Clickbait and ‘AI slop’ distort memory of Holocaust
BERLIN (AFP) — An emaciated and apparently blind man stands in the snow at the Nazi concentration camp of Flossenbuerg: The image seems real at first but is part of a wave of AI-generated content about the Holocaust. As the world marks International Holocaust...
ICE releases detainee after judge threatens chief with contempt
MINNEAPOLIS (CN) — Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons likely escaped a mandatory court appearance in Minnesota on Friday after the Trump administration reportedly complied with a federal judge’s ultimatum to release a wrongfully...
Paris judge presses Marine Le Pen’s former assistant in embezzlement appeal
PARIS (CN) — The former assistant and chief of staff of the extreme-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen skirted questions Tuesday morning in a Paris courtroom about her role as an EU parliamentary assistant between 2010 and 2016. Under her contract, Catherine...
Ancient Chinese tools challenge early human development timeline
(CN) — Stone tools uncovered in central China suggest early humans there were far more inventive than scientists once believed, making complex tools tens of thousands of years earlier than expected. Archaeologists say the tools, dating back as far as 160,000 years,...
Hungary can’t pick and choose EU positions abroad, top court says after cannabis vote
(CN) — A dispute over a U.N. vote on cannabis ended Tuesday with a sharp warning from Europe’s highest court: Once the EU settles on a common position abroad, member states cannot go off script. That message was directed squarely at Hungary, after Budapest voted...
EU, India agree ‘mother of all deals’ as both hedge against US, China
BRUSSELS (CN) — India and the European Union closed a free trade deal Tuesday, linking a quarter of the world’s economy after nearly two decades of haggling. The deal comes at a critical moment: India faces Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs and just lost...
Trial begins in chemical runoff case against tire manufacturers
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A chemical additive in car tires is leaching into rivers and other waterways, killing protected fish species, lawyers for a conservation group and a fishing trade association told a federal judge during a bench trial in San Francisco, California,...
Judge orders feds to close Western Mojave trails for off-road vehicles in desert tortoise habitat
(CN) — A federal judge ordered the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to close routes for off-road vehicles in the Western Mojave Desert in California that go through critical habitat of the threatened desert tortoise and the endangered Lake Mountain milkvetch. Senior...
Uber sexual assault trial: Plaintiff disputes driver’s claim she initiated sex
PHOENIX (CN) — Testifying in the first of thousands of pending sexual assault lawsuits against Uber to reach trial, plaintiff Jaylynn Dean said Monday in federal court that Uber failed to prevent her from being raped by her driver in the back of his car. Dean sued...