Simon Cowell wants to see artists protected against AI. The “America’s Got Talent” judge wrote commentary in The Daily Mail this week criticizing potential changes to U.K. law that would allow companies to use any online material to train AI models unless they explicitly opt out. Cowell warned that the livelihood of artists was at…
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Cali., is demanding that Elon Musk and Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Charles Ezell stop sending mass emails to staffers. In an open letter published Thursday, Padilla said several legislative branch offices and agencies have received mass emails from hr@opm.gov despite not being subject to personnel actions by…
Ryan Fecteau, the Maine House of Representatives’ Democratic speaker, deleted his X account early Thursday morning, just days after censuring Republican Rep. Laurel Libby. Libby was censured by the Democratic majority Tuesday evening for a recent social media post pointing out that a transgender high school athlete won a girls competition. The censure resolution passed…
Things got awkward when Vice President JD Vance remarked on his previous comments on Britain’s free speech environment, just feet away from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during an Oval Office meeting. Vance doubled down on his comments at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month when he said he feared that free speech was…
Mel Gibson denounced California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for their involvement in the Palisades and Eaton fires that devastated Southern California communities. Gibson joined Saving California for a news conference in Altadena Wednesday and its efforts to recall Newsom. “We deserve much more and much better, and there is absolutely…
Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday his plan to “supercharge” the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s air traffic controllers after numerous fatal plane crashes over the last two months. The FAA will be “streamlining” its eight-step hiring process into a five-step process, with hopes it will accelerate the time to hire for “critical…
A press conference for Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., was suddenly shut down after a group of anti-Israel protesters disrupted the event. The governor planned a press event at the City University of New York (CUNY) on Thursday, but it was canceled due to a planned protest outside the governor’s event, according to a New York…
Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky has been criticized by fellow Canadians for his apparent support of President Donald Trump. Trump has drawn disdain from the country up north for saying it should become the “51st state” and initiating tariffs on Canadian goods. Before the 4 Nations Face-Off championship between the U.S. and Canada in Boston, Gretzky…
Just a couple of weeks have passed since the New York Jets revealed their intentions to move on from Aaron Rodgers. “…. We met with Aaron and shared that our intention was to move in a different direction at quarterback,” newly hired Jets head coach Aaron Glenn and general manager Darren Mougey said in a…
A pro-Jewish Hollywood activist group is blasting a pro-Palestinian Hollywood group over its push to get Oscars attendees to wear pro-Gaza pins to the industry’s premiere awards night this Sunday. The Brigade, a group of more than 700 filmmakers, PR people and studio executives in support of Israel following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre in the…
