Russian border guards seized navigation buoys from the Estonia side of the Narva River, representatives from the Baltic nation said on Thursday.

Manhattan prosecutors won't be penalized for a last-minute document dump that caused former President Donald Trump's criminal trial to start later than scheduled, a judge ruled Thursday.Judge Juan M. Merchan rejected the defense's request that prosecutors be sanctioned for...

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The following article, The WHO’s Pandemic Treaty And A Bird Flu Crisis Are Both Arriving At The Same Time, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. Health officials are issuing very ominous warnings about the potential for an H5N1 pandemic among humans at the same time that the WHO is preparing for a vote on the global pandemic treaty at the 77th World Health Assembly at the end of this month.  The global pandemic treaty will give the World Health Organization … Continue reading The WHO’s Pandemic Treaty And A Bird Flu Crisis Are Both Arriving At The Same Time ...

The Senate voted down the bipartisan border bill Thursday, marking the second time it has been blocked in a matter of months as Democrats look to shore up their political troubles and give President Biden and incumbent senators a boost in the process. In a widely expected outcome, senators voted 43-50 to take down the proposal, which was negotiated over the fall and winter by Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-...

The Senate failed to advance a border bill backed by some Democrats and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Thursday, seeing the measure garner less support than it did in February when it was first considered.  By a vote of 43-50, senators chose not to advance the bill, which was negotiated in a bipartisan nature by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and James Lankford, R-Okla. Both Lankford and Sinema sided against their own legislation, a...

Senate Democrats failed to advance a bipartisan border security bill Thursday, with nearly every Republican voting to filibuster it as Donald Trump wields border chaos as a centerpiece of his campaign against President Joe Biden. The vote was 43-50, falling short of the 60 needed to proceed. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was the only GOP senator to vote to advance the bill Thursday, while six Democrats voted with the remaining Republican senators to block it. The vote caps a peculiar sequence...

It’s the most interesting tech scandal in recent memory: Actress Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of deliberately — and creepily — copying her voice to make ChatGPT sound like her AI character in the movie Her. OpenAI denied this and has paused the feature, but it has sparked widespread outrage, with the union representing Hollywood actors and other artists on Tuesday urging Congress to pass legislation to protect people like Johansson.

Proposed high-speed rail lines in Texas could "transform the state" as "a hub for business," according to one prominent academic as the Lone Star State wrestles with what could be some of its biggest infrastructure projects in decades. There are preliminary plans to construct two new high-speed rail lines in the state, with one connecting Dallas to Houston, and the other Dallas to Fort Worth, in moves supporters claim will slash journey times between the key cities.