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On Tuesday, voters in Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas voted in party primaries to elect candidates for federal, state, and local offices in the 2026 midterms. In the Texas Democratic Senate primary, state Rep. James Talarico defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett, while Sen. John Corn ...  Show more

On Friday, President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to immediately cease their use of the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic’s technology after it declined to allow the Pentagon unrestricted access to its models. Later in the day, Defense Secretary Hegseth dire ...  Show more

A quick programming note: As we get closer to the holidays, news tends to slow down a bit — today's a good example... not a lot going on, so we're going to pool today's and tomorrow's stories into a single episode tomorrow (that's Wednesday).

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<ul><li><span>Can't Inspect your Meta ads? Yeah, us either.</span></li><li><span>The new "Campaign Strength" metric</span></li><li><span>Apple readies its AR goggles</span></li><li><span>Walmart and Instagram jump deeper into AR</span></li><li><span>HBOMax's new ( ...  Show more

Weeks after Kevin McCarthy was ousted, Republicans are still scrambling to elect a new Speaker of the House. After failed runs by Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, the candidate pool keeps growing. Who is in the running now, and will anyone be able to snag the 217 votes needed? Guest ...  Show more

Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth, and Vincent Oshana discuss whether nationwide cell outages in the U.S are the result of tech failure or a cyber attack, non-U.S. citizen Kelly Wong being appointed by the San Francisco's Board of Supervisors to city's Ele ...