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August 16

Kim Dotcom loses 12-year fight to halt deportation from New Zealand to face US case

Kim Dotcom, founder of the once wildly popular file-sharing website Megaupload, lost a 12-year fight this week to halt his deportation from New Zealand to the U.S. on charges of copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering
August 16
FILE - Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom speaks during the Intelligence and Security select committee hearing at Parliament, on July 3, 2013, in Wellington, New Zealand. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP, File)
August 16

The collapse of an iconic arch in Utah has some wondering if other famous arches are also at risk

The recent collapse of a popular rock arch at Lake Powell known as the “Toilet Bowl” is a sad reminder that the spectacular geological arches that dot southern Utah’s landscape aren’t guaranteed to be there forever
August 16
This undated photo provided by the National Park Service shows Double Arch prior to collapse in Rock Creek Bay of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah. (National Park Service via AP)
August 15

TikTok compares itself to foreign-owned American news outlets as it fights forced sale or ban

TikTok has pushed back on arguments that the popular social media platform is not shielded by the First Amendment
August 15
FILE - A TikTok sign is displayed on their building in Culver City, Calif., March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
August 15

A rarely seen deep sea fish is found in California, and scientists want to know why

A rarely seen deep sea fish resembling a serpent was found floating dead on the ocean surface off the San Diego coast
August 15
This image provided by The Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows a team of researchers and science-minded snorkelers working together to recover a dead oarfish from La Jolla Cove, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024. (Michael Wang/The Scripps Institution of Oceanography via AP)
August 15

In Mississippi, discovery of elephant fossil from the ice age provides window into the past

Fossil hunter Eddie Templeton was out exploring in Mississippi when he came across a remarkable find
August 15
August 15

International astronomy group joins calls for a lunar clock to keep time on the moon

An international group of astronomers has joined calls to create a standard for keeping time on the moon, where seconds tick by faster
August 15
An image of the moon is projected at the Iziko Planetarium in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024 as part of the World Astronomy Conference. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)
August 15

An international astronomy group is the latest to join calls for the creation of a lunar clock to keep time on the moon

An international astronomy group is the latest to join calls for the creation of a lunar clock to keep time on the moon
August 15
August 15

Tiny South American deer debuts at New York City zoo

A tiny South American deer that will weigh just 15 to 20 pounds when fully grown is making its debut at the Queens Zoo in New York City
August 15
This photo, provided by the Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo, shows a southern pudu fawn, one of the smallest deer species in the world, born at the zoo at about 2 pounds, June 21, 2024, in the Queens borough of New York. (Terria Clay/Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo via AP)
August 15

August's supermoon kicks off four months of lunar spectacles. Here's how to watch

The first of four supermoons this year is about to rise
August 15
FILE - The moon rises through clouds over the skyline of lower Manhattan in this view from West Orange, N.J., Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, during a supermoon period. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
August 15

A supermoon rises on Aug. 19, the first of four such lunar spectacles this year

A supermoon rises on Aug. 19, the first of four such lunar spectacles this year
August 15
August 15

Wildfires are growing under climate change, and their smoke threatens farmworkers, study says

As climate change fuels the intensity and frequency of wildfires, it's also driving up the health risks for farmworkers who often have no choice but to continue working amid dangerous levels of smoke
August 15
FILE - A man glances up at a tree that is blocking his way while attempting to go home after a fire ravaged the area on Mix Canyon Road in Vacaville, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group via AP, File)
August 15

Survey shows disaster-prone Southeast Asia is also best prepared, suggesting lessons can be learned

Southeast Asia is among the regions most prone to natural disasters, but a new analysis shows its people also feel the best equipped to deal with them
August 15
FILE - Rescuers carry the body of a victim of a flash flood in Tanah Datar, West Sumatra, Indonesia, on May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Ali Nayaka, File)
August 15

Democrats trust Harris slightly more than Biden on climate change, an AP-NORC poll finds

As the Democratic National Convention approaches, a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Democrats have slightly higher trust in Vice President Kamala Harris’ ability to address the issue of climate change t...
August 15
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
August 14

Meta kills off misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers, journalists

Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms has shut down CrowdTangle
August 14
FILE - A person stands in front of a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., March 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
August 14

Judge tells Google to brace for shakeup of Android app store as punishment for running a monopoly

A federal judge has indicated he will order major changes in Google’s Android app store
August 14
FILE - A Google sign hangs over an entrance to the company's new building, Sept. 6, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)
August 14

Google confirms an Iranian group is trying to access emails linked to both US presidential campaigns

Google says an Iranian group linked to the country’s Revolutionary Guard has tried to infiltrate the personal email accounts of roughly a dozen people linked to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump since May
August 14
President Joe Biden speaks at the White House Creator Economy Conference in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
August 14

NASA's Mars rover to begin 'most challenging' journey up crater rim

The Perseverance rover will begin the Crater Rim Campaign on Aug. 19.
August 14
The Perseverance rover will begin the Crater Rim Campaign on Aug. 19.
August 14

Social media influencers descend on the White House, where Biden calls them the new 'source of news'

Social media influencers have gotten the royal treatment as President Joe Biden gave a nod to their ability to hold sway with millions of loyal followers
August 14
President Joe Biden speaks at the White House Creator Economy Conference in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
August 14

Cisco cuts thousands of jobs, 7% of workforce, as it shifts focus to AI, cybersecurity

Cisco Systems says it is planning to lay off 7% of its employees
August 14
FILE - The Cisco logo appears on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite on Oct. 3, 2018 in New York's Times Square. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
August 14

California technology company Cisco says it is cutting 7% of its workforce as it shifts its focus to AI, cybersecurity

California technology company Cisco says it is cutting 7% of its workforce as it shifts its focus to AI, cybersecurity
August 14
August 14

'Chaos agent': Suspected Trump hack comes as Iran flexes digital muscles ahead of US election

The suspected hack of Donald Trump's campaign is the latest indication that foreign adversaries looking to meddle in the election are quickening their pace ahead of November
August 14
People wait to line to attend campaign rally with Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump in Asheville, N.C., Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
August 14

NASA still deciding whether to keep 2 astronauts at space station until next year

NASA says it's still deciding whether to keep two astronauts at the International Space Station until early next year and send their troubled Boeing capsule back empty
August 14
FILE - NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo enroute to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for their liftoff on the Boeing Starliner capsule to the international space station. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
August 14

NASA says it'll be a week or more before it decides whether to keep 2 astronauts at space station until early next year

NASA says it'll be a week or more before it decides whether to keep 2 astronauts at space station until early next year
August 14
August 14

Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, says ransomware attackers stole corrupted, unusable data

The mayor of Ohio’s capital city says data recently stolen by hackers was unusable and that no personal information about city workers was made available online
August 14
August 14

Stonehenge's 'altar stone' originally came from Scotland, not Wales, research shows

Researchers are one step closer to understanding how Stonehenge was created
August 14
FILE - The world heritage site of Stonehenge is seen in Wiltshire, England on Dec. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
August 14

New research shows Stonehenge's 'altar stone' originally came from Scotland, not Wales

New research shows Stonehenge's 'altar stone' originally came from Scotland, not Wales
August 14
August 14

French prosecutors investigate gender-based cyber harassment of Algerian Olympic champ Imane Khelif

French prosecutors say they are investigating a complaint made by Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif for online harassment
August 14
Algeria's Imane Khelif celebrates after defeating China's Yang Liu to win gold in their women's 66 kg final boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
August 14

Japan's first-ever megaquake advisory brings worry and confusion. What does it mean?

Japan issued its first “megaquake advisory” last week after a powerful earthquake struck off the southeastern coast of the country’s southern main island of Kyushu
August 14
Stone lanterns fall at a shrine following a strong earthquake in Nichinan, Miyazaki prefecture, southern Japan, on Aug. 9, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)
August 14

Wyoming reporter caught using artificial intelligence to create fake quotes and stories

A reporter at a small Wyoming newspaper has resigned after a competitor discovered he was using artificial intelligence to write stories and fabricate quotes, including some by the governor
August 14
A recent issue of the Cody Enterprise, the Wyoming newspaper where a reporter used artificial intelligence to help write his stories, is seen Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, at the Wyoming State Library in Cheyenne. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)
August 13

Timelapse: Moon sets into aurora borealis as seen from the ISS

Matthew Dominick, a flight engineer on board the International Space Station, shared this captivating timelapse video showcasing the moon setting among vibrant red and green auroras down on Earth.
August 13
VIDEO: A timelapse of the moon setting glowing aurora borealis from ISS
August 13

Study finds rains that led to deadly Indian landslides were made worse by climate change

The heavy rains that resulted in landslides killing hundreds in southern India last month were made worse by human-caused climate change
August 13
A rescuer walks past uprooted trees, a damaged car and other debris on their second day of mission following Tuesday’s landslides at Chooralmala, Wayanad district, Kerala state, India, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
August 13

What we know about suspected Iranian cyber intrusion in the US presidential race

The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has blamed Iran for a hack it said resulted in sensitive internal documents being stolen and distributed
August 13
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
August 13

Google rolls out Pixel 9 phones earlier than usual as AI race with Apple heats up

Google has unveiled its next generation of Pixel phones
August 13
Google Senior Vice President of Platforms & Devices Rick Osterloh speaks at Made By Google to announce new products at Google on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada)
August 13

Dentist charged with invasion of privacy after camera found in employee bathroom, police say

A West Virginia dentist is facing invasion of privacy charges after police say a concealed camera was allegedly found in his office’s employee bathroom
August 13
August 13

New York AG Letitia James warns against election misinformation

ABC News senior reporter Emmanuelle Saliba breaks down how AI-generated videos and images are impacting the election and how to tell the real from the fake.
August 13
VIDEO: New York AG Letitia James warns against election misinformation
August 13

California Gov. Gavin Newsom nudges school districts to restrict student cellphone use

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is sending letters to school districts, urging them to restrict smartphone use on campuses
August 13
Student April Yamilet, 17, uses her cellphone as she steps outside the Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts High School in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
August 13

Older Americans prepare themselves for a world altered by artificial intelligence

Older adults are grappling with how artificial intelligence is changing the world
August 13
A woman listens to an artificial intelligence seminar at the Forsyth County Senior Center, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in Cumming, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
August 12

How X owner Elon Musk uses his social platform to amplify his right-wing views

As X’s owner and most followed user, Elon Musk has increasingly used it as a megaphone to amplify his political views and those of the often right-wing figures he’s aligned with
August 12
FILE - Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. The British government on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, has called on Musk to act responsibly after one of the world’s richest men used his social media platform to unleash a barrage of posts that risked inflaming the violent unrest gripping the country. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
August 12

Indians wanting their money back for undelivered Teslas shows how drastically the EV market changed

Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter in 2016 inviting Indians to preorder Tesla Model 3s
August 12
Hemant Suthar stands for a photograph beside his car in Mumbai, India, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
August 12

Musk's interview with Trump marred by technical glitches

Elon Musk’s much-awaited interview with former President Donald Trump was marred by technical glitches on Monday, with people unable to join the audio conversation on X’s Spaces platform
August 12
El presidente Donald Trump habla con el director general de Tesla y SpaceX, Elon Musk, en la Casa Blanca en Washington, el 3 de febrero de 2017. (Foto AP/Evan Vucci, Archivo)
August 12

FBI says it is investigating after Trump campaign said sensitive documents were hacked by Iran

The FBI says it is investigating allegations that sensitive documents from Donald Trump's campaign were stolen in a cyber intrusion days after the campaign declared it had been hacked by Iran
August 12
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
August 12

Trump falsely claims a crowd photo from Harris' campaign rally in Detroit was created using AI

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is falsely claiming that an image of thousands of people waiting at Detroit's airport for a campaign rally by Democrat Kamala Harris was fabricated with the help of artificial intelligence
August 12
Air Force Two with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz aboard arrive for a campaign rally Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in Romulus, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
August 12

Trump and his allies once cheered hacked materials. No longer, now that they say he's a target

Donald Trump has changed his position on whether a presidential campaign's hacked materials should be published
August 12
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
August 12

New Mars study suggests an ocean's worth of water may be hiding beneath the surface

A new study suggests Mars may be drenched beneath its surface, with enough water hiding in the cracks of underground rocks to form a global ocean
August 12
FILE - This image provided by NASA shows the InSight Mars lander in a selfie photo composite on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP, File)
August 12

New study suggests water may be hiding beneath the surface of Mars based on computer modeling and data from NASA lander

New study suggests water may be hiding beneath the surface of Mars based on computer modeling and data from NASA lander
August 12
August 12

Faint auroras may be visible in Northern Hemisphere skies after weekend solar storms

Space forecasters say solar storms persisting from the weekend may produce colorful auroras across the Northern Hemisphere
August 12
The northern lights, or the aurora borealis, appear in the sky over Rat Lake in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on Thursday, Aug.8, 2024. (Bill Braden /The Canadian Press via AP)
August 12
This cover image released by Scribner shows "The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life" by Nathalie A. Cabrol. (Scribner via AP)
August 12

The Latest: Trump interview with Elon Musk on X plagued by glitches

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are painting much different pictures as they meet with voters on the campaign trail around the country
August 12
FILE - Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, shake hands at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)
August 11

Perseid meteor shower is about to peak: Here's how to see it

The Perseids showcase approximately 50 to 100 meteors per hour.
August 11
A huge Perseid meteor is being seen over the night sky in Haputale, Sri Lanka, on Aug. 4, 2024.
August 10

Donald Trump's campaign says its emails were hacked

Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign says it has been hacked and is blaming Iranian actors for stealing and distributing sensitive internal documents
August 10
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, shake hands at a campaign rally at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)