Editor’s note, December 21 10:20 am ET: Shortly after midnight on Saturday, the Senate passed legislation that would fund the government and avert a shutdown. The bill did not include the suspension or elimination of the debt ceiling that Donald Trump had demanded. This week, we’re getting a potent reminder of what legislating looked like […]
A map shown during the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup has been criticised by Ukraine as an “unacceptable error” after it appeared to exclude Crimea as part of the country. The graphic – showing countries that cannot be drawn to play each other for geopolitical reasons – highlighted Ukraine but did not include […]
Koray Köse is a supply chain expert, tech futurist, author, former Gartner analyst and CEO & Founder of KŌSE ADVISORY. getty One of the less colloquially hyped but no less important benefits of AI-assisted technology has been a broad streamlining of supply chain management. AI has enabled a revolution at all levels of supply chain […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents from their village, never to return. Pagano […]
Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentNov 15, 2024, 05:00 AM ET Close Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC. Ricardo Pepi met the moment, and now the United States men’s national team is one step closer to the Concacaf Nations League (CNL) semifinals. The USMNT forward, long limited to a substitute’s […]
A huge demonstration has filled Valencia’s city centre in Spain, as people protest against the authorities’ handling of floods which killed more than 200 people. Protesters carried placards accusing Valencia’s regional government and its head, Carlos Mazón, of being “stained with blood”, and calling for him to go. Mr Mazón has been accused of missing […]
In 2022, the Republican National Committee sued Google with claims that it intentionally used Gmail’s spam filter to suppress Republicans’ fundraising emails. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in August 2023, ruling that Google correctly argued that the RNC claims were barred by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. In January 2023, the Federal […]
An Amazon data centre in Ashburn, Virginia. Technology companies are investing in nuclear power to try and address the growing energy demands of such facilities.Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Last week, technology giants Google and Amazon both unveiled deals supporting ‘advanced’ nuclear energy, as part of their efforts to become carbon-neutral. Google announced that it will buy […]
Staffers at the American Civil Liberties Union began to circulate an internal petition earlier this year urging its leadership to take a public stance against the U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza and Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories. The petition — which also calls on the ACLU to disclose and divest potential investments […]
South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador, seeking the “immediate withdrawal” of North Korean troops which it says are being trained to fight in Ukraine. About 1,500 North Korean soldiers, including those from the special forces, have already arrived in Russiaaccording to Seoul’s spy agency. In a meeting with the ambassador Georgiy Zinoviev, South Korea’s […]
