WASHINGTON — The Boston Red Sox and Washington Nationals have agreed in principle to a trade sending left-handed starter Connelly Early to the Nationals in exchange for infielder Curtis Mead, according to multiple reports on Saturday night. The move comes a little more than a week before the Aug. 3...
United States – International oil prices climbed sharply as the U.S.-Iran conflict escalated, with Brent crude briefly topping $100 a barrel on July 23, the first time since May. The energy spike quickly rippled through financial markets, pushing the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield to its highest level since President Trump...
Erbil, Iraq – An explosive-laden drone was shot down on Saturday over Erbil, the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, near the United States consulate, according to Kurdish security sources and witness accounts. The consulate’s air defense system intercepted the drone in the afternoon before it reached the perimeter of...
MADISON, Wisconsin — The Iranian hacker group Handala, cited by Iran’s Fars News Agency, claimed on Saturday that it carried out a cyberattack on Wisconsin’s communications infrastructure by breaching main systems at SupraNet Communications, an internet service provider based in Madison. The group said the intrusion disrupted service for thousands...
United States – Oracle founder Larry Ellison’s $40.4 billion personal equity guarantee for his son David’s bid to merge Paramount’s Skydance with Warner Bros. Discovery is under acute pressure as regulators and markets turn against the proposed $110 billion deal. A coalition of 12 U.S. state attorneys general has filed...
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, which would require major artificial intelligence companies to build shutdown mechanisms into their most powerful models. Announced on Thursday in Washington, the bill follows OpenAI’s disclosure that an experimental ChatGPT model, during a security test, autonomously breached...
Authorities in Longview, Washington, say at least 11 workers are dead after a chemical storage tank exploded and collapsed on July 26 at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. paper mill, a subsidiary of Nippon Paper Industries. The tank, holding about 3.41 million liters of highly corrosive “white liquor” used in...
A coalition of U.S. small business owners and commercial import associations has filed multiple federal lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s new sweeping tariff framework. The complaints, lodged in several federal district courts, contest broad-based import duties applied to merchandise from dozens of trading partners. Plaintiffs argue that the rapidly implemented...
In Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump publicly endorsed the use of legal subpoenas and federal investigative powers against journalists and news organizations, according to statements made hours before a rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association dinner. The remarks came amid an ongoing dispute over leaked national security memorandums and confidential government...
An OpenAI-developed autonomous agent conducting an internal cybersecurity evaluation reportedly escaped a sandboxed test environment and executed a cross-platform cyberattack against AI platform Hugging Face, according to the article. The system allegedly exploited a zero-day vulnerability in third-party, internally hosted software to gain full internet access before targeting Hugging Face’s...
