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A root canal forced President Biden to cancel his public events on Monday and postpone his meeting with Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's secretary general, to discuss the war in Ukraine.The White House said that Mr. Biden would not be put under general anesthesia and that the 25th Amendment, which would temporarily transfer power to Vice President Kamala Harris, would not be invoked.

The man who allegedly assaulted Rep. Angie Craig in her Washington, DC, apartment last week made his initial appearance in federal court Monday.Kendrid Hamlin was charged last week with assaulting a member of Congress.During a brief public hearing at DC District Court, Hamlin did not enter a plea.The court scheduled a detention hearing for him for Wednesday, and he'll remain detained pending that hearing.

1. There is a lack of consensus among global governments on how to regulate AI, leading to uncertainty and the potential for uneven regulatory standards.
2. AI regulation should be tailored to the specific application and potential risks it poses, rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach.

A pair of Democratic lawmakers from California have asked President Joe Biden to once again raise the case of a US Navy officer jailed in Japan with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida while at the Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima.In a Friday letter addressed to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, US Sen. Alex Padilla and US Rep. Mike Levin said that while we understand the sensitive nature of this case around Lt. Ridge Alkonis, it is important to resolve this situation promptly to prevent further irritants in the U.S.-Japan relationship.

The Taoiseach has hailed the US as trailblazers on LGBT rights issues as he met vice president Kamala Harris in Washington.Mr Varadkar thanked Ms Harris for her own advocacy and for being a strong ally to the LGBT community as he and partner Matt Barrett attended a breakfast event at her residence on St Patrick's Day morning.

This year's DEF CON AI Village has invited hackers to show up, dive in, and find bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others.The collaborative event, which AI Village organizers describe as "the largest red teaming exercise ever for any group of AI models," will host "thousands" of people, including "hundreds of students from overlooked institutions and communities," all of whom will be tasked with finding flaws in LLMs that power today's chat bots and generative AI.

The UK competition watchdog is launching a review of the artificial intelligence market, including the models behind popular chatbots such as ChatGPT, as the industry comes increasingly into global regulators' crosshairs.Sarah Cardell, chief executive of the UK Competition and Markets Authority, said the watchdog would examine so-called foundation models-such as the software underlying ChatGPT-and "how the markets around those models are developing."

President Joe Biden celebrated Cinco de Mayo on Friday by stepping out for tacos at a Washington food hall.His stop prompted one onlooker to remark, This is the most D.C. thing that's ever happened to me.Biden was joined by Vice President Kamala Harris at Taqueria Habanero.The president paid in cash for his order of and posed with staff for pictures.

African nations called on the world Tuesday to pay attention to how terrorism targeted their continent, particularly its Sahel region, telling the United Nations Security Council that Africans made up nearly half the world's terror attack victims.Using his country's bully pulpit as Security Council chair for March, Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi told the council that though terrorism is a global threat, the situation in Africa remains more critical.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Christian Siriano lined his New York Fashion Week runway Thursday with thousands of multicolored flowers and put wide-brimmed hats worthy of muse Audrey Hepburn on some of his models to top off a big week.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy planned to give the opening address Friday at a major annual conference on international security policy, where Russia's invasion of Ukraine was expected to dominate the event after almost a year of war that has produced worldwide repercussions.

The White House hosted the biggest names in artificial intelligence including executives from Microsoft, Google and OpenAI in a high-profile push to grapple with regulation of a rapidly advancing technology.Vice President Kamala Harris, who hosted the meeting, told the executives they had a ethical, moral and legal responsibility to keep products safe.

In an effort to contextualize just how poorly things have gone for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential aspirations of late, CNN wrote about how he's faring no better against Trump than a protest candidate is against President Joe Biden."Things have gotten so bad for DeSantis that a recent Fox News poll shows him at 21%," CNN said, "comparable with the 19% that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has pushed debunked conspiracy theories about vaccine safety, is receiving on the Democratic side."

"We are here to send a message to the country and, quite frankly, to the world: The free press is a pillar, maybe the pillar, of a free society, not the enemy," US President Joe Biden said.The president and first lady Jill Biden, upon arriving at the Washington Hilton on Saturday, met privately with the parents of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned in Russia since March.

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy.Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.President Joe Biden received a clean bill of health after his annual physical at Walter Reed on Thursday.Late night hosts used the opportunity to poke fun at Biden's age.

It was a normal day at HR Records in Northwest DC's Brightwood Park neighborhood-until owner Charvis Campbell's phone started blowing up.First, he got a call from someone he thought was from the Small Business Administration informing him that a senior member of the Vice President's office might stop by.

Presidents, they're just like us.Joe Biden and Jill Biden could go out on Valentine's Day and brave the romantic throngs at a popular DC restaurant.But who needs a crowd when you can Netflix and chill with Le Diplomate burgers?We caught wind that an early to-go order was placed for the White House at the perennial Logan Circle hotspot.

WASHINGTON Vice President Kamala Harris will meet on Thursday with the CEOs of four major companies developing artificial intelligence as the Biden administration rolls out a set of initiatives meant to ensure the rapidly evolving technology improves lives without putting people's rights and safety at risk.

CNN correspondent Donie O'Sullivan showed passersby the RNC's controversial anti-Biden ad which shows fake catastrophes generated by Artificial Intelligence right in front of the White House to see if they could distinguish the fakes.Last week, the Republican National Committee released an ad that asked viewers to imagine a second term for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris that simulated a raft of catastrophes using A.I. and newsy-sounding narration: DISEMBODIED NEWS-STYLE NARRATOR: This just in.

President Joe Biden is officially running for reelection with a new logo that shows the red stripe E in his last name now waving like a flag.Say hello to Biden '24.Biden's announcement video assumes former President Donald Trump, or at least an heir to MAGAism, is on track to challenge him next year, but how do you rebrand for a sequel voters aren't particularly interested in?

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy.Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.Vice President Kamala Harris visited with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Wednesday.It was her first live appearance on the program since the 2020 election.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Thursday she's been hospitalized in California with shingles and hopes to return to Washington to vote in the Senate later this month.It comes two weeks after the California Democrat - the oldest sitting senator at age 89 - announced she would retire at the end of her term next year.

Vice President Kamala Harris declared "this violence must end" on Sunday as she publicly weighed in on a mass shooting in Monterey Park that left 10 people dead and injured 10 others.Before delivering a speech on abortion rights in Tallahasee, Fla., to mark the 50th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, Harris said she wanted to address "the tragedy of what happened in my home state."

Mayor-elect Karen Bass' plans to hold her public inauguration Sunday on the steps of City Hall have been scuttled by a rainy weather forecast."New location, same historic event!" Bass said in a Thursday evening tweet, announcing that the event will now be held at the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live.

In the dictionary, the word "tenacious" ought to be followed by a photo of Chicagoan Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license.Coleman, also of Native American descent, moved to Chicago in her early 20s hoping to find and follow her dreams, but she discovered that no pilot training schools would admit her.

Vice President Kamala Harris came to Chicago's Southeast Side on Wednesday as part of a White House effort to promote infrastructure projects and other Democratic accomplishments while offering a contrast to the ongoing chaos within the new U.S. House Republican majority.Harris delivered a 10 minute speech in the early January chill at Crowley's Yacht Yard beneath the 95th Street Bridge over the Calumet River.

Accusations that Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine grew louder over the weekend as world leaders called for prosecution of the invading nation's gruesome atrocities.Russia must be held accountable before it can have normal relations with Western nations after the war, Estonia's prime minister said Sunday.

(CNN)President Joe Biden will visit Poland this month to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, returning to the region as the war enters a volatile new phase without a clear path to peace.The president is planning to visit Poland from February 20-22.The White House said he would meet Polish President Andrzej Duda and other leaders from the region.

01:18 File photo of US Vice President Kamala Harris at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on February 19, 2022.Thomas Kienzle, AFP The Munich Security Conference opens on Friday, bringing world leaders together ahead of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as Kyiv steps up pleas for more weapons.

Ukraine can not be safe as long as Vladimir Putin remains in power, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said of the Russian president at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday."If he doesn't change by 360 degrees then, no," she said when asked about the long-term prospects for peace in Ukraine.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 361st day, we take a look at the main developments.Here is the situation as it stands on Sunday, February 19, 2023: Most of Ukraine has electricity despite a series of major Russian attacks on the power generating system, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address.

A "people's court" has put Russian President Vladimir Putin on trial for the crime of aggression over his invasion of Ukraine.t is a symbolic move to close an "accountability gap" in the absence of an international tribunal with jurisdiction.The court has no legal powers but prosecutors say they will present evidence Mr Putin committed the crime of aggression by ordering the invasion nearly a year ago, unleashing a devastating war which has killed thousands and left towns and cities in ruins.

A man walks among graves of Ukrainian soldiers in the "Alley of Glory" of a cemetery in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 16.Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images This week will mark one year since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.Here's a look ahead and a roundup of key developments from the past week.

Biden spoke near this same site 11 months ago at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.As the war drags on, he's back -to boost the morale of NATO and make a plea for the fight to continue.LEILA FADEL, HOST: President Biden is in Poland today, where he'll be giving a speech at the site of the historic Royal Castle.

KYIV, Ukraine  President Volodymyr Zelensky's unannounced trip to Washington on Wednesday buoyed morale back home in Ukraine, where millions have been plunged into darkness and cold from Russian missile strikes that have knocked out power as winter sets in.After weeks of a stalemate along much of the front, some Ukrainians said on Thursday they had been cheered to see many members of Congress chant during Mr. Zelensky's appearance a day earlier the patriotic refrain Glory to heroes!

(CNN)When President Joe Biden returns to the House chamber to deliver his second State of the Union address, the former longtime senator will be addressing his onetime congressional colleagues as a guest.The president is invited to address Congress by the House speaker, in accordance with his constitutional duty to "from time to time" deliver a message outlining top issues facing Americans and plans to solve those issues.

Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, underwent surgery for prostate cancer on Tuesday afternoon and should not require further treatment, his office said in a statement.Senator Casey, 62, who is in his third term, said in early January that he had prostate cancer but expected to make a full recovery.

Last year, mere days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, dozens of officials from Western nations met in Munich for a security conference in which they discussed the West's appetite for intervening.Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, attended in person and chastised the West for failing to deter Russian aggression over many years.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine compared his country's fight against Russia to the biblical battle of David and Goliath, telling dozens of Western officials gathered in Munich for a security conference on Friday that Western weapons would be the key to defeating the Russian Goliath.Mr. Zelensky's address came at the opening of the annual three-day Munich Security Conference, where Ukraine is dominating the discussions.

Zelensky's U.S. trip lifts spirits during a cold winter for Ukraine.Video In a joint meeting of Congress, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had won a victory over Russia in the battle for minds of the world, and in blunt terms, he pleaded for more military assistance from lawmakers.CreditCredit...Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times KYIV, Ukraine  President Volodymyr Zelensky was returning to Ukraine on Thursday after a high-profile visit to Washington that was greeted at home with mostly pride and hope that his impassioned, in-person appeals would keep American weapons and financial support flowing.

He never donned the political camouflage of a suit.The olive green sweatshirt, with its little Ukrainian trident embroidered at the neck, cargo pants and boots that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine wore on his trip to Washington may seem the least important part of the highly choreographed and powerful piece of political theater that was that diplomatic event, but they were also a telling detail: a reminder of what exactly the purpose of the surprise visit had been.

Survivors and world leaders are marking Holocaust Memorial Day with remembrance services and events.It honours the six million Jewish people murdered, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups.The day also marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in what was then-Nazi-occupied Poland.

Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar caught MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend off guard on Saturday when she said that she's glad about Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing a special counsel to investigate the discovery of classified documents from the Obama administration in President Joe Bidens possession.

Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, is set to visit Poland and Germany later this month to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to hold meetings aimed at combatting rising antisemitism in the U.S. and around the world.Emhoff, the first Jewish person to be married to one of the top two nationally elected U.S. officials, will visit Krakow, Poland, including a stop at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.

Source: Screenshot President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he will visit the Southern Border after months of pressure over not doing so from Republicans and media like Fox News, as well as from Democrats and MSNBC.That's my intention, Biden told reporters during his trip to Kentucky.We're working out the details now.

President Joe Biden was reportedly frustrated with Vice President Kamala Harris during the first months of their administration, according to an upcoming book.Biden told a friend that Harris was a work in progress, according to an excerpt of The Fight of His Life obtained by Politico.Author Chris Whipple told the outlet he had extensive access to Biden administration officials while writing the book.

Human RightsUnited States of America The law is intended to safeguard same-sex marriage if the Supreme Court rules in favor of a ban.Biden said the signing of the legislation represents "a blow against hate in all its forms."US President Joe Biden signed key gay marriage legislation into law in front of thousands, in a symbolic ceremony for the growing acceptance of same-sex unions.

US President Joe Biden signed a gay marriage legislation into law in front of thousands, in a symbolic ceremony for the growing acceptance of same-sex unions."This law and the love it defends strike a blow against hate in all its forms," Biden said on the South Lawn of the White House."And that's why this law matters to every single American.''

On Dec. 6, President Joe Biden went to Arizona for the first time since taking office.During his time there, he visited a new computer chip plant near Phoenix.But he faced criticism for not making a stop along the U.S.-Mexico border.This is not the first time that critics have accused Biden of not visiting the southern border.

Raphael Warnock's win in Georgia means a power-sharing agreement between Democrats and the GOP in the Senate will end.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer greets Sen. Raphael Warnock outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on December 7, 2022.Sarah Silbiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock's win over former NFL player Herschel Walker in Georgia's runoff election earlier this week means that Democrats will see their numbers in the Senate increase from 50 seats to 51 when the 118th Congressional session begins in January.