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xAI, the artificial intelligence company led by Elon Musk, announced new efforts Monday to get its generative AI tool, Grok, into the hands of federal government officials. In a post to X, the company announced “Grok for Government,” which it described as a suite of products aimed at U.S. government customers. FedScoop reported on the […]
Black service members have long been vital to the defense of this state and nation. Their stories are not side notes — they are central volumes in our shared history. (Fort Douglas Military Museum) Buffalo Soldiers with the M1873 Springfield Trapdoor rifle. Members of the 24th Infantry, on campaign duty, are lined up with an […]
LAST WEEK two Metropolitan Police officers were found to have committed gross misconduct after Child Q was strip searched at her school in Hackney, east London, in December 2020. The verdict followed an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC). The treatment of Child Q has been a watershed moment for policing to ask […]
Major science groups said Friday that they would publish the country’s flagship report on climate change, a project that the Trump administration threw into limbo by dismissing hundreds of scientists who had been working on it. The American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society
Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nation’s legacies of slavery. Land-based reparations are also a form of
Defense Department officials will soon brief President Donald Trump on a variety of options for him to fulfill his pledge to protect the United States with something modeled on Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense, according to U.S. officials and experts familiar with the initiative. Like former President Ronald Reagan’s push for the Strategic Defense Initiative, […]
A Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to her friends and colleagues. On Wednesday, Cora Anderson, a friend and colleague of Kseniya Petrova, shared the news of Petrova’s detention on Facebook, saying the Russian scientist arrived at Boston Logan international airport on 16 February from […]
NATO members seek to avoid possible chaos should the US declare its withdrawal from the transatlantic military bloc. Europe’s biggest military powers are drawing up plans to take on greater responsibilities for the continent’s defence from the United States, including a pitch to the administration of President Donald Trump, for a managed transfer over the […]
Pelosi on government funding bill: ‘A devastating assault on the wellbeing of working families’ California Democratic representative and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi has released a statement in response to the government funding bill that is now in the Senate. Calling it a “devastating assault on the wellbeing of working-class families,” Pelosi said: Donald Trump […]
China has not acknowledged it is developing a new supercarrier, and Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the embassy in Washington, had no comment when asked about the new design. He said that the country’s national defense policy is “purely defensive in nature.” The U.S. has nonetheless made no secret that it sees China as a […]