US President says he is "happy" to face rival who claims he is ready "anytime, anywhere, anyplace".
A survey of IT staff revealed concerns about the use of AI-generated content to undermine democratic processes.
Theater Alliance, the community-driven theater company, has been literally locked out of its longtime home within the walls of Anacostia Playhouse. The evictors of the Playhouse’s professional company in residence, […]
President-elect Lai Ching-te says he is 'very much looking forward to China having the confidence to engage with the elected and legitimate government that the Taiwan people have entrusted. That is the right way for cross-strait exchange.'
In 2024, four billion people — about half the world’s population — in 64 countries including large democracies like the US and India, will head to the polls. Social media companies like Meta, YouTube and TikTok, have promised to protect the integrity of those elections, at least as far as discourse and factual claims being made on their platforms are concerned. Missing from the conversation, however, is closed messaging app WhatsApp, which now rivals public social media platforms in both scope...
German engineers major Siemens is 'very bullish' on India given its fast-growing economy and 'huge potential', its global CEO Roland Busch said on Monday.“We strongly believe that India is really taking off,” Busch said. “The last years have shown that the growth rates are amazing. You’re attracting more and more high-quality products, more complex products are manufactured in India.”Busch added that the Indian government is ‘doing the right things’ and improving infrastructure in areas like...
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills let a bill become law without her signature that adds Maine's four Electoral College votes to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, under which member states would collectively award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Importantly, the compact would come into force only once states with a majority of electoral votes have joined to ensure the popular vote winner becomes president. Currently, the winner of the statewide vote in...
From March 15-17, Russian citizens headed to the polls for their country's
At a Friday press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, former president Donald Trump suggested that Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza could escalate into a world war."What's going on in Israel could end up in a world war," Trump said.Trump then continued by criticizing President Joe Biden, saying he "doesn't know what the hell he is doing." console.log("2390 BODY2. CatId is:"+catID);if(catID==120){ console.log("2390 BODY. YES for anyclip script"); var script =...
In a speech Thursday, Poland’s Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski said Russian President Vladimir Putin should fear a war with NATO as it would inevitably end in Russia’s defeat. “It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around,” Sikorski said in a translated speech to the Sejm,
Cyber attackers battered Poland after the country's change of government late last year. DDoS attacks at the end of 2023 were nearly quadruple the country’s average, according to cybersecurity firm NetScout's observations. The surge began when the Law and Justice party (PiS) lost its majority in last year's Polish general election. PiS had ruled the country since 2015. It was replaced by a coalition government, which reaffirmed support for Ukraine's defence against Russia's invasion. ...
OTTAWA - A global treaty to end plastic waste will not be ambitious enough if it does not include some limits on plastic production, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Tuesday as the fourth round of negotiations kicked off in Ottawa. The scientific evidence shows that reducing the amount of plastic that's produced is the only way to keep it out of the environment, not to mention what the world eats, drinks and breathes, environmental groups say. One of them, Greenpeace, wants the...