The Biden administration is reallocating over $100 million in military aid originally earmarked for Israel and Egypt to Lebanon. The funding aims to support the implementation of a ceasefire agreement brokered between Israel and Hezbollah. The State Department outlined the plan in notices sent to Congress on January 3.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Monday that she has directed the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation (LBI) to conduct an in-depth study of the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans.
Documents obtained by the Washington Examiner reveal that the U.S. State Department is preparing to redistribute employees from the now-shuttered Global Engagement Center (GEC) into a newly created “hub” that will continue similar activities, including efforts to counter what it calls foreign disinformation.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) tenure as Speaker of the House faced significant challenges after a contentious government funding battle left him at odds with conservatives, moderates, and even President-elect Donald Trump. His inability to secure Trump’s demand to raise the debt ceiling in the government funding bill placed his leadership on shaky ground, leading many to question his future in the role.
Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as the “Godfather of AI,” has expressed his backing for Elon Musk's ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI over the company's controversial transition from a non-profit research organization to a for-profit entity. Hinton, a Nobel laureate and AI pioneer, criticized OpenAI's move to abandon its non-profit status, a decision that has sparked significant concern within the AI community, including among OpenAI's co-founders, such as Musk.
Researchers at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have developed a controversial method to deliver malaria vaccines using genetically modified mosquitoes. Dubbed “flying vaccinators,” these insects are engineered to deliver vaccine components via their bites.
Haitian gang violence claimed the lives of two journalists and a police officer during a press conference on Tuesday at Haiti’s largest public hospital, highlighting the ongoing instability in the nation’s capital.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is reportedly weighing a proposal aimed at supporting illegal immigrants and their families in anticipation of former President Donald Trump’s potential mass deportation policies should he take office again.
