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This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Perhaps the most exasperating part of being President is the voters’ fast forgetting. The fleeting highs—the faux victory over the Taliban, the real death of Osama bin Laden—never linger too long.

On June 8, Republicans adopted a new party platform ahead of a possible second term for former President Donald Trump. Buried among the updated policy positions on abortion, immigration, and crime, the document contains a provision that has some artificial intelligence experts worried: it vows to scrap President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “We will repeal Joe Biden’s dangerous Executive Order that hinders AI Innovation, and imposes Radical Leftwing ideas on the development of this technology,” the platform reads. Biden’s executive order on AI, signed last October, sought to tackle threats the new technology could pose to civil rights, privacy, and national security, while promoting innovation and competition and the use of AI for public services.

Federal aid for Texas after Hurricane Beryl arrived later than needed because state leaders were slow to request an official disaster declaration from the White House, President Joe Biden told the Houston Chronicle Tuesday. Via The Texas Tribune: With Gov. Greg Abbott out of the country on an economic development trip in Asia, Lt.

Gossip guru Perez Hilton covers the allegations that Trump raped a 13-year-old girl in 1994. But the mainstream media remains silent, ignoring Katie Johnson's court case. The media pundits are melting down over Biden's age. But the same outlets disregard court records with claims the GOP presidential nominee for violently raped a child. British outlet The Independent reported "Trump threatened to kill" 13-year-old Johnson if she reported him.

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So-called 'small government' conservatives are champing at the bit to get all up in your business to control every aspect of your life with Trump's Project 2025, which they want to implement with their staunch religious fanatism. Mike Davis, a potential candidate for U. S. Attorney General, says that if Trump wins the election, the Project 2025 agenda will impose "consequences" for Americans who don't support Trump.