Brad Smith, the president and vice chair of Microsoft Corporation, said in an interview that aired Sunday on “Face the Nation” that he expects the U.S. government to regulate artificial intelligence in the year ahead.  The European Union and China have already crafted national strategies but the U.S. has yet …

A father and son were sentenced to federal prison in connection with a massive “ten-percenting” operation that allegedly involved dozens of Massachusetts convenience stores, thousands of lottery tickets and more than $20 million in laundered profits, authorities said Monday. Ali Jaafar and his son Yousef Jaafar, of Watertown, were sentenced …

What’s the going price for a town full of crumbling buildings and tumbleweeds nestled in the heart of the California desert? Big bucks, it turns out. A mystery buyer on April 17 paid roughly $22.5 million for the property and mining claims of Eagle Mountain, a former iron-mining town, according …

Despite years of efforts to reduce health disparities, a new study is calling attention to the drastic differences in mortality that continue to take a toll among Black Americans. Researchers found the Black population in the United States experienced more than 1.63 million excess deaths — and more than 80 …

Vice Media, once a digital video upstart formerly valued at nearly $6 billion, on Monday filed for bankruptcy protection. Vice launched in Montreal, Canada, in 1994 as a free magazine focused on alternative music and culture. Backed by money from other media companies as well as blue-chip Silicon Valley investors, …

On Monday, Corrine Foxx confirmed on Instagram that she and her father, the actor Jamie Foxx, will be hosting the guessing trivia game show “We Are Family” starting in 2024.  The announcement came days after she addressed her father’s condition following a “medical complication” last month. “Verified WE ARE FAMILY …

Washington — Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia is calling for the House’s chief administrative officer to prepare to withhold pay for members of Congress until the looming crisis over the debt ceiling is resolved.  “If the American people and the American economy are suffering as a result of congressional …

When Donna Ongsiako opened her front door just after midnight to let in her cat, the last thing she expected to see was a stranger with a knife. It was July 7, 2013, and up to that point, Ongsiako says, it had been a routine weekend. Now she was face …

Wall Street investors are already taking evasive action to protect themselves against what would be an unprecedented economic shock: America defaulting on its debt for the first time in modern history.  The stock market has moistly remained calm despite the impasse in Washington over raising the debt ceiling — the …

BMW is warning the owners of about 90,000 older vehicles in the U.S. not to drive them due to an increasing threat that the air bags might explode in a crash. The warning covers vehicles from the 2000 through 2006 that previously had been recalled to replace faulty and dangerous …