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Saturday Night Update: Republicans Face Protests at Home and Abroad, AI Tech CEOs Urge Slow Down in Major Shift, a…

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    Watch now   Saturday Night Update: Republicans Face Protests at Home and Abroad, AI Tech CEOs Urge Slow Down in Major Shift, and More Aaron Parnas Sep 12     Good evening everyone. Tonight’s rundown has a clear thread running through it. Republicans are facing pushback everywhere they turn, at home and abroad, and none of it looks like it’s going away anytime soon. Donald Trump found that out this weekend in Ireland, where thousands took to the streets of Dublin and public figures like Rosie O’Donnell openly called for protests against his visit. Back home, Roger Marshall is facing his own wave of backlash from constituents fed up with where the party stands. And Ted Cruz walked into a college football stadium in the middle of a deep red state and got booed for nearly ten minutes straight, loud enough that you couldn’t even hear his answers. Add to that a growing chorus of warnings from the very people building artificial intelligence , a fight over a five ...

POLITICO Nightly: Trump’s empty embrace of Starmer

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By  Calder McHugh Presented by  President Donald Trump, right, meets Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington today. | Chris Kleponis via CNP LIMITED GUARANTEE  — When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington at Blair House — the presidential guest house opposite the White House — he was greeted by a gesture of goodwill: the Union Jack flying outside. The only problem? The  flag was upside down  . The honest mistake proved emblematic of Starmer’s visit, a well-intended gesture that didn’t exactly accomplish its intended result. The prime minister and the president didn’t make much concrete progress and had little to announce beyond expected platitudes about increased cooperation. Starmer has learned to speak Trump’s language, flattering him and praising the United States enough that Trump appears to have genuine affection for the center-left prime minister. And yet Trump remains unmove...