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As AI becomes part of everyday life, it brings a hidden climate cost 08/22/2025 09:01am • Marissa Loewen first started using artificial intelligence in 2014 as a project management tool. She has autism and ADHD and said it helped immensely with organizing her thoughts. “We try to use it conscientiously though because we do realize that there is an impact on the environment,” she said Privacy and civil rights groups urge US colleges to end campus surveillance to protect protesters 08/21/2025 03:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups called on U.S. universities Thursday to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection, to protect student protesters and others from government retaliation. The demands, issued in a letter sent to leaders of 60 major u How to Protect Your Data When Using Health Tracking Apps 08/19/2025 08:00pm • In late June, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he plans to launch a campaign to incentivize Americans to use wearable health tracking devices. Health-tracking devices -- including watches, rings and bands -- can offer real benefits. They can help you stay acco 'Ketamine Queen' accused of selling fatal dose to Matthew Perry agrees to plead guilty 08/18/2025 08:19pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman known as the “Ketamine Queen,” charged with selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty Monday. Jasveen Sangha becomes the fifth and final defendant charged in the overdose death of the “Friends” star to strike a plea agreement with fe Things to know about the indictment against the New Orleans mayor 08/16/2025 12:03am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Months before New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was set to leave office because of term limits, she has been indicted in what prosecutors allege was a yearslong scheme to conceal a romantic relationship with her bodyguard. Prosecutors say bodyguard Jeffrey Vappie was being paid New Orleans mayor indicted over allegations of trying to hide relationship with bodyguard 08/15/2025 09:38pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to hide a romantic relationship with her bodyguard, who is accused of being paid as if he was working even when they met alone in apartments and traveled to vineyards for wine tas NCAA fines Michigan millions, adds game suspension for Moore over sign-stealing scandal 08/15/2025 05:39pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The NCAA fined Michigan tens of millions of dollars Friday and suspended coach Sherrone Moore for a third game as punishment for a sprawling sign-stealing scandal that has loomed over college football’s winningest program for nearly two years, including its national champ Social Security has existed for 90 years. Why it may be more threatened than ever 08/14/2025 10:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago this week, he said it would provide economic stability to older people while giving the U.S. "an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.” Today, the program provides benefits to a NCAA informs Michigan ruling on sign-stealing investigation will be released Friday, AP source says 08/14/2025 12:59pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The NCAA has informed Michigan that the organization will announce the results of its sign-stealing investigation on Friday, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized Trump's friendly-to-frustrated relationship with Putin takes the spotlight at the Alaska summit 08/14/2025 12:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday could be a decisive moment for both the war in Ukraine and the U.S. leader’s anomalous relationship with his Russian counterpart. Trump has long boasted that he’s gotten along well with Putin and spoken admiringl New draft of global plastic pollution treaty wouldn't limit plastic production 08/13/2025 01:58pm • GENEVA (AP) — Negotiators working on a treaty to address global plastic pollution discussed a new draft of the text Wednesday that wouldn't limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products. The biggest issue of the talks has been whether the treaty should impose caps on produ Trump administration calls out human rights records of some nations accepting deported migrants 08/12/2025 06:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday released human rights reports for countries worldwide, which eliminate mentions of discrimination faced by LGBTQ people, reduce a previous focus on reproductive rights and criticize restrictions on political speech by U.S. allies in Europe that A guide to Taylor Swift's most elaborate album announcements 08/12/2025 04:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift doesn't simply announce albums. She curates events. That's a trend that certainly did not begin with the announcement of her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl, ” on Tuesday. She's long embraced new technologies and forward-thinking marketing opportunities US Rep. Barry Moore, an Alabama Republican, launches bid for the Senate 08/12/2025 11:20am • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama announced Tuesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate, seeking the position being vacated by Sen. Tommy Tuberville who is running for governor. Moore is in his third term in Congress and is a member of the conservative Freedom India's opposition parties protest against a controversial electoral roll revision 08/11/2025 10:29am • NEW DELHI (AP) — India ’s opposition parties held a protest Monday calling for the rollback of a controversial revision of the voter list in one of the country’s poorest states, where key elections are scheduled in November, and warning it could lead to voter disenfranchisement. Hundreds of la