U.S. Marines conducted a verification boarding of a tanker suspected of trying to breach the American naval blockade against Iran, the latest escalation in a standoff that has intensified in the Strait of Hormuz region over the past week. Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, operating off the USS
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for broader international cooperation on artificial intelligence in a keynote address at China’s World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17, marking the first time Xi has personally delivered the summit’s opening remarks. Xi told the gathering of government officials, executives and researchers that AI
This story was originally published by ProPublica. by Lexi Churchill, ProPublica — Co-published with The Texas Tribune Nearly a decade ago, a British court ordered a man named Sam Westrop to pay the equivalent of more than $173,000 in libel damages after he published an article on his website calling
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. by Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, KFF Health News As the Trump administration’s January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees enrolled
This story was originally published by ProPublica. by Hannah Allam and Megan Rose, ProPublica Ten Democratic lawmakers told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a letter Sunday that his gutting of a program focused on protecting civilians is a leadership failure that imperils service members and erodes the military’s moral standing.
Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law. By Zach Despart, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. Two weeks before this year’s primary elections, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the creation of a tip line for the public to
Jul 16, 2026 By Rachel Spears, KFF Health News Erica Schwartz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, expressed support for vaccines — including mRNA-based covid shots — in a Senate hearing on Wednesday, though she didn’t dispel concerns the agency has lost any
The US and Iran are back at war. And with one main sticking point, there’s no end in sight Amin Saikal, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become the main bone of contention between the US and Iran in their
by Tim Golden, ProPublica After months of U.S.-Mexico tensions sparked by the Trump administration’s threats to strike unilaterally at Mexican drug traffickers, the two governments are heading for a potentially more serious confrontation over President Claudia Sheinbaum’s refusal to arrest Mexican officials charged in the United States with drug corruption.
by Jeremy Kohler and Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, the latest push in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote. The effort, according
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