• Former US Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, Hawaii Senate trailblazer, dies at 74
    HONOLULU (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, who was the first woman to serve as president of the Hawaii State Senate, has died. She was 74. Hanabusa died early Friday after a five-month battle with cancer, said Mike Formby, her friend and former chief of staff in the U.S. House. In announcing her death […]
  • Pentagon’s chief tech officer says he clashed with AI company Anthropic over autonomous warfare
    A top Pentagon official said Anthropic’s dispute with the government over the use of its artificial intelligence technology in fully autonomous weapons came after a debate over how AI could be used in President Donald Trump’s future Golden Dome missile defense program, which aims to put U.S. weapons in space. U.S. Defense Undersecretary Emil Michael, […]
  • Trump says ‘whole educational system’ could go out of business without fixes to college sports
    President Donald Trump predicted the destruction not just of college sports but the entire U.S. collegiate system unless the industry is fixed quickly — something some sports leaders who joined him Friday at a White House summit agreed could only happen by raising more money to pay players. Trump suggested he would write an “all-encompassing” […]
  • Noem’s firing is little comfort to Minneapolis residents struggling to recover from crackdown
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Daniel Hernandez’s grocery store in south Minneapolis has served Latino families for over 5 years, but he says it’s on the verge of closing due to lasting economic damage from the nation’s largest immigration enforcement crackdown. Many of Hernandez’s customers have continued to stay home or drastically reduce their spending, and 10 […]
  • Man convicted in political assassination plot he tied to Iranian paramilitary
    NEW YORK (AP) — A Pakistani business owner who tried to hire hit men to kill a U.S. politician was convicted Friday in a trial that showcased allegations of Iran-backed plotting on American soil. As the Iran war unfolded in the Mideast, Asif Merchant acknowledged in a U.S. court that he sought to put an […]