Across the country, students are short-circuiting their laptops at school in a new and sometimes dangerous social media trend. The “Chromebook challenge” involves students jamming objects into their laptops until they spark and smolder. Students then record the smoking laptops […]
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A man in Michigan fired a handgun at a co-worker in the garage of the hospital where they worked, hitting him in the arm and then fleeing from the authorities for several hours before being taken into custody, the police
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A city in Alabama has decided to let go and then rebuild its entire police force, including by appointing a new police chief, weeks after a grand jury concluded that the department had operated “as more of a criminal enterprise”
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The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, was experiencing intermittent outages on Monday, mostly on its app, according to Downdetector, which tracks reports of problems from users on websites. The first outages on X, which Elon Musk bought for $44
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A teenager who boarded a commercial flight in Australia armed with a shotgun and ammunition was overpowered by passengers and crew, the police said on Friday. The teenager, a 17-year-old boy whose identity was not released, had entered the aircraft
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The singer and songwriter Katy Perry and the broadcast journalist and show host Gayle King will be among the all-female crew on the next mission of New Shepard, the space tourism rocket that is operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company,
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A sheriff’s deputy in Georgia will not be charged for fatally shooting a Black man during a traffic stop that turned violent in 2023, officials said on Tuesday. The man who was killed, Leonard Cure, 53, had been wrongfully imprisoned
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Three people were fatally shot outside a driver’s license office in Louisville, Ky., on Friday, and several people fled in a vehicle, the police said. The victims were found in the parking lot, the Louisville Metro Police Department said in
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Teddi Mellencamp, a podcast host and television personality from the “Real Housewives” franchise, announced on Wednesday that she had multiple brain tumors that would be treated with surgery and radiation. Mellencamp, 43, said on her social media account that she
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Fable, a popular app for talking about and tracking books, is changing the way it creates personalized summaries for its users after complaints that an artificial intelligence model used offensive language. One summary suggested that a reader of Black narratives
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