SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
FILE - Tina Brotherton, 88, gets a hug from 9-year-old neighbor Lainey Hamelink, as she returns to site of her business, Tina's Dockside Inn, which was completely destroyed in Hurricane Idalia, as was Brotherton's nearby home, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, two days after the storm's passage. A resident of Horseshoe Beach since 1978,...
AUGUST 31, 2023
FILE - President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden as President in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. Liberal groups are trying to end Donald Trump's attempt to return to the White House by arguing that he is no longer eligible to be president after trying to overturn the 2020 election...
AUGUST 29, 2023
U.S. House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise speaks to reporters during a news conference after the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) at the U.S. Capitol Building, July 14, 2023, in Washington. - Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced Tuesday he has been diagnosed with a "very treatable blood cancer" and has started...
AUGUST 29, 2023
FILE PHOTO: The 3M Global Headquarters in Maplewood, Minnesota.
3M said on Tuesday it had agreed to pay $6 billion to settle nearly 260,000 lawsuits accusing it of selling defective combat earplugs that caused hearing loss in hundreds of thousands of current and former U.S. military service members.
"This agreement is not an admission of liability," 3M said in...
AUGUST 29, 2023
Kristen Eichamer, right, talks to fairgoers in the Project 2025 tent at the Iowa State Fair, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump. The Project 2025 effort is...
AUGUST 28, 2023
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday distributed about 51,000 appointment letters to newly inducted recruits in government departments and organisations, under Rozgar Mela, through video conferencing.
Under Mission Recruitment, the Central government and some states/UTs have been organising Rozgar Melas across the country and distributing appointment letters to lakhs of youth every month.
Through this Rozgar mela...
AUGUST 28, 2023
Experts say the sheer number of pilots' unreported health problems presents a risk to aviation safety. (Illustration by Lorenzo D'Alessandro / TWP)
Federal authorities have been investigating nearly 5,000 pilots suspected of falsifying their medical records to conceal that they were receiving benefits for mental health disorders and other serious conditions that could make them unfit to fly,...
AUGUST 28, 2023
Former Booz Allen employee Sarah Feinberg earned $70 million for making the case known to authorities. (Matt McClain/TWP)
Sarah Feinberg’s complaint about the company’s billing practices led to a $377 million settlement with the Justice Department
Only a few months into a new finance job, Sarah Feinberg felt stunned when a senior manager with a Northern Virginia-based defense contractor...
AUGUST 28, 2023
India's Mars Orbiter Mission, also known as Mangalyaan, has captured a stunning video of Phobos, the larger of Mars' two moons, passing over the Red Planet.
The video was processed and shared by space enthusiast Andrea Luck from Mangalyaan's scientific data archive on social media platform X, previously known as Twitter.
Launched in 2013 by the Indian Space Research...
AUGUST 28, 2023
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (left) and Elon Musk (right) were TKTKTKT. - Getty
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he had to "reorient a lot of my life and time" after Elon Musk left the company.
Musk stepped down from OpenAI's board in 2018, reportedly after his bid to take over was rejected.
Since ChatGPT's launch, Musk's has criticized...
