The U.S. has intelligence confirming Islamic State's claim of responsibility for a deadly shooting attack at a concert near Moscow on Friday‚ a U.S. official told Reuters. Here is information about the Islamic State's Afghan branch known as ISIS-K and their motives for attacking Russia: WHAT IS ISIS-K? Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K)‚ named after an old term for the region that included parts of Iran‚ Turkmenistan and Afghanistan‚ emerged in eastern Afghanistan in late 2014...

The hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” said Monday that former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel — NBC News’s new paid contributor — will not be asked to appear on their show as a guest‚ pointing to her role in helping former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski in their Monday broadcast sharply criticized the network for hiring McDaniel and called on NBC News to...

Talking heads on NBC News suffered an on-air meltdown Sunday over the network’s recruitment of former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel to offer occasional commentary. This‚ after MSNBC awarded President Joe Biden’s former press secretary a prime-time show. NBC announced last week that Ronna McDaniel would be joining the network’s lineup of political analysts following her resignation as chair of the RNC. Her first appearance came Sunday with an ...

The uproar inside NBC over Ronna McDaniel’s hiring spilled into Monday morning as more of the network’s top personalities denounced the deal with the former RNC chair‚ escalating a battle over the relationship between powerful media companies and Donald Trump’s loyalists. The decision to hire McDaniel‚ which was unanimously supported by top network executives‚ has already divided and destabilized one of America’s most storied news organizations‚ with internal dismay flaring on text chains...

A new exemption for drone piloting from the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the airways for "drone-swarm" agriculture‚ a method of seeding and spraying crops at a fraction of the traditional cost. Hylio‚ a Texas-based drone manufacturer‚ successfully applied for an exemption from the FAA to allow fleets of drones weighing 55 pounds or more to fly together.  It's the first exception of its kind for machines that carry what the company calls a "meaningful payload...

Washington's drive to make the United States a major global lithium producer is being held back by a confusing mix of state regulations that are deterring developers and hampering efforts to break China's control of the critical minerals sector. Across Texas‚ Louisiana and other mineral-rich states‚ it's unclear who owns the millions of metric tons of lithium locked in salty brines underneath U.S. soils‚ how the battery metal should be valued by regulators and who ultimately should pay to...

During the pandemic‚ rock-bottom interest rates and a desire for more space drove a rapid and stunning rise in housing prices. While prices have moderated from their peak‚ they have not done so nearly enough to make up for the more than doubling of borrowing costs. President Biden says he has a solution‚ but like most forms of government interference‚ it would only make the problem worse. During the State of the Union address‚ Biden unveiled a plan to give homebuyers $400 per...

The European Union has launched investigations into Apple‚ Google and Facebook parent Meta on suspicion that they are failing to comply with a new landmark European law designed to promote competition in digital services. The European Commission said it “suspects” that various practices by all three companies “fall short of effective compliance” with the Digital Markets Act (DMA)‚ which went into effect earlier this month. If the probes find a “lack of full compliance‚” they could face...

COVID-19 vaccines are not “being used to cure cancer‚” as social media posts falsely claim‚ misinterpreting President Joe Biden’s reference to mRNA cancer vaccines during his State of the Union address. Biden was referring to the mRNA technology used to make the COVID-19 vaccines and being studied by researchers to treat cancer. The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are the first vaccines using the messenger RNA technology to be approved for use‚ but they’re not...