41+ min ago  (1623+ words) In this holiday special, we continue with the journalist Karen Hao, author of the new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's Open AI. She came into our studio in May. She talked about how AI will…...

56+ min ago  (448+ words) Karen Hao is a former reporter at The Wall Street Journal and MIT Technology Review, where she became the first journalist to profile Open AI. Democracy Now! s Juan Gonz'lez and I spoke to her. I began by asking her…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (543+ words) Reporter: "To critics who say you're profiting off the presidency, Mr. President?" President Donald Trump: "Well, you know why I'm profiting? Because the stock market is going up. Everybody's profiting. If you have a " you have a 401(k)? How has your…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (667+ words) Indirect technical talks between U. S. and Iranian teams got underway in Qatar today, after Iran's top negotiator said his nation would not enter further high-level negotiations until the U. S. meets the terms of its memorandum of understanding with Iran. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf…...

2+ day, 50+ min ago  (669+ words) Chief Justice Roberts wrote in the decision, quote, "Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights " to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this…...

2+ day, 30+ min ago  (461+ words) President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U. S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they…...

2+ day, 38+ min ago  (490+ words) The ruling was lauded by President Trump, who said on social media, "BIG WIN." Senior counsel for the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Rights Project Joshua Block said in a statement, quote, "This is a heartbreaking ruling " The reality is that the…...

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1+ week, 1+ day ago  (679+ words) The current death toll is at 164, with 1, 000 people injured, but the U. S. Geological Survey warns there's a high chance the death toll could rise into the tens of thousands " or even top 100, 000. AMY GOODMAN: The first earthquake registered 7. 2 on the Richter…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (590+ words) Avilio Gonz'lez: "Fortunately, my family, my wife, my granddaughter and I, were out of the apartment building. When we got back, we saw it was completely destroyed. Luckily, the neighbors managed to save their lives, too. What can I say?...