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The U.S. has very few options right now to protect the homeland against 21st-century missile attacks, a key senator said Monday.

Trump dumps cold water on AI ‘guardrails,’ citing ‘sick conspiracy’ to over-regulate

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while in flight on Air Force One from Shannon, Ireland, to Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) **FILE**

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President Trump said the U.S. is already equipped to regulate artificial intelligence and prosecute misuse of the technology without new regulations that Democrats are proposing.

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Trump dumps cold water on AI ‘guardrails,’ citing ‘sick conspiracy’ to over-regulate

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President Donald Trump tours "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, on July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Florida’s former ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ kept migrants in metal cages: DHS inspector general

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The Rev. Zachary Swantek, Princeton University’s Catholic chaplain and director of the Aquinas Institute - the university’s Catholic campus ministry - raises the host during the Eucharist at a side altar of the school's chapel during a Mass in Princeton, N.J., on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

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Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 23, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

Former CIA director to testify before grand jury in Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ probe

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Vice President JD Vance speaks during an event at the FBI Field Office in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Feds ban 870,000 suspected pandemic fraudsters from getting future government loans

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Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 23, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

Former CIA director to testify before grand jury in Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ probe

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Vice President JD Vance speaks during an event at the FBI Field Office in Kansas City, Mo., Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Feds ban 870,000 suspected pandemic fraudsters from getting future government loans

By Kerry Picket and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

155 mm M795 artillery projectiles are stacked during the manufacturing process at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pa., Thursday, April 13, 2023. The 155 mm howitzer round is one of the most requested military aid artillery munitions of the Ukraine war. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Trump says U.S. has plenty of ‘exquisite and elite’ weapons, despite reports of shortages

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

U.S. Postal Service delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb., Aug. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Another judge blocks Trump’s plans to use post office to police mailed ballots

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Trump’s $5,000 checks turn politics into shameless vote buying

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Foreign funding of U.S. universities demands full transparency

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Sydney Sweeney poses for photographers at the Armani beauty event during the 83rd edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is seen, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Kennedy Center trustees warn of bankruptcy and closure without Trump’s name out front

By Juliet La Sala - The Washington Times

Rap singer Macklemore performs before an NFL football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Tennessee Titans, Sept. 19, 2021, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Macklemore kicked off Ed Sheeran’s tour because of anti-Israel activism on stage

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Bob Mackie accepts the award for best costume design of a musical for "The Cher Show" at the 73rd annual Tony Awards in New York on June 9, 2019. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) **FILE**

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Secretary of the Air Force Troy E. Meink, testifies during a Senate Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on Department of Defense hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

U.S. announces new space weapon and strategic missile testing

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This image taken from undated video released by the Ansar Allah Media Office, the media arm of Yemen's Houthi rebels, on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, shows a vehicle burning during what the group says was an advance by Houthi fighters against Saudi-backed forces at an undisclosed location in southern Yemen. (Ansar Allah Media Office via AP)

Oman-hosted Gulf nations meeting canceled for now as Yemeni war heats up

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to the acting governor of the Tver region Vitaly Korolyov, during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

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U.S. Postal Service delivery vehicles are parked outside a post office in Boys Town, Neb., Aug. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Another judge blocks Trump’s plans to use post office to police mailed ballots

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Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Bettina Anderson look at each other while waiting for President Donald Trump to speak at Deerfield Residence, the residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Edward S. Walsh, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, in Dublin. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Irish Open golf tournament at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump says he plans to remove a 15% tariff on Irish whiskey

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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the first tee during the Irish Open at the Trump International Golf Links course in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Trump says he would agree to ‘guardrails’ for artificial intelligence

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Trump kicks off midterm campaign blitz with North Carolina rally for Michael Whatley’s Senate run

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Thomas Kean Jr., GOP candidate for New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, speaks at his election night party held in Basking Ridge N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

GOP candidates turn up the volume on lower health insurance costs

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U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden rides his motorcycle in a Labor Day parade with his grandsons, Teddy and Henry, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, in Readstown, Wis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Trump ally in Wisconsin sticks close to the president as Democrats push to flip swing district

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Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the Republican convention Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Is empathy a virtue or a weakness? Vance, Musk and others say it’s gone too far

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The Anthropic website and mobile phone app are shown in this photo, in New York, Friday, July 5, 2024. Britain's competition watchdog said Tuesday, July 30, 2024, it's looking into Google's partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, adding fresh regulatory scrutiny for the investment flooding into the AI industry. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Albuquerque residents Michael Caldwell, left, and his wife, Natasha Caldwell, attend a Second Amendment Protest in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in and around Albuquerque for 30 days, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. Natasha said, "We came to stand for the Constitution and out of anger about what's happening with this health order." Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope on Tuesday, Oct. 3, in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales) **FILE**

The FBI says 16 shooters were stopped by civilians. One researcher counts 225

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DOJ boots Afghan woman in first Alien Terrorist Court deportation

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Workers inspect an Amazon cargo plane that overshot a runway four days ago at Miami International Airport, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Amazon suspends use of 21 Air, the cargo carrier whose plane careened off Miami runway and killed 5

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Alaska drops voter misconduct cases against American Samoans who wrongly checked ‘U.S. citizen’ box

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Former bank manager in Kentucky pleads guilty to stealing from customers

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From left, First Minister of Scotland John Swinney, First Minister of Wales Rhun ap Iorwerth, Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald and First Minister of Northern Ireland Michelle O'Neill, during a meeting to discuss the "pursuit of a different attitude" from the UK Government and the future of independence for their respective countries, in Cardiff, Wales, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

United Kingdom union threatened by pact between Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

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Secretary of the Air Force Troy E. Meink, testifies during a Senate Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on Department of Defense hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

U.S. announces new space weapon and strategic missile testing

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‘Right now we’re not defended’: U.S. has almost no way to stop modern missiles, senator warns

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Alexander Zverev, of Germany, returns the ball to Ben Shelton, of the United States, during the men's singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)

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United States team stands on the podium after winning the Women's Basketball World Cup final match between the United States and France in Berlin, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Stewart powers U.S. past France for fifth straight World Cup title

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U.S. President Donald Trump presents the trophy to Irish Open golf winner Shane Lowry of Ireland whilst Ireland's Prime Minister Micheal Martin, center rear, looks on, at the Trump International Golf Links course in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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