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Archived image accompanying: Juneau Declares Earliest-Ever Disaster Emergency as Glacial Flood Season Approaches

Juneau Declares Earliest-Ever Disaster Emergency as Glacial Flood Season Approaches

Juneau's Assembly unanimously approved the city's earliest-ever preemptive disaster declaration, activating emergency powers ahead of the annual glacial lake outburst flood from Suicide Basin — even as costs forced officials to scale back the Mendenhall River flood wall that must hold for roughly another 25 years.

4 months ago

Archived image accompanying: Google Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Defects to OpenAI Ahead of IPO

Google Gemini Co-Lead Noam Shazeer Defects to OpenAI Ahead of IPO

Noam Shazeer, VP of Engineering and co-lead of Google's Gemini AI models, announced June 18 he is joining OpenAI — less than two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to rehire him from Character.AI, and days after OpenAI confidentially filed for an IPO.

4 months ago

Archived image accompanying: Semi-Truck Jackknifes Through 210 Freeway Divider in Irwindale, Killing 1 and Injuring 32

Semi-Truck Jackknifes Through 210 Freeway Divider in Irwindale, Killing 1 and Injuring 32

A semi-truck carrying a Target load jackknifed through the center divider on the 210 Freeway in Irwindale, California, on Saturday morning, killing one woman and injuring 32 people including six minors in a mass-casualty collision that shut the freeway for over six hours.

4 months ago

Archived image accompanying: Trump-Meloni G7 Photo Spat Escalates as Italy's Top Diplomat Cancels US Trip

Trump-Meloni G7 Photo Spat Escalates as Italy's Top Diplomat Cancels US Trip

Donald Trump's claim that Italian PM Giorgia Meloni "begged" him for a photo at the G7 summit has detonated into a live diplomatic crisis, with Italy's foreign minister cancelling his Washington visit and Meloni publicly calling the story "completely fabricated."

4 months ago

Archived image accompanying: NTSB: I-95 Bus Plowed Half a Mile Through Traffic Before Killing 5 in Virginia

NTSB: I-95 Bus Plowed Half a Mile Through Traffic Before Killing 5 in Virginia

The NTSB's preliminary report on the deadly May 29 bus crash in Stafford County, Virginia, confirms the charter bus never slowed before plowing 0.44 miles through stopped traffic on I-95, killing five Massachusetts passengers. Driver Jing Sheng Dong now faces five felony counts of involuntary manslaughter.

4 months ago