Two years ago, a champagne cork went flying on the Federalist Society convention stage as panelists toasted recent Supreme Court wins. A celebratory mood was still on display at this year’s annual gathering of the conservative legal movement, but those feelings were mixed with shock from Democrats' midterm victories. "On election night, there was a congressman...
GOP Rep. Tim Burchett (Tenn.) called on his party's congressional leadership — House Speaker Mike Johnson (La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.) to "step up to the daggum plate" Saturday morning, urging the pair to pass legislation funding air travel infrastructure updates in light of Friday's nationwide ground stop. “We know that it...
Microsoft confirmed its services are fully restored as of Saturday after the tech company faced a massive global outage impacting its platforms earlier in the week. “We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions,” the company wrote in a post...
Italy announced Saturday it is handing Meta an $887 million fine for using photos and videos from Android users’ Facebook galleries without specific consent. Investigators found Facebook had enabled a “get suggestions from gallery when browsing” feature by default and requested access to users' personal photo library through a single permission notice, according to a...
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) called on Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s Commerce secretary, to step down over reports the cabinet member shielded Nvidia from federal oversight — accusations which emerged after the tech giant's CEO resigned this week. Jensen Huang stepped down from Nvidia's chief role Thursday after claims came to light of his reported...
Generation Z is notoriously hard to reach. But Melat Kiros, the 29-year-old democratic socialist candidate who shocked Colorado earlier this year by defeating 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) in a primary, was able to get them. Kiros credits her success at winning over members of Gen Z in her district to raising issues that...
OpenAI banned several accounts associated with two propaganda operations based in Iran and Russia, respectively, it confirmed Thursday. The latter of which the tech company said had the greatest reach it has recorded since it began reporting on and disrupting such schemes. The influence operations used OpenAI models alongside “more traditional techniques and technologies to...
Michigan Senate hopefuls Abdul El-Sayed (D) and Mike Rogers (R) have taken the debate stage together for the first time Thursday night. The forum, hosted by Nexstar’s WOOD-TV, kicked off at 7 p.m. EDT. Here are five things to watch as the battleground candidates duke it out. Georgia and Maine are also holding Senate debates...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Thursday the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan will be open to the public, a new revelation to the first U.S. military execution in more than six decades. Hasan, a former Army psychiatrist who opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas in...
The Trump administration Thursday announced it would exempt some Arctic oil and gas exploration activities from environmental reviews. The Interior Department issued a notice exempting wintertime oil and gas exploration in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska from the reviews. The exemption will apply to seismic surveys to assess where oil is located, construction of...
Presented by PolitiSizeIT {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy PRESENTED BY The Big Story NFL asks Supreme Court to rule on prediction markets The NFL urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to take up a case over who has the authority to regulate prediction markets, arguing that wagers on the platforms should fall under...
A bipartisan group of dozens of lawmakers led by Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is concerned over Google’s plan to acquire Spirit Airlines data to train its AI models. A letter from the group, sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Spirit CEO Dave Davis, took issue with a proposed $10...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) floated the idea of returning home to Louisiana if Republicans lose control of the House next year. “Heaven forbid, if we lose this majority or whatever, I don't know what my next chapter of life is,” Johnson told Fox News in an exclusive interview. “If God moves on our hearts and...
In today's issue: ▪ US presses Russia on plague ▪ Media outlets back in court ▪ DNC sues over Trump ads ▪ First Atlantic hurricane forming A lack of transparency from the Russian government about the status and severity of the suspected outbreak of the pneumonic plague is sparking worries around the world. The U.S. has...
Putin's new orders sound like total war — unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved and the objectives pursued, in total disregard of the laws of war.
