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An Oklahoma mother is accused of killing her three young children, ages 11, 6 and 10 months, and then herself during a supervised visit at her home after an hours-long standoff with police. An officer responded to a home in Verdigris, in the Tulsa metropolitan area, Thursday afternoon because fireworks were going off outside, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Press release. The officer found 39-year-old Brandy McCaslin locked inside the home with a firearm. State investigators said they attempted to negotiate with McCaslin for the next three hours. "After there was no response, officers entered…

PALMER LAKE, Colo. — Every day, retired Army veteran Donald Simmons must make a choice: pay $5 to shower at the nearest truck stop, or risk showering in contaminated water at home.Lately, she has been reluctantly taking showers at home, but refuses to drink the tap water for fear that it will endanger her long-term health.“It could cause cancer. Nobody knows what's going on,” said Simmons, 68. "You have to shower." Simmons has lived in Elephant Rock Mobile Home Park, a small community about 25 miles south of Colorado Springs, for 13 years, and state authorities say the water quality…

The Malaysian government halted a music festival in the capital Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, a day after the frontman of British pop rock band The 1975 kissed a bandmate onstage and criticized the country's anti-LGBTQ laws.“There will be no engagement against any party that defies, disparages and violates the laws of Malaysia,” Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said in a Twitter post after meeting organizers of the Good Vibes Festival, a three-day event that runs until Sunday.The 1975 have also been banned from performing in Malaysia, a government committee that oversees filming and performances by foreigners has said.Homosexuality is a crime…

On the online review battleground, it's AI vs. AI.AI trained to detect fake reviews is up against generative artificial intelligence that can spit out reviews that look human. It's the kind of shock that has implications for consumers as well as the future of online content.Saoud Khalifah, founder and CEO of Fakespot, a startup that uses AI to detect fraudulent reviews, said his company has seen an influx of AI-generated fake reviews. Fakespot is working on a way to detect content written by AI platforms like ChatGPT.“What is very different today is that the models are so knowledgeable that they…