Latest in Chairs Based
Sort by
71 items
-
Forts Bragg and Benning revert to old names, sparking controversy
The military bases honoring Confederate generals recently had their old names restored, but with a twist. Not everyone is happy.CBS News - 19h -
Station F: flying the flag for France tech and AI development
Of the Paris-based incubator’s 40 best-performing start-ups, 34 have artificial intelligence at the core of their businessFinancial Times - 15h -
Rafael Devers walks back refusal to DH, says he'll do whatever Red Sox ask of him as Opening Day approaches
Devers has yet to play a game this spring training, while Alex Bregman has mostly manned third baseCBS Sports - 1h -
From $342.58 to over $1M, how some NFL players made out with performance bonuses
Brock Purdy nearly doubled his salary with performance-based pay, but other payouts were much more modest.ESPN - 1h -
Lara Trump: Americans should be 'kissing the feet of Elon Musk and Donald Trump'
Fox News host and former Republican National Committee co-Chair Lara Trump argued Americans should be thankful for the work billionaire Elon Musk is doing on behalf of President Trump to shrink the ...The Hill - 2d -
NTSB urges helicopter ban near DCA after deadly midair crash
The NTSB is calling for a strict ban on helicopter flights near Reagan National Airport after a deadly midair collision killed 67 people. Chair Jennifer Homendy urged the FAA to act immediately, ...NBC News - 2d -
Republican adjourns hearing after blowup over McBride introduction
A House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing ended abruptly Tuesday after Rep. Keith Self (R-Texas) referred to Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first transgender person elected to Congress, as ...The Hill - 1d -
Judge declines to block DOGE from taking over African development agency
A federal judge on Tuesday declined to block the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from taking over the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF). U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ...The Hill - 1d -
Auto Legends adds $1M to its funding round in Coinbase Ventures deal
Auto Legends, a social drag racing Web3 game, has added $1 million in a strategic investment from Coinbase Ventures' Base Ecosystem Fund.VentureBeat - Mar. 6 -
Mayo Clinic’s secret weapon against AI hallucinations: Reverse RAG in action
To tackle data-retrieval-based hallucinations in non-diagnostic use cases, Mayo Clinic has applied CURE reverse RAG paired with vector databases.VentureBeat - 6d -
Trump golf resort vandalized by pro-Palestinian activists
The United Kingdom-based activist group Palestine Action said it "rejects Donald Trump's treatment of Gaza as though it were his property to dispose of as he likes."CBS News - 5d -
Justice Department investigating egg pricing allegations, sources say
The Department of Justice is looking into the rising price of eggs based on an advocacy group's allegations of skyrocketing prices, sources say. CBS News' Jake Rosen has more.CBS News - 3d -
What We Know About the Month-Old Migrant Mission at Guantánamo Bay
President Trump said the base would house as many as 30,000 migrants awaiting deportation. But construction of a tent city was halted weeks ago.The New York Times - 2d -
Good Job Games raises $23M to make better match-3 games in Turkiye
Good Job Games, a fast-growing mobile game company based in Turkey, has secured $23 million in a seed funding round.VentureBeat - 2d -
Shares of iRobot tank 30% after Roomba maker raises doubt about its survival
The Roomba maker faces mounting debt and sputtering revenue growth, as well as heightened competition from robotic vacuum makers based in China.CNBC - 23h -
Former Texas Megachurch Pastor Is Indicted on Child Sex Abuse Charges
Robert Morris, the former senior pastor of the Dallas-based Gateway Church, abused a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said.The New York Times - 17h -
Musk Email Reaches Italian Workers. It Did Not Go Well.
Employees at the Aviano Air Base who serve American forces got a familiar demand to list their achievements. Unions say Italy “is not the Wild West like the U.S.”The New York Times - 4h -
Celebrations and protests in the US and around the world mark International Women’s Day
From Istanbul and Warsaw to New York and Los Angeles, activists demand equality and the end of gender-based violence. Women took to the streets of cities across Europe, Africa and elsewhere to mark ...The Guardian - 5d -
Gun-violence prevention programs may be caught in federal funding crossfire
Hospital-based violence intervention programs have operated in the U.S. since the mid-1990s, but recent moves by the Trump White House are raising anxiety about the programs' future.CBS News - 3d -
Los Angeles County DA says he opposes Menendez brothers' resentencing
The Los Angeles County district attorney says he will not support the resentencing of the Menendez brothers for the 1989 murders of their parents. District Attorney Nathan Hochman told reporters he ...CBS News - 2d -
The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – do no harm
A doctor’s brilliant study of the dangers of overdiagnosis, from ADHD to long Covid. We swim in oceans of quackery. The media is flooded with misinformation about health and pseudo-diagnoses based ...The Guardian - 1d -
Harvey Weinstein due in court for key rulings as his #MeToo retrial nears
Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo retrial next month will largely be an abridged version of the original, with one big addition: a charge based on an allegation from a woman who wasn’t a part of the first ...ABC News - 1d -
Forts Bragg and Benning revert to old names, with a twist
Fort Bragg and Fort Benning were among bases named after Confederate generals that were changed under the Biden administration. Now, they're reverting back to their old names, but not honoring the ...CBS News - 19h -
Trump to give 'law and order,' 'weaponization of justice' speech at DOJ Friday
President Trump will give a speech focused on "law and order" at the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday, according to the White House. The president is set to argue that there has been a ...The Hill - 5h -
Iconic Volkswagen microbus gets an electric revival
Today marks 75 years since Volkswagen first began manufacturing its beetle-based "bus." For those of a certain generation, the microbus is one of the most recognizable and beloved vehicles to ever ...CBS News - 4d -
GOP lawmaker on Ontario electricity surcharge: 'It's only going to help Trump'
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said Monday that Ontario’s 25-percent surcharge on electricity exports to his state — announced in response to President Trump’s tariffs on Canada — will ...The Hill - 2d -
Only seven countries worldwide meet WHO dirty air guidelines, study shows
Annual survey by IQAir based on toxic PM2.5 particles reveals some progress in pollution levels in India and China. Nearly every country on Earth has dirtier air than doctors recommend breathing, ...The Guardian - 2d -
NASA’s SPHEREx, PUNCH missions launch on Falcon 9 rocket
Launching on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, SPHEREx will map 450 million galaxies and could help unravel what happened after the Big Bang, while PUNCH will make ...NBC News - 1d -
Bacon, mungbean and cheese? How soaring egg prices are affecting New York’s most famous sandwich
Delis are turning to plant-based egg substitutes as bird flu and inflation push up the cost of the real thing. But how does the faux BEC compare?. Like a yellow taxi or the pizza rat, the bacon, ...The Guardian - 9h -
Ireland could lose pharma tax to US after Trump accusations, experts warn
Predictions that US firms could retain manufacturing plants in Ireland but move profits back to America. US pharmaceutical companies based in Ireland are more likely to shift profits back to the US ...The Guardian - 3h -
Government seeks to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil's challenge of detention
The U.S. government has filed a motion to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil's challenge in his deportation case based on jurisdiction issues argued in court. CBS News' Katrina Kaufman has more on the Columbia ...CBS News - 1h