Morocco earthquake: Moroccans sleep on streets for 3rd night following quake that took more than 2,100 lives

09/11/2023

AMIZMIZ, Morocco  — People in Morocco slept in the streets of Marrakech for a third straight night as soldiers and international aid teams in trucks and helicopters began to fan into remote mountain towns hit hardest by…

Alaska couple reunited with cat 26 days after home collapsed into river swollen by glacial outburst

09/06/2023

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A pair of Alaska teachers needed good news after they lost nearly all their possessions when their house collapsed into a river swollen by a glacial outburst flood and their cat went missing. Elizabeth…

China’s new national map has set off a wave of protests. Why?

09/06/2023

BANGKOK  — China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India…

Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years for US Capitol attack

09/06/2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for orchestrating his far-right extremist group’s attack on the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to stop the transfer of…

Coco Gauff is the 1st US teen since Serena Williams to reach consecutive US Open quarterfinals

09/04/2023

NEW YORK— Coco Gauff is the first American teen since Serena Williams more than two decades ago to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals two years in a row, so the 19-year-old from Florida knows her way out of trouble on a…

Neurosurgeon investigating patient’s mystery symptoms plucks a worm from woman’s brain in Australia

08/31/2023

CANBERRA, Australia — A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole in the…

New Titanic expedition is planned; US is fighting it, says wreck is a grave site

08/30/2023

NORFOLK, Virginia — The U.S. government is trying to stop a planned expedition to recover items of historical interest from the sunken Titanic, citing a federal law and an international agreement that treat the shipwreck as a…

FIBA World Cup is set to begin, and the U.S. isn’t worrying about pressure

08/25/2023

MANILA, Philippines— The Naismith Trophy is part of the prize package for winners of the FIBA World Cup. It made a whirlwind tour over the last few weeks, including a stop in Las Vegas, where U.S. guard…

NBA: James Harden fined $100,000 for public comments about status with 76ers

08/23/2023

NEW YORK— The NBA has fined Philadelphia 76ers guard James Harden $100,000 for public comments he made about his status with the team. Harden made public comments on Aug. 14 and Aug. 17 saying he would not…

Michael Oher, former NFL tackle known for ‘The Blind Side,’ sues to end Tuohys’ conservatorship

08/15/2023

NASHVILLE, Tenn.  — Michael Oher, the former NFL tackle known for being the inspiration for the movie “The Blind Side,” filed a petition Monday in a Tennessee probate court accusing Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy of lying to him…

Chatbots sometimes make things up. Is AI’s hallucination problem fixable?

08/02/2023

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…

Ferry capsizes in Rizal, at least 26 killed

07/28/2023

MANILA, Philippines — A motorbanca capsized in Laguna de Bay in Rizal when its passengers suddenly crowded to one side in panic as fierce winds pummeled the wooden vessel in Rizal. At least 26 people died, while 40…

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