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California’s vote count was painfully slow. Can this proposal speed it up for November?
In the wake of a painfully slow June vote count in California that led to unfounded claims of election irregularities, a voter watchdog group Monday recommended the state and counties carry out a number of voting reforms that could speed up tabulations. Not all of them, however, are likely to happen before November. The California…
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‘We’re going to have chaos’: Expert sounds the alarm after Trump DOJ’s election appeal
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justicemay be angling for a quiet victory at the Supreme Court with its latest bombshell move, according to one expert. Elie Honig, CNN’s senior legal analyst and a former federal prosecutor, sounded the alarm on Monday’s broadcast of “The Lead” after the DOJ appealed a lower court order blocking the…
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Maniac shot by cops after allegedly gunning down sister and mom was ‘never normal,’ neighbor says
A Queens man suspected of gunning down his sister and motherand blowing up their Far Rockaway home was a ticking time bomb — and long had “something crazy about him,” neighbors told The Post. Kegan Thomas, 33, was shot and wounded by NYPD cops during the wild confrontation with New York’s Finest around noon on…
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Suspicion Grows About OpenAI’s Tale About Its Rogue Hacker AI
Last week, ChatGPT maker OpenAI issued what seems like a frightening memo about an “unprecedented cyber incident” involving cutting-edge AI models breaking loose and hacking another company. As the AI lab tells it, a group of next-generation AI models — including one that hasn’t even been disclosed to the public yet — had busted out…
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Stocks drift on Wall Street and crude oil prices drop as Mideast tensions cool
Stocks on Wall Street drifted to a mixed close Monday as oil prices fell after the U.S. and Iran paused their attacks while work resumed on restarting negotiations to end the war. The Standard & Poor’s 500 rose less than 0.1% after spending much of the day bouncing between small gains and losses. The benchmark…
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Privacy nightmare unleashed as Trump’s ICE finds ‘unregulated’ way to track people: report
A new investigation by 404 Media revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a surprising roadmap to tracking you: Your credit cards. According to the report, when someone opens a new credit card, credit bureaus Equifax and Experian feed their header data to Thomson Reuters, which folds it into CLEAR, an investigative data tool the…
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How Savannah Guthrie’s ‘shifted’ wording in latest plea for missing mom hints at new clues
Savannah Guthrie’s latest plea for her missing mom, Nancy Guthrie, contains subtle wording changes that could point to new developments in the case, according to multiple experts. “Most folks will read it as another plea from a grieving daughter. It is that, first and last. But something in the wording shifted, and it is worth…
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Betye Saar, influential assemblage artist who ‘liberated’ Aunt Jemima, dies at 99
Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-à-brac — Sambo dolls, ceramic mammies and crude renderings of pickaninnies — into potent works of assemblage that mined the searing history of race in the United States, and whose works influenced generations of artists, has died. She was 99. Saar died in her…
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Mitch McConnell’s latest proof-of-life picture sparks internet firestorm
Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) office released another photo of the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican with his wife, Elaine Chao, along with a statement explaining his absence from the Fancy Farm political picnic. McConnell has not appeared publicly since his June 14 hospitalization and claimed he is undergoing “intense physical therapy” on doctor’s orders. His office released…
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The Strokes are getting (way) weirder with age
Twenty-five years after “Is This It,” the Strokes are as big as they’ve ever been — and not just among old heads eager to relive the wasted glamour of the early-2000s garage rock revival. Go to a Strokes gig these days — they’re playing arenas and headlining festivals like next month’s Just Like Heaven in…