The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety told lawmakers there Tuesday that police could have neutralized the shooter in Uvalde three minutes after he entered the school building but for the on-scene commander “who decided to place the lives of officers before the lives of children.”Continue Reading

Analysts are increasing convinced that the US has entered a recession, and the odds of a so-called “soft landing” are growing dim.Continue Reading

The World Health Organization said Tuesday it will rename the monkeypox virus, because the current name doesn’t meet WHO guidelines against using geographic regions or animals.Continue Reading

As if record gas and diesel prices weren’t enough, now regulators are warning that the middle of the US may be hit with rolling outages this summer as the regional grid is short the energy needed to power 3.7 million homes.Continue Reading

A senior software engineer has been put on administrative leave by Google after going public with his claim that the company has developed a sentient artificial intelligence.Continue Reading

A new study funded by the US government provides what researchers call a “high degree” of confidence that the deadly nerve agent sarin is behind Gulf War Syndrome, which has left hundreds of thousands of soldiers with chronic debilitating illnesses.Continue Reading

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday that as part of a package of new gun control legislation, her state would require “social media networks to monitor and report ‘hateful conduct.’”Continue Reading