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California’s second-largest county has barred federal immigration agents from using county shooting ranges and firearms training facilities, drawing accusations of hypocrisy from the top Republican in the state Legislature, who represents part of the county. The move comes as Democrats criticize ICE over the training its agents receive, while dozens of members of Congress have questioned training standards after deadly agent-involved shootings.  California Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, R-Poway, told Fox News Digital exclusively that the decision clashes with Democrats’ demands for better-trained ICE agents. "Leftist Democrats cannot continue to advocate for federal agents to ‘get more training’ while at the same time purposefully removing opportunities like this to get that very training," Jones told Fox News Digital. "The hypocrisy is dumbfounding." FEDERAL COURT BLOCKS NEWSOM’S BID TO SHACKLE ICE IN TRUMP IMMIGRATION WIN The San Diego County Board of Superv...

Claude : Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools   —  No items found.  —  Reading time  —  min  —  https://ift.tt/BwiZaky claude-mythos-5-to-more-defenders

Atlanta's Democratic Mayor Andre Dickens launched a scathing attack on the Democratic National Committee's leadership Thursday, accusing party leaders of turning their backs on Black voters and the South after the DNC excluded the city from its shortlist to host the 2028 presidential convention.  "The DNC continues to make the wrong choices," Dickens wrote in a scathing letter obtained by Fox News Digital, singling out DNC Chairman Ken Martin after party officials narrowed their convention search to Boston, Denver and Philadelphia. Dickens’ rebuke echoes an argument other southern Democrats have pressed on the national party in recent months: that Democrats cannot afford to take the South — and particularly its Black voters — for granted heading into 2028. South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Christale Spain declared last month, amid debate over the party’s presidential primary calendar, that "the South is not the past, it is the future," while Democratic ...

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg : Source: Anthropic plans a safety system this year requiring enterprises to retain data for 30 days, with an option to do so on their own cloud infrastructure   —  Anthropic PBC plans to allow business customers to keep greater control of their data when using its most capable artificial intelligence models …

Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing scrutiny after an online ad revealed that campaign contributions from supporters of her re-election bid would be matched by taxpayer dollars. "Your donation to our campaign right now is more critical than ever before," said Bass, speaking into a lapel microphone with upbeat music playing in the background of the ad, which was posted to her campaign's X account . "Let me explain," she continued. "Thanks to LA's super match program, every qualified donation from Los Angeles residents is matched 6-to-1 by the city. But after the primary, we had to start over from scratch, so we need you to rush your matching donation right now to help fuel this campaign." CALIFORNIA ELECTION RESULTS STILL UNDECIDED AS LOS ANGELES BEGINS COUNTING BALLOTS Bass noted that chipping in $5 would equate to a $35 total donation, while $25 would become $175. The explanation immediately raised eyebrows for those concerned that t...

Erin Griffith / New York Times : Stripe agrees to acquire New York-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to its investors   —  The deal is significant for the artificial intelligence industry, uniting Stripe's payments business with OpenRouter's helping businesses direct their spending on A.I. models.