Republican states are considering building versions of Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz," a detention facility for illegal immigrants that was celebrated by President Donald Trump.
A plethora of analysts currently believe that a significant threshold in artificial intelligence models will be reached before the decade’s end. The most optimistic among them identify late 2027 or 2028 as pivotal, forecasting the emergence of artificial general intelligence during the Trump administration. Such predictions immediately encounter the challenge of clearly defining AGI. Most […]
Presented by Jewish Federations of North America — Plus: DOJ appeals Abrego Garcia's release {beacon} IRAN LAUNCHED MISSILES at a U.S. Air Force base in Qatar on Monday, following the U.S. attacks on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend. The Qatari foreign Ministry said the nation “thwarted the attack and successfully intercepted the...
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted judge-imposed limits on the Trump administration’s deportations to countries where migrants have no ties over a scathing dissent from the court’s liberal justices. The administration warned U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy’s injunction was endangering immigration officials stuck in Djibouti guarding a group of convicted criminals, who were destined for South...
Former President Biden’s White House doctor, Kevin O’Connor, is set to appear for a deposition before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee next month, a committee spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. O’Connor is scheduled to be deposed on July 9 as committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) expands his panel’s probes into Biden’s mental...
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the state to enforce its new immigration law as an appeal plays out in a lower court. The new law, SB 4-C, makes it a state crime for people to enter Florida after arriving in the U.S. illegally and evading immigration...
President Trump on Monday lashed out at the media as journalists reported on the uncertainty around the extent of destruction at Iranian nuclear facilities targeted by U.S. strikes over the weekend. Trump blasted reporters and executives at CNN, ABC News and NBC News in the aftermath of the U.S. strikes. Multiple news outlets have reported...
AI can help reduce traffic fatalities by enabling real-time traffic analysis, preventing collisions, and optimizing emergency response, and Congress should consider incorporating digital infrastructure and AI technologies into existing federal transportation planning, funding and research programs.
Qatar closed its airspace Monday, and witnesses reported hearing explosions and seeing possible missiles in the sky, shortly before Iran said it had begun an operation against a U.S. base in the country. Iran announced the attack on state television, with a caption describing the retaliatory strikes as "a mighty and successful response by the...
Video recorded in Doha, Qatar Monday captured a crowd of people on the street with their eyes trained on the sky, some recording with cellphones, as possible missiles appeared to explode as they were intercepted.
Exposure to wildfire smoke and heat stress both before and during pregnancy may be associated with adverse outcomes at birth, a new study has found. Such links were particularly pronounced when exposure occurred during the month before conception and during the first trimester of pregnancy, researchers reported in the study, published in Environmental Science & Technology....
Regime change—those are the two words on everybody’s mind following the U.S. military’s successful strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Operation Midnight Hammer has been deemed a rousing success, burying the Fordo nuclear site under rubble and apparently setting back Iran’s nuclear program by months or years. Many individuals in the MAGA coalition are skeptical of...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz are scheduled to hold a news conference on Monday afternoon. Aides say Kennedy and Oz will discuss "a breakthrough in health insurance that will improve access to care for millions of Americans." Watch the event, scheduled...
Drugmaker Novo Nordisk said it is halting its agreement with telehealth company Hims & Hers after less than two months, citing deceptive marketing and the selling of knock-off versions of its blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy. The company in April announced it would be partnering with Hims & Hers as well as other telehealth companies to sell...
The Senate parliamentarian says Republicans cannot include a measure that would force the sale of electric vehicles (EVs) used by the U.S. Postal Service in their “big, beautiful bill.” The sweeping GOP budget and policy bill included a provision that would have required the General Services Administration, which handles the equipment used by government agencies,...
