Deceptively altered videos of President Joe Biden with audio added to depict him receiving profanity-filled jeers are spreading on TikTok without any labeling or disclosure‚ seemingly violating the platform’s policies. TikTok has a history of falling short when it comes to moderating AI-generated or deceptively altered content.  According to TikTok’s Community Guidelines‚ “synthetic or manipulated media that shows realistic scenes must be clearly disclosed” by displaying “a sticker...

Former President Donald Trump is polling more than 10 points ahead of President Joe Biden among Catholic voters‚ thanks in part to increasing support from Hispanic Catholic voters‚ according to a recent Pew survey. Overall‚ Pew has Trump leading by only 1% among the general voter population. His support among the Catholic demographic‚ however‚ shows noteworthy signs of growth compared with 2020. According to the latest Pew Research Center poll‚ which was taken April 8–14‚ Trump leads...

Scientists are documenting a barrage of impacts — ones‚ they say‚ that will confront an even larger swath of U.S. coastal communities in the coming decades — even as they try to decipher the precise causes of this recent surge. The Gulf of Mexico has experienced twice the global average rate of sea level rise since 2010‚ a Post analysis of satellite data shows. Few other places on the planet have seen similar rates of increase‚ such as the North Sea near the...

President Joe Biden and Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail this week‚ but while taking very different detours — one to handle sensitive presidential tasks and the other to appear before a criminal jury. Biden was in North Carolina on Thursday to address supporters in the coastal town of Wilmington‚ which has the same name as the Delaware city where he has permanent residence. But he was courting North Carolinians‚ not his fellow Delawarians‚ as he and his campaign aides continued...

Catholics in the United States have swung dramatically against President Biden in recent years‚ now boasting a significant statistical break towards his GOP challenger. Pew Research released on Apr. 30 a report exploring support for presidential candidates sorted by religious affiliation. The poll found that 55% of Catholics support or lean towards supporting former President Donald Trump in a head-to-head against Biden.

China on Friday launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon‚ the first country to make such an ambitious attempt. The Long March-5‚ China's largest rocket‚ blasted off at 5:27 p.m. Beijing time (0927 GMT) from Wenchang Space Launch Center on the southern island of Hainan with the more than 8 metric ton Chang'e-6 probe. Chang'e-6 is tasked with landing in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon‚...

HAINES: ‘THE WAR IS UNLIKELY TO END ANYTIME SOON’: Russia is making “incremental progress” in Ukraine “with the potential for tactical breakthroughs along the front lines in areas such as Donetsk and Kharkiv‚” Avril Haines‚ director of national intelligence‚ told Congress on Thursday‚ and that has Russian President Vladimir Putin thinking “domestic and the international trends are in his favor.” Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on worldwide threats...

Anumber of leading Democratic figures are now regularly speaking out against the student pro-Palestinian protests across the country‚ including President Joe Biden decrying the &;quot;vandalism&;quot; and &;quot;violence&;quot; breaking out. The encampment demonstrations‚ which started in New York's Columbia University before expanding to other campuses‚ have been ongoing for weeks now. The movement is protesting Israel's war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza‚ which has been...