China’s Security State Sells an A.I. Dream
China’s new national drive to embrace artificial intelligence is also giving the authorities new ways to monitor and control its citizens.
China’s new national drive to embrace artificial intelligence is also giving the authorities new ways to monitor and control its citizens.
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A 1975 episode introduced audiences to one of the first openly gay couples in mainstream American television not depicted as deviants or criminals.
President Trump is showing mounting frustration at his inability to win confirmation of U.S. attorneys in blue states or break the filibuster's grip on the Senate. The G.O.P. has been uncharacteristically uncooperative.
After three decades, the MSNBC brand will be retired on Nov. 15. The network has called in Rachel Maddow to help viewers make the transition.
The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power.
The murder of Mexico’s most vocal anti-crime mayor shows that, despite President Claudia Sheinbaum’s crackdown on drug cartels, the battle is just beginning.
The former vice president helped shaped the role of the United States around the world.
Everything in the shop appeared to have been abandoned. A devoted customer took it all home and started selling the items herself.
The country will introduce fixed-term military contracts to try to attract recruits and ease the strain on soldiers after years of fighting.
Plus, killer whales versus great whites.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed the idea that his presence could be seen as an attempt to intimidate the court on a case that President Trump considers vital to his economic policy.
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Voters will decide if California’s voting districts should be redrawn to help Democrats flip up to five House seats.
A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.
Bucking the anti-immigration trend in British politics, remote areas of Scotland would like to attract foreign workers to offset declining local populations.
When Republicans sing Kumbaya.
The Liberty Justice Center led by Sara Albrecht is better known for backing right-leaning causes, but it filed the tariff case that will be heard by the Supreme Court this week.
The Defense Department’s new press policy led to an exodus of traditional journalists. Supporters of the president have stepped in.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong scattered artifacts from an archaeological site along the shore of the Bering Sea.
Data centers need to become more flexible to squeeze more from the grid.
We are in the middle of the capitalistic order reinventing itself.
Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.
President Trump wants pharmaceutical production to return to the United States. A shuttered factory in Louisiana shows how hard that will be for generic medicines.
In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists are still searching for their remains.
“There were dancers, costumes and champagne — a wonderful celebration where the theme was apparently gross income inequality,” Jon Stewart said.
Tens of thousands of people evacuated before the storm brought heavy rain and flooding. But many others were trapped in homes and buildings.
In a country where political purges are frequent, Mr. Kim was a notable exception and served three generations of its dynastic rulers.
The mayor’s race in New York will gauge voters’ desire for a left-wing shift, and Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia again made fighting the president central to their bids.
Poland and other countries across Europe that found economic success in an era of collaboration are now facing a crumbling of international alliances.