The Department of Justice (DOJ) released guidance for specialized police units Tuesday, concluding a yearlong effort started that began after the murder of Tyre Nichols in Memphis last January. Memphis officers of the city's SCORPION unit beat and killed Nichols after a traffic stop last year. The city later scrapped the SCORPION unit. Wednesday marked...

GOP rivals Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and former President Trump are set to compete in dueling Iowa campaign events Wednesday night with just days before the Hawkeye State votes, and only hours after rival Chris Christie suspended his presidential campaign. Haley and DeSantis will face off in their first one-on-one match-up, in the fifth and...

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Chris Christie urged GOP primary voters to not support former President Trump after the former New Jersey governor dropped out of the race Wednesday. Christie announced at a New Hampshire campaign event Wednesday that he would be suspending his campaign for the presidency, saying that he sees no viable path for him to clinch the...

The U.S. will send an unofficial delegation to Taiwan after the island nation concludes a high-stakes presidential election Saturday. A senior administration official said the delegation will include former high-ranking U.S. officials, but declined to identify who would be sent and when. "Given our unofficial relationship with Taiwan, we often send these high level unofficial...

OpenAI officially rolled out the GPT Store on Wednesday, two months after the company first debuted GPTs – customized versions of the popular artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. Since then, OpenAI said in a blog post Wednesday, users have created more than 3 million custom versions of ChatGPT. After initial delays from leadership tumult in the...

Hunter Biden showed up unexpectedly at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup Wednesday, before the panel voted in favor of a resolution to hold him in contempt of Congress for what they claimed was his defiance of a December subpoena. The move sets up a full House floor vote on the subject and possible...