Senate rejects West Bank violence resolution along party lines
Less than 24 hours after OpenAI said it would scrap the launch of a model over safety concerns, the company debuted a whole new suite of artificial intelligence tools, including “dots,” agents it said were “more ambitious” than ChatGPT, and what it described as “a whole new way to work with AI.”
President Trump on Tuesday announced that the heads of the largest U.S. technology and AI companies had signed on to a “morally binding” agreement to put controls on artificial intelligence. He announced the deal after a White House lunch with top tech executives. The agreement, which Trump suggested would allow the companies to perform “tremendous self-policing” of their products and technologies, outlines a vague framework for how AI firms would establish safety standards. Trump also signed an executive order renaming artificial intelligence to “superintelligence,” similar to a declaration he made at the United Nations last week.
The U.S. Senate rejected along mostly party lines a Democratic resolution that would have forced the State Department to report to Congress on violence in the occupied West Bank, including the killings of nine American citizens by Israeli settlers or security forces over the last few years.
The Supreme Court’s six-justice conservative majority temporarily lifted a lower court decision that had required the administration to provide immigrants sufficient notice and the opportunity to claim fear of torture or persecution in the countries where they were being sent. The ruling allows the Trump administration to resume deporting immigrants to “third countries,” or countries other than their homeland, without giving them any opportunity to contest their removals.
The administration also asked the justices to allow it to deny gender-affirming care to transgender people in federal prisons. Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote that gender-reassignment surgeries, hormone therapy and social accommodations such as undergarments, makeup, padding and wigs “could no longer be justified.”
The union representing more than 8,000 workers at the Environmental Protection Agency filed a lawsuit against the agency and its administrator, Lee Zeldin, alleging it illegally terminated a collective bargaining agreement.
President Trump agreed to stop fighting the disbursement of E. Jean Carroll’s $5 million verdict from her 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against him, a procedural development as the funds had already been distributed to her.
More than a century after her screen debut and decades after she was laid to rest, actor Greta Garbo has been reanimated by artificial intelligence for a Swedish advertisement. Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw gave the campaign a one-star review.
A passenger jet traveling from Dubai made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, briefly raising concerns about a possible hijacking and prompting Israel to scramble warplanes. Reports said the incident stemmed from a feud between the plane’s two pilots, and everyone onboard was safe.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani debuted a sweeping plan to combat antisemitism. The strategy includes increased security funding for synagogues and an increased focus on incorporating Jewish history into public school education. The plan is seen as a move to assuage critics who view his denunciations of Israel as antisemitic.
Jenan Matari, a Palestinian-American author, and Nora Lester Murad, a Jewish-American writer, are suing the city of Los Angeles after public library officials scrapped their Read Palestine Week book talks.
CBS News published excerpts on Tuesday of text messages reportedly exchanged between a defendant in the Cornell University gang-rape case and the woman who claimed she was assaulted, a day after New York prosecutors said they were reopening a criminal investigation. Two of the alleged seven perpetrators were subsequently expelled after an internal investigation by Cornell, while the other five were allowed to resume their studies at the Ivy League institution after writing an essay, attending a workshop or serving a short suspension. None were ever arrested or charged.
Lindsay Clancy returned to court as her lawyer asked a judge to find her not guilty. The office of the Plymouth County district attorney again chose not to disclose whether it plans to try Clancy again.
A team of skydivers dropped in to help survivors of a plane crash in Wisconsin, using their training as paramedics to treat victims before ground crews arrived.
A Brazilian news site, the independent Tapajós de Fato, said it will not cover upcoming elections, a decision made to protect journalists and their families.
The nor’easter storm that pummeled New England looks to have exposed large segments of a 19th-century schooner shipwrecked in the so-called graveyard of the Atlantic.
The No. 8 seed New York Liberty sprung a historic WNBA playoff upset to take down the No. 1 seed Minnesota Lynx. New York now awaits the winner of the Atlanta-Washington series.
In the early 2000s, a group of Oakland police officers known as the “riders” were exposed for offenses such as planting evidence, falsifying reports and using excessive force against primarily young Black men. As part of a settlement of those cases, the Oakland Police Department was put on a federal court-ordered reform program, which has now ended.
Hair loss is getting more attention from researchers as a side effect associated with GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.
In the latest of its ICE investigation, The Guardian’s José Olivares examines the cases of three men who, according to The Guardian, became the latest casualties of Trump’s anti-immigration campaign.
Many heterosexual men share their passion for romantic fiction in online forums, contrary to the often-assumed view that straight men are not interested in the genre.
Antarctica’s winter sea ice has peaked at its third-lowest level on record, scientists have confirmed. The four lowest years on record for the continent’s sea ice — a vital component of the planet’s climate and critical for marine life — have all occurred in the last four years.
The 550-pound bear made famous after taking up residence under an Altadena home in November 2025 is wandering the same Los Angeles neighborhood again.