Last February, a Tomahawk cruise missile struck an Iranian elementary school, killing more than 150 people, most of them children. President Trump initially suggested that it could have been somebody else’s Tomahawk: “Whether it’s Iran or somebody else, the fact that a Tomahawk – a Tomahawk is very generic, it’s sold to other countries, but…
An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows. Qwen, a freely available model made by Chinese conglomerate Alibaba, doesn’t acknowledge the violent suppression of protests in Hong Kong in 2019 or Tiananmen Square in…
Bolivia’s attorney general arrested for alleged money laundering and drug trafficking U.S.-sanctioned Bolivian Attorney General Roger Mariaca has been arrested on suspicion of money laundering and drug trafficking, with police finding bundles of cash smuggled out of his house, the government said Thursday. Mariaca was arrested on Wednesday night in the eastern city of Santa…
A U.S. Army unit asked to bulk up medical support weeks before a fatal Iranian strike on their command post in Kuwait, but they were ignored, soldiers told CBS News. Some of the survivors of the attack also said at least one soldier who was killed could have been saved if there had been more…
Attorneys for artist JMSN, whose song “Love Me” was used in one of President Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads, have sent a cease-and-desist letter to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles demanding the Trump administration to stop using his song. Attorneys for JMSN, real name Christian Berishaj, say the use of the song is a violation…
A man plummeted at least 800 feet to his death while hiking on Washington state’s Sauk Mountain over the weekend, authorities said, just a day after another person was found dead on the same mountain. Gary Idleburg, 66, of Olympia, may have fallen as much as 1,000 feet after going over the edge of a…
A new ad campaign glorifying President Trump is on the air on national cable and national networks including CBS beginning Thursday, and it’s being paid for by American taxpayers. The first ad, which hit the airwaves Wednesday and aired on Fox News Channel, opens with Mr. Trump vowing, “We will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism…
At least six people have been killed in bear attacks in Russia’s vast Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk in a month, prosecutors said Wednesday, as an official in a neighboring region reported bears had put one town “under siege.” Prosecutors said they opened a probe into criminal negligence, accusing local officials of failing to control bear…
One month after a catastrophic flash flood swept through a Himalayan river valley, a Suwanee couple is safely back home. The people they were traveling with are not. Mita and Hemant Parikh were part of a group of 47 people on a long-planned spiritual pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet. Nearly a month after the…
One month after a catastrophic flash flood swept through a Himalayan river valley, a Suwanee couple is safely back home. The people they were traveling with are not. Mita and Hemant Parikh were part of a group of 47 people on a long-planned spiritual pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet. Nearly a month after the…
