Print Mode Enable Media Only

News chronological

10 items since 1073458

WASHINGTONPOST (Todd Wallack) - More states adopt college entrance exam touted by conservatives despite concerns

Military academies and colleges in North Carolina and Indiana will soon accept the Classic Learning Test, embraced by the Trump administration and mainly featuring Western texts.

WASHINGTONPOST (Adam Taylor) - Trump administration’s secrecy on health deals alarms experts, governments

A dearth of information has been disclosed about the agreements, fueling speculation that the “America First” approach to foreign aid is exploitative.

NEWSNATIONNOW (Associated Press) - 3 killed as high winds topple a tree on an Easter egg hunt in Germany

Three people, including a 10-month-old girl, were killed Sunday when high winds toppled a tree in northern Germany.

AXIOS (Mike Allen) - Behind the Curtain: Sam's superintelligence New Deal

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing something no tech titan has ever done: He's publishing a detailed blueprint for how government should tax, regulate and redistribute the wealth from the very technology he's racing to build and spread. Why it matters: Altman told us in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract — on the scale of the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, and the New Deal during the Great Depression . The big picture: The threats of inaction or slow action are grave, Altman warns — widespread job loss, cyberattacks, social upheaval, machines man can't control. The two most immediate threats, he said, are cyberattacks and biological…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing something no tech titan has ever done: He's publishing a detailed blueprint for how government should tax, regulate and redistribute the wealth from the very technology he's racing to build and spread. Why it matters: Altman told us in a half-hour interview that AI superintelligence is so close, so mind-bending, so disruptive that America needs a new social contract — on the scale of the Progressive Era in the early 1900s, and the New Deal during the Great Depression . The big picture: The threats of inaction or slow action are grave, Altman warns — widespread job loss, cyberattacks, social upheaval, machines man can't control. The two most immediate threats, he said, are cyberattacks and biological…Open

NEWSNATIONNOW (Addy Bink) - Over 4M kids are registered for 'Trump Accounts': Can your child still get one?

If you haven't yet registered your eligible child for a Trump account, there's still time.

NEWSNATIONNOW (DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press) - Russian attack kills 3 in Odesa while Ukraine targets Russian oil infrastructure, officials say

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones targeted Russia’s key Black Sea port for oil exports. The nighttime attack on Odesa heavily damaged an apartment block, killing the women and a 2-year-old child, officials [...]

NEWSNATIONNOW (Julia Manchester) - Trump says to not expect Cabinet shake-up after Bondi, Noem firings

Trump told The Hill that reports of staffing shakeups should not be read into, saying the country was on the right track.