Rhode Island State Rep. David Morales, a 27-year-old democratic socialist endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., defeated Providence Mayor Brett Smiley in the Democratic primary Wednesday night, ousting the incumbent after one term. If Morales wins the general election, he will be Providence's youngest mayor in history. "Few believed that a 27-year-old democratic socialist could ever, few believed that we could ever take on big money, corporate real estate interests and endless attack ads – and
What if your town could build a solar farm without giving up acres of valuable land? Lima, Ohio , is trying something different . The city has completed a 2-megawatt solar array that floats on the Twin Lakes Reservoir, its primary drinking water source. More than 3,000 solar panels now sit on the water and feed electricity to the nearby water treatment plant. The city projects the system will save nearly $10 million in electricity costs over its lifetime. That kind of savings could get the atten
The more things change, the more they stay the same. For Drake Maye , that's not a good thing. The New England Patriots gave up a 10-point lead to Drew Lock and the Seattle Seahawks in Wednesday night's NFL opener, and their star quarterback was, once again, a problem. A big one. DRAKE MAYE'S TERRIBLE DECISION GIFTS SEAHAWKS OPENING NIGHT WIN AS PATRIOTS LEFT STUNNED TO START NFL SEASON Maye, coming off a postseason in which he turned it over eight times in four games, threw three more intercept
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., gave the cold shoulder when asked to weigh in on her son's home being raided by police after his convicted felon roommate was arrested. Minneapolis police officers found while carrying out a search warrant on August 25 multiple weapons and ammunition in the shared home of Omar's son, Adnan Hirsi, 20, and his roommate Abdulrahman Abdi, 22. The warrant was obtained after Abdi was pulled over in a routine traffic stop and was found to have no driver's license or proof of i
Tech mogul calls director Alex Gibney a ‘bitter old man’ who has ‘zero integrity’ in series of posts on X Elon Musk has issued an angry tirade at the film-maker behind a four-hour documentary about his life and influence, labelling director Alex Gibney a “bitter old man” who has “zero integrity”. Gibney, who has previously made films about the collapse of Enron, WikiLeaks and Vladimir Putin, premiered his Musk documentary at the Venice film festival this week. He said he believed the world’s ric
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One of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that crashed in Miami last weekend, killing five people on the ground, repeatedly warned the other pilot the aircraft was "too fast" during the final approach and after touchdown, according to newly released information from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The pilots have been identified as Capt. Joseph Carroll, 55, and First Officer Jaime Felipe Silva Molina, 37, both of cargo airline 21 Air. The NTSB did not identify which pilot was
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President Xi Jinping has called for urgent search and rescue efforts.
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OpenAI is not on track to reduce risks of “catastrophic” loss of control to an acceptable level, a member of its non-profit board has warned, amid spreading public and political concern that super-advanced AIs could one day wipe out humanity. Paul Christiano, a US government technology adviser, said “there is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term.” He added: “I do not think that the AI industry in
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Malta is vulnerable to “repeated instances of high-level corruption” unless it strengthens the rule of law and protections for journalists, the Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti said at the opening of an inquiry into judicial failures following the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Chakrabarti, a member of the House of Lords and former director of the human rights group Liberty, has been named special rapporteur for a Council of Europe investigation into the fallout from the assassination of the anti
