ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Authorities in southern Mexico were still assessing damage and watching rising rivers as rain from the remnants of Hurricane Erick doused the region. Authorities reported landslides, blocked highways, downed power lines and some flooding. At least one death was confirmed late Thursday, a 1-year-old boy who drowned in a swollen river.…… MORE
LONDON (AP) — Music streaming service Deezer said Friday that it will start flagging albums with AI-generated songs, part of its fight against streaming fraudsters. The Paris-based company is grappling with a surge in music on its platform created purely with generative artificial intelligence tools that it says are used to fraudulently earn royalties. The…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Democratic Texas lawmakers is asking Elon Musk to delay his rollout of driverless ‘robotaxis’ in the state this weekend to assure the vehicles are safe enough. The letter from seven legislators wants the Tesla CEO to wait until September when a new law takes effect that will require…… MORE
Aflac says that it has identified suspicious activity on its network in the U.S. that may impact Social Security numbers and other personal information, calling the incident part of a cybercrime campaign against the insurance industry. The company said Friday that the intrusion was stopped within hours. “We continue to serve our customers as we…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with e-cigarette companies in a ruling that’ll make it easier to sue over Food and Drug Administration decisions blocking their products from the multibillion-dollar vaping market. Friday’s opinion comes as companies push back against a yearslong federal regulatory crackdown on electronic cigarettes. It’s expected to give the…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. It is the third time Trump has extended the deadline. The first one…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government. But the justices also have 10 cases to resolve that were argued between December and…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth – Following a two-month targeted initiative called “Operation Showdown” to reduce violent crime in Fort Worth, Texas, 76 individuals have been arrested for federal and state firearms and drug offenses. The announcement was made by Nancy E. Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and Bennie Mims,…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, a case that attracted legions of true crime followers who erupted in cheers when word of the acquittal spread outside court. The same jury also…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — NEW YORK (AP) — The possibility that music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs might testify at his federal sex trafficking trial all but vanished Tuesday after his lawyer predicted a defense presentation lasting as little as two days and the judge said jurors could be deliberating next week. Attorney Marc Agnifilo told Judge Arun…… MORE
