Facebook announced Thursday it was changing its name to Meta, rechristening itself as a digitally innovative company moving beyond 2D screens even as insider revelations paint the tech giant as apathetic toward hate speech, misinformation and mental health. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during Thursday’s livestreamed augmented reality and virtual reality (VR) conference […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a $1.85 trillion spending plan he said would provide the “most transformative” aid to American families in decades and, at the same time, set the United States on a path toward sharply cutting its greenhouse gas pollution. Biden laid out the plan — about half the amount […]
“Now is the time for leaders in all walks of life—for citizens of all political backgrounds and persuasions—to come to the aid of the republic.” Warning that the Republican Party—which “remains under the sway” of former President Donald Trump—poses a “serious danger” to U.S. democracy, a group of writers, academics, and political activists spanning the ideological […]
HALIFAX, CANADA — British sailors will begin training aboard Canadian icebreakers in a new agreement that reflects the United Kingdom’s heightened interest in developing a more robust Arctic military capability. Britain is just the latest nation to focus fresh attention on the far north as climate change opens the region to new opportunities for navigation and […]