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US’ Women’s National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, stands inside a defendants’ cage before a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022.  Evgenia Novozhenina | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON …

About four years ago, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence by the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. It was powerful perch. Congress tasked the new group with a broad mandate: to advise the US government on how to advance …

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett poses during a group portrait at the Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., October 7, 2022.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request to block the Biden administration’s student loan debt relief program. Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied …

Full frame sun, Climate change, Heatwave hot sun, Global warming from the sun and burning Chuchart Duangdaw | Moment | Getty Images The White House is coordinating a five-year research plan to study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth to temper the effects of global …

Ken Griffin, Citadel at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha, Sept. 28, 2022. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Citadel’s billionaire CEO, Ken Griffin, is one of Wall Street’s biggest political donors in the 2022 midterms, giving more than $100 million toward state and federal candidates across the country since April 2021, campaign finance records …

The Treasury Department warned Monday that unregulated cryptocurrencies could pose a risk to the U.S. financial system. The warning was a part of the first major public report released by the Treasury’s Financial Stability Oversight Council on digital assets. The council identified digital or “crypto” assets such as stablecoins as …

A detailed property inventory of documents and other items seized from former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is seen after the document was released to the public by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in West Palm Beach, Florida, September 2, 2022. Jim Bourg | …

Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, speaks during a ‘Keep Florida Free’ rally with Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, in Hialeah, Florida, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Florida Republican leaders Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio have taken sizable …

Peter Thiel, president and founder of Clarium Capital Management LLC, holds hundred dollars bills as he speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Thursday, April 7, 2022.  Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty Images Republican megadonor Peter Thiel is signaling to allies that he is …

U.S. President Joe Biden walks to board Air Force One as he departs for Spain from Munich International Airport in Munich, Germany, June 28, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters UNITED NATIONS — When U.S. President Joe Biden takes the famed speakers rostrum at the United Nations Assembly Hall on Wednesday, he …