STINNETT, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says up to 500 structures may have been destroyed by wildfires. The Republican governor cautioned in a news conference Friday that the number of lost properties could rise and that damage assessments were still underway. The Smokehouse Creek fire, which started Monday, has burned about 1,700 square…
NEW YORK (AP) — Chatbots are spitting out fabricated and misleading information that risks disenfranchising voters leading up to the 2024 U.S. election. That’s according to a report published Tuesday based on the findings of artificial intelligence experts and a bipartisan group of election officials. Fifteen states and one territory will hold Democratic and Republican…
AT&T says it has restored wireless coverage after an outage knocked out cellphone service on its network across the U.S. for hours. A statement from the Dallas-based company Thursday says it has service to all its affected customers. Outage tracker Downdetector noted that outages began at about 3:30 a.m. ET and peaked at around 73,000…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Much of saturated California remains under threat of floods as the latest winter storm blows through, but so far the state has escaped the severity of damage spawned by a recent atmospheric river. While the rainfall was focused on Southern California, thunderstorms and strong winds are expected across wide swaths of…
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell sharply after disappointing data on inflation made investors confront the bitter possibility that interest rates will stay high for months longer than they were hoping. The S&P 500 fell 1.4% Tuesday after clawing back part of a larger intraday loss. The worse-than-expected inflation report may have put the final…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The military says efforts are underway to recover the remains of five U.S. Marines who were killed when their helicopter went down during stormy weather in the mountains outside of San Diego. Authorities say the CH-53E Super Stallion vanished late Tuesday night while conducting a flight training on their way back…
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan jury in a groundbreaking trial has found a school shooter’s mother guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of four students in 2021. The verdict against Jennifer Crumbley was returned Tuesday. Prosecutors said Crumbley was grossly negligent. She failed to tell Oxford High School officials that the family had…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first of back-to-back atmospheric rivers is drenching California. Heavy rain and gusty winds began hitting the state’s north on Wednesday before moving south along the coast and snarling the Thursday morning commute in Los Angeles. It has flooded roads, toppled trees and caused traffic accidents, but also dumped welcome snow…
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden called Donald Trump a “loser” as he raised money for his reelection campaign on his predecessor’s home turf in Florida. The first fundraiser was held in the wealthy town of Jupiter, less than an hour drive from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. When Air Force One landed at the Palm…
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has testified for a total of only three minutes at a New York trial where an advice columnist seeks over $10 million in defamation damages against him. He took the stand in his own defense Thursday in Manhattan federal court. The writer, E. Jean Carroll, says Trump…