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As migration surges in Americas, ‘funds simply aren’t there’ for humanitarian response, UN says

Countries in the Americas are reeling as the flow of migrants reaches historic levels, but international "funds simply aren't there" for humanitarian needs, a United Nations official said.

Speaker McCarthy dares House Republicans to vote for a government shutdown

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has made border security a central feature of his stopgap funding bill to keep the government open and is daring conservative holdouts to vote against it.

Traveling with Milley: A reporter recalls how America’s top soldier was most at home with his troops

The soldier had target fixation. He had three beers in hand, a full day of leave and a group of young women waiting. But a crowd of Army uniforms also gathered for this French village's D-Day celebrations stood in the way.

Supreme Court to hear First Amendment challenge over state laws targeting social media censorship

The Supreme Court on Friday announced it will hear a major First Amendment dispute over social media laws in Florida and Texas targeting censorship during the high court's upcoming term.

Biden tells climate activist to ‘shush up’ during speech on democracy

President Biden told a climate activist to "shush up" during his speech honoring the late Sen. John McCain in Arizona on Thursday.

House Republicans unveil stopgap bill to avoid shutdown, but can it actually pass?

House Republicans finally unveiled their long-awaited stopgap measure that includes a wishlist of arch-conservative priorities and is all but guaranteed to be rejected by the Senate.

To avert climate catastrophe, the US needs to do more than Meatless Mondays 

Without a dramatic reduction in U.S. meat consumption, we will be unable to avert a climate catastrophe. 

FBI arrests Proud Boy who disappeared days before Jan. 6 sentencing

The FBI has arrested a member of the right-wing extremist Proud Boys who disappeared days before he was set to be sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Christopher Worrell, 52, is in custody after the FBI served a warrant at his Naples, Fla., residence Thursday, according to a spokesperson for...

Schiff: Feinstein accomplishments made US, world a better place

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), one of the candidates running to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2024, paid tribute to the groundbreaking California Democrat after her death was announced Friday morning. “Today, the nation has truly lost a giant of the U.S. Senate, California has lost its trail-blazing leader, and I lost a real friend and...

Open AI exec warns AI can become ‘extremely addictive’

OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati urged the conducting of close research on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technology as it advances to mitigate risks of it becoming addictive and dangerous during an interview Thursday.  Murati, a top executive at the company behind the popular ChatGPT AI tool, warned as AI advances it can...

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