Von der Leyen's comments come as US officials will host the Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers at the White House for crunch talks later on Wednesday....
Elizabeth Warren and other Democrat lawmakers have written an open letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking for an investigation into alleged "false advertising and deceptive practices" fro...
The UK is weighing an Australiaâstyle ban on social media for underâ16s, as regulators ramp up enforcement of the Online Safety Act....
Article URL: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/why-every-country-should-set-16 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621945 Points: 16 # Comments: 1...
President Donald Trump made an unconventional pick for his nomination to the Federal Trade Commission: WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil. MacNeil founded the company, which makes weather-resis...
Verizon can keep phones locked to its network for longer after the Federal Communications Commission agreed to waive the carrier's 60-day unlocking requirement, as reported by Ars Technica . Following...
A social media account called "Raise the Colours Operation France" late last year posted videos of far-right activists on France's northern coastline....
Crypto majors are mostly flat headed into Monday open; btc even at $90,600; eth +1% at $3,110, sol +2% at $140; xrp -2% to $2.04. Ip (+20%) and xmr (+15%) led top movers; xmr hit a new ath at $590. Fe...
Article URL: https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/01/opinion-local-journalism-is-how-democracy-shows-up-close-to-home/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600850 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
Brian Armstrong posted to social media late on a Wednesday saying Coinbase couldn't âsupport the bill as written,â potentially leading to a postponement in consideration....
Trump confirmed later on social media that Machado had left the medal for him to keep, and he said it was an honour to meet her....
Trump issued a threat to Minnesota Democrats on Tuesday in a social media post where he claimed, without evidence, that they were causing unrest throughout the state....
An Iranian went on trial in France Tuesday accused of promoting "terrorism" on social media in a case linked to a possible prisoner swap with two French citizens held by the Islamic republic for over ...
Chinaâs top counter-espionage agency has warned that overseas entities are attempting to steal the countryâs geographic data through covert mapping operations that threaten national security. Foreign ...
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters rebuked the countryâs new Reserve Bank governor, Anna Breman, for wading into US domestic politics after she signed a statement with other global ce...
Ugandans voted â in a tense national election on Thursday after an often violent campaign and internet shutdown, with President Yoweri Museveni seeking to extend his rule into a fifth decade. Museveni ...
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...
Jerome Powell, a particularly mild-mannered speaker, slammed recent attempts to intimidate his department. Li Yuanqing/Xinhua via Getty Images The DOJ is probing Jerome Powell over his congressional t...
Screens at the White House display AI-modified videos of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that were shared on social media by President...
A police complaint against one of Indonesiaâs best-known comedians has reignited debate over satire, blasphemy and free expression in the worldâs third-largest democracy. The case involves 46-year-old...