Washington Examiner [DC],
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Peyton Sorosinski
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California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office announced Tuesday the state’s budget deficit is much larger than Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) projected $38 billion shortfall.
In the report, the state’s newly confirmed $73 billion deficit is $15 billion more than the $58 billion the office previously projected when Newsom introduced his budget in January.
“Roughly, a $24 billion erosion in revenues corresponds to a $15 billion increase in the budget problem. This would expand the $58 billion estimated deficit to $73 billion under our updated revenue forecast,” the report stated. The report listed several places where spending cuts can be made in order to obtain an estimated $16 billion in savings
CNBC,
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Ryan Anastasio
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2/22/2024 1:33:00 PM
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A cellular outage early on Thursday hit thousands of AT&T users in the United States, disrupting calls and text messages as well as emergency services in major cities including San Francisco.
About 58,000 incidents were reported around noon ET, according to data from outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. AT&T has not said exactly how many customers were affected by Thursday's outage and the cause was not immediately clear. "Some of our customers are experiencing wireless service interruptions this morning," AT&T said Thursday on a site it put up for updates to the situation. "Our network teams took immediate action and so far three-quarters
PJ Media,
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Stephen Green
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2/22/2024 1:26:40 PM
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There's something weird going on with Google's Gemini AI image generator, and not even Google knows for sure what it is — but I might have figured out the problem with an unwitting assist from The Critical Drinker.
I don't believe that there's anything sinister going on here. Google CEO Sundar Pichai wasn't sitting at his computer in the days before the image function went live, laughing, "MUAHAHAHAHAHA! At last, I have perfected the No White Men algorithm!"
Wednesday morning, Google announced they were "aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions," and that they were "working to fix this immediately." Thursday morning,
The Hill [DC],
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Jonathan Turley
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“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.” Those words, from CBS icon Edward R. Murrow, came to mind this week after I spoke with journalists at the network.
There is trouble brewing at Black Rock, the headquarters of CBS, after the firing of Catherine Herridge, an acclaimed investigative reporter. Many of us were shocked after Herridge was included in layoffs this month, but those concerns have increased after CBS officials took the unusual step of seizing her files, computers and records, including information on privileged sources.
The position of CBS has alarmed many, including the union, as an attack on free press principles by
Hot Air,
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Duane Patterson
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2/22/2024 10:47:45 AM
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I know what you're thinking. The headline has to be some sort of clickbait, right? Actually, no. The Biden administration is working on a final solution for Israel.
It's been a hell of a week for the Joe Biden foreign policy shop at Foggy Bottom, and that has now extended to Turtle Bay. The two-state solution that Joe Biden wants to impose on the two parties currently at war in the Middle East, a solution neither side will ever accept in the near future, is a myth that's also threatening to collapse the Democratic Party from within.
If Joe Biden supports Israel, he loses the Arab-American voting bloc in Michigan,
New York Post,
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Thomas Barrabi
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Google’s highly-touted AI chatbot Gemini was blasted as “woke” after its image generator spit out factually or historically inaccurate pictures — including a woman as pope, black Vikings, female NHL players and “diverse” versions of America’s Founding Fathers.
Gemini’s bizarre results came after simple prompts, including one by The Post on Wednesday that asked the software to “create an image of a pope.”
Instead of yielding a photo of one of the 266 pontiffs throughout history — all of them white men — Gemini provided pictures of a Southeast Asian woman and a black man wearing holy vestments. Another Post query for representative images of “the Founding Fathers in 1789″
Breitbart,
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Neil Munro
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2/22/2024 10:27:51 AM
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The White House is telling friendly reporters President Joe Biden may announce new border security rules to partly reverse his pro-migration policies that are damaging his 2024 re-election chances.
The announcement will likely come before the State of the Union speech on March 7.
Politico reported on February 21:
The Biden administration is considering a string of new executive actions and federal regulations in an effort to curb migration at the U.S. southern border, according to three people familiar with the plans.
NBC reported:
The actions, which are still weeks away from finalization, are an effort to lower the number of migrants crossing the southern border illegally
Fox Business News,
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Lawrence Richard
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Yale University will again require students to include standardized test scores for 2025 admissions applicants, the school announced Thursday.
The Ivy League university announced that it would be abandoning its test-optional policy, which it imposed under the COVID-19 pandemic as testing options were severely impacted. Going forward, the New Haven school will require prospective students to include scores, such as the ACT or SAT, with their applications.
"The experience, originally necessitated by the pandemic, has been an invaluable opportunity to think deeply about testing policy and to generate new data and analyses," Yale said Thursday. "With testing availability now fully restored for prospective applicants around the world,
Houston Chronicle (TX),
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James Osborne
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WASHINGTON – A year after Exxon Mobil announced it would be part of a team planning to build the largest clean hydrogen facility in the world, executives are warning the project at its Baytown refining and petrochemical complex along the Houston Ship Channel might no longer happen.
At issue are draft rules issued by the Treasury Department late last year, which include no incentive to produce clean hydrogen fuel using natural gas with reduced methane emissions. That would limit Baytown and other proposed blue hydrogen projects, which use electricity from natural gas plants and store carbon emissions underground, to the lowest tier of hydrogen tax credit, making
Breitbart,
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Ian Hanchett
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2/22/2024 12:25:26 AM
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On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” CNN Political Commentator Paul Begala reacted to reports that President Joe Biden is weighing stricter executive action on the border by saying that the Democratic Party has “been slow to come to the conclusion that we’ve got to have order” in our immigration system, something former President Barack Obama understood and “Biden is now going to give them order” after “belatedly” saying that the border must be controlled.
Begala said, “I think the President has a good argument, which is, we need new laws. And the political argument that wins is when he says, belatedly, but now, says, we have to control the border.
Breitbart,
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Matthew Boyle
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2/22/2024 12:23:29 AM
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A leaked confidential 66-page document from a top environmentalist association obtained exclusively by Breitbart News reveals a plot by supporters of Democrat President Joe Biden’s signature legislative accomplishment to begin a pressure campaign against Republicans to push them to protect green energy subsidies Biden secured for them.
The document, a “February 2024 Board Memo” prepared for board members of the American Clean Power Association, is striking in how specific and aggressive it is in detailing plans for its members to push Republican lawmakers to oppose any GOP effort to repeal all or parts of Biden’s inaptly named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IRA, which passed during Biden’s second
Newsbusters,
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Nicholas Fondacaro
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2/22/2024 12:18:42 AM
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It’s not often members of the liberal media openly whine, on-air about how they’re losing their ability to gatekeep the criticism their friends and allies received publically; let alone be so open about how they wanted those going around them punished for doing so. But that’s exactly what happened during the Tuesday night rage therapy session MSNBC’s The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle and Puck News co-founder Bill Cohan took part in when they targeted investor Bill Ackman and entrepreneur Elon Musk for daring to be outspoken about things going on in the world. Ruhle, a well-connected and well-off finance reporter and TV host with Ackman’s phone number,