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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in this file photo. In a letter to Mr. Mayorkas, several Republican senators said DHS had yet to turn in “all records related" to the since-suspended disinformation board as he had promised during his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee earlier this month. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File) **FILE**

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ pick for his disinformation chief said the department couldn’t even settle on a good definition of “disinformation.”

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China using AI to create troll armies. A recent analysis by Taiwan AI Labs found the "involvement of 9,080 troll accounts" involved in debates on social media among U.S. lawmakers, technology experts and digital communities over the potential ban by the United States government of the China-based TikTok platform. File photo credit: Pixels Hunter via Shutterstock.

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Much of the American tech industry is lining up with the federal government to develop a comprehensive U.S. response to China’s military-civil fusion, a policy that has forced cooperation between businesses and the communist government in Beijing.

China using AI to create troll armies. A recent analysis by Taiwan AI Labs found the "involvement of 9,080 troll accounts" involved in debates on social media among U.S. lawmakers, technology experts and digital communities over the potential ban by the United States government of the China-based TikTok platform. File photo credit: Pixels Hunter via Shutterstock.

Tech leaders pledge allegiance to America in fight with China: ‘Silicon Valley’s neutrality is over’

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Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing on Capitol Hill, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) **FILE**

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Mojtaba, son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Iran, on May 31, 2019. Ebrahim Raisi was seen as a prime candidate to succeed the 85-year-old supreme leader. His death on Sunday, May 19, 2024 in a helicopter crash makes it more likely that the job could eventually go to Khamenei's son. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Power struggle: Iranian president’s death to spark internal political battle in Tehran

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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry addresses members of the House and Senate on opening day of a legislative special session focusing on crime, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in the House Chamber at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP) ** FILE **

Louisiana ready to ban ranked-choice voting

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Michael Cohen leaves his apartment building on his way to Manhattan criminal court in New York, Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Michael Cohen admits stealing $30K from Trump Organization

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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry addresses members of the House and Senate on opening day of a legislative special session focusing on crime, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in the House Chamber at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP) ** FILE **

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Michael Cohen leaves his apartment building on his way to Manhattan criminal court in New York, Monday, May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Michael Cohen admits stealing $30K from Trump Organization

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Students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus near the school's iconic tower, Sept. 27, 2012, in Austin, Texas. A conservative quest to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is gaining momentum in state capitals and college governing boards, with officials in about one-third of the states now taking some sort of action against it. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

DEI goes on defense as universities shutter diversity offices, ban ‘poisonous ideology’

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, May 1, 2024, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

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Scarlett Johansson poses for photographers at the photo call for the film "Asteroid City" at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 24, 2023. OpenAI plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices after some drew similarities to Johansson, who famously portrayed a fictional AI assistant in the (perhaps no longer so futuristic) film “Her.” (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

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Lab staff prepare small petri dishes, each holding several 1-7 day old embryos, for cells to be extracted from each embryo to test for viability at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Houston. Women over 35 and those facing serious diseases like cancer, lupus and sickle cell are among the most likely to turn to IVF to build the families they desperately want. But in Alabama, they are among those whose dreams are in limbo after three of the state's largest clinics paused IVF services. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

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Washington Commanders' Dan Snyder poses for photos during an event to unveil the NFL football team's new identity, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, in Landover, Md. Women are reshaping America's most popular sport, which has made major strides in gender equity while also showing — with Washington's toxic workplace culture that led to owner Dan Snyder's ouster and Cleveland's signing of quarterback Deshaun Watson amid sexual assault allegations as two examples — that more work needs to be done.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Dan Snyder upset after funding movie that negatively portrays Donald Trump: Report

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An attendee stands with their back to President Joe Biden as Biden speaks to graduating students at the Morehouse College commencement Sunday, May 19, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Several students at Black college turn their backs on Biden at grad ceremony

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In this photo provided by Fars News Agency, mourners try to touch the coffins of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, top, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, left, and Raisi's chief bodyguard Gen. Mehdi Mousavi, who were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday in a mountainous region of the country's northwest, during a funeral ceremony at the city of Tabriz, Iran, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Mourners in black began gathering Tuesday for days of funerals and processions for Iran's late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash, a government-led series of ceremonies aimed at both honoring the dead and projecting strength in an unsettled Middle East. (Ata Dadashi, Fars News Agency via AP)

Death of Iran’s president offers hope and demands action

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A portrait of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is placed at a makeshift memorial at the Iranian Embassy in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 20, 2024. Raisi, a hard-line protege of the country's supreme leader who helped oversee the mass executions of thousands in 1988 and later led the country as it enriched uranium near weapons-grade levels, launched a major attack on Israel and experienced mass protests, has died Sunday, May 19. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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An advertisement for Bitcoin cryptocurrency is displayed on a street in Hong Kong, on Feb. 17, 2022. The European Union's sweeping set of beefed-up cryptocurrency rules got final approval from member states on Tuesday, giving the bloc a global lead in regulating the freewheeling sector. The European Council adopted the package of rules, known as Markets in Crypto Assets, or MiCA, in the final step in the 27-nation bloc's legislative process. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Bringing clarity to cryptocurrency

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, May 1, 2024, in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

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Mojtaba, son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Iran, on May 31, 2019. Ebrahim Raisi was seen as a prime candidate to succeed the 85-year-old supreme leader. His death on Sunday, May 19, 2024 in a helicopter crash makes it more likely that the job could eventually go to Khamenei's son. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Power struggle: Iranian president’s death to spark internal political battle in Tehran

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A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, May 18, 2023. Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law. A measure lawmakers sent to the governor, Friday, March 1, 2024, would reinstate criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of some drugs. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP) ** FILE **

Mexican cartels have foothold in every U.S. state, DEA says

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in this file photo. In a letter to Mr. Mayorkas, several Republican senators said DHS had yet to turn in “all records related" to the since-suspended disinformation board as he had promised during his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee earlier this month. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File) **FILE**

Former DHS disinfo chief says department can’t even agree on definition of disinformation

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Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing on Capitol Hill, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) **FILE**

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Federal judge rules against Biden’s expansion of gun background checks

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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in this file photo. In a letter to Mr. Mayorkas, several Republican senators said DHS had yet to turn in “all records related" to the since-suspended disinformation board as he had promised during his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee earlier this month. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File) **FILE**

Former DHS disinfo chief says department can’t even agree on definition of disinformation

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Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies budget hearing on Capitol Hill, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) **FILE**

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The United States Steel Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant in Clairton, Pa., is shown on Feb. 26, 2024. President Biden and Donald Trump agree on essentially nothing, from taxes and climate change to immigration and regulation. Yet on trade policy, the two presumptive presidential nominees have embraced surprisingly similar approaches. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Trump or Biden? Either way, U.S. seems poised to preserve heavy tariffs on imports

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In this combination photo, President Joe Biden speaks May 2, 2024, in Wilmington, N.C., left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, May 1, 2024, in Waukesha, Wis. President Joe Biden says he won’t participate in the campaign debates sponsored by a nonpartisan commission, instead challenging Republican Donald Trump to a pair of debates. Biden said Wednesday that Trump lost two debates to him in 2020 and since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate. Biden proposes debating Trump twice. (AP Photo)

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White House employees who campaign on government time can now face discipline

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Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state’s fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Mayes posted the news regarding the Trump-aligned lawyer on her X account late Friday, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

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Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., speaks during a hearing at the Capitol in Washington on July 18, 2023. China on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, sanctioned Mike Gallagher, a former Republican member of Congress from Wisconsin who has shown support for Taiwan. Gallagher will be banned from entering China, any assets he holds in the country will be frozen and he will be barred from various exchanges with Chinese organizations and individuals, the country's Foreign Ministry announced. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus near the school's iconic tower, Sept. 27, 2012, in Austin, Texas. A conservative quest to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is gaining momentum in state capitals and college governing boards, with officials in about one-third of the states now taking some sort of action against it. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media after attending the day's proceedings at his hush money trial, in New York, Monday, May 20, 2024. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony for the "Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel's Wars and Victims of Terrorism'"at Yad LeBanim in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, May 12, 2024. Israel will observe Memorial Day from sunset tonight until sunset on May 13, when Independence Day begins.(Debbie Hill/Pool Photo via AP)

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Taiwan's new President William Lai, also known as Lai Ching-te, right, and former President Tsai Ing-wen wave during Lai's inauguration ceremonies in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, May 20, 2024. Lai in his inauguration speech has urged China to stop its military intimidation against the self-governed island Beijing claims as its own territory. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

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Graduate student Bataya Kline speaks at a Pro-Palestinian rally Monday, May 6, 2024 at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut where a weeklong encampment has grown to more than 100 tents. Wesleyan officials have said they will allow the encampment to remain as long as the protests are peaceful and do not disrupt campus life. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

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Former President Donald Trump, center, and attorney Susan Necheles, left, attend his trial at Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

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Mojtaba, son of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, attends the annual Quds, or Jerusalem Day rally in Tehran, Iran, on May 31, 2019. Ebrahim Raisi was seen as a prime candidate to succeed the 85-year-old supreme leader. His death on Sunday, May 19, 2024 in a helicopter crash makes it more likely that the job could eventually go to Khamenei's son. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

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Reporters return to the courtroom after being made to briefly leave during the ongoing trial of former President Donald Trump at Manhattan Criminal Court, Monday, May 20, 2024 in New York. Trump is charged with falsifying 34 business records in an attempt to cover up a payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. (Pool photo by Dave Sanders for The New York Times)

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In this Aug. 29, 2023, file photo, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi places his hands on his heart as a gesture of respect as he leaves after the conclusion of a news conference in Tehran, Iran. President Raisi, the country's foreign minister and others have been found dead at the site of a helicopter crash Monday, May 20, 2024, after an hourslong search through a foggy, mountainous region of the country's northwest, state media reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Board of Directors Chairman Martin Gruenberg, testifies during the House Committee on Financial Services hearing on oversight of prudential regulators, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The most powerful Democrat in Congress on banking and financial issues called for President Joe Biden to replace the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Monday, May 20, 2024, saying the agency is broken and there must be “fundamental changes at the FDIC.” (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

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Lab staff prepare small petri dishes, each holding several 1-7 day old embryos, for cells to be extracted from each embryo to test for viability at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Houston. Women over 35 and those facing serious diseases like cancer, lupus and sickle cell are among the most likely to turn to IVF to build the families they desperately want. But in Alabama, they are among those whose dreams are in limbo after three of the state's largest clinics paused IVF services. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

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Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 25, 2024. The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. The court did not elaborate on the denial, as is typical. It would have been unusual for the justices to take up a case at this point, since a lower court is still weighing it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

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George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film The Boys In The Boat, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in London. The Clooney Foundation for Justice, established by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker George Clooney, announced a new leadership team Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, that the Clooneys say will lead the global legal services nonprofit through its “next chapter of growth.”(Photo by Alberto Pezzali/Invision/AP, File)

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Former President Donald Trump speaks during the National Rifle Association Convention, Saturday, May 18, 2024, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Trump denies freezing at NRA event, calls Biden campaign post ‘fake story’

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Anti-abortion supporters kneel as abortion supporters holds signs in the background, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at the Capitol in Phoenix. Democrats secured enough votes in the Arizona Senate to repeal a Civil War-era ban on abortions that the state's highest court recently allowed to take effect. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Biden’s abortion lifeline frayed in Arizona

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police are shown near a scene where three police officers were shot and a fourth suffered minor injuries while responding to a shooting, Wednesday morning, Feb. 14, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photos/Nathan Ellgren) ** FILE **

D.C. police officer shot in Northwest; 2 suspects arrested in Maryland

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times