Mike Ditka, who won NFL titles as a player, assistant coach and head coach, has died at 86. He led the Chicago Bears to their only Super Bowl victory.
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South African jurist Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work advancing international law. Her career includes anti-apartheid cases, the Rwanda genocide tribunal and a UN inquiry into Gaza.
Anthropic is updating its policy to let its AI tools end interactions in extreme cases of repeated, purposeless cruelty toward its models. The company says ordinary frustration, pushback and testing are not covered.
The UN says livestreaming Nidal Hasan’s planned firing-squad execution would amount to torture. Lawmakers, rights advocates and a Fort Hood shooting survivor have also questioned making the execution public.
Three former OpenAI safety researchers say they were fired for speaking up about risks. OpenAI denies that account, saying an investigation found they mishandled sensitive information.
South African jurist Navi Pillay wins the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on international law. The Norwegian Nobel Committee says the institutions that uphold it are under pressure.
Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers agreed on ending the Iran war and pausing the federal gas tax but clashed sharply over tariffs, Israel, health care and immigration in their first televised Michigan Senate debate.
Curtis Flowers, who spent nearly 23 years in prison after six trials over four Mississippi killings, has died at 56. The Supreme Court overturned his final conviction in 2019, and the state dropped the charges in 2020.