White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to comment on the Biden administration's response, particularly a lack thereof, escalating tensions in the Middle East during her Friday morning press briefing.
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Roughly 40 minutes after it lapsed, the Senate voted to pass a renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which serves as a critical tool used by the government to gather intelligence on foreign subjects using the compelled
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New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing the judge in former President Donald Trump's[1] civil fraud case to void the $175 million bond that Trump previously posted to appeal his New York civil lawsuit.
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Chinese hackers are developing[1] the "ability to physically wreak havoc on our critical infrastructure at a time of its choosing," FBI director Christopher Wray said this week.
He added that the hackers are waiting "for just the right moment to deal a
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Both U.S. senators from Arkansas[1] are pushing for answers from the Justice Department about a federal law enforcement search warrant execution last month that ended with an airport executive shot dead.
Sens. Tom Cotton and John Boozman are seeking answers in
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The "Fortnight" party continues!
Minutes after dropping the music video to "Fortnight" featuring Post Malone[1] from The Tortured Poets Department[2], Taylor Swift[3] dropped a YouTube short dubbed "Fortnight" recap. The montage shows behind-the-scenes footage from
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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar[1], D-Minn., praised her daughter on Friday, a day after the Ivy League college student was arrested in New York City while participating in an anti-Israel protest.[2]
"I am enormously proud of my daughter @israhirsi," Omar wrote on X.
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Google recently made headlines globally because its chatbot Gemini generated images of people of color instead of white people in historical settings that featured white people[1]. Adobe Firefly’s image creation tool saw similar issues[2]. This led some
Many people around the world make and eat fermented foods. Millions in Korea[1] alone make kimchi. The cultural heritage of these picklers shape not only what they eat every time they crack open a jar but also something much, much smaller: their
Read more https://theconversation.com/fermented-foods-sustain-both-microbiomes-and-cultural-heritage-221564
Saturn has 146 confirmed moons[1] – more than any other planet in the solar system – but one called Enceladus[2] stands out. It appears to have the ingredients for life.
From 2004 to 2017, Cassini[3] – a joint mission between NASA, the European
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Reuters was first to report[1] that UAE state-owned energy giant ADNOC had weighed a bid for BP but decided against proceeding amid concerns about the strategic fit and political considerations. Shares of the 88 billion-pound British
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Reuters exclusively reported[1] that Independent browser companies in the European Union are seeing a spike in users in the first month after EU legislation forced Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft and Apple to make it easier for users to switch to
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Reuters exclusively reported[1] that Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin called on the central bank to cut its key interest rate by at least a quarter point to support government efforts to revive Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy.
Associated Press | By Darlene Superville
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WASHINGTON — Jill Biden[1] said Wednesday that allowing federal employees who are military spouses to work from overseas is a common-sense “national security imperative” that is long overdue.
The first lady spoke at a White House ceremony she hosted with Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Verma, who signed a permanent memorandum of agreement between their departments to ease approvals of remote work under the Domestic Employees Teleworking Overseas[2] program for these employees.
The agreement was among steps to help military families that President Joe Biden[3] outlined in an executive order[4] he signed last June at Fort Liberty[5] in North Carolina. It also is an outgrowth of the first lady’s work with Joining Forces[6], her White House initiative to support military and veteran families.
Jill Biden said she shared stories the spouses told her with her husband “and then he took action.”
“A critical part of the executive order is allowing military spouses who work for the federal government to take jobs with them" when their spouse is deployed overseas, Jill Biden said. “With today's agreement, we're making that a reality. It's common sense, it's simple and it's long overdue.”
Hicks and Verma signed the agreement in front of an overwhelmingly female audience seated in the East Room. Hicks handed her pen to the first lady.
Jill Biden said military spouses also serve the United States even though they don't wear a uniform and that the government has a responsibility to serve them, too.
“This isn't just a moral obligation,” she said. “It's a national security imperative.”
The first lady said the principle of an all-volunteer military, which is the case in the U.S., is put “at risk when we force our service members to choose between their love of country and the families who serve alongside them. We must give them the support they need to choose both.”
Military spouses face a 21% unemployment rate that has not significantly changed over the past decade, according to information from the White House. More than 16,000 military, veteran and surviving spouses work across federal departments and agencies.
Jill Biden cracked a joke at the beginning of her formal remarks, saying she was really excited because “like so many of you, I am a working spouse of a government employee.”
Related: The Paid Job Interview: Hiring Our Heroes' Secret to Military Spouse Employment[7]
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Nearly 80 years after being declared missing in action during World War II, Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Henry L. Stevens of Monroe, Alabama, has been identified.
Stevens was accounted for on Sept. 15, 2023, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting The "Fortnight" party continues!
Minutes after dropping the music video to "Fortnight" featuring Post Malone[1] from The Tortured Poets Department[2], Taylor Swift[3] dropped a YouTube short dubbed "Fortnight" recap. The montage shows behind-the-scenes footage from
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to comment on the Biden administration's response, particularly a lack thereof, escalating tensions in the Middle East during her Friday morning press briefing.
"I know there's a lot of interest in reports
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Roughly 40 minutes after it lapsed, the Senate voted to pass a renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which serves as a critical tool used by the government to gather intelligence on foreign subjects using the compelled
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Read more https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-fisa-surveillance-renewal-avoiding-lapse
New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing the judge in former President Donald Trump's[1] civil fraud case to void the $175 million bond that Trump previously posted to appeal his New York civil lawsuit.
In her 26-page filing obtained by Fox News
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C. Everett Koop[1], the avuncular doctor with a fluffy white beard who served as the U.S. surgeon general during the Reagan administration, was famous for his work as an innovative pediatric surgeon and the attention he paid to the HIV-AIDS crisis.
As dentistry[2] scholars[3], we believe Koop also deserves credit for something else. To help make the medical profession pay more attention to the importance of healthy teeth and...
Most of us are all too familiar with the consequences of a poor night’s sleep – be it interrupted sleep or simply too little of it. If you’re a parent with kids at home, it often leaves you and your children on edge.
Children with neurodiverse conditions, such as autism[1] and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder[2], or ADHD, are even more susceptible to the effects of poor sleep, given their emotional reactivity...
NEW ORLEANS -- Prior to Friday night, the week had not gone the way Brandon Ingram would have hoped.
As the New Orleans Pelicans forward attempted to come back from a bone bruise in his left knee, he had two subpar games as the Pelicans dropped the...
NEW ORLEANS -- Brandon Ingram scored 24 points, Jonas Valanciunas added 19 points and 12 rebounds, and the New Orleans Pelicans booked a spot in the NBA playoffs with a 105-98 victory over the Sacramento Kings in a play-in tournament elimination game...
MIAMI -- While DeMar DeRozan reiterated a desire to remain in Chicago as the Bulls' season concluded Friday night, he also emphasized just how much he wants to win, particularly as his career winds down.
In the aftermath of the Bulls' 112-91 loss to the...
The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok[1] after the House of Representatives attached the measure[2] to an emergency spending bill on Apr. 17, 2024. The move could improve the bill’s chances in the Senate, and President Joe Biden has indicated that he will sign the bill[3] if it reaches his desk.
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A chatbot turns hostile[1]. A test version of a Roomba vacuum[2] collects images of users in private situations. A Black woman is falsely identified as a suspect[3] on the basis of facial recognition software, which tends to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color[4].
These incidents are not just glitches, but examples of...
Read more https://theconversation.com/are-tomorrows-engineers-ready-to-face-ais-ethical-challenges-213826
In the wake of North America’s recent solar eclipse, another historic natural event is on the horizon.
The primitive hate on display in the streets around the globe cries out for a Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.
It is time to end the Jewish Problem once and for all.
Both the problem and solution are simple, and this instruction can be short.
The decision and responsibility for it are yours.
First one bank announced it will only accept digital currency.
Now the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced it is heading into digital currency.
As the moth is to the flame, so are the follies of man.
Artificial intelligence and the next level of quantum computing will render passwords and encryption efforts obsolete.
The point of having a nation of laws is twofold: (a) you know how to prosper, and (b) you know how to stay out of jail.
The persecution of President Trump has revealed a new threat of charlatan prosecutors and agency administrators cobbling together disparate statutes which the media kindly calls “innovative”, “artful” or “novel” interpretations or constructions.
But these recombinations are actually new laws because they are the nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and contexts in criminal statutes, strung together in new combinations to create newly criminalized conduct after a citizen has engaged in some conduct.
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