Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon made a splash in early September for resigning and claiming artificial intelligence could one day kill humanity. One American anti-capitalist group was especially happy to see it. “They know that they’re in way over their head and that they need international outrage, which I see happening, about the runaway AI […]
Niigata is not Japan’s most prominent prefecture, but there are a handful of areas in which it stands out. Snowboarders and skiing enthusiasts from around the world travel there for the pillowy snow on its mountains. Its rice is considered some of the best in the country, and that fact contributes to its status as […]
President Donald Trump has spent much of his political career blaming the media when voters sour on him. But with Republicans facing a difficult final month before the midterm elections, Trump is increasingly acknowledging a problem inside his own operation: He and his administration have failed to sell their record, even as the White House […]
When Kevin Warsh was sworn in as chairman of the Federal Reserve, he touted a planned policy regime change for America’s central bank and pledged not to repeat past mistakes. Four months-plus into his tenure, Warsh finds himself in the same boat as his predecessor: sticky inflation and the need for higher interest rates. Warsh […]
Big Oil’s long-running alliance with the Republican Party faces a major roadblock as more GOP candidates, and President Donald Trump himself, back a temporary ban on diesel exports. The rift, driven by the war in Iran and Ukrainian strikes on refineries in Russia, broke into public view recently when Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the president […]
A brightly packaged disposable vape can begin its journey in a factory in Shenzhen, China, pass through exporters and U.S. distributors, and end up behind the counter of a neighborhood smoke shop, even if it has never been authorized for sale in the United States. The products are often flavored and designed to attract young […]
The GOP’s effort to redraw the Lone Star State’s congressional map and expand its House majority has created an unexpected problem in South Texas, where Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-TX) is suddenly locked in a competitive reelection fight in a district President Donald Trump carried by nearly 18 percentage points. De La Cruz was […]
A nation is civilized if it can transmute its suffering into art. The latest season of the Israeli thriller series Fauda neatly demonstrates the principle. That season, the show’s fifth, is available on Netflix in its entirety and concerns the events of Oct. 7, 2023, and their aftermath. As in the show’s earlier runs, the […]
A ban on Arab parties running in the upcoming Israeli elections has been overturned, setting the stage for the ethnic minority groups to play kingmaker after ballots are cast. The Israeli Central Elections Committee issued the ban in late September on the accusation that the Arab parties, which are organized into the United Arab List […]
Attorney General Todd Blanche said Friday that the Justice Department will not open its criminal investigation into former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell following the release of an internal watchdog report that found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. “We’re not reopening a criminal investigation into him,” Blanche told Bloomberg in an interview Friday, closing off […]
