Washington leaders responded on Sunday to the bipartisan Fiscal Responsibility Act, a deal reached between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Biden to evade defaulting on the country’s financial obligations. Both McCarthy and Biden held their posture as long as they could with a looming deadline of June 5, and on Sunday, reached a final agreement with just days to spare.
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have reached a much-awaited budget detail, averting a potentially catastrophic U.S. default just days ahead of a June 5 deadline. Both sides are expected to point to some victories in the bill. Biden said Sunday the bill “represents a compromise, which means no one got everything they wanted.” The House released the 99-page text of the deal Sunday evening.
The Department of Education is worried that artificial intelligence systems could be used to surveil teachers once the systems are introduced into the classroom and warned in a new report that allowing that to happen would make teachers’ jobs “nearly impossible.” The department released a report this week on “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning,” which also argued that AI should never be used to replace human teachers.
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is escalating his attacks on President Donald Trump accusing the former president of “running to the left,” claiming that he is a “different guy today” than his previous campaign in 2016 and 2020.
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was shouted down and faced a partially hostile crowd during a Friday town hall where some participants were upset about the Democratic socialist legislator’s positions on immigration Ukraine funding and the debt limit. Speaking to constituents in Corona, Queens, The “Squad” member was disrupted several times as some heckled and booed her, and in turn, her supporters shouted down those protesters.
President Biden on Friday told a crowd gathered at the White House that he has “four granddaughters,” but failed to mention his fifth granddaughter born out of wedlock to Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts. “Look, there’s an awful lot — an awful lot to be proud of, and the way in which women’s sports has come along is just incredible. And you’re changing the — it’s not just in sports.
Cindy Campos’ 5-year-old son was so excited about the Winnie the Pooh book he got at school that he asked her to read it with him as soon as he got home. But her heart sank when she realized it was a tutorial about what to do when “danger is near,” advising kids to lock the doors, turn off the lights and quietly hide. As they read the “Stay Safe” book the school sent home without explanation or a warning to parents, she began crying, leaving her son confused.
Congressional lawmakers agreed that AI needs federal oversight, but several were skeptical that President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris were capable of leading the effort. “I wouldn’t trust Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to be able to successfully operate an iPhone, much less be a key focal point of AI policy,” Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz told Fox News.
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., is calling on the federal government to use artificial intelligence technology to better secure the southwestern border. During an interview with Fox News Digital, Mace suggested the rapidly advancing technology could be used to enhance border patrol agents’ monitoring capabilities as border officials continue to see a record number of illegal aliens attempting to cross into the U.S. through Mexico.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. declared he “can’t wait” to join Twitter CEO Elon Musk on the platform just one day after Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a joint event with the latter, announcing he was jumping into the 2024 race for the White House. Kennedy posted the comment in response to Musk tweeting that “all Presidential candidates are most welcome” on Twitter.
A source familiar with the ongoing talks between the White House and lawmakers from Capitol Hill told Fox News Digital the two sides had “not agreed” on any of the top line items or a one or two year extension of the debt limit as talks continued into Thursday night. According to the source, the two sides could not agree on any components until there was an agreement on defense and non-defense discretionary spending.
A judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit the city of Chicago filed against a northwestern Indiana store that alleged it sold hundreds of guns in straw purchases that ended up in the hands of felons or at crime scenes in the city. The city sued Westforth Sports Inc. of Gary in April 2021, alleging the store repeatedly violated federal gun laws and that store owner Earl Westforth ignored warnings from the U.S.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called on Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan to resign, Tuesday after a video circulated on social media showing Phelan slurring his speech and struggling to stand, with many suggesting he might have been intoxicated. In a statement, Paxton called on Phelan to resign after being in a state of “apparent debilitating intoxication” on the House floor at the Texas Capitol.
Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott is living up to his reputation as a prolific fundraiser. The senator from South Carolina hauled in $2 million in fundraising roughly 24 hours after launching his 2024 presidential campaign, Fox News confirmed on Tuesday evening. On Monday Scott, a rising star in the GOP and the only Black Republican in the Senate, became the latest contender to officially jump into the burgeoning race for his party’s presidential nomination.
A number of major coal operators in the commonwealth of Kentucky made a surprising political move Tuesday, announcing their endorsements of incumbent Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear for re-election over his Republican challenger, state Attorney General Daniel Cameron.
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump are requesting a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland, saying Trump is being treated unfairly. Trump’s lawyers sent a letter to Garland on Tuesday. “We represent Donald J. Trump, the 45′ President of the United States, in the investigation currently being conducted by the Special Counsel’s Office.
A new bill proposed in the Alabama state legislature would require illegal immigrants detained by law enforcement in the state to provide a DNA sample and fingerprints for cataloging in order to prevent criminals from being released to commit more crimes under a different identity. Speaking with Fox News Digital one day after SB 320 passed the Alabama Senate’s Judiciary Committee, Republican state Sen.
Artificial intelligence systems are modeled after the human brain, but a new branch of research at Columbia University in New York is examining whether developments in AI might contain clues as to how living brains work and how their function might be improved.
One Seattle official is refusing demands to resign after a tense committee hearing concerning the nomination of a convicted sex offender to a Seattle homelessness board resulted in her shouting at a board member.
Incumbent Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky kicked off his campaign for re-election with a massive bus tour over the weekend, criss-crossing the state in an effort to consolidate his support as one of the nation’s most popular governors while Republicans hoping to flip the governor’s mansion red looked to unite following a brutal primary race.
President Joe Biden issued a terse, three-sentence statement late Monday evening following the conclusion of his talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on how to raise the debt ceiling, which failed to yield a final agreement but which both sides said was “productive.” “I just concluded a productive meeting with Speaker McCarthy about the need to prevent default and avoid a catastrophe for our economy.
The Biden administration informed lawmakers Monday that it will no longer award a $200 million grant to a Chinese-linked energy technology firm in an unexpected reversal. In a call with congressional staff Monday evening, Department of Energy (DOE) officials said Microvast, a Texas-based maker of technology for electric vehicle batteries, won’t receive the lucrative grant which had been earmarked under the 2021 infrastructure package.
Congressional lawmakers spouted an array of concerns about artificial intelligence after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a Senate subcommittee that he saw problems the technology could create. “The overall risk is allowing China to win the AI race, because obviously, China would use the technology to further their aims of global ambition and to export their model of total techno-totalitarian control, which is nightmarish and would make Orwell blush,” Republican Rep.
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin delivered a commencement speech at George Mason University in which some students protested his appearance after failed attempts ahead of the event to replace him as speaker. When Youngkin walked up to the podium to deliver his remarks on Thursday in front of the university’s graduating class, students largely applauded the governor, although boos could be heard as well.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attempted to defend President Biden’s lack of urgency and the administration’s absence in the high-stake debt ceiling meetings taking place on Capitol Hill. Fox News Channel’s White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Karine Jean-Pierre at a press conference in Hiroshima, Japan what the president has been doing the last several hours since he has yet to be briefed on the debt ceiling meetings that took place back in DC.
EXCLUSIVE: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political team hit back Friday night after Al Sharpton criticized the 2024 presidential hopeful during a eulogy for a man who died in the New York City subway system. New York authorities said Jordan Neely, 30, died on May 1 from compression of the neck after he was placed in a chokehold by Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old Marine veteran, who is charged with one count of second-degree manslaughter.
“This is not going to go the way you think.” Luke Skywalker in Star Wars Episode VIII, The Last Jedi We don’t really know how the next two or three weeks are going to go on the debt ceiling. In fact, it may take longer than two to three weeks.HOUSE DEMOCRATS BEGIN ‘HAIL MARY’ ATTEMPT TO GO AROUND SPEAKER MCCARTHY AND RAISE THE DEBT LIMIT “It will happen before the markets get disrupted,” predicted Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Fox News.
EXCLUSIVE: Nashville musicians are increasingly worried about complications with artificial intelligence’s growing sophistication that could threaten their livelihood, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., warned this week. “We met with the Nashville Technology Council a couple of weeks ago, and we have talked with so many of the musicians.
Florida Rep. Ana Luna filed a resolution on Wednesday evening to expel Rep. Adam Schiff, formerly the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, from Congress alleging that he pushed a false narrative to the American people in the Trump-Russia investigation. “Adam Schiff lied to the American people. He used his position on House Intelligence to push a lie that cost American taxpayers millions of dollars and abused the trust placed in him as Chairman.
A former Google CEO said during a Congressional hearing on Wednesday that artificial intelligence (AI) is at the “center” of the technology competition between the United States and China. Eric Schmidt, who was CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, made the comment during Wednesday’s House hearing focusing on strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “I think the technology competition between China and the U.S.