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  • Chicago residents could soon own a piece of the city's first casino

    ViewSome Chicago residents may soon hold the cards — or at least some of them.Bally's, which is building the city's first casino, has filed paperwork for a plan to sell 25% of its shares to "everyday Chicagoans" in a highly unusual move.Because details are being negotiated with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bally's declined to comment about the specifics of the plan, like how much it would cost to buy in.But on its website, the company says investors will include "philanthropists,...

  • Man arrested after crashing truck into barrier near White House

    ViewPolice have arrested a Missouri man they believe intentionally crashed a U-Haul truck into a security barrier at a park across from the White House.The box truck's driver smashed into the barrier near the north side of Lafayette Square on Monday at around 10 p.m., Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement. He was identified as a 19-year-old from Chesterfield, a St. Louis suburb.No one was injured in the crash.Vehicle collision at Lafayette Square: Roadways and pedestrian...

  • Man uses lottery winnings to support schools in his native country

    ViewSouleymane Sana recently won $100,000 playing a scratch-off game by the North Carolina lottery. The New Bern, North Carolina, resident said he is going to use the winnings to support schools in his native country of Mali. “I’m going to keep doing my best to help build more classrooms for the children in Mali,” he said in a press release. “That is the thing that makes me really happy.”Sana is the director of Kono Gnaga, an organization that says it provides assistance for several impoverished...

  • E. Jean Carroll seeks $10M in new damages after Trump CNN town hall

    ViewE. Jean Carroll is seeking at least $10 million in new damages against former President Donald Trump over comments he made at a CNN town hall earlier this month.Attorneys for Carroll filed an amended complaint Monday in Manhattan court, claiming Trump "doubled down" on derogatory remarks about Carroll when he publicly accused her of lying about being sexually assaulted by him at a New York City department store in the 1990s. During the town hall, Trump repeatedly denied having ever met...

  • Parents of man killed by police during mental crisis get $19 million

    ViewThe parents of a 22-year-old Colorado man killed by a sheriff's deputy while suffering a mental health crisis will get $19 million from government state and local agencies and changes to how officers are trained, under a settlement announced Tuesday.The shooting of Christian Glass after his SUV became stuck in the mountain town of Silver Plume last year drew national attention and prompted calls to reform how authorities respond to people with mental health problems.As part of the...

  • Nuggets eliminate Lakers; LeBron James discusses future

    ViewThe Denver Nuggets, led by two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic, defeated the Los Angeles Lakers Monday evening 113-111, earning the Nuggets a spot in the NBA Finals. The Lakers, who were vying for their 20th conference championship, fell to the Nuggets, who earned their first conference title. Lakers star LeBron James, who scored 40 points in the loss, has played on 10 teams that have won conference championships. At 38 years old, James is among the oldest active players in the NBA. Earlier on...

  • Court denies Prince Harry's right to hire British police protection

    ViewA London judge ruled Tuesday against Prince Harry in his efforts to pay for police protection when he visits Britain.A High Court judge rejected the Duke of Sussex's assertion that the British government exceeded its authority when it denied him the right to hire police to provide security in the U.K.The British government stopped providing security after Harry and his wife, Meghan, quit their royal duties and moved to California in 2020. A lawyer for the government argued in court that it...

  • White House takes new steps for kids' mental health and online safety

    ViewThe Biden administration on Tuesday announced new steps to protect the privacy, safety and mental health of children online.The Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Commerce Department, will start a task force that looks closely at how online platforms affect kids' mental health.The task force will try to understand current health challenges that may result from technology as well as newly emerging ones, and will develop guidelines for tracking and preventing the harm...

  • More women join lawsuit against Texas' restrictive abortion law

    ViewThree more women have joined a lawsuit in Texas seeking to put a hold on certain abortion restrictions in the state.The suit, filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights in state court in early March, claims the the law in Texas is creating situations that threaten the lives of pregnant women because doctors fear repercussions for assisting with abortion care. Plaintiffs want an emergency hold placed on certain restrictions in Texas' abortion law.Five women were part of the initial suit, and...

  • Researcher Rodney Brooks says current AI intelligence is overrated

    ViewRenowned computer scientist and robotics researcher Rodney Allen Brooks is pushing back on all of the excitement about artificial intelligence, or AI, saying experts and the public have been overestimating its abilities. In a comprehensive interview with IEEE Spectrum, Brooks — who has been called an expert on AI — says OpenAI's language models, that ChatGPT are based on, are not sufficient.The MIT professor says the AI tools available to us now are far away from being sentient or smarter...

  • Uvalde marks one year anniversary of the Robb Elementary shooting

    ViewThe 21 lives lost in the Robb Elementary School shooting, just one year ago, will never be forgotten. The community of Uvalde, Texas, is working hard to make sure of that. No city-sponsored events are on the books to honor the victims, but the conversation surrounding what happened that day is still very much ongoing.National Correspondent Adi Guajardo has the latest on what officials and residents are saying. SEE MORE: Uvalde requests privacy as anniversary of school shooting approaches

  • Gifted students compete in science fair focusing on school shootings

    ViewLaptops, Lanyards and posterboards — so many posterboards. The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair or ISEF is the largest high school STEM competition in the world. Maya Ajmera is the president and CEO of Society for Science and the Executive Publisher of its award-winning magazine, Science News. Ajmera told Scripps News, "we have over 1,600 finalists, half of them young women, who are coming from over 60 countries, regions and territories, as well as every state in the...