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A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons 03/31/2026 09:25am • The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assist How one family's bipolar disorder experience led to more than $1 billion for the Broad Institute 03/31/2026 08:08am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Jon Stanley considers himself fortunate among bipolar disorder patients. He eventually responded to the right drug cocktail after self-described ���full-brained mania��� almost 40 years ago left him naked in a New York City deli, convinced electricity coursed through the floor. Oth Police investigating bank robbery in Great Falls 03/30/2026 06:42pm • Fairfax County police are investigating a bank robbery that happened in Great Falls, Virginia, on Monday afternoon. Officers responded to a call on Walker Road in Great Falls after 3 p.m. Monday where a man entered the bank, implied to staff that he had a weapon and took an undisclosed amount of ���Washington Manassas Airport��� encounters turbulence ahead of potential rebrand 03/30/2026 11:15am • Some Manassas, Virginia, residents are pushing back against a name change for Manassas Regional Airport, as recommended by the airport commission, ahead of commercial passenger service beginning as early as spring of 2027. The Manassas City Council paused plans earlier this month to choose a new DC police charge 2 teens following robbery, paintball gun recovered 03/30/2026 06:14am • Two teenagers were arrested early Sunday morning in connection with a robbery at a business in Southeast D.C., police said. D.C. police said officers responded to a report of a robbery in progress around 12:27 a.m. in the 5000 block of Benning Road, near the intersection of H Street, in Southeast 7 Stocks to Buy if AGI Is Truly Here 03/29/2026 08:00pm • In a recent podcast appearance, Nvidia Corp. (ticker: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang said the era of artificial general intelligence has already arrived. AGI is generally defined as AI technology that matches or surpasses human intellectual competence across all domains. 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With the move, Indonesia Man fatally shot by Prince George's Co. police officer in Chillum 03/27/2026 03:08pm • A man was shot and killed by a Prince George's County police officer during a traffic stop in the Chillum area on Thursday night. Around 8:40 p.m. Thursday, an officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle near 23rd Avenue and Ager Road at East-West Highway. The driver was asked to exit the vehic Yahoo turns to AI-powered answer engine Scout to lead it back to its roots in online search 03/27/2026 01:06pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Internet trailblazer Yahoo is exploring technology's next frontier with Scout, an answer engine powered by artificial intelligence. Scout seems insightful, based on its response to a question posed by The Associated Press about why one of Silicon Valley's brightest stars faded AI's arrival complicates Big Tech climate goals, and some worry it's locking in more fossil fuels 03/27/2026 11:38am • Six years ago, Google was confident that by 2030 it would power all operations with electricity generated from clean sources, including wind and solar power, and remove as much pollution as it produced. Today it calls those goals a ���moonshot.��� Microsoft says it's still aiming to remove more carb Burning vehicle causes backups on Outer Loop in Forestville 03/26/2026 08:07pm • A vehicle caught on fire on Pennsylvania Avenue directly under the Beltway overpass in Forestville, Maryland, on Thursday evening. The smoke and flames reached the Outer Loop overpass and drivers on the Beltway reported seeing smoke billowing out from the underpass. Firefighters with Prince Ge AI is giving bad advice to flatter its users, says new study on dangers of overly agreeable chatbots 03/26/2026 06:22pm • Artificial intelligence chatbots are so prone to flattering and validating their human users that they are giving bad advice that can damage relationships and reinforce harmful behaviors, according to a new study that explores the dangers of AI telling people what they want to hear. The study, publi Verdicts against Meta, YouTube validate concerns long raised by parents, child safety advocates 03/26/2026 04:07pm • For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people's mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide. For the first time, juries in two states took their side. I Today in History: March 26, Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore 03/26/2026 04:10am • Today is Thursday, March 26, the 85th day of 2026. There are 280 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 26, 2024, Baltimore���s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by a container ship, killing six maintenance workers on the bridge. (Maryland officials have announced pla