As Israel continues exchanging prisoners with Hamas for hostages, Iranian-aligned militias in Iraq and Syria continue, thus far, to suspend attacks on U.S. forces.
House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-Pa.) indicated Wednesday the hardline conservative group is easing up on demands for steeper cuts to government spending. Perry told reporters on Wednesday afternoon that the spending levels agreed to as part the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), the debt limit deal brokered between President Biden and then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) earlier this year...
The faces of jurors were briefly exposed during a livestream of Young Thug's ongoing trial in Georgia, where he faces gang and racketeering charges. The rapper's trial kicked off earlier this week, with the jury on Wednesday hearing from the first expert witness, Mark Belknap, a detective with the Atlanta Police Department. While recording Wednesday's...
Vice President Harris took aim at former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) Wednesday over his criticism of President Biden’s negotiating skills earlier that day. "With all due respect, when anyone who has had the experience McCarthy just had, I don’t think he’s a judge of negotiations," Harris told New York Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin at...
Presented by BP — Harris will be in Dubai on Friday and Saturday for the the conference known as COP28, her office said. {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Harris to attend UN climate summit in Dubai in Biden’s absence Vice President Harris will attend a major United Nations climate...
Health care sector leaders urged Congress to pass regulations on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the industry based on experiences facing issues in the AI programming such as implicit bias and patient privacy. Wednesday’s hearing on the use of AI in health care comes after tools such as ChatGPT made waves in...
President Biden on Wednesday called out Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) during an appearance in her congressional district — marking a rare instance of Biden directly targeting what he often pegs as a “MAGA Republican” by name. While Biden has spent much of this year traveling to and fundraising in affluent, safe-blue enclaves during domestic travel,...
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis knocked former President Trump after he earned an endorsement from Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist Mark Fisher. “BLM praising Donald Trump — and Trump celebrating it — makes perfect sense,” DeSantis posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The Florida governor was responding to a post from the...
Google reached a deal with the Canadian government on Wednesday after months of turmoil over a new law that requires major online platforms to pay news outlets to share their articles. Pascale St-Onge, the minister of Canadian Heritage, said Wednesday that Google agreed to contribute $100 million in Canadian dollars — about $74 million in U.S. dollars...