Artificial intelligence could play a pivotal role in the early diagnosis of people who are at risk of heart failure as it is able to identify anomalies which are traditionally hard to detect, new research shows. Heart and circulatory diseases are the world’s biggest killer, claiming one in three lives every year. Researchers in Scotland set out to test how ...
Donald Trump has complained of the indignities of a cold, uncomfortable Manhattan courtroom during his hush money trial, which began jury deliberations Wednesday morning. If convicted, Trump could face other conditions he may consider insulting, including a required inmate review by New York City’s Department of Probation. The probation office on the 10th floor of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse prepares ...
Barack Obama’s election in 2008 heralded a new era in American politics. Younger Americans turned out heavily for the popular Democrat, facilitating his easy win over Republican John McCain and ripping open a partisan divide between their voting patterns and those of older Americans. But that was 16 years ago, and voters who were under 30 in 2008 are now ...
Over the past four weeks, The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey and colleagues have done yeoman’s work documenting what Donald Trump is telling donors behind closed doors. The emerging picture is of a candidate who bears little resemblance to the anti-special-interest, “drain the swamp” candidate Trump pitched himself as to voters in 2016. Today’s Trump sounds a lot like someone the ...
As New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan was providing jurors in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial with instructions aimed at guiding their deliberations, his words — the last jurors will hear before the case is entirely in their hands — were shared with the world by journalists sitting in the courtroom. And one particular instruction quickly became the latest ...
President Biden and Vice President Harris traveled to Philadelphia on Wednesday to launch “Black Voters for Biden-Harris,” each using stark language to present the prospect of a return to the White House by Donald Trump as a dire threat to communities of color. “Folks, all progress, all freedom, all opportunities are at risk,” Biden said at a rally at Girard ...
The presidential campaign of independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday it had filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission about Kennedy’s potential exclusion from a planned June 27 debate on CNN between President Biden and former president Donald Trump. In the complaint, filed on Tuesday, Kennedy’s campaign alleges that Biden, Trump, their respective campaigns and CNN “colluded” ...
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. on Wednesday rejected calls to recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases at the Supreme Court after Democratic lawmakers questioned whether he could be impartial following reports that an upside-down flag flew at his home in the weeks after the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021. In a letter to Democratic leaders in the House ...
A federal judge in California on Monday threw out the entirety of a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), ruling that the lawsuit was an attempt to silence X’s critics. “X Corp.’s motivation in bringing this case is evident,” U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer wrote in a 52-page ruling. “X Corp. ...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s reason for skipping Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, was presented by the court’s spokeswoman: Several justices, presumably including Alito, “elected not to attend the inauguration ceremony in light of the public health risks posed by the COVID pandemic.” So where were Alito and his wife headed that same afternoon when The ...