The debut episode of “Saturday Night Live U.K.” opened with a dig at the relationship between British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Trump. Starmer, played by George Fouracres, is visibly nervous at calling Trump. In recent days, the president has criticized his British counterpart amid the war with Iran, including for what he called...
Hundreds of employees at Google and OpenAI are backing artificial intelligence technology company Anthropic, which faces a Friday evening deadline to give the Pentagon permission to use its AI system as it wishes or face repercussions from the department. Employees who signed a letter alleged the Pentagon was trying to “get them to agree to...
The Texas State Board of Education voted to approve changes to the Bible-infused curriculum some schools are offering in the state, fixing errors caught by teachers in its first year in circulation. The curriculum, which is optional for schools although those who adopt it receive extra state funding, was found to have more than a thousand errors,...
Delivery giant FedEx said it will return to customers any refunds it gets from President Trump’s tariffs after the Supreme Court ruled them unlawful last week. FedEx is among more than 1,000 companies that have filed lawsuits with the U.S. Court of International Trade to recoup the costs of Trump's tariffs, mostly filed before the...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats are demanding refunds for their constituents after the Supreme Court struck down the bulk of President Trump’s tariff agenda last week. Their request came in a Friday letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The group of senators referenced Bessent's previous assurance in January that refunds...
Scouting America has agreed to change several of its policies to maintain financial backing from the Pentagon, including that membership in the organization will be based solely on “biological sex at birth and not gender identity,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday morning. Hegseth, who has threatened to cut ties with Scouting America over its...
Federal employees, Kennedy said, were promoting the “mass poisoning” of the American public. Then, in 2025, measles exploded, with more than 2,200 cases across 45 states.
A top Pentagon official accused Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Thursday of having a “God-complex,” as the Defense Department (DOD) and the company face off over the terms of use for its AI models. “It’s a shame that @DarioAmodei is a liar and has a God-complex,” Under Secretary of War Emil Michael wrote in a...
Former President Bill Clinton will sit for a deposition in New York before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in its probe of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. His closed-door testimony comes a day after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was deposed on the matter, during which she criticized questions that veered off...
The three leading candidates in the competitive Texas Senate Republican primary have all been invited to join President Trump’s Friday stop in Corpus Christi, just days ahead of the Lone Star State’s Tuesday primaries. Although Trump is visiting the state in an official capacity, observers are eager to see if the president will address the...
Brady Tkachuk said Thursday a video posted on the White House's official TikTok page after the U.S. won gold during the Winter Olympics that appeared to show the American hockey player speaking ill of Canadians was "clearly fake." The video, which provides a disclaimer that it contains “AI-generated media,” used dubbed audio over a real...
