Ukraine’s growing drone force is putting new pressure on Russia by forcing the Kremlin to defend a far wider area than the front line. Ukraine sent hundreds of drones into Russia overnight in what appeared to be one of Kyiv’s largest attacks since the full-scale invasion. Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defenses intercepted 660 […]
The Texas State Board of Education is set to vote Friday on a book list that would make Bible passages and stories required reading for millions of elementary and middle school students. Traditionally, reading lists are chosen by individual schools or teachers. Texas is home to about 5 million public school students, about 11% of […]
A federal judge blocked Postmaster General David Steiner’s plan to withhold ballots from the 23 states refusing to comply with an executive order on voter rolls. The Massachusetts judge also nullified the order as unconstitutional, killing President Donald Trump’s plan to establish a national voter list. Judge Indira Talwani struck down Trump’s March 31 executive […]
In the movies, killing the original vampire leaves its minions reduced to ash and flames. The Supreme Court on Thursday set forth a similar chain reaction across the country when it ruled Hawaii’s “vampire” gun law runs afoul of the Constitution. Justices in the 6-3 majority ruled that Hawaii’s law requiring express permission from a […]
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship, multiple media outlets reported Thursday, citing U.S. officials. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, wrote that a one-way attack drone went to the west side of the vessel before striking it, inferring the attack was deliberate. U.K. Maritime Trade Operations said the […]
Artificial intelligence has officially made its way into the political sphere, and more significantly, into this year’s campaign cycle. But now, it’s taking a dramatic turn, as a failed political candidate faces criminal charges for using AI tools on the campaign trail. Jonathan Rinaldi was arrested outside his home in New York on Wednesday and […]
As local newspapers shutter left and right, hundreds of small-town, family-owned publishers are going to battle against Big Tech to prevent their business models from being eaten alive by chatbots. In a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, some 400 local newspapers from across the country accused OpenAI and Microsoft of systematically copying articles from their websites […]
The same companies warning that artificial intelligence could devastate the American workforce are now writing checks to fix it, and at least one of them is also the reason the alarm exists. Eric Holcomb, a former Republican governor of Indiana, and Gina Raimondo, a former Democratic governor of Rhode Island and the former U.S. commerce […]
President Donald Trump went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday hoping to rally Senate Republicans behind his agenda, but instead spent much of the meeting pressing Republicans who had broken with him on Iran — a confrontation that was followed hours later by two key senators reversing their positions on a separate war powers vote. Trump […]
POTTER COUNTY, Texas – Early morning light streams across the Frying Pan Ranch as Claudia Landerville switches off a temporary electrified fence, rolls it in and begins calling hundreds of cows across the new opening. The sound of “Huuuuuuhwoah,” echoes across the brush-strewn landscape on a crisp, late-April day as Landerville lures the cattle toward […]
