USA Update

I told you from the early days of ChatGPT that you should avoid giving the chatbot data that’s too personal. First, companies like OpenAI might use your conversations with the AI to train future models. You don’t want any personal data in there. Then there’s the risk of hacks targeting your chatbot. Hackers might find […]

Some 200,000 mail carriers have reached a tentative contract deal with the U.S. Postal Service that includes backdated pay raises and a promise to provide workers with air-conditioned trucks. The new agreement, which still needs to be ratified by union members, runs through Nov. 2026. Letter deliverers have been working without a contract since May 2023. […]

Toni Vaz, who cut a path as one of the first Black stuntwomen in Hollywood, with appearances in more than 50 movies, and then created the N.A.A.C.P. Image Awards to recognize the often unsung work of Black writers and performers, died on Oct. 4 in Los Angeles. She was 101. Cheryl Abbott, her great-niece, said […]

Sammy Basso, an advocate for research into progeria, an ultrarare fatal disease that causes rapid aging in children, who was known for living with gusto and humor as he faced the certainty of premature death, died on Oct. 5 near his home in Tezze sul Brenta, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. He was […]

A five-alarm brush fire in Oakland, California, sparked evacuation orders as it burned two homes on Friday. Crews were “working aggressively to fully extinguish” the blaze in Oakland Hills, named the Keller Fire, the Oakland Fire Department said in an update on X early Saturday morning. The fire started Friday afternoon in a home on Mountain […]

North Korea has said it had found the remnants of a South Korean military drone and that any further “violation” of its territory would result in a “declaration of war.” Tensions between the two sides of the peninsula have escalated since May when the North began flying balloons carrying garbage across the border to the […]

As Mike Manalac entered his 30s, all he wanted was to have an exciting career and start a family — but he had no idea how difficult it would be to achieve both. He’s a Chicago-based accounting manager at Google, a husband, and a father of a three-year-old. He’s worked with some of the biggest […]

Rosie O’Donnell’s eldest daughter, Chelsea Belle O’Donnell, was arrested on charges of child neglect and drug possession.  According to court docs obtained by Fox News Digital, Chelsea, 27, was charged with multiple felony counts including possession of methamphetamine, possession of narcotic drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia, bail jumping and resisting or obstructing an officer on […]

Senator JD Vance of Ohio finally has an answer for journalists who ask him who won the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump. Here is how my newsroom colleagues captured the scene: Mr. Vance, speaking before a crowd in Williamsport, Pa., was pressed about his reluctance to acknowledge Mr. Trump’s 2020 loss by a reporter, who […]

Leaders of Boeing’s largest union said on Saturday that they had reached a “negotiated proposal” for a new contract and would put it up for a vote to end a long and expensive strike. In a post on its website on Saturday, the union said that “with the help of Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor […]