The owners of an East Vancouver apartment block gutted by fire on Tuesday are scheduled to appear in provincial court later this month in relation to allegations they failed to protect the building — already badly damaged by a previous blaze — against the risk of another fire.

Voters approved a statewide measure requiring Kansas City to spend at least 25 percent of its general revenue on police. It’s the only city in the state with no control over how it’s policed.

Nigeria has arrested seven Polish nationals for raising Russian flags during anti-government protests this week in the northern state of Kano, Peter Afunanya, a spokesperson for the state security service, said on Wednesday.

Big Tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon are clinging to a bygone era, failing to innovate, and letting down their customers.

Election results show AIPAC}s millions helped Wesley Bell beat Rep. Cori Bush in the Democratic primary for a Missouri House seat.

Far-right protestors are trying to share violent rhetoric on social media. For the first time, Telegram is blocking them—while X is giving them a platform.

Brown skuas and south polar skuas, two gull-like species that nest in Antarctica, are sometimes called the “pirates of the Southern seas.” These migratory seabirds are fierce, competitive predators that hunt or scavenge anything, from eggs and adult birds to seafood, mammals or garbage. “They’re really tough animals — and they’re dying,” says Antonio Quesada, director of the Spanish Polar Committee. He gravely recounts why this season’s field work in the Antarctic was like no other: A lethal strain of avian flu, H5N1, breached this fragile ecosystem in February. Only a handful of specially trained researchers were allowed onshore in outbreak sites, garbed in hazmat suits to prevent contagion and spread. The true scale of the event is still unknown, but reports were grim. In the Falkland Islands, H5N1 killed 10,000 black-browed albatross and ravaged a gentoo penguin colony. Scientists discovered a mass skua die-off: 50 carcasses littered a Beak Island nesting colony of 130. Quesada has rarely seen a single dead skua in 20 years’ work in Antarctica. “They’re an indicator species. If they’re dying, what does it mean for other birds?” he asks. The threat posed by H5N1 extends far beyond the frozen South. Few people realize that the world is currently gripped in another serious pandemic — or, to be exact, a panzootic, the animal equivalent. This virus has now infected more than 500 bird and mammal species.

Former President Trump welcomed Vice President Harris’s decision to add Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) to the Democratic ticket, calling it a “shocking pick.”

The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department and the Clearwater Police Department are expected to discuss the arrest of a Clearwater Police Department officer for public corruption.

DPS said State Troopers have not been able to identify the driver due to severe burns.

A government official from North Macedonia was arrested for allegedly mass-producing millions of fake €2 coins, the European Union’s law enforcement agency announced Tuesday. A months-long investigation by Macedonian and Kosovar authorities, conducted with the support of the Europol agency, uncovered the apparent forgery operation and led to the 34-year-old suspect’s arrest in Pristina, Europol said in a statement. The man was an employee at North Macedonia’s Ministry of Interior, Europol said, adding that authorities also seized “machines for the production of counterfeit currency, thousands of assembled coins, rings and core blanks” at multiple locations in North Macedonia. Eurojust, the EU’s criminal justice cooperation agency, said in a statement that the man was “suspected of producing around 2 million fake EUR 2 coins, which were about to be circulated into the Kosovar economy.” Kosovo is facing an epidemic of counterfeit coins worth millions of euros, according to authorities. The country is not part of the eurozone, the EU’s currency union, but adopted the euro as its currency in 2002.

He pulled over and discovered that it was the carcass of a black-bear cub. Kennedy was tickled by the find. He loaded the dead bear into the rear hatch of his car and later showed it off to his friends. In a picture from that day, Kennedy is putting his fingers inside the bear’s bloody mouth, a comical grimace across his face. (When I asked Kennedy about the incident, he said, “Maybe that’s where I got my brain worm.”)

For months, I have been documenting the incredible virality of bizarre AI-generated image spam on Facebook, now commonly referred to as “AI slop,” and Meta’s seeming complete apathy toward moderating this type of spam. My investigation reveals that the AI images we see on Facebook are an evolution of a Facebook spam economy that has existed for years, driven by social media influencers, guides, services, and businesses in places like India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam, where the payouts generated by this content, which seems marginal by U.S. standards, goes further. The spam comes from a mix of people manually creating images on their phones using off-the-shelf tools like Microsoft’s AI Image Creator to larger operations that use automated software to spam the platform. I also know that their methods work because I used them to flood Facebook with AI slop myself as a test.

The two-term governor and former House member has gained notice for folksy rebukes of Trump and support for progressive policies in his state.

What does that $15 billion slash — which will cost us an extra $3 billion on top of that — really mean for transit riders?

A judge ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation.

Australia field hockey player Matthew Dawson took his determination to compete in the Paris Olympics to another level by amputating part of a finger to ensure he’s able to take part. The 30-year-old Dawson severely injured the ring finger on his right hand two weeks ago in practice. Surgery would have required months of recovery time, jeopardizing his likelihood of being ready for the Olympics. Captain Aran Zalewski said teammates were shocked. Dawson’s wife warned against making any “rash choice.” Despite that, Dawson told 7News in Australia he made “an informed decision.”

What a way to miss out on a medal chance.

The First and deputy First Ministers have slammed the night of violence in Belfast after a cafe and shop were set on fire while cars and bins were also torched in the Sandy Row area.

Amber Heard has moved to Spain and changed her name to Martha Jane Cannary. The 38-year-old American actress moved to Spain months after the trial concluded, People reports, but a more recent update details she has reportedly changed her name to Martha Jane Cannary. If the name sounds familiar, it just might be. It’s the real name of American frontierswoman and sharpshooter Calamity Jane. She was portrayed by screen icon Doris Day in the 1953 musical-Western film, Calamity Jane. The publication El Diario de Mallorca reported on the name change, and they suggested it could pique Johnny’s interest for all the wrong reasons.