DeSantis’ return to Iowa marked a new chapter in his political arc and a slightly new approach to boot, with the mainstream press-averse governor taking questions afterward from an assembled press corps. But the changes weren’t overwhelming. DeSantis stayed largely on script during his speech, airing a list of policy achievements and painting a dystopian…
Police say the sounds of a crying baby led them to a woman lying dead on the floor of her apartment beside the body of a man who had apparently killed her before killing himself. According to a police department Facebook post, officers performing a welfare check just before noon on Saturday in Port St….
Beyoncé is gushing over her daughter Blue Ivy Carter after recently making a special appearance on the singer’s Renaissance Tour. On Monday, the “Crazy in Love” crooner fangirled over Blue Ivy on Instagram, sharing a loving tribute to celebrate their special moment onstage. “My beautiful first born,” the 41-year-old wrote alongside a snapshot and videos…
When Mohammad Alam, 35, died in Jeddah in March 2022, his 85-year-old mother had just one wish. She turned down his employer’s offer of a burial there and compensation, reports Kanwardeep Singh. “I just wanted a final goodbye for my devoted son,” said Maryam, breaking down as Alam’s body was finally flown from Jeddah to…
The debt ceiling deal struck by President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., passed a critical hurdle Tuesday night that should allow House lawmakers to vote on the agreement Wednesday evening. The House Rules Committee approved the terms of debate for the legislation implementing that agreement in an 7-6 vote Tuesday evening. A successful vote…
As artificial intelligence races toward everyday adoption, experts have come together — again — to express worry over technology’s potential power to harm — or even end — human life. Months after Elon Musk and numerous others working in the field signed a letter in March seeking a pause in AI development, another group consisting…
Greece’s education ministry says it has been targeted in a cyberattack described as the most extensive in the nation’s history, aimed at disabling a centralised high school examination platform. It said the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks aimed at overwhelming the platform occurred for a second consecutive day on Tuesday. The attack involved…
STOCKHOLM: Top artificial intelligence executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the “risk of extinction from AI”, which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale…
BEIJING: China’s government is calling on protesters to turn themselves in after a crowd clashed with police over plans to demolish a mosque in the country’s southwest as President Xi Jinping‘s government tightens control over religion and society. Protesters threw water bottles at officers with helmets and shields outside the blue-domed Najiaying mosque in Yuxi,…
TOKYO: A Japanese court ruled on Tuesday that not allowing same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, a decision activists welcomed as a step towards marriage equality in the only Group of Seven nation with no legal protection for same-sex unions. The ruling by the Nagoya district court was the second to find a ban against same-sex marriage…
