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The United States isn’t sleepwalking into an artificial intelligence crisis — it is running toward one, a Democratic senator warned Monday.

The alert came when CNN host Kasie Hunt asked Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) on “The Arena” whether the country had “basically sleepwalked into a crisis.”

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) described a "long and often frustrating process" of recovery after returning to the Senate on Monday.

It was the first time that the former Republican majority leader had been at the Capitol since a July 12 statement announced that he had been "briefly unconscious" at his home.

A Brooklyn judge has thrown out an attempt by the borough's Democratic Party chair to rewrite internal rules that critics say would have cemented her grip on power and tightened control over how future judges get picked.

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Jill Epstein invalidated the rule-change vote Monday, New York Focus reported. She ruled that it shouldn't have counted because several district leaders who cast ballots had already lost their seats in June's primary elections — and without those votes, the amendments would have failed.

U.S. Capitol Police massed outside the Washington home of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), unseen in public since June, more than an hour after the Senate convened without him.

Video that conservative journalist Nick Sortor posted on X shortly after 4 p.m. Monday shows officers in tactical vests outside McConnell's Capitol Hill townhouse.

President Donald Trump's own inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security revealed damning new details this week about the tiny cages detainees at the Florida-based "Alligator Alcatraz" were subjected to — tiny, wire-framed enclosures detainees could be confined in for multiple hours, allegedly exposed to mosquitoes and the elements outside, either as punishment or to manage their "stress."

While hardcore Trump supporters defended or disputed what was revealed in the report, the image of the cages triggered revulsion and outrage online, with many prominent commentators likening them to crimes against humanity.

President Donald Trump declared himself the nation’s “Hoax Buster” Monday during a rapid-fire series of three social media posts dismissing warnings that artificial intelligence could threaten humanity.

“The claim that ‘AI is going to take over the World’ is a Hoax,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform in the last of the posts less than 20 minutes after the first. He compared concerns about AI to global warming, “RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA," "UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE,” or his two impeachments.

A former Marine fighter pilot was appalled by a report from Bari Weiss' "60 Minutes" on Sunday that included sensitive information about how the military conducted a recent rescue mission.

"60 Minutes" ran a report about the rescue of an American fighter pilot who says he evaded Iranian forces while he climbed more than 7,000-foot ridgeline to safety. Some details in the report alarmed Amy McGrath, a former Marine pilot and political candidate in Kentucky, who reacted to it on CNN's "The Arena" with Kasie Hunt.

A Trump-endorsed MAGA Republican facing domestic abuse allegations drew swift backlash after touting a recognition for his support of mothers and “the family unit as a whole.”

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) shared a post on social media showing a smiling image of himself with an “A” grade from Moms for America Action.

Marshall Rawson, the Republican nominee for Florida's House District 10, attended the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and marched alongside the neo-Confederate League of the South, according to a new investigation.

Video footage reviewed by Talking Points Memo shows Rawson and his now-wife being greeted by name by League of the South members at the rally, which was billed as the nation's largest white supremacist gathering.

Attorney General Todd Blanche has conceded that it was right to investigate President Donald Trump over the classified documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago, a national security journalist wrote Monday.

Marcy Wheeler made the argument at emptywheel, pointing to a dispute within the department over where classified evidence can be handled safely.

Colorado Republicans' nominee for governor has landed in a fresh wave of controversy, as he appeared to suggest in an audio recording from one of his speeches to a sympathetic crowd that he understands what it's like to be nonwhite in America — because his dad was involved in drugs and prostitution.

In the audio, obtained by the liberal network Meidas Touch, Victor Marx likened himself to a "reverse coconut" while describing his understanding of the nonwhite experience in America.

Vice President JD Vance was heckled at a Kansas campaign event for Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), then accused the protester of coming in to lie about the senator.

The interruption came Monday afternoon at Webco Manufacturing in Olathe, during remarks carried live by LiveNOW from Fox to more than 93,000 viewers. The stop was a MAGA Inc. event, according to ABC News 4, and came as Marshall seeks reelection in Kansas this year. MAGA Inc. is President Donald Trump's main super PAC.

Federal agents may have already broken state laws while searching for noncitizens on voter rolls as part of a sweeping Trump administration operation, according to a whistleblower’s bombshell report.

Agents working on the Department of Homeland Security’s “Unlawful Voter Initiative” were reportedly expected to complete at least 40 investigations during each eight-hour shift — leaving roughly 12 minutes to examine each voter.