As President Trump warned Tuesday that the deployment of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles is just the start of what he’d do to quell protests against immigration operations, a former defense secretary cautioned about the risk of potentially deadly consequences. In an interview with CBS News’ Ed …
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A woman accused of aiding in the jailbreak at the Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans last month was arrested on Monday, authorities said. Darriana Burton, 28, is a former Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office employee and is believed to be the girlfriend of Derrick Groves, a convicted murderer and one …
Read More »Experts offer advice to new college grads on entering the workforce in the age of AI
New college graduates this year face an especially daunting task — putting their degrees to work just as “generative” artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT is beginning to change the American workplace. “We are entering an entirely new economy, so the knowledge economy that we have been in for the last …
Read More »Popular band fined $36,000 for performing songs glorifying Mexican drug cartels
A popular Mexican band has been fined more than $36,000 for performing songs glorifying drug cartels, authorities in the northern city of Chihuahua announced Wednesday. At a Los Tucanes de Tijuana performance on Saturday, nearly a third of their songs were “narcocorridos” glamorizing drug traffickers, according to city official Pedro Oliva. …
Read More »Thousands of students in limbo as Trump administration seeks to shut down Job Corps centers
Emily Scott is a Job Corps student in Los Angeles who is also a caretaker for her disabled mother. She is four months away from graduating from the Job Corps program as a licensed nurse. Andrea Watts of Las Vegas was homeless before finding her way to a Job Corps …
Read More »Judge says Trump administration must provide hormone therapy, accommodations to transgender inmates
Washington — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Tuesday that the federal Bureau of Prisons must continue providing hormone therapy and social accommodations to transgender inmates while they pursue a legal challenge to President Trump’s executive order that sought to restrict access to the treatments. U.S. District Judge Royce …
Read More »3 missing girls found dead in Washington state; father suspected of killing them is at large
A Washington state father is wanted for murder after his three young daughters were reported missing and then found dead. Police on Tuesday asked the public for help in finding the father of the girls, Travis Decker, 32. He is wanted for three counts of murder and kidnapping, according to …
Read More »Canadian wildfires force tens of thousands evacuate, threaten U.S. air quality
More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as dozens of wildfires remained active Sunday and diminished air quality in parts of Canada and the U.S., according to officials. Roughly 17,000 residents in the Canadian province of Manitoba have been evacuated because of nearly two dozen active wildfires, officials said. …
Read More »5 missing musicians found dead near U.S. border in Mexico; alleged cartel members arrested
The bodies of five musicians, members of a Mexican regional music group who had gone missing, were found in the northern city of Reynosa along the Texas border, authorities said on Thursday. The musicians from the band Grupo Fugitivo, which played at parties and local dances in the region, had …
Read More »Meta to help develop new AI
Meta is teaming with defense industry startup Anduril Industries to develop military products that use artificial intelligence and augmented reality, the companies announced on Thursday. Anduril said in a statement that the new products will provide “real-time battlefield intelligence” to soldiers in the field, allowing them to make decisions based on …
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