HARLINGEN, Texas — The Trump administration is packing immigration courtrooms and giving less lead-time on hearings in an effort to clear a decades-long backlog. The result is a historic rise in the number of people missing court dates and being immediately ordered deported as the system struggles to keep up, new data shows. Dozens and … Read more
The Consumer Price Index rose 2.4% in January from a year ago, below economists’ forecasts and a sign that price pressures across the U.S. are easing. By the numbers The CPI was expected to rise 2.5% on an annual basis last month, according to economists polled by financial data firm FactSet. The January CPI represents … Read more
More than 1,000 employees at America’s leading AI companies, including senior staff and some co-founders at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, signed a new statement asking the U.S. government to help support international efforts to “deliberately pace” cutting-edge automated AI development. Highlighting recent comments from the world’s most advanced AI companies that AI systems may … Read more
The U.S. military is expanding its presence in the Middle East with the arrival of new equipment, as sources say concerns are growing within the Trump administration over rapid use of defensive interceptors and long-range missiles. Charlie D’Agata reports. Source link
Washington — The rapid pace at which the U.S. is expending some of its most advanced air-defense interceptors and precision-guided weapons in the Middle East is a point of great tension inside the Trump administration as President Trump’s war with Iran ratchets up again, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials familiar with internal assessments. … Read more
The Personal Consumption Expenditures index — the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure — rose at a 4.1% annual rate in May, highlighting the central bank’s challenge in reining in prices. The reading matched economists’ forecasts for the PCE report to come in at 4.1% annually, according to financial data service FactSet. That compares with an … Read more
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — On Monday, Norwegians were spotted across New York City dressed in red doing the “Viking row,” a fan ritual in which they sit side by side, packed tightly together as if on a ship and mimic as if they were rowing oars in unison. They did it on the subway, in … Read more
The most advanced artificial intelligence models are improving quickly enough to outsmart prevailing cybersecurity know-how within months, the Five Eyes spy agency alliance has warned. The risk posed by AI-enhanced hacking is in the spotlight in the wake of startup Anthropic saying in April that its cutting-edge Mythos models had unprecedented abilities to find software … Read more