House opposes Trump on immigration with move to help Haitians
The vote to advance a bill extending protections for Haitians marks the first time Republican lawmakers have voted this term to oppose Trump’s immigration policy. Source link
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Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
Anthropic has come out against a proposed Illinois law backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability if their systems are used to cause large-scale harm, like mass casualties or more than $1 billion in property damage. The fight over the state bill, SB 3444, is drawing new battlelines between Anthropic and OpenAI over how AI technologies should be regulated. While AI policy experts say that the legislation only has a remote chance of becoming law, it has nonetheless exposed political divisions between two leading US AI labs that could become increasingly important as the rival companies ramp up their lobbying activity across the country. Behind the scenes, Anthropic has been lobbying state Senator Bill Cunningham, SB 3444’s sponsor, and other Illinois lawmakers to either make major changes to the bill or kill it as it stands, according to people familiar with the matter. In an email to WIRED, an Anthropic spokesperson confirmed the company’s opposition to SB 3444, and said it has held promising conversations with Cunningham about using the bill as …
GOP Senator Opposes More Than 60 Days Of War On Iran Without War Declaration
In what could become a key milestone in an unpopular US-Israeli war on Iran that has the world on the edge of economic catastrophe, a Republican senator from one America’s reddest states has announced his opposition to continued action against Iran beyond 60 days from the Feb 28 commencement of hostilities — unless Congress approves it. “I support the president’s actions taken in defense of American lives and interests,” wrote first-term Sen. John Curtis in an opinion piece published by the Desert News. “However, I will not support ongoing military action beyond a 60-day window without congressional approval.” I stand by the President’s actions taken in defense of our national security interests in the Middle East. But we must be clear-eyed about history and the Constitution. While I support maintaining our readiness and replenishing stockpiles, I cannot support funding for further… — Senator John Curtis (@SenJohnCurtis) April 3, 2026 Walking a careful and arguably untenable line as he represents a reliably red state that Trump won by 22 points in 2024, Curtis gave full backing to Trump’s …
Trump Says His Head Of Counterterrorism Was ‘Weak’ After He Opposes Iran War
Hours after his head of counter-terrorism quit saying he couldn’t support the war against Iran, President Donald Trump claimed he didn’t really know him that well but that he had “always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security.” “I always thought he was a nice guy,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday, not long after Joe Kent had announced he had stepped down from running the National Counter-terrorism Centre. “I didn’t know him well.” That sentiment is at odds with his past praise of the conspiracy theorist who rose in Trump’s estimation for his embrace of the false claim that the 2020 election had been stolen and that the FBI had fomented the January 6, 2021, violent attack on the Capitol. In fact, Trump’s endless lying about a stolen election enraged his followers, and he himself asked them to converge on Washington DC, on the day of the congressional election certification. It was his own speech hours before the assault, according to many of those who participated, that drove them to violence. Joe …
Poll on Iran finds majority opposes U.S. military action : NPR
Plumes of smoke rise following reported explosions in Tehran on Monday, after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28 killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top military leaders. Sohrab/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sohrab/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images As war with Iran heads toward a second week, most Americans say that they are against the military action and disapprove of how President Trump is handling it, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. By a 56%-44% margin, respondents said they oppose the military action. Just 36% approve of how Trump is handling Iran, and a majority (55%) thinks Iran either represents a minor threat or no threat at all to the United States. However, 44% do see Iran as a major threat, and Republicans continue to heavily support the actions and this president. The Trump administration has given varied justifications for why it attacked Iran alongside Israel on Feb. 28, including arguing that Iran posed an imminent threat. The survey of 1,591 national respondents …
Nashville opposes Elon Musk’s Loop tunnel — a decade later, still no proof it beats a subway
Nashville’s Metro Council voted 20-15 to formally oppose the Boring Company’s Music City Loop, a proposed 13-mile underground tunnel system that would shuttle passengers in Tesla vehicles between downtown Nashville and the airport. The non-binding resolution signals growing resistance to a project that the state of Tennessee is pushing forward anyway, with bills in the legislature to strip Nashville of oversight authority over the tunnel. Nashville doesn’t want it, Tennessee is forcing it The Metro Council resolution, introduced by Councilmember Delishia Porterfield, cited the Boring Company’s “lack of transparency, inadequate community and Metropolitan Council engagement, and troubling labor and safety practices.” The vote was 20-15, with two abstentions. 🔥 “IT’S A TRAIN.” Since even Boring’s own estimates show the Elon tunnel will only handle a tiny fraction of NASHVILLE traffic, Joe Lee suggest tying some Tesla cars together and putting them on a track for a real solution 🚂 (The anti-tunnel resolution passed) pic.twitter.com/v7MXMpKWh6 — The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 4, 2026 The resolution can’t actually stop the project. Gov. Bill Lee’s administration already secured …
Trump issues glyphosate order; MAHA opposes Roundup chemical
US President Donald Trump speaks during a Black History Month event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 18, 2026. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to promote the domestic production of phosphorus and the weedkiller glyphosate, which he said is critical to both defense and food security. Glyphosate is often targeted by supporters of the Make America Healthy Again movement as a harmful chemical. Trump aligned with the MAHA movement after Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the 2024 election. “I find that ensuring robust domestic elemental phosphorus mining and United States-based production of glyphosate-based herbicides is central to American economic and national security,” Trump said in the order. “Without immediate Federal action, the United States remains inadequately equipped and vulnerable.” Read more CNBC politics coverage Glyphosate has long been used in U.S. agriculture and has been the subject of controversy over alleged links to cancer. …
Senate Republican opposes Trump diplomatic nominee over anti-Israel comments
President Trump’s nomination of Jeremy Carl to oversee the U.S. in international organizations is in doubt over opposition from a key Republican senator, who pointed to Carl’s past statements on Israel and Jews as disqualifying. Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) is signaling he will block Carl’s nomination advancing out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Curtis’s… Source link
Republican Senator Opposes Planned ICE Detention Center in Mississippi
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senator Roger Wicker on Wednesday told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem he opposed plans to open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Mississippi. The Trump administration is in the final stages of acquiring a warehouse facility in Byhalia, Mississippi, that it intends to convert into a federal immigration detention center, Wicker said in a letter to Noem. “While I support the enforcement of immigration law, I write to express my opposition to this acquisition and the proposed detention center,” the senator wrote. The facility, if opened by the Trump administration, would have a capacity of more than 8,500 beds, according to Wicker, who added that the town does not have the necessary medical and human services infrastructure to support such a detainee population. He said the site under consideration by the Department of Homeland Security is already positioned for another economic development that would provide job creation and private investment opportunities. Wicker, the senior Mississippi representative in the U.S. Senate, said opening a detention center …
The Right-Wing Militia Leader Who Opposes ICE
Not so long ago, Ammon Bundy was the most famous right-wing militia leader in America. His two armed standoffs with federal agents had made him the face of the Patriot Movement: a loose assemblage of anti-government extremists, Second Amendment maximalists, and more than a few white nationalists. Even some mainstream elements of the Republican Party embraced him as a modern folk hero. But Bundy’s criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown now threatens to make him a pariah within his own community. In November, Bundy self-published a long essay titled “The Stranger,” in which he labeled the Trump administration’s treatment of undocumented immigrants a “moral failure.” “To call such people criminals for lacking official permission” to be in the country, he wrote, “is to forget the moral law of God, the historical truth of our own founding, and the Constitutional ideals that continue to define justice.” On a recent livestream following the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota, Bundy told his audience that ICE’s conduct “clearly looks like tyranny.” If the government threatened his family, …