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Tropical storm Shanshan lashes Japan with torrential rains and strong winds on its crawl northeast

Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A strong storm lashed southern Japan with torrential rain and strong winds Thursday, causing at least three deaths as it started a crawl up the length of the archipelago and raised concerns of flooding, landslides and extensive damage. Tropical storm Shanshan made landfall Thursday morning as a powerful typhoon on

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Utah Gov. Cox faces scrutiny for using military cemetery photo with Trump in campaign email

Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox has came under fire for sending a campaign email that included a photo of him and Donald Trump at Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony. Federal law prohibits campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries and that rule was widely

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Georgia lawmakers seek answers to deaths and violence plaguing the state’s prisons

Associated Press/Report for America ATLANTA (AP) — Statistics presented to Georgia lawmakers indicate that the state’s prisons remain seriously understaffed and plagued by violence and deaths. A legislative committee meeting for the second time to get answers and find solutions to the crisis got an overview of the numbers on Wednesday from Department of Corrections

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FBI discovered a DHS document describing improvised explosive devices during investigation of Trump’s would-be assassin

By John Miller and Sabrina Shulman, CNN (CNN) — Among the documents Donald Trump’s would-be-assassin studied while formulating his plans for an attack on the former president was a public document from the Department of Homeland Security, describing different kinds of improvised explosive devices and the number of explosives needed to inflict casualties over certain

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California advances landmark legislation to regulate large AI models

Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Efforts in California to establish first-in-the-nation safety measures for the largest artificial intelligence systems cleared an important vote Wednesday that could pave the way for U.S. regulations on the technology evolving at warp speed. The proposal, aiming to reduce potential risks created by AI, would require companies to test

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California advances landmark legislation to regulate large AI models

Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Efforts in California to establish first-in-the-nation safety measures for the largest artificial intelligence systems cleared an important vote Wednesday that could pave the way for U.S. regulations on the technology evolving at warp speed. The proposal, aiming to reduce potential risks created by AI, would require companies to test

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The new fight to reform the UN’s colonial-era world order

By Tara John, CNN (CNN) — In a city known for its private members clubs battling for exclusivity, one gilded room in Manhattan reigns supreme: a powerful club of countries within the United Nations headquarters that has resisted adding a new member for nearly eight decades. The UN Security Council has been dominated by just five countries (the United States, China, Russia,

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Iran says Yemen’s Houthi rebels will allow tugboats and rescue ships to aid tanker ablaze in Red Sea

Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have agreed to allow tugboats and rescue ships to assist a Greek-flagged tanker that remains ablaze in the Red Sea “in consideration of humanitarian and environmental concerns,” Iran’s U.N. Mission says. The Pentagon said Tuesday that attempts by an unidentified “third party” to send two tugboats

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People in Brazil’s Amazon are choking on smoke and feeling the heat from rainforest wildfires

Associated Press MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Smoke from wildfires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is causing people in the region to cough, burning their throats and reddening their eyes. Swaths of the country have been draped in smoke in recent days, resulting from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland and the state of

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