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President Donald Trump's administration has brought criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks extremist groups, alleging financial misconduct, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Andrew Goudsward, Ryan Patrick Jones and Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Scott Malone)

US criminally charges Southern Poverty Law Center, Blanche says

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Anthropic's Mythos model accessed by unauthorized users, Bloomberg News reports

A small group of unauthorized users has accessed Anthropic's new Mythos AI model, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing documentation and a person familiar with the matter.A handful of users in a private online forum gained access to Mythos on the same day that Anthropic first announced a plan to release the model to a limited number of companies for testing purposes, the report said. The group has been using Mythos regularly since then, though not for cybersecurity purposes, according to the report. "We're investigating a report claiming unauthorized access to Claude Mythos Preview thro

GM delays next-gen EV truck program, Crain's Detroit reports

Capital One quarterly profit misses estimates as bad loan provisions rise

Spacex says it has option to acquire startup Cursor for $60 billion

Elon Musk's SpaceX announced on Tuesday it has been granted the option to either acquire code-generation startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion for a partnership.SpaceX and Cursor are working closely together to create coding and knowledge work AI, the space company said in a post on X.Cursor did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.Two product engineering heads at Cursor, a startup that sells AI models for coding tasks, said in March they joined SpaceX to contribute to the company's lunar projects and xAI, Musk's AI startup that is now a part o

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US transportation secretary seeks $10 billion for air traffic control overhaul

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Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants

The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. The Justice Department alleges the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the very extremism it claimed to be fighting, with more than $3 million paid to informants through a now-defunct program to infiltrate white supremacist and other extremist groups. Prosecutors allege some of the money was us

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Rex Heuermann told ex-wife he murdered Gilgo Beach victims at family's home, documentary reveals

The man who recently pleaded guilty to New York's Gilgo Beach serial murders told his ex-wife while in jail that he killed most of his female victims in the basement of the family’s dilapidated home, the latest episode of a documentary series shows. His ex-wife, Asa Ellerup, said in a teaser for the episode airing Thursday on NBC’s streaming service Peacock that Rex Heuermann also told her that the eight women he has admitted to killing were his only victims. Ellerup says later in the teaser that he told her that he killed seven of them in the basement of the f

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Florida Democrat resigns from Congress minutes before House ethics panel was set to weigh her expulsion

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In reversal, Justice Department withdraws subpoenas in John Brennan investigation, AP sources say

The Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas issued in the investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan, with officials asking for voluntary interviews instead of testimony before a grand jury, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday. A small handful of subpoenas were known to have been issued over the weekend for witnesses to appear before a grand jury in Washington. But investigators on Monday evening informed lawyers that the subpoenas were being withdrawn in favor of requests for voluntary interviews, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to Th

Trump says he does not want to extend ceasefire with Iran

President Donald Trump told CNBC in an interview on Tuesday that he did not want to extend a ceasefire with Iran, adding the U.S. was in a strong negotiating position and would end up with what he called a great deal."I don't want to do that. We don't have that much time," Trump said when asked about the possibility of extending the ceasefire.Washington has expressed confidence that talks with Iran will go ahead in Pakistan, and a senior Iranian official said Tehran was considering joining.With the prospect of last-ditch further peace talks still up in the air, Trump said the U.S. would resum

US at risk of running out of missiles if another war breaks out after depleting stockpile in Iran operations

Flu vaccine no longer mandated for US troops, Hegseth says

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Israeli army reservist kills 2 Palestinians, including a 14-year-old, in the occupied West Bank

An Israeli army reservist shot and killed two Palestinians near a school east of Ramallah on Tuesday morning, authorities said, in the latest episode of violence convulsing the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan and 32-year-old Jihad Abu Naim were killed in an attack by Israeli settlers and soldiers on the village of al-Mughayyir that left three others wounded. Kazem Al-Hajj Mohammad, who witnessed the shooting, said that there was a volley of gunfire after settlers and the army arrived. School administrator

US judge blocks Trump administration actions stymieing wind, solar projects

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a series of permitting policies that wind and solar energy industry groups say have stymied the development of new energy generation projects.Chief U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston issued a preliminary injunction sought by nine advocacy groups and industry trade associations that argued the administration had imposed unlawful roadblocks that have halted the development of wind and solar energy projects nationwide.The judge said the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in showing the U.S. Departme

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Trump opposes United–American merger, signals support for Spirit

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he opposes a potential merger between United Airlines and American Airlines, signaling resistance to a deal that would reshape the U.S. airline industry."I don't mind mergers," Trump said in a CNBC interview, adding he would "love somebody to buy" Spirit Airlines, which is in bankruptcy."But with American it's doing fine, and United is doing very well. I know the United people, they're doing very well. I don't like having them merge," he said.Trump's resistance underscores the political and economic risks of backing a deal that antitrust experts say

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US officials killed in Mexico car crash following drug raid worked for the CIA, sources say

The two US embassy officials who died in a car accident in Mexico on Sunday worked for the CIA and had been collaborating with Mexican officials on expanded counternarcotics operations in the country, three people briefed on the matter confirmed to CNN.Two Mexican officials who were part of Chihuahua’s State Investigation Agency (AEI) were also killed in the accident. The CIA officers and the Mexican officials were returning from a drug raid in the municipality of Morelos when their car crashed on the Chihuahua–Ciudad Juárez highway, according to initial reports.The circumstances of the a