For the second time in two weeks, a child migrating from Latin America has died in U.S. custody. The 8-year-old girl, who had a heart condition and was being held with her family at an overcrowded Customs and Border Protection facility, was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. More people have been arriving at the border since last week, when the expiration of the pandemic emergency ended the CBP's emergency rule to automatically deport asylum seekers. |
Texas National Guard troops stand watch at the border in El Paso, Texas. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File) |
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The Supreme Court passed on deciding whether Google, Twitter and Facebook are responsible for harmful content on their platforms, such as YouTube videos, posts and tweets that help radicalize viewers into terrorists. The tech companies' victory is only temporary, because justices can still take up a future case challenging the law that shields companies from liability for user content. |
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The manager of an upstate New York limousine service was convicted of manslaughter for a 2018 crash that killed 20 people, one of the deadliest in the last two decades. Nauman Hussain faces 15 years in prison for skipping state inspections of the stretch-style SUV which would have shown brake defects that caused the crash. |
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To all the mail marauders and letter larcenists out there: Watch out, because the Postal Service is installing 12,000 high-security collection boxes (i.e., those blue things on the sidewalk) that use electronic keys. It's also ending third-party address changes to crack down on fraudulent mail rerouting. |
Perhaps the USPS was inspired by Janelle Monae's video for Turntables. (Giphy) |
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Strippers at a North Hollywood club won their fight to form a union after management dropped its challenges and agreed to recognize the union. The Star Garden Topless Dive Bar will become one of the first-ever unions of exotic dancers and the only active one in the U.S. Workers began organizing last year after bosses failed to protect dancers from threatening patrons, and they seek better pay and health insurance. Twerkers of the world, unite! |
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6. 95-YEAR-OLD WOMAN TASED |
Police in Australia tased a 95-year-old woman when, using her walker, she approached them with a steak knife in a nursing home. Clare Nowland, who has dementia, is hospitalized in critical condition after she hit her head on the floor when she was dropped by the stun gun. |
The head of the company that makes ChatGPT, the wildly popular but controversial AI chatbot, told senators on Tuesday, "We're not trying to get people to use it more and more." Then, on Thursday, the company released an app for iPhones — which, along with a new voice feature, makes it easier for people to use the chatbot more and more. An Android version is forthcoming. |
Car seats that hook into anchor bars may not work in more than 668,000 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain SUVs because they have too much powder coating on them, according to General Motors, which is recalling the vehicles. Owners of certain 2020 to 2023 models of the small SUVs should install car seats using the seat belts until they can make it into a dealer for a potential fix. If you're counting, this is the third straight day with a major auto recall story. |
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Nearly two decades after a pair of Dorothy's ruby red slippers went missing, a man has been indicted by a grand jury for stealing them from a museum in Judy Garland's hometown of Grand Rapids, Minn. Just one of four pairs remaining that were worn by Garland in 1939's The Wizard of Oz, they're estimated at $3.5 million and are culturally significant enough to indict Terry Martin with theft of a major artwork. He's off to see the jury, the wonderful jury of federal court. |
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New trailers dropped for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, Futurama is back after nearly a decade, and Netflix's new doc shows Conor McGregor in the aftermath of his first-ever defeat. LEWIS BLACK: The lovably irascible comedian joined Cheddar News to talk about his new comedy special and reprising the role of Anger in Inside Out 2. |
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Even the best underwater footage of the Titanic has been limited by the lack of light and murky water on the ocean floor. But now researchers have used a deep-sea scanning technology to create a detailed one-to-one digital scan of the sunken vessel. The model will be used in a documentary next year, but eventually people will be able to tour the ship in virtual reality. |
A deep-sea mapping scan shows the bow of the Titanic. (Atlantic/Magellan via AP) |
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This weekend, embrace your nerdy destiny and check out Dungeons & Dragons on Paramount+. We also have picks if you're feeling more inclined to a celebrity culture deep-dive, an action-packed drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal, the Tom Hanks vehicle A Man Called Otto, JLo as more than The Mother, or a low-stakes cooking show. |
Chris Pine stars in "Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves." (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) |
One thing we love: Early evening walks through Prospect Park. One thing we hate: Missing one ingredient (and the grocery store is closed). One thing we ate: Green smoothie. (Hot take: Smoothies are food.) |
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Wish my name was accountable so i could be held —@evildanevil
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