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Anthropic donates to super PAC focused on AI safety

Anthropic said it would donate $20 million to a super PAC focused on AI safety and regulation, setting up a fight with rival and top political spender OpenAI.
Split-image of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam AltmanDenis Balibouse/Shelby Tauber/Reuters

Poll suggests voters back Democrats shutdown demands

A new Hart Research poll commissioned by the Senate Democrat-aligned Senate Majority PAC found that 54% of likely midterm voters express support for Democrats demanding reforms to ICE and blocking DHS funding unless those reforms are adopted.
Chuck SchumerKent Nishimura/Reuters

Debatable: Europe’s self-reliance

A new poll shows many geopolitics experts believe Europe will achieve “strategic autonomy” in the next decade.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte attends a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact GroupTom Nicholson/Reuters

Trump administration tries to extinguish new brushfires

The week brought plenty of distractions that Republicans on Capitol Hill had hoped to cast aside for a stricter focus on affordability.
Donald TrumpJonathan Ernst/Reuters

Congress faces the inevitability of its third shutdown in five months

The Department of Homeland Security is all but guaranteed to run out of money on Saturday as negotiations fracture.
Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va.Kylie Cooper/Reuters

Senate takes aim, gently, at tech companies’ supervoting stock

A new bipartisan bill would require companies to give shareholders more information about separate classes of stock that carry extra votes in corporate elections.
Sen. Ruben Gallego.Go Nakamura/Reuters

House Republicans rebel against Canada tariffs

The move is mostly symbolic.

Confusion surrounds sudden El Paso airspace closure

The government cited Mexican cartel drones.

Skeptical Republicans willing to bite on Trump’s housing proposal

“If I can get [other housing] provisions — that’s the trade-off I need to get this done — then maybe it’s worth it,” one Republican member of Congress said.

Shutdown odds spike amid Department of Homeland Security funding standoff

Democrats say the Trump administration has not responded to their requests with specificity.

Bessent pitches moving Powell probe to Senate from Justice Department

The Treasury secretary proposed to lawmakers that the Senate Banking Committee could investigate the Federal Reserve chair.

Republicans chastise Trump administration for failed indictment of Democrats

The party’s leaders haven’t spoken out as forcefully, but rank-and-file senators made their disapproval clear.

Trump administration’s Venezuela approach gets murkier

There’s no sign of a second successful oil sale, or the movement of money out of a Qatari account to the US, as progress appears tougher to come by.

Trump vows to block opening of new bridge to Canada

Trump said the structure would not open until Ottawa “treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve.”

NSA pick warns of China pursuing AI chips for weapons

Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd weighed in on the issue in response to written questions from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

Hawley fumes at FDA over abortion drug study

The Missouri Republican told Semafor he was “really disappointed” in the FDA, which is led by Marty Makary.

House clears way for tariff votes

Democrats could start forcing votes on the tariffs as soon as Wednesday.

‘It’s despicable’: Republicans question how long Lutnick can survive his Epstein crisis

The Commerce secretary is a close friend of the president. But others in the party are unsettled.