ChatGPT Chief to Testify About AI Before Senate
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI, was set to speak before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law on Tuesday. IBM’s chief privacy and trust officer, Christina Montgomery, was also slated to testify before the subcommittee, as was Gary Marcus, a professor emeritus at New York University who […]
Ukraine Says it Shot Down Multiple Russian Hypersonic Missiles
Ukraine said Tuesday it had shot down six Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missiles overnight Monday. “Yet another massive Russian air attack on Ukraine last night,” Anton Gerashchenko, advisor to Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs, tweeted Tuesday morning. He listed the Russian weaponry he said Ukrainian air defense had shot down: six aeroballistic Kinzhal rockets, nine Kalibr […]
Former Aide Sues Rudy Giuliani for $10 million, Alleging Sexual Assault
A former aide to Rudy Giuliani filed suit against the former Trump attorney and ex-New York City Mayor Monday for sexual assault. In a nearly 70-page complaint Noelle Dunphy said she is seeking $10 million, asserting that Giuliani began abusing her almost immediately after he hired her off the books in January 2019. She states […]
Biden & McCarthy to Meet Again After Postponing Debt Ceiling Meeting
President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) are set to meet again Tuesday afternoon to pick up where they left off on talks to avoid defaulting on the federal debt. They, along with the Senate’s Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as well as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries […]
Special Counsel John Durham Releases Report Critical of FBI
Trump-appointed Special Counsel John Durham has issued a report on his years-long probe into how the FBI investigated the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. Durham was hired by Attorney General Bill Barr in 2019 to take a fresh look at the the origins of the Department of Justice’s investigation into whether former President Trump’s 2016 campaign […]
Congressional Staffers Hospitalized after Baseball Bat Attack
Two staffers who work for Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) were hospitalized after being attacked by a person with a baseball bat, the Congress member said Monday. Connolly, who represents Virginia’s 11th District based in Fairfax County, said the attacker asked to see him before assaulting the two staff members. A statement from Connolly’s office said […]
Supreme Court to Hear Dispute over Trump Hotel Documents
The Supreme Court said Monday that it would take up a years-old legal bid by House Democrats to obtain federal information about former President Trump’s lease of a Washington DC building he used as a hotel. Trump International Hotel, formerly the Old Post Office building in the nation’s capital, opened shortly before Trump became President […]
Supreme Court to Weigh Whether South Carolina Districts Violate Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a lower-court ruling over whether South Carolina’s congressional districts need to be redrawn because they discriminate against Black voters. South Carolina’s Republican-led state legislature redrew the state’s congressional map lines earlier this year following the 2020 Census. In January a panel of three federal judges ordered South […]
China Imprisons for Life American Senior Citizen Charged with Spying
China on Monday sentenced 78-year-old American citizen John Shing-Wan Leung to life in prison after charging him with spying. Details of the charges against Leung, who is a permanent resident of Hong Kong, have not been released publicly, as is typical of China’s judicial system which holds such investigations and trials behind closed doors. Leung […]
Zelensky Arrives in UK for Surprise Meeting with Prime Minister
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the UK Monday for a surprise meeting with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Sunak pinned a tweet on his Twitter feed welcoming Zelensky back to the UK with a hug. “United in action,” the Prime Minister’s office further tweeted. “Last year the UK provided Ukraine with more military support than any […]
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