WA Attorney General settles farm worker discrimination suit
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announces settlement for former Ostrom farm workers The following is from the official release from Attorney General Bob Ferguson: Sunnyside mushroom farm will pay $3.4 million for violating the civil rights
Tech reporter breaks down OpenAI CEO’s Senate testimony, potential regulatory challenges
Win McNamee/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose company developed the widely used AI conversation program ChatGPT, warned federal lawmakers Tuesday that artificial intelligence could pose significant risks to the world if the technol…
Minnesota man indicted for theft of ruby slippers from ‘Wizard of Oz’
Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(GRAND RAPIDS, Minn.) — A federal grand jury indicted a Minnesota man on Tuesday for allegedly stealing a pair of the ruby slippers that actress Judy Garland famously wore playing Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz….
Federal appeals court questions FDA rollback of abortion pill restrictions
Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW ORLEANS) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday heard arguments in a high-stakes bid to invalidate FDA approval of the most widely used abortion medication in the country more than two deca…
DeSantis signs bills affecting LGBTQ community
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a slate of legislation Wednesday targeting the LGBTQ community, including restrictions on transgender health care, content on LGBTQ identities in schools, transgender b…
US attorney for Massachusetts committed ‘egregious’ ethics violations, watchdog finds
Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(BOSTON) — The U.S. attorney for Massachusetts leaked information to help her preferred candidate for the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, district attorney, among other “egregious” violations of DOJ poli…
State Department relents, will allow Congress to review Afghanistan ‘dissent cable’
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Amid intensifying pressure from House Republicans, the State Department said Wednesday it will allow select members of Congress to review a classified communication sent by American diplomats during the final…
Pentagon leak suspect had been warned over his ‘concerning actions’ with classified info: Filing
Obtained by ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The Army National Guardsman charged with leaking a trove of military secrets was twice admonished by his superiors last year over “concerning actions” he took with regards to classified information, federal prosecuto…
Limo company operator found guilty of manslaughter stemming from crash that killed 20
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(SCHOHARIE, N.Y.) — A limousine company operator was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter for a 2018 crash in upstate New York that left 20 people dead.
Nauman Hussain was in charge of the day-to-day operations of Prest…
Kremlin reacts to CIA video aimed at recruiting frustrated Russians as spies
Central Intelligence Agency(WASHINGTON) — The Kremlin has responded forcefully to the CIA launching an official channel on Telegram, the encrypted messaging app favored by Russians, featuring a dramatized video aimed at recruiting frustrated Russian c…