MIT students and faculty are embroiled in a fiery dispute over allegations that research led by Daniela Rus, director of the university’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), is funded by the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMoD). Activists claim…
Palantir and Anduril, two leading U.S. defense technology companies, are spearheading the formation of a consortium with approximately a dozen other tech firms to compete for U.S. government defense contracts. This effort seeks to challenge the dominance of traditional defense…
The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has released a 17,019-page report detailing its investigations during the current Congress. Chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) under the House Judiciary Committee, the subcommittee claims significant achievements in…
Syria’s transitional government, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) - the offshoot of Al Qaeda in Syria - has sparked outrage with sweeping changes to the country’s school curriculum. These amendments, implemented under the newly appointed Minister of Education Nazir…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear TikTok’s appeal against a law that would ban or force the sale of the platform over its ties to China. The law, called the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, was signed by…
Amazon workers associated with the Teamsters union have gone on strike at seven delivery hubs across the United States just days before Christmas. The strikes, involving delivery drivers employed by contractors rather than Amazon directly, began Thursday after Amazon declined…
The United States’ potential recognition of Somaliland as an independent state has been tied to its strategic interests in countering Chinese influence in East Africa. Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 after the fall of Siad Barre’s regime but…
Mufid Abdulqader, one of the “Holy Land Five,” was released from prison on December 14, 2023, after serving 20 years for his involvement in the Holy Land Foundation case, a controversial legal proceeding that many argue exemplified the disproportionate targeting…
