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Debatable: AI’s impact on the economy

Will the technology eliminate US jobs, or create more of them? Washington isn’t sure.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
Kylie Cooper/Reuters

US lacks scores of ambassadors in Africa

Some 41 African countries currently lack a confirmed envoy, including Nigeria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, and Sudan.
Massad Boulos
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Gay Wyoming Republican sues members of his own party for ‘pedophile’ slur

“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” said Reid Rasner, who’s running for Wyoming’s sole House seat.
Reid Rasner
Screenshot/YouTube/Reid Rasner for Wyoming

Top Democrats slam Trump over crypto ahead of vote

“The disclosures heighten concerns about the president pushing Congress to pass crypto legislation in favor of the very industry he’s cashing in on,” the senators wrote.
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

Maine Senate race debacle muddies Democrats’ future

The end of Platner’s disastrous bid for a must-win US Senate seat has blunted Democrats’ efforts to oppose President Trump’s agenda.
Graham Platner
Brian Snyder/Reuters

Trump’s Supreme Court mulligan ‘exceedingly unlikely,’ experts say

The president faces long odds in trying to get the court to reconsider his defeat on birthright citizenship and E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million civil judgment against him.
President Donald Trump, next to Supreme Court Chief Justice John
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Senators want to restore manufacturing program cut by Trump

Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Jon Husted, R-Ohio, Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, and Andy Kim, D-N.J., are backing the bill.

Americans’ support for immigration falls from record high, poll finds

Seventy-three percent of US adults say immigration is a good thing, according to June Gallup polling, down from 79% who said so last year.

Vance in wait-and-see mode as Iran ceasefire crumbles

The vice president is focusing on domestic priorities while President Donald Trump and the military take point on the conflict.

A defiant Platner exits Maine Senate race

The Maine Democrat denied new allegations of sexual assault but conceding that he couldn’t keep running after his party abandoned him.

Trump keeps shifting tone on NATO

The US president offered both sticks and carrots to NATO, threatening to cut off trade with Spain before offering rare praise for the alliance.

US to help Ukraine build Patriot interceptors

The move stops short of the immediate transfer of Patriots to Ukraine that Kyiv would have preferred, but nevertheless is welcome news to European officials.

US launches new strikes on Iran

President Donald Trump warned earlier Wednesday that a US attack was imminent.

Why Platner’s implosion won’t singe the Sanders wing

The founding myth of the Sanders camp is that it sits outside the Democratic Party. But the reality is that he and his faithful are now inside.

Rubio makes it official: Trump will remove Syrian terrorism designation

The secretary of state formalized the president’s plans in a notification to Congress, ending a 47-year blacklist.

Centrist Democrats back more candidates

Democrats including Marlene Galán-Woods in Arizona are picking up support from the New Democrat Coalition Action Fund.

Disabling Russian tech on the table in talks over F-35s for Türkiye

Asking Ankara to make elements of its S-400 system inoperable is one option under discussion by the Trump administration, a person familiar told Semafor.

The hunt is on for Platner’s replacement in Maine

Maine Democrats accused Graham Platner’s Senate campaign of putting a “thumb on the scale” in the debate over how to replace him.