Democrats just had their Eric Cantor moment. That is to say, a rising member of the party's House leadership team found himself on the wrong side of a shocking ...

Progressives in the Democratic Party are fired up. As Joe Crowley learned Tuesday night, they can't be ignored.

Google demonstrated its AI system for making telephone calls for restaurant reservations. The voice sounded remarkably human, and the company says it will ...

A month and change after I/O, Google convenes a meeting of a few small groups of journalists at an upscale Thai restaurant in Manhattan's Upper East Side.

The search giant gives us a closer look at its controversial artificial intelligence software while it works to tamp down fears about the technology.

CNBC's Todd Haselton tests Google Duplex, a new AI that sounds human and can place phone calls to book restaurant reservations for you.

The Trump administration has decided to rely on existing laws to restrict Chinese investment in the U.S., dropping consideration of alternative approaches.

The White House moved forward with plans to limit Chinese investments but chose a less a confrontational approach, deciding against invoking a rarely used ...

Rather than implement new, harsher rules, President Donald Trump opted to use the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to crack down on ...

The White House won't be looking to block companies with 25 percent or more of Chinese ownership from buying certain U.S. tech-related companies.

A former Virginia Tech student-athlete has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for fatally stabbing a 13-year-old girl with whom he was having a relationship in ...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia Tech student convicted of fatally stabbing a 13-year-old girl said he was sorry before he was sentenced to 50 ...

A former Virginia Tech student from Columbia convicted of fatally stabbing a 13-year-old girl said he was sorry before he was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

A man described by his alleged accomplice as a "sociopath" following his arrest for the killing of a 13-year-old Virginia girl will serve 50 years behind bars.

Shareholders with nearly $3 billion invested Facebook are trying to topple Mark Zuckerberg as chairman and tear up the company's governance structure.

Following several scandals, investors holding nearly $3 billion in Facebook shares want the company's golden boy to relinquish some of his power.

Facebook says no European users' data was shared in the privacy scandal.

Details of a summit meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will be announced on Thursday, a US official has told CNN.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to hold a summit meeting, with the time and place to be announced tomorrow, ...

WASHINGTON – Amid concern from U.S allies, presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet next month in a "third country," likely Finland, officials in ...

US Secretary Defense James Mattis met with Chinese President Xi Jinping Wednesday inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

BEIJING — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his Chinese counterpart are striking a positive note as they sat down to tackle the thorny issue of how to get ...

Twelve boys and their soccer coach have gone missing inside flooded cave in northern Thailand. They have been missing for three days. Efforts to rescue them ...

Thai volunteers and military teams, including a navy SEAL unit, struggled through flood waters inside a cave on Wednesday in a search for a team of school boy ...

MAE SAI, Thailand — Heavy rainfall stymied efforts to rescue members of a youth soccer team trapped in a cave in northern Thailand by flooding underground ...

Kohl's said Wednesday that it would start hiring seasonal workers for the back-to-school, fall and holiday shopping months this year earlier than it's ever done ...

The department store announced Wednesday that it is already accepting applications for seasonal positions. Kohl's is staking an early claim in a tight job market ...

Kohl's announced that it will be hiring seasonal worker for when shoppers flood stores for the back-to-school, fall and holiday shopping periods.

On Wednesday, Slack confirmed that users worldwide were experiencing difficulty connecting to the workplace messaging service, pledging to investigate the ...

Slack, the business messaging app, is experiencing a worldwide outage and connectivity issues are affecting all workspaces on Wednesday morning. People ...

Productivity software Slack said it's dealing with connectivity issues affecting all workspaces. And everyone who uses it is freaking out on social media.

Workplace messaging application Slack appears to be suffering downtime today, with reports indicating that messages are not being transferred between ...

Samsung has sent out invitations for an event on August 9th for a new Galaxy device — and while it doesn't call out the Note 9 by name, the picture of a Note ...

Samsung made August 9 the unveiling date for Galaxy Note 9, with invites going out to press and teasers being placed on social media. In the teaser, we're ...

Those Galaxy Note 9 rumors have been coming fast and furious in recent weeks, and now we know why. Samsung just sent out invites for its next big event in ...

Samsung's Galaxy Note 9 has reached the FCC, implying that an announcement of the upcoming flagship can't be too far away.

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Conan O'Brien joined forces on Tuesday night to take some shots at President Trump.

Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon try to bring Conan O'Brien up to date on the state of the nation under Donald Trump.

Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert respond to the president's slights in a skit aired on both men's shows.

Josh Brolin might be a nightmare for those he faces onscreen. But the "Sicario: Day of the Soldado" star is having a dream summer with "Avengers" and ...

This sequel to “Sicario,” starring Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin, is also a geopolitical action thriller and a samurai picture.

True Thompson is a daddy's girl! Tristan Thompson shared a new video of him and his 2-month-old daughter on Snapchat Tuesday, in which the Cleveland ...

She recently had a wax figure of herself debut at Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas. And Khloe Kardashian experienced another form of flattery as her likeness ...

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star and new mom is turning 34.

The trade is nearly revenue neutral. It's more telling about how it affects each team's depth chart. For the Clippers, it ensures Coach Doc can't play his own son ...

WASHINGTON – It seemed fairly clear that Marcin Gortat and the Washington Wizards were ready to part ways. Now they will. The Wizards traded Gortat, their ...

Time for another Miami Heat mailbag If you were not able to ask a question this time, send them along for future mailbags via Twitter to @tomdangelo44 and ...

Marcin Gortat finally got his wish and was traded on Tuesday evening, to the Los Angeles Clippers, for Austin Rivers. This is a weird and fun trade.

Lakers president Magic Johnson says he'll "step down" if he is unable to lure a prized free agent to Los Angeles by the end of next summer.

Magic Johnson is confident he and the Los Angeles Lakers will lure big-name free agents to join the team, but he also isn't putting all of his eggs in this ...

Lonzo Ball has kept a relatively low profile through the first two-and-a-half months of his first full NBA offseason. That hasn't stopped the basketball world from ...

Oregon State starting pitcher Luke Heimlich fell apart in the fifth inning as Arkansas rallied for a 4-1 win in the opener of the College World Series finals on ...

A day after Game 1 was postponed by weather, Oregon State and Arkansas are set to square off in the College World Series championship series in Omaha, ...

The news that the Royals are considering signing Oregon State left-handed pitcher and convicted child molester Luke Heimlich has exploded on the internet.

Scientists already knew that the lowest temperatures ever measured on Earth were on a frozen ice ridge in eastern Antarctica, near the South Pole. But they ...

Scientists have found a new threshold for how far temperatures can plummet below zero on Earth, according to a study published this week in Geophysical ...

Scientists believe this could be as cold as it can get on the surface of Earth.

When Dr. Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, and co-authors first ...

But will the Trump administration take this opportunity?

The United States Food and Drug Administration made history on Monday, June 25, by approving a plant-based marijuana pharmaceutical for the first time ever.

The FDA's historic approval of the first marijuana-derived prescription drug has left cannabis startups in a tough spot. Many welcome the news as a sign of the ...

The Pensacola Beach Lifeguards have posted purple flags along their beaches as reports of so-called sea lice attacks increase.

Lifeguards at a Florida Panhandle beach have warned beachgoers of stinging sea lice lurking in the water. The Pensacola Beach Lifeguards posted a warning ...

Florida beaches commonly experience bouts of sea lice as area waters warm.

Clark County has received funds from Ohio EPA for mosquito surveillance and prevention and will begin misting Tuesday, June 26 and wrap up July 6 or 7, ...

For the first time in 2018, West Nile virus has been detected in Massachusetts.