A large Confederate flag that has flown over an interstate in Spartanburg County is coming down.

We speak with Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building, which has beco...

Former President Barack Obama compared the actions of federal agents under the Trump administration to behavior previously seen under dictatorships.

Last year, the Department of Homeland Security spent a record sum on guns and ammunition, a Trace analysis found.

People who denied Corey Lewandowski an officially issued firearm were passed over for promotions.

It may be the most enduring love story in the shorebird world, two birds coming together from different parts of the hemisphere.

A day after the US announced it took the unusual step of shuttering it’s Drug Enforcement Administration office in the Dominican Republic — a key site in the agency’s effort to combat drug trafficking...

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News that Jeffrey Epstein helped filmmaker Woody Allen get his daughter into Bard College shows how wealthy people get an unfair advantage.

OpenAI has just gotten rid of the team that ensures its AI systems are safe for all users. The company disbanded an internal group focused on making sure its AI systems were “safe, trustworthy, and consistently aligned with human values.” At the same time, the team’s former leader has been reassigned as the company’s chief futurist. OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch that the team’s members have been placed in other roles across the organization. The development was first reported by Platformer. The alignment team was formed in September 2024 as an internal unit dedicated to AI alignment, a field focused on ensuring advanced systems operate in line with human intent. That work includes preparing AI to handle adversarial conditions and high-stakes scenarios without harmful or catastrophic outcomes. “We want these systems to consistently follow human intent in complex, real-world scenarios and adversarial conditions, avoid catastrophic behavior, and remain controllable, auditable, and aligned with human values,” a post from OpenAI’s Alignment Research blog states. A related job posting described the team’s mission as “developing methodologies that enable AI to robustly follow human intent across a wide range of scenarios, including those that are adversarial or high-stakes.” In a blog post published on Wednesday, former alignment lead Josh Achiam outlined his new responsibilities. “My goal is to support OpenAI’s mission — to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity — by studying how the world will change in response to AI, AGI, and beyond,” Achiam wrote. According to the company, the restructuring reflects routine changes within a rapidly evolving organization.

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A year ago, everyone was doing the “Trump dance.” Now the president is too scared to show his face at the Super Bowl, and the right’s “alternative” halftime show features the cringey, washed-up Kid Rock.

Activists say the death toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests has reached at least 7,002 with many more people still feared dead. The U.S.

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A handful of House Republicans tanked a procedural vote that would have kept a ban on congressional action against Trump’s emergency tariffs.

This is a walk of shame toward authoritarianism. I know that very well. I was born, raised and lived in such a country.

When power is treated as a public good, it becomes cheaper, more reliable, and better positioned to meet the challenges of the future than privately held electrical utilities have ever demonstrated.

A majority of tested baby foods are ultraprocessed, packed with potentially harmful additives, sugars and salt, a new study found.

In light of federal policy changes limiting vaccine access for children, two lawmakers introduced bills to protect and expand Mainers’ ability to get vaccinated.