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The A.I. firm had rejected military officials’ latest offer. Anthropic has until 5:01 p.m. on Friday to give them unrestricted access to its model.

A “back to basics” approach resembles the Apollo program of the 1960s, with more missions launching more often. NASA officials said that it would be safer and faster.

Our aim should be to make permanent housing, not shelters, the default.

Relatives of those who died in a midair collision over D.C. last year came to Washington to watch a vote they thought would go their way. It didn’t.

After the downing of a Customs and Border Protection drone, the F.A.A. closed the airspace above Texas for the second time in a month.

Not long ago, Mr. Zaslav was widely criticized for his management of Warner Bros. Discovery. He overcame the doubters, cementing a blockbuster sale to Paramount.

Prosecutors cited a pattern of intimidation against witnesses as a reason for dropping two counts from the sex-trafficking case. A judge must approve the dismissal.

The carrier has had mechanical problems throughout its eight-month deployment, but officials now say it is ready for battle. Take a look inside the ship.

The president expressed his negative view of the status of nuclear talks as he weighed military strikes against Iran.

The Pentagon’s contract dispute with Anthropic is part of a wider clash about the use of artificial intelligence for national security and who decides on any safeguards.

The justice participated remotely in a closed-door session of a legal conference, a reminder of the heightened threats facing jurists in recent years.

In shaking up its Artemis lunar program, NASA's new moon plan looks more like the Apollo missions of the 1960s. Instead of landing on the surface on Artemis III, NASA hopes to do so on Artemis IV.

OpenAI's Sam Altman says he shares the "red lines" set by rival Anthropic restricting how the military uses AI models, amid Anthropic's escalating feud with the Pentagon.

Attorney general says $111bn deal will be investigated amid concerns over monopoly power and job lossesRob Bonta, California’s attorney general, said his office will investigate a possible merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery, hours after Netflix backed away from a planned takeover.“Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal,” Bonta said in a post on X. “These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review.” Continue reading...

Deposition comes one day after Hillary Clinton testified and called proceedings ‘partisan political theater’Bill Clinton testimony – latest updatesSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxBill Clinton told a congressional committee on Friday that he “had no idea of the crimes” Jeffrey Epstein was committing and insisted he “did nothing wrong” in his relationship with the disgraced financier and convicted sex trafficker.The former president’s remarks came in his opening statement in a deposition to the House of Representatives’ oversight committee, a day after his wife, Hillary Clinton, appeared before the same body and called the proceedings “partisan political theater” and “an insult to the American people”. Continue reading...

Former president tells House oversight committee he is cooperating in the Epstein investigation out of love of country and desire for victims to healSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts direct to your inboxJames Comer, the chair of the House oversight committee, said the committee’s list of questions for Bill Clinton grew longer after Hillary Clinton’s deposition yesterday, where she deferred a host of questions to her husband.“So we already had a big portfolio of questions for him, and that increased yesterday,” Comer said at a press conference outside the building where the closed-door deposition was set to begin shortly. Continue reading...

Mamdani wooed the president with much property talk and showed the real ‘art of the deal’ might have been soft power via PhotoshopUS politics live – latest updatesIn the hours after Zohran Mamdani met with Donald Trump for an undisclosed sit-down in the Oval Office on Thursday, a meme quickly circulated on X.It resembled the screengrab of a TikToker who doles out dubious financial advice, but instead had the mayor’s picture front and center. On the left it read “I receive 12,000 homes” and “the release of a constituent kidnapped by ICE” and on the right “you receive fake newspaper cover”. Continue reading...

Tehran’s ICBMs cannot currently reach the US, experts say, and White House has claimed its nuclear programme has been destroyedDonald Trump’s likely casus belli for an attack on Iran – which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq war – is fraught with contradictions, and his top advisers have been left to cover for him as the White House makes the case for intervention.In his State of the Union address this week, Trump alleged that Iran posed a direct threat to the US and that the country was “working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America”. But that claim has not been backed up with evidence by the White House or the Pentagon, and US intelligence reports from just last year say that it would take Iran 10 years to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the US. Continue reading...

As tensions between two countries reach new highs, US president says regime is ‘talking with us’Donald Trump has suggested the US could carry out a “friendly takeover” of Cuba as tensions between Washington and Havana reach a new high following the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.As he left the White House for a campaigning event in Texas on Friday, Trump said: “The Cuban government is talking with us. They’re in a big deal of trouble.” Continue reading...

Ofcom says that after provisional ruling it could apply to courts to demand internet providers stop access to siteA suicide forum linked to deaths in Britain has been ruled provisionally in breach of the Online Safety Act after it failed to properly block access to UK users when ordered to do so last year.Ofcom, the online regulator, said it could now apply to the courts to demand internet service providers block access to the site in the UK. This will depend on how the site, which also faces fines, responds over the next 10 days. Continue reading...

Attorney general Pam Bondi says 39 people now charged over January protest and warns ‘more to come’Federal authorities have arrested more people on Friday for their alleged involvement in a protest at a church in Minnesota in January, following earlier arrests of organizers and journalists that were demonstrating amid sweeping, and often violent, immigration enforcement efforts in the state.Attorney general Pam Bondi said the justice department unsealed an indictment that charged 30 more people for the demonstration. Of those charged, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them, Bondi said, with “more to come”. The latest arrests bring the total number of people charged to 39. Continue reading...

Investigation under way after vehicle ploughs into buildingA tram derailed and crashed into a building in Milan on Friday, killing two people and injuring 38 others.One of the dead was hit by the tram as it derailed while the second victim was a passenger, the city’s mayor, Giuseppe Sala, told reporters at the scene. Continue reading...

Darren Connor denies possession of offensive weapon in a public place without lawful authority or reasonable excuseA man accused of entering a mosque in Manchester with an axe, a hammer and a knife also allegedly took in zip ties and a balaclava, a court has heard.Darren Connor, 55, appeared on Friday at Manchester magistrates court, where he denied possession of an offensive weapon in a public place without lawful authority or reasonable excuse. Continue reading...

The search for Nancy Guthrie is approaching the one-month mark, with no suspects identified in her February 1 abduction

Video shows a group of masked suspects vandalizing a police cruiser whilst an officer sat inside during a street takeover in Maryland.

Biden sat in the third row of the small first-class cabin on the commuter jet

Zohran Mamdani has defended his meeting with Donald Trump at the White House after a photo of the pair in the Oval Office went viral.

Clinton is giving evidence to the House Oversight Committee’s probe into deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

President Donald Trump said he didn’t like seeing Bill Clinton deposed by the committee investigating Epstein

More than a dozen ambulances were dispatched to the scene

Clinton, for her part, dismissed Mace’s claims and said Republicans asked her bizarre questions about UFOs and conspiracy theories

President also reportedly hopes to rename Dulles International Airport after himself

Dozens of well-known groups faced shutdown under a new Israeli law, although the reprieve might be temporary.

England's win over New Zealand felt a return to the good times under Brendon McCullum but there are only so many times you can go to the well, writes Matthew Henry.

Oleksandr Usyk will return to the ring in May when he defends his WBC heavyweight title against former kickboxing champion Rico Verhoeven at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

Kirk Jones says he initially thought a slur shouted during the ceremony was not broadcast.

President Trump said he was not happy with Iran's stance, but had not yet decided whether to attack.

The result - in a seat Labour has held for nearly 100 years - heaps further pressure on the PM's position.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly-blind Rohingya refugee, was found dead days after US Border Patrol agents released him.

Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, the key mediator in US-Iran nuclear talks, meets with JD Vance in Washington, DC.

Donald Trump said “we could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba" by the US.

Trump tells reporters he would 'love not to use' military force against Iran but added, 'Sometimes you have to.'

Bad Bunny as a case study in global relevance and diaspora power.

Clinton is deposed by the House Oversight Committee over Epstein ties, a day after Hillary testified.

Pakistan and Afghanistan are disputing death tolls from their cross-border attacks.

The result marks the first time the Greens have won a British parliamentary by-election and signals the frustration of left-leaning voters with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The renewed violence between the neighboring countries stems from Pakistan’s accusations that Afghanistan’s Taliban government has harbored a militant group.

The Cuban government’s account of a supposed armed raid into its territory was called into question after one of the men identified as being on the boat turned up in Miami.

Escalating tensions flared into open conflict as Pakistan’s defense minister said his country’s patience with the Taliban had run out.

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