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Elon Musk announced on X that his artificial intelligence tool Grok Imagine will produce a “historically accurate” full-length film of Homer’s ancient Greek poem before the end of the year.  The trillionaire shared the announcement alongside an AI-generated short of the story posted by an X user.  This follows Mr. Musk’s earlier public criticism of Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation, including objections to the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy.  In May, Mr. Musk wrote a response in which he called Mr. Nolan an “anti-White racist” and said the filmmaker’s decision to cast a Black woman was because he…

Virginia authorities on Tuesday said they charged a Mexican man in the slaying of a 2-year-old girl this month. The Louisa County Sheriff’s Office said it charged Raul Ortiz Moran, 29, with second-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault in the July 4 killing of the toddler. That day, police said the girl’s mother rushed her injured child to the Goochland County Sheriff’s Office after coming from a home on Owens Creek Road in Louisa County. Officials said deputies performed life-saving measures on the child, and the girl was later taken to a hospital, but she died of her injuries. Police…

The Justice Department announced Monday that it snatched over 1,000 websites used to illegally stream matches during the just-completed World Cup. The final tally of sites snared includes the nearly 400 internet domains shut down by the end of June. The seizures in the U.S. occurred through three enforcement actions, the Justice Department said in a release. American authorities also worked with their counterparts in Latin America to block additional illegal streaming sites, including 14 in Argentina, 309 in Brazil, 1,140 in Colombia, 256 in the Dominican Republic, 223 in Ecuador and 28 in Peru. Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen…

Bison that appear to be grazing peacefully are able to accelerate into a terrifying pace, making them among the most dangerous animals in Yellowstone, where one of the giant bovines recently charged at and tossed a grandfather. Carl McDaniel, 65, suffered multiple bone fractures in the July 10 attack at the national park but lived to tell the tale, as seen in a video he recorded a few days later from his bed at Bozeman Health Deaconess Medical Center in southern Montana. “He wasn’t showing aggression or anything like that until it picked a target. That target happened to be…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A two-armed space robot blasted off on a private salvage operation Tuesday afternoon to slap life-extending jetpacks on old satellites running low on fuel thousands of miles up. It’s the second satellite-saving mission to launch this month, all part of a growing, money-saving effort to keep old spacecraft running as long as possible. Another company’s three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit on July 3 to boost NASA’s Swift Observatory so it doesn’t crash to Earth this fall. Launched by SpaceX, Northrop Grumman’s mission robotic vehicle – dubbed MRV – and its jetpacks will spend the next year…

MIAMI — A Mexican man who was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer in Florida after running from federal immigration officers was vacationing in the U.S. and had a tourist visa, according to a Mexican official and a group assisting his wife. Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, 28, died July 14 after authorities said he darted across a busy road in St. Augustine and into the path of a truck. His death was the third in roughly a week involving encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, following fatal shootings in Texas and Maine. Coronilla Durán traveled from his hometown of…

POWELL, Ohio — The skies were mostly clear and weeks of sweltering heat had finally broken as 33-year-old Jose Mario Pineda Dias and his 28-year-old wife, Marina Suyapa Regalado, set out with their two children for some leisurely fishing in an Ohio river. A second Honduran couple and an adult friend joined them. A photo snapped by a passing boater sometime Sunday shows them apparently about thigh deep in the Scioto River, fishing poles in hand, standing around a big log. Calm as the surface appeared, the river was running high and fast, according to U.S. Geological Survey data. All…

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.” “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own. “We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the agent,”…

An attorney for the family of Nolan Xavier Wells says he will release the results of an independent autopsy into the 18-year-old’s death on Wednesday morning. The preliminary findings are set to be made public during a news conference held at the annual NAACP National Convention in Chicago, according to the civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family. Wells’ parents are expected to attend. Crump has vowed to conduct his own investigation into the circumstances of the teenager’s disappearance, which followed a July 4 boat trip with friends to an island off the coast of Mississippi. Wells…

A federal judge sentenced a former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy to one year in prison Monday for lying on a warrant application to get dirt on a client’s estranged husband. David Anthony Rodriguez, 45, was sentenced on one count of conspiracy against rights, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a release. In 2021, while he was still employed by the sheriff’s department, Rodriguez began a second job working for the private security company of one of his departmental colleagues, Eric Saavedra, 43.  As part of his second job, Rodriguez acted as a…