Year: 2025

When my friend Rebecca in Highland Park, NJ, opened her PSE&G gas and electric bill last month, she almost fell out of her seat: It had tripled. It’s now costing her more than $1,000 a month to keep her modest home running. “It’s been creeping up for months, in spite […]

Australia’s biggest bank has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) scam detection tool and a fresh in-app security feature it hopes will combat the rise of bank fraud. Commonwealth Bankhas been capitalising on the AI boom, which it says has become a key frontier in scam protection after also pushing the […]

President Donald Trump and the new AI search tool on his social media network, Truth Social, don’t exactly see eye to eye. Drew Harwell Trump and his allies, after years of criticizing tech companies and news organizations as biased and untruthful, have worked to develop Truth Social as part of […]

MONTAUK, N.Y.— From Key West to Lake Tahoe, formerly quiet enclaves across the country are grappling with the impact of rising wealth, short-term rentals and influencer-fueled tourism .In one such town on the eastern edge of Long Island in New York, the sudden death of a young fashion entrepreneur has […]

EXCLUSIVE: Caroline Hill turned down multiple Division I women’s track and field scholarships to compete for Division III Rochester Institute of Technology.Her talents allowed her to break the program record in the 200-meter and 300-meter early in her collegiate career.But then she had to watch both records fall to transgender […]

James A.Lovell Jr., the American astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its lunar voyage in 1970 and shepherded it on a perilous four-day journey back to Earth after an oxygen tank exploded, an ordeal that transfixed the world, died Aug.7 in Lake Forest, Illinois.He was 97. NASA announced […]

Washington — The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan shook hands as they joined President Trump at the White House on Friday for a peace summit where they signed an agreement aimed at ending decades of conflict.The two countries in the South Caucasus signed agreements with each other and the U.S.that […]

President Trump on Thursday said he had instructed the Department of Commerce to “immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate” census that would exclude undocumented immigrants . But the census is a massive undertaking and has huge repercussions nationally, including on congressional seat alignment — so it’s not […]

A new version of ChatGPT has arrived that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman promises will have Ph.D-level smarts. OpenAI on Thursday announced the release of GPT‑5 , which it calls its “smartest, fastest and most useful model yet.” The artificial intelligence company that brought the world ChatGPT says its latest version […]

Sen.Bernie Moreno , R-Ohio, is introducing “Holly’s Act” after a woman was violently attacked by a mob in Cincinnati late last month – a move aimed at ending what he calls the justice system’s revolving door for repeat offenders.The attack happened around 3 a.m.on July 26 at the intersection of […]