Witnesses said the 16-year-old lifeguard never released the child despite relentless waves that repeatedly dragged both beneath the surf read more
Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters in film and TV, most notably Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's The Sopranos, has died. He was 80. read more
Some public health experts and advocacy groups are hailing Dr. Anthony Fauci as a hero ... read more
Poll: Trump's MAGA voters would stick by a candidate through the most serious of scandals read more
Nahal Toosi: President Donald Trump and his aides rarely go easy on their perceived enemies. But their attacks on the International Criminal Court -- describing it as, among other things, filled with "lunatics" and pledging to destroy it -- are hyperbolic enough that you have to wonder: Are they afraid the court will prosecute them? read more
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned Thursday that cyberattacks targeting water utilities are escalating ... read more
62 percent of young people want to see significant changes' to government.
The Supreme Court deadline to request a reconsideration on President Trump's birthright citizenship order passed on Tuesday without a filing from the Department of Justice. read more
The Justice Department moved Friday to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying evidence prosecutors had recently received refuted the idea that vandals were to blame. read more
The judge sentenced Colin Gray, the father of Apalachee school shooter Colt Gray, to 15 years in prison. read more
The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seven companies. read more
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns: "A rapidly intensifying El Nino event is set to dominate global weather patterns in the coming months, unleashing extreme weather across the planet. The periodic climate phenomenon threatens to heighten the risk of heatwaves, drought, and flooding around the globe. Countries in Africa and Europe are battling massive wildfires and monsoon season has caused havoc across South Asia." read more
Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed from $45 billion to around $10 billion in assets ... read more
California, Arizona and Nevada will be required to slash their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River by 16 to 20% through 2028, under a federal plan set to be released in the next few days, according to a senior state water official. read more
Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading US AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China's defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents. read more
On Wednesday, Andon published a new installment in how things are going in its Vending-Bench research, where the lab has frontier models run a simulated vending machine business for a simulated year. read more
