Category: news
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Russia, Iran and China are using AI in election interference efforts, U.S. intelligence officials say
Propagandists in China, Iran and Russia are using artificial intelligence to create content designed to deceive Americans ahead of the November presidential election, federal intelligence officials said Monday. In a conference call about foreign election interference efforts organized by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, officials said the U.S. intelligence community, or IC,…
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Kamala Harris campaign office damaged by gunfire in Arizona
NBC affiliate KPNX of Phoenix previously reported the office had been damaged by gunfire.KPNX Sean McEnerney, the coordinated campaign manager for the state Democratic Party, also confirmed the incident in a statement. “Overnight, several shots were fired into our Tempe Democratic Party coordinated campaign office,” McEnerney said. No one was present or injured at the…
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Ryan Murphy defends Menendez brothers Netflix series after Erik Menendez blasts it as ‘blatant lies’
Ryan Murphy, the creator of “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” is defending the new Netflix series after it was harshly criticized by one of the brothers. Erik Menendez slammed the series, released Sept. 19 on Netflix, as “blatant lies” and called the portrayal of his brother Lyle “ruinous” in a statement from prison…
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Iron deficiency may affect nearly 1 in 3 Americans, new study finds
Nearly 1 in 3 Americans may have an undiagnosed iron deficiency, a problem that can lead to fatigue, brain fog and difficulty concentrating, a new study suggests. An analysis of data from more than 8,000 adults in the U.S. revealed that 14% had low iron blood levels, a condition known as absolute iron deficiency, while…
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Justice Department accuses Visa of debit network monopoly that affects price of ‘nearly everything’
The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday sued Visa, the world’s biggest payments network, saying it propped up an illegal monopoly over debit payments by imposing “exclusionary” agreements on partners and smothering upstart firms. Visa’s moves over the years have resulted in American consumers and merchants paying billions of dollars in additional fees, according to the DOJ, which filed…
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6-year-old boy kidnapped 73 years ago from California park found alive and well as senior citizen
A boy kidnapped more than seven decades ago from a California park was found alive and well as a senior citizen, reunited with surviving loved ones after his niece found him across the country through her own DNA research, police said Monday. Luis Albino was only 6 when he was taken on Feb. 2, 1951,…
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Aubrey Plaza, Maisy Stella on trauma, life lessons and cringey kiss in ‘My Old Ass’
Megan Park’s “My Old Ass” isn’t the first film to ask whether it would be better to have a warning about what life has in store. But the borderline-sci-fi film set in an Ontario lake town, which stars Maisy Stella and Aubrey Plaza alongside a multigenerational cast of veteran and first-time actors, may be the…
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Caroline Ellison, former FTX exec and Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend, sentenced to 2 years in prison
Caroline Ellison, whose testimony helped convict her former boss and ex-boyfriend, disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison for fraud and conspiracy. Ellison was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to 24 months and ordered to forfeit $11 billion for her involvement in…
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Woman sues Sean Combs, alleging he drugged and ‘viciously’ raped her in 2001
Sean “Diddy” Combs was sued Tuesday by a woman who says that he and his bodyguard “viciously” raped her in a New York City recording studio more than 20 years ago after Combs had drugged her, and that the men recorded the encounter on video. Thalia Graves said in the lawsuit filed in federal court…
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Korean adoptees say they were ‘commodified’ and governments ignored fraud, investigation finds
An International Social Service social worker who visited the U.S. Embassy in Seoul around that time found what she saw “distasteful,” according to documents at the agency’s archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries. “It showed the callous way in which children going to the US. were processed, to me, it was a real assembly…