This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Raymond Loong Ng, 21, the cofounder of Makeable, a San Francisco-based startup. It’s been edited for length and clarity. I was born in Vietnam and moved to Singapore when I was 9. As a kid, I always had some kind of side hustle. In school, I
Anger and concern about student safety and rape culture on campus was discussed at a public hearing led by the Student Assembly of Cornell University. The hearing was held in response to an investigation into the alleged rape of a woman at Cornell University in 2024. The woman, being referred to as Jane Doe, has
House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda, with investigations of President Donald Trump, his family and his administration if the party sweeps control of the chamber from Republicans in the November elections. The undertaking is as robust as it is daunting, spanning several House committees. With majority power comes bigger budgets and staff, and the ability
The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new artificial intelligence models with the UK government’s testing agency until the models have gone through testing with the US government, POLITICO reported, citing a person familiar with the matter and a senior US administration official, both of whom were granted anonymity to
Top Iranian and US officials have held talks at the UN in New York on a day when the US leader said he could “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if the conflict went unresolved. No breakthrough has been reported from the meeting mediated by Qatar and involving Iran’s foreign minister and US President Donald Trump’s envoy
WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Wednesday that he’s going to block a proposed sale of $2.8 billion in heavy weaponry to Israel over concerns that the powerful bombs may not be used in line with U.S. and international law. Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York said he would
