Flights were diverted and others grounded throughout the Midwest after a temporary outage at a Minnesota air traffic control facility caused issues, the FAA said.
As a detective with the N.Y.P.D., he helped prosecute violent crimes under federal law. At the U.S. attorney’s office, he was involved in high-profile exonerations.
A Stanford-led research team has used generative AI to design a synthetic virus — the first time artificial intelligence has been harnessed to create a organism that has never been seen in nature. Why it matters: What could go wrong? The big picture: It could be the first step toward the nightmare scenario AI experts have already warned about: deadly pathogens that can't be stopped, because they've been created too quickly for our current surveillance systems to stop them. - The research could also lead to medical breakthroughs, which is the hope of the research team that conducted the study. "The ability of genome language models to generate entire functional genomes has not been tested," they wrote. Driving the news: Researchers…
Iran's parliament is reviewing a plan to ban ships linked to the U.S., Israel and other "hostile countries" from transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration has rejected the plan.
The request was the first time that anyone had used the courts in an effort to directly kill the sweeping tax protections offered to the president and his family.
A union that represents Treasury Department and IRS employees has joined in a lawsuit previously brought to block the Trump administration's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."