I recently asked Claude, Anthropic's artificial intelligence assistant, to investigate whether Claude is a person. Its response began: "I'm Claude, so I'm the subject here. I've tried to report this straight." Claude answered as a participant with a personal stake in the question would answer, and that made the wording striking.
If voters are trying to imagine what the nation would look like under the socialist policies of a Democratic majority in Congress, look no farther than California.
The US will livestream the Army's upcoming firing squad execution of a gunman who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, the Pentagon said, in what would be an unprecedented broadcast of a US execution.
For days, the country has been riveted by the case of death row inmate Christa Pike, who was sentenced to die by lethal injection on September 30 - the first woman in 200 years to be executed in the state of Tennessee. Only Christa didn't die. For two hours, the team at the prison tried and failed to find a vein, ultimately sending a double dose of the poison into her body, not her bloodstream. The result was catastrophic, but not fatal, and she was rushed to the hospital for "life-saving care," a shocking twist that's ignited a global debate about the death penalty. But there's a much bigger outrage taking place in America than this one botched punishment - and it's taking countless lives a year.
Virginia voters are dealing with the most important ballot question in years: whether to approve the misnamed "Reproductive Freedom Amendment" (RFA) to Virginia's Constitution, which appears as Ballot Question #1. If ultimately adopted, the RFA would abolish all parental responsibility and decision-making involving their minor children in all areas of sexual behavior, contraception, abortion, and other medical interventions.
A would-be terrorist was arrested for his plan to commit a mass shooting at the Mall of America in support of ISIS by the FBI on Tuesday. The Department of Justice reported that Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, an 18-year-old man from Richfield, Minnesota, was charged by complaint with one count of knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition to use in an act of terrorism.
