The U.S. operation targeting former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is exposing a growing rift between the Pentagon and AI developers over how artificial intelligence can be used in military operations. The Wall Street Journal reported the Pentagon used Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, during the mission, which included bombing several sites in Caracas last month. Anthropic’s […]

Opening statements began Monday in the trial of Colin Gray, whose son faces charges in connection with a deadly mass shooting at a Georgia high school in September 2024. Gray is charged with 29 felony counts, including second-degree murder and manslaughter. Prosecutors say Gray bought an AR-style rifle for his son, Colt Gray, as a […]

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, at the Munich Security Conference, told European leaders that the U.S. wants to work with their countries while still sticking to the Trump administration’s foreign policy goals. In his speech Saturday, Rubio said Americans may come up as “a little direct and urgent in our counsel,” and that U.S. President […]

Preliminary results show one of the gloves found two miles from the Arizona home of Nancy Guthrie appears to match the ones found on a surveillance video worn by a suspect. The FBI told Straight Arrow News the gloves were found in a field and sent to a private lab in Florida on Feb. 13.  […]

Monday marks Presidents’ Day, giving students across the country a break as most public schools are closed. Other institutions will also close in observance of the federal holiday. One of them is the United States Postal Service, though customers can still use the website and self-service kiosks in lobbies at select locations. Regular mail delivery […]

A new national study warns that nearly half of U.S. adults could be living with obesity within a decade, underscoring widening racial, ethnic and geographic disparities — and prompting renewed calls from physicians for systemic change. Published in JAMA, the analysis found that 42.5% of American adults — about 107 million people — were living with […]

The Justice Department on Saturday outlined the categories of records it released and withheld under the newly enacted Epstein Files Transparency Act, providing Congress with a sweeping list of prominent political figures, celebrities and business leaders whose names appear in materials tied to financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a Feb. 14 letter […]

Former President Barack Obama on Saturday sharply criticized what he described as a collapse in political discourse after current president Donald Trump posted — and later deleted — a social media video that depicted him and his wife, Michelle Obama, with their faces superimposed on the bodies of apes. Trump’s video, shared earlier this month on his Truth Social account, included […]

During a chemical weapons convention, five European countries claimed Russia poisoned an opposition leader while in prison. In a statement, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands reported that analysis of samples taken from Alexei Navalny’s body “conclusively confirmed the presence of epibatidine.”  The statement went on to say, “only the Russian Government […]