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REEL NEWS IN A RUSH: Top headlines in Friday’s NewsMinute video
Read more Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios Read more 40 days to midterms, election officials say new US cyber plan comes too late Read more California Supreme Court orders Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 seized ballots
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Worries about an AI internet takeover gain new urgency among doomsday scenarios
In a summer filled with revelations about artificial intelligence’s rapid development, researchers were especially alarmed by runaway bots finding their way onto the internet and, in at least one instance, coordinating there with one another. Could a swarm of AI agents take over the entire internet? It’s a possibility that could be only six to […]
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40 days to midterms, election officials say new US cyber plan comes too late
NEW YORK | The nation’s cybersecurity agency on Thursday released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms, laying out potential threats to election systems and listing services it would offer to election officials to protect the vote. Election officials said the plan is both inadequate and belated after the administration gutted the […]
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California Supreme Court orders Riverside County sheriff to return 650,000 seized ballots
SAN FRANCISCO | A Republican California sheriff must return more than a half-million ballots he seized for an investigation into unfounded voting improprieties in a special election last year, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in February seized approximately 650,000 ballots from a November 2025 special election on statewide congressional […]
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Trump administration turns to Supreme Court as third-country deportations are thrown into question
WASHINGTON | A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday. The administration said the ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came Wednesday […]
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Trump’s state dinner for Xi features sea bass and a long list of tech titans
WASHINGTON | A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sat where and what was on the menu marked the softer — often and glitzier — details of diplomacy as Donald Trump threw a Thursday night state dinner honoring China’s leader Xi Jinping. The event featured a cavalcade of billionaires, Washington […]
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Colorado power grid upgrades part of $2B push to prevent blackouts, address data center worries
AURORA | Colorado will receive $250 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to upgrade a key power transmission connection between Colorado and Texas, state and federal energy officials announced from Aurora yesterday. The grant is part of a U.S. Energy Department project spending about $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of […]
Football: Aurora’s 2026 Week 5 schedule
Schedule for Aurora teams in Week 5 of the 2026 prep football season, which begins Thursday with three games involving Aurora area teams.
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Football: Aurora’s 2026 Week 5 scoreboard, schedule
Scoreboard and schedule for Aurora teams in Week 5 of the 2026 prep football season, which began with three games Thursday.
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Detainees recount stories of alleged medical neglect, abuses at Aurora GEO ICE immigration jail
AURORA | Immigrant rights advocates gathered outside the ICE detention facility Wednesday night in Aurora to hear accounts of alleged abuse from people detained inside the center. The press conference and protest focused on copies of complaints alleging civil rights violations, medical neglect, and lack of access to adequate nutrition by people who were held […]