A driverless Waymo taxi drove through the South Pearl Street Farmers Market in Denver on Sunday morning, prompting questions about how accountability applies to non-human agents. Fortunately, no one was injured in what turned out to be almost a comical incident. But technological innovations have brought America to the cusp of artificial entities that could prove far more threatening. How governments choose to respond to these new vistas will both depend on and inform our understanding of what it means to be human.

On today's News Brief: Nominee for the Commissioner of the Food and Administration Heidi Overton stand before Senate for hearing, the Trumps host Xi Jinping at the White House, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyau addresses the United Nations General Assembly in NYC.

On today's News Brief: Nominee for the Commissioner of the Food and Administration Heidi Overton stand before Senate for hearing, the Trumps host Xi Jinping at the White House, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyau addresses the United Nations General Assembly in NYC.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, religious leaders, tech experts and even the AI companies themselves are raising the alarm, and yet they keep building&nbsp; Artificial Intelligence. What&rsquo;s going on here? Is the AI apocalypse inevitable, or is all hype or somewhere in between?

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, religious leaders, tech experts and even the AI companies themselves are raising the alarm, and yet they keep building  Artificial Intelligence. What's going on here? Is the AI apocalypse inevitable, or is all hype or somewhere in between?

On this week&rsquo;s Outstanding Podcast, Host Casey Harper talks free markets and socialism with Dr. Gary Wolfram, a professor of economics, public policy and political economy at Hillsdale College.
Together, they tackle questions like:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>How do free markets work and why does they work?</li>
<li>Are prices fair?</li>
<li>How do we respond to the socialist narrative?</li>
<li>Doesn't the Christian faith keep capitalism in check in many ways?&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

On this week's Outstanding Podcast, Host Casey Harper talks free markets and socialism with Dr. Gary Wolfram, a professor of economics, public policy and political economy at Hillsdale College. Together, they tackle questions like: How do free markets work and why does they work? Are prices fair? How do we respond to the socialist narrative? Doesn't the Christian faith keep capitalism in check in many ways? 

On this week&rsquo;s podcast, Host Casey Harper and author Arlene Pellicane discuss screens, technology and its impact on kids.
They discussed questions like:
<ul>
<li>How do Christians think about technology and raising children?</li>
<li>What is the impact of technology on personal and spiritual formation?</li>
<li>If kids are being raised differently, will they be made fun of?&nbsp;</li>
<li>How can we teach our kids to hold onto our Christian values under pressure?&nbsp;</li>
<li>What do we need to prepare for regarding AI?&nbsp;</li>
<li>What technology plans and practices can we adopt to protect our kids and pass on our faith to the next gen?&nbsp;</li>
</ul>

On this week's podcast, Host Casey Harper and author Arlene Pellicane discuss screens, technology and its impact on kids. They discussed questions like: How do Christians think about technology and raising children? What is the impact of technology on personal and spiritual formation? If kids are being raised differently, will they be made fun of? How can we teach our kids to hold onto our Christian values under pressure What do we need to prepare for regarding AI? What technology plans and practices can we adopt to protect our kids and pass on our faith to the next gen?

While over 80,000 Africans - the vast majority of them men - scale the defenses and overrun a Spanish city, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez goes on vacation to relax. While Muslim hordes leave a record number of rapes in the city, Sánchez crosses the Atlantic, kisses a socialist female dictator on the cheek, and goes to have breakfast with the Muslim mayor of New York.

President Donald Trump commanded the world's attention when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Wars, sovereignty, immigration, and America's place in the world dominated the headlines. But buried within that sweeping address was a declaration that may outlast everything else he said.

More than half of Americans say that the "rule of law is weaker now than it was 10 years ago," according to a survey of more than 23,000 U.S. adults released this month. Only one American (14%) said the rule of law was stronger for every four Americans (56%) who said the rule of law was weaker. The survey provides a helpful "temperature check" on our unstable times, but ultimately it shows nothing other than what Scripture predicts will transpire.

Transgender-identifying protestors gathered outside of New York University's Langone Hospital on Tuesday and injected themselves with cross-sex hormones to display outrage over the hospital canceling sex-rejecting services for minors. A viral video on X depicts individuals using syringes to perform the injections.

The United States Armed Forces allows homeschoolers to enlist, but the city of Fremont, Nebraska appears to think they are unfit to join their local fire department. Now, the governor's office is investigating.

A Canadian grandmother died by "assisted suicide" in a scene that can only be described as a farce, based on the account published by her traumatized family.

Senior Writer, The Washington Stand

Without seeming to make barely a ripple, a startling report was released in June revealing that America's Social Security program will become insolvent in six years unless substantial reforms are made. Now, lawmakers are beginning to sound the alarm on the rapidly spiraling crisis and are pushing legislation to overhaul the system originally designed to keep elderly Americans out of poverty.

Senior Editor, The Washington Stand

The amendment now on the ballot is an appallingly sweeping and indifferent gift to the abortion industry, using needlessly unlimited language to identify whom it designates as a possessor of "reproductive freedom." It refers to this boundless right to destroy a pregnancy as belonging to any "individual" in the commonwealth.

President Donald Trump has forbidden three far-left news outlets from accessing the White House. The lone conservative leaning network in the presidential news pool has tapped out in response.

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September 17 marked the final arguments in a California courtroom over the practice of offering abortion pill reversal (APR) to women seeking to save the lives of their unborn children from the feticidal drug mifepristone. We have become used to reading sentences like this, in which so-called champions of choice like the administration of Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) go the last mile to complete abortions women are desperate to avert. The policy is all the uglier because it would fine groups like Heartbeat International and Real Options millions of dollars for attempts to aid such women.

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