Police using Flock Safety’s artificial intelligence tools can now track a vehicle based only on its location and movements. Flock’s OS Investigate, formerly known as Nightshift, is an AI tool that identifies vehicles and ranks drivers’ “associates” based on how frequently they appear together at the same Flock camera, WIRED...

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Improper enrollment across Affordable Care Act exchanges cost American taxpayers billions of dollars in 2024, according to a Paragon Health Institute analysis released Wednesday. Combining Paragon’s previous estimates of improper exchange enrollment and Medicaid expansion enrollment suggests that 14.3 million individuals enrolled in these programs in 2024, or 34% of...

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Your phone rings. Thinking it could be important, you take the call, expecting another human being on the other end of the line. Instead, you’re greeted with a lifeless automated voice warning of “suspicious” purchases or an unpaid Internal Revenue Service debt. The scale of America’s robocall epidemic is staggering,...

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Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller used artificial intelligence to write his widely circulated Wall Street Journal opinion piece criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, NOTUS reported Tuesday. Druckenmiller acknowledged to NOTUS that he used AI to help write his “Let the Bond Market Speak” column, which made the rounds across the financial...

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Proponents of “radical gender ideology” are more likely to “hold left-wing authoritarian beliefs and believe political violence is justified,” according to a Department of Health and Human Services study out Wednesday. The HHS-commissioned study also claims that individuals who held left-wing authoritarian beliefs “were more likely to justify political violence...

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After being pummeled for warning its reporters not to use the T-word in relation to 9/11, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has agreed that perhaps it can bend in this instance and call terrorism by its real name. Basem Boshra, senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC, frumped...

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates alleged that artificial intelligence is advancing faster than society can contain it. The tech titan said that the world is unprepared for the transition into an AI era, in his Wednesday essay “The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.” Gates...

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A report that he would seek the White House in 2028 is fake news in all its questionable glory, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. NBC News reported Friday that Hegseth is talking about a possible run. “100% false,” Hegseth posted on X. “We told NBC that, but they...

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The New York Times recently posed a question that should never have needed asking in a free country: “Should We Read ‘Huck Finn’?” Their answer, wrapped in the usual hand-wringing about “slurs,” “job-endangering conversations” and the delicate feelings of students, amounts to a soft surrender. Educators are quietly dropping Mark...

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The tragic apparent suicide of Jason Arday should force Western universities to ask an uncomfortable (but morally necessary) question: “What happens when the pursuit of diversity becomes so important that the appropriate standards of achievement, verification and accountability are treated as secondary?” In 2023, Arday was appointed Professor of Sociology...

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An all-time high number of Americans say they smoke marijuana despite their cigarette use matching a record low, according to a Gallup poll out Monday. Of those surveyed, 17% of Americans said they use marijuana, matching Gallup’s record high from 2023. Meanwhile, the estimated number of U.S. adults who reported...

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Military action returned to the Persian Gulf Sunday as American forces attacked Iranian rocket launchers. "I can confirm that earlier today U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces ​were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into Strait ​of Hormuz," a U.S....

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Eight years before COVID emerged, a journalist issued a prophetic warning that risky viral research could usher in “doomsday” and damage the reputation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Anthony Fauci groused in an email to an aide about that warning, then instructed the aide to permanently delete the...

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Earlier this month, news broke that a Chinese Communist Party intelligence official now owns a building overlooking the White House. Also this month, the House Select Committee on China released another investigative report on the CCP’s infiltration of American higher education. Somehow, also this month, Defending Education released a report on...

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A conservative advocacy group, in a recent report, accused multiple companies of embracing certain left-wing practices. “7Eleven, Carhartt, DraftKings, Duluth Trading Co, Traeger, Bank of America, BlackRock, and Nike are evidence Woke is still alive and well in corporate America,” Consumers’ Research claimed in a report Friday. The report comes weeks after multiple Democratic...

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The towers are gone in all but memory, but the death brought to New York City 25 years ago on 9/11 continues to impact the city, leaving a trail of victims. As the nation prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack, cancer deaths linked to the attack...

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Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul has given the public another reason to doubt the efforts of COVID czar Anthony Fauci were benevolent, as the former director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases repeatedly told recipients of his emails to delete them after reading. In late July, Fauci...

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Unless you'd like to face prison time, do not assault federal officers. That's not a "hot take" or a piece of advice that requires advanced legal training, but common sense that most Americans understand. New Jersey Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver does not appear to be most Americans and is now...

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A top prosecutor who has worked in New York Attorney General Letitia James' office for two years has alleged he was instructed to target President Donald Trump and his allies with lawfare. New York Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld made the bombshell accusation in an internal email sent Friday morning...

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One person was killed and 15 others were missing after floods raged through the Grand Canyon on Sunday. The flash flood sent boulders into the Colorado River and ruined the only pipeline that provided drinkable water to tourists and residents, the National Park Service said, according to KNXV-TV. Footbridges were...

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A light has shown through in the absolute darkness that was a shooting at a family gathering in Billings, Montana. ABC News reported that eight people, including four children, are dead after 44-year-old Alan Michael Smith opened fire on Aug. 23 during a dinner the group was having. Victims were...

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