Air travel as a political football

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• A plea from the airlines

  by Nova Safo

  The CEOs of major U.S. airlines are urging Congress to fund the Department of Homeland Security and end the partial government shutdown, which has dragged on for a month now as Democrats demand reforms to immigration enforcement.

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• AI, nuclear weapons, and the lab looking to mitigate risks

  by David Brancaccio and Ashley Rodriguez

  

  At the University of Chicago’s Existential Risk Laboratory, researchers study how emerging technologies like AI could amplify global threats such as nuclear war.

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