(Headline USA) The NCAA and the nation's five biggest conferences announced Thursday night that they have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to settle a host of antitrust claims, a monumental decision that sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing model that could start steering millions of dollars directly to...
(Headline USA) Hunter Biden's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, claimed in a Delaware court Friday that a gun store employee had helped him fill out a form that he is accused of lying on in a felony charge.
The filing suggested that the brother of the former Delaware attorney general and son...
(Headline USA) Two abortion-inducing drugs could soon be reclassified as controlled and dangerous substances in Louisiana under a first-of-its-kind bill that received final legislative passage Thursday and is expected to be signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry.
Supporters of the reclassification of mifepristone and misoprostol, commonly known as...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment on Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America—squelching competition and driving up prices for fans.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, was brought with 30...
(Headline USA) The presidents of Northwestern and Rutgers universities defended their decisions to end pro-Hamas encampments through negotiations rather than police force, telling a House committee on Thursday that they defused the danger without ceding ground to protesters.
“We had to get the encampment down,” Northwestern's Michael Schill said. “The...
(Headline USA) Democrats performatively pushed a dead-on-arrival bill that would have allocated more funding to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in his effort to more efficiently process illegal immigrants coming into the United States.
The legislation, which failed for a second time after an earlier attempt in February, would have...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district, rejecting a lower-court ruling that said the district discriminated against black voters.
In a 6-3 decision, the court held that South Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature did nothing wrong during redistricting when it strengthened Rep. Nancy Mace's hold...
(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump will campaign in one of the most Democratic counties in the nation Thursday, holding a rally in the South Bronx to woo minority voters days before a Manhattan jury will begin deliberations on whether to convict him of felony charges in his porn-star trial.
Trump...
(Headline USA) Nvidia on Wednesday overshot Wall Street estimates as its profit skyrocketed, bolstered by the chipmaking dominance that has made the company an icon of the artificial intelligence boom.
Its net income rose more than sevenfold compared to a year earlier, jumping to $14.88 billion in its first quarter...
(Headline USA) Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster.
At the Central Intelligence Agency, basic artificial intelligence---machine learning and algorithms---has long served that mission. Now, generative AI is joining the effort.
CIA Director William Burns says AI tech will augment humans, not replace them.
The agency's first chief technology officer,...
(Headline USA) Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that he would support giving black farmers $5 billion in reparations if elected---once again confirming his leftist political views, despite having made early appeals to right-wing voters with skepticism over vaccine mandates and other government excesses.
“When I’m in...
(Headline USA) Van Leeuwen Ice Cream usually draws customers with gourmet takes on classics like vanilla and pistachio. But occasionally, the artisanal ice cream maker headquartered in New York slips in what it calls a “shock flavor,” like Hidden Valley Ranch or pizza.
Surprising flavor combinations---think gravy-flavored Jones Soda or...