By Donna Bryson and Jonathan Allen Oct 3 – Women, some citing their own experiences of sexual assault, are posting on social media that they are Jane Doe, in solidarity with the woman using the pseudonym in accusing fraternity members of raping her at Cornell University in 2024. In a case that has d
By Courtney Rozen and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump spent Tuesday showcasing his administration’s approach to AI — touting the US government’s new AI chatbot, dining with tech titans at the White House, and announcing a voluntary agreement with those executi
(Washington, DC) — President Trump is expected to name Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton as the White House’s artificial intelligence czar. That’s according to multiple reports. Trump teased the move this week and could announce it on social media as early as Friday. This after a lengthy
(Mobile, AL) — President Trump is backing Alabama’s Republican candidate for governor Tommy Tuberville. In the latest stop in his midterm push, Trump told supporters in Mobile Friday they have to get out and vote. Trump is pumping up Republican candidates as he celebrates the groundbreaking of Mobil
By Daniel Trotta Oct 2 (Reuters) – Civil rights attorney Ben Crump on Friday vowed to “seek accountability” in the 2024 shooting death of US Air Force airman Roger Fortson after a jury in Florida acquitted former sheriff’s deputy Eddie Duran of manslaughter. Duran’s defense attorney said the former
Oct 2 (Reuters) – The US Justice Department is not reopening a criminal probe into former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for cost overruns related to the central bank’s building renovation project, a DOJ spokesperson said on Friday. Attorney General Todd Blanche, in comments to Bloomberg News,
By Joseph Ax Oct 2 (Reuters) – New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday faulted police and prosecutors for failing to fully investigate an alleged gang rape in 2024 at Cornell University, saying she was “deeply disturbed” by how the incident was handled. Hochul was speaking at a press conference alo
By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey called on the Trump administration to expedite the review of a natural gas pipeline that a unit of Canadian energy firm Enbridge is developing in New England. After opposing most new fossil fuel projects over the past
By Amina Niasse NEW YORK, Oct 2 (Reuters) – A crackdown on Obamacare health insurance could raise prices for US consumers and insurers by removing healthy, low-cost enrollees, adding pressure to a shrinking marketplace. The 2010 Affordable Care Act created income-based government-subsidized health p
(Durant, OK) — President Trump is urging supporters to come out to vote in November, holding rallies in Texas and Oklahoma Thursday. Here he is in Denton, Texas: Speaking at a campaign rally in Durant, Oklahoma Thursday, Trump said the last time the radical left was in power, they gave the U.S. the
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – US job growth slowed more than expected in September and the nonfarm payrolls count for the prior two months was revised sharply lower, almost taking another interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve this month off the table. The Labor Department’s c
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – The Pentagon may expand its use of autonomous surveillance boats on the Rio Grande and in the Gulf of Mexico after the canoe-sized vessels helped authorities detect and deter illegal border crossings and narcotics trafficking during a pilot program that be
By Andrew Chung Oct 2 (Reuters) – The US Supreme Court begins its new nine-month term on Monday much as it ended its last one, confronted with more cases involving President Donald Trump’s far-reaching policies and aggressive uses of power that will keep testing how far the justices will let him exp
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Oct 2(Reuters) – When President Donald Trump took a wrecking ball to the East Wing of the White House, it took Washington by surprise. Now, there is a move in the US Congress to avoid a second such surprise with legislation to prohibit him from demolishing the John F. Ke
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – A California man was arrested on federal charges alleging he smuggled to China more than $300 million worth of export-controlled computer servers containing US-manufactured graphics processing units commonly used for AI applications, the US Justice Dep
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a Massachusetts man with cyberstalking Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, accusing him of repeatedly calling and texting her and sending vulgar messages to her and her parents.
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was granted parole on Thursday after serving seven years of a 10-year prison sentence for the 2018 shooting death of a Black man while he was eating ice cream in his apartment, according to the Texas Board of P
By Mike Scarcella and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to reinstate a court-appointed federal prosecutor in Seattle whom President Donald Trump fired less than an hour after his appointment. Chief Judge Stanley Bastian of the fed
By Joseph Ax Oct 1 (Reuters) – New York state prosecutors have reopened an investigation into the alleged 2024 gang rape of a Cornell University student, after the woman filed a civil lawsuit last month saying several members of a campus fraternity drugged and assaulted her. The case has prompted pu
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – US states are taking a range of steps to curb diesel and gasoline prices that have soared in recent months due to supply disruptions stemming from the US war with Iran, Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s refineries, and dwindling global inventories. Diesel
WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – New York’s attorney general on Thursday led a coalition of 25 states and cities in a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency to block its repeal of greenhouse gas emission limits for power plants. Attorney General Letitia James and sta
By David Hood-Nuño WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from canceling nearly $56 million in housing counseling grants, preserving the funding while a legal challenge to the cuts moves forward. In an order issued late on Wednesday, US District Ju
By Jonathan Allen Oct 1 (Reuters) – The family of Renee Good, one of two US citizens fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January, sued the Trump administration on Thursday, saying there had been “no accountability” for her killing during deportation sweeps. Good, 37, was sho
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – New applications for US unemployment benefits drifted close to 57-year lows last week and layoffs decreased in September, suggesting labor market stability persisted even as employers remained cautious about boosting hiring. The report from the Labor D
By Joseph Ax Oct 1 (Reuters) – Some New York lawmakers are urging a revamp of the state’s sexual assault statutes to make it easier to prosecute cases involving intoxicated victims, following renewed outrage over an alleged 2024 gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity house. The Tompkins County
By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – A Democratic lawmaker is warning that Beijing could steal AI model weights developed by OpenAI, Anthropic and other top US firms, erasing the US edge over China in the AI race and posing a risk to US national security. OpenAI and Anthropic have report
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – A pair of Democratic lawmakers sought on Thursday independent investigations into taxpayer-funded television ads featuring President Donald Trump that are airing shortly before the November congressional elections. Representative Jamie Raskin, the to
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) – An immigration judge ruled that the US government can deport Palestinian American Salah Sarsour, who is the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque and a US permanent resident, under a Cold War-era law. Sarsour, who grew up in the Israeli-occupied We
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) – The US National Nuclear Security Administration conducted a “subsurface, non-nuclear chemical high-explosive experiment” on Wednesday that the Energy Department said aimed to improve the United States’ ability to detect low-yield nuclear explosions.
By AJ Vicens Sept 30 (Reuters) – The website used by ShinyHunters, the group that claimed responsibility for a recent hack of thousands of FBI agents’ personal and sensitive data, went offline on Wednesday, a day after the group’s deadline for the FBI to retract or modify a statement about the group
