President Trump said Democrat Mary Peltola “shouldn’t be allowed to run” in next week’s Alaska Senate race, after The New York Times reported that people aligned with Peltola’s campaign helped recruit a candidate with the same first and last name as her main opponent, Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. “I don’t think Mary Peltola, after perpetrating…
As artificial intelligence — and the conversation surrounding it — rapidly evolves, keeping up with the language being used to describe it has become essential to understanding its impacts. Here are some key terms to know: Abliteration Abliteration (a portmanteau of the words ablation, meaning to remove a part of something, and obliteration) is a…
New details are emerging in the case of a former Cornell University student who claims she was allegedly drugged and gang-raped for multiple hours inside a fraternity house in October 2024. The woman — identified only as Jane Doe, who was 20 at the time of the alleged incident — recently filed a civil lawsuit…
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a software glitch in some Boeing 737 Max jets that could prompt an automated flight guidance system to disengage during an aborted landing, commonly referred to as a go-around. In rare circumstances where there is a missed approach — and where a pilot is using a precision approach with…
OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, as part of an ongoing review into the company’s models’ unanticipated behavior. The AI giant’s models accessed publicly available information on two websites operated by the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as U.S. Census Bureau data,…
CBS News’ Battleground Tracker polling is back for 2026, capturing what’s on voters’ minds and the key groups to watch coast to coast, as well as what it means for districts, seat estimates and control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Every district and state matters, but CBS News also identifies nine key Senate and…
Illinois Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin harshly criticized FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford for holding up a pay raise for air traffic controllers that Congress approved as part of legislation President Trump signed into law in April. The Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act set aside $140 million to give controllers a…
Stavanger, Norway — King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died Friday. He was 89. The palace said he died at the National Hospital in Oslo at…
A British estate used as a filming location in Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins” may be taken from its owners if repair work, including bat surveys, does not commence, according to local council notices. The stately home was built between 1852 and 1854 in Buckinghamshire, a region in southeast England. It stood in for Wayne Manor in…
Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday that the defence pact signed last week between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye was “a sign of a change in the perception” of regional countries towards the United States. The joint defence agreement, signed in Makkah on Friday, aims to strengthen collective deterrence and empowers its signatory states to…
