2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (814+ words) Anthropic said Thursday it has blocked efforts by bad actors to use its artificial intelligence models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons. As AI models grow more powerful, elaborate cyberattacks…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1083+ words) Kathryn Pilgrim knew the century-old Victorian she bought in Dunkirk, New York, came with old plumbing. She replaced pipes she suspected of containing lead and later installed a kitchen filter designed to remove heavy metals. But six years after buying…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (712+ words) By CARA ANNA and FATMA KHALED Here’s a look at the intensifying conflict along the Red Sea that could tear the Arab world’s poorest country apart once more and potentially send oil prices even higher above the $100 per barrel mark....

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (87+ words) Wholesale prices moved higher last month in latest sign of stubborn inflation The Press Democrat By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Economics Writer The Labor Department’s producer price index — which captures inflation before it reaches consumers — rose 5.4% in August from a year…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (727+ words) By ALEX TURNBULL and JOHN LEICESTER But climate warming is dismantling the picture at alarming speed. “We weep for our mountain, the way it’s changing. It hits us in the gut,” said Stéphane Bozon, a deputy mayor in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1175+ words) Work crews are well along in their unenviable and aromatic task involving the 58-foot Lake Bay, a fishing vessel that ran aground Aug. 22 on Point Reyes National Seashore’s North Beach. Once the boat had been pulled by bulldozers out of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (367+ words) Platner, who won the nomination in June but dropped out in July after Politico reported that a former girlfriend said he sexually assaulted her, had been scheduled to speak Monday at the rally in Ellsworth, near his hometown of Sullivan....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (525+ words) A man accused of arranging the fatal shooting of a Microsoft design manager on a Florida road was convicted Wednesday in a murder-for-hire scheme that followed years of a stormy child custody arrangement between the victim and his wealthy ex-wife....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (375+ words) As if there was any doubt, Republicans’ midterm convention will be the Donald Trump show, with the president appearing at both nights of the event in Dallas next month. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are both set to headline…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (414+ words) Justice Department attorneys argued that if President Donald Trump’s name does not appear somewhere on the Kennedy Center, then the money from donors for renovations would shrivel up and the “decrepit, dilapidated” cultural center may be “required to be taken…...