President Joe Biden and his administration went all Thursday to play down a troubling new economic report that added to the evidence of a recession, trying to focus instead on major legislative progress on measures to tame inflation, reduce debt, and preserve America’s competitive edge. The desire to accentuate the […]
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President Biden seeks to quell rising tension over Taiwan in a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Justice Samuel Alito publicly addressed critics of his opinion overturning Roe v. Wade as Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett made a rare joint appearance.
Richer countries failed to keep a $100 billion-a-year pledge to developing nations to help them achieve their climate goals, according to an analysis by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD. $83.3 billion in climate financing was given to poorer countries in 2020, a 4% increase from the […]
Arab foreign ministers on Wednesday reappointed a veteran Egyptian diplomat as the secretary general of the Cairo-based Arab League, Egypt’s state-run news agency reported. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, a former ambassador to the United Nations and Egypt’s last foreign minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, won the backing of the Arab […]
A demonstrator dressed as Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with blood on his hands protests outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 2018. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesSaudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman “approved an operation … to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” […]
The MLOps software leader is responding to the need large organizations have to manage ML models in production within their existing governance, risk, and compliance framework. Algorithmia, a leader in machine learning (ML) operations, and management software have released new, advanced reporting tools to help enterprise IT and internal risk […]
Despite heavy sanctions, North Korea has found ways to enrich its leaders and finance its military. The Department of Justice said last month that North Korea has used cyberattacks to steal over $1 billion since 2015 to fund its nuclear weapons program. Heavy sanctions, imposed by both the US and the UN, prevent North […]
A video of the arrest of Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw as he was photographing Myanmar security forces charging at anti-coup protesters shows him being quickly surrounded and held in a chokehold as handcuffs are placed on him. Authorities have charged Thein Zaw and five other members of the media […]
At a hearing on SolarWinds last Friday before the House Oversight and Homeland Security committees, U.S. representatives seized on a statement by SolarWinds’ former CEO that in 2017 an intern had mistakenly posted a password, “SolarWinds123,” on the public-facing internet that could have provided a malicious actor with full access […]
