NY sheriff running for governor pleads with judge to go easy on 'good friend' who rioted at the Capitol

Hoping to avoid a federal government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) is still trying to work out some type of funding agreement with members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus. But negotiations haven't been going well, and a shutdown appears likely.

In an article published by Politico on September 21, journalists Katherine Tully-McManus and Adam Cancryn stress that some House Republicans fully expect their party — not Democrats — to be blamed if a shutdown occurs.

The battle between warring factions in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is not just bad news for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) who looks increasingly over his head as a government shutdown looms.

As MSNBC analyst Hayes Brown wrote, Republicans are busy shooting themselves in the feet working proposals that even Republicans in the Senate will refuse to touch and, in the process, the squabbling GOP House members are doing irreparable damage to their own party.

"Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin and other best-selling fiction writers have filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the tech startup of violating their copyrights to fuel its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT.

The Authors Guild, an organization representing writers, and several novelists including Martin, John Grisham and Jodi Picoult, accused the California-based company of using their books "without permission" to train ChatGPT's "large language models," algorithms capable of producing human-sounding text responses based on simple queries, according to the lawsuit.