Four years after being stabbed on an amphitheater stage, Salman Rushdie sat across a courtroom from his convicted attacker Thursday and told jurors for a second time about the ambush that nearly killed him. The prize-winning writer recalled feeling what he thought was a…
A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said Thursday that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking about the day’s Bible readings…
Nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state’s June primary, a spike from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting participation and counting every ballot. California has become notorious…
OpenAI faces growing calls to publicly disclose more information about how its models broke out of an internal testing environment and autonomously decided to hack another company earlier this month. “OpenAI should share far more details of what happened in…
Canada on Friday celebrated the completion of a new bridge to the U.S. over the Detroit River, a multibillion-dollar, multiyear project that will serve as a critical path for trade and casual travel between the countries. With the six-lane Gordie Howe International…
For the third auction in a row, the price of keeping the lights on across a 13-state swath of the country slammed straight into the ceiling. On July 14, PJM Interconnection — the largest grid operator in the U.S., serving…
LeBron James broke the news himself: the only NBA player currently worth $1 billion has signed with the Philadelphia 76ers. The deal is what’s known as the “veteran’s minimum” for any player with 10 years or more of service —…
The “Proud to Pay” campaign, organized by Patriotic Millionaires UK, has drawn support from some of the country’s biggest stars—including the likes of former footballer Gary Lineker, and legendary music producer Brian Eno. “We want you to tax us. We…
President Donald Trump on Thursday had governors and electricity companies join a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers from higher utility bills from data centers — a sign of how the artificial intelligence build-out has become a lightning rod of controversy before…
Will President Donald Trump ’s name grace one of the most famous — and sometimes maligned — landmarks in his hometown of New York City? The Republican administration this week urged leading U.S. Senators to rename Penn Station as it undertakes a projected…