Category Archives: National

OpenAI, Google, others pledge to watermark AI content for safety -White House
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -AI companies including OpenAI, Alphabet and Meta Platforms have made voluntary commitments to the White House to implement measures such as watermarking AI-generated con...
TJ Carson Jul 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters and robot hand miniature in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen settles lawsuit against Trump Organization
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, has settled his lawsuit accusing the Trump Organization of failing to cover millions of dollars of...
TJ Carson Jul 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Michael Cohen, former attorney for former U.S. President Donald Trump, exits a New York Courthouse in New York City, U.S., March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo

Trial in Trump classified documents case set for May 2024 -court document
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump's trial over his mishandling of classified documents will begin on May 20 next year, according to a U.S. court order on Friday. Trump's lawyers had...
TJ Carson Jul 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. July 15, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

UPDATE: Tony Bennett, legendary American singer, dies at age 96
UPDATED 9:39 A.M. (Reuters) -Tony Bennett, the smooth American singer who had an enduring hit with "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" and remained perpetually cool enough to win over younger generatio...
Will Stevenson Jul 21, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Singer Tony Bennett performs during Sinatra 100 - An All-Star Grammy Concert in Las Vegas, Nevada December 2, 2015. The star-studded tribute was held to mark the would be 100th birthday of legendary performer Frank Sinatra on December 12. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo

Chinese hackers breach US ambassador's emails -WSJ
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Beijing-linked hackers accessed the email account of the U.S. ambassador to China in an espionage operation thought to have compromised at least hundreds of thousands of U.S. gov...
Will Stevenson Jul 21, 2023 U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns speaks during a climate finance roundtable discussion at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Saturday, July 8, 2023. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Billion-dollar US Powerball ticket sold in California
(Reuters) -A very lucky Powerball player in Southern California has won the multistate lottery's $1 billion jackpot prize, ending a streak of 38 consecutive drawings without a grand prize winner. It w...
Will Stevenson Jul 21, 2023 Las Palmitas Mini Market that sold the single winning ticket with all six Powerball lottery numbers is seen on Wall Street in Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 20, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake

UPDATE: Tornado damage at Pfizer N.C. plant was mostly at warehouse, CEO says
UPDATED 4:18 P.M. (Reuters) -Most of the tornado damage at Pfizer Inc's Rocky Mount, North Carolina plant was to the warehouse and not manufacturing facilities, CEO Albert Bourla said on Friday, easin...
Will Stevenson Jul 21, 2023 The roof of a Pfizer facility shows heavy damage after a tornado passed the area in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S. July 19, 2023. ABC Affiliate WTVD via REUTERS.

Russia hits Ukraine's grain for fourth day and practices seizing ships in Black Sea
KYIV (Reuters) - Russia pounded Ukrainian food export facilities for a fourth day in a row on Friday and practised seizing ships in the Black Sea in an escalation of what Western leaders say is an att...
Will Stevenson Jul 21, 2023 A view shows a grain warehouse destroyed by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a compound of an agricultural company in Odesa region, Ukraine July 21, 2023. Press Service of the the Operational Command South of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via REUTERS

Mounting US worries over Private Travis King after silence from North Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday voiced mounting concern over Army Private Travis King, who dashed into North Korea two days ago, saying Pyongyang had a history of mistreating captu...
Will Stevenson Jul 20, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A media member takes a photograph of South Korean soldiers standing guard in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, February 7, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/FILE PHOTO

Fiery House subcommittee hearing discusses alleged censorship on social media
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FOX News) - A House subcommittee hearing to discuss censorship by tech companies on Thursday turned volatile between Republicans and Democrats, along with a Presidential candidate. D...
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