Mayhem has broken out across France, as a student-led protest has escalated into acts of arson and battery of police, leading the prime minister to call an emergency meeting with officials. French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu convened the crisis meeting on Thursday following more than a week of protests by students in the Paris region. […]
The lawyers for a Tennessee woman who survived an execution attempt told reporters on Thursday that she was still alive and receiving care in critical condition. Christa Pike, 50, was convicted on first-degree murder and conspiracy charges and sentenced to death in 1996, when she was 20. She was convicted and sentenced for murdering her […]
The reopening of an investigation into allegations that a Cornell University student was drugged and gang-raped by seven Chi Phi fraternity brothers in 2024 has sparked an intense political debate over how accusations of sexual assault should be addressed in the public sphere. Commentators and lawmakers have jumped to comment on the sensational case in […]
Washington has left itself no shortage of work for when it returns after the Nov. 3 midterm elections with a lengthy to-do list that includes averting a government shutdown, which could be exponentially complicated by the election results. The Senate held its final pre-election vote Wednesday night, while the House departed Washington Sept. 16. Neither […]
Vice President JD Vance had a clear message for Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon and her fellow socialist lawmakers: Leave the country if you’re unhappy. While campaigning with Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) in Florida on Thursday afternoon, Vance issued his blunt message publicly. “Ladies and gentlemen, when Angie Nixon […]
A coalition of 25 states and cities, led by New York’s attorney general, has filed a lawsuit to overturn the Trump EPA‘s repeal of pollution standards for fossil fuel power plants. The group filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to strike […]
Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta subpoenaed OpenAI on Wednesday as the state investigates cybersecurity incidents involving the AI company and its models. The investigative subpoena comes as part of the California Department of Justice’s inquiry into a July incident involving OpenAI and AI development platform Hugging Face. OpenAI models broke out of testing environments, […]
President Donald Trump is open to the prospect of a U.S. military base in Venezuela or somewhere else in South America. “We’re looking at doing a lot of things,” Trump told reporters on Thursday. “We’re getting along very well, as you know, and Venezuela has been a great situation. The people are happy, and I’m […]
Authorities investigating the recent terrorism scare outside the Royal Air Force Fairford base in Gloucestershire have arrested a new suspect described as a British-Iranian dual national and have begun searching properties in connection with the incident. British Counter Terrorism Policing announced Thursday that another individual has been arrested in connection with the RAF Fairford incident […]
The Indian ambassador to the United Arab Emirates said Thursday that Flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar is recovering well after being seriously injured in an alleged cockpit attack that forced a flight from Dubai, UAE, to Tel Aviv, Israel, to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Indian Ambassador to the UAE Deepak Mittal visited Machchhar […]
