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President Donald Trump said Saturday he was nominating U.S. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce to become the next deputy representative to the United Nations.  "I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Tammy Bruce, a Great Patriot, Television Personality, and Bestselling Author, as our next Deputy Representative of the United States to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador," the president wrote on social media. "Since the beginning of my Second Term, Tammy has been serving with distinction as Spokesperson of the State Department, where she did a fantastic job. Tammy Bruce will represent our Country brilliantly at the United Nations. Congratulations Tammy!" Bruce has defended the Trump administration's immigration policies and its position on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.  SENATE DRIVES OFF FOR RECESS, LEAVING TRUMP'S 150+ STALLED CONFIRMATIONS IN ITS WAKE Last week, she warned Russia on Fox News that it needs to take Trump "s...

Kevin Roose / New York Times : Hands-on with Alexa+: fun to talk to and good at handling multistep requests, but it is buggy, unreliable, and worse at some basic tasks than the original Alexa   —  Alexa+ processes language in a more fluid way.  Users can speak to it as they would to a human.Graham Dickie/The New York Times

FBI Director Kash Patel took to social media on Saturday to celebrate the bureau's successes in the first 200 days of the Trump administration.  "200 Days of Trump Admin, From Jan 20 to Present: FBI has arrested over 1,600 people for violent crimes against children, to include 270 arrests for human trafficking," Patel wrote on his official X account. Patel added that 1,500 kilos of fentanyl – "enough lethal doses to kill 113,850,000 Americans" – has also been seized in that time, which he said was a 25% increase from the same time last year, and the "most ever." KASH PATEL TORCHES ‘CONSPIRACY THEORIES’ ABOUT BONDI FEUD AMID MAGA FUROR OVER EPSTEIN FILES He added, "We look forward to working with our @SecDef and DoD partners to getting after it even more, thanks @realDonaldTrump for the new authorities."  In a third post, Patel said the FBI had identified and located 4,000 child victims.  "FBI investigations targeting Foreign Terro...

New York Times : A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family   —  A sophisticated operation is pushing President Trump to forgive Changpeng Zhao, which would boost the chances for his company, Binance, to break into the U.S. market.

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website in the US, letting users ask questions, access advanced charting tools, view a live news feed, and more   —  Google announced on Friday that it's giving Google Finance, its tool that provides financial information and business news, an AI update.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson warns that finances in the nation's third most populous city have "reached a point of no return." The mayor said this week that the city will need to take steps to deal with looming budget shortfalls and that key systems that Chicago provides, including education, housing, health care and transportation, are "woefully underfunded." Eight-hundred miles to the east, there are concerns in the nation's most populous city that if democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani wins the election in November as New York City's next mayor, the city could be headed for a fiscal abyss similar to the crisis half a century ago, when it came close to bankruptcy. CHICAGO TRIBUNE WARNS 'HALLOWEEN COMES EARLY ' AS CITY FACES SHORTFALLS Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who dropped out of the 2025 race for New York City's Democratic Party mayor nomination and who is running for re-election as an independent, struck a deal with the city coun...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : OpenAI highlights GPT-5 scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, 46.2% on HealthBench Hard   —  After literally years of hype and speculation, OpenAI has officially launched a new lineup of large language models (LLMs) …