Plus, Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) answers our questions about the Delaney Hall protests.
When Ram Shankar Siva Kumar launched Microsoft’s AI red team in 2019, the discipline barely existed.
“The running joke used to be that people who used to work in AI red teaming, you can round them up in a 14-foot catamaran,” he tells CSO.
At the time, Microsoft’s approach looked familiar to anyone in cybersecurity: Attack machine learning systems the same way security teams attacked everything…
After weeks of dithering back and forth, the Trump administration has finally moved forward with an executive order on federal oversight of new AI systems. I’d applaud if the order was worth the paper it’s written on, but it’s not.
The context for this long overdue move was Anthropic’s unveiling of its AI system called Mythos, which apparently has an unprecedented ability to find and exploit…
Missouri state Rep. Dave Griffith has spent the last five years digging into research on how psychedelic-assisted therapy has helped veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. This May marked the end of his final legislative session in the House, and he pushed one last time for legislation to allow clinical trials of psychedelic-assisted […]
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that calls for the creation of a voluntary framework in which AI companies would provide the government with access to new models for a 30-day review period before their release. The order signaled a move toward more oversight of AI, in an administration that has generally taken […]
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Last week, Donald Trump’s rolling assault on the physical landscape of the capital set its sights on yet another historical landmark. The fountain in the World War II memorial, Trump
declared, looked “in pretty bad shape on the bottom,” in need of a makeover “duplicating” that for the nearby Reflecting Pool, though “maybe with a slightly different color … a lighter blue.”
But as we head toward…
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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s transgender military ban in a 2–1 decision, stating that the decision was motivated by animus.
The “Commander-in-Chief declared transgender people as categorically unfit for military service explicitly because of their gender identity. To add insult, the President labeled transgender persons as…
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Earlier this spring, I visited the University of Pennsylvania’s College Green. I saw smiling students innocently chatting with each other as they hurriedly walked between classes. I eavesdropped on doe-eyed high schoolers on their college tours being lectured by undergrads on the grandeur of Penn. And, upon gazing up at the stately Ben Franklin statue that sits in front of College Hall, I…
Federal officials are investigating what led to the deadly bus crash on Interstate 95 in Stafford County, Virginia, Friday morning that left five people dead and dozens more injured. On Friday evening, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said investigators are looking into the bus driver's qualifications and license.
Deadly Virginia bus crash
The crash happened just after 2:30 a.m. Friday,…
WASHINGTON: A recent report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says the United States lost or damaged 42 military aircraft during Operation Epic Fury, the 40-day military campaign against Iran that began on February 28, 2026.
The report, released last week and circulated by several US media outlets on Friday, is believed to be the most detailed public accounting so far of US aircraft…
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Just a few weeks into Trump’s return to the White House, thousands of people made their way to a Manhattan park close to NYU Langone Hospital. The rally, one of the earlier mass protests against the president’s second administration, was in defense of transgender rights. NYU Langone had begun quietly canceling appointments for gender-affirming care for minors, seemingly in response to a cruel…
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Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will require U.S. banks to take a closer look at their clients’ citizenship details.
The Tuesday order, titled “Restoring Integrity To America’s Financial System,” directs bank regulators and the government agencies to look into the legal status of people applying for credit cards, loans, or opening bank accounts.
“My Administration will not…
Trump’s edict also orders the U.S. Postal Service to promulgate a rule that would design special envelopes for mail-in ballots, including a unique barcode. States, which the U.S. Constitution delegates authority over election administration to, have argued the order would restrict mail-in voting.
Allowing gas plants, factories, and data centers to move ahead of regulators would ramp up the pressure for permit approval.
Experts say the new EO’s requirements could add time and friction to the acquisition process at a time when the administration is trying to reduce complexity.
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The Trump administration has canceled federal funding for test strips used to find out if a substance contains fentanyl.
CBS News, citing a letter from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, reports that government funds can’t be used to purchase the strips anymore, increasing the risk of drug overdoses. The strips also test for other dangerous substances such as xylazine…
A Department of Defense legislative proposal sent to Capitol Hill this month pegs the cost of renaming DOD to the "Department of War" at roughly $50 million to date, with the figure expected to climb. The proposal would trigger about 7,600 conforming changes to federal law, according to Stars and Stripes.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated in January 2026 that statutory implementation…
A federal judge has ordered Oregon to house transgender women prisoners based on gender identity, issuing a ruling that conflicts with President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring that inmates be housed based on sex assigned at birth.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke issued a preliminary injunction blocking the placement of transgender women in men’s facilities and ordered the…
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The Department of Justice announced Friday that it will resurrect federal firing squads as part of an effort to implement Donald Trump’s day-one executive order to revamp capital punishment.
Trump’s order, signed in January 2025, demanded the attorney general pursue the death penalty on “all crimes of a severity demanding its use,” including murder of a law enforcement officer or any capital…
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President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban immigrants from claiming asylum at the southern border was blocked in a federal court Friday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 2–1 that Trump could not deport immigrants “under summary removal procedures of his own making” or suspend their rights to apply for asylum, even if they cross the border illegally.
Cornelia Pillard, an…
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Lead Democrats on the House Oversight and Administration Committees are urging the U.S. Postal Service to refuse President Donald Trump’s executive order to illegally limit mail-in voting.
In a letter Friday to the U.S. Postal Service’s Board of Governors, shared exclusively with _The New Republic_ , Ranking Members Robert Garcia and Joe Morelle argued the agency should refuse to implement an…
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I. That Antichrist Nonsense, Explained
Twenty-second-century historians tracing the ascent of American technocracy from quirky garage tinkerers grooving on the Whole Earth Catalog to sinister oligarchs enacting Philip K. Dick prophesies may locate its apogee in four lectures that Peter Thiel (net worth: $29 billion), chairman of the data-mining giant Palantir and a co-founder of PayPal,…
Cannabis rescheduling may be imminent, with reports pointing to a possible announcement as soon as tomorrow, a development that could carry wide implications for law, medicine, religious use, and federal regulatory frameworks.
Continue reading Cannabis Rescheduling Decision Appears Imminent, According to Reports at The Wild Hunt.
The City of Seattle is rolling out a new extension of the eastbound red bus lane along one mile of Denny Way to help buses move more reliably through one of the city’s busiest and most congested corridors. Seattle Mayor Katie B. Wilson announced today the launch of the Denny Way Bus Reliability Project to […]
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In September 2024, the Teamsters, whose strutting fool of a president, Sean O’Brien, had been gifted the month before with a prime time slot at the Republican National Convention, took a dive on endorsing a presidential candidate. It was the first time the Teamsters had not endorsed since 1992, and a thoroughly irrational choice, given that Donald Trump opposed labor rights during his first term…
Doug Fiefia, a Republican, has a background in technology and is running for the state senate with a pledge to tackle AI.
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Caitlyn Jenner, perhaps the most prominent transgender Trump supporter around, made a public appeal to President Trump, begging him to reconsider his executive order requiring passports to only offer options for male and female—and match the gender the passport holder was assigned at birth.
Jenner lamented her status earlier this month on the Tomi Lahren is Fearless podcast.
“I love President…
Advocates are alarmed by attempts to exclude exhibits on transgender women from the planned Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. Now, the Democratic Women’s Caucus is urging Congress to reverse course, warning that President Donald Trump’s anti-woman policies could jeopardize the entire project.
The Democratic Women’s Caucus sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson arguing that…
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The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution explicitly protects freedom of religion, preventing the government from prohibiting the free exercise of one’s own beliefs, and forbidding the government from establishing an official religion or from favoring one over another.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration flagrantly defied it.
On Easter Sunday, Brooke Rollins, the secretary of the…
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“There’s seemingly this mentality building,” Carolyn Schenck, a former national fraud counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, tells _The Wall Street Journal’_ s Richard Rubin. The mentality, Shenck says, is “the IRS isn’t going to catch me.” It isn’t that people are getting more corrupt. It’s that the president of the United States is inviting them not to pay.
I know that sounds harsh, but…
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