Missouri’s top lawyer threatens tech companies after AI chatbots rank Trump low on antisemitism

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding answers from Big Tech after its AI chatbots did something unforgivable in his eyes: They ranked Donald Trump poorly on antisemitism. In letters sent this week to Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, Bailey accused the companies of spreading “fake news” through their AI tools by placing Trump at […]

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Google’s Sergey Brin derides UN as ‘transparently antisemitic’ in company chat: Report

Google co-founder Sergey Brin called the United Nations “transparently antisemitic” in an internal forum for employees Saturday, according to screenshots obtained by the Washington Post. The comments, which came in response to a recent U.N. report accusing Google of profiting from “the genocide carried out by Israel,” are notable because Brin, one of the richest […]

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Shai Davidai, pro-Israel professor who challenged Columbia University over antisemitism, has resigned

Shai Davidai, the Israeli business school professor who emerged as one of the sharpest antagonists against Columbia University over its response to antisemitism on campus, has resigned from his employment there. A university spokesperson confirmed that Davidai’s resignation became effective on Tuesday. “The University thanks him for his service and wishes him the best in […]

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Largest teachers union in the country narrowly votes to sever ties with the ADL

The National Education Association, the United States’ largest teachers union, has passed a non-binding measure barring the union from using, endorsing or publicizing any materials from the Anti-Defamation League. The proposal, supported by a slim majority of NEA delegates present at the union’s 2025 Representative Assembly in Portland, Oregon, over the weekend, will automatically be […]

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Report: Trump administration boasted of Jewish endorsements it did not receive for nominee with white supremacist ties

Last week, following a request to defend the controversial senior federal watchdog appointee Paul Ingrassia, the Trump administration told CNN that he had the “support of many Jewish groups.” But after CNN reached out to the Jewish groups mentioned in the administration’s response, many said that they had never heard of him — though some […]

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Jewish Democrats in Congress raise concerns about Zohran Mamdani’s anti-Israel positions

Some Jewish Democrats in Congress, including the prominent House member Debbie Wasserman Schultz, are coming out to condemn Zohran Mamdani for his record of anti-Israel stances just weeks after prominent Jewish Democrats in New York endorsed the upstart mayoral candidate. Mamdani, a state assemblyman who shocked the political system by winning New York’s Democratic primary […]

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IRS says religious institutions may endorse candidates, undoing a longstanding ban

Rabbis and other clergy members in the United States may endorse candidates from the pulpit without jeopardizing their house of worship’s tax-exempt status, the Internal Revenue Service has decreed. The policy change reverses a ban on endorsing or opposing candidates by religious organizations known as the Johnson Amendment, enacted in the 1950s. The IRS made […]

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Critics have an even more controversial nickname for ICE’s Everglades detention facility: ‘Alligator Auschwitz’

President Trump and Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis had a giddy name for the temporary ICE facility they built quickly on an airstrip in the Florida Everglades: “Alligator Alcatraz.” “We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison,” Trump boasted July 1 as he toured the detention facility for […]

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