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A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer About 50 residents of a community outside Chile’s capital spent Saturday trying their best to power an entirely human-operated chatbot that could answer questions and make silly pictures on command, in a message to highlight the environmental toll of artificial intelligence data centers in the region. Organizers say the

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What recent polls show about the challenges facing Trump this year

By LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump might be bragging about his administration’s work on affordability, but recent polling suggests that Americans aren’t buying it as they grow increasingly frustrated with his leadership. Many Americans say Trump is focusing on the wrong priorities, according to multiple surveys, including a January AP-NORC

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British politician Peter Mandelson faces pressure to quit House of Lords over Jeffrey Epstein ties

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A year ago, Peter Mandelson was Britain’s ambassador to Washington, the latest high-profile post in a rocky but consequential political career. Friendship with Jeffrey Epstein cost him that job. Now, after new revelations, Mandelson — like other powerful men including King Charles III’s brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor —

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Israeli police detain local officials suspected of pocketing aid sent after Oct 7 attack

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities on Monday detained a group of local officials and businesspeople that investigators suspect siphoned off millions in wartime aid, announcing a fraud inquiry involving donations that poured in after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel in 2023. Israeli police said in a statement that in the months leading up to

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Nepal travel executives arrested for scamming millions with fake mountain rescues

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal have arrested six travel and mountain rescue executives accused of conducting fake rescues on the Himalayan nation’s high mountains to scam millions of dollars from international insurance companies, officials said Monday. Nepal’s Central Investigation Bureau arrested six people from three different travel and

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Conservative populist Laura Fernández wins Costa Rican presidency, preliminary results show

By JAVIER CÓRDOBA Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Conservative populist Laura Fernández won Costa Rica ‘s presidency, promising to continue the aggressive reorienting of the Central American nation’s politics started by her political sponsor, outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves. Preliminary and partial results showed the Costa Rican president’s handpicked successor captured the win

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Costa Ricans vote on outgoing president’s conservative populist program

By JAVIER CÓRDOBA ASSOCIATED PRESS CARTAGO, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican voters choose Sunday between continuing the policies of outgoing conservative populist Rodrigo Chaves by electing his selected successor or giving a new chance to parties seeking to shed a self-serving, establishment image. The historically peaceful Central American nation’s crime surge in recent years

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Pakistan says it has killed 145 ‘Indian-backed terrorists’ in Balochistan after deadly attacks

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police and military forces killed over a 100 “Indian-backed terrorists ” in counterterrorism operations across the restive southwestern province of Balochistan over the past 40 hours, government officials said on Sunday, a day after coordinated suicide and gun attacks killed 33 people,

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Russian drones kill at least 12 in Dnipro as Zelenskyy says more Russia-Ukraine talks next week

By VOLODYMYR YURCHUK Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro hit a bus carrying mineworkers and killed at least a dozen people, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the next round of peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations will take

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Iran’s supreme leader warns any US attack would spark ‘regional war’

By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader warned Sunday that any attack by the United States would spark a “regional war” in the Mideast, further escalating tensions as President Donald Trump has threatened to militarily strike the Islamic Republic over its crackdown on recent nationwide protests. The comments

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From Elon Musk to the former Prince Andrew, a who’s who of powerful people named in Epstein files

By PHILIP MARCELO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who’s who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. All have denied having anything

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Former Prince Andrew can’t escape Epstein’s shadow as new documents reveal details about friendship

By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain’s royal family is facing a fresh round of embarrassment after the latest release of documents from the U.S. investigation into Jeffrey Epstein revealed unsavory details about the relationship between the convicted sex offender and a correspondent who appears to be the man formerly known as Prince

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Militants kill 33 people in multiple attacks in southwest Pakistan; 92 assailants also killed

By ABDUL SATTAR and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s military said Saturday that multiple suicide and gun attacks by “terrorists” across the restive southwestern province of Balochistan killed 33 people, including civilians, while security forces responding to the violence killed 92 assailants. Analysts described it as the deadliest single day for

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