The Melissa Diaz Report

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(MSN) 'He's still the best candidate': Maine voters stand by Graham Platner despite scandals

(India Times) China Approves World's First Commercial Brain Implant, Beating Neuralink to Market

(GRoundNews) Fewer Americans say democracy is central to country’s identity, AP-NORC poll finds

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The New York Fed says that more Americans are skipping meals because food is too expensive (Yahoo News)

Silicon Valley turns transhumanism into a "secular religion" promising immortality and minds uploaded to chips (the Guardian)

China: An A.I. company is working to develop technology that could predict who might become critical of the government (NYTimes)

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- Memorial Day weekend

- The new Art

- Secret Service agents exchanged gunfire with a shooter who allegedly shot at officers outside the White House. The suspect was killed, and a bystander was struck by gunfire and hospitalized.

- Pope Leo XIV releases warning about the risks of artificial intelligence

- Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation.

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* Ted Turner, founder of CNN and 24 hour news cycle, died last wednesday

* 80% of companies using AI agents are cutting staff

* Sean Duffy debuts YouTube reality show funded by Boeing, Shell, Toyota, and other companies his agency regulates

* Americans more worried about running out of money than death

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- Pete Hegseth’s first hearings in Congress since the start of Iran war (AP)

- Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass” (New York Times)

- Tucker Carlson on a New York Times interview

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Michael Jackson biopic, “Michael”

The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives has been charged with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a case about whether law enforcement’s use of geofence searches — which collect cell phone location data from an area in which a crime occurred — violates the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizuresb

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• Looksmaxxing in 60 Minutes
• Anthropic announces they will not release their latest artificial intelligence model
• President Trump signed an executive order Saturday directing the FDA to expedite review of psychedelics

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• The Associated Press offers buyouts to an unspecified number of US-based journalists as it shifts focus from newspaper journalism to visual journalism and artificial intelligence
• The world's wildest company retreat involves 120 employees meeting in Honduras for a Survivor-style experience that included eating a dead tarantula, sitting on a fire ant hill, and a rogue porcupine
• On Sunday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Navy will impose a blockade on the Strait of Hormuz after peace negotiations with Iranian officials failed to produce a breakthrough
• Former US Senator Ben Sasse sat down with Ross Douthat last week to talk about his impending death and our institutions
• Former US Senator Ben Sasse sat down with Ross Douthat last week to talk about his impending death and our institutions

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• Gen Z Catholic influencers make church look cooler than ever — snapping up hundreds of thousands of social media followers
• Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record as humans travel farther from Earth than ever before
• Eight Scientists Missing or Dead: Full List of Baffling Disappearances in the U.S.
• AOC hit with ethics complaint over $19K in campaign cash spent on ketamine specialist

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1. Kash Patel Reveals That The FBI Purchases Americans' Location Data After Questioning By Wyden
2. Netflix Documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’ Exposes a Digital Pipeline to Misogyny
3. Chuck Norris, martial artist, actor, and cultural icon, died March 19 in Hawaii. He was 86. Just nine days earlier, he posted a video sparring, captioning it: "I don't age. I level up."
4. Larry Fink’s Warning: Invest or Risk Getting Left Behind by AI