Senators Bernie Sanders and Jeff Merkley and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are introducing legislation to sharply restrict the use of Flock Safety’s AI-powered license-plate-reader cameras, adding new momentum to a bipartisan congressional backlash over the growing surveillance network. The Ban Flock Act would prohibit federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers or accessing data collected … The post Sanders, AOC and Merkley Target Flock Cameras With Federal Ban Bill first appeared on Poli Alert.

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.

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The Senate Leadership Fund is diverting money to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party as it seeks to hold its majority.

Today, as Trump was busy trying (and failing) to convince his own people that “affordability” is a word made up by Democrats, the courts were having a field day with him.

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Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...

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Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...

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Leaders of the state’s House and Senate housing committees said they want to eliminate a law that exempts the detailed financials of subsidized housing projects from public disclosure requirements.

The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.

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His sequined gowns and outrageous costumes threw clouds of glitter at American fashion for over half a century.

His sequined gowns and outrageous costumes threw clouds of glitter at American fashion for over half a century.

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The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.

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ICE enforcement has not increased employment for native-born Americans.

Election fraud is exceedingly rare, but President Trump has fixated on rooting it out this year, claiming without evidence that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote.

Recent surveys suggest the broader public views both of them negatively, especially in comparison to Harry’s brother, William, and his wife, Kate.

We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may stretch deep into our primate past.

General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...

Along with his comments about Muslim candidates, Mr. Trump spoke disparagingly of Somalis in the United States, saying “they’re not smart.”

The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.

Hopes were dashed over the weekend for a breakthrough on shipping traffic through the critical waterway in the Persian Gulf.

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Global oil prices jumped on Wednesday after the U.S. and Saudi Arabia said they had carried out joint airstrikes on Iranian proxies in Iraq.

Here is a rundown of the major events of the war, as both sides consider their next moves.

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Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania now join Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia in cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce.