will be composed of former government officials, Silicon Valley investors, nuclear deterrence specialists, former lawmakers, economic security officials and conservative policy figures. Hegseth is adding the fresh appointees…
An investigative journalist alleged Tuesday that notorious figures from the 1960s were assets of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Project MK-Ultra. Investigative journalist Tom O’Neill said during a Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets hearing that he believed convicted murderer Charles Manson and Jack Ruby, the assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald, were assets…
The current conservative Supreme Court rarely gets it wrong when it comes to election administration. But this week’s ruling in Watson v. RNC, that reliable majority flipped on its head with Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett siding with the liberals by holding that, despite plain language in federal law dictating one clear federal…
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that California has entered into a partnership with Anthropic following President Donald Trump’s feud with the artificial intelligence giant. The partnership with Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, will give state agencies in California access to the program at 50% off and provide free workforce training. The AI tool is meant…
A young Senegalese man had the drive, savings, and plan to open a small store. He never did. The moment he opened, cousins, uncles, and neighbors would demand goods for free because they were in need. Family obligation would force him to say yes until the shelves were empty and the business dead. So he…
Ford rehired roughly 350 veteran engineers to reprogram and retrain artificial intelligence tools used for quality control and defect detection. Ford Motor Company said it brought back these older, experienced “gray beard” engineers over the past three years to rework its AI systems that had been delivering poor quality control results on their own, Bloomberg…
