PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron tried to brush off any indication that there were hard feelings over billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk’s decision not to attend the French president’s showpiece artificial intelligence summit in Paris. “It’s normal, he now has federal responsibilities and he’s working on his task of simplifying the American administration,” Macron…
Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri said he is “worried” that his GOP counterparts will not back Trump nominee Tulsi Gabbard for national intelligence director. Newsweek reached out to the White House and Hawley’s office via email on Thursday night for comment. Why It Matters President Donald Trump‘s Cabinet nominees have succeeding thus far obtaining…
The Central Intelligence Agency has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory as the most plausible origin of COVID-19. Without providing details about why the spy agency was changing its position, the CIA informed reporters of its new position on Saturday, just two days after John Ratcliffe was sworn in as the new director….
Hong Kong authorities will thoroughly investigate whether intermediaries luring residents into illegal work in Southeast Asia are being directly controlled by crime syndicates amid a resurgence in such scams, the security minister has pledged. Secretary for Security Tang Chris Tang Ping-keung also said on Saturday that the government would do its “utmost” to rescue 11…
Seven Chinese citizens were arrested on charges of illegally entering Guam around the time the US Missile Defence Agency conducted a key missile interception test using a new radar, the island’s Customs and Quarantine Agency has said. The agency said at least four of the people arrested on December 10-11 were found “in the vicinity…
House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul said Tuesday that he believes that some unidentified drones spotted above New Jersey and New York are “spy drones” from China — after Biden administration officials insisted many of the aircraft are innocent commercial aircraft. “We want answers but the response I’m getting is we don’t know whose…
And unlike others in Trump’s MAGA circle, Kellogg welcomed President Joe Biden’s decision to approve Ukraine’s use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia, saying it has given Trump “more leverage” and adding that “it gives President Trump more ability to pivot from that.” Contrast that with the howls of protest over the…
The documents are attributed to the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, the reports say. The investigation by U.S. officials will assess who had access to the documents, and whether it was an intentional leak or if they were hacked, according to the reports. One of the documents says the Israeli air force…
“Her return was agreed, and the last information we know, she was being transferred to Lefortovo prison[in Moscow] to prepare for her return home,” Petro Yatsenko, representative of Ukraine’s prisoner exchange coordination staff, said on a Ukrainian national fundraising telethon late on Thursday. Roshchyna, 27, went missing in August 2023 in the Russian-occupied territories of…