Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Add this to the list of Elon Musk’s problems at Twitter: The work he’ll have to do convincing Europe’s top privacy enforcer that his platform isn’t breaking the law. Ireland’s data protection chief — who oversees Twitter’s operations in Europe — told POLITICO she …
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LUBMIN, Germany — Standing onstage in a tastefully lit auditorium just north of Lubmin on Germany’s Baltic coast, Angela Merkel and Dmitry Medvedev were all smiles. It was November 8, 2011, and the scene was set for a geopolitical photo op for the ages. …
The New Yorker would be the first Black lawmaker to hold the top spot in party leadership.
It’s a collapse that some have called crypto’s “Lehman moment.” The bankruptcy of the crypto giant FTX and the resignation of its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has left customers in limbo and investors writing off what once looked like the next big thing in tech. And it happened in a matter of days. But in the …
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, which has been blocked by a federal appeals court. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar in court papers urged the justices to lift an injunction imposed by the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on …
Taylor Swift on Friday responded to fan frustration over the botched presale for her upcoming “The Eras” tour which led to Ticketmaster’s decision to cancel the public sale of tickets. In her Instagram story, Swift wrote it “goes without saying that I’m extremely protective of my fans.” “It’s really difficult for me to trust an …
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump fan who was convicted on all counts after telling jurors that he thought he was “following presidential orders” when he stole a liquor bottle and a coat rack from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to three years in federal prison on Friday. Dustin Thompson, a college-educated Ohio …
A California couple who fled the country after being convicted in a multimillion-dollar Covid relief scam have been extradited from Montenegro, the Justice Department said Friday. Richard Ayvazyan, 44, and his wife, Marietta Terabelian, 38, arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday, approximately nine months after they were captured in the small, mountainous country in southeastern Europe. They …
The unexpectedly tight race between Rep. Lauren Boebert, the far-right Colorado congresswoman, and Democrat Adam Frisch appears likely to be headed to a recount as officials near the end of the first step of finalizing the vote count. Frisch, a former Aspen City Council member who’s a virtual unknown outside Colorado, has come within striking …
LONDON — A split appeared to be opening this week among Ukraine’s supporters over whether its government should sit down for peace talks with Russia. Some U.S. political and military officials have questioned whether the war could ever be concluded through force, with diplomatic talks the inevitable outcome. But senior figures in Ukraine and in …
