Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, the former House speaker, said Thursday she will not seek another term. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . The former House Speaker, in office since 1987, was facing multiple challengers in next year's Democratic primary.

Yoshihiro Murai, 65, celebrates his victory in the Miyagi gubernatorial election on Sunday night. SENDAI - Yoshihiro Murai held off four other candidates to clinch his sixth term as governor of Miyagi Prefecture in Sunday's gubernatorial election. Murai, an independent candidate who had support from prefectural assembly members of the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan Innovation Party and Komeito, highlighted his achievements as the prefecture's governor spanning five terms, or 20 years. The 65-year-old former chief of the National Governors' Association pledged to enhance productivity by promoting digital transformation using generative artificial intelligence, in anticipation of a further population decline. He successfully fended off Masamune Wada, 51, also an independent candidate, who had been closing in.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Challenges to Pelosi part of broader movement to replace the Democratic Party's old guard Rep. Nancy Pelosi, shown talking to reporters in the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 1, has not said whether she will seek another term in 2026. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Younger Democratic candidates are challenging older incumbents amid increasing frustration over the party's ineffective resistance to President Trump.

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. State Sen. Scott Wiener stands in front of a mural at Oasis, a drag show he helped the owners launch in San Francisco. He intends to run for Nancy Pelosi's long-held congressional seat. The former House speaker has not said whether she will seek another term. This is read by an automated voice.

We analyze answers generated by generative engines (GEs) from the perspectives of citation publishers and the content-injection barrier, defined as the difficulty for attackers to manipulate answers to user prompts by placing malicious content on the web. GEs integrate two functions: web search and answer generation that cites web pages using large language models. Because anyone can publish information on the web, GEs are vulnerable to poisoning attacks. Existing studies of citation evaluation focus on how faithfully answer content reflects cited sources, leaving unexamined which web sources should be selected as citations to defend against poisoning attacks. To fill this gap, we introduce evaluation criteria that assess poisoning threats using the citation information contained in answers. Our criteria classify the publisher attributes of citations to estimate the content-injection barrier thereby revealing the threat of poisoning attacks in current GEs. We conduct experiments in political domains in Japan and the United States (U.S.) using our criteria and show that citations from official party websites (primary sources) are approximately \(25\%\)--\(45\%\) in the U.S. and \(60\%\)--\(65\%\) in Japan, indicating that U.S. political answers are at higher risk of poisoning attacks. We also find that sources with low content-injection barriers are frequently cited yet are poorly reflected in answer content. To mitigate this threat, we discuss how publishers of primary sources can increase exposure of their web content in answers and show that well-known techniques are limited by language differences.

DNC vice chair Malcolm Kenyatta slammed President Trump and GOP during an interview with Fox News Digital, saying Democrats are'not part of a cult.' MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta is among the party's leaders calling for Democrats to become "more aggressive in making life better for people." It was a common theme as more than 400 DNC committee members from all 50 states and seven territories huddled this past week for their summer meeting, which was held in Minnesota's largest city. As Democrats hunger for more forceful resistance against President Donald Trump's sweeping and controversial agenda, DNC Chair Ken Martin kicked off the three-day confab by targeting the president, arguing Trump's acting as "a dictator-in-chief" and that his second administration is "fascism dressed in a red tie." Martin, pointing to the forceful response by Democrats to moves this summer by Trump and Republicans to create more right-leaning U.S. House seats in states across the country through rare mid-decade congressional redistricting ahead of next year's midterm elections, told committee members that he's "sick and tired of this Democratic Party bringing a pencil to a knife fight." Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta addresses the DNC's summer meeting, on August 27, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris closed a big door when she announced Wednesday that she would not run for California governor. But she left open a heap of others. Departing presidents, vice presidents, first ladies and failed presidential candidates have pursued a wide variety of paths in the past. Empowered with name recognition and influence but with no official role to fill, they possess the freedom to choose their next adventure. Al Gore took up a cause in global warming, while George W. Bush took up painting.

Democratic strategist James Carville said on Wednesday he doesn't buy it when wealthy Jewish donors tell him they're ditching the Democratic Party because of antisemitism among its members. He says they're doing it for a "f------ tax cut." There are two truths about presidential candidates. One: There is no such thing as a perfect candidate. Two: It is very difficult to convince party elites that there are no perfect candidates.

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly affected the political scene worldwide and the introduction of new terminology and public opinions regarding the virus has further polarized partisan stances. Using a collection of tweets gathered from leading American political figures online (Republican and Democratic), we explored the partisan differences in approach, response, and attitude towards handling the international crisis. Implementation of the bag-of-words, bigram, and TF-IDF models was used to identify and analyze keywords, topics, and overall sentiments from each party. Results suggest that Democrats are more concerned with the casualties of the pandemic, and give more medical precautions and recommendations to the public whereas Republicans are more invested in political responsibilities such as keeping the public updated through media and carefully watching the progress of the virus. We propose a systematic approach to predict and distinguish a tweet's political stance (left or right leaning) based on its COVID-19 related terms using different classification algorithms on different language models.

'Live Action' journalist Savannah Craven Antao speaks out after being punched by an interviewee on'The Will Cain Show.' Pro-life activist Savannah Craven Antao believes the Democratic Party's recent rhetoric about "punching" at their Republican opponents contributed to the attack that left her bloody during a recent interview. Antao, a young pro-life influencer who was punched in the face by a woman she was interviewing in New York City earlier this month, pointed to Rep. Jasmine Crockett's, D-Texas, recent line about Democrats "punching" as inspiring the attack that happened to her. "She said, 'I think that you punch,'" Antao told Fox News Digital. "'I think you're okay with punching.' So yeah – pretty much just describes the left at this point. They're totally fine with just using force like that to hurt people if they don't agree with them."