{"id":173296,"date":"2025-12-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/new-laws-in-2026-target-ai-and-deepfakes-paid-leave-and-rising-obamacare-premiums\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T06:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:20:11","slug":"new-laws-in-2026-target-ai-and-deepfakes-paid-leave-and-rising-obamacare-premiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/new-laws-in-2026-target-ai-and-deepfakes-paid-leave-and-rising-obamacare-premiums\/","title":{"rendered":"New laws in 2026 target AI and deepfakes, paid leave and rising Obamacare premiums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/2026-new-laws-states-elections-midterms-ai-obamacare-aca-paid-leave-rcna247602\">New laws in 2026 target AI and deepfakes, paid leave and rising Obamacare premiums<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/2026-new-laws-states-elections-midterms-ai-obamacare-aca-paid-leave-rcna247602\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/2026-new-laws-states-elections-midterms-ai-obamacare-aca-paid-leave-rcna247602<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2025-12-31 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nbcnews.com\">www.nbcnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New state laws in 2026 address artificial intelligence regulation, including issues like deepfakes in elections and AI misuse in healthcare.<\/li>\n<li>Paid family and medical leave policies become effective in Maine, Delaware, and Minnesota, responding to the need for workers to balance health and family responsibilities.<\/li>\n<li>Rising healthcare costs impact all 50 states; Colorado takes steps to mitigate premium increases following the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies.<\/li>\n<li>Stricter voting laws are introduced in several states, coinciding with the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, amid broader efforts to influence election processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New laws in 2026 target AI and deepfakes, paid leave and rising Obamacare premiums https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/2026-new-laws-states-elections-midterms-ai-obamacare-aca-paid-leave-rcna247602&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2025-12\/251230-new-laws-ai-voting-rights-paid-family-leave-cs-864c17.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-173296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173298,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173296\/revisions\/173298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}