Imagine attending a funeral where the person who has died speaks directly to you, answering your questions and sharing memories. This happened at the funeral of Marina Smith, a Holocaust educator who died in 2022.

Thanks to an AI technology company called StoryFile, Smith seemed to interact naturally with her family and friends.

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The White House is responding to increased criticism and legislative action taken by elected Democrats against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including an executive order and legislation filed by Gov. Maura Healey restricting the agency’s abilities and operations in Massachusetts.

“ICE officers are facing a 1300% increase in ...Read more

While Swedish Hospital preoperative nurse Joanie Paskert didn't know Alex Pretti, she feels connected to the 37-year-old intensive care nurse federal agents killed in Minneapolis last Saturday.

"I might not have worked at the same facility as (Pretti), but that's my co-worker," she said. "That's my brother. He's one of us. So to hear that not ...Read more

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos returned home to Minnesota on Sunday, Feb. 1, with his father, ending a detention that carried the Columbia Heights preschooler hundreds of miles from his school and family and turned him into a national symbol of the human toll of immigration enforcement.

Liam and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, boarded a ...Read more

When Antonio Romanucci, the attorney representing the family of Renee Good, was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, he wanted to purchase something to commemorate the honor.

In the court souvenir shop, he noticed porcelain turtles for sale.

“Why the turtle?” he asked a clerk.

The clerk responded, “The wheels of ...Read more

As massive federal cuts are upending the health care system in California, analysts and health care professionals are urging state lawmakers to soften the blow by creating new revenue streams and helping residents navigate through the newly imposed red tape.

"It impacts not only uninsured but also Medicare and commercially insured patients who ...Read more

On a warm Friday morning, a group of organizers, academics and public officials stood in MacArthur Park, peering at an empty soccer field.

They came from as far away as Florida, Georgia and Chicago as members of the steering committee for Mijente, a national grassroots group that organizes activism within Latino and Chicano communities.

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Iran’s supreme leader warned of a “regional war” as tensions continued to mount over potential U.S. strikes on Tehran and top Israeli military officials visited Washington.

“We don’t want to attack any country,” 86-year-old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a public speech broadcast on state television on Sunday. “But in response to...Read more

The snow-covered slopes near Grenoble, France, have always held a special place in Olympic history.

It was there at the 1968 Olympic Games that France’s Jean-Claude Killy swept all three Alpine skiing gold medals then available, becoming, along with American figure skater Peggy Fleming, the first Winter Olympic superstar of the TV era.

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Costa Ricans are voting for president amid soaring drug violence that has shocked a country historically known as a peaceful tourist haven in a turbulent region.

Ruling party candidate Laura Fernández, who served as chief of staff for President Rodrigo Chaves, leads polls by a wide margin as voters back her hard line on crime.

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned of a “regional war” as tensions continued to mount over potential U.S. strikes on Tehran.

“We don’t want to attack any country,” Khamenei said in a public speech broadcast on state television on Sunday. “But in response to anyone who harbors ambitions, wants to attack, and seeks ...Read more

The next trilateral meetings between the U.S., Russia and Ukraine will be held Feb. 4-5 in Abu Dhabi, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“Ukraine is ready for a substantive discussion, and we are interested in ensuring that the outcome brings us closer to a real and dignified end to the war,” the Ukrainian leader said Sunday on ...Read more

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, are back in Minnesota Feb. 1 after a federal judge ordered their release from a Texas immigration detention center.

The case drew national outrage after images circulated of Liam wearing a Spider-Man backpack and an oversized blue winter hat as officers detained him 10 days ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fifty years after the federal government saved the Congaree swamp from industrial scale logging, the 27,000 acre nature preserve faces a rash of other threats that have the attention of scientists and conservationists.

The swamp, protected in 1976 and elevated to national park status in 2003, is downstream from factories that...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When the Eaton fire raged through neighborhoods in Altadena, the flames leveled three-quarters of the homes served by the tiny Las Flores Water Co. It also destroyed the roofs of two covered reservoirs where the utility stored drinking water.

The company soon restored clean water to those homes left standing. But the disaster ...Read more

Data centers siphon huge amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence. But their environmental footprint starts to balloon even before the first server switches on due to the immense amount of carbon-intensive concrete needed to build them.

As the U.S. data center buildout surges, with construction beginning on multibillion-dollar ...Read more

The U.S. departure from the World Health Organization became official in late January 2026, according to the Trump administration – a year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on inauguration day of his second term declaring that he was doing so. He first stated his intention to do so during his first term in 2020, early ...Read more

Thousands of Danish veterans and supporters protested at the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen on Saturday over recent remarks by Donald Trump that allied NATO troops “stayed a little back” from the front lines during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The U.S. president’s comments have sparked widespread anger in Denmark, a country of 6 million ...Read more