Jake Coyle, reporting for the AP:| Daring Fireball
New research from a watchdog group reveals ChatGPT can provide harmful advice to teens. The Associated Press reviewed interactions where the chatbot gave detailed plans for drug use, eating disorders, and even suicide notes.| AP News
A Florida mother is suing a tech company over an AI chatbot that she says pushed her son to kill himself.| AP News
The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence.| AP News
Teenagers are increasingly turning to AI for advice, emotional support and decision-making, according to a new study.| AP News
It has been 25 years since the striking of the Good Friday Agreement, the landmark peace accord that ended three decades of violence in Northern Ireland, a period known as “the Troubles.” The agreement gave formal recognition to Northern Ireland’s multiple identities, allowing residents to identify as British, Irish or both. It ended direct U.K. rule and set up a Northern Ireland legislature and government with power shared between unionist and nationalist parties. But despite sporadic ...| AP News
LONDON (AP) — A former British soldier will be charged in the slayings of two civil rights protesters 47 years ago on Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland.| AP News
LONDON (AP) — U.K. authorities on Friday halted the prosecution of two former British soldiers over the killing of three people almost 50 years ago in Northern Ireland, including two who died on Bloody Sunday — one of the deadliest days in the conflict known as The Troubles.| AP News
Hundreds of people have gathered in Northern Ireland to mark 50 years since “Bloody Sunday,” one of the deadliest days in the conflict known as The Troubles.| AP News
Months of relative calm in the long-simmering trade war between the U.S. and China may be coming to an end.| AP News
President Donald Trump is planning big tariffs on pharmaceuticals, kitchen counters, bathroom vanities, upholstered furniture and heavy trucks.| AP News
The Federal Reserve just cut its benchmark rate for the first time since last year, but that doesn't guarantee mortgage rates will keep dropping.| AP News
The American job market, a pillar of U.S. economic strength since the pandemic, is crumbling under the weight of President Donald Trump’s erratic economic policies.| AP News
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes accelerated in September as declining mortgage rates and a pickup in available properties on the market encouraged home shoppers.| AP News
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in 2024 to a nearly 30-year low for the second year in a row as elevated mortgage rates, rising home prices and a low level of properties on the market kept many prospective homebuyers out of the market.| AP News
The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point and projected it would do so twice more this year as concern grows at the central bank about the health of the nation’s labor market.| AP News
Large crowds of protesters have gathered in cities across the United for “No Kings” demonstrations against what they see a drift into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.| AP News
Multiple people have been arrested after protesters tried to block vehicles at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement site outside Chicago.| AP News
Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed at a Utah college event in an act that the state’s governor called a “political assassination.”| AP News
The White House is criticizing Democrats' lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections.| AP News
The Supreme Court has restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste in rural Texas and New Mexico, even as the nation is at an impasse over a permanent solution.| AP News
With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump.| AP News
Canadian privacy authorities say TikTok’s efforts to keep children off the platform and prevent the collection and use of their sensitive personal information are “inadequate” but the company is taking steps to address concerns.| AP News
China is accusing the U.S. of spreading disinformation amid reports the Biden administration is calling for TikTok's Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the company.| AP News
The European Union has reached a landmark deal to take aim at hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content online.| AP News
The European Union and United States made a breakthrough in their yearslong battle over the privacy of data that flows across the Atlantic with a preliminary agreement that paves the way for Europeans’ personal information to be stored in the U.S.| AP News
NEW YORK (AP) — European regulators have fined Amazon 746 million euros ($886 million) for data protection violations.| AP News
LONDON (AP) — EU regulators must make more effort to stop tech companies from transferring data to countries with weaker data-protection standards, an advisor to the European Union’s top court said Thursday.| AP News
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order designed to allay European concerns that U.S. intelligence agencies are illegally spying on them.| AP News
Authorities say that social media platforms should not require age verification for all users when a ban on children under 16 having accounts goes into effect in December in Australia.| AP News
Apple wants the European Union to repeal its Digital Markets Act, arguing it delays new features like live translation for AirPods.| AP News
The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that an agreement that allows thousands of companies — from tech giants to small financial firms — to transfer data to the United States is invalid because the American government can snoop on people's data.| AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has written a memoir, telling his life story in detail for the first time and explaining why he chose to risk his freedom to become perhaps the most famous whistleblower of all time.| AP News
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees.| AP News
Tesla announced the launch of cheaper versions of two of its electric vehicles Tuesday in hopes of reviving flagging sales.| AP News
A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 million in damages.| AP News
The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.| AP News
Elon Musk promised hundreds of thousands of self-driving Teslas will be on the road requiring no human intervention by the end of next year.| AP News
Federal auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into why Tesla has repeatedly broken rules requiring it to tell them quickly about crashes involving its self-driving technology that may soon be deployed in millions of its cars on U.S. roads.| AP News
Hamas says its top leaders survived the Israeli strike on Qatar and that five lower-ranking members died.| AP News
Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow for high-level talks. That's according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly.| AP News
Israel launched a strike targeting Hamas’ leadership in Qatar as they considered a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.| AP News
Iran has retaliated for the U.S. attacks on its nuclear sites by targeting Al Udeid Air Base, a sprawling desert facility in Qatar that serves as a major regional military hub for American forces.| AP News
A Delta Air Lines flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam has been hit by severe turbulence, sending 25 people to hospitals and forcing a diversion to Minnesota.| AP News
Crash landing of a Delta Air Lines flight in Toronto has highlighted the potential dangers of flying with a young child on an adult's lap.| AP News
Long-standing concerns about military helicopters flying in crowded airspace and worries over short staffing among federal aviation workers have emerged as key factors in investigators’ inquiry into the fatal midair crash between an Army helicopter and a commercial airliner earlier this year.| AP News
The evidence is anecdotal, but psychologists and flight attendants say they are seeing and hearing increased worries about flying.| AP News
Delta Air Lines says a flight from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam was hit by serious turbulence, sending 25 people to hospitals and forcing the flight to divert to Minneapolis-St.| AP News
U.S. immigration officials say some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles.| AP News
Hyundai and LG Energy Solution are spending an additional $2 billion and hiring an extra 400 workers to make batteries at the automaker's sprawling U.S. electrical vehicle plant that is under construction in Georgia.| AP News
President Donald Trump's administration says it's going to pay immigrants in the United States illegally who’ve returned to their home country voluntarily $1,000.| AP News
U.S. authorities have informed some migrants of plans to deport them to Libya, a country they are not from and that has a history of human rights violations.| AP News
A week into Donald Trump’s second presidency and his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration, federal officers are operating with a new sense of mission.| AP News
Millions of people live legally in the United States under various forms of temporary legal protection.| AP News
A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful.| AP News
After surpassing 200 strikeouts for the first time in his career, Pirates ace Paul Skenes admitted it was good to get a breather.| AP News
Eric Wagaman hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the sixth inning, Xavier Edwards had a three-run homer among his three hits and Otto Lopez drove in two runs as the Miami Marlins overcame an early three-run deficit and beat the Washington Nationals 8-3.| AP News
The investigation into a January midair collision that killed 67 people near Washington, D.C., revealed an alarming number of recent close calls just outside the nation’s capital.| AP News
Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people are recommending a ban on some helicopter flights.| AP News
An American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided on Jan. 29 as the plane prepared to land at Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport.| AP News
Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump.| AP News
In the early part of his second term, President Donald Trump has taken action against individuals, law firms, private corporations, media companies and universities he regards as adversaries.| AP News
Another major international law firm has reached a deal with President Donald Trump to dedicate at least $100 million in free legal services to causes such as supporting veterans and combating antisemitism.| AP News
The chairman of a prominent law firm who cut a deal with President Donald Trump last week to avert the consequences of a White House executive order has told colleagues that he did so because the order “could easily have destroyed our firm” and put it out of business.| AP News
A prominent international law firm has reached a deal with President Donald Trump to provide at least $100 million in free legal services and to review its hiring practices, averting a punishing executive order like the ones directed at nearly a half-dozen other major legal institutions in recent we| AP News
A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing portions of an executive order designed to punish a prominent law firm linked to Democratic-funded opposition research during the 2016 presidential campaign into ties between the Republican candidate and R| AP News
President Donald Trump has ordered the suspension of any security clearances held by lawyers at a prominent Washington law firm who provided legal services to special counsel Jack Smith.| AP News
Donald Trump has pledged to end taxes on everything from tips to Social Security and overtime pay if he’s elected to the White House again.| AP News
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have launched campaign blitzes with dramatically different approaches to attracting swing-state voters who will decide the presidential contest.| AP News
Trump made a similar promise at his own rally in the city in June — though neither he nor Harris are likely to be able to fully do that without actions from Congress.| AP News
If nothing else, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris agree on one thing, at least: Both say they want to eliminate federal taxes on workers’ tips.| AP News
Former President Donald Trump rallied voters in the scorching heat of Las Vegas. His campaign loaded up on water bottles, hired extra medics and allowed supporters to carry umbrellas at the outdoor rally.| AP News
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday meant to try to lower drug costs for American consumers. The order, according to a White House official, also sets a 30-day deadline for the health department to broker new price tags for drugs.| AP News
Stay informed and read the latest breaking news and updates on Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson from AP News, the definitive source for independent journalism.| AP News
Congress is drafting President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security and deportation funds.| AP News
As Republican leaders draft President Donald Trump’s big bill of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, dozens of more moderate Republicans from contested congressional districts have positioned themselves at the center of the negotiating table.| AP News
A record 24 million people have signed up for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s landmark health legislation, as the program awaits an uncertain future under a Republican-controlled White House and Congress.| AP News
Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, jeopardizing health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.| AP News
House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill.| AP News
Congressional Republicans say their plan to sell or transfer 460,000 acres of public land will generate revenue and offer space to build houses in Western cities.| AP News
House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah.| AP News
DENVER (AP) — Police officer Andy Sandoval lives in one the most beautiful places in the world near Vail, Colorado, where world-famous ski resorts are nestled between Rocky Mountain peaks.| AP News
Excessive heat continues to bear down on sections of the US, a reminder of the impetus for the The Inflation Reduction Act, the significant climate legislation that turns one year old on August 16.| AP News
Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily kept in place the Trump administration’s decision to freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid.| AP News
Tax breaks tallying more than $5 trillion. But also sizable reductions in Medicaid health care, food stamps for older Americans and green energy strategies to fight climate change.| AP News
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was given some respite on Wednesday after a Supreme Court justice voted to acquit him from all charges in his alleged coup trial.| AP News
The Interior Department is moving forward with the first onshore sales of public oil and gas drilling leases under President Joe Biden, but will sharply increase royalty rates for companies that extract oil.| AP News
President Donald Trump has hosted tech executives at the White House, showcasing AI research and investments.| AP News
Republicans continue to make progress on President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security, though considerable divisions remain as Speaker Mike Johnson attempts to bridge the differences in his conference.| AP News
President Donald Trump has signed the Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called ‘revenge porn’ online.| AP News
The attorneys general of California and Delaware have expressed serious concerns about the safety of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens.| AP News
House Republicans have revealed the sweeping tax provisions for President Donald Trump’s big bill. It tallies at $4.9 trillion in costs so far, partly paid for with reductions to Medicaid, food stamps and green energy programs used by millions of Americans.| AP News
A wave of AI deepfakes has coursed through social media for months, serving as a warning for more than 50 countries heading to the polls this year.| AP News
Artificial intelligence technology that works well for the world’s billions of people of color was a business imperative for Google when the company asked sociologist Ellis Monk to help make its AI products more inclusive.| AP News
OpenAI and Meta are adjusting how their chatbots respond to teenagers showing signs of distress. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, plans to introduce new controls for parents to link their accounts to their teen's account.| AP News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Claudia Sheinbaum have confirmed that President Donald Trump's tariffs will pause for a month. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is seeking to close USAID.| AP News
At least 11 people have been killed in violence against abortion providers in the U.S. since 1993, according to the National Abortion Federation.| AP News
Florida's parole board says a man who shot and killed a doctor outside an abortion clinic in 1993 should not be released from prison for 25 more years.| AP News
Donald Trump has been shifting his stances on abortion and reproductive rights. He's offered vague, contradictory and at times nonsensical answers to questions on an issue that's become a major political vulnerability for Republicans this election year.| AP News
Mexican import taxes on more than 1,400 products from China and other Asian countries will be as high as 50%, as the country tries to shore up domestic production and pass on some of the Trump administration’s tariff pain.| AP News
