One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images
By KELVIN CHAN and ALI SWENSON Associated Press LONDON (AP) — AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online.…
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Taps have run dry across South Africa’s largest city in an unprecedented water crisis
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for…
Continue ReadingA firework is lit, a boy is shot. Israel’s use of deadly force against Palestinians is scrutinized
By JACK JEFFERY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A 12-year-old boy in east Jerusalem lights the fuse of a long firework and hoists it in the air.…
Continue ReadingUK inflation is heading in ‘right direction,’ but Bank of England isn’t ready to cut rates
By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England has kept its main interest rate unchanged at a 16-year high even though inflation…
Continue ReadingCalifornia wants to pay doctors more money to see Medicaid patients
By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California wants to pay doctors more money to convince them to see more Medicaid patients.…
Continue ReadingPolice track down escaped Idaho prison gang member and accomplice, say pair may have killed 2 on run
By GENE JOHNSON and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the…
Continue ReadingPolice track down escaped Idaho prison gang member and accomplice, say pair may have killed 2 on run
By GENE JOHNSON and MARK THIESSEN Associated Press Police on Thursday arrested two white supremacist gang members — an Idaho prison inmate and the…
Continue ReadingThe UN adopts a resolution backing efforts to ensure artificial intelligence is safe
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The General Assembly has approved the first United Nations resolution on artificial…
Continue ReadingMan arrested after allegedly boarding Delta flight using photo of another passenger’s ticket
By Amy Simonson, CNN (CNN) — A Texas man was arrested after boarding a Delta Air Lines flight in Salt Lake City on Sunday without a ticket by…
Continue ReadingInfant dies days after 3 family members were killed in San Francisco bus stop crash
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An infant whose parents and brother were killed when an SUV plowed into a San Francisco bus stop over the weekend has died.…
Continue ReadingThey may not agree on how to define DEI, but that’s no problem for Kansas lawmakers attacking it
By JOHN HANNA and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are joining fellow Republicans in other states in trying to…
Continue ReadingIn Pennsylvania’s Senate race, Casey puts ‘greedflation’ and corporations on the ballot
By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — For Democrats trying to defend the White House and Senate majority, Democratic Sen. Bob Casey…
Continue ReadingJudge delays case against Colorado funeral home owners accused of 190 counts of corpse abuse
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado judge has granted a defense request to delay the…
Continue ReadingNearly 8 in 10 AAPI adults in the US think abortion should be legal, an AP-NORC poll finds
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With abortion rights poised to be one of the major issues in the…
Continue ReadingMicro-apartments are back after nearly a century, as need for affordable housing soars
By HALLIE GOLDEN and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Every part of Barbara Peraza-Garcia and her family’s single-room apartment in…
Continue ReadingMicro-apartments are back after nearly a century, as need for affordable housing soars
By HALLIE GOLDEN and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Every part of Barbara Peraza-Garcia and her family’s single-room apartment in…
Continue ReadingGhost Army members who deceived Nazis with battlefield ruses in WWII given Congressional Gold Medal
By JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — For decades, their mission in World War II was top secret. With inflatable tanks, trucks and…
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DCSO offers mandatory Boater Education card exams, pre-season boat inspections
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit is pleased to announce the return of our free mandatory Boater Education…
Continue ReadingAs election nears, Venezuelan government keeps arresting opponents allegedly tied to criminal plots
By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — As Venezuela’s government would have it, President Nicolas Maduro and members of his…
Continue ReadingReddit, the self-anointed ‘front page of the internet,’ soars in Wall Street debut
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Reddit soared in its Wall Street debut as investors pushed the…
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