Xalapa, Mexico (AP) – Armed officers killed a mayoral candidate Tuesday, killed a candidate from Mexico's council and injured others on Tuesday in the first day of municipal elections held on the state of Veracruz on the Gulf Coast. His campaign confirmed the killing of Anuar Valencia in the small rural town of Coxquihui, and…
Thousands of Los Angeles County workers left work and boarded the pickets Tuesday because their union was talking about a new contract that the county failed to bargain quite. SEIU Local 721, representing approximately 55,000 workers, began a two-day strike Monday night, with social workers, nurses, paperworkers and other public employees. The union said this…
In North Carolina, lawmakers are considering a bill that would give consumers more control over the data collected and sold by companies. Great! Who can object to this? But that's not all. Following national trends, it will also put forward disturbing social media age verification requirements. While these laws stand out in the framework of…
Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica ruled out a cyber attack on Tuesday, which was responsible for the power outage in the Iberian Peninsula as it saw three people die due to power outages. La Voz de Galicia regional newspapers and Europa news agency reported that three family members died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the…
If you are like me and hope Meta's Llamacon keynote will give up the reasoning model that made fun of earlier this month, or its teacher model Bememoth is ready to be disappointed. The company’s first AI developer meeting was today, and although we didn’t get any new models, there were some announcements to help…
A 40-year-old parrot is delighted to see his former owner recovering his vision for the first time after a decade in late March. Shot by Amy Hurst shows her little parrot, shush, bounces her head excitedly and uzzes up with his former boss, Nedra, in a house in Smithfield, Virginia. Hurst told Storyful that this…
Google will debut three new AI experiments designed to help users learn foreign languages. These tools utilize Google's Gemini large language model to identify objects and situations in the user's direct environment and provide translations that can help users seek help or trigger conversations. If you want to try out new experiments, you can find…
The Venezuelan family called for no children after U.S. authorities deported their mother to Venezuela on Friday. The girl's father was taken to a prison in El Salvador in March. According to the Department of Homeland Security, young children, Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal, are still in foster care in the United States. Officials said in…
ProPublica is the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation room. Sign up for the Big Story Newsletter to receive similar stories in your inbox. A federal employee in a business that is helping the Trump administration to carry out massive reductions in the Consumer Financial Protection Agency owns stocks in the company that can benefit from the agency's…
The artist's angular skills blur the boundaries – they are both literal and symbolic. Photo: Charles Roussel Alioune Diagne's paintings are made up of tiny dotted lines scattered across his large canvas, creating images that are simultaneously blurred and unique. The Senegalese artist’s debut in New York and his third performance in Templon takes a…