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The race for Congress between U. S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo and Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans narrowed once again Friday afternoon, according to newly updated results. But there are still thousands of ballots outstanding in Adams County, which has been favoring Caraveo by nearly 12 percentage points. As of 12:39 p.m., the Democrat held a slim 1,321-vote lead over Evans — equating to a 48.9% to 48.4% edge — out of 297,106 ballots tallied. It’s not clear when Adams County will post more results from its counting efforts.

Sen. James Coleman, a Denver Democrat, will lead the Colorado Senate as its president. Voters in his district reelected Coleman Tuesday, giving him more than 80% of the vote. He was uncontested in his selection for the top role in the chamber during a caucus meeting Friday, succeeding term-limited President Steve Fenberg. Coleman previously served as the Senate president pro tempore, who leads the chamber in the president’s absence.

When Donald Trump was last President, ChatGPT had not yet been launched. Now, as he prepares to return to the White House after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, the artificial intelligence landscape looks quite different. AI systems are advancing so rapidly that some leading executives of AI companies, such as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO and a prominent Trump backer, believe AI may become smarter than humans by 2026.

(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) This week, on a blistering, record-hot election day, Americans went to the polls and voted to put former President Donald Trump back in power. If a second Trump term is an epochal event for American democracy, so too is it for the global efforts to address climate change.

With Trump in office, an all out effort will benefit the U. S. in a large number of ways.

It’s gonna be great.