Tara Reade, a former Senate aide who accused President Joe Biden of sexual assault, said Tuesday she had moved to Moscow and was seeking to become a citizen, according to Russian state media. Reade, who worked in Biden’s Senate office in 1993 for a short period, made the comments to Sputnik during a news conference,…
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…
Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a historic ban on noncompete agreements, which would outlaw companies from preventing their workers from taking jobs at competing firms. But there are several major fields, including the airline industry, where the FTC may not have the authority to implement it. Progressives say they have a solution:…
BEIJING: Tesla‘s Elon Musk met China’s foreign minister Qin Gang in Beijing on Tuesday, the Chinese ministry said in a statement. Qin told Musk China was “committed to creating a better market-oriented, rule-of-law-based and internationalised business environment” for foreign enterprises, according to the statement. Musk’s visit is the first to China since the start of…
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden says he “feels good” about the debt ceiling and budget deal negotiated with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy as the White House and congressional leaders work to ensure its passage this week in time to lift the nation’s borrowing limit and prevent a disastrous U.S. default.Biden spent part of the Memorial Day…
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Monday slammed Uganda‘s draconian new law against homosexuality as a grave human rights violation, and threatened to cut aid and investment in the east African country.He called for the immediate repeal of the tough new measures, which state among other things that “engaging in acts of homosexuality” in Uganda…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden lauded the sacrifice of generations of U.S. troops who died fighting for their country as he marked Memorial Day with the traditional wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Biden was joined by first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Harris’ husband, Douglas Emhoff, for the 155th National…
NEW DELHI: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday won a historic run-off election to extend his two-decade rule to 2028.Erdogan, who is Turkey‘s longest-serving leader, brushed aside a powerful opposition coalition, a biting economic crisis and widespread anger following a devastating February earthquake to beat secular challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Sunday’s vote.Erdogan’s narrow victory…
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday confronted the tough task of uniting his deeply divided country after winning a historic run-off election to extend his two-decade rule to 2028.Turkey’s longest-serving leader brushed aside a powerful opposition coalition, a biting economic crisis and widespread anger following a devastating February earthquake to beat secular challenger…
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden agreed to stricter work requirements for some federal safety net programs, making a key concession to House Republicans in exchange for their support to hike the debt limit for two years. The tentative agreement struck between Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Saturday night would also hold spending…
