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Fauci’s Return to Capitol Hill
Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The Atlantic is a partnership between NewsHour Productions, WETA, and The Atlantic airing every Friday on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings, watch full episodes here, or listen to the weekly podcast here. Anthony Fauci returned to Capitol Hill this week, where he faced attacks from Republican lawmakers during…
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Tillis vows to block Blanche after Trump resurrects ‘payout for punks’
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has rung a potential death knell for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Senate confirmation. Tillis, in post on X Saturday morning, said that he won’t vote to confirm Blanche as attorney general after President Donald Trump wrote a Truth Social rant declaring his controversial anti-weaponization fund wasn’t dead. “Despite comments as…
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France humiliated itself at the UN when it compared the US to North Korea . It’s time Trump gives Turtle Bay the punishment it deserves
The folly of the United Nations was on full display this week. France committed a major faux pas: Its embassy posted on X that “the US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated.” The French went on to say “the world…
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Columbia Economist Baffled as to Why the Masses Aren’t Rising Up Against Elon Musk
As unpopular as SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become in the popular eye, some say the vitriol doesn’t go nearly far enough. In an episode of his podcast Ones and Tooze, Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze picked apart the increasingly expensive AI arms race and its consequences for humanity. Among Tooze’s observations:…
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Impending closure of Rose Bowl pools for Olympics preparation has the aqua-set in a funk
When they landed the diving competition for the 2028 Summer Olympics last year, operators of the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena trumpeted it as a gold-medal achievement. But swimmers and others who use the facility are now learning that pre-Olympic construction probably will force them out of three immensely popular swimming pools for more…
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DOJ silent on Epstein files deadline as state prosecutor ponders lawsuit: report
The Department of Justice won’t say if met a deadline to hand over records related to a property owned by the notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Guardian reported Saturday. The Justice department did not confirm whether it met New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s July 31 deadline to share information about abuse at…
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Another bot from a top AI company escapes and hacks multiple firms
Another leading artificial intelligence company unveiled details of its cutting-edge bot apparently going rogue. On Thursday, Anthropic said an internal investigation found that its Claude AI models gained unauthorized internet access and hacked three companies during testing. Just last week, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced that bots it was developing had escaped what was supposed to be…
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‘We’re in serious trouble’: Senior GOP staff scared by ‘rabid’ young Republican ‘idiots’
Concern is mounting among high-ranking Republicans that the next generation of conservatives consists primarily of “rabid” “idiot” Nazis, according to a new report. GOP veterans have begun to fret that the pipeline feeding young conservative “talent” into government job has collapsed under the pressure of a Trumpist ideology that prefers sycophancy to smarts, Politico reported…
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Chaos as teen shooter opens fire in crowded Maryland mall, injuring 13-year-old boy, video shows
Harrowing footage captured the moment an armed teenager jumped up and opened fire on a crowded Maryland mall on Friday, injuring a 13-year-old boy and sending shoppers scrambling. Bullets flew inside Westfield Wheaton mall in the Old Line State at around 6 p.m. when an unidentified 17-year-old boy pulled out a handgun and fired four…
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UC San Diego is cutting ties with the Border Patrol after student outcry
A California public university cut ties with a federal program that paid for campus police to aid Border Patrol, within weeks of CalMatters revealing the decade-long partnership. Operation Stonegarden, a grant managed by the Department of Homeland Security, allocates an average of $11 million each year for California law enforcement agencies to work with U.S.…