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Month: November 2023

Gov. Newsom says arson caused massive fire under I-10 freeway in Downtown LA

By DEAN FIORESI, MATTHEW RODRIGUEZ Click here for updates on this story     LOS ANGELES (KCAL) — A preliminary investigation determined the destructive fire that indefinitely closed the I-10 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles was intentionally started with “malice intent,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday afternoon. “They made a preliminary determination there was malice intent,”

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Extremist-linked rebels kill at least 44 villagers in separate attacks in Congo’s volatile east

BY JEAN-YVES KAMALE Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Local authorities and civil society leaders say extremist-linked rebels killed at least 44 villagers in Congo’s volatile eastern region during separate attacks that started on Sunday night. Eastern Congo has been ravaged by conflict for decades as more than 120 armed groups fight for control of

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YouTube creators will soon have to disclose use of gen AI in videos or risk suspension

The Associated Press YouTube is rolling out new rules for AI content, including a requirement that creators reveal whether they’ve used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos. In a blog post Tuesday outlining a number of AI-related policy updates, YouTube said creators that don’t disclose whether they’ve used AI tools to make “altered

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19-year-old Michigan man pleads guilty to threatening a mass shooting targeting Jewish people in Instagram messages

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — A 19-year-old Michigan man pleaded guilty Monday to threatening to commit a mass shooting targeting Jewish people in a series of Instagram messages, authorities said. Seann Pietila exchanged messages with another Instagram user in June about committing a mass killing and streaming the attack online, according to the indictment.

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Footprints in the snow lead rescuers to Rocky Mountains hiker wearing a cotton hoodie with no way to warm themselves

By Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A hiker who was unprepared for conditions at over 13,000 feet up in the Colorado Rockies was rescued when searchers followed footprints in freshly fallen snow to find them “alive but very hypothermic,” rescuers said. “When inclement weather moved in the hiker found themself unprepared; out of water, with

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Fire that indefinitely closed section of vital Los Angeles freeway was arson, governor says

By JOHN ANTCZAK, JULIE WATSON and JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arson was the cause of a massive weekend fire that charred and indefinitely closed a vital section of a major Los Angeles freeway, causing major traffic headaches for hundreds of thousands of commuters, California authorities said. Gov. Gavin Newsom said investigators

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Fire that indefinitely closed section of vital Los Angeles freeway was arson, governor says

By JOHN ANTCZAK, JULIE WATSON and JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arson was the cause of a massive weekend fire that charred and indefinitely closed a vital section of a major Los Angeles freeway, causing major traffic headaches for hundreds of thousands of commuters, California authorities said. Gov. Gavin Newsom said investigators

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Satellite photos analyzed by the AP show Israeli forces pushed further into Gaza late last week

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli tanks and armored vehicles pushed further into the Gaza Strip late last week as part of an offensive squeezing Gaza City as fighting raged between its forces and Hamas militants in the coastal enclave, satellite photos analyzed Tuesday by The Associated Press show.

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