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Choked-up Trump Voter Regrets His Vote After ICE Locks up His Fiancée

The FCC blesses more media consolidation and AI just designed a virus from scratch

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John Byrne
Aug 06, 2026
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A 75-year-old Texas Republican who owns more than 1,000 billboards now compares ICE to the Gestapo after agents seized his fiancée at a Houston airport. The FCC voted 2-1 to scrap a 22-year-old cap on how much of the country a single broadcaster can reach. Stanford researchers used AI to desig…

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