Beijing — ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming reclaimed the top spot on a list of China’s richest people, driven by his company’s push into artificial intelligence. The rankings released by The Hurun Research Institute on Tuesday reflected that the country’s high-tech sectors were rising while others, like the consumer sector and real estate, were under pressure….
Cairo – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has asked the country’s Parliament to authorize the military to help defend Saudi Arabia after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels intensified their attacks on the kingdom, targeting airports and oil infrastructure. Al-Sisi stressed that it would be a defensive mission and only if the kingdom requests assistance. “Egypt will…
Nine days after next month’s midterm elections, three prominent Democrats who are widely believed to have presidential ambitions will join other potential 2028 party contenders in Denver to discuss the future of the party. Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, as well as Rep. Ro Khanna of California, are…
The U.S. Senate candidates in Texas could hardly be more different: James Talarico, a former seminarian turned Democratic state lawmaker who speaks in calm cadences about love and empathy, and Ken Paxton, the pugnacious Republican state attorney general who speaks about a refusal to compromise. They share an enemy, though. They dislike social media’s effects…
Senate Republicans’ main super PAC is redirecting millions of dollars to defend a Kansas Senate seat and scaling back its investments in a GOP-held seat in North Carolina, sources familiar with the decision told CBS News. The shifts are another sign of how the race for control of the upper chamber is changing in the…
Sen. Josh Hawley is unveiling legislation Wednesday to establish guardrails for Flock cameras and other artificial intelligence-powered surveillance technology, CBS News has learned. The bill, dubbed the Stop Flock Abuse Act, would regulate automated license plate readers (ALPR) by imposing stricter limits on data, security and search functions. The cameras, which have become a popular…
Ten blocks away from the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. diplomats quietly kickstarted the expansion of the Abraham Accords from the 43rd floor of a midtown Manhattan office tower. On Thursday morning, State Department officials convened the first official meeting of the Abraham Accords countries — the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave the keynote address Thursday at a conference of an anti-vaccine activist group he once chaired, telling the hundreds in attendance that they had a friend in President Donald Trump’s White House. It was Kennedy’s first time appearing at the Children’s Health Defense conference since he…
Geneva — Human rights experts commissioned by the United Nation’s top human rights body say they have found “reasonable grounds” to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab. The international fact-finding mission on Iran says the findings center on a…
The Trump-aligned Kennedy Center board voted to immediately close the institution for renovations, a source familiar with the vote said, after President Trump and his allies on the board repeatedly warned of financial and physical ruin for the center if no action is taken. Earlier Tuesday, a federal judge again blocked the board — which…
