Month: April 2024

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot meant to help small business owners in New York City has come under fire for dispensing bizarre advice that misstates local policies and advises companies to violate the law. Mayor Eric Adams acknowledged Tuesday that its answers were “wrong in some areas,”

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican drug cartel not only forced vendors to buy chicken at wildly inflated prices — they sold them chicken “not fit for human consumption.” Prosecutors in the State of Mexico concluded a months-long investigation this week that found the hyper-violent Familia Michoacana cartel had been forcing small stores and market

DALLAS (AP) — Authorities say a man who shot someone to death at a Muslim-owned tire shop in Dallas has been sentenced to 37 years in prison on federal hate crime charges. The U.S. Justice Department says 39-year-old Anthony Paz Torres was sentenced on Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in September to five federal hate crime

By MARCOS ALEMÁN Associated Press SAN SALVADOR (AP) — The rights group Humanitarian Legal Relief says at least 241 people have died in El Salvador prisons since the start of President Nayib Bukele’s “war on gangs” two years ago. Ingrid Escobar, director of the rights organization, said they received 500 reports of deaths in state

By LEA SKENE Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The only maritime shipping terminal currently operating in the Port of Baltimore is preparing to process an influx of redirected ships as crews continue clearing the wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge. Tradepoint Atlantic says it will unload and process an estimated 10,000 vehicles over

BY MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia town has been excluded from a countywide police training academy after the town’s chief complained about Chinese signatures on trainees’ graduation certificates. Herndon Police Chief Maggie DeBoard complained that the academy director, Maj. Wilson Lee, used Chinese characters to sign the certificates that

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s defense minister warned his French counterpart against deploying troops to Ukraine in a rare phone call Wednesday and noted that Moscow is ready to take part in talks to end the conflict. Sergei Shoigu told French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu that if Paris follows up on its statements about the possibility

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana state House Democratic leader Phil GiaQuinta is running to be Fort Wayne’s next mayor. The decision was confirmed by one of his advisers Wednesday. It follows the death of longtime Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry. The Democratic mayor died March 28 after announcing a stomach cancer

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An environmental group is challenging the U.S. Energy Department’s decision to award over $1 billion to help keep California’s last nuclear power plant running beyond 2025. A lawsuit filed by Friends of the Earth in federal court in Los Angeles opens another battlefront in the

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A major South Korean computer chipmaker said Wednesday it plans to spend more than $3.87 billion in Indiana to build a semiconductor packaging plant and research and development center. SK Hynix expects the campus to create as many as 800 high-wage jobs in engineering, technical support, administration and maintenance by