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ICO opens formal investigation into Grok AI over data protection and harmful imagery concerns

The Information Commissioner’s Office has launched formal investigations into X Internet Unlimited Company and X.AI over their handling of personal data in connection with the Grok artificial intelligence system. The regulator said the probes follow reports that Grok has been used to generate non-consensual sexualised images and videos of individuals, including children. The alleged creation and circulation of such content raises “serious concerns” under UK data protection law and presents a risk of significant harm...

Trump to host Colombia’s Petro as drug trafficking expected to dominate high-stakes talks

Relations between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro have swung sharply from open confrontation to cautious engagement over the past year, setting the stage for a pivotal White House meeting scheduled for Tuesday. Once considered a model partnership in the Western Hemisphere, U.S.–Colombia ties are now being tested by deep disagreements over drug policy, security cooperation and migration. Speaking to reporters ahead of the visit, President Donald Trump suggested the tone between the...

Government shutdown enters day 4 as lawmakers gear up for House-wide vote on Trump-backed deal

The ongoing partial government shutdown is now in its fourth day, but House GOP leaders are confident that the end is near. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is aiming to hold a chamber-wide procedural vote on the Senate’s funding compromise on Tuesday afternoon, teeing up a subsequent vote on final passage potentially later in the day. It comes after he and President Donald Trump quelled a burgeoning rebellion by House conservatives who were threatening to...

SpaceX acquires xAI as Elon Musk moves to unite rockets, satellites and artificial intelligence

SpaceX has acquired xAI, Elon Musk’s fast-growing artificial intelligence venture, in a move designed to bring the billionaire entrepreneur’s AI, space and communications ambitions under a single corporate structure. The deal unites the world’s most valuable private aerospace company with the developer of the Grok chatbot, marking one of the most striking corporate combinations to emerge from Silicon Valley in recent years. It also comes ahead of a widely reported blockbuster stock market listing later...

FTSE 100 hits record high as dollar rallies and gold extends sharp pullback

The FTSE 100 closed at a fresh record high on a day of whipsawing global markets, as a strengthening US dollar offset sharp falls in commodities including gold, silver and oil. London’s blue-chip index finished up 118.02 points, or 1.15 per cent, at 10,341.56, reversing an early European sell-off and setting a new closing peak. Traders bet that the dollar’s recent rally would boost earnings prospects for UK-listed multinationals, around three-quarters of which generate revenues...

Planned Parenthood drops lawsuit challenging Trump administration’s Medicaid cuts

Planned Parenthood announced it is voluntarily dropping its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s ability to withhold Medicaid payments under a provision in President Donald Trump’s tax bill. The organization sued in July after President Donald Trump signed a spending bill that included prohibiting federal funding from going to abortion providers, a section of the legislation that Planned Parenthood attorneys argued unfairly targeted their clinics and would leave patients with even fewer health care options. In...

Plan to end government shutdown survives key House hurdle after Trump quells GOP rebellion threats

The Senate’s compromise to end the ongoing partial government shutdown survived an important hurdle on Monday night, teeing up the legislation for a vote in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The House Rules Committee, the final gatekeeper before most bills get a chamberwide vote, advanced the upper chamber’s deal with the White House with little internal discord among Republicans on the panel. But the measure could face issues on the House floor during a...

EXCLUSIVE: Gabbard outlines election security assessment, presence at Fulton County search

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard detailed her ongoing election security assessment in a letter to congressional lawmakers Monday, saying President Trump ‘specifically directed’ her to be present for the execution of a search warrant in Fulton County, Georgia last week as part of the probe. Gabbard sent a letter, exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, addressed to Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim...

Clintons agree to testify after House threatens contempt in Jeffrey Epstein probe

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in the House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation after lawmakers moved toward holding them in criminal contempt of Congress. The committee said in a post on X that the Clintons were ‘trying to dodge contempt by requesting special treatment,’ adding that ‘The Clintons are not above the law.’ Angel Ureña, deputy chief of staff to Bill Clinton, confirmed in a...

House GOP majority shrinks to just one vote as Johnson swears in new House Democrat

The House Republican majority just got reduced to a perilously slim one-vote margin thanks to a Democrat’s victory in Texas over the weekend. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., swore in newly minted Rep. Christian Menefee, D-Texas, on Monday evening, bringing the overall House of Representatives margin to 218 Republicans and 214 Democrats. That means if a bill gets no Democratic support and the House is in full attendance, losing more than one GOP vote will result...