The tailgate was aimed at boosting a protégé, but it was Donald Trump whose name and image were plastered everywhere — on the banner hung from Republicans’ table outside the Arizona State University football game, on baseball caps, on signs they carried and stickers they fixed to tank-tops on a Friday night where the pavement was still hot and the temperature, at dusk, hovered around 95 degrees. They might have turned out to support the protégé, Kari Lake, but it was his movement...

The Islamic Republic of Iran is sending defiant messages to Israel. Arab diplomats indicate Iran is planning a "complex response" to the Jewish state, including an attack with more weapons and warheads that haven't yet been deployed. Washington and Jerusalem are actively preparing for this potential Iranian counterattack. Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ramped up his threats against Israel and the United States on Saturday. "The enemies – be it the Zionist regime or the...

From the Center We won’t know the outcome of this year’s presidential election until tomorrow night at the earliest, and possibly not for days or weeks to come. But it’s never too early to start laying blame for a losing campaign, so this seems like a good time to start blaming those responsible for both Kamala Harris’ and Donald Trump’s defeats.  If Harris comes up short, most of the blame will go to Joe Biden. Had the president decided not to seek re-election in late 2023 or even...

When Donald Trump won his surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election, he brought with him what political scientists call a "thermostatic backlash" in the culture, a phenomenon in which public opinion shifts in the opposite direction following significant policy changes or other seismic political events. Before the pandemic accelerated things, Trump's first term in office was defined by cultural backlashes like the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, and a...

Most AI builders don't say where they are getting the data they use to train their bots and models — but legally they're required to say what they are doing with their customers' data. The big picture: These data-use disclosures open a window onto the otherwise opaque world of Big Tech's AI brain-food fight. In this new Axios series, we'll tell you, company by company, what all the key players are saying and doing with your personal information and content. Why it...

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