Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Five secretaries of state are urging tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to fix an AI chatbot on his social media platform X, saying in a letter that it has spread election misinformation. The state election officials said the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok, produced false information about state ballot deadlines shortly after
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s attorney general has announced that she is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the state’s new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1. The Republican said that she is not aware of
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional travel on GOP megadonor Harlan Crow’s private jet. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote to Crow’s lawyer asking about the trip. Wyden is backing an election-year push to tighten the high
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation, a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies. The highly anticipated decision issued by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta
Continue ReadingAssociated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Oakland Athletics has reached a tentative agreement to sell its half of the Coliseum to a private Black development group for $125 million. Monday’s announcement paves the way for the African American Sports & Entertainment Group to build in a long-neglected part of the San Francisco Bay Area
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday shut down a long-shot push from Missouri to remove a gag order in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York. The Missouri attorney general went to the high court with the unusual request to sue New York after the
Continue ReadingBUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A small tornado has damaged buildings, flipped cars and sent debris swirling over downtown Buffalo. The National Weather Service confirms that the swirling column caught on multiple videos shortly before 1 p.m. Monday was a tornado. One video shows the cell appearing to move from Lake Erie into the city, which
Continue ReadingAssociated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A landslide triggered by heavy rains in southern Ethiopia’s Wolaita area killed at least 13 people and the number of fatalities is expected to rise, according to a local official. Samuel Fola, zone chief administrator of Wolaita, said more than 300 people have been evacuated from the area
Continue ReadingAP Technology Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elon Musk has filed a second lawsuit against OpenAI and two founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Musk claims he is suing over a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. The lawsuit, filed in a Northern California federal
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — A new arcade with 69 racing simulators is bringing the feel of Formula 1 to fans more accustomed to rush hour traffic. F1 Arcade has opened its first U.S. location in Boston with a goal of 30 venues worldwide by 2027. The speedy expansion is hoping on Formula 1’s
Continue ReadingBy Ifeanyi Abraham, for CNN (CNN) — In 2016, facing the looming threat of layoffs, Nelly Agbogu took a bold leap into entrepreneurship. Launching Nellies Nigeria, a snack business, marked the beginning of her journey. However, it was the subsequent realization of a gap in the market that would truly shape her entrepreneurial path. “At the time,
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen and Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — As the planet warms, hurricanes are changing – they are getting stronger faster, bringing more flooding rain, pushing farther inland after they make landfall and tracking farther north in general. Those changes are exposing more people and properties to hurricanes’ damaging winds, according to a new
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, CNN (CNN) — Louisiana officials unveiled several posters of the Ten Commandments on Monday that could soon be placed in state classrooms and which feature House Speaker Mike Johnson, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. The posters shown at Monday’s news conference are not the
Continue ReadingAssociated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Hundreds of Israelis sent orange balloons into the air Monday to mark the fifth birthday of one of two children held captive by militants in the Gaza Strip. Ariel Bibas, along with his 1-year-old brother Kfir, has become a symbol of the struggle to release the hostages. The
Continue ReadingAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris’ coronation as the Democrats’ standard-bearer for the 2024 presidential election is now official after the Democratic National Committee announced the formal results of the online voting by delegates on Monday night. It caps a tumultuous period for the party prompted by President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have released images of three suspects and the getaway car used in the killing of former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor in downtown Los Angeles when he interrupted thieves stealing the catalytic converter from his car. The two images were released by the Los Angeles Police Department on Sunday in
Continue ReadingAssociated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The United Nations said Monday it has fired additional staff members from its agency for Palestinian refugees after an internal investigation found they may have been involved in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack against Israel. The U.N. secretary-general’s office announced the move in a brief statement to journalists. Farhan Haq,
Continue ReadingTUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisian President Kais Saied has filed the necessary paperwork to run in the presidential election in October. He is expected to face little competition as prominent opposition members and other potential challengers have been imprisoned during his first term. The list of candidates for the Oct. 6 election will be published
Continue ReadingAP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — The International Boxing Association has raised new questions while struggling to answer others at a shambolic news conference about the opaque gender tests that led the Olympics-banned governing body to abruptly suspend Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting from last year’s world championships. The decision has fueled online abuse against
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Two suspects in a Sedalia shooting that turned deadly when the hospitalized victim died have now been indicted on murder and accessory charges.
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