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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Pennsylvania woman who died in 2024 after falling into a sinkhole above an abandoned mine shaft alleges the property owner and U.S. Steel failed to take adequate measures to mitigate the risks posed by the mine.Elizabeth Pollard, 64, was searching for her cat, Pepper, with her 5-year-old granddaughter in Westmoreland County in December 2024 when she went missing. Pollard had parked her car near Monday’s Union Restaurant, where authorities located the vehicle hours later, according to WTAE-TV.”The Pollard family is looking for…

Canada’s new Financial Crimes Agency will have its work cut out for it amid growing cases of fraud and scams, experts say. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government proposed the creation of the FCA in their Spring Economic Update on Tuesday, making good on a 2021 Liberal campaign promise to create a dedicated policing agency to investigate issues such as money laundering, fraud, insider trading and organized crime.Financial crimes are a significant issue. The Expert Panel on Money Laundering in British Columbia (B.C.) Real Estate in 2019 estimated that money laundering alone consistently amounted to about two per cent of Canada’s…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Normally on the diamond, jewelry isn’t much of an issue for baseball players, but Michael Wacha’s necklace broke and caused an explosive chain reaction.In the first inning of the Athletics’ 5-2 win over the Kansas City Royals Wednesday night at Sutter Health Park, Wacha’s chain broke. As Wacha was standing on the mound, he gathered the broken chain from his neck and put it in his back pocket.Immediately after putting his chain away, Wacha started his delivery to beat the pitch clock and fired a sinker in for a strike. However, Athletics left…

A teacher has been refused bail over claims he tried to hide a camera allegedly used to film primary school students, which was found inside a school bathroom.

The Minnesota Timberwolves eliminated Nikola Jokic’s Denver Nuggets while the New York Knicks put on one of the most dominant displays in NBA playoff history, destroying Atlanta to advance, and the surging Sixers beat the visiting Celtics again to force a decisive Game 7.Sixth-seeded Minnesota will play the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals after completing a 110-98 win on Thursday for a 4-2 series upset of third-seeded Denver.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listThree-time NBA Most Valuable Player Jokic top-scored for Denver with 28, but it was not enough to fend off the dogged Timberwolves, who…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The unanimous committee passage of a new Senate bill regulating artificial intelligence (AI) on Thursday was driven by harrowing testimony from American families whose children were allegedly lured, manipulated and pushed to self-harm by AI chatbots.At a Senate committee hearing, lawmakers heard firsthand accounts from parents who detailed how the technology morphed into deadly influences in their homes. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who is championing the GUARD Act, fiercely defended the families in a call with Fox News Digital, noting they were “all engaged parents” who he said are unjustly blamed for Big…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Newly released Justice Department video appears to show Cole Tomas Allen moving through the Washington Hilton in the hours before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting and later approaching a security checkpoint with a weapon. Federal prosecutors say the footage supports their account of the incident, while court proceedings remain in an early stage and the allegations have not been proven at trial.The footage shows Cole Tomas Allen, 31, walking through the hotel on April 24 and visiting areas including the gym, where he is seen speaking with a woman at the front…

Saskatchewan’s government says residents are to get status updates sooner about whether hospital emergency rooms are closed. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill told reporters Thursday that starting May 19, emergency service disruptions are to be posted online with daily updates at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.Previously, updates were only provided daily at 4 p.m.“I don’t know if we’ll ever achieve real-time (status updates), but the goal is to provide the most up-to-date information that we have available and feel comfortable providing patients,” Cockrill said.Over the last six years, Saskatchewan has dealt with temporary ER closures in rural communities struggling to hire…

The body of a murdered man missing for more than five years has been identified, prompting his parents to plead for help to find his killer.

The steering wheel on an Inceptio Technology autonomous truck in Jinan, Shandong Province, China, on Thursday, April 18, 2024.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBEIJING — While AI updates make headlines every few weeks, those advances are not enough to get self-driving vehicles on the road more quickly. That’s according to Chinese autonomous trucking companies, who say that improvements in large language model, from Anthropic’s Claude to China’s DeepSeek, have little impact on the timeline for vehicle deployment. “The world’s best linguistics [expert] doesn’t mean he’s a good driver,” Pony.ai CEO James Peng told reporters last week. “AI is a very…