The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a U.N.-affiliated watchdog, altered its methodology in July to make it easier to declare famine in Gaza.
President Trump's Department of Justice announced an indictment for Haitian gang leader Jimmy Cherizier, also known as "Barbecue," and Bazile Richardson, of a conspiracy to transfer funds from the United States to Cherizier to fund gang-related activities.
The assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Harmeet Dhillon, said she was nearly robbed by a "malodorous" individual in Washington, D.C.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate part of the federal grant funding it recently suspended for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) over civil rights violations and antisemitism concerns.
China has announced sanctions against two Lithuanian banks, UAB Urbo Bankas and Mano Bankas AB, in retaliation for the European Union’s recent inclusion of Chinese financial institutions in its latest sanctions package against Russia.
A new University of Amsterdam study has found that AI chatbots, when placed in a stripped-down social media environment, naturally self-organize into echo chambers based on pre-assigned political affiliations — even without algorithms or ads influencing their behavior.