MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank — A Palestinian gunman opened fire in an Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem on Tuesday, wounding six people before being shot and killed, Israeli police said. The shooting at a mall in the sprawling Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, in the occupied West Bank, was the...
US Women Missing That 2019 World Cup Magic as Knockout Match Looms
The United States is clearly not the dominant team that won the 2019 Women's World Cup. The Americans have advanced to the knockout stage at this edition of the tournament, but just barely after a 0-0 draw with Portugal in their final group match. After the final whistle on Tuesday night,...
Trump’s Campaign Finances Are Strained as Legal Peril Mounts
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s political operation entered the second half of the year in a strained financial position with its bank account drained by tens of millions of dollars that were directed toward defending the former president from mounting legal challenges as he seeks the White House again. Trump took in...
Chatbots Sometimes Make Things Up. Is AI’s Hallucination Problem Fixable?
Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn't take long for them to spout falsehoods. Described as hallucination, confabulation or just plain making things up, it's now a problem for every business, organization and high school student trying to get a generative AI system to compose...
Brightly Flashing ‘X’ Sign Removed From Building That Was Twitter’s Headquarters
SAN FRANCISCO — A brightly flashing “X” sign has been removed from the San Francisco headquarters of the company formerly known as Twitter just days after it was installed. The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said Monday it received 24 complaints about the unpermitted structure over the weekend. Complaints...
Wrong Command Cuts Contact With Voyager, Hurtling 12 Billion Miles Away from Earth
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away. Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space, Voyager 2 had been out of touch ever since flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command more than a week ago that tilted...
Many Iconic Joshua Trees Could be Lost Forever as “Fire Whirls’ Devastate Mojave
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE — Crews battled “fire whirls” in California’s Mojave National Preserve as a massive wildfire crossed into Nevada amid dangerously high temperatures and raging winds. The York Fire was mapped at roughly 120 square miles on Monday night, with no containment. The blaze erupted Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area...
Shaky Americans Avoid Upset to Reach Women’s World Cup Knockout Round Draw With Portugal
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — A goal post saved the United States from elimination at the Women's World Cup. Ana Capeta nearly scored for Portugal in stoppage time but her shot hit the left post and the United States escaped with a uninspiring 0-0 draw Tuesday night that got them through...
Joe Biden, America’s Oldest Sitting President, Needs Young Voters to Win Again. Will His Age Matter?
At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden. But he's more interested in the 80-year-old president's accomplishments than his age. “People as young as me, we're all focusing on our day-to-day lives and he has done things to help us through that," Rodriguez, a cook at Mandalay Bay Resort...
Mom Who Claims She’s a Goddess Gets Life Sentence for Killing Kids, Fifth Husband’s ex-Wife
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho mother Lori Vallow Daybell has been sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday in the murders of her two youngest children and a romantic rival in a case that included bizarre claims that her son and daughter were zombies and that she was a goddess sent...