Less than 72 hours after a man was arrested for trying to assassinate Donald Trump at the White House, the justice department rushed to court to make an extraordinary filing. The subject of the emergency was a lawsuit by the National Trust for Historic Preservation seeking to halt the construction of a new White House…
Fact-check the planet with this free community-run resource based on the abandoned CIA ‘World Factbook.’ You may or may not have ever realized it, but for more than six decades, the CIA published an incredible resource called The World Factbook. It was a free reference guide to all the countries on Earth, along with several…
Dr Jessica Hammond-Graf is president and chief sporting officer of Women’s Elite Rugby, the US semi-professional rugby union competition that kicks off its second season on Saturday in Massachusetts and Illinois. Like most Americans, she did not grow up with the game. An Army kid, she spent a lot of time playing soccer. In the…
Though the South Africa-based conservationist remains the CEO of the Shannon Elizabeth Foundation, this side hustle “allows me to connect directly with my audience, create on my own terms, and just be free,” she noted. “I really do think this is the future.” For Elizabeth it will be a return to role-playing, the actress telling…
It is a 113-million-year-old bone of contention. After Stuttgart’s museum of natural history bought a fossilised dinosaur skull in 1991, researchers found it was the most complete spinosaurid skull known to date, belonging to a previously unknown genus of the huge meat-eating dinosaurs. Palaeontologists studying the skull in 1996 dubbed the genus Irritator – reflecting…
As Canada weighs the future of medically assisted death, one woman fears the law will change too late for her.
Brooke Nevils, the former NBC talent assistant whose accusations against then-Today anchor Matt Lauer led to his exit from the network, struggled through tears in her first television appearance on CNN this week to discuss what happened and the book she published earlier this year about her experience with the disgraced journalist. Nevils spoke with…
Few political aspirations have proved more futile over the past two decades than running as a Republican for statewide office in California. Yet Steve Hilton – transplanted Brit, erstwhile business entrepreneur, a former Downing Street adviser to David Cameron and a former Fox News host who says he is friends with half of Donald Trump’s…
Whatever you feed them can become public. Keep that in mind, and take these steps to protect yourself. When you interact with a chatbot, there’s a good chance that everything you say, and every prompt you give, isn’t just used to generate replies to your queries. Nearly every chatbot company on the planet also uses…
