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Democrats’ Senate Majority Expands to 55 as Scott Colom Claims Historic Win in Mississippi, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Relocates to Military Base After “Iranian Threats”, Progressives Call on Democratic Lawmakers to Stop Funding Attacks on Iran, Sen. Van Hollen Criticizes Schumer for Siding with AIPAC and Crypto Lobbies in Primaries,Continue Reading

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Democrat Scott Colom has defeated incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith to become Mississippi’s first African American senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. The electoral breakthrough is particularly meaningful given Mississippi’s history in the civil rights movement. In 1964, three civil rights activists — James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman —Continue Reading

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Today, Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative, and The Alliance for Secure AI filed a lawsuit seeking to freeze the development of increasingly advanced AI models at Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceXSI that can escape human control, including fueling the proliferation of bioweapons and cyberattacks. The lawsuit, filedContinue Reading