OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman denied allegations made by his sister in a lawsuit filed Monday, which claimed he sexually abused her for almost a decade. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Missouri, accuses him of sexual assault and sexual battery spanning from 1997 to 2006. His sister,…
President Joe Biden will no longer travel to Rome, Italy, this week as scheduled, the White House announced late Wednesday, canceling the trip in the final days of his presidency to monitor raging wildfires across the Los Angeles, California, area. “After returning this evening from Los Angeles, where earlier today…
The two best teams in the NBA — the Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder — squared off in the first game in league history featuring clubs on 15 and 10 games winning streaks. Oklahoma City entered Wednesday’s showdown having won 15 games in a row, while Cleveland came into…
The mayor of a small town in southern Italy has issued an unusual proclamation: “Getting sick is prohibited.” Residents of Belcastro in the southern region of Calabria have been “ordered to avoid contracting any illness that requires medical assistance, especially an emergency,” a decree from Mayor Antonio Torchia stated. Torchia…
Mozambique’s main opposition leader returned from exile Thursday as security forces fired tear gas at hundreds of his supporters who gathered near the main international airport to welcome him home. Venancio Mondlane was seen walking off a plane at Mavalane International Airport in the capital, Maputo. He had left the…
President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would declare a national energy emergency on his first day in office, ending President Joe Biden’s restrictions on energy production, doing away with the electric vehicle mandate, ending incentives for renewable energy, and canceling Biden’s natural gas export ban. This is welcome news. America…
President-elect Donald Trump not only wants to make America great again, he appears to be angling to make America bigger. Trump has turned up the volume in recent days on his calls to acquire Greenland, regain control of the Panama Canal and make Canada the nation’s 51st state. The president-elect…
President Biden said he was still considering pre-emptive pardons for President-elect Donald Trump’s political foes, such as former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Dr. Anthony Fauci, during his final interview with a print publication before leaving the White House. The interview, conducted over the weekend in the Oval…
The Trump transition team is accusing Democrats in the Senate of ‘stonewalling’ Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation to the position of Director of National Intelligence (DNI). A hearing has yet to be set for President-elect Trump’s DNI pick, despite Republicans pushing for Gabbard’s nomination to be one of the first considered due…
The decision by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to end Facebook’s work with third-party fact-checkers and ease some of its content restrictions is a potentially ‘transformative’ moment for the platform, experts said, but one that is unlikely to shield the company from liability in ongoing court proceedings. The updates were announced by…