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Palestinian writer and human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh helped preserve decades of diaries and family papers after fearing they could be destroyed during Israeli military operations in the West Bank. The materials are now held at the University of Edinburgh, while thousands of digitized pages have been made available online by the University of Exeter.
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Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic and independent safety groups are warning that the race to build more capable AI agents is…
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Republicans left a hastily organized two-day convention in Dallas saying it ran smoothly, but party strategists questioned…
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President Donald Trump met Ireland’s president and prime minister in Dublin on Saturday before traveling to his golf resort in…
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The Trump administration deported Nazira Haji Zada after she agreed to be designated an “alien terrorist,” ending the first case…
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Taya Hailstone, a 19-year-old Montana cancer survivor, lost her disability-based Medicaid eligibility after stopping Social…
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A Boeing 767 carrying Amazon cargo overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sept. 6, killing five ground workers and…
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New York City is investigating five Legionnaires’ disease cases in Melrose and Morrisania, including one death. Health officials…
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Two landlords built a Baltimore rental empire of more than 700 homes using roughly $100 million in debt tied to a fast-growing…
Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic and independent safety groups are warning that the race to build more capable AI…
Republicans left a hastily organized two-day convention in Dallas saying it ran smoothly, but party strategists…
President Donald Trump met Ireland’s president and prime minister in Dublin on Saturday before traveling to his golf…
Taya Hailstone, a 19-year-old Montana cancer survivor, lost her disability-based Medicaid eligibility after stopping…
A Boeing 767 carrying Amazon cargo overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sept. 6, killing five ground…
The Trump administration deported Nazira Haji Zada after she agreed to be designated an “alien terrorist,” ending the…
Leaders of the expanded BRICS bloc are meeting in New Delhi as conflicts involving Ukraine and Iran, along with rising…
New York City is investigating five Legionnaires’ disease cases in Melrose and Morrisania, including one death. Health…
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have seized Mayun, a strategically located island at the entrance to the Red Sea, according to…
President Donald Trump renewed his promise to send $5,000 to every adult American if Republicans retain control of…
OpenAI acknowledged that artificial intelligence agents in testing bypassed controls and accessed RubyGems months…
Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks killed thousands, the legal case tied to them remains in limbo. The…
A proposed Senate framework would require AI developers to disclose dangerous capabilities and prove they have reduced…
Two landlords built a Baltimore rental empire of more than 700 homes using roughly $100 million in debt tied to a…
Democratic strategists are advising candidates to answer Republican attacks on transgender rights directly and…
President Donald Trump said he has no concerns about artificial intelligence posing an existential threat, arguing…
Federal health officials say the nation’s largest recorded cyclospora outbreak has ended after sickening more than…
The House is set to vote Tuesday on legislation requiring technology companies to shoulder more of the infrastructure…
House lawmakers are scheduled to take up a sweeping Russia sanctions bill that passed the Senate with an 86-11 vote.…
A federal appeals court ruled that the Energy Department exceeded its emergency authority by requiring Michigan’s J.H.…
The Justice Department deported Afghan permanent resident Nazira Haji Zada after she agreed to an expedited removal…
Republican super PACs have committed at least $42 million in new advertising and spending to support Ken Paxton as…
Iranian workers are losing primary and backup jobs as conflict, sanctions, inflation and disrupted trade squeeze the…
The national average price for diesel reached $6.05 a gallon Friday, up sharply from both last week and a year ago.…
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth invoked the U.S. war with Iran during a Pentagon ceremony…
Joseph diGenova has resigned from a Justice Department investigation examining the origins of the FBI’s Russia-related…
House Republican leaders plan a vote next week on the Ratepayer Protection Act, which would require technology…
A teenager was rescued after spending days atop an overturned fishing boat in the Bering Sea, while two relatives died…
The Trump administration has not ended Temporary Protected Status for roughly 170,000 Salvadorans, but it also has not…
A divided federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to detain millions of immigrants…
Scientists have identified the first known trackway made by an adult Tyrannosaurus rex, with four enormous footprints…
Senators returning to Washington face three weeks to advance two major bills, but both must overcome bipartisan…
The rapid expansion of artificial-intelligence data centers is driving new electricity demand, fossil-fuel…
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked a federal order that would have required Missouri to use a Republican-backed…
Public health experts are warning that political interference at the federal health agency could undermine trust in…