For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to deliver a speech by Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan to supporters. The stunning development could help his political party to win upcoming elections, analysts said Monday. The replicated voice of Pakistan’s most popular opposition figure was used to …
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An eastern Wisconsin man has been charged in a wrong-way collision that killed four siblings last weekend, authorities said. Scott Farmer, of Neenah, is charged with four counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle in Saturday’s crash in Weyauwega, about 100 miles northwest of Milwaukee. Farmer, 47, …
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A day after a federal appeals court dealt a significant blow to the Voting Rights Act, North Dakota’s top election official announced Tuesday that he wants the court to review a judge’s recent ruling that protected two Native American tribes’ voting rights. Voting rights groups had hailed U.S. District Chief …
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With casinos popping up on Virginia’s southern border, some lawmakers now want to explore whether wealthy northern Virginia should get in on the action. State Sen. David Marsden, D-Fairfax, is planning to re-introduce legislation that would allow Fairfax County to hold a referendum on building a casino. He introduced similar …
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Four Bulgarian construction workers died when scaffolding fell down an elevator shaft inside a building site in Hamburg on Monday and another suffered life-threatening injuries, German authorities said. There was no immediate word on why the scaffolding collapsed from the eighth floor, German news agency dpa reported. AT LEAST 1 …
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Voters in Houston headed to the polls Tuesday to elect the next mayor of the nation’s fourth-largest city, choosing from a crowded field that includes U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and state Sen. John Whitmire, two longtime Democratic lawmakers. Jackson Lee and Whitmire have dominated an open mayoral race that …
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Nearly a month after a “security incident” with all the hallmarks of a ransomware attack, Kansas judicial officials are slowly renewing public access to court information. But for now, that access requires a trip to the state’s capital city. The state’s judicial branch on Tuesday announced it has opened a …
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On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie’s farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has been adding winter barley, a relatively newer …
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The defendant in a 2021 mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on Tuesday after a judge ruled that the case can move to trial. Attorneys for Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa entered the plea on his behalf before Judge Ingrid …
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Wisconsin’s annual nine-day gun deer-hunting season starts this weekend to a mixed outlook. ‘TURKEY SLAYER’ RALLIES FELLOW HUNTERS TO WAGE WAR ON FOOD INSECURITY THIS HOLIDAY SEASON The season kicks off at sunrise on Saturday and closes on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 26. A deer runs across the road, …
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