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How do we still know so little about Thomas Crooks

One of the highest honors of my professional life was serving as director of communications for the late Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.). Because of his poor childhood; his heroic actions in World War II; the three years he spent in a hospital fighting to survive his almost mortal wounds; and the innate goodness within him,…

CNN reports the US military nearly intercepted a Chinese ship based on an “entirely false” AI-generated report.

According to CNN, the US military had planes in the air and armed personnel ready to board a Chinese ship in the Middle East this spring because of an intelligence report saying it carried parts for a nuclear weapons program. The only problem? Their sources say that report was an AI-bot-generated hallucination: > It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. Separately, Bloomberg reports a Pentagon investigation into the deadly February 28th missile attack on an Iranian school has identified failures that include “overreliance on artificial-intelligence technology.”

GOP senator: Russian oligarch funding Trump Jr.’s party is ‘corruption’

Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) on Friday ripped President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. for letting a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to finance his wedding after-party in the Bahamas this year. Curtis called the generous gift “corruption” and pledged to say more about it in coming days.…

El-Sayed challenges Vance to weightlifting competition: ‘You talk a good game’

Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed (D) responded Friday to Vice President Vance’s disses on his appearance, saying he’d challenge President Trump’s second-in-command to a weightlifting competition to prove whether he’s “as strong as he likes to pretend he is.” TMZ DC asked El-Sayed about a TikTok post earlier this week where Vance joked about the…