Meta said it has developed a tamper-detection feature for its AI-powered smart glasses to prevent users from secretly recording video of people around them. In an announcement highlighting frequently asked questions about the smart glasses, Meta responded to concerns about users developing ways to disable the device’s LED light, which indicates it is in record […]
President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade with Spain on Wednesday, calling the NATO ally “hopeless” and “hostile” during a broad attack on countries he says failed to support the U.S. against Iran. Speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Trump criticized allies he said refused to help the U.S. confront Iran before […]
HOUSTON — Jorge Gonzalez woke up shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday when the phone rang. His next door neighbor asked his wife, from the other end of the line: Did you hear the gunshots? Gonzalez, a longtime resident of Houston’s predominantly Latino Magnolia Park, sprang up from bed. He wove through the 88-year-old bungalow he […]
Despite significantly lower Affordable Care Act enrollment this year as a result of high premiums, insurers want to raise prices again. They already increased by double digits for millions of Americans in 2026, and come 2027, insurers want to do it again. A new analysis of preliminary filings with state regulators by the Peterson-KFF Health […]
Before the U.S. team lost in the World Cup round of 16 earlier this week, Americans could scroll through social media and find dozens of videos of fans celebrating, hanging out and showing their American pride together. It was a brief era, it seemed, when Americans, instead of attacking each other and saying hateful things […]
The White House amplified a story that claimed unauthorized immigrants caused housing prices to rise by 30%. But the paper didn’t say that. An article from the New York Post caught Vice President JD Vance’s attention as it attributed the rising costs of housing and rent to the surge of unauthorized immigrants between 2021 and […]
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Tuesday that it provisionally lifted its ban on the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). The ban was lifted not because Russia stopped attacking Ukraine, but because it stopped interfering with sports that fall under the Ukrainian Olympic Committee’s jurisdiction. “The decision was taken following a thorough analysis by the IOC’s […]
Graham Platner denied a second allegation of sexual assault in as many days following a Washington Post article that quoted an ex-girlfriend who accused the now 41-year-old Democratic Senate nominee in Maine of having removed protection without her consent during several sexual encounters in Washington, D.C., between 2013 and 2015. The report comes a day […]
In a deeply divided country, one issue is cutting through the noise: Americans increasingly agree that the affordability crisis is real and that it could get worse. A new Guardian/Harris Poll released Tuesday found that 95% of Americans believe the country is suffering from an affordability crisis and that 57% believe the overall economy is […]
Chinese government officials and the country’s top artificial intelligence companies are considering following America’s lead and pulling their top AI models from foreign nations. Closing that spigot would be a major disruption for some U.S.-based companies that have turned to them in the face of sky-high American AI costs. The talks, first reported by Reuters […]
