CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale argued there was “zero evidence” for President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Biden administration diversity initiatives at the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) “could have” caused Wednesday’s deadly aircraft crash in Washington, D.C. Trump pushed the idea during a press conference late Thursday while giving a briefing on the deadly in-flight collision between an American Airlines flight and a military helicopter...

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If you were looking for a respite from X, but Threads didn't work out for you, you might have ended up at Bluesky. Sure, Mastodon is great in theory, but it doesn't have nearly as many users talking in one place. And as a single app, Bluesky is simply easier to use. Bluesky also feels like an app that has learned (or is...

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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a Thursday confirmation hearing with an X post in which he said he would “not take sides on 9/11.” Kennedy went through his first hearing with the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday before submitting to another round of questioning on Thursday. Kaine opened his questions by making note of the Washington, D.C. plane...

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DeepSeek is having a moment: With the release of its impressive R1 model, the AI company overtook ChatGPT (and every other app) to become the number one free app on both the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. If you gave the app a try this week, however, be warned: Your chats may have been exposed. As reported by The Hacker News,...

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Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for seemingly switching up from his pro-choice views since aligning with President Donald Trump. Kennedy on Wednesday testified before multiple members of the United States Senate for his confirmation hearing. Shortly after Trump won the election, he nominated Kennedy to be the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. During Hassan’s line...

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt vowed to credential new media during her first press briefing on Tuesday while taking swipes at traditional media outlets “losing trust.” She also boosted other “news-related content” creators like podcasters, who were widely seen as contributing to Donald Trump’s 2024 win. “Before I take questions, I would like to point out to all of you once again...

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Quick Look is one of my favorite Mac features, so much so that I always use a third party app enable it on my Windows PCs as well. It allows you to preview files on your Mac without opening them. You can select any file in Finder and press the Spacebar key to preview it. This means I can press one button to...

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MSNBC host Alex Witt corrected her own colleague who referred to migrants as “illegal aliens” during a report on Sunday afternoon. On Alex Witt Reports, Witt brought on correspondent Priya Sridhar to provide an update on the mass deportations enacted by President Donald Trump. At the time of the report, Sridhar was at the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. While giving a...

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WhatsApp appears to finally be getting its iPhone app up to speed with its Android companion in a major way: allowing you to use multiple accounts on one device. The "new" feature, which has been available on Android since 2023, was spotted by WABetaInfo in the iPhone app’s most recent TestFlight beta program. If (but more likely once) multi-account switching eventually carries through...

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https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/feb-27th-2024-woman-opening-closing-2433383737 Your Mac collects a lot of usage data to improve macOS and Apple's own apps. Quite a bit of that data is collected by default, and it's good to be aware of it. Apple is quite good at declaring how and why it collects data, and almost always, this information is easy to find and understand. The company also encrypts a lot...

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Screenshot President Donald Trump denounced Colombia’s President, Gustavo Petro, for turning away US deportation flights — and announced a series of “retaliatory measures.” In a post to Truth Social Sunday afternoon, the president argued the rejection of the military flights carrying Colombian deportees represents a national security threat. “I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States, with a large...

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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said President Donald Trump “technically” violated the law by terminating more than a dozen inspectors general in a Friday night firing spree without notifying Congress as required by law. Graham at first said the president acted lawfully before quickly correcting himself during a Sunday interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. The South Carolina Republican ultimately concluded...

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“I think it’s very simple,” Vice President JD Vance told Fox’s Shannon Bream on Jan. 12. “If you protested peacefully on January the 6th and you’ve had [Attorney General] Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned. If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned.” Just 14 days later, Vance went to...

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Charlamagne Tha God told former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama to take some notes from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) when it comes to dealing with President Donald Trump. On Friday’s The Daily Show, guest host Charlamagne argued Ocasio-Cortez has held true to her anti-Trump stance while Biden and Obama have not. “What about the Democratic politicians who spent four years calling Trump...

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When asked if he would cut funding to Los Angeles following the wildfire disaster, President Donald Trump set clear conditions he needed to have met, appearing to threaten to withhold federal disaster relief unless the state did the things he insisted upon. Trump spoke to assembled press on an airport tarmac in Asheville, North Carolina, after surveying the hurricane-stricken area before taking off...

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Complicated cleaning hacks can be fun projects, but I love a simple one even more—and this one is really simple: You can use the lid of a pot or pan to clean your carpets and fabrics. It works like a charm, which is why it’s been all over TikTok for the past few years. To freshen up your upholstery or carpet, you’ll need:...

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum slammed Washington Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for a sermon imploring President Donald Trump to show “mercy” to migrants and the LGBTQ+ community. Trump and pro-Trump media figures have been lashing out at Bishop Budde since she wrapped up her national prayer service sermon by directly addressing Trump. Budde made a lengthy plea...

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Major data breaches and cybersecurity threats are now a fact of life, the consequence of which is our personal information being exposed at some point. One of the latest significant leaks involves data from PowerSchool, a software provider for thousands of K–12 school districts in the United States and Canada. The incident affected millions of users. What happened in the PowerSchool hack According...

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Now that the Galaxy S25 series is official, you might be considering picking up a new smartphone. If you aren't particularly partial to Android or iOS, you might be weighing your options here: Should you pick up a new Galaxy S25, or perhaps one of Apple's iPhone 16s? To help figure that out, I've gathered all the specs we currently know about the...

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The Samsung Galaxy S25 series is here: Specifically, the Galaxy S25, the Galaxy S25+, and the Galaxy S25 Ultra. These three handsets replace the equivalent Galaxy S24 models that launched all the way back in January 2024, and you can check out our Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra review to remind yourself of what we thought of them. Of course, one of the first...

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Samsung Unpacked is once again upon us, and, like clockwork, Samsung used the occasion to unveil their latest flagship Android phones. This time around, the company is releasing the aptly named Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra, perhaps some unsurprising upgrades from the Galaxy S24 series. That said, there are a number of new features and changes with these devices that...

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Fox News contributor and legal scholar Jonathan Turley joined anchor Bill Hemmer on Tuesday to discuss President Donald Trump’s sweeping January 6th pardons, which included those convicted of beating police officers. Hemmer began the segment by showing a clip of Trump signing the pardon. “This is January 6th. These are the hostages. Approximately 1500 for a pardon? Yes, full pardon. They’ve been treated...

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