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AI capabilities are advancing faster than many organizations are ready to operationalize and monetize them. While soaring AI investment reflects…
DHS wants to build AI smart glasses using facial recognition tech ICE ‘could be’ using on Americans
ICE agents in at least six states have been spotted wearing Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses during enforcement operations since the…
Gas prices surged past $4, and Americans are driving less, canceling vacations, and budgeting more
The war in Iran has done what once seemed impossible: forced Americans to rethink the idea of driving everywhere. The…
Next generation of senators inherits a national debt time bomb: Social Security’s insolvency
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) has a ticker on its website: The Retirement Trust Fund Countdown. At…
A $400 million ballroom was just the beginning. Now, Trump plans to spend $174 million more
Last October, the scene of demolition crews using a backhoe to tear down White House’s East Wing was so dramatic…
A $10 billion ‘slush fund’ to pay TSA agents: Trump’s latest unilateral loophole, explained
There’s an idea about how political power is supposed to work in the U.S. To guard against anything resembling monarchy,…
The U.S.’s eye-watering debt burden poses an “existential threat to the future of our nation,” the chairman of the House…
Federal health care spending has reached a historic turning point. It is now the single largest category of federal expenditures,…
‘Nothing short of self-sabotage’: Watchdog warns about national debt setting new record in just 4 years
The United States is on a collision course with its own history, and about to break fiscal records in the…
As the United States’ gross national debt recently surged past the $38 trillion mark, commentators hastened to ring alarm bells.…












