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For much of the last decade, corporate America has embraced artificial intelligence, automated phone systems, chatbots and digital self-service platforms with the promise of making customer service faster and more efficient. Companies have argued that technology would reduce wait times, improve consistency and make it easier for customers to obtain help at any hour of the day. Increasingly, however, consumers describe a different experience—one in which automation has become another obstacle separating companies from the people they are supposed to serve. The problem is not artificial intelligence itself. Used well, AI can speed routine tasks, organize information and help employees respond more quickly. The concern arises when businesses treat automation as a substitute for trained customer-service representatives rather than as…

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Senator Lindsey Graham, who once suggested that some January 6 Capitol rioters “should be shot in the head” and who told White House counsel that President Trump should be removed under the 25th Amendment after the riot, has died at age 71. Graham had a reputation as one of Washington’s most consistent foreign policy hawks and warmongers. Throughout his time in government, he pushed for deeper U.S. military involvement and prolonged engagements…

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A federal judge on Friday dismissed criminal convictions against several Proud Boys leaders prosecuted for their roles in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. US District Judge Timothy Kelly granted a Justice Department motion to dismiss the case against Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola. Nordean, Biggs and Rehl were convicted in 2023 of seditious conspiracy and other offenses. Pezzola was convicted of assaulting a police officer…

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The Trump administration is holding the Smithsonian Institution accountable for turning the National Museum of American History into a vehicle for extreme political activism and inappropriate sexual content aimed at children—directly violating President Donald Trump’s March executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” A White House report released on July 4 details how the museum has abandoned objective scholarship in favor of radical ideology. Most outrageously, exhibits include…

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Hollywood’s latest lesson in “get woke, go broke” just hit theaters—and the box office numbers are brutal. Warner Bros.’ Supergirl has officially become the worst-earning DC movie released in more than two decades, limping to just $108 million globally as of this past weekend. The last DC film that performed this poorly was the infamous 2004 bomb Catwoman, which took in $82 million. Adjusted for inflation, that 2004 flop would…

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Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is introducing legislation to end automatic birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants and foreign nationals engaged in birth tourism, providing Congress with a legislative vehicle to advance President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. The Citizenship Act would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act by defining unauthorized entrants and birth tourists as statutory “invaders” whose children are not entitled to automatic citizenship.…

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President Donald Trump raised the prospect of pulling every American soldier out of Europe, one of the bluntest warnings he has yet aimed at the continent’s governments, delivering it in Ankara hours before the opening of the NATO leaders summit. The remarks, first reported by the Financial Times, arrived alongside a revived American claim on Greenland, the Danish territory whose status has already produced thesharpest rupture in transatlantic relations in…

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked the 4th of July with a speech loaded with leftist pablum, as he seeks to establish himself as Blue America’s leader of the opposition in the Trump era. In Mamdani’s telling, America has the potential to be great, but only if it rises up against the “oligarchs” and conservative forces holding it back. He granted no credit to the role that business owners…

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In the aftermath of Los Angeles’s recent mayoral primary, it appears that the Left does not quite have a total grip on the city’s politics — for now, at least. The Los Angeles City Council was recently planning to put forth a ballot measure to voters that, if passed, would allow illegal aliens to vote in municipal and school district elections. However, the council has since decided against this, at…

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As the Iran/US ceasefire broke down last night brave Iranian students humiliated the dictatorship in Tehran by taking over more than 600 government-controlled university websites. The regime of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei – who has made no appearance at week-long funeral rallies for his father Ali Khamenei, backing claims he has been seriously injured in a US air strike – came under fire from American missiles which rained down on 80…

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A new Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas working paper is adding economic weight to a central argument of populist America First policy: mass labor inflows may boost headline employment, but they can also impose heavy costs on working- and middle-class Americans through housing, public resources, and wage pressure hidden beneath national averages. The paper, which combines immigration court records with government administrative data, examines the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration…

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