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NFL Inactive Report 10/08/2023 11:49am • NEW YORK (AP) — The National Football League Inactive Report. Week 5Sunday HOUSTON TEXANS at ATLANTA FALCONS — HOUSTON: CB Shaquill Griffin, LB Christian Harris, OG Josh Jones, QB Case Keenum, RB Dare Ogunbowale, CB Tavierre Thomas, LB Garret Wallow. ATLANTA: OL Jovaughn Gwyn, DL Ta'Quon Graham ‘Without water, there is no life’: Drought in Brazil’s Amazon is sharpening fears for the future 10/08/2023 08:40am • MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Communities dependent on the Amazon rainforest's waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. Dozens of river dolphins perished and washed up on shore. And thousands of lifeless fish float on the water's surface. These are just the first grim visions These books are being used to train AI. No one told the authors 10/08/2023 08:00am • (CNN) — Almost 200,000 books are being used to train artificial intelligence systems by some of the biggest companies in technology. The problem? No one told the authors. The system is called Books3, and according to an investigation by The Atlantic, the data set is based on a collection of pir Impeachments and forced removals from office emerge as partisan weapons in the states 10/08/2023 07:23am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Wisconsin are threatening to impeach a recently elected state Supreme Court justice and raised the possibility of doing the same to the state’s election director. A Georgia Republican called for impeaching the Fulton County prosecutor who brought racketeering cha New York City mayor wraps up Latin America trip with call for 'right to work' for migrants in US 10/07/2023 09:42pm • NECOCLI, Colombia (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams capped off a four-day trip to Latin America on Saturday by calling for a “right to work” for migrants in the United States. He spoke during a visit to Necocli, the northern Colombia town where thousands of migrants start the perilous trek Desert horror: Music festival goers heard rockets, then Gaza militants fired on them and took hostages 10/07/2023 09:07pm • (CNN) — The rockets began around 6:30 a.m., Tal Gibly told CNN. Thirty minutes later, she and hundreds of others attending an Israeli music festival were running as Gaza militants fired at them. The Nova Festival in a rural farmland area near the Gaza-Israel border was just one of multiple loc California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes bill that would have decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms 10/07/2023 06:07pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at decriminalizing the possession and personal use of several hallucinogens, including psychedelic mushrooms. The legislation vetoed Saturday would have allowed those 21 and older to possess psilocybin, the hallucinogen A seventh man accused in killing of an Ecuador presidential candidate is slain inside prison 10/07/2023 05:41pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A seventh man accused in the August assassination of an Ecuadorian presidential candidate was killed inside a prison in Ecuador's capital, authorities said Saturday, a day after six others allegedly linked to the crime were slain in a different lockup. The killing of the seve Sen. Griffith resigning to take over Md. Hospital Association 10/07/2023 02:34pm • Sen. Melony G. Griffith (D-Prince George's), the chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, will resign at the end of the month to become president and CEO of the Maryland Hospital Association. Griffith told Maryland Matters Friday that she accepted the job in the morning and will begin her Trump is inserting himself into the messy race to become the next House speaker. Will it matter? 10/07/2023 02:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is again testing the power of his endorsement. With an early morning social media post on Friday, Trump inserted himself into the chaotic race to replace Kevin McCarthy as House speaker by backing Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan for the post. The move was the latest example of US Senate leader raises trade and fentanyl at start of 1st congressional visit to China since 2019 10/07/2023 08:21am • SHANGHAI (AP) — A senior American lawmaker, leading the first congressional trip to China in four years, said Saturday that the U.S. does not want to cut economic ties with the world's second-largest economy but seeks a level playing field so that American companies can compete freely. Senate Majo China's flagging economy gets a temporary boost as holiday travel returns to pre-pandemic levels 10/07/2023 03:41am • BEIJING (AP) — Chinese tourists jammed popular sites as travel bounced back to pre-pandemic levels during a recent eight-day national holiday, giving a temporary boost to China's flagging economy. The government said that tourism revenues reached about 753 billion yuan ($103 billion) during the co Six Colombians held in assassination of Ecuador presidential candidate reported slain inside prison 10/07/2023 12:14am • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Six Colombians arrested as the alleged assassins of a candidate in Ecuador's August presidential election were slain Friday inside a prison in Guayaquil, officials announced, without providing details on what happened. The prison authority said only that six prisoners killed Prince George’s Co. schools lifts Suitland High's football team suspension 10/06/2023 11:01pm • School officials from Prince George's County, Maryland, have lifted its suspension on Suitland High School's varsity football team following an incident between players and a coach from Bladensburg High School. In a letter obtained by WTOP to school Principal Ronald Hollis, Coordinating Superviso Armed security heading to St. Mary's College of Maryland 10/06/2023 10:25pm • Armed security officers will soon be starting their jobs on campus at St. Mary's College of Maryland as part of a previously planned increase in security there, and it comes at a time when there is more attention on the potential for violence at Maryland schools due to a shooting at Morgan State Uni