A musician gets a message from their friend saying a group just released a database of music that may have been used to train an artificial intelligence music program. The musician pulls up the website, types in their name and hundreds of their songs fill the screen. In that moment, their years of work breaking […]
On the first day of the Iran war, a U.S. missile destroyed an unlikely target: a school for girls. Nearly 200 children and adults died. More than four months later, a new report claims that senior U.S. military commanders approved the target after disregarding warnings that intelligence about the site was years out of date. […]
Two years after a study in the scientific journal Environment International found 14 different tampon brands contained toxic metals, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded its own study into the effects of those metals. In July 2024, Environment International found evidence of arsenic, lead, mercury, nickel and other metals in both organic and non-organic […]
One of rock’s most distinctive voices has gone silent. Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer behind the classics “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero,” has died at the age of 75. Ironically, the raspy voice that made her famous was never part of the plan. After surgery on her vocal cords […]
Artificial intelligence is redrawing the map of global economic winners and losers. But the same technology now lifting parts of the world economy could also threaten it, the International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday. In its July World Economic Outlook Update, the IMF projected global growth of 3% in 2026 and 3.4% in 2027, a forecast […]
President Donald Trump spent three years and multiple rounds of appeals trying to avoid paying author and journalist E. Jean Carroll a $5 million jury verdict. But that fight cost him about $800,000 more. On Wednesday, a federal judge ordered the release of $5.8 million to Carroll after the Supreme Court refused to hear Trump’s […]
A former Wisconsin judge will not go to prison for helping a Mexican national escape immigration enforcement. That’s after a jury convicted her of felony obstruction in the case. A U.S. District Judge sentenced Hannah Dugan to no time behind bars, but she will have to pay a $5,000 fine. Dugan had faced five years […]
The author of the Ohio-based political blog “The Rooster” said he plans to fight hard — and take his legal case all the way to trial — after he was put in handcuffs for texting a state senator a picture of Shrek’s penis. The blogger now faces the prospect of jail after he was busted […]
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a suite of new laws on Tuesday aimed at lowering electric utility bills and ensuring data center developers pay for power grid upgrades. Electricity bills are rising nationwide, and the Garden State has been no exception. The governor’s office cited an environmental consulting firm’s report stating that the three […]
The U.S. said on Wednesday afternoon that it carried out another round of strikes on Iran, according to military officials. In a post on X, U.S. Central Command said that, at the president’s direction, the military has started additional strikes on Iran. They said the attacks are meant to “degrade [Iran’s] ability to threaten freedom […]
