The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — America’s second‑largest teachers union — has teamed up with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to launch a $23 million AI Teaching Academy in New York City. Its stated goal: Train teachers to better use large language models (LLMs) in classrooms nationwide in preparation for their further implementation in the workforce. […]
Six years after Jeffrey Epstein evidently hung himself to death in a Manhattan jail cell, the infamous child rapist now commands more public attention than any other time since his shocking supposed suicide. Despite the Department of Justice and the FBI trying to close the case with their declaration that Epstein indeed killed himself and […]
California Democrats try to use the weight of the state’s economy to regulate how the entire country operates. This extends California’s inflationary policies to the rest of the nation. The Justice Department is suing California over several egg regulations that it contends have kept egg prices higher than they should be. Among the laws in […]
A senior Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official on Thursday testified under oath that the agency has not yet decided where Kilmar Abrego Garcia would be deported if he is released from criminal custody next week. "We don’t work cases not in ICE custody preemptively because our docket officers are worried about the cases they have...
President Trump is flaunting his bond with deep red Texas ahead of a trip there on Friday where he will assess deadly flooding that took the lives of more than 120 people. Gov. Greg Abbot (R) has heaped praise on the administration this week for the federal response to the disaster, even as the Trump...
The Senate Appropriations Committee sputtered Thursday as its consideration of the annual Justice Department funding bill was cut short due to a dispute over the Trump administration’s plans to relocate FBI’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Senate committee met Thursday morning for its first markup of the fiscal year 2026 funding season to consider three...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday it was rescinding a nearly 30-year interpretation of legislation that allowed immigrants without legal status to access certain federal public benefits. HHS said it was officially rescinding a 1998 interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which allowed immigrants without legal...
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Thursday slammed former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan for being disliked among Washington’s political elite. “I know people who have worked with them closely, and maybe talk to people closely, those people will tell you that they're about as popular as male pattern baldness,” Kennedy...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday arrested two alleged members of the MS-13 gang in Omaha, Neb. Rene Saul Escobar Ochoa, 30, is described by ICE in a news release as "a criminal alien, known MS-13 gang member and foreign terrorist also wanted in El Salvador." “Escobar Ochoa is accused of giving orders to fellow gang...