2 Men Charged With Murder in Kansas City Super Bowl Parade Shooting
It began, prosecutors said, with one man accusing another of staring at him. Groups of men, who appeared to be strangers, exchanged angry words and threats. A female friend tried to intervene. And then, surrounded by thousands of people at a rally last week celebrating Kansas City’s Super Bowl victory, at least two men pulled […]
Measles Strikes a Florida Elementary School With Over 100 Unvaccinated Kids
Florida health officials on Sunday announced an investigation into a cluster of measles cases at an elementary school in the Fort Lauderdale area with a low vaccination rate, a scenario health experts fear will become more and more common amid slipping vaccination rates nationwide. On Friday, Broward County Public School reported a confirmed case of […]
Ottawa scaling back carbon price rebate for small businesses
The federal government is cutting the amount of financial relief small businesses will receive from carbon pricing revenues so it can increase the size of the rebate it is providing to rural families. That’s despite the fact the government still owes businesses more than $2.5 billion in promised carbon pricing revenues from the first five […]
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Virginia High School’s Admissions Case on Race
The Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for the use of admissions criteria intended to diversify the student body at an elite public high school in Virginia, declining to revisit the role race may play in admissions months after it sharply curtailed affirmative action programs in higher education. In turning down a challenge to […]
How Sleep Affects Your Mood: The Link Between Insomnia and Mental Health
It started with mild anxiety. Emily, who asked to be identified only by her first name because she was discussing her mental health, had just moved to New York City after graduate school, to start a marketing job at a big law firm. She knew it was normal to feel a little on edge. But […]
BLT, anyone? Bacon, lettuce, tomatoes among ‘broad-based’ grocery price relief – National
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Multiple grocery store staples saw price hikes not only ease but reverse course in January, according to Statistics Canada. The agency on Tuesday reported an overall decline in the annual rate of inflation to 2.9 per cent last month. As part of that, food inflation at the […]
Help, My Friend Got Me a Dumb AI-Generated Present
“An artist friend of mine got me an AI-generated painting as a gift. I can see she tried to personalize the concept, and it’s nicely framed, but part of me still feels a little cheated. Is that fair?” —No Returns Dear No Returns, There’s something implicitly paradoxical about feeling “cheated” by a present. A gift […]
AI Is Coming for the Experts. First, It Needs Their Help
Earning up to $60 per hour, Jay was an early recruit, joining Remotasks the month before OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world. Since then, the platform has been accelerating its search for expert data laborers. In January 2024, WIRED found, the company published job ads seeking speakers of more than 20 different European languages, as […]
Tom Lockyer: Luton Town defender shows where defibrillator is fitted in his chest
Wales international footballer Tom Lockyer has shown BBC Breakfast’s Sally Nugent the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) he has had fitted in his chest. The Luton Town defender, 29, collapsed on the pitch after suffering a cardiac arrest during a Premier League match against Bournemouth in December. ICDs are designed to restart the heart instantly in case […]
Is Tom Sandoval of ‘Vanderpump Rules’ the Most Hated Man in America?
Contrary to a popular misconception, “Vanderpump” is not about Lisa Vanderpump, a former Bravo Housewife. It started as a show about waiters and bartenders who lived in crappy apartments around Hollywood and, for the most part, wanted to be actors. That dream didn’t work out, but they became reality-TV stars instead. For a while, this […]