Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) BEIRUT: A powerful air strike killed 11 people in central Beirut today, the Lebanese civil defence said, shaking the capital as Israel pressed its offensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group. The attack destroyed […]
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Writings and records are how we understand long-gone civilizations without being able to interact with ancient peoples. A recent opinion paper suggested we could feed chatbots writings from the past to simulate ancient participants for social psychology studies. Similar survey experiments with modern participant data closely matched the outcomes of the real people they were […]
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Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86 following a battle with Alzheimer’s, his family has announced. The former trade union activist and ex-merchant seaman died ‘peacefully’ and surrounded by relatives at his care home on Wednesday. His family said he had ‘spent his life trying to improve the lives of others, fighting […]
PORTAGE PARK — Domestic violence advocates and elected officials are calling for a Cook County judge to be reassigned after he declined to jail two men who went on to commit two fatal stabbings — including one who allegedly killed his wife Tuesday. Constantin Beldie, 57, is accused of fatally stabbing his wife Tuesday in Portage […]
So. This is a post that will probably get me mocked and possibly should be titled, “Idiot woman fucked around and found out” because that’s probably what a lot of responses will be but I’m writing it anyway because you can learn from mistakes…because recently I had a psychotic episode triggered by a perfectly legal, […]
The family of a woman found dead in a car boot in east London have accused police of not doing enough to protect her, saying she had filed a complaint alleging domestic abuse by her husband weeks before. The body of Harshita Brella, a 24-year-old Indian citizen who was living in Northamptonshire, was discovered last […]
ROXBURY, MA — A woman is dead after she was attacked by her dog in Roxbury on Monday, according to authorities and reports. Three others, including two police officers, were also injured in the attack. During a news conference Monday, Boston police said officers responded to a home on Dennison Street just before 4:30 p.m. […]