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· DHS’s Misleading Press Release Smears a U.S. Judge in Rhode Island
· Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence
· Is Anthropic’s New A.I. Really That Scary? It Depends Whom You Ask.
· DOJ Paid Millions to FBI Agents Suspended for Misconduct, Raskin Says
· Many Americans Think Trump Assassination Attempts Were Fake, Survey Finds
· Asylum in America Is All but Over. It May Never Come Back
DHS’s Misleading Press Release Smears a U.S. Judge in Rhode Island (Roger Parloff, Lawfare)
The judge has referred an assistant U.S. attorney for an ethics inquiry, but she has said that DHS was the truly bad actor.
Kennedy Is Driving a Vast Inquiry into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence (Christina Jewett and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times)
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside his department, a sprawling research effort is a top priority.
Is Anthropic’s New A.I. Really That Scary? It Depends Whom You Ask. (Cade Metz and Kate Conger, New York Times)
Anthropic said that Claude Mythos was too dangerous to release to the public. That claim has reopened an old debate over cybersecurity.
DOJ Paid Millions to FBI Agents Suspended for Misconduct, Raskin Says (Jeremy Roebuck and Perry Stein, Washington Post)
The leader of Empower Oversight, a group representing the agents, said settlements are common and dismissed the letter as a “temper tantrum.”
Many Americans Think Trump Assassination Attempts Were Fake, Survey Finds (Liam Scott, Washington Post)
About 1 in 4 say the correspondents’ dinner shooting was staged, the poll found, including roughly a third of Democrats, as conspiracy theories spread widely online.
Asylum in America Is All but Over. It May Never Come Back (Economist)
How Donald Trump fulfilled a campaign pledge.
