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Biden faces dueling pressure to go tough on Iran but soft on war in Gaza October 25, 2023 07:00 AM President Joe Biden is facing pressure from all sides and staring at difficult choices regarding the Middle East. As Israel prepares for a ground invasion of Gaza, the Biden White House is focused on preventing

Since Elon Musk spent $44 billion on Twitter (now X) last year, the billionaire has been determined to wipe out bots and spammy accounts. Things haven’t gone smoothly. Amid the chaos, in recent weeks Russian trolls have jumped on one of Musk’s own posts and used it to push pro-Kremlin messaging, a new analysis shows.

The bombs had rained down on Gaza for 19 hours straight. Wajeeh Abu Zarifeh, a journalist and manager of White Media, a reporting syndicate, had spent the first night of the war sheltering in his house, monitoring the news and trying to plot out the week’s coverage for his team of 15 journalists. On Sunday

Rare, fleeting radio flashes in the sky have bewildered astronomers for more than a decade. These “fast radio bursts,” blips that flare and then disappear in a couple seconds or less, flit in and out of existence so quickly that astronomers struggle to study them, let alone pinpoint their cosmic provenance. The mystery deepened last

Almost everyone uses computers, but we never really get into the guts of how they work. Sometimes it’s nice to make something with your own hands that you’ll use every day. That’s what this guide is about: how to build a PC from parts. This can be daunting for a lot of reasons—it’s expensive, it’s

October 24, 2023 6:40 PM ET Republican New York Rep. George Santos appeared to tease throwing his hat into the ring for the position of speaker of the House on Tuesday. Santos tweeted a poll asking, “Santos for Speaker?”    Santos for Speaker? — Rep. George Santos (@RepSantosNY03) October 24, 2023 Twitter posts preceding the

America First Legal (AFL) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Tuesday, requesting an investigation into the discredited 2020 letter from former intelligence officials that cast doubt on the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop archive. AFL filed the complaint against Biden for President, the Biden Victory Fund, Biden Action Fund and the

Social Security update: Third round of direct payments worth up to $4,555 arrives Wednesday October 25, 2023 06:00 AM Millions of Social Security retirees received the last round of October’s retirement payments on Wednesday, and the payments were worth up to $4,555 for those who delayed retirement until the age of 70. The third and final

Social Security update: Direct payment worth $914 arrives in one week October 25, 2023 06:00 AM Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries will receive November’s monthly installment from the Social Security Administration in one week, and it will be worth up to $914 for individual filers. The November payment will be sent out Wednesday, Nov. 1, and

Exhausted House Republicans see fresh start in Mike Johnson speakership: ‘He’s a reconciler’ October 25, 2023 05:00 AM Republicans believe they’ve found a speaker who can overcome the weeks of division bred by Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) dramatic ouster from House leadership. The infighting began even before Republicans assumed the House majority, as hard-liners opposed