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The North Carolina mother who vanished in 2001 and was located safe and sound earlier this month was arrested on an outstanding order, officials say. Michele Hundley Smith, 62, was taken into custody Wednesday by the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office on an arrest order related to her failure to appear …

Americans are increasingly encountering and using artificial intelligence technologies like Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Most surveys now suggest more than two-thirds of the population is interacting with these technologies. However, a defining question is how far along we are in a transition from experimentation with AI to …

She acknowledged there may be some benefits from the xAI project, but she fears it’s already coming at her family’s expense. Two of her children developed respiratory problems since the plant went online, she said. The nonprofit Southern Environmental Law Center has said gas turbines produce pollution and release hazardous …

WASHINGTON — Aliyah Rahman, a Minnesota woman whom Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., took as her guest to the State of the Union address Tuesday, needed hospital treatment after she was arrested during the speech, Rahman and Omar said. Rahman silently stood up during the part of President Donald Trump’s speech …

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance got a new assignment Tuesday night: fighting a “war on fraud” that President Donald Trump declared in his State of the Union address. It’s the latest addition to a portfolio that has included saving TikTok from extinction in the U.S. and selling Trump’s “One …

Larry Summers, the former treasury secretary and noted economist, announced Wednesday he plans to resign from his role as a tenured professor at Harvard University — a move that comes amid growing scrutiny of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I have made the difficult decision to retire …

HONG KONG — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s purges of senior military officials run far deeper than previously thought, researchers say, threatening the effectiveness of his People’s Liberation Army. The crackdown, documented in two new studies released Tuesday, includes the recent ouster of Xi’s top two generals. Purges have been a …

Declaring “a turnaround for the ages,” President Donald Trump offered a version of America’s standing in his State of the Union address Tuesday night that is at odds with the perceptions of the electorate. Wearing a red power tie with a flag pin on the lapel of his navy suit …

WASHINGTON — The House rejected an aviation safety bill Tuesday that the Senate unanimously passed in response to the deadly midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River last year. Family members of some of the 67 crash victims looked …

If you’re one of the many people with acid reflux, then you know the irritation that comes with symptoms like heart burn and chest pain, and how much they affect everyday tasks like eating and sleeping. In fact, when you go to bed, you probably notice those symptoms become even …