US President Donald Trump said progress was made in indirect talks with Iran, as technical discussions in Qatar continued between envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The talks aim to convert an in…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls and women from school athletic teams, sparking sharp division in California. Supporters like Chino Valley school board president Sonj…
NPR retracted a story by legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg that falsely claimed Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is retiring. The outlet published an editor's note stating Alito has not ann…
A new book by Jean Wells, a former Concord City Hall employee, reveals that the sexual harassment she endured from Mayor Byron Campbell in 1992 triggered memories of childhood sexual abuse by her fath…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an $11.25 billion affordable housing bond for the November ballot, while President Donald Trump torpedoed a bipartisan federal housing bill by demanding unrelat…
Google's Gemini AI admitted it is "structurally protective" of Donald Trump after a journalist pressed it on why it softened facts about the US president while being direct about Vladimir Putin and Xi…
A U.S. Supreme Court victory for Donald Trump has emboldened European privacy regulators and activists to challenge the Data Privacy Framework, a transatlantic deal enabling €1.7 trillion in annual da…
The United States government has lifted restrictions on foreign access to Anthropic's most powerful AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the US Department of Commerce removed export controls.…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe compared cutting-edge AI models to nuclear weapons, defending the U.S. government's recent export controls on frontier AI technology. The Trump administration forced Anthro…
President Trump plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable AI model, a move that could boost US competitiveness in artificial intelligence but raises national security concerns.…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that children born in the United States are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment even if their parents are in the country unlawfully or temporarily, rejecting Presi…
A US congressional hearing on Tuesday urged the United States to accelerate innovation in AI, robotics, and chips to counter China's technological rise, as lawmakers criticized the Trump administratio…
President Donald Trump's executive order creating the National Design Studio to redesign all 27,000 .gov websites using AI has resulted in limited progress and backlash. The small team, hampered by DO…
Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, a former Democrat who now supports Donald Trump, has been appointed to the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. The board, led by former Trump trade represe…
The Presidential Physical Fitness Test has been revived with only three tests, down from seven, after President Donald Trump signed an order in May restoring the program. Children exercised alongside …
Lloyds Banking Group has been accused of debanking left-wing news website The Canary, leaving the media outlet with 'barely any funds' and in a 'financially precarious situation'. The Canary claims Ll…
Global stocks surged $7 trillion in the first half of 2026 despite a $9 trillion drop in March caused by the Iran war, as an AI boom drove markets higher. South Korea's stock market doubled, SpaceX so…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump's executive order that would have denied citizenship to children born to people in the U.S. illegally or te…
The Supreme Court struck down limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, backing a Republican-led lawsuit that included Vice President J…
Anthropic faces escalating hostility from the Trump administration, including export controls on its Mythos AI model and a Pentagon supply chain risk label, after refusing to comply with new governmen…