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The FAA on Friday issued a rare nationwide ground stop on all domestic flights after what appears to be a major outage affecting its air communications system. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that, for now, the Trump administration does not suspect any nefarious causes, such as a terrorist or ...

The Signal Interview “We have plan A’s all the way to plan Z’s, from our best-case scenarios to our worst-case scenarios,” Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak says, when asked how the culture, tourism, and property groups he leads are preparing for what might happen next in the conflict that has shaken ...

The White House’s AI task force convened Thursday to discuss the “evolving cyber threat environment” and strengthening critical infrastructure against potential attacks, an administration official told Semafor. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, who leads the task force, informed the members about the work that tech CEOs who signed the ...

House Democrats are all but certain to elect House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as their speaker designate next week. There could still be some turbulence, though, with progressive activists calling for Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., to launch a bid against Jeffries. Ricardo Sanchez, a Pressley spokesperson, said she was in ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is coming under more friendly fire over his department’s policing of AI chip exports. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this morning publicly blamed Lutnick for the administration’s failure to blacklist AI firm Megaspeed, telling CNBC that Treasury “has been pushing for this for months” but Commerce “has ...

Statement is rare instance of a prominent Jewish political leader taking a strong stand in defence of Arab Israelis Israeli prime ministerial hopeful Gadi Eisenkot accused caretaker premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday of fuelling a “racist” campaign against the country’s Arab minority, after he sought to delegitimise the community’s lawmakers ...

This is not a personality contest. This is a debate about the future of the Democratic party The election for Democratic Senate leader between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen must be understood for what it is. This is not a personality contest. This is a debate about the future ...

Experts say the event is a “stark reminder” of how heavily the world relies on a small group of big tech providers. ...

Gen Z is often cast as souring on AI, but they’re no more negative about the technology than their parents and grandparents. A new survey from Milltown Partners, shared first with Semafor, found that 73% of Gen Z adults haven’t made up their minds on AI, while half said they ...

Microsoft reported progress, but not a full recovery, following an outage Thursday that affected Outlook, Teams, and Copilot across more than 70 countries. The consequences have been wide-reaching: Several police departments in the UK said Friday that the public shouldn’t report crimes via online submission forms, and should call them ...