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"Birth rates are assumed to increase from recent very low levels to an ultimate level of 1.9 children per woman for 2040 and thereafter."… — Melissa S. Kearney (@kearney_melissa)

— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC)

Jared Bernstein is literally the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, the main agency advising Biden on economic policy — Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand)

From 2014 to 2021, Cuellar and his wife accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico.

After years of massive fundraising rounds and media attention, the cultivated meat industry is facing pushback from politicians and powerful meat lobbying groups.

" ... so the bill that I'm going to sign today is going to say basically take your fake, lab-grown meat elsewhere. We're not doing that in the state of Florida,” said Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Some Trump advisers argue that the president should be consulted on interest-rate decisions and have the authority to oust the Fed chair.

The News Literacy Project works with educators and journalists to give students the skills they need to discern fact from fiction and to know what to trust.

The White House is reversing course after weighing the health benefits of the ban against the political risk of angering Black voters.

Fed officials believed that higher inflation readings in January and February 2024 were a blip. But with the March reading also coming in hot, analysts say this is more than a fluke.

🚨Deepfakes are getting too real in an election year.Don't believe everything you see🤯7 wild examples you cannot miss:1. AI-generated Barack Obama has a message for youpic.twitter.com/eOjm4akI9S— Min Choi (@minchoi) March 28, 2024

In the country of 274 million, millennials and Gen Z voters make up 56.5% of the electorate — and campaigning on social media is heating up.

The new ban comes after a robocall using an AI deepfake of President Biden targeted Democrats in New Hampshire ahead of the state’s primary.

Democrats are eager to catch some reflected light from the massive star. But using Swift’s support to move votes could be tricky.

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Social scientists say polarization is increasingly based on a visceral dislike for the opposition rather than extremely divergent policy preferences.

Dall-E fakes are going to be a lot harder to pull off.

Many in popular culture and elite institutions promote democracy as a cure for all that ails us. We have lost the healthy skepticism of its worst excesses that the Founding Fathers understood when they established the governing institutions of the United States. These excesses were on full display over the weekend.

Countries with a cumulative population of 4 billion are voting this year with democracy on the ballot in many places.

While reading the new biography on Mitt Romney, there was a key economics principle that wove through his political life like Albus Dumbledore through Harry's. Just like Dumbledore always nudged Harry at critical moments, this principle helped Romney navigate his way from a failed Senate candidacy, to a successful Gubernatorial run, to multiple failed Presidential campaigns, and finally to a successful seat in the Senate.

Democrat Shamaine Daniels is running for Congress, eyeing a seat held by Trump-aligned Republican Representative Scott Perry, who played a key role challenging the 2020 election results.

More political ad money is moving from local broadcast to digital channels.

As the 2022 midterms approach, see what issues people in your congressional district care about.

President Biden is wrapping up a historic first 100 days as president of the United States. With the Dow up 3375 points, or 11%, it would be the second best 100 days' performance in 100 years.