Portman among 47 GOP senators to sign letter to Iran WASHINGTON — In a move Democrats denounced as trying to sabotage the Obama administration’s foreign policy, Sen. Rob Portman and 46 other Senate Republicans yesterday warned Iran’s leadership that any agreement to limit Tehran’s apparent efforts to build a nuclear bomb would need Senate approval to stay in effect beyond 2016. More
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Trump trial live updates: Ex-president awaits gag order contempt ruling as hush money testimony set to resume Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, the first witness in the former president’s historic hush money trial, faced a barrage of “yes” or “no” questions during cross-examination from Mr ... 04/29/2024 - 7:55 am | View Link
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Trump hush money trial: Judge sets opening statements for Monday Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in ... 04/19/2024 - 11:18 am | View Link
7 jurors selected to serve and Trump chastised: Donald Trump's hush money trial day 2 recap Jury selection continued on day 2 of former President Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial in New York, with social media posts being read aloud ... 04/16/2024 - 12:24 pm | View Link
Judge sets firm trial date for teen charged in 4 killings that happened when he was 14 The four killings happened within four months. According to testimony, a man hired the teen and two others to carry out one of them. 04/12/2024 - 5:55 am | View Link
There is no artificial intelligence without the vast trove of human knowledge.
Today’s generative AI applications were built on a foundation of such information, drawn from across the internet and from various databases totaling, according to at least one estimate, somewhere around 300 billion words.
That’s a lot of intellectual property — copyrighted material — much of it produced by generations of professional writers, honed and polished by editors and sent out into the world by publishers in newspapers, magazines, books and more.
It’s hard to put an exact price on such a thing or even to measure the collective value of such an incredible library.
Molly Crane-Newman | New York Daily News
NEW YORK — A judge considered holding Donald Trump in contempt yet again on Thursday for more potential gag order violations as his hush money trial resumed in Manhattan.
Before jurors took their seats for the day, state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan heard arguments from prosecutors and the former president’s attorneys concerning four more instances of Trump publicly commenting on witnesses and jurors in the case.
Prosecutor Chris Conroy alleged Trump had sought to “infect and disrupt” the proceedings by his repeated remarks, including comments just hours before the last contempt hearing on Tuesday, when he was fined $9,000 for nine offending posts on his Truth Social account and held in contempt.
By RYAN PEARSON, ETHAN SWOPE, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK (Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — At least 200 people were arrested at UCLA Thursday, bringing the nationwide total of arrests to more than 2,000 at dozens of college campuses since police cleared an encampment at Columbia University in mid-April, according to a tally by The Associated Press.
Demonstrations — and arrests — have occurred in almost every corner of the nation.
By MATTHEW BARAKAT (Associated Press)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after a jury said it was deadlocked and could not reach a verdict in the trial of a military contractor accused of contributing to the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq two decades ago.
The mistrial came in the jury’s eighth day of deliberations.
People don’t seem to mind the idea of former President Donald Trump acting as a dictator, he told Time magazine in an interview that drew swift rebuke from the Biden-Harris campaign.
In a wide ranging interview given to the magazine — and shared by the 45th President Tuesday morning via his Truth Social media platform — Trump was asked to explain comments he made to Fox News host Sean Hannity, in which the former president said he would become a dictator on his first day in office.
“A lot of people like it,” Trump reportedly told Time.
As might be expected, President Joe Biden’s reelection team was quick to note the revelations contained in the interview and respond.
“Not since the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today – because of Donald Trump.