Stanford University created one of the world’s first artificial intelligence labs in 1965. Six decades later, the school is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner. The student, Billy Ramirez, said he was “baffled” by the change and later “felt silenced and erased from a representation that was supposed to include me” in an interview with the Stanford Review, a student newspaper, which first reported the AI change. Two classmates, an Asian woman and white man, remained in the new photo, which was displayed on a campus banner, but their faces also appeared to be altered by AI to appear thinner. The students were photographed in 2024 in a dining hall holding plates of noodles and their images were later used to promote the university’s Residential & Dining Enterprises department.

The Trump administration plans to limit the number of refugees admitted to the country to 17,500 mostly white South Africans, the administration told Congress Tuesday.

A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family budgets.

The construction industry is facing a mental health crisis. In Philadelphia, workers can find more help than ever, but layoffs, long hours, injury, and instability still push many toward the brink.

Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impossible to ignore.

In July 1979, a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader named Joe Grady summoned two FBI agents to a Waffle House to warn them “about possible violence in the future.” Earlier that month, members of the Workers Viewpoint Organization and local Black residents had forced armed Klansmen to retreat inside a community center where they were screening the hugely controversial movie Birth of a Nation. The euphoric anti-Klan protesters celebrated by stealing their Confederate flag and burning it. That confrontation in the town of China Grove was only the most recent in a string of incidents of leftist harassment that Grady complained had violated the Klan’s constitutional rights. An official memo describing the meeting is one of thousands of pages recently released by the FBI that detail the agency’s handling of one of the most notorious episodes of white supremacist violence in the past 50 years. About three months after Grady’s warning, a caravan of Klan and Nazis, led by a former FBI informant also working with the police, drove into a Black public housing community in Greensboro and opened fire on an anti-Klan march, killing five leaders of the Workers Viewpoint Organization (later renamed Communist Workers Party).

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump administration dismantled the unit handling the inquiry.

The second half of the 20th century was something of a golden age for nuclear technology. Following the atomic devastation of WWII, the world found new, more benign uses for radioactive decay. Power plants, medical treatments, scientific research, and industry all blossomed under a benevolent nuclear glow. But with the nuclear revolution came a significant problem – what to do with all the thousands of tons of radioactive waste generated in the excitement. For Europe, the solution was relatively simple. There was a perfectly good seafloor at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean that, as far as the authorities were concerned, no one important was using. So, between 1949 and 1982, that's where it went – more than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste, totaling more than 150,000 tons, mostly dumped at depths between 3,000 and 5,000 meters (9,840 and 16,400 feet). For decades, no one really knew what had become of them. Now, scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersible to investigate – and found many of the barrels corroded and degraded, their contents spilling across the seafloor.

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed AB 713, the Opportunity for All Act, blocking a measure that would have opened paid campus employment to undocumented students at UC, CSU and community colleges.

A man has been banned from Oz Comic-Con after allegedly biting one of the artists on Sunday afternoon.

A Venezuelan man shot and wounded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Sunday was making a DoorDash delivery in North Austin when he was shot, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was released from Dell Seton Medical Center at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday and transferred to ICE custody, attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch told the American-Statesman. As of Sunday evening, his family did not know where he was being held, she said. Garces Perez’s wife, whom Lincoln-Goldfinch identified only as Elizdar, retained the attorney to represent him in his immigration case. Lincoln-Goldfinch said Garces Perez has no criminal history and has lived in Austin for about two years. Elizdar arrived at the hospital and later was joined by Lincoln-Goldfinch after first visiting the scene of the shooting, the attorney said. Hospital staff told them Garces Perez was not there and asked them to leave the property, she said. About two hours later, after Mayor Kirk Watson became involved in trying to help the family obtain information, a hospital attorney called Lincoln-Goldfinch and told her that Garces Perez had been released into ICE custody, she said.

Mangelwurzels are attracting new fans, inspiring a festival and sparking a Somerset craze.

A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.

COLOMBO — As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began laying traps along the uneasy boundary between farmland and forest. They were targeting small terrestrial mammals moving through the landscape.

ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving basic prenatal care and screenings

A secret report shows which Florida insurers claimed losses as affiliates made billions. The state Senate demanded the Orlando Sentinel and Sun Sentinel destroy the report or face legal action.

Although state officials laud a reduction in violent crime, a report claims it would have happened without the taskforce

Eight hundred workers at a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, succeeded where others have not: they are now working under a two-year contract with North America’s largest logistics giant. The landmark collective bargaining agreement went into effect on July 1, nearly two years after workers won union representation, joining Unifor Local 252, motivated by low wages and unsafe working conditions. As punishment two years ago, Walmart bumped the pay of every logistics worker in Canada—except those who unionized. This was an effective maneuver to halt further union drives.

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

Half-Life: Alyx remains the big budget killer app of VR. But playing it again makes you wonder if anyone will ever be allowed to match that ambition.