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The Justice Department has stepped into a major Supreme Court religious-liberty case, urging the justices to allow an Ohio man to pursue constitutional claims after local officials sought to stop him from hosting prayer gatherings in his private home.
Researchers inside one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies are publicly sounding the alarm over advanced AI, warning that systems now under development could eventually become powerful enough to threaten humanity itself.
The United States is turning to cutting-edge nuclear fusion technology to help modernize and verify its nuclear weapons stockpile as Washington confronts an accelerating three-way strategic competition with China and Russia, according to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal.
Jonathan Cahn, the bestselling Messianic Jewish rabbi and author, has stated that he was the previously unidentified passenger who was the target of a violent incident on American Airlines Flight 618, adding that the confrontation involved an explicit antisemitic threat, attacks on his faith, and a physical struggle which in the end led to the flight being diverted to Baltimore.
Republicans will converge on Dallas Wednesday and Thursday for the party’s first-ever midterm convention, an unprecedented gathering designed to energize conservative voters as President Donald Trump and the GOP battle to retain control of Congress in November.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Dec. 2 in a potentially landmark Second Amendment case that could determine whether state and local governments may prohibit Americans from possessing AR-15-style rifles and similar semiautomatic firearms.
Drone activity along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley has fallen by roughly 75% since the U.S. military began using a high-energy laser weapon to destroy suspicious unmanned aircraft, military officials told CBS News.
The federal workforce has fallen sharply since President Donald Trump returned to office, with newly released government data showing federal employment down approximately 11.2% since January 2025.
At least five people died when an Amazon Prime Air cargo flight overran a runway and crashed while landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday, local officials said.
The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in August, dramatically exceeding economists’ forecasts and delivering the strongest sign in months that the American labor market remains resilient. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%.