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(NEW YORK) -- Larry Summers, a former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and the former president of Harvard University, has resigned from the board of the tech company OpenAI, according to statements released Wednesday."Larry has decided to resign from the OpenAI Board of Directors, and we respect his decision. We appreciate his many contributions and the perspective he brought to the Board," a statement from the OpenAI Board of […]

(WASHINGTON) -- With the future of the prosecution of James Comey in doubt after a judge expressed alarm Monday about a "disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps" in the case, lawyers for the former FBI director are due in federal court Wednesday to argue that the indictment be thrown out over concerns it's the product of a vindictive prosecution.Defense lawyers have argued that the prosecutors are engaging in an act […]

(NEW YORK) -- A record number of Americans are expected to travel for Thanksgiving this year, AAA said.AAA predicts 81.8 million people will travel during the holiday period (between Tuesday, Nov. 25, and Monday, Dec. 1), which is a 1.6 million jump from last year.Thanksgiving -- which falls on Thursday, Nov. 27 -- comes just weeks after the 43-day-long government shutdown that caused massive flight cancellations across the country, but […]

(WASHINGTON) -- In the wake of the newly released Epstein files last week, President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into Democrats mentioned in the files -- including LinkedIn co-founder and major Democrat donor Reid Hoffman.On Tuesday, when pressed by ABC News' Mary Bruce, Trump lashed out about the files, saying Democrats should face scrutiny. Specifically, he called out Hoffman by name, saying, "Hoffman, in my opinion, should be under investigation.""He's […]

Alex Peña/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, in a hearing Wednesday, is set to address how he will proceed with the early stages of contempt proceedings into whether Trump administration officials violated a court order by deporting hundreds of men to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act in March.The Trump administration invoked the AEA -- an 18th-century wartime authority used to remove noncitizens with little-to-no due […]