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Days after President Trump signed an order telling the executive branch to drop "artificial intelligence" for "super intelligence," Elon Musk said SpaceXAI will become SpaceXSI. As of this week, nothing has actually changed.
Term-preview coverage puts Second Amendment cases near the top of the Supreme Court's new docket, six years after two justices warned that the Court was looking the other way on gun rights.
In a rare television interview, Justice Samuel Alito said there has been a "concerted effort to intimidate the court" and that he is concerned about its future. He also addressed the Dobbs leak, retirement talk and proposals to add justices.
New York's mayor released what his office calls the first municipal strategy against antisemitism, with $7.4 million for security and no definition of the hatred it targets. The city's largest Jewish organizations answered with a joint statement saying the plan ignores the mayor's own rhetoric.
President Trump says more than 20 million Medicare Part B enrollees will get one-time $90 payments in early October, drawn from a $2 billion fund the White House says has never been tapped. The money is scheduled to go out about four weeks before voters go to the polls.
The Justice Department sued the University of Delaware over in-state tuition for illegal aliens, the 26th such suit in a nationwide campaign. Six of those cases have produced favorable orders, though two of the six were resolved by proposed consent decrees.
FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau has rebuilt its aging technology backbone and grown to more than 140 internal uses of artificial intelligence. Nearly all of it rests on his own word.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani told comedian Theo Von the United States should join the International Criminal Court and enforce its warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, while conceding his own office has no power to do it.
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeff Merkley rolled out the Ban Flock Act, which would bar federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers and cut off grant money to states and towns that do. Nearly every claim behind it comes from the sponsors themselves.
Asked by Time about Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett, the president said they "voted against me too often." The rulings on tariffs, birthright citizenship and mail-in ballots are the reason.
Fox News reports the Justice Department is looking at Texas Majority PAC after an organizer was recorded describing paid voter classes as a roundabout way of paying for votes. The group says he got it wrong and fired him.
The Pentagon's new Project Meridian asks three outsiders to imagine the weapons America's grandchildren will need. Two of them run companies that sell to the Pentagon, and the rules for that have not been spelled out.
