How PayPal is using AI to combat fraud, and make it easier to pay
NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence has been the buzzword of 2023 ever since ChatGPT made its public debut earlier this year, with businesses,...
China won’t require COVID-19 tests for incoming travelers in a milestone in its reopening
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China will no longer require a negative COVID-19 test result for incoming travelers starting Wednesday, a milestone in its reopening...
The Ukraine war, propaganda-style, is coming to Russian movie screens. Will people watch?
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The movie centers around a renowned violinist from Belgium arriving in Kyiv to perform. The date is February 2022, and...
Trump chief of staff Meadows says actions laid out in Georgia indictment were part...
ATLANTA (AP) — Mark Meadows testified in court Monday that actions detailed in a sweeping indictment that accuses him of participating in an illegal...
Many big US cities now answer mental health crisis calls with civilian teams —...
DENVER (AP) — Christian Glass was a geology geek, a painter and a young man beset by a mental health crisis when he called...
‘Gran Turismo’ and ‘Barbie’ are neck-and-neck at the box office
NEW YORK (AP) — “Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story” and “Barbie” are in a dead heat for the box-office crown, with the...
Competitors get down and dirty at Britain’s bog snorkeling championships
LONDON (AP) — Intrepid athletes donned snorkels and slithered through slime on Sunday during one of Britain’s quirkiest sporting events: the World Bog Snorkeling...
Removing Fukushima’s melted nuclear fuel will be harder than the release of plant’s wastewater
OKUMA, Japan (AP) — At a small section of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s central control room, the treated water transfer switch is on....
Environmental groups recruit people of color into overwhelmingly white conservation world
BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — Arianna Barajas never thought of herself as the outdoors type. The daughter of Mexican immigrants who grew up in Chicago's...
Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in the US
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico...