WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� It鈥檚 not really about the books. President Donald Trump鈥檚 abrupt firing of top officials at the Library of Congress and equally sudden attempt to appoint a slate of loyalists as replacements has instead morphed into an enormous fight over the separation of powers, as the White House tries to wrest control of […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Fortnite says it’s now unavailable on Apple’s iOS globally because the tech giant blocked a bid to release the popular video game for iPhone users in the U.S. and Europe. 鈥淎pple has blocked our Fortnite submission so we cannot release to the U.S. App Store or to the Epic Games Store […]
Charter Communications and Cox Communications will pursue a $34.5 billion merger, a tie-up that would combine two of the largest cable companies in the U.S. Charter said Friday that it will acquire Cox Communications鈥� commercial fiber and managed IT and cloud businesses. Cox Enterprises will contribute Cox Communications鈥� residential cable business to Charter Holdings, an […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� The internet wouldn’t be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip. Like it or not, the button has served as a creative catalyst, a dopamine delivery system and an emotional battering ram. It also became an international tourist attraction […]
HONOLULU (AP) 鈥� Midway while sailing across the Pacific with just his cat named Phoenix, Oliver Widger reflected on why he thinks his many followers 鈥� more than a million on TikTok and Instagram 鈥� are drawn to his story of quitting his 9-to-5 job and embarking on a journey from Oregon to Hawaii. 鈥淭he […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Before 鈥淎merica First鈥� became the Trump administration鈥檚 mandate for foreign policy and trade, one sector was already working to bring business back to the United States: the semiconductor industry. Aided by government incentives, American and foreign tech companies alike have invested hundreds of billions of dollars to bolstering semiconductor operations 鈥� […]
China has blasted a new U.S. rule against use of Ascend computer chips made by Huawei Technologies anywhere in the world, chafing Thursday against the limitations of a temporary truce in the trade war between the two biggest economies. Beijing moved ahead, however, with fulfilling its promise to lift retaliatory measures it imposed after U.S. […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥� Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have concluded it has something much more valuable 鈥� a rare version from 1300 issued by Britain’s King Edward I. […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� A former food delivery driver pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to steal more than $2.5 million from DoorDash by getting the company to pay for deliveries that never occurred, federal prosecutors said. Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in San Jose to a single count of […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Ford is recalling nearly 274,000 of its Expedition and Lincoln-branded Navigator SUVs across the U.S. due to an issue that may cause a loss of brake function while driving, increasing crash risks. According to documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the front brake lines in these now-recalled cars […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� Major social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and X have failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from hate and harassment, in part, because they intentionally rolled back previous safety practices, the advocacy group GLAAD said Tuesday in its annual Social Media Safety Index. The report said that recent 鈥渦nprecedented hate speech […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) 鈥� The sheriff in New Mexico鈥檚 most populous county is crediting his department鈥檚 drone program for helping disarm two children and prevent what could have been a worse outcome. The Bernalillo County Sheriff鈥檚 Office recently released drone and body camera footage showing a tense standoff in February with two young brothers 鈥� […]
A new software update prevented a third radar outage in the last two weeks at New Jersey’s busy Newark airport when a telecommunications line failed again over the weekend, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday. At a news conference, Duffy also said the recent problems that have led to hundreds of cancellations and delays in […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� Three years after a California teenager died by suicide, four men in West Africa have been arrested on suspicion of participating in 鈥渋nternational sextortion scheme,” according to federal investigators. The 2022 death of Ryan Last, a 17-year-old high school senior, prompted a lengthy international investigation, according to a statement Friday from […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Trump administration has fired the nation鈥檚 top copyright official , Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office. The office said in a statement Sunday that Perlmutter received an email from the White House a day earlier with the notification […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� PHOTOS NYBZ701-702 ON HOLD Players swiping their way through more than 18,700 levels of Candy Crush Saga might be surprised to learn they鈥檙e solving puzzles designed with an assist from artificial intelligence. The app that helped make gamers out of anyone with a smartphone uses AI to help developers create levels […]
PHOENIX (AP) 鈥� A U.S. district judge on Friday temporarily halted the federal government鈥檚 plans to transfer land in eastern Arizona for a massive copper mining project amid protest by Native American groups that consider the area sacred. Apache Stronghold and its supporters have been fighting for years to stop the transfer of Tonto National […]
Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected data on users without permission, the state鈥檚 attorney general announced Friday. In 2022, Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Google, saying the search giant collected millions of biometric identifiers, including voiceprints and records of face geometry, through its products and services like Google […]
A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV鈥檚 election as the first American pontiff, the memes, doctored images and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago’s pizza and more loaded than its hot dog, seemingly irresistible to comics and commoners […]
Stacey Wales gripped the lectern, choking back tears as she asked the judge to give the man who shot and killed her brother the maximum possible sentence for manslaughter. What appeared next stunned those in the Phoenix courtroom last week: An AI-generated video with a likeness of her brother, Christopher Pelkey, told the shooter he […]
Thousands of commuters in the San Francisco Bay Area were scrambling for alternate routes after its regional commuter rail system known as BART shut down systemwide for several hours Friday morning. Bay Area Rapid Transit said it could not run its train control system due to a malfunction. A BART spokesperson said on its media […]
The FBI warned American businesses that North Korean IT workers are escalating their malicious attacks on U.S. companies to steal sensitive data, intellectual property, and money.
SEATTLE (AP) 鈥� Trump administration funding cuts and a loss of federal workers who help support wildland firefighting continues to make planning for the upcoming wildfire season a challenge, according to forest and fire officials in Washington state and Oregon. The biggest issue they鈥檙e facing is a lack of communication from the federal government as […]
The Trump administration on Thursday announced an ambitious three-year plan to replace the United State’s aging air traffic control system. Officials did not provide an exact cost estimate but said it would require billions of dollars to put in place. They said a $12.5 billion budget proposal that a House committee drafted last week represents […]
