• With recounts done, Pierce can prepare to join General Assembly

    (The Center Square) – Rodney Pierce, the schoolteacher from Roanoke Rapids, is headed to the North Carolina General Assembly. Pierce won the Democratic primary for District 27, first finishing atop the unofficial results on Primary Election Day and then again following the third of three counties finishing recounts on Monday. Rep. Michael Wray, D-Northampton, was seeking an 11th term in office and in a statement said he wasn’t sure his next role but it would be to fight for the...

  • UN General Assembly seeks guidelines to address risks of AI

    The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted the first global resolution on artificial intelligence to encourage protecting personal data, monitoring AI for risks, and safeguarding human rights, U.S. officials said.The nonbinding resolution, proposed by the United States and co-sponsored by China and 121 other nations, took three months to negotiate and also advocates strengthening privacy policies, the officials said, briefing reporters before the resolution's passage....

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    A look at the fate of bills in the 2024 Virginia General Assembly session

    Virginia lawmakers passed 1,046 bills in the 60 days the General Assembly met this year, per the legislature’s records.

  • UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution on ‘Safe’ Artificial Intelligence Usage

    The resolution emphasizes that human rights and fundamental freedoms must be respected, protected and promoted throughout the life cycle of AI systems

  • UN General Assembly to discuss AI’s potential risks-rewards

    Shafaqna English- The United Nations General Assembly is set to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) Thursday, weighing a resolution that lays out the potentially transformational technology’s pros and cons while calling for the establishment of international standards. The text, co-sponsored by dozens of countries, emphasizes the necessity of guidelines “to promote

  • [Newspoint] Journalism is debate

    We don’t speak off the top of our heads; we collect facts and authoritative pronouncements that will reinforce our position and at the same time demolish, or at least weaken, the opposite position

  • Making Sense of the Fascism Debate

    Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins A Rorschach test for understanding what is ailing American society.

  • Promise, apprehension color debate on psychedelics

    Psychedelics such as psilocybin found in "magic mushrooms" have helped people heal from trauma, recover from addiction, and treat chronic pain, but opponents of a ballot question to decriminalize the substances say there is not yet enough research for them to be widely available."

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    The debate over raising the minimum wage in Virginia

    As they vowed to do, Democrats sent Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin bills to increase Virginia’s minimum wage to $15 by 2026. Now, it’s up to the governor.

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    1st MSC New Commanding General

    FORT BUCHANAN, Puerto Rico- Col. Carlos E. Gorbea promoted to brigadier general on a ceremony hosted by Maj. Gen. Eugene Leboeuf, the deputy commanding general of the United States Army Reserve Command. Brig. Gen. Gorbea expressed his gratitude towards his family, particularly his wife Andrea Hermann and their children Rafael and Estella Gorbea, for their support and contribution to his achievement.

  • Christian Roundtable Debate: What is a False Teacher?

    In a roundtable discussion that lasted over four hours, several prominent Christian voices discussed a question that has followed the church since it's inception: what constitutes a false teacher? This is just one area of debate that took place between Justin Peters, leader of Justin Peters Ministries; Jim Osman, pastor of Kootenai Community Church; Michael Brown, host of the "Line of Fire" podcast; and Sam Storms, pastor emeritus of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City. The group unanimously...

  • US sanctions Nicaragua attorney general

    The US announced sanctions on Thursday against Nicaraguan Attorney General Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina, accusing her of assisting the “ruthless oppression of peaceful opposition members” in the country. The Treasury Department dubbed Morales Urbina a "key actor in the Nicaraguan regime’s unjust persecution of political prisoners," according to a press release announcing its sanction. Morales