Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said there is a fight between the Left and the far left in Democratic stronghold cities, pointing to the Washington, D.C., mayoral race as an example. “I think this is something we’ve seen in some one-party jurisdictions of late. So among Democrats, the fight is between the Left […]
District of Columbia Del. Elizabeth Holmes Norton’s retirement from the House kicked off a race for the non-voting seat on Capitol Hill. Democrats Robert White, an at-large councilmember and former mayoral candidate, and Brooke Pinto, a city councilmember, have led the crowded Democratic primary field. Eighty-eight-year-old Holmes Norton, who has represented D.C. since 1991, had faced…
Multiple people were arrested in connection with an alleged plan to target the UFC match with thousands in attendance, including Trump.
Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday stepped into the lair of the witches on ABC's The View, and they attempted to attack him over ICE deportations and so-called racism. Vance joined The View to discuss his new memoir, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.” But the conversation immediately turned to attacks on the Trump Administration. The post WATCH: Vance Fights Off Leftist Hags on The View Accusing Him of Racism and “Erasing Black History”, Defending Criminal Illegal Aliens appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
AI researchers and cybersecurity leaders fear the U.S. government is setting a precedent that may discourage American AI companies from building tools that help defenders identify and fix vulnerabilities.Why it matters: In trying to avert an AI hacking crisis, the Trump administration may end up making U.S. cyber defenses weaker, dozens of prominent security leaders warned.Cybersecurity experts are worried about the long tail this ongoing feud will have on American cyber defenses."They've set a precedent that American models can't do defensive security research," former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos tells Axios.Driving the news: Stamos organized an open letter, signed by nearly 150 security leaders, calling on the Trump administration to reverse its move to restrict access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5.Concerns about Chinese access to Mythos and a call from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reportedly sent the administration into a panic last week after Anthropic publicly released its first Mythos-class model.During the spat, Anthropic brought in a leading zero-day bug hunter — who helped the Defense Department create its bug bounty program and sat on multiple government-led advisory boards — to help assess Amazon's concerns about the security of Fable and Mythos.Now, the administration is casting the security researcher as a "radical Democrat," as my colleagues reported yesterday.Between the lines: The dispute has quickly shifted from a fight over one model to a broader question of whether the government is creating unwritten rules for AI security research.Stamos, who has spoken with the technical staffs involved in the fallout, said the findings Amazon flagged do not appear unique to Anthropic's models.Multiple people familiar with Amazon's concerns said they centered on a jailbreak the company found that allows Fable to write "proofs of concept" — a capability security teams often use to understand and fix vulnerabilities.Katie Moussouris, CEO of Luta Security, said in a detailed blog post yesterday that she saw a copy of Amazon's findings and the issue didn't involve mass exploitation of the model, but rather prompts designed to support defensive security work.Flashback: Before releasing Fable 5, Anthropic said, it worked with both internal teams and outside security researchers to test the model for jailbreaks and other flaws.The company has also argued that "perfect jailbreak resistance is not currently possible for any model provider," so it has focused on making "jailbreaks either narrow ... or very expensive to produce." Threat level: Cyber experts warn that if frontier AI companies fear punishment for models that can identify vulnerabilities, they may now be tempted to strip out capabilities on which defenders already rely.Moussouris noted in an X post that there is no fix that wouldn't render the model less useful for cyber defenders. "No new frontier models can be developed or released if this is the administration's best take," she added. The big picture: Researchers argue the administration's response risks giving adversaries an advantage.Researchers note that Chinese AI developers and government-backed hacking groups are unlikely to abandon similar tools, raising concerns that U.S. defenders could lose access to abilities their adversaries are using."This is closer to China than what I recognize as the United States, and personally I see this as a huge threat to American dynamism," Stamos said.What to watch: The U.S. government is in the process of standing up a vulnerability clearinghouse via the recent AI security executive order that would likely triage reports about jailbreaks, prompt injections and other threats to AI models.But questions linger about how much cybersecurity talent remains in the Trump administration after several White House departures in recent weeks and the sidelining of the nation's top cyber agency.Go deeper: The hidden risk of Trump's Anthropic crackdown
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Vice President JD Vance got in a heated conversation about race on Tuesday with Whoopi Goldberg, longtime co-host of "The View."Vance appeared as a guest on the talk show to discuss his new book "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith." The co-hosts pressed him on multiple topics, including the Epstein files and the Trump administration's immigration policies and detainment of families. Goldberg turned the conversation to the administration's handling of racial discrimination."What did Black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color?" Goldberg asked. "And you know how hard it is, you have family. So when you see the Emmett Till stuff coming down or doing all kinds of removal of information of Black heroes, how does that sit with you?""What exactly are you talking about, Whoopi?" Vance asked.The live audience groaned at Vance's response. Goldberg referred to the Trump administration's anti-DEI stance and efforts to censor and roll back diversity efforts and cultural or historical references to slavery and the Black community's history."It seems that it has been very easy for this administration to remove it and also to denigrate Black folks who have worked their behinds off to get this American dream. How do you — I mean — you know better!" Goldberg said.Vance turned to co-host Sunny Hostin, who called out recent moves by the administration after the vice president called some of the concerns allegations."No, I'm talking about a host of things," Hostin said. "I'm talking about Black history getting erased from public spaces, Black voter districts are being dismantled, Black leaders are being sidelined from our ranks. Where do Americans of color fit in this vision? Because it doesn't seem like we fit.""You say we're anti-minority or anti-Black," Vance said.Goldberg interjected and corrected Vance's comment, clarifying what she said."No, I didn't say that. I asked — see? Don't start any stuff with me," Goldberg said.WHOOPI GOLDBERG: What did Black people do to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color?JD VANCE: What exactly are you talking about?AUDIENCE: *groans* pic.twitter.com/xFozfFCohk— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 16, 2026
President Donald Trump’s influence on Republican voters will be tested again as several key states hold their primaries, including Georgia, a key race in the balance of the Senate. NBC’s Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating Washington, D.C., officials over their method of foreclosing on properties whose homeowners have failed to pay their property taxes. The committee is investigating the city’s practice of selling tax liens to third-party investors, who can charge up to 18% annual interest on the property tax debt […]