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Pope Leo Issues Encyclical Warning of AI's Potential Dangers If Left Unregulated
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (406+ words) No algorithm can make war morally acceptable," reads the first major theological document of Leo XIV's papacy. Pope Leo XIV on Monday released a 42, 000-word encyclical calling for government regulation of artificial intelligence and implored world leaders to ensure the…...
A Minute of Silence Isn't Enough to Reflect on the US's Death and Destruction
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (459+ words) Let's stop lying to ourselves on Memorial Day and instead try exploring the full truth about war in all its evil. What does it mean to reflect on the soldiers who died while fighting in U. S. wars? Is such a thing…...
Tulsi Gabbard Exit Marks Fourth Woman to Leave Trump Cabinet
22+ hour, 8+ min ago (561+ words) Resignations and firings have further narrowed diversity in Trump's Cabinet. President Donald Trump's second Cabinet was never exceptionally diverse from the start. And in the past three months, four women have been fired or resigned. Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman…...
The Trump Administration Is Shielding Prediction Markets
1+ day, 56+ min ago (494+ words) A recent report found CFTC staff were put on leave after questioning Trump-linked betting markets. A Sunday report in The New York Times revealed how the Trump administration is using a key government agency to shut down any efforts to…...
South Florida Elected Official Targets 2 Constituents Who Are JVP Activists
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (401+ words) Jewish Voice for Peace says a city commissioner personally spent $4, 000 on billboard trucks targeting local activists. Both Nevel and Alan Levine, the other individual targeted, are seasoned, long-term organizers who have been doing anti-Zionist work for decades. Nevel is a…...
DOJ Just Shut Disabled People Out of Essential Online Services for Another Year
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (460+ words) Disability rights advocates say everything from filing for unemployment to voting in the midterms just got much harder. "It is outrageous that the Justice Department thinks that they can delay this regulation for one more year," Chris Danielsen, a spokesperson…...
Critics Warn Utah Megadata Center Could Devastate Great Salt Lake
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (900+ words) The proposed "hyperscale" campus would strain water, energy, and local ecology. Plans for a celebrity-backed "hyperscale" data center in rural Utah, so massive that it would consume more than double the state's current electricity use, have generated an intense public…...
New Immigration Rule Could Force Green Card Applicants to Leave US
2+ day, 12+ min ago (522+ words) The policy ends a decades-old process which allows immigrants to apply from within the US. Critics are slamming the Trump administration for implementing a new rule that foreigners who apply for green cards must do so from abroad. U. S. Citizenship and…...
US Military Using More Missiles to Defend Israel Than Israel Itself
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (420+ words) The U. S. is using more of its resources to defend Israel than Israel is itself, according to U. S. officials who spoke to The Washington Post on Thursday. The officials disclosed that the U. S. military has depleted much of its missile-defense inventory after using…...
Resistance to Flock Cameras and Police Surveillance Is Exploding
3+ day, 31+ min ago (445+ words) Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women. In communities large and small, red and blue, all across the United States, residents are filling local council meetings in opposition…...