Georgia Howe

The U.S.

jobs report smashes expectations.

Graham Platner goes on the defense after new damaging claims, while The New York Times gets massive blowback for its handling of the story.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley.

It's Friday, June 5th, and this is Evening Wire.

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Plattner is out on damage control again, this time after a new damaging and much criticized New York Times report.

Daily Wire culture reporter Megan Basham has more.

Almost three days since the polls closed in California's primaries, some key races still have not been decided.

Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell has more.

Anthropic is calling for a global slowdown in AI development before the systems outgrow the need for human oversight and control.

The company said this week in a blog post that AI may soon reach a point of, quote, That's where an AI system is able to autonomously design and develop its own successor.

While a system capable of doing that could yield significant benefits, Anthropic announced, quote, we believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow down or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.

For the first time in a generation, a church in Nantucket won't hold a reading of America's founding documents on the 4th of July.

The reason, quote, political protest of its own whiteness.

The board of trustees of the Nantucket Unitarian Universalist Church said that they'll skip their traditional reading of the Declaration and Constitution this year in political protest.

They cite the Supreme Court ruling against race-based redistricting in a congressional map.

The canceled tradition is part of, quote, an ongoing process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness.

An Arkansas judge has tossed a second degree murder charge against a sheriff nominee who was about to go on trial for killing a man who allegedly groomed and raped his 14 year old daughter.

The case against Aaron Spencer was dismissed by a judge Thursday after law enforcement lost a dash cam memory card that may have captured the fatal shooting of 67 year old Michael Fosler.

Fosler has been charged with grooming and abusing Spencer's young daughter.