The Democratic Party is currently staking its political future on abortion, and Bush has positioned herself as an indispensable leader on the issue. So, why is she facing a highly competitive primary (set for August 6) from Bell, a county prosecutor whose campaign is being funded, in part, by anti-abortion Republican donors? In October, Bush emerged as one of the first Congress members to demand a ceasefire: “To my colleagues in Congress, I urge you to choose humanity. Choose peace. Choose love. Choose courage,” she said in remarks introducing her resolution on October 19, at the onset of this iteration of Israel’s war on Gaza that’s since killed 40,000 Palestinians, including over 16,000 children. Soon after, despite assuring Bush last June that he wouldn’t run for her seat, Bell pivoted from running for Senate against Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) to primarying Bush. Bell claimed at the time that he made this choice after “[hearing] … from Democrats: Yes, we need you in Washington, but St. Louis needs you in the House of Representatives.” He’s since quietly taken money from Hawley’s donors and those of Sen. Eric Schmitt (R), who formerly served as state attorney general and ensured Missouri’s total abortion ban took effect, HuffPost reported in May.

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A nine-year old girl wounded in a stabbing attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class in northwestern England died Tuesday, bringing the death toll to three, as police questioned a 17-year-old suspect arrested minutes after the rampage. Merseyside Police said the other fatalities were girls aged six and seven. Eight children and two adults remain hospitalized after the attack in Southport. Both adults and five of the children are in critical condition.

Her record on this issue may surprise some of her critics.

He was the only person convicted in connection with the 1968 atrocity, in which American troops killed hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians.

An excerpt from the book ‘Nightmare Scenario’ details how Trump's illness was far more severe than the White House acknowledged. Advisers thought it would alter his pandemic response. They were wrong.

Ministers and members of Knesset slam detention of nine soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian prisoner.

An increasing number of Silicon Valley investors and Wall Street analysts are starting to ring the alarm bells over the countless billions of dollars being invested in AI, an overconfidence they warn could result in a massive bubble. As the Washington Post reports, investment bankers are singing a dramatically different tune than last year, a period marked by tremendous hype surrounding AI, and are instead starting to become wary of Big Tech's ability to actually turn the tech into a profitable business. "Despite its expensive price tag, the technology is nowhere near where it needs to be in order to be useful," Goldman Sach's most senior stock analyst Jim Covello wrote in a report last month. "Overbuilding things the world doesn’t have use for, or is not ready for, typically ends badly." Earlier this week, Google released its second-quarter earnings, failing to impress investors with razor-thin profit margins and surging costs related to training AI models. Capital expenditures are surging far past what the company had been spending previously, as the Wall Street Journal reports, with this year's total spend expected to surpass $49 billion, or 84 percent higher than what the company averaged over the last five years. However, Google CEO Sundar Pichai is holding onto his guns, arguing that the "risk of underinvesting is dramatically greater than the risk of overinvesting for us here." "Not investing to be at the front here has much more significant downsides," Pichai told investors on Tuesday. Sure, the tech giant has a lot of cash to burn — but seeing any returns on those $49 billion will likely prove far more difficult. With the AI market clogged with products that are still mostly free, the tech costs a lot to run but isn't bringing in much cash. As such, Google is facing similar challenges to Microsoft and Meta, which are committing vast swathes of their available resources to AI without a clear monetization plan. According to Barclays analysts, investors are expected to pour $60 billion a year into developing AI models, enough to develop 12,000 products roughly the size of OpenAI's ChatGPT. But whether the world needs 12,000 ChatGPT chatbots remains dubious at best. "We do expect lots of new services... but probably not 12,000 of them," Barclays analysts wrote in a note, as quoted by the WaPo. "We sense that Wall Street is growing increasingly skeptical." For quite some time now, experts have voiced concerns over a growing AI bubble, comparing it to the dot-com crisis of the late 1990s. "Capital continues to pour into the AI sector with very little attention being paid to company fundamentals," tech stock analyst Richard Windsor wrote in a March research note, "in a sure sign that when the music stops there will not be many chairs available." "This is precisely what happened with the Internet in 1999, autonomous driving in 2017, and now generative AI in 2024," he added. In a blog post last month, Sequoia Capital partner David Cahn argued that the entire tech industry would have to generate $600 billion a year to remain viable. While "speculative frenzies are part of technology, and so they are not something to be afraid of," he argued, AI tech is anything but a "get rich quick" scheme. That doesn't mean he's entirely pessimistic, though. "In reality, the road ahead is going to be a long one," Cahn wrote. "It will have ups and downs. But almost certainly it will be worthwhile." But whether AI chatbots like ChatGPT will ever turn into cash-printing machines to recoup these enormous investments remains to be seen. As of right now, the cost of training these AI models and keeping them running is massively outpacing revenue. How much time does the tech industry have to stop bleeding cash as it pours money into the tech? If recent reports are to be believed, OpenAI may lose $5 billion this year and run out of cash in the next 12 months, barring further cash injections — an early warning sign that smaller companies already struggling to compete with Big Tech may be snuffed out before too long.

A blog about UK defence issues which tries to put a positive and fresh look at many current matters impacting UK and wider defence.

“Why are people always pointing the finger at furries? Are we any more or less sexual than other groups? I don’t believe so,” By Nicky Woolf?!?

It was not clear what the former president meant by his remarks.

“Look, I love my wife so much. I love her because she’s who she is,” he told host Megyn Kelly on her show Friday. “Obviously, she’s not a white person, and we’ve been accused, attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha.”

J.D. Vance claims he’s trying to cut back and could quit anytime he wanted to.

So far, J.D. Vance is having one of the roughest Vice President launches of all time. Less than a week after Trump picked him as his running mate, the internet exploded with rumors that Vance likes to fuck couches. Now, after the initial novelty of this accusation has worn off, people have moved on to another unfortunate insinuation: Vance likes to watch dolphin porn. The rumor started because of a RawStory article involving a tweet Vance posted in February, it was headlined “J.D. Vance ridiculed for accidentally revealing explicit dolphin-based search history.” For whatever reason, Vance had shared a screenshot of a video that purported to show a woman having sex with a dolphin: “Maybe the internet was a mistake,” the Ohio Senator said. Web users were quick to claim that Vance had intentionally searched for the video, due to the words “dolphin” and “woman” being highlighted. It’s not clear whether Vance did, indeed, search for dolphin porn, though it is true that if you enter keywords in X’s search box, results will come back with those words highlighted. Since social media users are like piranhas who rabidly search for their next celeb-puncturing joke, the news cycle has swiftly pivoted from Vance’s supposed love of upholstery to his supposed love of watching women bang dolphins.

On Thursday, researchers from security firm Binarly revealed that Secure Boot is completely compromised on more than 200 device models sold by Acer, Dell, Gigabyte, Intel, and Supermicro. The cause: a cryptographic key underpinning Secure Boot on those models that was compromised in 2022. Now that the leak has come to light, security experts say it effectively torpedoes the security assurances offered by Secure Boot. The researchers soon discovered that the compromise of the key was just the beginning of a much bigger supply-chain breakdown that raises serious doubts about the integrity of Secure Boot on more than 300 additional device models from virtually all major device manufacturers. As is the case with the platform key compromised in the 2022 GitHub leak, an additional 21 platform keys contain the strings “DO NOT SHIP” or “DO NOT TRUST.”

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The rumors were easy to believe, especially when the potential VP has such terrible ideas about sex. What’s more bizarre is that the couch joke was only one of the three most off-putting things Vance has been known for during his first 10 days as a VP nominee, and the only one that wasn’t verified as true. After Trump announced his pick on July 15, a clip from his 2021 appearance on Tucker Carlson went viral in which he complained that the US was “effectively run” by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” naming Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children, and how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it,” he said, discounting Harris’s two step-children whom she co-parents with husband Doug Emhoff. Then, Vance tried and failed to get laughs at a Trump rally by making an awkward joke about drinking diet Mountain Dew and how “[Democrats] are going to call that racist.” Vance already held extreme views on sex and gender; he opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest and has compared it to slavery. He has voted against a bill ensuring access to IVF and suggested a ban on porn. He called universal child care “a class war against normal people.” He opposes legislating codifying the right to gay marriage and suggested that people in “violent” marriages shouldn’t get divorced. He is also among the nebulous group of young intellectual conservatives backed by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel loosely called the “New Right,” whose main project seems to be making techno-fascist and incel-adjacent ideas seem cool and edgy. On X, where Vance has spent a great deal of time, he at one point followed several white nationalist accounts, many of whom glorify bodybuilding and fascism while promoting the Great Replacement theory. He is, in other words, exactly the type of guy you could imagine claiming that couch sex robots were the beginning of a glorious future without women.

As daily temperatures hit record highs across much of the South, a federal judge has taken an unusual step, challenging the treatment of mostly Black incarcerated workers in the fields. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson issued a temporary restraining order earlier this month. It said correctional officials have shown “deliberate indifference” to the risks of injuries or death of incarcerated workers in sending them to the fields even when they had serious health issues, including some with heart disease, high blood pressure and histories of pre-diabetes or AIDS. He ordered the state to quickly fix what he called “glaring deficiencies” in its heat-related policies. As part of a two-year investigation, The Associated Press found some prison farms nationwide have in recent years supplied millions of dollars worth of crops — including soy, corn and wheat — to massive global companies like Tyson Foods, Louis Dreyfus, Consolidated Grain and Barge and Riceland Foods. Agricultural goods produced through prison labor end up in the supply chains of popular brands like Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, Ballpark hot dogs and Pepsi, reporters found. Though many companies did not respond to questions about their links to prison farms, others, including Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland, have said they were investigating AP’s findings and had either cut ties or were considering next steps.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is a leading candidate to be Kamala Harris’s running mate. Selecting him would fracture the party.

U.S. sanctions have surged over the last two decades and are now in effect on almost one-third of all nations.