In the wake of some recent congressional resignations, House Speaker Mike Johnson had two open seats to fill on the House Intelligence Committee. These are important slots — the panel’s members have access to some of the nation’s most important and highly sensitive secrets — and it was incumbent on the Louisiana Republican to choose […]
Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information. The tech company unleashed a makeover of its search engine in mid-May that frequently provides AI-generated summaries on top of search results. Soon after, social media users […]
Workers at or near alleged food distribution sites in Owatonna, Shakopee, Lexington, St. Paul and Minneapolis testified in federal court Tuesday that they didn’t see the thousands of meals claimed to be given out in those places during the COVID-19 pandemic. Six witnesses continued testimony supporting prosecutors’ allegations that seven defendants on trial, all with […]
The United Kingdom sure seemed to be heading towards encouraging walkable communities, typically referred to as 15-minute cities. However, the ruling Conservative Party government made a U-turn on the policy direction and started promoting driving seemingly based on almost nothing but conspiracy theories, the Guardian reports. Even the country’s transport minister Mark Harper has made […]
My first book on Donald Trump was an examination of one of the world’s most successful outlaws. Over the course of five decades, Trump had been accused of sexual assault, tax evasion, money laundering, non-payment of employees, and the defrauding of tenants, customers, contractors, investors, bankers, attorneys, and charities. Along the way Trump owned at […]