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13 hours ago | rawstory.com | Thom Hartmann

Pope Leo XIV just labeled AI one of the main threats facing humanity, saying it poses challenges to “human dignity, justice and labor.” He’s right, but it’s even worse than that: it represents, unless it’s rigorously regulated, a threat to democracy itself. In every generation, the enemies of democracy change costumes, but their playbook remains eerily familiar. They lie, divide, intimidate, and exploit every available tool to consolidate power.

15 hours ago | rawstory.com | Martin Pengelly

More than half of U.S. Jewish voters think Donald Trump is antisemitic and nearly three-quarters consider him dangerous, according to a new poll released as the U.S. President tours the Middle East, a first foreign trip of his second term that controversially does not include a visit to Israel. Around 75 percent of such voters disapprove of Trump's handling of foreign policy and the U.S. economy.

1 day ago | rawstory.com | Julia Conley

A provision that U.S. House Republicans added to the budget reconciliation bill—unrelated to the GOP's goal of slashing Medicaid access in the legislation—represents, as one journalist said, "one of the most radical positions Republicans have taken" thus far on artificial intelligence and the regulations that experts have demanded in order to ensure the technology is used safely. U.S. Rep.

1 day ago | rawstory.com | Martin Pengelly

At a state dinner in December 2022, Jill Biden surprised French President Emmanuel Macron, former U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi — and her own husband Joe Biden — when she firmly indicated the then 80-year-old U.S. President would run for another four-year term, a new book says. Joe Biden looked “like he didn't understand,” another guest is quoted as saying, adding that they rescued the awkward moment by hastily proposing a toast to “four more years” which the president and first lady joined.

1 day ago | rawstory.com | Thom Hartmann

Donald Trump has been lying to us ever since he came down that escalator. He just never stops lying because as a lifelong con man, it’s all he knows how to do. He’s still insisting he won the 2020 election, despite having lost by about 7 million votes and being wiped out in the Electoral College. He lied at the State of the Union about having a mandate to cut Medicaid, as Rep. Al Green (D-TX) pointed out. Along with over 100 other lies he told that day.