The Trump administration's decision to impose sweeping export controls on Anthropic followed a frantic 24-hour effort by senior officials to convince the company to voluntarily pull a newly released artificial intelligence model that officials believed posed security risks, according to two administration officials and a senior White House official, who like others in this story were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the episode.

The assault on the Democrats' main fundraising platform is a partisan hatchet job, but ActBlue itself is far from blameless.

The president is obsessed with the spectacle of power - and has little concern for anything else.