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Oct 9 (Reuters) - An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted ​a false ‌homicide tip through a Philadelphia police website, the department said ‌in ​a statement. Anthropic ⁠notified the police ⁠earlier this week and said that an automated test...

By Phil Stewart and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Vice President JD Vance said on Friday he does not know whether the Pentagon will carry out its plan to livestream the execution by firing squad of the former US Army psychiatrist convicted ...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A US judge ruled on Friday that the Justice Department's push to obtain state voter rolls and check ​them against a federal immigration database in order ‌to demand that states remove voters it deemed ineligible...

By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Katie Zacharia, a communications adviser for President Donald Trump's Truth ​Social platform, has been offered the ‌position of White House press secretary following Karoline Leavitt's departure from the rol...

PANAMA CITY, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck near the southern coast of Panama ​on Friday at a 10 ‌km depth, according to the US Geological Survey, yet no damage was initially reported and the Panama Canal Authority said the ...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday that he would defer to the Pentagon on whether US networks ​could air a planned December 3 military execution, which ‌would be an unprec...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Mike Ditka, a Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end best known as the slick-haired and mustachioed head coach who led the NFL's Chicago Bears to their only Super Bowl triumph in ​1986, has died. He was 86. Ditka's death was announced in...

By Bo Erickson and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - US Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that he would not watch ​a livestream of the military execution of ‌the gunman who killed 13 people at Fort Hood military base in 2009, while Presi...

(Corrects year to 2001 in paragraph 15) By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Thursday that it would livestream the firing squad execution of the man who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in 2009, raising questio...

By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - A friend of the suspected thief of a massive cache of personal data from the FBI says he begged the teenager not to do it. Adem El Adeb, 19, told Reuters that he tried to convince Saif al-Din Khader last ...

By Bo Erickson and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday that Russia had agreed to immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to the US and global marketplace in an effort aimed at cutting prices f...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Lawyers for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said ​on Friday that ‌if a planned White House hearing on allegations against her is "anything close to ‌objective," ​it will ⁠demonstrate that Cook ⁠did not commit mortgage fraud and wil...

WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday the bureau has arrested another person ​tied to the ShinyHunters hacking ‌group. In a post on X, Patel said, "Our agents in the field have arrested another suspected co-conspirator of...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - The US CDC on Friday reported 4,080 confirmed measles cases in the country as of October 8, up ​193 from a week earlier. Here are ‌key details: • Twenty-six cases were identified among international visitors, according to the Centers ...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. military plans to livestream the Dec. 3 execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. If carried out as planned, death penalty experts sa...

By Jonathan Allen and Joseph Ax NEW YORK, Oct 9 (Reuters) - US immigration officials defended federal agents on Friday who shot and wounded a New York City man in his car with a young child believed to be his son in the back seat and rebuked Mayor Zohr...

By Ann Saphir WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump launched a new inquiry into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook weeks before congressional elections, convening an investigative committee and ordering an unprecedented White House he...

(Corrects to refer to arrest warrants issued against more than 70 people, not indictments, paragraph 11) By Humeyra Pamuk, Steve Holland and Anthony Deutsch Oct 9 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump's administration imposed sanctions on the Internati...

By Marton Monus and Krisztina Than LADANY-VOLGY, Hungary, Oct 9 (Reuters) - In a bone-dry valley in Hungary, forest workers and volunteers piled up terraces of logs and deadwood, hoping to catch any trickles of water that make it down the hillside whe...

PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Two Renoir paintings worth millions of dollars that were stolen from a museum on the French ​Riviera a month ago have been ‌recovered and six suspects have been arrested, the local mayor said on Friday. Thieves had broken into ...