The Foreign Press Association erupted with backlash after its president, Ian Williams, declared he didn’t care if Al Jazeera “journalist” Anas Al-Sharif was a Hamas terrorist.
The Mendenhall River flood near Juneau, Alaska, the state capital, reached a record-breaking crest of 16.65 feet on the morning of Wednesday August 13 after a massive glacial outburst sent debris-filled water rushing into neighborhoods.
Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) issued an executive order allowing cooperation with federal immigration authorities, including ICE.
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced USAi, an artificial intelligence tool that allows federal agencies to "experiment with and adopt" AI strategies at a fast pace.
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered rare public praise for the Trump administration on Thursday, calling it “energetic and sincere” just one day before his first in-person meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump since 2019. The talks, set for Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, will mark Putin’s first visit to American soil in a decade.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is co-founding Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup positioned to compete directly with Elon Musk’s Neuralink. According to The Financial Times, the company plans to raise $250 million at an $850 million valuation, with a large portion of its funding expected from OpenAI’s ventures arm.
