Former Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Trump’s “Big Bad Bill" and defended DEI programs during a Detroit campaign event with Abdul El-Sayed.

Pro-China groups funded by tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham are staging protests from Austin to the UN as Donald Trump prepares for high-stakes talks with Xi Jinping.

Abdul El-Sayed sparked outrage for calling a pregnant woman "an adult" or "juvenile human" at a town hall during the Michigan Senate race against Mike Rogers.

America First Legal is investigating Fairfax County Public Schools over 9/11 school guidance that tells teachers not to associate the terrorist attacks with Islam or Muslim students.

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AI and China experts warn Beijing's free open source AI models and knowledge distillation campaigns threaten U.S. tech supremacy as President Xi Jinping arrives in US.