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Greek News
President Biden Blasts Donald Trump in State of the Union Address
President Joe Biden delivered a fiery State of the Union address on Thursday, taking repeated swipes at Donald Trump -without mentioning him by name -and covering the broad themes of his re-election campaign.
Biden used the term "my predecessor" to...
Media
Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes for Social Media Harming Children
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologized to families who say their children had been harmed by social media during a fiery hearing in the US Senate.
Zuckerberg, who runs Instagram and Facebook, turned to them and said, "No one should...
Greek News
Biden Urges Congress to Quickly Approve F-16 Sale to Turkey
President Biden sent a letter to four senior members of Congress on Wednesday urging them to quickly approve a $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, following the vote one day earlier by Turkey’s Parliament to allow...
Greek News
Reps Bilirakis, Pappas Lead Call for Turkey to Stop Supporting Hamas
Congressmen Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Gus Bilirakis (FL-12) led a bipartisan group of 45 lawmakers in asking the U.S. Department of State to hold Turkey accountable for its role in supporting and facilitating the operations of Hamas.
“The longstanding political,...
USA
Biden Calls on Americans to Unite Behind Israel and Ukraine
US President Joe Biden called on Americans to unite behind Israel and Ukraine and vowed that he will not allow Hamas and Putin to win their wars against "neighboring democracies."
Acknowledging that “these conflicts can seem far away,” Biden insisted...
Politics
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Ousted by Own Party
On Tuesday, US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted by hard-right members of his own Republican party less than a year after his election.
It is the first time in US history that a speaker of the House has been...
Space
US Officials Push for More Government Transparency on UFOs
Three US military veterans who have retired are going to testify on Wednesday at a House hearing about a strange phenomenon: UFOs. They want to warn everyone that these sightings could be a problem for the country's security. They...
Science
‘AI Can Go Quite Wrong’ Sam Altman Warns Congress
Open AI CEO Sam Altman warned on Tuesday the US Congress that artificial intelligence developments can go quite wrong and called on the government to regulate the sector.
"If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong, and we...
Greek News
Greek American Former Congressman Nick Galifianakis Dies at 94
Greek American Nick Galifianakis, once a rising star in the Democratic Party, who represented central North Carolina for several years, died this week at age 94.
Galifianakis, who had Parkinson’s disease for several years, died at a Raleigh retirement community,...
Politics
Gus Bilirakis Ranked Most Effective Congressman Representing Florida
U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis was ranked as Florida’s most effective member in Congress by the Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL).
CEL, an independent organization, is a joint partnership between the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the...