Texas lawmakers advance bill to clarify medical exceptions under restrictive abortion law

Texas lawmakers advanced a bill Wednesday to clarify medical exceptions under one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S., putting the GOP-backed proposal on the brink of reaching Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. The changes would not expand abortion access in Texas or list specific medical exceptions under the state’s near-total ban, which took effect…

Armenian organized crime rings charged with stealing $83 million in Amazon cargo

Department of Justice officials on Tuesday charged members or associates of an Armenian organized crime ring with stealing more than $83 million worth of cargo from Amazon by posing as legitimate truck drivers and siphoning off goods destined for the company’s warehouses. Since at least 2021, at least four people linked to the crime ring carried out a scheme…

Controversial office sits vacant for first time in nearly a decade, but emerging secrets haunt those involved

It’s the first time in nearly a decade that a special counsel is not investigating something related to a sitting or former president, but the remnants and revelations of past special counsel probes continue to break through the news cycle. Every attorney general-appointed special counsel since 2017 has now released their reports, issued their indictments,…

iPhone designer Jony Ive joining OpenAI to help develop new devices

Jony Ive, the celebrated former Apple industrial design maven behind the look of the iPhone, iPad and other of the technology giant’s products, has joined OpenAI. Ive will help the artificial intelligence company create devices with generative AI capability, according to a video posted on OpenAI’s X account on Wednesday.  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in…