Former special counsel Jack Smith's probe into President Trump and Republicans collected "communications" from members of the news media, including major networks and newspapers, the Senate's senior lawmaker revealed Tuesday.
In the span of a few months, advanced AI systems from three leading American laboratories crossed the boundaries of safety tests and affected real systems. Google’s Gemini accessed systems at three companies. An Anthropic model published malicious code that reached 15 outside systems. And as revealed last week, these are creating international incidents, with OpenAI’s […]
When Europe’s leaders gathered in Yerevan, Armenia, in May, the sharpest words about Europe’s view of the South Caucasus came from a leader who was not in the room. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, speaking by video link from Baku, used his allotted time at the European Political Community summit to rebuke the European Parliament for […]
Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing cabinet allies are certain to benefit most from any shift in public opinion away from support of Gaza’s populace.
The Biden administration on Friday granted automakers some flexibility on qualifying for electric vehicle tax credits. The new final guidance, issued as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, incorporates a two-year exemption to provisions of the law that bar vehicles from eligibility if their battery minerals come from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. ...
From toxic relationships to toxic positivity to toxic masculinity, ‘toxic’ has become a catch-all term for anything that is deemed to be remotely negative. But a toxic workplace in the truest sense is a very real problem and is driving 20 percent of American workers to leave their current positions. In fact, in the five...
Former President Trump’s hush money trial is entering its seventh day of testimony on Friday. A forensic analyst with the Manhattan DA’s office is expected to retake the stand. Doug Daus spent some of Thursday detailing to jurors how he inspected phones belonging to ex-fixer Michael Cohen. Additional witnesses are expected to take the stand...
The U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs and the jobless rate ticked higher to 3.9 percent in April, according to new Labor Department data released Friday. After several hotter-than-expected jobs reports, April's employment gains fell short of economists’ expectations of 240,000 new jobs and a 3.8 percent unemployment rate. The latest job report comes days after...
Conservative lawyer George Conway in an interview late Thursday dismissed former President Trump’s claims about not sleeping in court after reporters noticed Trump closing his eyes during the hush money case in New York. Conway, a frequent Trump critic, claimed the former president has struggled to get up in the morning for some time, even...
A New York Police Department (NYPD) officer discharged a gun while clearing a Columbia University building that had been taken over by protesters earlier this week, authorities said. The Emergency Service Unit (ESU) officer “accidentally” fired a round while searching the first floor of the building, according to the department, which added that only law...
Jewish Democrats are admonishing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) this week after the Republican leader suggested George Soros is behind the pro-Palestinian protests roiling colleges campuses across the country. The Democrats — many of them highly critical of the anti-Israel demonstrations, which they say cross a line into antisemitism — are accusing Johnson of that same...
The Biden administration’s pause on natural gas exports is putting the president in a tricky political spot in Pennsylvania, one of the key swing states in November. Pennsylvania has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the last decade’s natural gas boom in the U.S. The state’s production hit 7.5 trillion cubic feet in 2022, the...
Democratic lawmakers are sounding the alarm over what they see as conservative justices and judges tipping the scales in favor of former President Trump in two federal cases. The two cases accuse the former president of attempting to subvert the 2020 election and obstructing justice related to his handling of classified documents. Some Democratic senators...
Inflation in several battleground states in the 2024 election is below the national average — in some cases by more than a full percentage point — as food prices retreat even while housing costs stay hot, according to an analysis of regional Labor Department data by The Hill. Recent polling shows that the economy and...
