Catholic bishops in Mexico say they negotiated for possible peace accord with drug cartel leaders

MEXICO CITY — Four Roman Catholic bishops met with Mexican drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord, one of the bishops said, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he approves of such talks. The revelation by Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, José de Jesús González Hernández, in remarks at a … Read more

Trump Says Civil War Could Have Been ‘Negotiated’ in Bizarre Iowa Speech

Donald Trump continued his push on Saturday to win the Republican presidential nomination with a pair of caucus rallies in Iowa, beginning at the DMACC Conference Center in Newton and then culminating in Clinton. His speeches come on the third anniversary of Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and a little more than a week … Read more

Top Brazilian criminal leader isolated in prison after he negotiated his own arrest

RIO DE JANEIRO — One of Brazil’s top criminal leaders was locked up in a 6-square-meter (65-square-foot) isolation cell at a maximum security prison to avoid being killed by rivals, authorities said Tuesday. Luiz Antônio da Silva Braga, the boss of the largest militia group in the state of Rio de Janeiro, surrendered to federal … Read more

US national security adviser says a negotiated outcome is the best way to end Lebanon-Israel tension

BEIRUT — U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Friday that he has discussed with Israeli officials the volatile situation along the Lebanon-Israel border, adding that a “negotiated outcome” is the best way to reassure residents of northern Israel. Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Sullivan said that Washington won’t tolerate threats by Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah … Read more

AI successfully negotiated a legal contract without human help

In a groundbreaking moment, AI successfully negotiated a contract with…AI. There were no real stakes involved, since it was a just a live demo, but artificial intelligence company Luminance just provided a glimpse of what the future might look like for the legal industry. On Tuesday, the UK-based company’s large language model (LLM) automated a … Read more