The CEO of the world’s largest chipmaker told CBS News that tech companies should push forward with the development of artificial intelligence despite recent warnings from worried industry leaders that there may be a need to pull back due to unease about where the technology could be headed. “We should go as fast as we…
A former senior budget official for Connecticut’s Democratic governor is now a fugitive in Greece after fleeing the U.S. by boat and plane ahead of his sentencing for corruption, his lawyer and prosecutors told a federal judge on Thursday. Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, 70, also sent his attorney a 10-page email accusing Gov. Ned Lamont of…
St. Martin’s Press We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country” (to be published Tuesday by St. Martin’s Press), Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, writes about how the language of faith, which he believes has been co-opted by…
Like any powerful new technology, Americans understand that AI could be used for good or bad. There is optimism on some fronts — but pessimism outweighs it today. Most Americans do worry AI models will act on their own to harm people, and even more that models will be used by people to harm others. …
Washington — The Pentagon on Friday released its sixth batch of files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP or UFOs, including dozens of documents detailing a military program that commissioned studies of warp drives, wormholes and injuries that researchers linked to possible encounters with unknown craft. Friday’s release includes a total of 71 files —…
Washington — President Trump signed a sweeping bill Friday to sanction Russia and threaten tariffs on its largest energy customers, legislation championed by the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. The House passed the bill with bipartisan support earlier this week. The Senate passed it in August, although a number of Democrats expressed concern that it…
Employment fell last year in U.S. cities where Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests surged the most, according to a recent study. In cities where ICE arrests increased fastest in 2025, employment fell 0.4% below its expected trajectory both immediately after those detentions and for up to one year after a metro area was targeted, researchers…
Washington — President Trump said Friday that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, the latest move by his administration to target media outlets over their reporting. The president, who posted the announcement on Truth Social, also threatened to take similar action against other outlets. “I am proud to announce…
Thomas Louis and his wife have tried everything to clinch a deal to buy a home: offering above the asking price, waiving inspections, and considering properties that tick some, but not all, of their boxes. Three years and 15 offers later, they’re still looking. This year’s sharp rise in mortgage rates, which are now approaching…
The U.S. Marshals Service is preparing to transfer some 400 pre-trial detainees from a private prison in Georgia run by the Florida-based GEO Group to another facility nearly 200 miles away. Sources familiar with the plan say federal defenders, prosecutors and judges fear the move could disrupt criminal prosecutions in Atlanta, where the state’s busiest…
