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Two US Navy pilots shot down over Red Sea in apparent 'friendly fire' incident, US military says
Two U.S. Navy pilots were shot down Sunday over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, the U.S military said, marking the most serious incident to threaten troops in over a year of America targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels. The U.S. military had conducted airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels at the time, though the U.S. military’s Central Command did not elaborate on what their mission was and did not immediately respond to questions from The Associated Press.
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Homeowner ends up in jail after calling police to remove squatter living inside her house
A deputy can be heard on body camera footage telling the homeowner to look at things from the alleged squatter’s point of view.
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‘This stops now’: DC mother speaks out after teacher posts video of her son with offensive caption
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) – A mother in the District is speaking out after she says her son’s substitute teacher posted a video of him online with a disturbing caption. Briana Graham’s 5-year-old son, who is autistic and nonverbal, is a student at Bridges Public Charter School in Northeast D.C. She said this week school […]
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Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas, new discoveries suggest
For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons, saber-toothed cats and dire wolves that once roamed North and South America. “There was this idea that humans arrived and killed everything off very quickly — what’s called ‘Pleistocene overkill,’” said Daniel Odess, an archaeologist at White Sands National Park in New Mexico.
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TSA officers stunned by 'extremely concerning' discovery in woman's carry-on at LAX
A woman flying from Los Angeles to Pennsylvania wound up on the TSA's naughty list after an officer discovered a trove of almost 90 forbidden items inside her carry-on.
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Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal
The U.S. ceded control of the canal to Panama in 1999 pursuant to a Carter administration treaty
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Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August.
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