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As Democrats celebrate a battleground-state win in the most expensive judicial campaign in U.S. history, President Donald Trump and the GOP are confronting a worrying early sign about what the intense spotlight on Elon Musk’s influence means for the party.  Musk, the billionaire White House adviser, played a starring role …

A teenager was attacked by a sea lion in Southern California while she was trying out to become a junior lifeguard cadet. Phoebe Beltran, 15, has several cuts on her right arm and was hospitalized following the confrontation with the animal on Sunday in Long Beach, about 24 miles south …

Meta’s head of artificial intelligence research announced Tuesday that she will be leaving the company.  Joelle Pineau, the company’s vice president of AI research, announced her departure in a LinkedIn post, saying her last day at the social media company will be May 30.  Her departure comes at a challenging time for …

Nonetheless, a 63-year-old woman was found alive early Tuesday in the Myanmar capital, Naypyitaw, more than 90 hours after the quake. Dozens of monks are believed to be trapped under rubble after the quake sent monasteries in the Buddhist-majority country collapsing under their own weight. Rescue efforts are also continuing …

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan plans to expel 3 million Afghans from the country this year, as a deadline for them to voluntarily leave the capital and surrounding areas expired on Monday. It’s the latest phase of a nationwide crackdown launched in October 2023 to expel foreigners living in Pakistan illegally, …

Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it’s still experimental, they hope the brain-computer interface could someday help give voice to those unable to speak. A new study described testing the device on a 47-year-old woman with quadriplegia who couldn’t speak for 18 …

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Federal authorities are investigating a fire early Sunday that damaged the entryway to the headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Agents working with local authorities recovered unspecified “incendiary materials” at the scene, said Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesperson Cody …

Terry Dolan, the vice chair of U.S. Bank, is believed to have been on the small plane that crashed in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, on Saturday, a bank spokesperson said in a statement Sunday. A spokesperson for U.S. Bank said the plane was registered to Dolan, who was also the company’s …

California authorities arrested three people last week after a teenage boy with autism was found naked with his hands bound at a grocery store. The Ceres Police Department said it received the first call about the boy Wednesday afternoon in which a nude male was reported running along the road. …

Officials in Sangamon County, Illinois, have agreed to a $10 million settlement with the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed in her home last summer after she called police for assistance. The agreement reached last week between lawyers for Massey’s family and attorneys …