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Red, white and vroom?: Racing fans, legends take over DC as America 250 goes out with an engine’s roar(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Crowds of spectators packed recently erected bleachers and stands Aug. 22-23 to watch as auto racing legends old and new sped through a course… Read More
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Pro-gay Republican group drops the ‘T’ in LGBTTransgender advocacy is no longer part of the Log Cabin Republicans’ political agenda. The group will only focus on gay, lesbian and bisexual issues. Its national board made the change after… Read More
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New Kansas City Royals stadium moves ahead, passes City CouncilThe Kansas City Council ushered along the developing plan to build a new Royals baseball stadium at Crown Center in an 11-2 vote Thursday. The council’s finance committee voted unanimously in favor of the multi-billion-dollar plan Tuesday, which… Read More
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As hacking incidents pile up, top AI lab pumps the brakes(Daily Caller News Foundation) – OpenAI said it would pause its frontier artificial intelligence development to alleviate safety concerns as labs have breached containment. The ChatGPT parent company… Read More
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Ohio BMV changes policy for gender markers(The Daily Signal) – The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles has changed how transgender individuals can update their identification. In doing so, the BMV is… Read More
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Chinese robot maker predicts chores will be able to do themselves in just a few years(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The head of a Chinese company that makes humanoid robots speculated that machines may soon walk into a stranger’s house to handle their chores… Read More
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John Oliver attacks fetal personhood laws, says they treat women as ‘incubators’HBO host John Oliver recently attacked laws giving unborn children legal rights, discussing fetal personhood during the Aug. 16 episode of “Last Week Tonight.” Fetal personhood laws… Read More
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OpenAI doesn’t want your kids dating its chatbot(Daily Caller News Foundation) – OpenAI released what it is presenting as a teen-friendly version of its popular artificial intelligence chatbot aimed at protecting teens from harmful online content. Read More
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Kansas City storms dump 3 inches of hail on airport taxiwaysA bout of severe storms in Kansas City Tuesday night into Wednesday morning left behind three inches of hail at the downtown airport along with other damage. The… Read More
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Battery fires real risk for EV owners(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Forget the slow burn of traffic – electric vehicles are catching fire amid a surge in recalls over models that can burst into flames… Read More
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Agnostic Alex O’Connor tells Dallas Jenkins he loves ‘The Chosen’: ‘I’m a Jesus nut’A well-known skeptic of Christianity admits he’s a big fan of The Chosen, calling it “great television” and saying he watches each episode with the same excitement as the… Read More
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Fewer Americans may be gambling – but are polls telling the full story?(Daily Caller News Foundation) – While a new Gallup survey suggests that Americans are now much less likely to participate in gambling-related behaviors than they were a decade ago,… Read More
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Meta appears to steer ‘Ceuta’ searches to warning statement, resources for moving to ‘new country’(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Meta told its users to “be careful” and offered them “migration info” when they searched for the name of an area where a mass… Read More
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‘Operation 1,000 Feet’: Nearly 100 sex offenders living too close to schools arrested in Kansas CityKansas City-area law enforcement arrested about 100 sex offenders last week who were illegally living too close to school buildings. Over 100 officers from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and four other Kansas City-area law enforcement agencies worked… Read More
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Report: $460B in HUD spending barely impacted housing affordability(The Center Square) – The typical American has to save for at least a decade to afford a home in their state, despite the federal government spending nearly half… Read More
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Christian missionary Kevin Rideout to return home to US after more than 9 months in captivityAmerican missionary Kevin Rideout, who was captured by Islamic terrorists in Niger and held for more than nine months, is ready to fly back to the U.S., President Donald… Read More
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Tech in schools ‘backfired:’ HHS acting surgeon general pushes screen limits to combat health risks(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The architect of a key government initiative aimed at improving children’s health across several indicators told the Daily Caller News Foundation why the issue… Read More
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Nearly a third of Gen Zers steer clear of car insurance, survey(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A significant share of American drivers have opted to avoid insuring the vehicles they drive amid the rising cost of living and shifting consumer… Read More
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UConn women’s basketball coach says WNBA should drop transgender athlete discussion for nowThe University of Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma says the WNBA should stop debating about transgender athletes unless a real case comes before the league. Auriemma discussed the issue during… Read More
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NASA chief tours Idaho lab, declares confidence to launch historic nuclear-powered spacecraft before ChinaNASA is betting on nuclear power to secure humanity’s deep space future, pushing an aggressive timeline to launch the first fission-powered interplanetary spacecraft. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman toured… Read More