#DeSantis launches 2024 bid against Trump

#DeSantis launches 2024 bid against Trump

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is running for president. Hours after he filed paperwork declaring his candidacy, DeSantis made his intentions clear by launching an official campaign video on Twitter ahead of a live chat with the social media platform’s owner Elon Musk.  The filing — and DeSantis’s video announcement — confirmed months, if not years,…

Read More
#GOP voters flocking to Trump aren’t hungering for good vibes

#GOP voters flocking to Trump aren’t hungering for good vibes

Republican lawmakers who are trying to turn the page on former President Trump say voters are turned off by what they describe as his negativity, but polls show Republican primary voters aren’t all that hungry for good vibes.  Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) launched his campaign for president this week declaring Americans “hunger for something positive” and voters are…

Read More
#Trump lawyers request meeting with Merrick Garland over DOJ probe

#Trump lawyers request meeting with Merrick Garland over DOJ probe

Former President Trump’s attorneys have requested a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland as the Justice Department’s special counsel investigates the former president, according to a letter Tuesday. “Unlike President Biden, his son Hunter, and the Biden family, President Trump is being treated unfairly,” attorneys John Rowley and James Trusty wrote to Garland, according to…

Read More
#Rick Scott issues travel advisory for ‘socialists,’ warning Florida is ‘openly hostile’ to them

#Rick Scott issues travel advisory for ‘socialists,’ warning Florida is ‘openly hostile’ to them

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) issued what he described as a “formal travel advisory for socialists visiting Florida,” on Tuesday, warning that the state was “openly hostile” to socialists and their enablers. “The state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by Socialists and others who work in the Biden Administration,”…

Read More
#Generative AI tools like ChatGPT could test bounds of tech liability shield

#Generative AI tools like ChatGPT could test bounds of tech liability shield

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are testing a provision that protected the tech industry for decades from lawsuits over third-party content. As applications like ChatGPT and rival products rise in popularity, experts and stakeholders are split on whether and how Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act — a liability shield for internet companies over third-party…

Read More
#Jeffries suggests he’d support spending freeze

#Jeffries suggests he’d support spending freeze

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that he’s open to the idea of freezing spending at current levels in order to secure a debt ceiling deal — an idea supported by President Biden but is sure to infuriate liberals in Jeffries’ own Democratic Caucus. “As part of the effort to find common ground we’re…

Read More