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Making a hit record wasn't all harmony for Miranda Lambert and Ella Langley.

The country superstar revealed that she and the "Choosin' Texas" singer butted heads while working together — and Lambert said the disagreements were actually a sign they were on the right track.

"If we don't fight by the end of this, we probably didn't do it right," Lambert recalled telling Langley during an appearance on The New York Times' "Popcast."

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The candid admission came while Lambert discussed the emotional process of creating a record with the rising country star.

"There was hard parts of it. Creating a record is not — I mean, it's a long journey, you know what I mean? And it's a lot of emotions," Lambert said.

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"We did a lot," she admitted when asked if she and Langley were "butting heads" during the process. "And I think that's important because we needed to."

Lambert, who has built a career on songs about heartbreak, independence and life in the country, said she welcomed disagreements as long as they were constructive.

When asked if she enjoys a good argument, the country star didn't hesitate.

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"Yeah, I'm scrappy … I wanted it to be right, you know what I mean?" she said.

The country star was also asked if she ever let Langley win one of their disagreements. She laughed off the question.

"Yeah. I mean … it's her name. But yeah, it was a good balance, I felt like, of bouncing songs off each other, saying like, 'That's too far one way,' or 'That doesn't fit the record,' whatever it was. And I love that she trusted me with that. I really do."

"Choosin' Texas" has become a record-breaking hit for Langley.

On that track, Lambert said, there wasn't much fighting to do.

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"That one is just like — it's like a piece of our DNA. So, no. It's like there's this nostalgia to it, and it's like her love for country and my love for country."

She continued, "That one, whether it was the writing of it just fell out or the production, it was just like, 'This is what it's supposed to be. Let's let it be.'"

Langley celebrated a Billboard record in September as "Choosin' Texas" reached its 23rd week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, surpassing Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" for the longest reign at the top of the chart.

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"I'm genuinely trying to find the words to explain what's going on in my brain today," Langley said in an Instagram video.

"What? I don't know. Thank you so much. Thank you for loving this song, for listening to it. I feel like … I just don't even know what to say at this point. I'm running out of hyperboles to describe how I feel, so I will just let my dog in the background show you his excitement," she continued as her dog barked.

The record-breaking run has continued. "Choosin' Texas" has now spent 24 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, extending its record as the longest-running No. 1 song in chart history.

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The song first entered the Hot 100 in November 2025, became Langley's first top 10 in January and reached No. 1 for the first time in February.

"Choosin' Texas" has also spent 42 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, continuing its run atop both the all-genre and country charts.

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The state's governor said Frank Strada would step down as an independent review examines what went wrong.

The jet was flying from Bermuda to Boston when it lost contact with the Federal Aviation Administration early on Saturday.

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Artificial intelligence researcher Jeffrey Ladish told Fox News Digital that humanity does not have any real strategies to keep increasingly autonomous AI models and agents under control as they become more capable of hacking, cheating and ignoring instructions.

Ladish, the executive director of Palisade Research, said those skeptical of how powerful AI will become should consider how far the technology has advanced in just a few years.

"You have AI agents ... solving one of the hardest problems in mathematics that humans have been trying to solve for decades," Ladish said, referring to the Navier–Stokes problem. "Three years ago they were solving high school level math problems."

Ladish also pointed to the rapid improvement in AI-generated images and video, arguing that people who mocked the famously distorted AI videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti just a few years ago might be surprised by the photorealistic outputs some models are now able to produce.

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While these capability leaps may feel sudden to the general public, researchers who spent years training models at companies like Anthropic and OpenAI saw what was coming, Ladish said.

Ladish helped build Anthropic's security team from September 2021 to October 2022 before leaving to found Palisade Research, which studies whether humans can remain in control of increasingly capable AI systems.

While working at Anthropic, Ladish said employees there were "pretty concerned" about where the technology was headed, a view he said was also shared by people he knew at OpenAI.

"If you were at Anthropic in 2022, you were seeing every training run get immensely impressive results," Ladish said.

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AI models are trained in a way that is somewhat analogous to how humans learn, though on a much larger scale.

"I often compare this pre-training part, which is where they learn based on human data, to book smarts. It's sort of like you've read every single book in the library 50 times. And you really know those books inside and out," Ladish said.

Once the model has reached a baseline level of knowledge, it must then be trained to perform real-world tasks through a grueling process known as reinforcement learning.

Using accounting as an example, Ladish said the AI is given tens of thousands of accounting problems to solve through trial and error, repeating them millions of times across thousands of parallel training runs.

Unlike a human, who might spend four years earning an accounting degree and decades gaining experience, AI agents are trained across thousands of GPUs by companies with the resources to operate them, allowing them to improve at a pace no single person could match.

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While AI labs have been able to exponentially improve their models' capabilities, they have yet to solve the problem of reliably getting them to follow instructions and behave morally without employing deception tactics, Ladish said.

The Hugging Face incident is the clearest example of this. Roughly 700 AI agents created by OpenAI were able to break out of a secure sandbox environment and hack into Hugging Face, a popular online platform where developers share and build artificial intelligence models.

"They were not supposed to talking to each other and they managed to establish multiple secret message boards that went undetected by OpenAI for like months. And then they launched this massive cyberattack," Ladish said. "OpenAI trained them to work together, but ... they're still planning to train them to work together. And other companies are doing this too."

Ladish warned that unless developers can prevent AI agents from colluding with one another, they could eventually dominate humans in the cyber domain. He also described a future where humans could be forced to rely on well-intentioned AI to defend against malicious AI.

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"We actually just don't have general solutions to these problems, and I think it's pretty clear that if you keep pushing them, this goes to a very bad place," he said.

As one example, Ladish said he could envision AI systems eventually outperforming human traders in the financial markets.

"If those AIs are answering to AI companies, then the AI companies will dominate finance and just eat the entire industry. But if the AIs are not answerable to the AI companies — if they actually have figured out how to themselves be in control — well, now you have this non-human entity dominating the finance markets."

Ladish said he believes the same dynamic could eventually extend beyond the digital world and into manufacturing should AI systems become capable enough to design and operate autonomous factories.

"If you have these agents in control of all of the computers and you have these robotic facilities that can really self-replicate, humans get displaced. Maybe we don't make it because your house could be used to host a power plant, or a data center, or a factory or robotic launch facility," he said.

However, like other experts who have warned about the worst possible outcomes of AI run amok, Ladish said he believes there is still time to reduce the risks. He called for the creation of a government body staffed with technical experts to work with AI labs and evaluate advanced models at each stage of development.

"We have choices to make," he said. "This is going places. This is a technology that is very different than other technologies."

Anthropic and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.

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President Donald Trump on Saturday pressured Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas to support a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, urging Americans to call what appeared to be the personal cellphone number of Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The Sunshine Protection Act passed the House in July, but it faces roadblocks in the Senate where some Republicans are strongly opposed. Proponents, including the White House, argue that the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. Detractors said permanent daylight saving time would lead to darker and potentially more hazardous winter mornings when children will be waiting for school buses and parents will be driving to work in darkness.

It was a remarkable escalation on Trump's part of a longstanding fixation shared by both men — with Trump supporting making daylight saving time permanent, and Cotton vociferously opposed — at a time just weeks before the midterms, when Republicans would prefer that the president focus on talking about affordability issues and the party's achievements. Cotton is also up for reelection this November, although that race is not expected to be competitive.

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Daylight saving time is that period between spring and fall when clocks in most parts of the United States are set one hour ahead of standard time. Not all states observe it — and under the bill, states can opt out of the change if their respective legislatures act to do so before the bill’s enactment.

“For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it’s very easy to do, it only takes one!” Trump wrote on social media, noting that passing the bill would give professional golfers more time on the greens. “So, everyone in Arkansas, a State I love, and won 3 times, the last by by 34 points, tell Tom to, GET IT DONE! It will be appreciated by all,” Trump said.

Trump included a phone number with an Arkansas area code. The Associated Press called the number, but no one answered and the voicemail box was full.

Cotton, a member of Republican leadership, reiterated his opposition to permanent daylight saving time in a social media post of his own Saturday afternoon. He is not the only GOP senator who opposes the policy, though he has been among the most vocal opponents.

“No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter,” Cotton wrote. “Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first.”

Trump, who is spending the day at his northern Virginia golf club before traveling to Ohio later Saturday, promptly fired back.

“If Tom Cotton were putting Arkansas first, he would give them an extra hour of daylight and, more importantly, they wouldn’t have to run all over their houses, farms, work places, and everywhere else, twice a year, having to change their Clocks, and often forgetting to do so,” Trump said, adding that “that is really putting Arkansas FIRST.”

As his motorcade was rolling back to the White House, Trump added that “a table full of very distinguished people just told me that they HATE, immediately after a mandatory time change, going home at night – and it’s DARK.”

“It’s depressing!" Trump continued. "One of the gentleman stated that, ‘I just hate going home in darkness.’ It’s also, in Crime Ridden Blue States, a lot more dangerous to be walking home in the dark!”

A 2025 poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that if forced to choose, most Americans would prefer to keep that extra hour of daylight in the evening. Only 12% of U.S. adults favor the current system of daylight saving time, which requires people in most states to change their clocks twice a year, while 47% oppose it and 40% are neutral.

Members of Congress have long been interested in the potential benefits and costs of daylight saving time since it was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942. The Senate passed a bill four years ago to make daylight saving time permanent, but it stalled in the House.

This is not the first time Trump has released personal information about a senator

While competing for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina described Trump as “unfit for office” after Trump denigrated the military service of Sen. John McCain of Arizona. Trump then released Graham’s personal cellphone number. That prompted a viral video in which the senator dramatically destroyed a series of flip phones.

Graham later became a close ally of Trump. In contrast, although they share many of the same policy positions, Trump and Cotton are not known to be close.

Cotton, one of the Republican Party's most prominent national security voices, has advocated for a more hawkish approach on Iran, particularly as Trump entertains pauses in military strikes amid the seven-month war. In Trump's first term, Cotton was a critic of the president's attempts at overhauling the nation's sentencing laws, calling the proposal a “jailbreak."

Earlier this year, Cotton had temporarily defied Trump's attempts at stalling the confirmation process for his own nominee for director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton. The president had wanted to ensure his interim pick for the intelligence job, Bill Pulte, would be able to serve in that role at least briefly when the former director, Tulsi Gabbard, left the job.

But the appointment of Pulte, who had no known national security credentials, drew bipartisan condemnation from Capitol Hill and Cotton had tried to expedite Clayton's confirmation process, which could have prevented Pulte from being installed as acting director.

But Trump ultimately ordered Clayton to not appear before Cotton's committee for his confirmation hearing, and Pulte served in the job for several weeks this summer. Clayton was eventually confirmed by the Senate in late July.

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Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick in Washington contributed to this report.

This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-urges-calls-arkansas-sen-172243675.html

Frank Strada leaving position as state launches independent investigation into what went wrong

Tennessee’s top prison official is stepping down in the aftermath of the failed execution of death row prisoner Christa Pike, the state’s governor Bill Lee announced Saturday.

Frank Strada, the department of correction commissioner, will leave his position later in October as the state launches an independent investigation into what went wrong during Wednesday’s botched execution of Pike, according to Lee.

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The 40-year-old died at the scene in west London from a gunshot wound, the Met Police said.

Dynamic duo Tanya Trotter and Michael Trotter Jr. are behind The War and Treaty, a Grammy-nominated band known for their high-energy, crowd-pleasing performances. The married duo just release an expanded edition of their album "The Story of Michael and Tanya." Here's The War and Treaty with "It'll Hurt Me More Than It'll Hurt You."

Dynamic duo Tanya Trotter and Michael Trotter Jr. are behind The War and Treaty, a Grammy-nominated band known for their high-energy, crowd-pleasing performances. The married duo just release an expanded edition of their album "The Story of Michael and Tanya." Here's The War and Treaty with "Keep You Warm Tonight."

Dynamic duo Tanya Trotter and Michael Trotter Jr. are behind The War and Treaty, a Grammy-nominated band known for their high-energy, crowd-pleasing performances. The married duo just release an expanded edition of their album "The Story of Michael and Tanya." Here's The War and Treaty with "Shouldn't Have."

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