USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego on Thursday after a record 321-day deployment supporting the US war with Iran. The Navy's published figures measure what its air wing flew and burned, while the strain on the crew came to light through Congress and the press.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder 18%
- Operator
- Operator 68%
- Investor
- Investor 14%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence58
Bipartisan bill offers a 20% federal credit on US film labor for shooting 75% of days at home
Sens. Tim Scott and Adam Schiff back a bill giving film and TV productions a 20% federal credit on US labor, rising to 30% with bonuses. Those bonuses reward rural, disaster-area and multi-state shoots, so part of the contest the bill sets up is between US states.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption5
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives75
- Confidence50
Five senators press the Trump administration to publish its frontier-model risk standard
Mark Warner and four Democratic colleagues have asked for the standards and the legal authorities behind a June directive that took two Anthropic models offline worldwide for two weeks. They want a public framework.
Publishers:warner.senate.gov
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives85
- Confidence55
Crypto's campaign money buys less in this Senate than it did in spring 2024
Ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote the White House is answering bank lobbyists with a scenario tool, while Fairshake's $30 million to Democrats is already spent and Republicans including John Cornyn weigh a no.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives82
- Confidence55
OpenAI asks Congress whether rivals could legally agree to slow AI development
WIRED reported the outreach to lawmakers. It comes after a February in which OpenAI and Anthropic both loosened safety commitments, and while a bill from Senators Schiff and Banks would shield some restraint agreements if the Justice Department is told first.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence40
Trump endorses a film credit that stacks on whichever state already wins
The term on the table is 20% of all labor costs, actors included, layered on top of state incentives the way Canada's is, which moves the margin against foreign shoots without changing which American state gets the work.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives78
- Confidence45
Michigan more than quadruples the daily price of keeping Kalshi's sports contracts switched on
The June restraining order metered noncompliance at $120,000 a day; Judge Aquilina's September 1 replacement charges up to $500,000, and it now travels down the clearing chain to the brokers routing the orders.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives68
- Confidence40
Shasta County's Peters hire is an access-control failure, not a voting-machine one
A registrar who was censured this month for threatening staff says he will make a convicted election-systems thief his deputy. The controls that would stop it are personnel controls.
Reality
- Evidence61
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives74
- Confidence58