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A person on a scooter departs from the entrance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters building on May 26, 2026 in Washington, DC. J. David Ake | Getty ImagesAs the Trump administration ramps up scrutiny of companies that help investors decide how to vote their stocks, the Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Institutional Shareholder Services to force influential proxy voting advisers to hand over information.The SEC filed a subpoena enforcement action Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging that ISS has refused to fully comply with administrative subpoenas seeking information about…
American negotiators are scheduled to head to Kiev on Sunday after intensive talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as Washington ramps up efforts to end the war in Ukraine. U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner began a whirlwind weekend of diplomacy with a three-hour meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Saturday afternoon. The negotiations were followed by a dinner with Russian leaders, according to a Kremlin press conference. On Saturday afternoon, the Kremlin released footage of Witkoff and Kushner meeting with President Putin in the Kremlin. Kremlin aide Yuri…
Children tend to express their emotions through actions. Toddlers scream and hit when they don’t get their way. When middle school students get angry, they stomp their feet and leave the room. Teenagers express their frustration and frustration by rolling their eyes and slamming the door. As a psychologist and co-author of Parents Have Feelings, I’ve worked with hundreds of parents who feel overwhelmed when their children don’t listen, misbehave for no reason, or throw tantrums. Some try to negotiate with the children. Some people get irritated and lose their cool. Both approaches can leave parents feeling even more burdened…
People deposit U.S. presidential election mail-in ballots at a drop box in Phoenix, Arizona, October 18, 2020.Robin Beck | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration renewed its appeal to the Supreme Court on Sunday after a federal judge blocked new restrictions on mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections.The lawsuit was filed after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani extended an order for the Postal Service to enforce President Donald Trump’s executive order ahead of the November election.Even as states have begun shipping out mail-in ballots, legal wrangling has left little time for the administration to make major changes to mail-in…
In September 2025, Olivia Tye headed to San Francisco’s Mission Dolores Park with a makeshift box, a blank notecard, and a cardboard sign with the message “Confession Box: Tell Us Your AI Secrets” scrawled in Sharpie.She set up a DIY confessional booth on the sidewalk, hidden from view, and waited for passersby to stop and contribute to her participatory art project.Tai thought he might be able to get some notes that mentioned common use cases, such as “I use AI to write emails.” A few hours later, as she looked through her small collection of crowdsourced messages, one message surprised…
Hawaii is under a state of emergency, effective Monday, as powerful Hurricane Lowell heads toward the state. This is the third storm to hit Hawaii in just over three weeks as the El Niño phenomenon rages on during the Pacific hurricane season. ☀️ Get local weather forecasts from the CNN Weather app Lowell is a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 195 mph and moving northwest at 6 mph early Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center. It fluctuates between categories as it goes through the normal cycle of major hurricanes. The storm is expected to be near Category 2…
At a data center protest in Lubbock, Texas, in July, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller took to the microphone to share his concerns about data center land grabs in his home state. But what he said may apply to what’s happening in dozens of states across the country.”When[data centers]first started coming up, nobody knew much about data centers,” he said at the protest. “We quickly learned that they were taking over our best farmland. … And (developers) sometimes give 10 times the value, so it’s hard for farmers to turn it down.”Across the country, investment in computing power spurred by…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (left) welcomes U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff (R) and Jared Kushner (center) before meeting in Kiev on September 6, 2026, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images)Genya Savilov | AFP | Getty ImagesU.S. peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kiev on Sunday, as the Trump administration renews efforts to end Russia’s four-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine.Mr. Kushner and Mr. Witkov traveled from Moscow and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for three hours on Saturday, but they appeared unable to secure a breakthrough in the…
A woman drives past an anti-American billboard in Tehran’s Enherab Square on September 2, 2026.Atta Kenare | AFP | Getty ImagesIran’s “proportionate response” to the U.S. attack is over, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the country’s parliament speaker and top negotiator, said on Sunday, even as he acknowledged the economic impact of the war.”If you didn’t understand it before, you should understand before it’s too late that the rules of the game have changed and that from now on, any violation of Iran’s interests and security will be met with a ‘faster, heavier and more painful’ response,” Ghalibaf said in a Telegram…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left), OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (center), and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attend the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026.Ludovic Marin | AFP | Getty ImagesFirst, Anthropic has updated its fables and myths. Subsequent enhancements to the model were made. meta and google. OpenAI followed suit and released GPT-6 Astra. That’s what this week was all about, as fixes and upgrades hit the market at a dizzying pace from a handful of companies scrambling to stay at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution. OpenAI “We’re all moving to a faster pace,”…