From the first Muslim elected to the US Senate to historic victories in the House of Representatives, seven Muslim Americans have secured their place in Congress, marking a milestone for political representation and challenging a climate of growing anti-Muslim rhetoric. The victo
Homes are flooded and water rescues and evacuations are in progress as flash flood emergencies — the highest level of flood warning — impact North Georgia and southern Tennessee. Follow this storm live. Track changing conditions in real time. The flash flood emergencies are in ef
Egyptian wushu kung fu athlete Sondos Sonbol made history on Tuesday, 3 November, after winning gold in the women’s Changquan combined event at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Senegal, becoming the country’s first athlete to win a Youth Olympic medal in the martial art. Wus
In 2021, a group of employees at OpenAI left to start a new company focused on the safe development of artificial intelligence. They named it Anthropic, a word that means “relating to humanity.” Later this month, that company is expected to make its debut on Wall Street in what c
President Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. And the House could
A senior Iranian negotiator mocked JD Vance on Thursday after the US Vice President blamed Republican midterm losses on the war in Iran. Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf said on Thursday that Vance showed “losing-gambler energy,” and that he “can’t walk away
Technology and the struggle for global influence have become increasingly intertwined at a time when Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown from a mere economic tool into a defining component of national power and countries’ capacity for strategic deterrence. This has made the de
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