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If you felt a personal connection with a celebrity this year, you likely weren’t alone. That feeling led Cambridge Dictionary to select “parasocial” as its 2025 word of the year. Parasocial is defied as “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character…
Getty Images Since 2018, the United States has been tightening its laws to prevent its rivals from buying into its sensitive sectors – blocking investments in everything from semiconductors to telecommunications. But the rules weren’t always so strict. In 2016, Jeff Stein, a veteran journalist covering the US intelligence community, got a tip-off: a small…
Artificial intelligence can save you money preparing that Thanksgiving Day feast. Just tell an AI chatbot such as ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Microsoft Co-Pilot how many guests you’re expecting, provide information on any dietary restrictions and outline your budget. The tools will help compare prices at different stores, and can even offer step-by-step instructions on…
The recovery of China’s tech stocks from their trough is still at an early stage, as the country’s emergence as an artificial intelligence superpower reshapes global platforms and lures Western capital back, according to a senior investment banker at JPMorgan. As Chinese entrepreneurs expanded their businesses globally and deepened their involvement in AI, their companies…
Washington — President Trump said Monday the U.S. would sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, a day before he’s set to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. “I will say that we will be doing that, we’ll be selling F-35s, yeah,” the president said when he was asked…
American political commentator and live-streamer Hasan Piker has stirred controversy during his ongoing trip to China, with a viral encounter in Tiananmen Square and remarks that critics say amount to promoting Chinese propaganda. On Monday, Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for China’s embassy in Washington, shared on X (formerly Twitter) an interview Piker did with state-run China…
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Monday approved a U.S. plan for Gaza that authorizes an international stabilization force to provide security in the devastated territory and envisions a possible future path to an independent Palestinian state. What You Need To Know The U.N. Security Council has approved a U.S. plan for Gaza…
The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile on Monday reiterated its call on the Chinese government to resolve the Sino-Tibetan conflict during the lifetime of the 14th Dalai Lama, who has been living in exile for over 66 years now. The last round of dialogue between Chinese officials and envoys of the Dalai Lama took place in China in…
Three men were arrested Monday for allegedly offering to pay $100,000 in cash to a juror at the Brooklyn drug trial of former heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic, leading a federal judge to abruptly dismiss the jury as it was about to hear opening statements. An anonymous jury will be chosen when Gogic’s trial resumes after…
A Chinese American man, Gong Chenguang, was sentenced on Nov. 17 to 46 months in prison for stealing U.S. military trade secrets for the benefit of the Chinese communist regime. Gong had worked at a Los Angeles-area research and development company where he transferred more than 3,600 files to personal storage devices. They included technologies…