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Oliver Bertasio loves to sing. He long dreamed of a career in the arts. But‚ struggling with insecurity‚ he stayed largely behind the scenes‚ even while taking theater classes in college. The Massachusetts native could not have imagined that he would find his voice in Kentucky. Looking back‚ Bertasio‚ now 33‚ sees that the insecurity came from not understanding his gender identity. It wasn’t until he accepted himself as a transgender man and transitioned while living in New York...

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) turned up the heat on a pressure campaign to oust House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-VA)‚ accusing the Virginian of coming to Washington “to be famous.” Good is fighting off a campaign coming from within his caucus to remove him‚ infighting that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has asked his members to refrain from carrying out. Good was one of eight House Republicans who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy late last year...

Israel's deep political divisions are back on public display. They were put to one side for a while‚ as shock and national unity followed the 7 October attacks by Hamas - but six months later‚ thousands of protesters are once again on Israel's streets. The war has turbocharged their determination to unseat Israel's longest-serving prime minister‚ Benjamin Netanyahu. In Jerusalem‚ police used skunk water - a foul-smelling substance fired from water cannons - to clear protesters who had...

You may have noticed over the weekend that Donald Trump posted to social media a video of a MAGA pickup truck barreling down what looked to be the Southern State Parkway in Long Island (google Howells Road‚ exit 41). The truck was tricked out in fascist regalia‚ but what naturally drew people’s attention was the image on the truck’s tailgate: Joe Biden‚ lying prostrate‚ with his arms and legs bound in rope. In other words‚ the driver is fantasizing about hog-tying and...

The return of great power competition across the globe is forcing countries to adapt‚ spurring major changes to alignment and spending from Europe to the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East.  The change is everywhere on the map — but most evident in countries like Sweden and Japan as the nations make dramatic changes to meet rising threats from Russia and China.

Google plans to destroy a trove of data that reflects millions of users’ web-browsing histories‚ part of a settlement of a lawsuit that alleged the company tracked millions of users without their knowledge.  The class action‚ filed in 2020‚ accused Google of misleading users about how Chrome tracked the activity of anyone who used the private “Incognito” browsing option. The lawsuit alleged that Google’s marketing and privacy disclosures didn’t properly inform users of the kinds of data...

OpenAI said it has developed a tool that can clone human voices from just 15 seconds of recorded audio — but it hasn’t yet released it to the public over fears that it will be misused‚ especially during the 2024 election. Called Voice Engine‚ the software was first developed in 2022 and integrated into ChatGPT’s text-to-speech feature. But beginning in late 2023‚ OpenAI “started privately testing it with a small group of trusted partners‚” the artificial intelligence giant said in a blog...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to “act immediately to stop” Al Jazeera’s operations in the country after the Israeli parliament approved a law that grants senior ministers powers to shut down foreign news networks deemed a security risk. “Al Jazeera will no longer be broadcast from Israel”‚ Netanyahu wrote in a post on X after the law was approved on Monday. “I intend to act immediately in accordance with the new law to stop the channel’s activity.”