Barack Obama has said congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under federal criminal investigation simply because she's an outspoken critic of the President Donald Trump. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president, the former US president wrote on X, calling the probe so appalling. The White House defended the inquiry, saying the justice department was focused on restoring law and order. Last week, homeland security agents searched the Minnesota Democrat's Washington DC home as part of an investigation into her immigration status. Born in Somalia, Omar moved to the US with her family as a child.

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Is the war entering a new phase? The supernova-like blasts of exploding Russian ballistic missiles are followed by thunderous thumps, shockwaves, fires and deaths - and the staccato of Ukrainian air defence systems. This week's nightly attacks on Ukraine that killed at least 15 and wounded dozens resembled hundreds of previous raids - with one exception. But Ukraine's partners did not provide the country with intelligence data from NATO's early-warning satellites, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, as tensions between Washington and Kyiv rise. He did not name the United States and President Donald Trump has denied that Washington has stopped sharing intelligence.

With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, the White House knows it has to go all in on Senate races--while virtually forfeiting the House. Trump White House aides see almost no paths to Republicans keeping control of the House in the midterm elections, and are more focused on redoubling their efforts to save the Senate majority. That has been the takeaway for officials in GOP groups who have been discussing the state of play with White House aides in recent weeks, according to three sources familiar with the situation. It all comes as the White House moves into damage-control mode after contemplating for the first time earlier this month, as previously reported, that Republicans could possibly lose both chambers of Congress. The general expectation is that the House has become a lost cause.

A mysterious super PAC that doubles as a pro-solar energy outfit is funding some of the most knives-out attack ads of the midterms season. A mysteriously named political action committee has started running ads reminding voters in Colorado about that time GOP representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado and her date were caught on camera in 2023 getting handsy during a performance of the musical Beetlejuice . That same PAC is producing a spot hitting Anthony Constantino, a Trumpist congressional candidate in upstate New York, because someone used his sticker-printing company to briefly make stickers that read, " Kill the Police ." Attack ads are everywhere in the last month ahead of November's election. But these spots are a little different.

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United States President Donald Trump has awarded the country's most prestigious honours in science and engineering to executives from top technology firms including SpaceX, Alphabet, Microsoft and Nvidia. On Thursday, Trump presented the National Medal of Science to billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Lisa Su of the semiconductor firm AMD. At the award ceremony, Trump credited the honourees with "helping pioneer an incredible future for America". "Because of these people here, we will always be on top. No one else can compete with us," Trump said.

United States President Donald Trump is expected to select spy chief Jay Clayton to oversee development of the nation's artificial intelligence industry, according to multiple news reports. CNN, CBS and Axios reported Trump is set to name the director of national intelligence (DNI) as his pick for so-called "AI tsar". The decision could be announced as early as Friday. Trump already had one AI tsar, venture capitalist David Sacks. He resigned earlier this year and became an external adviser to the president.

Trump's Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs--and It Worked But they meekly went along when Trump cancelled the term. Seventy years ago last summer, a group of scientists met at Dartmouth College to discuss a wild idea--that machines might one day be capable of human-like thought processes. One of those scientists, John McCarthy, had suggested a name for the new field: artificial intelligence . When you search Google Scholar for "artificial intelligence," approximately 7,420,000 results appear. The term is utterly ubiquitous. Even for people who despise AI, the least of their worries is what we call it.