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Can this new tech help stop deepfakes from going viral? 02/02/2024 04:58pm • It takes just a few minutes for a video posted online to go viral, whether it’s true or not. And advances in technology, including the creation of what’s commonly know as “deepfake” videos, have the ability to shape opinions, emotions and even reality for people tricked into believing someth New Mexico Democrats push to criminalize fake electors before presidential vote 02/02/2024 03:22pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Democrats who control the Legislature want to make it a crime to pose as a fake presidential elector in one of the few states where Republicans signed certificates in 2020 falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner. Legislators advanced a bill Friday on a party-line Most states have either caucuses or a primary. Why is Nevada holding both? 02/02/2024 10:00am • RENO, Nev. (AP) — Lee Hoffman’s job is challenging in the best of circumstances. In most presidential election years, the chairman of the Republican Party in Elko County, Nevada, is tasked with rounding up voters to help choose a presidential nominee at the GOP caucuses. It’s a complicated Police: Armed man found dead at Colorado mountaintop amusement park had researched mass shootings 02/01/2024 08:18pm • DENVER (AP) — A heavily armed man who was found dead at a Colorado mountaintop amusement park last year had researched mass shootings online, but investigators haven't determined why he amassed such an arsenal or didn't follow through on “whatever he was planning,” authorities said Thursday. T 10 Common Scams That Target Seniors and How to Avoid Them 02/01/2024 07:00pm • Every year, thieves target individuals to get access to their personal information and money, and they tend to zero in on older people. Victims of elder financial exploitation lose $28.3 billion annually, according to a 2023 BankSafe report by AARP. If you haven't yet been approached by a scammer, y New coach Dave Canales, GM Dan Morgan seek winning formula for the struggling Carolina Panthers 02/01/2024 03:13pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — New Carolina Panthers head coach Dave Canales and general manager Dan Morgan brought plenty of energy and enthusiasm to their introductory news conference on Thursday. Now the big question is if they can bring wins? That won’t be an easy task as they take over a Panthers t UK judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit over dossier containing 'shocking and scandalous claims' 02/01/2024 06:56am • LONDON (AP) — A judge in London on Thursday threw out a lawsuit by former U.S. President Donald Trump that accused a former British spy of making “shocking and scandalous claims” that were false and harmed his reputation. Judge Karen Steyn said the case Trump filed against Orbis Business Intel Takeaways from the AP's look at the role of conspiracy theories in American politics and society 01/31/2024 06:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Conspiracy theories have a long history. Humans have always speculated about secret motives and plots as a way to understand their world and avoid danger. These days, however, conspiracy theories and those who believe them seem to be playing an outsize role in politics and cultu Secret history: Even before the revolution, America was a nation of conspiracy theorists 01/31/2024 06:02pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A brutal conflict in Europe was fresh in people's minds and the race for the White House turned ugly as talk of secret societies and corruption roiled the United States. It was 1800, and conspiracy theories were flourishing across America. Partisan newspapers spread tales of Euro What to know about how lawmakers are addressing deepfakes like the ones that victimized Taylor Swift 01/31/2024 04:33pm • Even before pornographic and violent deepfake images of Taylor Swift began widely circulating in the past few days, state lawmakers across the U.S. had been searching for ways to quash such nonconsensual images of both adults and children. But in this Taylor-centric era, the problem has been getting Hungary defends treatment of Italian antifascist activist, says left is hurting Italy-Hungary ties 01/31/2024 04:10pm • ROME (AP) — The Hungarian government Wednesday defended its treatment of an Italian antifascist activist being held in a Hungarian jail, after images of her chained and shackled at a Budapest court hearing sparked official protests by the Italian government. Police arrested Ilaria Salis in the Hun Russian lawmakers approve confiscating the assets of people who discredit the army 01/31/2024 06:27am • MOSCOW (AP) — The lower house of Russia's parliament on Wednesday approved a bill that would allow authorities to confiscate money, valuables and other assets from people convicted of spreading “deliberately false information” about the country's military. After its swift passage in the State X restores Taylor Swift searches after deepfake explicit images triggered temporary block 01/30/2024 06:34am • LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk's social media platform X has restored searches for Taylor Swift after temporarily blocking users from seeing some results as pornographic deepfake images of the singer circulated online. Searches for the singer's name on the site Tuesday turned up a list of tweets as norm A thinned-out primary and friendly voting structure clear an easy path for Trump in Nevada 01/30/2024 05:45am • RENO, Nev. (AP) — A thinned-out primary field and a group of Nevada Republicans loyal to Donald Trump have put the former president on an easy path to sweep the state's Republican delegates and made the third state in the GOP primary calendar a national non-factor. Nevada will have two contests in Dissolving Trump's business empire would stand apart in history of NY fraud law 01/29/2024 07:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Within days, Donald Trump could potentially have his sprawling real estate business empire ordered “dissolved” for repeated misrepresentations on financial statements to lenders, adding him to a short list of scam marketers, con artists and others who have been hit with the ult