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Tests on a leading AI tool allowed the creation of deceptive and incriminating images of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, a watchdog said Wednesday, despite pledges to block fake photos of the presidential contenders ahead of elections in November.

Disinformation researchers fear rampant misuse of AI-powered applications in a year of major elections around the world, thanks to proliferating online tools that are cheap and easy to use and lack sufficient guardrails.

In an electoral system in which money is the ultimate kingmaker, Donald Trump has been courting the country's billionaires -- and they have their checkbooks ready.

The ability of the 77-year-old presumptive Republican presidential nominee to raise money from average Americans is unchallenged, and his historic criminal conviction in New York has not dented the operation in the slightest.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday hailed the "spirit of sacrifice" of the soldiers who liberated Europe from Nazi occupation, as he prepared to join U.S. counterpart Joe Biden and King Charles III to mark 80 years since the World War II D-Day landings.

The three days of events in France, which will peak Thursday with ceremonies attended by world leaders on the Normandy beaches where the landings took place, are haunted by the new war shadowing Europe as Ukraine battles Russia's invasion.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski warned that Donald Trump made clear in a Fox News interview that he's completely serious about prosecuting his enemies if he returns to the White House.

The former president sat down with conservative broadcaster Sean Hannity, who lobbed softball questions that gave Trump an opportunity to walk back those threats against president Joe Biden and others, but Trump instead doubled down and claimed he would be justified in using the criminal justice system to seek retribution.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday criticised the West's delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine, arguing Moscow could arm other countries with similar weapons to attack Western targets.

The comment -- which Putin made at a rare press conference with foreign news outlets -- came after several Western countries including the United States gave Ukraine the green light to strike targets inside Russia, a move Moscow has called a grave miscalculation.

After claiming that Black families were more unified under Jim Crow-era laws than they are today, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) then argued that President Joe Biden's policies have kneecapped Black Americans compared to when Donald Trump was in power.

"Where we are today — America is trying to have the economic policies and the public policies so that all people can thrive," he said during an appearance on CNN's NewsTonight with Abby Philip. "And if you're actually going to compare economic policies and public policies between the 45th president and 46 president, it's without question, they were better under the 45th."

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Wednesday to rage against the civil fraud judgment made against him earlier this year, which put him on the hook for over $450 million in damages and limited his ability to operate in New York.

His complaint arrived days after Trump was convicted in a New York City courtroom on 34 counts of falsifying business records — the first time a former president has been charged with a felony.

House Republicans Wednesday issued criminal referrals against President Joe Biden's son Hunter and his brother James.

Republicans on the Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees accuse the two Biden men of making making false statements to Congress during the impeachment inquiry of the president.