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Scoop: SpaceXAI launches new model, Grok 4.5
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI is launching Grok 4.5, its smartest model yet, and its first release since going public and acquiring the AI coding startup Cursor.Why...
Democratic Socialists Have Big Plans for 2028
The Democratic Socialists of America have notched some impressive primary wins over the past couple of weeks. In New York, two DSA members beat Democratic...
Exclusive: Republicans juice spending to protect Senate "red wall"
Republicans are dramatically boosting campaign spending on Senate races in red states that, until recently, looked safely out of Democrats' reach in the November midterms.Why...
Trump says Iran ceasefire "over" and talks a "waste of time"
President Trump on Wednesday said he considers the ceasefire with Iran over and that while negotiations can continue, they are a "waste of time." Why...
How a top State Dept. official "went rogue" over Machado's Venezuela plans
The Trump administration's official position about Venezuela's exiled opposition leader is simple: Don't help Maria Corina Machado gain entry to her home country. But Deputy...
The Kamala Harris lesson Maine Democrats don’t want to repeat
BRUNSWICK, Maine — The effort to push Graham Platner out of the Maine Senate race has some Democrats flashing back to 2024 — and making...
Most Senate Dems say Platner should drop out. Here's where they all stand.
More than half of the Senate Democratic caucus has called for Graham Platner to drop out of the Maine Senate race, less than 24 hours...
Bernie Sanders says he told Graham Platner to ‘step aside’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he told Maine Democrat Graham Platner to end his Senate bid on Tuesday, in the wake of a POLITICO report...
Trump's Anti-Communist Manifesto
"As we approach this magnificent anniversary, we see our American identity under a renewed attack, a generation after we fought and won the Cold War...
Trump signals openness to selling Turkey F-35 fighter jets
President Trump signaled at the top of his meeting with Turkish President Erdoğan in Ankara on Tuesday that he's leaning towards allowing the country back...
Democratic socialists give new life to Medicare for All
Democratic socialist and progressives' success in this year's primaries is evidence of new enthusiasm for Medicare for All plans that many centrists have long dismissed...
Startup bets that investors want to trade compute like a commodity
Ornn, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup, raised a $33 million seed round to build a marketplace for trading the computing power that underpins today's AI boom,...