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Apple CEO Tim Cook inspects the new iPhone 16 during an Apple special event at Apple headquarters on September 09, 2024 in Cupertino, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesWhen unveiling Apple Intelligence last summer, one of Apple’s flashiest demos showed the Siri voice assistant juggling several apps to help a user plan a lunch after landing from a flight. Those capabilities won’t be coming anytime soon. Apple on Friday announced that it is delaying the features that would supercharge Siri with the ability to take action inside other apps until next year. That feature was expected to be released this spring.Another Siri improvement…

Funcionarios de alto rango del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos han elaborado planes para cerrar una decena de consulados en el extranjero antes de este verano y están considerando la posibilidad de cerrar muchas más misiones, en lo que podría suponer un duro golpe para los esfuerzos del gobierno estadounidense por establecer alianzas y recabar información de inteligencia, según afirman funcionarios estadounidenses.El Departamento de Estado también tiene previsto despedir a muchos ciudadanos locales que trabajan para sus cientos de misiones. Esos trabajadores constituyen dos tercios de la plantilla de la agencia, y en muchos países forman la base del…

(The Center Square) – The city of Chester, Pennsylvania’s first, is situated along the Delaware River, just southwest of the Philadelphia Airport. For decades, it’s held a reputation for poverty, pollution and crime.It could, Chester Mayor Stefan Roots believes, become a beautiful waterfront city again – if environmental justice is served.“When I think of justice, I think of punishments and arrests and people going to jail. That doesn’t happen around here,” said Roots. “Chester is Delaware County’s waterfront. We want to enjoy the waterfront like other communities enjoy their waterfront. It can be the economic engine that drives Chester to…

(The Center Square) – One of Wisconsin’s Republican congressmen says he’s not going to let potential protesters scare him away from talking to voters.Congressman Bryan Steil was on News Talk 1130 WISN recently and said he has no plans to change his town hall meeting schedule.‘I’ve done a series of town halls already this year across southeast Wisconsin,” Steil said. “I hold town halls with a history of being available and accessible, and we’re going to continue to do that.”A number of Republicans have recently seen angry crowds at town halls protesting potential Medicaid cuts.Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, including President…

Three Bulgarians have been found guilty of spying for Russia in Britain and across continental Europe as part of one of the largest Russian espionage rings ever uncovered by the British police.During a three-year period, the group, led by a Bulgarian I.T. specialist, Orlin Roussev, 47, conducted six operations targeting journalists and critics of the Russian government, prosecutors said, adding they also carried out surveillance at a U.S. military site in Germany, where they believed Ukrainian soldiers were being trained.“This case is a clear example of the increasing amount of state threat casework we are dealing with in the U.K.…

What is President Trump up to? This is arguably the most important question in the world right now — and perhaps the toughest to answer.Mr. Trump’s words and actions seem to revolve around a central idea: The world is a zero-sum game. Whoever pays the most into the pot is the loser; whoever gets the most is the winner.That may sound like a mere difference of perspective or negotiation style. But most of the postwar international order is based on the idea that the world is a positive-sum game: a collection of overlapping systems that benefit all who participate in…

HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) — Protesters demanding an in-person town hall from their western Michigan GOP congressman chanted loudly Friday as honking drivers signaled support, disrupting the usual calm of a conservative family vacation town.Mere hours later, Rep. Bill Huizenga held a town hall — by phone. The vocal disruption seen outside his Holland office earlier in the day was absent, as the more controlled setting allowed for questions from pre-selected letters and callers.“I know this may not be satisfactory to some who would like to just create a scene and be, you know, be disruptive,” Huizenga said on the call.…

Panama will release 112 migrants who had been deported from the United States last month and were being held in a remote jungle camp, a minister said on Friday, after lawyers and advocates said the conditions violated Panamanian and international laws.The migrants come from countries that the United States cannot easily return deportees to, often because those nations will not receive them.Panama was issuing 30-day temporary humanitarian passes to the migrants to give them time to arrange their return to their homelands, or to other countries willing to take them, Panama’s security minister, Frank Ábrego, told reporters on Friday. He…

To the Editor:Re “Giving Up Foreign Policy Pretenses,” by Ross Douthat (column, March 2):President Trump and Vice President JD Vance are repeating a foreign policy misstep that Neville Chamberlain, Britain’s prime minister, made famous in the 1930s: appeasement.Some may speculate that Mr. Trump is playing three-dimensional chess, or that the past 80 years could have been improved with less trade, fewer alliances and reduced globalization. However, these arguments miss a fundamental point.Henry Kissinger, who is mentioned in Mr. Douthat’s column, had a mixed legacy of achievements. Yet it’s doubtful he would have permitted the disorganized preparation and lack of discipline…

United States President Donald Trump has issued a statement threatening Russia with tariffs and sanctions, amid accusations that he favours Moscow over the country it has invaded, Ukraine. On his Truth Social platform on Friday, Trump avoided condemning Russia’s invasion, which has been denounced as an unjustified crime of aggression under the United Nations Charter. Instead, he focused on Russia’s latest bombardment, which happened just days after the US announced it would temporarily stop sharing military intelligence with Ukraine. “Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale…