Texas high school students walk out in protest of district's transgender policies

Story at a glance Grapevine High School students on Friday walked out of their third-period classes to protest a slate of new school district policies they say are transphobic. The new policies ban lessons about gender identity and sexual orientation for students younger than the fifth grade and allow school district personnel to misgender transgender students.

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Shallowfakes are rampant: Tools to spot them must be equally accessible

Deepfakes had a moment this year: From a fairly obvious deepfake of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on hacked media in Ukraine to more proficient video scams involving Elon Musk and potentially spurious claims of deepfakes obscuring the truth from 

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Energy secretary calls on US refiners to limit exports ahead of hurricane season

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm called on major U.S. oil refiners to build up capacity and reduce exports of refined products ahead of the winter in a letter shared with The Hill.  In the letter, written last week, Granholm noted the reduced availability of diesel inventories along the East Coast, which are nearly 50 percent below the five-year average. Refined product exports are at a record high. A likely above-average hurricane season, followed shortly by the winter heating season, is likely to compound demand in the northeast.   “Given the his

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Affidavit suggests 'some of our most sensitive intelligence' mishandled: Senate Intel chair

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Friday said the redacted FBI affidavit used to justify a search warrant on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence suggests that some of the country’s “most sensitive intelligence” was mishandled. The heavily-redacted affidavit — which was made public on Friday after a judge ordered it to be unsealed the day before — revealed that 184 classified documents were found

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Successfully fighting climate change requires the support of both parties

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 contains Congress’s largest investment to date to deal with climate change. It passed without a single Republican vote. Before this, Congress’s most significant effort was in 2009 with enactment of ARRA (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) during the first month of President Obama’s first term. No House Republican voted for the ARRA, and only three Republican senators did. It wasn’t always this way. When climate change first appeared on the national agenda the commitment to deal with it was bipartisan. At the 1992 Earth Summit

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