A fake image of an explosion at the Pentagon made its rounds on Twitter Monday, causing a lot of confusion and a brief dip in the stock market. The photo is believed to have been generated by artificial intelligence and appears to show a cloud of smoke near a building resembling the Pentagon. The image was shared by several verified Twitter accounts with blue check marks, including a Russian government-backed media company. It was also shared within investment circles on Twitter. The account that first shared the image has since been suspended. Officials have confirmed the image is not real.
FLUSHED DIAMOND RECOVERED
A Minnesota woman who accidentally flushed her diamond ring down the toilet more than 13 years ago has been reunited with the special piece of jewelry after waste-water workers in Rogers, Minnesota, found it while cleaning a piece of equipment in the town. The gold diamond ring was gifted to Mary strand in 2010 by her husband on their 33rd wedding anniversary. She accidentally flushed it down the toilet, and her husband, who owns a sewer and drain business, tried to get it out with no luck. The couple had even contacted municipal workers to check the pipes and still didn't find the ring — until now. When wastewater workers found the ring in March, the metropolitan council announced it on social media.
The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year's Day, it was estimated to stand at more than 8 billion people, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday.
UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. Wisconsin-La Crosse fired Gow on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, after learning Gow and his wife have been producing and appearing in pornographic videos. Gow maintains the firing violated his free speech rights.
The U.S. military is now putting independent lawyers in charge of its investigations of sexual assault and other major crimes, what Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has called the "most important reform" to the military justice system in recent history.
A decades-old law bans Medicare from paying for weight loss drugs. Now, drugmakers and a wide-ranging bipartisan coalition of lawmakers are gearing up to push for that to change next year.
Barring a court order, in March Texas police will start being able to arrest people they suspect have entered the U.S. illegally, but increases in border crossings since a 2021 law authorizing some arrests shows the limits of that approach in the face of desperation that causes people to risk everything and travel thousands of miles to the U.S.
Mexico began clearing tents, both occupied and unoccupied, from the encampment in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, starting Tuesday.
