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DALLAS (AP) — The FBI said it discovered 2,400 new records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with an executive order last month to release thousands of files. The FBI said it’s working to transfer the records to the National Archives and Records Administration to [...]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking to pause its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency exchange Binance as the regulator tries to present itself as more crypto-friendly under a new administration. Binance and the SEC filed a joint motion this week asking for a 60-day stay in a lawsuit the regulator filed with significant fanfare [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Supreme Court ruled that insurance companies can’t bring their own legal actions against those blamed for Maui’s catastrophic 2023 wildfire, allowing a $4 billion settlement that was on that the verge of collapse to proceed. Other steps remain in finalizing the deal between thousands of people who lodged lawsuits and various [...]
For years, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office in suburban Indianapolis has wanted to partner with federal immigration authorities to identify and detain immigrants who are in the United States illegally and facing charges. President Joe Biden’s administration never returned its calls, the sheriff’s office said, but as President Donald Trump cracks down on illegal immigration, [...]
For months, daring bands of thieves linked to South American gangs have been making off with piles of jewelry and cash from the homes of the biggest superstars in sports, targeting the likes of the NFL’s Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. Sophisticated pillagers have deployed drones and signal jamming devices, sometimes posing as delivery drivers [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly unsealed documents give one of the most detailed views yet of the evidence gathered on the accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, including how prosecutors allege he and others interacted with the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The summaries of evidence released last week include Mohammed’s own [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan duo in the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from federal devices, similar to the policy already in place for the popular social media platform TikTok. Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Darin LaHood, R-Ill., introduced the “No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act,” which [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel, a close American ally. Neither the United States nor Israel is a member of or recognizes the court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The website of the Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has computer code that could send some user login information to a Chinese state-owned telecommunications company that has been barred from operating in the United States, security researchers say. The web login page of DeepSeek’s chatbot contains heavily obfuscated computer script that when [...]
The arguments raised by a Detroit man who appealed his conviction on a gun charge that he previously agreed to in a plea deal were deemed moot by a Fifth District Court of Appeals panel. Fifth District Judge Craig Baldwin noted that 27-year-old Joseph W. Bradley challenged the Delaware County Common Pleas Court’s denial of [...]