Can Michigan Become the U.S. Drone Capital?

Can Michigan Become the U.S. Drone Capital?

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Utilities Plan to Spend $1.4 Trillion Over Next Five Years to Power AI Boom Soaring spending plans by 51 investor-owned utilities will help patch up the aging power grid and meet rising electricity demand for AI, a new report finds.

Utilities Plan to Spend $1.4 Trillion Over Next Five Years to Power AI Boom

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Postal Service, Already Under Pressure, Now Faces Trump’s Mail Ballot Order

Tammy Patrick, a former local election official in Arizona and mail voting expert. “What this executive order would do is add responsibilities and business practices that they would need to take on without any additional funding.”

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America’s Fastest-Growing County Wonders if ‘Paradise’ Is Growing Too Fast

“Our goal is not to get to 100,000 people, although that may happen someday,” Mr. Williams said. “Our goal is to bring job opportunities to our young people.”

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“There are less than 600,000 adult emperor penguins left in the wild”

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“They cite the 1950s as inspiration, or the 1880s, or even Puritan America — before the upheavals of feminism, birth control, no-fault divorce, legalized abortion and other policies that granted women rights and independence. Patriarchy supporters would like to see them rolled back.”

The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote

“King’s Way couples portray their way of life as a return to a better time of white picket fences and whole families.”

A.I. Could Change the World. But First It Is Changing Silicon Valley.

“Right now, with A.I., it’s the wild, wild West,” said Alex Zukin, a software analyst at Wolfe Research. Software providers and their customers are “in a state of massive, simultaneous experimentation.”

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Does A.I. Need a Constitution? A new set of precepts is meant to make the chatbot Claude wise, decent, and safe. It also marks a striking transfer of public responsibility from constitutional government to private tech firms.

“Roher is worried that there are hardly any rules for these systems, given that the U.S. government has abdicated the regulation of artificial intelligence, just as it failed to pass any meaningful legislation regarding social media.”

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Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List

“Today, about 43 percent of the 1.3 million troops on active duty are people of color. But those leading the military are overwhelmingly white and male.”

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Meanwhile, as AI sweeps into the rest of the economy, he said, “job displacement is very real.”

“There’s going to be continuous job loss,” [Shay Boloor, chief market strategist at Futurum] said.

Musk has a plan to make human labor obsolete. Billionaires are joining in. Tech elites have seized on humanoid robots to transform manual labor and other fields left out of the AI boom, an area called “physical AI.”

"Musk argues that Optimus will usher in a world of “amazing abundance” that will make everyone fantastically wealthy, though it’s unclear how those gains would filter down to the masses."

“He had closely followed the reports of the 13 Americans killed and more than 200 injured in the U.S. and Israeli campaign in Iran. But President Donald Trump’s top communications team, he said, had decided to treat the international conflict like a big joke.”

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Trump’s Mass-Detention Campaign Even with Kristi Noem gone, the Administration’s immigration agenda shows no signs of flagging—in fact, it is leading toward a new humanitarian and legal crisis.

“Twenty-three immigrants have already died in custody in the current fiscal year, putting it on pace to surpass the previous one, which had the highest number of deaths in immigration detention in decades.”

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“D.H.S. is now detaining some seventy thousand people in jails across the country, more than at any other point since the department was founded, in 2002.”

Private equity role in soaring child care prices under investigation Sen. Jeff Merkley, the top Democrat on the Budget Committee, asked two leading providers for financial records and other documents.

“The cost of child care routinely ranks as one of the biggest concerns for Americans worried about the cost of living. The cost of day care is higher than in-state college tuition and fees in dozens of states, according to the advocacy group Zero to Three.”

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Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Late-Arriving Mail-In Ballots Law

“A majority of states allow military and overseas ballots to be counted after Election Day, and it remains unclear what effect a ruling against Mississippi’s law would have on those rules.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...

Should You Need to Prove Citizenship to Vote? Ask Kansas.

“Like about half of American citizens, he didn’t have a passport, and, having been born on a since-shuttered military base, he was unable to track down his birth certificate.”

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“No one is certain where all the fuel is. If the canisters holding it are pierced, the escaping gas would be both toxic and radioactive. If the canisters come too close together, there is the risk of an accelerating nuclear reaction.”

Trump’s Next Decision: Whether to Retrieve Iran’s Nuclear Fuel, Whatever the Risk

It would, by any measure, be one of the boldest and riskiest military operations in modern American history, far more complex and dangerous than the effort to kill Osama bin Laden in 2011, or seize Nicolás Maduro from his bed in early January. “
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Trump once claimed he didn't need foreign policy advisors because of his "very good brain." Today, the brainiac managed to insult democratic Japan, dishonor those Americans who died, and compare our military to Imperial Japan in one comment.

“This merger was approved behind closed doors with no open process, no full Commission vote, and no transparency for the consumers and communities who will bear the consequences,”

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Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war

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Texas jury convicts protesters charged with plotting ‘antifa’ attack In a first-ever case, most of the nine defendants were convicted of providing support to terrorists. Only one defendant was convicted of attempted murder of a police officer.

“Attorney Lesa Pamplin, who represented Rueda, was surprised the jury believed prosecutors’ antifa argument. “That’s exactly what Trump wanted,” she said. “It’s a gut punch for America, for people out here protesting. They want to send a message.”

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Tim Kaine Is Forcing the Iran War Debate From the Minority

“Mr. Kaine has relied on a 1973 law known as the War Powers Resolution, which allows any senator to go around the normal legislative process controlled by the majority and force quick consideration of a measure to withdraw U.S. forces abroad, in the absence of congressional authorization.”

A viral video series is breathing life into one of the country’s oldest Black history museums Staff at Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History are spoofing what it is like to work at the legendary institution from a distinctly Black perspective.

I wrote about a museum that is near and dear to my heart, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

“The whistleblower disclosure — filed with the agency’s inspector general office on Jan. 9 and amended on Jan. 26 — alleges that the former DOGE member told the whistleblower that he was permitted to have unfettered access to Americans’ Social Security data.”

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Democrats argue Trump’s China policy risks ‘strategic failure’ A new report, issued ahead of the president’s summit with Xi Jinping, takes aim at the administration’s record on trade, diplomacy and other aspects of American power.

Democrats argue Trump’s China policy risks ‘strategic failure’

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes Supreme Court emergency rulings During a public forum, Jackson and conservative Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh offered differing views of President Trump’s wins before the high court.

“What is happening now is the administration is making new policy, but then insisting that the new policy take effect immediately before a challenge about its lawfulness is determined,” Jackson said.

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