The former president gave a speech expressing support for LGBTQ+ rights at an LGBTQ+ leaders conference on Friday

Joe Biden has criticized Republicans for turning transgender rights into a “political football” in a speech that the former US president delivered at an LGBTQ+ event.

Speaking at the International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference in Washington on Friday, Biden urged LGBTQ+ people to “get up and fight back” against Donald Trump ’s second presidential administration.

The former president gave a speech expressing support for LGBTQ+ rights at an LGBTQ+ leaders conference on Friday

Joe Biden has criticized Republicans for turning transgender rights into a “political football” in a speech that the former US president delivered at an LGBTQ+ event.

Speaking at the International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference in Washington on Friday, Biden urged LGBTQ+ people to “get up and fight back” against Donald Trump ’s second presidential administration.

The former president gave a speech expressing support for LGBTQ+ rights at an LGBTQ+ leaders conference on Friday

Joe Biden has criticized Republicans for turning transgender rights into a “political football” in a speech that the former US president delivered at an LGBTQ+ event.

Speaking at the International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference in Washington on Friday, Biden urged LGBTQ+ people to “get up and fight back” against Donald Trump ’s second presidential administration.

• Saracens 47-10 Clermont Auvergne

• Sarries run in seven tries in Champions Cup opener

This was never in doubt. On a grey, sodden day in north London, Clermont Auvergne initially defended with spirit before reverting to a more stereotypically French model for playing away from home and fell to a heavy 47-10 defeat.

A depleted, callow squad always looked likely to struggle against a Saracens side crammed with international quality, even despite the absence of England’s Maro Itoje, Ben Earl and Jamie George. The visitors were ultimately overwhelmed with Noah Caluori, the 19-year-old wing, proving a constant menace in a remarkably assured individual display. Saracens scored seven tries: the Argentina international wing Lucio Cinti got two, with Max Malins, James Hadfield, Caluori, Hugh Tizard and Theo Dan all chipping in. Mark McCall’s side are up and running in the Champions Cup: next Saturday’s meeting with the Sharks in Durban will be different, and more difficult, in every conceivable way.

• Saracens 47-10 Clermont Auvergne

• Sarries run in seven tries in Champions Cup opener

This was never in doubt. On a grey, sodden day in north London, Clermont Auvergne initially defended with spirit before reverting to a more stereotypically French model for playing away from home and fell to a heavy 47-10 defeat.

A depleted, callow squad always looked likely to struggle against a Saracens side crammed with international quality, even despite the absence of England’s Maro Itoje, Ben Earl and Jamie George. The visitors were ultimately overwhelmed with Noah Caluori, the 19-year-old wing, proving a constant menace in a remarkably assured individual display. Saracens scored seven tries: the Argentina international wing Lucio Cinti got two, with Max Malins, James Hadfield, Caluori, Hugh Tizard and Theo Dan all chipping in. Mark McCall’s side are up and running in the Champions Cup: next Saturday’s meeting with the Sharks in Durban will be different, and more difficult, in every conceivable way.

• Saracens 47-10 Clermont Auvergne

• Sarries run in seven tries in Champions Cup opener

This was never in doubt. On a grey, sodden day in north London, Clermont Auvergne initially defended with spirit before reverting to a more stereotypically French model for playing away from home and fell to a heavy 47-10 defeat.

A depleted, callow squad always looked likely to struggle against a Saracens side crammed with international quality, even despite the absence of England’s Maro Itoje, Ben Earl and Jamie George. The visitors were ultimately overwhelmed with Noah Caluori, the 19-year-old wing, proving a constant menace in a remarkably assured individual display. Saracens scored seven tries: the Argentina international wing Lucio Cinti got two, with Max Malins, James Hadfield, Caluori, Hugh Tizard and Theo Dan all chipping in. Mark McCall’s side are up and running in the Champions Cup: next Saturday’s meeting with the Sharks in Durban will be different, and more difficult, in every conceivable way.

AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’

A single person claims to have authored 113 academic papers on artificial intelligence this year, 89 of which will be presented this week at one of the world’s leading conference on AI and machine learning, which has raised questions among computer scientists about the state of AI research.

The author, Kevin Zhu, recently finished a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and now runs Algoverse, an AI research and mentoring company for high schoolers – many of whom are his co-authors on the papers. Zhu himself graduated from high school in 2018.

Obama, Trump, and Biden stood by their man in Tegucigalpa for the eight vicious, destructive years he was in power

Since President Trump first announced the pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández last Friday, the media has been wading through the long list of criminal acts that led to Hernández’s 2024 conviction for drug trafficking, money laundering and arms dealing. Trump’s outrageous pardon is being contrasted with his unlawful, aggressive attacks on boats allegedly trafficking drugs for the government of Venezuela. Missing from the narrative, though, are the other illegal acts committed by Hernández that weren’t about drug trafficking, and thus didn’t fall under the justice department’s anti-drug mandate when it charged and convicted him in the southern district of New York. Many are the crimes of Juan Orlando Hernández, and ruinous.

And long is the history of US support for him in full knowledge of those crimes. Presidents Obama, Trump and Biden all stood by their man in Honduras for the eight vicious, destructive years he was in power. They ignored his drug connections, supported the military and police that kept him in power through state terror, and countenanced his illegal re-elections. Hernández was only able to rise to power, and stay there, because of the United States government.

Dana Frank is research professor and professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup

Obama, Trump, and Biden stood by their man in Tegucigalpa for the eight vicious, destructive years he was in power

Since President Trump first announced the pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández last Friday, the media has been wading through the long list of criminal acts that led to Hernández’s 2024 conviction for drug trafficking, money laundering and arms dealing. Trump’s outrageous pardon is being contrasted with his unlawful, aggressive attacks on boats allegedly trafficking drugs for the government of Venezuela. Missing from the narrative, though, are the other illegal acts committed by Hernández that weren’t about drug trafficking, and thus didn’t fall under the justice department’s anti-drug mandate when it charged and convicted him in the southern district of New York. Many are the crimes of Juan Orlando Hernández, and ruinous.

And long is the history of US support for him in full knowledge of those crimes. Presidents Obama, Trump and Biden all stood by their man in Honduras for the eight vicious, destructive years he was in power. They ignored his drug connections, supported the military and police that kept him in power through state terror, and countenanced his illegal re-elections. Hernández was only able to rise to power, and stay there, because of the United States government.

Dana Frank is research professor and professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup