Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement Tuesday that he was ending professional fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram was the culmination of months of effort to position the social media giant for the conservative pressures of a second Trump administration. Zuckerberg, once a supporter of a handful of progressive causes, including fighting mass deportations, who repeatedly met...
The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering their husbands to fend off rape or after being forced into marriage, the U.N. human rights office said Tuesday. Most of the executions were for drug-related offences, but political dissidents and people connected with mass protests in 2022 over the...
The United States determined Tuesday that members of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias committed genocide in Sudan and it imposed sanctions on the group’s leader over a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and driven millions from their homes. The moves deal a blow to the RSF’s attempts to burnish its image...
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Federal authorities executed a search warrant Tuesday in St. Louis in connection with an investigation in Puerto Rico of a tourist accused of setting businesses on fire last week. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in St. Louis is helping authorities in the U.S. territory conduct an arson investigation, but no arrests have...
The Army soldier who authorities believe blew up a Cybertruck on New Year’s Day in front of the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas used artificial intelligence to guide him on how to set off the explosion, officials said Tuesday. Matthew Alan Livelsberger, 37, used ChatGPT to query information about how he...
Tens of thousands of Southern Californians were ordered to flee their homes Tuesday after a brush fire exploded in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. Fueled by powerful Santa Ana winds and dry conditions, the Palisades Fire ignited Tuesday morning as a brush fire and had grown to more than 1,200 acres by Tuesday...
A fast-moving fire has forced more than 30,000 residents to evacuate from the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles amid “life-threatening and destructive” winds. The fire, which broke out Tuesday morning at about 10:30 a.m. local time, was burning in the Pacific Palisades Highlands community. In just hours, the blaze grew to more than 1,200...
The Summary NASA has announced an overhaul to its plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth. Agency officials have decided to scrap parts of their original plan to cut down on the difficulty and cost. Instead, NASA plans to pursue two alternative options simultaneously. NASA on Tuesday announced an overhaul to its plan...
Transgender people will not be permitted to use single-sex bathrooms that align with their gender identities near the House Chamber, under a policy from Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that was renewed Friday. The ban was included in a list of Johnson’s policies for the 119th Congress, which were reflected in the Congressional Record, a daily...