"Twenty-five years after 9/11, we are entering a new era of terrorism. In recent weeks, authorities have arrested individuals who pledged allegiance to ISIS and used artificial intelligence to help plan major attacks.

Although those plots were thwarted, they reveal that terrorist organizations are now using AI in far more consequential ways. AI can help 'novices' to build chemical and biological weapons. This rapidly evolving threat requires an immediate plan of action."

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"State visits usually occur when two countries are on warm terms, but U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington this week as their economic and tech competition is only escalating, especially through an artificial intelligence race.

"Neither expects any grand bargain, but the leaders are expected to play nice in their third meeting since Trump returned to the White House to try to steady fragile ties. That is despite the world's two largest economies seeking the upper hand on AI developments and trade, while pushing for leverage in persistent hot spots like Iran and Taiwan.

"'The fact that they are meeting, and there's dialogue occurring and building that relationship, is probably as important as outcomes from the meeting,' said Sen. Steve Daines, a Montana Republican who advises Trump on China and recently traveled there to lay groundwork for the summit."

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"A group housed at the New York University School of Law and backed by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg quietly closed its doors in late August amid congressional scrutiny into its funding and operations. The so-called State Energy and Environmental Impact Center's signature initiative involved placing paid, climate-focused 'fellows' in Democrat-controlled state attorney general offices nationwide as those offices sued the oil industry and other energy providers.

"The center's sudden closure comes as a surprise: It continued to update its public database tracking state attorney general actions relevant to its climate priorities until Aug. 31, the date of its apparent closure. It also released an episode of its in-house podcast, Recharged with the State Impact Center, less than three weeks prior to that date. And in its 2025 "year in review" report released last December, the center indicated that it would continue operating throughout 2026.

"But prior to its closure, the center was coming under increased pressure for effectively paying the salaries of state law enforcement agencies that were pursuing lawsuits in line with the center's priority of going after energy providers."

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"Earlier this week, a federal judge made a shocking charge: Larry Krasner, Philadelphia's district attorney for nearly a decade, may be guilty of 'perjury, conspiracy, or obstruction of justice.' Judge Paul Diamond referred Krasner and one of his top deputies, Matthew Stiegler, to the U.S. Attorney's Office to investigate potential federal crimes.

"Krasner is one of the nation's most high-profile "progressive prosecutors" -- the far-left lawyers who won election to address 'injustice' in the 'criminal legal system.' Remarkably, Krasner is not the first or only such progressive prosecutor to get the unwanted attention of the feds. At least four others have found themselves in the spotlight. Perhaps it's worth asking: Why do these purported reformers seem to have so little respect for the system they're trying to run?"

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"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is outraged, so you know somebody did something right.

"Turns out that the hero is Robert Kraft, who said that Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour would no longer be welcome at his Gillette Stadium if Macklemore remained one of the opening acts -- because the rapper was using his stage time to preach hate.

"Kraft and other venue owners stood up after Macklemore took the stage at MetLife Stadium on Sept. 4 to explain that 'one of the main reasons' he wanted to join the tour was not to entertain the crowd, but 'to stand up here on stages and stadiums across America and say . . . Free Palestine.'"

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"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement -- he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Donald Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to hurt the U.S. economy to such a degree that Trump will never again bully other nations.

"So, at the eleventh hour, Carney stormed out of an apparently completed tariff deal with the United States that would have privileged Canada over almost all of America's other trading partners. Canada, we recall, has enjoyed a $50 billion goods trade surplus with the United States for years in a supposedly free and equitable North American trade zone.

"Carney claimed that American proposals stripped away Canadian sovereignty and quashed Canadian culture, particularly French-Canadian culture. Yet he has not released the documents detailing the bilateral offers he rejected. Nor has he allowed his representatives to explain to the media why Canada blew up the negotiations at the last minute. Carney's ever-changing excuses, explanations, and invectives about what happened are incoherent and contradictory."

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"As the midterm elections approach, a lot of what appears in the press is best interpreted through a partisan lens. There's already a baseline level of negativity bias as editors and algorithms have optimized toward the tendency of humans to click on bad news. Between now and Election Day, the economic, technology, and geopolitical news will have a particularly grim cast as reporters race to try to convince readers that an economy with 4.1 percent unemployment, consumer spending up 4.5 percent year over year, and robust stock market gains is the second coming of a Great Depression, or at least 1970s stagflation.

"Yet even by the standard of partisan cheerleading, every once in a while -- okay, almost every day -- an article comes along that is so shameless in its Democratic Party advocacy that it's enough to make a reader laugh out loud, or at least engage in a visible eye-roll."

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"I walked into a gas station last week and bought an opioid. Not something 'kind of like an opioid.' Not a supplement that makes you sleepy. An opioid, in the pharmacological sense, that hits the same receptor in your brain as oxycodone and fentanyl.

"To be clear this product would not test like an opioid -- which is a huge problem in and of itself. But our federal government explicitly refers to it as an 'opioid,' and for good reason.

"It is called 7-OH."

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"On that fateful day 25 years ago today, when Islamic terrorists used hijacked commercial airliners to strike at the heart of Western civilization and kill thousands, the skyline of New York City and America’s soul changed forever. The Sept. 11 attacks, the deadliest on United States soil in history, and their aftermath, have also essentially haunted every presidential administration since. And the echoes of those first post-9/11 months still shape the U.S. today."

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"On September 17, 2001, construction supervisor John Feal was working atop 'the pile,' helping clear the wreckage of the World Trade Center. As he guided trucks backing up to haul away twisted steel, an 8,000-pound beam suddenly broke loose, crashing onto Feal's foot.

"'Blood sprayed in every direction,' he recalls.

"When fellow rescue workers pulled off his boot, bones were protruding through his sock. 'I'll be back in a couple of hours,' Feal reassured everyone before being taken away by ambulance.

"He never returned to Ground Zero. Instead, he began a different battle -- one that would ultimately shape the lives of tens of thousands of people exposed to the toxic aftermath of 9/11."

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