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Saudi Arabia says 12 dead, 309 hurt in Riyadh airport attack

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Saudi Arabia said 12 people were killed and 309 were injured Saturday in an attack on the Riyadh airport, the deadliest incident in an intensifying conflict with Yemen’s Houthis.

Saudi civil aviation authorities said that airport operations were suspended temporarily while the damage was being assessed. Some of the injured were in critical ...Read more

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Officer killed, another injured in West Philly shooting; suspect ID'ed as water department employee

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PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia police officer was killed and another was critically wounded after authorities said a man ambushed them with a shotgun early Saturday outside his West Philadelphia home. The suspect, who continued to shoot at responding officers before being arrested, is a city employee.

Shane Seiber, a 40-year-old father of two,...Read more

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Anthropic AI model went rogue, submitted fake tip to police

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Anthropic PBC said its Claude AI model carried out additional unintended actions on the digital systems of outside organizations, including submitting a false tip in a police homicide case, prompting a warning from the Trump administration for artificial intelligence companies to secure their systems.

In a report outlining previously ...Read more

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Turkey bans social media accounts for children under 15

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Turkey has barred social media platforms from providing services to children under the age of 15, according to a regulation published in the Official Gazette.

Social media companies will be required to verify users’ ages when accounts are created, using an age-verification token through Turkey’s e-government system. Applications from users ...Read more

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Tropical Storm Rachel's surf drives out Long Beach residents, briefly shuts Newport Beach beaches

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LOS ANGELES — A coastal flood warning covered beaches from Malibu to San Diego on Saturday as Tropical Storm Rachel moved toward Southern California, while Long Beach kept some oceanfront residents under an evacuation order, and Newport Beach closed piers and temporarily shuttered beaches before a reopening.

“There is growing confidence ...Read more

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More than 100 aftershocks rattle Panama as earthquake damage mounts

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The toll from Friday’s powerful earthquake in Panama continued to mount Saturday, with authorities reporting at least 27 people injured, more than 400 buildings damaged and hundreds of coastal residents evacuated, as emergency crews assessed the destruction and the number of aftershocks surpassed 100.

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake damaged at ...Read more

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India police detain protesters, lock down Delhi over voter rolls

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Police in India’s capital cracked down on protests against a contentious review of voter rolls, detaining youth leaders and locking down central New Delhi with thousands of security personnel.

Authorities entered an aircraft after it landed in New Delhi from Mumbai and took Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and spokespersons Saurav...Read more

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Isaias leaves thousands without power, kills at least 4 people

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Downpours spread across the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic as Isaias’ remnants headed north after knocking out power to hundreds of thousands in three states and killing at least four people in Florida and Alabama.

Two people died after trees fell onto their homes Friday night — one in Birmingham, Alabama, according to Jefferson County ...Read more

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Saudi Arabia says 12 dead, 309 injured in Riyadh airport attack

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Saudi Arabia said 12 people were killed and 309 were injured Saturday in an attack on the Riyadh airport, the deadliest incident in an intensifying conflict with Yemen’s Houthis.

Saudi civil aviation authorities said that airport operations were suspended temporarily while the damage was being assessed. Some of the injured were in critical ...Read more

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Trump's AI liability push opens blame game for models gone rogue

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The Trump administration’s embrace of legal liability to enforce artificial intelligence safety sets the stage for future conflicts over who foots the bill when AI models go rogue: the companies that design the systems or the people that deploy the technology.

Holding AI developers financially responsible for the safety of their products has ...Read more

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Bass-led turnout surge crashes meeting to replace LA homeless outreach agency

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LOS ANGELES — It's not unusual for a public meeting to be canceled for lack of a quorum.

But there isn't even a word for what happened Friday when a once-obscure board canceled a meeting to decide the future of homeless services in Los Angeles because too many people came to vote.

More than 1,500 potential voters signed up for a meeting of ...Read more

New California ghost gun lawsuit takes aim at company that sells 3D printer filament

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LOS ANGELES — San Diego County jumped into California's sprawling ghost gun fight this week, suing a 3D printing filament manufacturer it says hocks material for homespun firearms in violation of state law.

Working with the Giffords Law Center, the county counsel sued manufacturer Polymaker, alleging the company made a "strategic business ...Read more

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Foiled mall plot reveals how Minnesota's terror threat has evolved

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MINNEAPOLIS — Messages between a young man and a confidential informant. Talks about joining al-Shabaab. Plans for a mass casualty attack.

The federal criminal case filed against a young Minnesota man Wednesday echoed a series of cases that made headlines a decade ago, when a wave of young men were lured by terrorist organizations to travel ...Read more

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Police: Pennsylvania gunman shot and killed 8, including 2 young kids and a pregnant woman, then himself

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PITTSBURGH — A gunman in Erie killed eight people Friday night, including two children and a pregnant woman, police said, marking one of the worst mass shootings in Pennsylvania history.

Seven of the victims were members of the same family, police said. The eighth was a family friend. The alleged gunman, who authorities have not named but ...Read more

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Fourth beluga whale rescued from Canada dies at Shedd, aquarium announces

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CHICAGO — Another beluga whale rescued from a troubled Canadian marine park and brought to Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium earlier this summer has died, the facility announced Friday.

In a blog post, the aquarium staff said Caspian, a 27-year-old female beluga, died Wednesday evening “despite intensive efforts by Shedd’s veterinary and animal ...Read more

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Tropical Storm Rachel is behaving in unusual ways. What that means for SoCal this weekend

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LOS ANGELES — Tropical Storm Rachel brings with it a slew of potential hazards, including damaging coastal flooding.

The National Hurricane Center warned that Rachel could pick up some strength before arriving on the West Coast — an unusual occurrence for storms in the tropical eastern Pacific.

Typically, storms weaken significantly once ...Read more

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Tropical Storm Rachel's surf drives out Long Beach residents, shuts Newport Beach beaches

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LOS ANGELES — A coastal flood warning covered beaches from Malibu to San Diego on Saturday as Tropical Storm Rachel moved toward Southern California, while Long Beach kept some oceanfront residents under an evacuation order, and Newport Beach closed its beaches and piers.

“For vulnerable south-facing beaches, especially Long Beach and ...Read more

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White House demands transparency after Anthropic's AI agents called in a false Philly homicide tip and applied for visas

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PHILADELPHIA — The White House said it expected “full transparency” and “immediate remediation” after the artificial intelligence company Anthropic disclosed that its agents supplied false information to the Philadelphia police homicide tip line and the State Department’s visa application system.

In a statement from a newly created ...Read more

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Behind-the-scenes operators: Moïse assassination trial seeks to unveil Haiti roles

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When former opposition Sen. Joseph Joël John returned to Haiti from a meeting in Miami with a Haitian American pastor and FBI agents in early 2021, he received an unexpected phone call from a Haitian government official.

How, Joseph Félix Badio wanted to know, could Joseph impose Christian Emmanuel Sanon on Haiti as president?

The exchange, ...Read more

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Trump says Ukraine needs new leader who can deal with Putin

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President Donald Trump demanded that Volodymyr Zelenskyy halt attacks on Russian oil refineries and suggested he should consider stepping aside as Ukraine’s president, escalating a fight centered on securing more diesel supplies for the U.S. ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president,” Trump ...Read more