Former President Trump’s second indictment and the ever-looming 2024 presidential race will likely dominate the Sunday talk show circuit this weekend. Trump has been charged with 37 counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents and efforts to prevent the government from retrieving the documents, according to the indictment unsealed on Friday. The indictment...
DALLAS (AP) — Brittney Griner and her Phoenix Mercury teammates were confronted by a "provocateur" at the Dallas airport on Saturday, the WNBA said. The league said in a statement it was looking into the team's run-in with a “social media figure" whose “actions were inappropriate and unfortunate.” “The safety of Brittney Griner and all...
For those who know and love Cazenovia College, Finlandia University or Holy Names University, it was an especially bittersweet end to the academic year, as each institution had announced plans to close. Yet college and university closures and consolidations are moving us in the wrong direction as a nation. If we focus too narrowly on...
Canada — and the world — are stuck in a feedback loop of fire, argues bestselling Canadian journalist John Vaillant. The wildfires currently blazing across Eastern and Western Canada represent the mainstreaming of a level of power and destruction that was once extreme, Vaillant told The Hill last month, before the smoke drifted south and...
Ted Kaczynski, widely known as the “Unabomber,” died in federal custody on Saturday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Kaczynski, who mailed and hand-delivered a series of homemade bombs over a 17-year stretch from 1978 to 1995 that killed three people and injured 23 others, was found unresponsive in his cell shortly after midnight...
The underlying problems remain unaddressed, guaranteeing a new crisis in a never-ending cycle.
Former Vice President Mike Pence called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to publicly justify the federal indictment against former President Trump after his former boss was charged with 37 criminal counts. Pence said during a speech at a North Carolina GOP convention in Greensboro on Saturday that Trump is facing an “unprecedented indictment” from a...
Policymakers, industry and researchers need to work together to ensure that efforts to develop trustworthy and steerable AI keep pace with overall AI capabilities.
Let’s hope WTO members can find common ground to save this common global resource.
The indictment of former President Donald Trump in connection with his handling of classified government documents is forcing his 2024 primary rivals into an awkward position: defending the man they’re trying to defeat. Within hours of the indictment news, several of Trump’s Republican challengers rushed to his defense, accusing President Biden and his Justice Department...
Perception can indeed be everything in politics.
The editorial board for The National Review said one cannot read the allegations outlined in the federal indictment against former President Trump and “not be appalled.” The editorial board said in a post on Saturday that it has in the past pointed out times that it believes Trump’s opponents have manipulated the law to pursue...
Before this week, it was easy for those of us in the East to think that suffocating wildfire smoke was solely a West Coast problem.
There is a reason Smith would love to see a speedy trial.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) blasted the Republican 2024 presidential candidates for their reaction to the federal indictment of former President Trump, saying that they need to be willing to attack him to have a chance to win. Sununu said in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday that he is surprised the...
If generative AI's processes are unchecked, then every system we rely upon in our daily lives will be compromised.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), a GOP presidential candidate for 2024, said the details of the federal indictment against former President Trump are “devastating.” “The fact is that these facts are devastating,” Christie told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview on Friday. Christie noted that the indictment accuses Trump of directing what documents...
Reality Winner, a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who pleaded guilty to leaking classified information, said the case against former President Trump over the documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago after his presidency is “egregious and cut-and-dry.” Winner said in an interview with NBC News on Friday that she was “blown away” by the level...
Sixty years ago, on June 10, 1963, The Equal Pay Act, which prohibited pay discrimination on the basis of sex, was passed. Today, Black, Latina, Indigenous, and trans women still face wage gaps on par with the gap faced by white women in the 1960s, making just over half than what men make. The anniversary...
A federal judge has partially unsealed his decision that required former Vice President Mike Pence to testify in special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge for the district court for Washington, D.C.,...
A new survey found a larger-than-expected population of the world's most endangered marine mammal, a small porpoise whose collapse has generated international contempt toward Mexico. Researchers in the Gulf of California recorded between 10 and 13 individual vaquita marina porpoises over 17 days in May, roughly the same number of vaquitas spotted in October of...
A surprising Voting Rights Act decision at the Supreme Court has added a new dimension to the fight for House control ahead of the 2024 election cycle. The ruling paves the way for the creation of a second Black-majority congressional district in Alabama, but it is also likely to impact voting map fights in states...
Former President Trump – long deemed Teflon Don for his ability to dodge legal matters – is facing a series of serious criminal charges brought by the Justice Department, which unsealed a 37-count indictment on Friday related to his handling of classified documents. The indictment is Trump’s second this year, but it’s his first time...
Cancer centers are contending with shortages of key chemotherapy drugs, with potentially dire consequences once the scarcity starts hitting patients. A new survey released this week by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) found that 93 percent of cancer centers are reporting shortages of carboplatin and 70 percent are reporting shortages of cisplatin. These two...
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said the Justice Department’s detailed indictment proves former President Trump had a “maligned intent” in keeping the documents that were taken from the White House to Mar-a-Lago after his presidency ended. Schiff told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace in an interview on Friday that the indictment is “stunning” in the amount of detail...
