• Brazil's former President Bolsonaro ordered to wear an electronic ankle monitor

    Brazil's former President Bolsonaro ordered to wear an electronic ankle monitor

    Jul 18, 2025 01:20 PM EDT

    ... States and is known for his close ties to U.S. President Donald Trump. A police statement said that officers in Brasília carried out “two search and seizure warrants, in addition to precautionary measures other than arrest, in compliance with a decision by the Supreme Court.” The statement did not ...

  • Apple unveils software redesign while reeling from AI missteps and Trump's trade war

    Apple unveils software redesign while reeling from AI missteps and Trump's trade war

    Jun 09, 2025 08:56 PM EDT

    ... it from other tech powerhouses is widening. Google keeps packing more AI into its Pixel smartphone lineup while introducing more of the technology into its search engine to dramatically change the way it works. Samsung, Apple's biggest smartphone rival, is also leaning heavily into AI. Meanwhile, ChatGPT recently struck ...

  • Harvard professor calls Trump's attacks on funding and students 'authoritarianism'

    Harvard professor calls Trump's attacks on funding and students 'authoritarianism'

    May 30, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... opinion. Far from it. Geoff Bennett: With the administration freezing what is now more than $2 billion in federal funding to Harvard, what potential long-term effects do you foresee on scientific innovation and research, not just at Harvard, but across the country? Steven Pinker: Well, the singling out of ...

  • News Wrap: Trump and Fed Chair Powell meet at White House

    News Wrap: Trump and Fed Chair Powell meet at White House

    May 29, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had their first in-person meeting of the president's second term, the Supreme Court backed an oil railroad expansion in Utah, the first named storm of the Pacific hurricane season is churning off Mexico and Swiss ...

  • 3 ways scientists use math to help debunk UFO videos

    3 ways scientists use math to help debunk UFO videos

    Apr 24, 2025 10:04 PM EDT

    Editor’s note: We’ve updated this story with the phrase “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” NASA’s most recent term for unidentified aerial phenomena.  When NASA asked Boston University space physicist Joshua Semeter to help them understand unexplained unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, he didn’t hesitate to answer the call ...

  • WATCH: Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech protesting Trump

    WATCH: Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech protesting Trump

    Apr 01, 2025 02:02 PM EDT

    ... power but are turning to procedural maneuvers to try to thwart Republicans. Can his speech rally the anti-Trump resistance? Booker, serving his second Senate term, was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2020, when he launched his campaign from the steps of his home in Newark. He dropped out after ...

  • Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns after 5 years

    Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns after 5 years

    Mar 25, 2025 01:57 AM EDT

    ... the Postal Service Board of Governors names a permanent replacement for DeJoy, who became postmaster general in the summer of 2020 during Trump’s first term. He was a Republican donor who owned a logistics business and was the first person to hold the position in nearly two decades who ...

  • WATCH: Trump speaks at Justice Department, pledging to 'expel rogue actors'

    WATCH: Trump speaks at Justice Department, pledging to 'expel rogue actors'

    Mar 14, 2025 03:54 PM EDT

    ... precedent for presidents to speak to the Justice Department workforce from the building's ceremonial Great Hall, Trump's trip two months into his second term was particularly striking because of his unique status as a onetime criminal defendant indicted by the agency he is now poised to address and ...

  • Dubai's building boom is starting to strain its residents

    Dubai's building boom is starting to strain its residents

    Jan 27, 2025 06:27 PM EDT

    ... lawyer, wrote on the social platform X in December that while authorities were working on congestion, the problem demanded “a set of immediate and long-term mechanisms.” He followed up by publishing an opinion piece twice mentioning “congestion” as being among “pressing issues" for global cities like Dubai. While phrased ...

  • In an interview, Putin echoes Trump's claim that conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided had he been in office

    In an interview, Putin echoes Trump's claim that conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided had he been in office

    Jan 24, 2025 04:50 PM EDT

    ... on their agenda, including nuclear arms control and economic issues. “We can have quite a lot of points of contact with the current administration and search for solutions to key issues of today,” Putin said. He said the sanctions against Russia introduced during Trump's first term and under Joe ...