A Rome court sentenced three Egyptian security officials to 10 years in prison for kidnapping Italian researcher Giulio Regeni, whose tortured body was found near Cairo in 2016. A fourth defendant was acquitted.
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OpenAI has cancelled the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model failed internal safety standards. The company cited concerns about whether it would stay within users’ authorization and accurately report what it had done.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has denied clemency to Christa Pike, who is scheduled to be executed Wednesday for the 1995 killing of classmate Colleen Slemmer. Her lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to halt the execution.
Trump announced plans for a roughly $15 billion steel plant in eastern Iowa that Mesabi Metallics intends to build, with production expected to begin in 2030. The announcement came ahead of a competitive Senate race in the state.
The NFL has asked Homeland Security to remove a video using footage of Brian Dawkins’s tackles. Dawkins said he did not give the agency permission to use his image.
Justice Samuel Alito will sit out a Supreme Court case over Boulder’s climate lawsuit against Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy. The court gave no reason for his decision, which follows calls for recusal over his energy-company stock holdings.
Jonathan McKinsey, a New York Times engineering executive, was fatally shot at a sports complex in Dublin, California. Police arrested his two in-laws on suspicion of murder and said the circumstances remain under investigation.
Trump says he is seriously considering a U.S. diesel export ban as prices hover near a record. Analysts say it could bring brief relief for diesel buyers but raise gasoline prices and disrupt overseas markets if it lasts.