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Google and chatbot maker Character to settle lawsuit alleging chatbot pushed teen to suicide 01/07/2026 06:41pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Google and artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character Technologies have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida mother who alleged a chatbot pushed her teenage son to kill himself. Attorneys for the two tech companies have also agreed to settle several other lawsuit Pamela Smart seeks to overturn conviction for having teenager murder her husband 01/06/2026 07:30pm • BOSTON (AP) — Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student in 1990, is seeking to overturn her conviction over what her lawyers claim were several constitutional violations. The petition for habeas corpus relief was filed Monday in Florida's Greek community gathers for 120th Epiphany celebration and annual dive to retrieve cross 01/06/2026 03:11pm • TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Florida's largest Greek Orthodox community gathered Tuesday for its 120th Epiphany celebration, where dozens of teens dove into chilly water to retrieve a cross in front of thousands of spectators. Athos Karistinos, 18, found the cross before 73 other boys after it was Hundreds march in silence to honor victims of Swiss bar fire that left 40 dead 01/04/2026 03:23pm • CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Hundreds marched in silence Sunday to honor the victims of the New Year’s Eve fire at a bar in the Swiss Alpine resort of Crans-Montana, which left 40 dead and many severely injured. Somber mourners, many with reddened eyes, filed silently out of the chapel to Investigation is opened into managers of Swiss bar where fire killed 40 01/03/2026 11:04am • CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the managers of the bar where a fire at a New Year’s party left 40 people dead, authorities said Saturday. The two are suspected of involuntary homicide, involuntary bodily harm and involuntarily causin Swiss investigators believe sparkling candles atop wine bottles ignited fatal bar fire 01/02/2026 07:58pm • CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited a fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ceiling of a bar crowded with New Year's Eve revelers. Authorities planned to look into whether sound-da The top selections at DC’s libraries in 2025 01/02/2026 03:00pm • Readers spent a lot of time at D.C.'s public libraries in 2025, and checked out a lot of books, eBooks, audiobooks and streaming videos. In a news release, the library system said people walked trough the library doors 3.2 million times in 2025, and library items were borrowed more than 6.2 milli Teen charged in connection to murder inside Northeast DC apartment 01/01/2026 04:46am • A 16-year-old was arrested Tuesday for the murder of a man inside a Northeast D.C. apartment. Keyonte Johnson, of D.C., was charged as an adult with premeditated first-degree murder in the shooting death of Roy Bennett, Jr., 20, of D.C., according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's office Betty Boop and 'Blondie' enter the public domain in 2026, accompanied by a trio of detectives 12/31/2025 04:50pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Betty Boop and “Blondie” are joining Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh in the public domain. The first appearances of the classic cartoon and comic characters are among the pieces of intellectual property whose 95-year U.S. copyright maximum has been reached, putting them in From Pope Francis to Charlie Kirk, many deaths in 2025 had a wide impact 12/31/2025 03:35pm • The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the first time — by an American pope. The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk as he spoke before a crowd horrified many and prompted somber conversations abou Hold onto your hats: Another windy day in the DC region on the eve of New Year's Eve 12/30/2025 09:30am • Make sure you hold onto your hats because it'll be another windy day in the D.C. region Tuesday, which will make the temperatures colder. The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory early Tuesday morning that was cancelled before 9 a.m. However, conditions will remain blustery as north 2 Germantown teens turn classroom idea into global AI farming tool 12/30/2025 04:38am • Two Germantown, Maryland, teens turned a classroom idea into a tool that is helping thousands of farmers worldwide. Rudrojas "Rudra" Kunvar, 16, is still a junior at Poolesville High School, and Jacob Lee, 18, graduated last year and is now a freshman at Stanford University. Together, they launch Howling wind gusts through DC area as temperatures tumble Monday evening 12/29/2025 04:50pm • Winds have picked up in the D.C. region and temperatures are rapidly tumbling Monday evening after a mild start to the day. It will stay blustery into Tuesday. "Don't be fooled by temperatures in the 50s because as we get later into the day the wind is going to howl and the temperatures will f Pakistan police detain teen girl radicalized online in suspected suicide bombing plot 12/29/2025 08:11am • KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police in Pakistan detained a teenage girl who was radicalized and recruited online by an outlawed separatist group to carry out a “major suicide attack,” authorities said Monday. No criminal charges will be filed and she will be placed under state protection as “a v AP Exclusive: China threatens detention in Xinjiang over banned Uyghur songs 12/29/2025 04:55am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — It is a soulful folk song, filled with feeling and history: A love-stricken young man tells God about his hopes and dreams of happiness. Generations of Uyghurs, the Turkic ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region, have played it at parties and weddings. But today, if the