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Federal authorities on Sunday identified a 20-year-old Allegheny County man as the gunman who shot at former president Donald Trump in what they described as an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Western Pennsylvania. The bureau said Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, was responsible for the attack that left Trump with minor injuries, one spectator dead, and two others critically injured. Speaking at a news conference earlier Sunday, Kevin Rojek, special agent in charge of the FBI field office in... Full story
Donald Trump made history on Thursday, becoming the first former president and first major-party presidential candidate to be convicted of felony crimes. But apart from that unique distinction, the decision by a Manhattan jury to convict him on 34 counts of falsifying business records - all tied to $130,000 in hush money payments he authorized in 2016 to porn star Stormy Daniels - raises a number of significant questions about Trump's unprecedented legal situation and the...
The University of Pennsylvania is denying allegations that the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington, D.C., think tank and President Joe Biden's former office space, solicited money from foreign entities. "It is important to reiterate that the Penn Biden Center has never solicited or received any gifts from any Chinese or other foreign entity," a Penn spokesperson told the Daily Pennsylvanian, the university's student newspaper. The allegations...
There’s a scene in the movie “I, Robot” where a robot-hating police officer, played by Will Smith, is questioning the manufacturer of a robot suspected of murdering a human. The conversation gets testy, and the robot maker, played by Bruce Greenwood, looks Smith in the eye and says, “I suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don’t know, maybe you would have simply banned the internet to keep the libraries open.” Art imitating life? To a degree, yes. Automation, artificial intelligence and robots are costing people thei...
Boeing Co. expects to soon have a software fix to the problem believed to have caused two of its 737 Max planes to plunge into deadly nose-down crashes in the past five months. But beyond solving the software glitch, troubling questions remain about the Federal Aviation Administration’s ability to regulate safety of the airline manufacturers. At issue is the FAA’s practice of relying on aircraft makers to essentially certify their own planes for flight. Currently, airline manufacturers perform the safety tests and ins...
