Mitchell G. Patton

Starting Tuesday, US military veterans in a suicidal crisis will be eligible to receive free emergency medical care at any Department of Veterans Affairs facility or at any private facility. Unlike most other medical benefits, veterans do not have to be enrolled in the VA system to be eligible. More than 18 million veterans in the US you may be eligible. The new policy, which the VA will announce Friday, will include up to 30 days of inpatient or crisis residential care and up to 90 days of follow-up outpatient care.The VA already provides emergency suicide care, but with the…

Florida could soon become the 26th state to allow people to carry concealed loaded guns anywhere without permits, a growing trend that has alarmed gun safety groups.Republican leaders in the Florida Legislature said they intend to introduce and promote such legislation when they call the next legislative session on March 7.Conservatives and gun rights activists have begun calling the category of legislation “constitutional carry,” even though no provision in the Constitution explicitly allows the right to carry concealed and unlicensed weapons. Gun control and security activists, as well as neutral groups, prefer to label the category of legislation "carry without…

When you get fired despite being under contract for another five years, you can afford some extravagant expenses.Kliff Kingsbury is taking advantage of his wealth and free time. Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury before the start of a game against the Atlanta Falcons on January 1, 2023, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)The Arizona Cardinals fired Kingsbury on Monday despite extending his contract through the 2027 season in March.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMKingsbury reportedly bought a one-way ticket to Thailand.Teams have apparently asked Kingsbury if he's interested in joining them,…

When people log into Koko, a San Francisco-based online emotional support chat service, they expect to exchange messages with an anonymous volunteer. They can ask for relationship advice, talk about their depression, or find support for just about anything else—a kind of free digital shoulder to lean on.But for a few thousand people, the mental health support they received was not quite humane. Instead, it was augmented by robots.In October, Koko conducted an experiment in which GPT-3, a newly popular AI chatbot, wrote responses in whole or in part. The humans could edit the responses and were still pressing the…