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Russia accuses Telegram CEO Pavel Durov of aiding terrorism in its latest digital crackdown
Russian authorities said Wednesday they had charged Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, with aiding terrorism, the latest step by the Kremlin to bring the internet and digital communications under its control. The charges against the Russian-born Durov, who lives abroad, came as authorities have sought to restrict the […]
Fauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a contentious Senate committee hearing
WASHINGTON | Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer dozens of questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision, at least for now, shielded Fauci from answering questions that could expose him to accusations of lying under oath. Though […]
‘She killed the kids!’ 911 call from Lindsay Clancy’s husband brings tears to the courtroom
PLYMOUTH, Mass. | Lindsay Clancy sobbed in court Wednesday as jurors listened to the anguished 911 call her then-husband made after returning from an errand to find she’d strangled their three children in their Massachusetts home. On the roughly 7-minute recording, Patrick Clancy can be heard speaking with his wife upon finding her badly injured […]
Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband resumes testifying about the day she killed their 3 children
PLYMOUTH, Mass. | The former husband of a Massachusetts woman on trial for killing their three young children returned to the witness stand Wednesday, testifying about a day that began with art projects and playtime in the snow and ended with him coming home to find the bodies. Whether Lindsay Clancy killed her children is […]
France battles wildfire 4 times the size of Paris as tinderbox heat threatens new surge
LEGE-CAP FERRET, France | Firefighters in southwest France battled an uncontained wildfire four times the size of Paris on Wednesday as temperatures were forecast to hit 40 C (104 F), threatening to turn a calm night into only a brief reprieve. Authorities in the Gironde region said the blaze had not spread overnight, but rising […]
Iran resumes missile attacks as US and Saudis strike Tehran-backed militias in Iraq
CAIRO | Iran launched a barrage of missiles at American forces in the Middle East early Wednesday as the U.S. partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Tehran-backed militias in neighboring Iraq, killing at least 20 fighters. The flare-up on multiple fronts, after several days of relative calm, raised the risk of a return to all-out […]
Aurora replacing Great Lawn at Aurora city hall with drought-tolerant ‘Bermudagrass’
AURORA | Aurora is replacing the Great Lawn at the Aurora Municipal Center with drought-tolerant Bermudagrass as part of a citywide effort to reduce water use and improve the sustainability of its parks, city officials said Wednesday. The city’s Parks, Recreation and Open Space Department, working with contractor Elite Industries, started the conversion this week […]
ALL ABOARD: Town hall explains how to join any of 22 Aurora boards and commissions
AURORA | Want to help plan the future of Aurora’s libraries or give input about water conservation? Now is the chance — the city is hosting an informational town hall and recruiting volunteers for several boards and commissions that have open seats. The town hall, scheduled for 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at […]
PERRY: Another Colorado gubernatorial Odd Is He epic heats up for the remaining GOP voters
So, if you’re down in the dumps because you live in a country where one of the craziest and corrupt people in the nation runs the country, and a few million people really think that’s cool, you can take a breath. No, sorry. President Donald Trump isn’t resigning or being forced out by his slightly […]
For some, so-called ‘Skynet Day’ came too close to sci-fi after a rogue agent hacked into a startup
Long before OpenAI broke out of its test corral and hacked into Hugging Face, before the internet and Sam Altman were even born, Cameron wrote a screenplay about an autonomous artificial intelligence system that triggers a nuclear apocalypse. That system, “Skynet,” was solidly science fiction — and, for its day, pure speculation. But four decades […]