national security
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US House task force releases report on AI regulation with 66 key findings, 85 recommendations
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The U.S. House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence has released its report on artificial intelligence following nearly a year of meetings and discussions with over 100 experts in the field. The task force, which included 12 Democrats and 12 Republicans, was charged with compiling a comprehensive “road map” for Congress to implement safeguards against artificial…
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Why a spy balloon? It’s a key question, retired NORAD commander says
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China has launched ever more satellites in recent years, so why would it need a balloon? It’s a key question, said Army Lt. Gen. Ed Anderson, former vice commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command, the installation that gave the order to shoot down the balloon. Blinken off to Europe amid soaring tensions with China…
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CONGRESSIONAL ROUNDUP: How Colorado’s delegation voted this week
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Here’s a look at key votes in Congress this week and how Colorado’s delegation voted: H.R. 5515: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 This was a vote to pass H.R. 5515 in the House. H.R. 5515 is the hotly contested $717 billion military spending bill that would pay for numerous new fighter jets,…
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Retired Air Force General Ronald Keys talks energy, national security with Colorado farmers
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In the decade he’s been examining the relationship between climate change and national security, retired Air Force General Ronald E. Keys says he’s seen huge advances in efficiency, affordability and ways to use renewable energy in more and more situations, but some of the most profound changes he’s seen have been in attitudes. “People would…
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May: Iran’s latest unfree and unfair election
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The Islamic Republic isn’t a democracy, but a theocratic dictatorship News must be new but it needn’t be surprising. The decidedly unsurprising news out of Iran last week: There was an election (of sorts) and the winner was Hassan Rouhani, the incumbent president. An apparently mild-mannered cleric with a beatific smile, he has presided over…
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Trump talk with Russians ‘wholly appropriate,’ adviser says
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The White House on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump’s disclosure of classified information to senior Russian officials as “wholly appropriate,” as officials tried to beat back criticism from fellow Republicans and concerns from international allies. One day after officials declared that reports about Trump’s discussions with the Russians were false, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster…
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Is it Cory Gardner’s time to shine on North Korea?
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Following his participation in a North Korea-focused U.S. Senate field trip to the White House April 26, Sen. Cory Gardner took the international limelight again, a place he has grown seemingly more comfortable. Gardner took the opportunity of the White House visit to call for broader sanctions against North Korea and implored the U.S. military to…
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Democrat Andy Kerr formally announces he’s running for Congressional District 7 seat
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“My name is Andy Kerr, and I am running for Congress,” the Democratic state senator told a crowd of family, friends, colleagues and supporters filling the gymnasium as he began his speech at Dunstan Middle School in Lakewood on Wednesday afternoon. It’s the same way U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter — at that time a former…
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May: Trump’s pivot to North Korea
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It’s high time the United States deals with the most imminent nuclear threat America can do anything but America can’t do everything, at least not within a four-year time frame. That suggests that the American president – any American president – needs to prioritize. In 2011, President Obama decided that the Muslim world should no…
