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For weeks, top Democrats in Washington have watched with cautious restraint as Republicans dumped millions into red states like Kansas and South Carolina to defend an increasingly shaky Senate map.But Democrats increasingly believe they have a real chance to win seats deep in Trump territory as Republicans face their worst midterm environment in decades and the Senate map abruptly expands.Democrats are now adding Kansas to a growing list of unlikely targets as they also try to flip Texas, Alaska and Iowa – all four states that Trump won by double digits in 2024. With just 22 days to go, Sena

Pennsylvania says GSK to invest more than $800 million in biopharma hub, create 300 jobs

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Anthropic AI model submits false homicide tip to police website

An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false homicide tip through a Philadelphia police website, the department said in a statement. Anthropic notified the police earlier this week and said that an automated testing process was responsible for the submission, according to the police. Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The AI company was cited as telling the authorities the testing process was stopped after the incident was uncovered, and that an additional validation mechanism has been introduced for future testing. (Reporting by Costas Pitas;

Hegseth wants America to watch a firing squad execution. It’s drawing backlash

Michigan police arrest bank robbery suspect in under 10 minutes after detective spots him on the street

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Vance says he won't watch livestream of execution; Trump remains silent

US Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that he would not watch a livestream of the military execution of the gunman who killed 13 people at Fort Hood military base in 2009, while President Donald Trump has yet to comment on the Pentagon plan."I don't know that that's actually going to happen," Vance told reporters while campaigning in Ohio. "If it's ultimately livestreamed, I'm not going to be watching it."Trump said at a White House event on Friday that former Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan would be executed by firing squad. But he has not commented on the livestream plan announced by Secr

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FCC chief defers to Pentagon on airing US execution on TV networks

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Hurricane Isaias strengthens into Category 3 with evacuations underway on Gulf Coast

Isaias has strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 120 mph, according to a special update from the National Hurricane Center moments ago. That makes it a major hurricane, a designation reserved for storms rated Category 3 or higher. Isaias is the first major hurricane in the Atlantic since Hurricane Melissa last October. Increasing wind shear, which can disrupt a hurricane’s structure, is expected to weaken Isaias slightly before landfall late tonight, but the storm will remain a dangerous hurricane, potentially as strong as a high-end Category 2. Life-threateni

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New video shows people pouring into the streets as a powerful quake hits Panama

A major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 has struck southern Panama, according to the US Geological Survey.Several people have suffered minor injuries but so far there are no reports of fatalities, officials said.The USGS had said some casualties were possible and extensive damage was probable.Footage verified by CNN shows several damaged buildings in Penonome, some 70 miles from the epicenter. One video shows a church with a partially collapsed steeple and another building with a crumbled facade.In the popular resort town Playa Venao, a multi-story building collapsed and crushed

Hurricane Isaias lashes the US Gulf Coast with wind and rain hours before it comes ashore

Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed

Houthis claim new attack against airport in Saudi capital as witness reports evacuation

Several explosions were heard in Saudi Arabia's capital on Thursday, including a large blast at Riyadh’s international airport, a witness told The Associated Press, a day after the kingdom said an attack on the airport killed one person and wounded others. The blasts had an immediate effect on markets, as the price of crude oil jumped and Saudi Arabia slid further into the latest front in the Iran war. Hundreds of flights to and from Riyadh were cancelled, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen claimed respon

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Christa Pike is walking with help and eating after failed execution attempt, her attorneys say

Christa Pike has begun walking and eating again at a hospital a week after surviving Tennessee’s attempt to execute her with lethal drugs, her attorneys said Thursday. Pike, 50, survived two doses of pentobarbital as the state sought to giver her a lethal injection eight days ago for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer. The drug didn’t kill her, and her arms were left burned and blistered, according to her lawyers. For the first few days of her hospitalization, Pike was unconscious and on a ventilator. Her first steps on Wednesday w

Hurricane Isaias strengthens to Category 2 with evacuations underway in the Gulf states

Trump says he'll award fireballer Roger Clemens the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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One of the world’s wealthiest cities is enduring the world’s most polluted air. Here’s why

Singapore, one of the wealthiest cities in the world, has become the most polluted on the planet as it chokes under a blanket of thick, toxic smog caused by fires in neighboring Indonesia.Pollution has cast a pall on the city-state as it gets ready to host a packed weekend of marquee events ranging from international conferences to the glitzy Formula One Grand Prix night race.Air quality in the city-state was at the “very unhealthy” range with an air quality index (AQI) of 216 Friday mid-morning, according to Swiss air quality monitor IQAir.The financial hub topped the list of most pollute

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Powerful earthquake shakes Panama

FBI arrests suspect in ShinyHunters hack of the bureau's jobs portal

Former ICC judge Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

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South African-born jurist Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for her work in international justice

Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for efforts that the award committee said promoted international law as it comes under attack. Her win is sure to be seen as a high-profile rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have both rejected the findings of the U.N. commission she led on Gaza. The leaders also ha

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Iranian operatives used AI to plant fake stories in multiple US media outlets

Operatives in Iran used OpenAI models and fake personas to help plant news articles critical of the US war against Iran in multiple US media outlets, OpenAI said on Thursday.About a dozen outlets around the world ran roughly 100 articles by seven fake journalists, OpenAI said in a blog post. The firm said it banned ChatGPT accounts that were prompting the AI tool in Farsi to tweak articles and editorial pitches, and generate social media comments.Some of the AI-assisted articles had provocative titles, including, “Is America’s Iran Policy Being Privatized? The Jared Kushner Question,” an

A few inches – and a fan’s arms – separated Anthony Volpe from October heroics. Instead, the Yankees are swept by Tampa

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Trump launches new effort to oust Fed Governor Lisa Cook

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Top Democrats and allies join the wealthiest to fight a California billionaire tax

A first-in-the-nation proposal in California to tax billionaires could test voters' appetite for levying a wealth tax on the ultra-rich

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Democrats fear they might be reaching too far in push for huge House margin

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Tech stocks drop after report that OpenAI’s revenue is lower than expected

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls