How a US Supreme Court ruling is transforming gun control
As mass killings stoke calls for reform, legal fights over the historical basis for gun rights have gone into overdrive.
Day: May 11, 2023
In a Climate Trade-Off, Biden Backs Manchin’s Fossil Fuel Plan
The White House hopes that the approval of some oil and gas projects will speed the expansion of transmission lines for renewable energy.
Idaho man who dangled from Senate balcony during Capitol riot receives 15-month prison sentence
An Idaho man who traveled to Washington in a car loaded with weapons and was photographed dangling from the Senate balcony during the Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison
Biden sends visiting world leaders onto White House driveway to engage world press
World leaders are being banished to the less-than-dignified White House driveway to engage reporters because President Biden has abandoned the decades-old tradition of holding joint press conferences when heads of foreign governments visit, which criti…
Idaho man who dangled from Senate balcony during Capitol riot receives 15-month prison sentence
An Idaho man who traveled to Washington in a car loaded with weapons and was photographed dangling from the Senate balcony during the Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison.
Son of jailed Hong Kong media tycoon condemns UK government ‘weakness’
Sebastien Lai, son of Jimmy, also criticises Vatican over failure to hold China to account over human rights abusesThe British son of the jailed Hong Kong media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai has criticised Britain and the Vatican for failing to speak out stro…
Google launches MusicLM, its experimental AI tool that can turn text descriptions into music, in the AI Test Kitchen app on the web, Android, and iOS (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google launches MusicLM, its experimental AI tool that can turn text descriptions into music, in the AI Test Kitchen app on the web, Android, and iOS — Google today released MusicLM, a new experimental AI …
David Miranda, Gay Rights Activist and Snowden Ally in Brazil, Dies at 37
Emerging from Rio’s slums, he helped Edward Snowden reveal classified documents and lobbied for his asylum before rising to his country’s Congress.