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Why Hasn’t California Elected a Woman Governor?

Most states have had a woman serve as governor, but California is in the minority despite its progressive-minded electorate. Women who have reached the top elsewhere saw familiar roadblocks.

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A.I. Doesn’t Have to Mean Layoffs

A French multinational, Schneider Electric, decided to use artificial intelligence in manufacturing to make workers more productive, rather than to replace them. Here’s how that’s going.

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What’s happening with the paint on the National Mall?

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Biden adviser: Iran deal ‘may be the best of the very bad outcomes’

Former national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Friday blasted the Trump administration’s approach to negotiating with Iran but said the tentative deal that U.S. officials are considering may be their best option left. Sullivan, who helped negotiate the Obama administration’s 2

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Watch live: Bessent delivers warning on US manufacturing

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will deliver a speech at the Reagan National Economic Forum on Friday warning that decades of U.S. industrial policy have left the country strategically vulnerable. During a talk titled “While America Slept,” Bessent will argue that policymakers h

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Watch live: Jamie Dimon speaks at Reagan economic forum

Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorganChase, will speak at the Reagan National Economic Forum on Friday as the U.S. faces rising inflation amid the war in Iran. Dimon warned in his annual letter to shareholders last month that prolonged inflation and higher interest rates caus

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Democrats press Patel for information after ‘VIP snorkel’ trip

Senate Democrats, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), are pressing FBI Director Kash Patel and the Department of Justice’s acting inspector general for answers about whether Patel is using government resources for personal leisure after he

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Whole Hog Politics: A cringeworthy opening for Texas Senate general

James Talarico seems to know what he needs to do in order to keep the Senate race in Texas competitive in the long, hot summer. The question is whether Ken Paxton does. The same woke sensibilities that made Talarico, an Austin lawmaker, a darling to the progressives in the state

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