Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) contended that House Republicans banning transgender people from using single-sex restrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex is “an attempt” to distract the public. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) issued a policy banning transgender individuals from using single-sex bathrooms and locker rooms inside the Capitol building following legislation introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) addressing this topic. When asked about the action taken by Johnson, McBride suggested the recent move by House Republicans is the latest “attempt to misdirect” attention. KEY DATES FOR THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION “It is an attempt to distract from what they are actually doing,” McBride said on CBS News’s Face the Nation. “Every single time we hear them say the word ‘trans,’ look what they’re doing with their right hand. Look at what they’re doing to pick the pocket of American workers, to fleece seniors by privatizing social security and medicare; look what they’re doing undermining workers." McBride continued, "And here’s also what we have to be clear about, because I think the last week has been a prime example of this: every bit of time and energy that is used to divert the attention of federal government to go after trans people is time and energy that is not focused on addressing the cost of living for our constituents. And we have to be clear that there is a real cost for the American worker every time they focus on this.” McBride also addressed concerns fellow Democratic lawmakers have made on how transgender ideology is impacting support, as Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) recently received internal backlash from his party for stating he did not want his two daughters “getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete.” In response, McBride argued the country is still experiencing its conversation on “the full diversity” of the transgender community. Johnson’s announcement of the new policy applies to bathrooms in the Capitol and House office buildings and will be enforced by the House sergeant-at-arms. The House speaker maintained that the policy would be enforced, but it’s unknown how. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER McBride agreed to comply with Johnson’s policy via a statement, as the newly-elected lawmaker is focused on bringing down “costs facing families.” Following Johnson’s decision, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) offered his personal office bathroom for McBride.
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Virat Kohli celebrated a ton and Marnus Labuschagne's wicket as India dominated Australia in Perth. Photo: Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS Australia's bid to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy could be over after just three days, with Pat Cummins' men needing to achieve a 27-year first to finally beat India in a Test series. Black Friday Sale Subscribe Now! Login or signup to continue reading All articles from our website & app The digital version of Today's Paper Breaking news alerts direct to your inbox Interactive Crosswords, Sudoku and Trivia All articles from the other regional websites in your area Continue With two days left in Perth, 522 runs still required and three wickets down, Australia would need to pull off the greatest comeback in cricket history to avoid losing the first Test at Optus Stadium. India have obliterated Australia since midway through day one, with the expected smashing set to be up there with the disastrous 2010-11 Ashes losses and a nightmare defeat to South Africa in 2016. The three innings defeats to England 14 years ago, and the crushing by the Proteas resulted in significant change. That is still unlikely to happen this time, but captain Cummins and coach Andrew McDonald are confronting a challenge unlike anything they have faced since becoming Australia's leaders. He's back: Aside from facing defeat in Perth, Australia now know Virat Kohli is back in form. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS) Not since the 1997 Ashes in England has Australia lost the first Test and won the series. Mark Taylor's team was belted by nine wickets in the Edgbaston opener, before retaining the Ashes 3-2 in a six-Test series. Fast bowler Josh Hazlewood, who admitted Sunday's onslaught by Indian stars Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal was among the toughest days of his career, is already eyeing the second Test in Adelaide. Australia will begin day four in utter disarray at 3-12, with debutant Nathan McSweeney and out-of-form Marnus Labuschagne already having lost their wicket. "I'm probably looking mostly towards next Test and what plans we can do against these (Indian) batters," Hazlewood said on Sunday night. "It's obviously a long series. It's a five-match series. "If we can put some overs into their top quicks, I guess that's probably the couple of goals that we need to tick off (on Monday). "If a couple of (our) guys find some form and score 80, 90, or even 100 that's probably the positives we can take out of it." Captain Cummins has more to worry about than merely failing as nightwatchman on day three. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS) Australia last won a Border-Gavaskar series in 2014-15, with India holding the trophy since 2017, which has included winning on their past two tours to this country. In their first innings in Perth, the Aussies made their lowest home total against India since 1981, replying to the tourists' 150 with 104. Since India's first innings finished, the tourists have made Australia look second-rate and have been unstoppable with bat and ball. Bold and confident young superstar Jaiswal, who sledged Mitchell Starc about the Aussie quick's pace during his 161, deftly handled a question about India landing a psychological blow on Australia. "I was just trying to focus on me," Jaiswal said. "I was just thinking how I can do good in this wicket, and how I can score, and how I can do well for my team, what I can do for my team. "In my mind, it was the only thought that I need to just play each ball." 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Rajasthan Royals Squad for IPL 2025: Kumar Kartikeya Singh Sold to RR for INR 30 Lakh at Indian Premier League AuctionArtificial intelligence (AI) tools could be used to manipulate online audiences into making decisions – ranging from what to buy to who to vote for – according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. The paper highlights an emerging new marketplace for “digital signals of intent” – known as the “intention economy” – where AI assistants understand, forecast and manipulate human intentions and sell that information on to companies who can profit from it. The intention economy is touted by researchers at Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) as a successor to the attention economy, where social networks keep users hooked on their platforms and serve them adverts. The intention economy involves AI-savvy tech companies selling what they know about your motivations, from plans for a stay in a hotel to opinions on a political candidate, to the highest bidder. “For decades, attention has been the currency of the internet ,” said Dr Jonnie Penn, an historian of technology at LCFI. “Sharing your attention with social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram drove the online economy.” He added: “Unless regulated, the intention economy will treat your motivations as the new currency. It will be a gold rush for those who target, steer and sell human intentions. “We should start to consider the likely impact such a marketplace would have on human aspirations, including free and fair elections, a free press and fair market competition, before we become victims of its unintended consequences.” The study claims that large language models (LLMs), the technology that underpins AI tools such as the ChatGPT chatbot, will be used to “anticipate and steer” users based on “intentional, behavioural and psychological data”. The authors said the attention economy allows advertisers to buy access to users’ attention in the present via real-time bidding on ad exchanges or buy it in the future by acquiring a month’s-worth of ad space on a billboard. LLMs will be able to access attention in real-time as well, by, for instance, asking if a user has thought about seeing a particular film – “have you thought about seeing Spider-Man tonight?” – as well as making suggestions relating to future intentions, such as asking: “You mentioned feeling overworked, shall I book you that movie ticket we’d talked about?” The study raises a scenario where these examples are “dynamically generated” to match factors such as a user’s “personal behavioural traces” and “psychological profile”. “In an intention economy, an LLM could, at low cost, leverage a user’s cadence, politics, vocabulary, age, gender, preferences for sycophancy, and so on, in concert with brokered bids, to maximise the likelihood of achieving a given aim (eg to sell a film ticket),” the study suggests. In such a world, an AI model would steer conversations in the service of advertisers, businesses and other third parties. Advertisers will be able to use generative AI tools to create bespoke online ads, the report claims. It also cites the example of an AI model created by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, called Cicero, that has achieved the “human-level” ability to play the board game Diplomacy – a game that the authors say is dependent on inferring and predicting the intent of opponents. AI models will be able to tweak their outputs in response to “streams of incoming user-generated data”, the study added, citing research showing that models can infer personal information through workaday exchanges and even “steer” conversations in order to gain more personal information. The study then raises a future scenario where Meta will auction off to advertisers a user’s intent to book a restaurant, flight or hotel. Although there is already an industry devoted to forecasting and bidding on human behaviour, the report said, AI models will distill those practices into a “highly quantified, dynamic and personalised format”. The study quotes the research team behind Cicero warning that an “[AI] agent may learn to nudge its conversational partner to achieve a particular objective”. The research refers to tech executives discussing how AI models will be able to predict a user’s intent and actions. It quotes the chief executive of the largest AI chipmaker, Jensen Huang of Nvidia , who said last year that models will “figure out what is your intention, what is your desire, what are you trying to do, given the context, and present the information to you in the best possible way”.