Former President Barack Obama is urging Democrats — including 2028 presidential candidates and congressional leaders — to more aggressively focus on a comprehensive AI agenda, warning in a closed-door...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel, saying the attacks are causing a fuel shortage.
Voters in Sweden went to the polls on Sunday for an election that will determine whether a conservative leader remains in charge and a hard-right party wins ministerial jobs for the first time, or whether the center-left returns to power.
On Friday, a court in Belarus handed down a 10-year prison term to Ales Bialiatski, winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. Bialiatski, 60, is a founder of the Viasna (Spring) Human Rights Centre that has been monitoring presidential elections and aiding political prisoners since 1996. He was imprisoned for funding political protests.
The Council of the District of Columbia, apparently unconcerned by a huge spike in crime, especially in carjackings, which are up 327% so far this year over the same period in 2020, decided that this was the moment to pass a bill reducing sentences for carjacking, robberies, and burglaries. The crime bill would also abolish mandatory minimum sentences and burden the courts with jury trials for every misdemeanor charge. This means criminals would have the incentive to hold out for a trial in hope that charges would be dismissed to clear the docket.
Public trust reached a three-decade high shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but declined quickly thereafter. Since 2007, those saying they can trust the...
