FaceApp privacy fears: U.S. lawmaker calls on FBI to review popular photo app made by Russian firm
The top Senate Democrat is calling on the FBI to review a Russian company's trendy smartphone app that transforms faces from photos into younger and older images of the person, ...
'Short and searing' heat wave looks to raise mercury to record levels across large swath of U.S.
The heat wave that has been roasting much of the U.S. in recent days is just getting warmed up, with temperatures expected to soar to dangerous levels through the weekend. Communities ...
Jeffrey Epstein's mystery foreign passport stamps contradict his bail defense
A foreign passport found in Jeffrey Epstein's Upper East Side mansion has entry stamps for France, Spain, the U.K. and Saudi Arabia in the 1980s, prosecutors said in a court filing to counter a defense argument that there is no evidence he ever used ...
Libya on Wednesday extradited to Britain the brother of a suicide bomber who attacked an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in May 2017 and killed 22 people, officials said. Salman Abedi's brother, Hashem, who was arrested in Libya days after the bombing, was handed over ...
House poised to hold William Barr, Wilbur Ross in contempt over census fight
The House is nearing a vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for withholding documents on now-canceled plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The vote will be largely symbolic because there's ...
It's not how you play: Study finds winners overlook rigged games' lack of fairness
When it comes to fairness and privilege, a new study finds it really is not about how you play the game. It's about whether you win or lose. A new experiment, played out as a card game, shows that even when the deck is literally ...
Japanese IAEA head Yukiya Amano to step down next year for health reasons: diplomatic sources
The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, Yukiya Amano, will step down in March for health reasons, diplomatic sources said Wednesday, as the agency navigates verification of the increasingly fragile Iran nuclear deal. "An official statement about his departure is expected next week," said a ...
Judge orders release of documents related to hush payments by Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen
A judge on Wednesday ordered the release of documents relating to hush-money payments by Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to two women who said they had sexual encounters with the president and disclosed that federal prosecutors had ended their investigation of the ...
Iran must build missiles for defense, Tehran's top diplomat says
Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country has no choice but to manufacture missiles for defense purposes — comments that come after a remark by the top diplomat that seemed to suggest the missiles could be up for negotiations. Mohammad Javad Zarif said in ...
U.S. overdose deaths last year likely fell for the first time in nearly three decades, preliminary statistics suggest. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday posted the provisional numbers showing nearly 68,000 drug overdose deaths were reported last year. The number may go ...
No-deal Brexit looms as race for new British prime minister wraps up
The battle to become Britain's next prime minister enters the home stretch on Wednesday with both candidates hardening their positions on Brexit, putting the future government on a collision course with Brussels. Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson, the favorite to replace Theresa May, and Foreign Secretary ...
