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On tape: Kash Patel, under oath, won't say if Pam Bondi briefed Trump on the Epstein files In 2022, GOP senators said lame ducks must heed voters. Now they push a party-line bill On tape: Cindy Hyde-Smith accused of ignoring a secret Amazon data center deal after energy company donations Judge blocks Trump from closing East Potomac Park golf course for now Trump asks Supreme Court to curb judges' power to void unlawful rules nationwide On tape: Richard Blumenthal says the Trump administration let $190 million in anti-human trafficking grants lapse On tape: Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican, on the House floor: the president never asked Congress before sending troops… Massie to force new House vote to end Trump's Iran war before he leaves in January Over 200 Democrats ask appeals court to strike down VA's abortion ban for veterans Kushner says U.S. is brokering Europe-Russia talks and planning next Ukraine round On tape: Kash Patel, under oath, won't say if Pam Bondi briefed Trump on the Epstein files In 2022, GOP senators said lame ducks must heed voters. Now they push a party-line bill On tape: Cindy Hyde-Smith accused of ignoring a secret Amazon data center deal after energy company donations Judge blocks Trump from closing East Potomac Park golf course for now Trump asks Supreme Court to curb judges' power to void unlawful rules nationwide On tape: Richard Blumenthal says the Trump administration let $190 million in anti-human trafficking grants lapse On tape: Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican, on the House floor: the president never asked Congress before sending troops… Massie to force new House vote to end Trump's Iran war before he leaves in January Over 200 Democrats ask appeals court to strike down VA's abortion ban for veterans Kushner says U.S. is brokering Europe-Russia talks and planning next Ukraine round
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Jim Himes

Ranking Democrat, House Intelligence Committee

3 stories and 1 clips from The GOP Files, newest first. Last in the news Nov 12.

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“I'm on the record saying that there is no circumstance under which we can risk this authority expiring.”
Nov 12 · Himes backed GOP spy-powers bill; Section 702 lapsed in June and still awaits renewal
“We're making the assumption that the president is not going to accept the results of what looks to be a very challenging election for him and his party”
Oct 23 · Top intel Democrats say they've war-gamed Trump claiming foreign election meddling

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AI firms run Election Day war rooms to police voter misinformation

OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google are monitoring their tools for misuse and steering voters to official sources as Americans cast midterm ballots. The effort comes as a September study found nearly a third of chatbot answers to election questions were incomplete, outdated or inaccurate.