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Today's Political News Compilation - Friday, Sept. 20, 2024

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AI is helping shape the 2024 presidential race. But not in the way experts feared


By DAN MERICA, GARANCE BURKE and ALI SWENSON
Updated 11:02 PM CDT, September 20, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the 2024 election looming, the first since the mass popularization of generative artificial intelligence, experts feared the worst: social media flooded with AI-generated deepfakes that were so realistic, baffled voters wouldn’t know what to believe.

So far, that hasn’t happened. Instead, what voters are seeing is far more absurd: A video of former President Donald Trump riding a cat while wielding an assault rifle. A mustachioed Vice President Kamala Harris dressed in communist attire. Trump and Harris sharing a passionate embrace.

AI is playing a major role in the presidential campaign, even if the greatest fears about how it could threaten the U.S. presidential election haven’t materialized yet. Fake AI-generated images regularly ricochet around the web, but many of them are so cartoonish and absurd that even the most naïve viewer couldn’t take them seriously.

Still, even these memes can be problematic. Eye-catching AI-generated photos and videos, some striving to be funny, have become useful tools for spreading false, sometimes racist messages with a clear political bent — and candidates and their supporters are among those sharing them on social media. ...

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Musk gives federal workers "another chance"' to justify their jobs

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Elon Musk told federal workers Monday evening that they had "another chance" to justify their work or lose their jobs. The original deadline for them to comply passed later on Monday. Employees at multiple federal agencies had been told to disregard his initial directive.

Musk, the world's richest person, a close adviser to President Trump and his biggest campaign donor, had originally given federal government employees until the end of Monday to send an email explaining their work achievements.

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Government firings raise concerns about vulnerability of election systems

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Over the last month, the U.S. government has worked quickly to pause, disband and dismantle the U.S. effort to fight foreign meddling in elections, raising concern among federal lawmakers and election officials across the country who rely on the federal cybersecurity agency and its counterparts to warn them about attacks on election systems.

First came a flurry of notices forcing out Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency personnel who are tasked with stopping foreign interference in U.S. elections — at least a dozen have been put on...
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Ukraine parliament affirms no elections during wartime in rebuff to Trump

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The resolution is a rebuff to U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who suggested Zelenskyy is illegitimate because he has not held elections.
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Landlord charged with 2023 hate crime and murder of boy set for trial

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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An Illinois landlord charged with murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in a 2023 attack on a Palestinian American mother and her young son is expected at trial
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Race against time to save eight Indian workers trapped inside tunnel

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Dozens of workers escaped, but eight men were trapped after a part of the tunnel's roof collapsed.
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Poland scrambles military aircraft as Russian missiles target western Ukraine

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Poland scrambled "military aviation" in its airspace early Tuesday morning in response to Russian missile strikes in Ukraine, the country's Operational Command said.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump warns major Dem against move that could cost voters trillions

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump's White House is warning that a key Democrat's move to end the president's energy national emergency would kill hundreds of jobs and cost $3.6 trillion in higher prices and lost energy output.

"Tim Kaine wants to impoverish Americans. President Donald Trump’s executive order brings America into the future and unleashes prosperity. Senator [Tim] Kaine wants to cost the economy trillions and risk losing nearly a million jobs," said deputy press secretary Anna Kelly in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital...
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Judicial pushback on Trump 'hurting American people,' says GOP rep leading impeachment charge

  • News source: FOX News
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Georgia Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde, who earlier this month announced he was drafting articles of impeachment against a Rhode Island judge overseeing one of President Donald Trump's legal challenges, condemned judges who continue to bar Trump's agenda from being implemented.

Clyde is working in conjunction with Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., who is also preparing impeachment articles against U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer. The Georgia Republican said the real victims of judicial pushback against Trump's policies are the American people.

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Who is Daniel 'Razin' Caine? Air Force general tapped for top advisor role in Pentagon upheaval

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The Trump administration's Friday evening shakeup at the Pentagon saw the firing of six senior officers as Secretary Pete Hegseth made good on promises to upend the agency's leadership.

President Donald Trump and Hegseth fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. C.Q. Brown, and replaced him with a relatively unknown figure in Lt. Gen. Dan Caine.

The choice of Caine shows the president’s preference for irregular warfare and special operations: Caine was among a group of military leaders who met with the president in December 2018 at...
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Israel demands complete demilitarisation of southern Syria

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The announcement could make conflict between Israel and the new leadership in Syria more likely.
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Major Asia bank to cut 4,000 roles as AI replaces humans

  • News source: BBC News - World
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It makes DBS one of the first major banks to offer details on how AI will affect its operations.
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Trump dominates Liberal leadership debate in Canada

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The debate is the first of two in the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Liberal Party leader.
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Uganda probes death of Nigerian footballer in shopping mall

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Abubakar Lawal, 29, reportedly fell from a third-floor balcony of a shopping mall in Kampala.
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Watch: Macron fact-checks Trump over Ukraine funding

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The two leaders discussed funding the Ukraine war effort on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion.
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