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Politics

AI presents political peril for 2024 with threat to mislead voters

WASHINGTON — Computer engineers and tech-inclined political scientists have warned for years that cheap, powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, video and audio that was realistic enough to fool voters and perhaps sway an election. The synthetic ...

Lochner visits Canton to promote Congress run

CANTON — A self-described moderate Republican woman who wants to challenge Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, in 2024 visited Canton on Saturday at Little Grasse Foodworks. About 14 people, Democrats and Republicans, spent nearly 90 minutes talking with Jill Lochner from Greenfield ...

Closing arguments start in rape case against Trump

NEW YORK — Donald Trump should be held accountable for sexually attacking an advice columnist in 1996 because even a former president is not above the law, a lawyer for the columnist told a jury Monday in closing arguments in the lawsuit that accuses Trump of rape. A lawyer for Trump ...

Keene, AuSable school budget hearings are today

Boards of education in the AuSable Valley and Keene school districts are holding public hearings today for their proposed 2023-24 budgets, both of which increase spending and taxes for the upcoming fiscal year compared to their budgets this year. The budget vote day is Tuesday, May ...