President Donald Trump on Saturday said he will “push hard” to get a bill passed that would create his controversial “Anti-Weaponization” fund if two Republican lawmakers don’t vote to approve Todd Blanche as Attorney General. This week, Trump threatened to temporarily withdraw Blanche’s nomination after Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of […]
The death toll continues to climb in the Spain/ Morocco border crisis. Sixty-seven people reportedly died after tens of thousands of people crossed by land and sea into Ceuta in a single day. Spanish officials said most of those who entered Ceuta had returned to Morocco, while authorities in Madrid moved to reinforce security, speed […]
At least three people were killed, and at least two others were injured in what authorities described as an active shooter incident Saturday near an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho. The shooting prompted a massive law enforcement response and the temporary closure of roads and businesses in the area. Twin Falls city spokesperson Josh […]
The State Department is urging Americans in the Middle East to exercise heightened caution and prepare for possible travel disruptions as tensions involving Iran and the United States raise concerns about the safety of U.S. citizens. The warning advised Americans in the region to be prepared for flight cancellations, periodic airspace closures and other disruptions. […]
Six months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Arizona home, her family is again pleading for answers while investigators point to newly released ransom notes they hope will help identify whoever is responsible. In an emotional Instagram post early Saturday, Savannah Guthrie described her mother as “our beautiful Mom” and said the family has lived […]
A strengthening El Niño in the Pacific could soon be felt far from the ocean. Grocery aisles, insurance bills, utility costs and the budgets of tourism-dependent towns already strained by heat, drought, wildfire smoke and flooding face economic strain. The emerging climate pattern, sometimes described by forecasters as a possible “super” or “mega” El Niño, […]
Just as the smoke from OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face was beginning to clear, another frontier artificial intelligence company revealed its systems had unintentionally hacked multiple companies. Anthropic on Thursday said OpenAI’s revelation the week prior spurred it to conduct a “retrospective review” of its own activities, searching for similar simulations that led to the […]
The Department of Justice moved on Friday to dismiss the case against Olympic canoeist David Hearn, who it accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. In a court filing obtained by The Hill, U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said the damage seen at the pool was not vandalism, but instead, the result of […]
Altoona, Iowa Mayor Dean O’Connor was early to the data center trend. O’Connor was a newly-elected city council member when the Des Moines suburb landed a 1.5 million square-foot Meta campus in 2013. “This was back when we were all fighting for data centers,” O’Connor told Straight Arrow. “Hindsight is, everybody has a data center […]
Authorities in Arizona released two ransom notes Friday that they say were written by people who have knowledge about the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC News “Today” host Savannah Guthrie. In a series of posts on X, the Pima County Sheriff’s Office published the two notes in the hope that making them […]
