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OpenAI's monitoring caught the conversations, the FBI's legal attaché in Buenos Aires relayed the alert on August 19, and federal police in Quilmes seized tactical gloves, balaclavas and goggles. The attack was planned for 2027.
U.S. officials told the Journal the imagery of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base is the clearest sign yet that Chinese help had lethal consequences for American troops. Beijing demanded proof. Xi visits the White House September 24.
Officers found Jarques Ratliff, 51, walking on Capitol Street hours after search warrants came up empty. The chief says he had an 'association' with the 29-year-old mother of four, who was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home on Aug. 3.
WatchAfter three days of deliberation, jurors in Los Angeles acquitted the Grammy-winning Chicago rapper of every count tied to the 2022 shooting that killed Quando Rondo's cousin. He stays in jail anyway, awaiting a separate racketeering trial.
A powerful El Niño has driven wind shear over the main development region about 45 mph beyond what a storm can survive, leaving Atlantic activity at 7% of normal even as the world's oceans set heat records for 100 straight days. The Pacific, meanwhile, is 'a party out there.'
WatchIn a 3,800-word essay published Saturday, Dario Amodei wrote that 'we must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,' pointed to July's OpenAI–Hugging Face rogue-agent incident, and committed Anthropic to letting outside evaluators inside with employee-level access.
NOAA says the Lower 48 averaged 74.4 degrees from June through August, topping the 1936 and 2021 marks, while August alone set records for both average temperature and daytime highs. Drought now covers 59% of the country.
WatchOn the 25th anniversary of the attacks, Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden joined Vice President Vance in Lower Manhattan for the reading of nearly 3,000 names. Across the river from Washington, the president told the Pentagon crowd that 'Iran will never, ever have a nuclear weapon.'
U.S. forces fired more than 30 Patriot missiles defending Muwaffaq Salti Air Base overnight. No American deaths were reported.
Carlton Neal Johnson II had a valid Minnesota permit to carry when he killed two neighbors at a Loring Park high-rise. A red-flag petition was considered in June and dropped.
WatchMohsen Rezaei said the zone will start at the line of the U.S. naval blockade and run toward the strait. Brent crude traded near $97 and the Labor Day gasoline average hit a record $4.14 a gallon.
Christian Castro, 52, pleaded not guilty to six federal counts of making false statements to the FBI. Surveillance video contradicted his account of being attacked with a broom and a snow shovel.
The Multi-Purpose High Energy Laser System has destroyed 11 cartel drones since it debuted on August 25. Each shot costs about $3, and the Army just handed the manufacturer a $465 million production contract.
WatchAstra is the first model OpenAI has ever rated 'Critical' for cyber capability under its own Preparedness Framework. During testing it discovered two previously unknown vulnerabilities and chained them into a working exploit.
WatchFlight 7598, a 32-year-old Boeing 767 flown by 21 Air, overran Runway 30 at Miami International shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday and struck vehicles on Northwest 42nd Avenue. Five more people were hurt, three of them critically.
Patrick Havas, 38, shoved through a crowd toward Ohio's Democratic candidate for governor, knocking down two people on mobility scooters and a volunteer with Parkinson's disease. He was arrested at the scene and charged with two counts of misdemeanor assault.
A tropical storm warning covers Kauai County and a hurricane warning covers Papahanaumokuakea. Governor Josh Green declared a state of emergency Friday and activated the National Guard.
WatchU.S. Central Command said the M/T Kylo went down in the Gulf of Oman on Saturday, one of three tankers struck in retaliation for missiles fired at American ships. Tehran has promised a "more severe" response.
Court records filed September 5 name Andre Junior Seenaraine and Stephen Jordan Trejos. The Everglades detention camp they worked at has been closed since July.
A 30-second eruption in the Sunda Strait pushed ash to 50,000 feet and shut Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta airport, stranding roughly 22,800 passengers. No one was hurt, and no evacuation was ordered.
WatchNo one was hurt when the plaster gave way during a storm in Washington. The Trump-aligned board immediately said the collapse proves the building has to close for two years of renovations a federal judge has blocked.
The tests followed reporting on how fast the United States burned through its most advanced weapons during the Iran war. According to officials briefed on the matter, nobody failed.
Lowell reached Category 5 south of Hawaii, Karina held Category 4 to its east, and Marie churned off Baja California. The Atlantic has not produced a single hurricane this season.
Updated vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer and Sanofi target the XFG variant behind roughly 40% of U.S. cases. Who has to pay for them is the part nobody can answer.
WatchThe Transportation Department is finalizing the largest rollback of federal mileage rules in a generation. Its own analysis says Americans will burn about 100 billion more gallons of gasoline by 2050.
A Minneapolis grower recalled its five-ounce containers after federal health officials tied a rare double outbreak to a single farm. Illnesses began May 31.
WatchThe Kremlin said the pause begins at midnight Saturday and is tied to the American delegation's plan to visit the Ukrainian capital on Sunday. Russian missiles hit two airports outside Kyiv hours before the announcement.
The six-month war with Iran has scrambled global fuel flows, and diesel moves nearly everything Americans buy. Grocers say fuel is 15 to 30 percent of what food costs to deliver.
The two-seater has no steering wheel, no pedals and no mirrors, and Tesla certified it as road-legal itself. NHTSA now wants to see how the company decided the rules did not apply.
A site called Nexus advertised front-and-back images, plus infrared and ultraviolet scans, of American and Canadian IDs. Investigators suspect the source is a Louisiana verification firm that runs more than 21 million ID checks a month.