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White House media standoff hangs over Xi visit

Presented by American Policy Ventures Plus: 🥬 What’s on the menu tonight {beacon} It’s Thursday. Congratulations to the Bad News Babes, who beat Team Congress Wednesday night in the Capitol press corps vs. lawmakers softball game. The Hill’s reporting intern Ryan Karlin was there for the action. Programming note: We’re Claire Leibowitz…

Flock Safety touts platform changes ahead of Senate hearing

Flock Safety outlined a series of policy changes to its controversial database of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) as Washington mounts pressure on the company to prevent misuse of the technology. The letter from Flock’s chief legal officer, Dan Haley, was sent earlier this month to Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who is spearheading an investigation…

Lawmakers seek bipartisan path on paid leave, newborn tax credits

Republicans and Democrats argued Thursday that Congress still has work to do to support American families, pointing to expanded paid family leave access, tax credits for newborn children and other policies aimed at easing financial pressures on parents. The discussion, labeled the “Future of Supporting American Families,” was sponsored by the American Policy Ventures Foundation…

Americas First: Trump and Latin America

While Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent travels to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru faced criticism regarding legal overreach and geopolitical tension, the article argues that the United States must prioritize deep economic and security partnerships in Latin America to counter China’s growing influence.

Hot Jimothy summer is over; now it’s “three bowls of water” fall.

The Jimothy craze has died down up here in Seattle just in time for a new Weird Internet Thing: three mysterious bowls of water on the walking path around Green Lake. It started with an innocent question on r/Seattle: what’s up with the bowls? Commenters turned it into a bit, because we can’t resist a bit, which inspired an on-the-scene report by City Cast Seattle. Spoiler alert: it’s probably just water for dogs, but I like the mysterious “geese” theory. [Media: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ddpc1UpBaJq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&stkn=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D]

A quick look at a long movie.

While there are still some questions around the international rollout of Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary, US distributor Bleecker Street is forging ahead, and has a new trailer to prove it. The trailer does a good job of summing up what to expect from a very, very lengthy film. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8SyndC10]