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Police say a pickup drove through a Wichita youth soccer game, killing a child and an adult and injuring several more, while investigators still work to explain how it happened. Story Highlights Police confirmed two deaths and multiple injuries after a truck entered a youth soccer field. Officers interviewed more than 30 witnesses and said there was no ongoing public threat. A 34-year-old woman was taken into custody at the scene; investigators are reviewing evidence. ...

A 19th-century city hall in Limoges burned after masked attackers stormed the building during nationwide protests, destroying much of a landmark that survived two world wars. Story Snapshot Fire gutted Limoges City Hall during cost-of-living protests; officials say it is largely lost. Attackers entered with a burning object as the march ended; parts of the roof and tower collapsed. Authorities reported police injuries and damaged vehicles amid clashes around the city. Thousands later marched in...

A prime-time interview and a Friday firing put the White House’s power dynamics on full display — and raised fresh questions about who really calls the shots. Story Highlights Two unnamed sources said Susie Wiles helped arrange Katie Zacharia’s Hannity interview before Zacharia was removed the next day. Fox News Media said Sean Hannity alone chose the guest and questions, denying any role by Wiles or Danielle Alvarez. The interview pressed Zacharia on her shaky...

A daytime street robbery in the Bronx left an off-duty New York Police Department detective stabbed multiple times, sparking a multistate manhunt and fast arrests. Story Snapshot NYPD Detective Jose Mercedes was stabbed during an alleged attempted robbery in Norwood and survived. Police identified two suspects and arrested them in Lynn, Massachusetts after a manhunt. Prosecutors charged the men in Bronx Supreme Court; both pleaded not guilty. The case feeds wider debates over street crime,...

Anthropic says a self-copying “AI worm” could soon spread across cheap smart gadgets without a central kill switch, and they brought data to back it up. Story Snapshot Anthropic ran lab tests showing an AI system could find, access, install, and spread across Android devices. Researchers also chained 15 low-cost TV boxes to run a shared model, proving real-world compute is enough. Prior botnets show scale is possible, while no central server could make shutdown...

A sudden crash in automated traffic from Yandex’s network followed Ukrainian strikes on three Russian data centers, raising fresh questions about who actually runs the online noise machine. Story Snapshot Ukrainian strikes damaged three Yandex data centers over four days, forcing outages and suspensions. Independent traffic data showed automated requests from Yandex’s network plunged after the third hit. President Volodymyr Zelensky said bot activity thinned, but experts doubt that claim proves propaganda bots fell. The...