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Suspected Fort Stewart shooter identified

Suspected Fort Stewart shooter identified

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Suspected Fort Stewart shooter identified
The man suspected of opening fire at Fort Stewart has been identified as Quornelius Radford, according to Brig. Gen. John Lubas, the commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division. The suspect is alive and in custody, a law enforcement official told CNN.
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Suspected Fort Stewart shooter identified
The man suspected of opening fire at Fort Stewart has been identified as Quornelius Radford, according to Brig. Gen. John Lubas, the commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division. The suspect is alive and in custody, a law enforcement official told CNN.
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This man swims with his pet alligator
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NHL mascot and player have close call with bear
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Great Barrier Reef sees record coral bleaching
According to the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), parts of the Great Barrier Reef suffered their biggest-ever declines last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swaths of hard coral.
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The apartment she bought is perfect. The owner just has to die first
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'Diddy's' attorney addresses ex-girlfriend sending letter to judge
CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister speaks with Nicole Westmoreland, the lawyer for Sean "Diddy" Combs, about why his ex-girlfriend Gina Huynh, who was initially supposed to testify against Combs, wrote a letter to the judge pushing for Comb's release on bail.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson reacts to proposal for nuclear power on the moon
CNN's Victor Blackwell speaks with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about NASA's desire to make the US the first country to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.
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Watch brown water gush out of the ceiling at Atlanta airport
A ceiling leak at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday has been contained and the source of the leak is being investigated, according to a spokesperson for the airport. The leak did not impact overall airport operations, the spokesperson said.
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Tornado hits Inner Mongolia
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Inside Laura Loomer's hunt for disloyalty to Trump
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Firefighters battle California's Gifford Fire
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Passengers rush to evacuate smoke-filled train
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' ex petitions judge for his release
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AI puts pressure on recent college grads' first job search
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Justin Trudeau sings 'Firework' at Katy Perry concert
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New research reveals origin of potatoes
Scientists traced the lineage of potatoes to a wild genetic fusion about 9 million years ago between a tomato ancestor and a tuberless plant.
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Schools are using AI surveillance to protect students. It also leads to false alarms
Schools are using AI surveillance to protect students. It also leads to false alarms

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Schools are using AI surveillance to protect students. It also leads to false alarms

Lesley Mathis knows what her daughter said was wrong. But she never expected the 13-year-old girl would get arrested for it. The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school's surveillance software. Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched and spent the night in a jail cell, her mother says. Earlier in the day, her friends had teased the teen about her tanned complexion and called her 'Mexican,' even though she's not. When a friend asked what she was planning for Thursday, she wrote: 'on Thursday we kill all the Mexico's.' Mathis said the comments were 'wrong' and 'stupid,' but context showed they were not a threat. 'It made me feel like, is this the America we live in?' Mathis said of her daughter's arrest. 'And it was this stupid, stupid technology that is just going through picking up random words and not looking at context.' Surveillance systems in American schools increasingly monitor everything students write on school accounts and devices. Thousands of school districts across the country use software like Gaggle and Lightspeed Alert to track kids' online activities, looking for signs they might hurt themselves or others. With the help of artificial intelligence, technology can dip into online conversations and immediately notify both school officials and law enforcement. Educators say the technology has saved lives. But critics warn it can criminalize children for careless words. "It has routinized law enforcement access and presence in students' lives, including in their home,' said Elizabeth Laird, a director at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Schools ratchet up vigilance for threats In a country weary of school shootings, several states have taken a harder line on threats to schools. Among them is Tennessee, which passed a 2023 zero-tolerance law requiring any threat of mass violence against a school to be reported immediately to law enforcement. The 13-year-old girl arrested in August 2023 had been texting with friends on a chat function tied to her school email at Fairview Middle School, which uses Gaggle to monitor students' accounts. (The Associated Press is withholding the girl's name to protect her privacy. The school district did not respond to a request for comment.) Taken to jail, the teen was interrogated and strip-searched, and her parents weren't allowed to talk to her until the next day, according to a lawsuit they filed against the school system. She didn't know why her parents weren't there. 'She told me afterwards, 'I thought you hated me.' That kind of haunts you,' said Mathis, the girl's mother. A court ordered eight weeks of house arrest, a psychological evaluation and 20 days at an alternative school for the girl. Gaggle's CEO, Jeff Patterson, said in an interview that the school system did not use Gaggle the way it is intended. The purpose is to find early warning signs and intervene before problems escalate to law enforcement, he said. 'I wish that was treated as a teachable moment, not a law enforcement moment,' said Patterson. Private student chats face unexpected scrutiny Students who think they are chatting privately among friends often do not realize they are under constant surveillance, said Shahar Pasch, an education lawyer in Florida. One teenage girl she represented made a joke about school shootings on a private Snapchat story. Snapchat's automated detection software picked up the comment, the company alerted the FBI, and the girl was arrested on school grounds within hours. Alexa Manganiotis, 16, said she was startled by how quickly monitoring software works. West Palm Beach's Dreyfoos School of the Arts, which she attends, last year piloted Lightspeed Alert, a surveillance program. Interviewing a teacher for her school newspaper, Alexa discovered two students once typed something threatening about that teacher on a school computer, then deleted it. Lightspeed picked it up, and 'they were taken away like five minutes later,' Alexa said. Teenagers face steeper consequences than adults for what they write online, Alexa said. 'If an adult makes a super racist joke that's threatening on their computer, they can delete it, and they wouldn't be arrested," she said. Amy Bennett, chief of staff for Lightspeed Systems, said that the software helps understaffed schools 'be proactive rather than punitive' by identifying early warning signs of bullying, self-harm, violence or abuse. The technology can also involve law enforcement in responses to mental health crises. In Florida's Polk County Schools, a district of more than 100,000 students, the school safety program received nearly 500 Gaggle alerts over four years, officers said in public Board of Education meetings. This led to 72 involuntary hospitalization cases under the Baker Act, a state law that allows authorities to require mental health evaluations for people against their will if they pose a risk to themselves or others. 'A really high number of children who experience involuntary examination remember it as a really traumatic and damaging experience — not something that helps them with their mental health care,' said Sam Boyd, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Polk and West Palm Beach school districts did not provide comments. An analysis shows a high rate of false alarms Information that could allow schools to assess the software's effectiveness, such as the rate of false alerts, is closely held by technology companies and unavailable publicly unless schools track the data themselves. Gaggle alerted more than 1,200 incidents to the Lawrence, Kansas, school district in a recent 10-month period. But almost two-thirds of those alerts were deemed by school officials to be non-issues — including over 200 false alarms from student homework, according to an Associated Press analysis of data received via a public records request. Students in one photography class were called to the principal's office over concerns Gaggle had detected nudity. The photos had been automatically deleted from the students' Google Drives, but students who had backups of the flagged images on their own devices showed it was a false alarm. District officials said they later adjusted the software's settings to reduce false alerts. Natasha Torkzaban, who graduated in 2024, said she was flagged for editing a friend's college essay because it had the words 'mental health.' 'I think ideally we wouldn't stick a new and shiny solution of AI on a deep-rooted issue of teenage mental health and the suicide rates in America, but that's where we're at right now,' Torkzaban said. She was among a group of student journalists and artists at Lawrence High School who filed a lawsuit against the school system last week, alleging Gaggle subjected them to unconstitutional surveillance. School officials have said they take concerns about Gaggle seriously, but also say the technology has detected dozens of imminent threats of suicide or violence. 'Sometimes you have to look at the trade for the greater good,' said Board of Education member Anne Costello in a July 2024 board meeting. Two years after their ordeal, Mathis said her daughter is doing better, although she's still 'terrified' of running into one of the school officers who arrested her. One bright spot, she said, was the compassion of the teachers at her daughter's alternative school. They took time every day to let the kids share their feelings and frustrations, without judgment. 'It's like we just want kids to be these little soldiers, and they're not,' said Mathis. 'They're just humans.' ___ This reporting reviewed school board meetings posted on YouTube, courtesy of DistrictView, a dataset created by researchers Tyler Simko, Mirya Holman and Rebecca Johnson. ___ The Associated Press' education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP's standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at Sharon Lurye, The Associated Press

MGA Entertainment Cooks Up its Newest Innovation Slime Life™— The Makeable, Smashable, Stretchable, Totally Satisfying Food Slime Experience
MGA Entertainment Cooks Up its Newest Innovation Slime Life™— The Makeable, Smashable, Stretchable, Totally Satisfying Food Slime Experience

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MGA Entertainment Cooks Up its Newest Innovation Slime Life™— The Makeable, Smashable, Stretchable, Totally Satisfying Food Slime Experience

Unbox Hyper-Realistic DIY Kits and Satisfying Fake-Out 'Snacks' for the Ultimate Sensory Play Experience Slime Life Ramen Slime Life Ramen Slime Life Bowl of Choco Cereal Slime Life Bowl of Choco Cereal Slime Life Donuts Pink Icing Round and Jelly Filled LOS ANGELES, Aug. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today MGA Entertainment (MGA), the global toy and entertainment company behind L.O.L. Surprise!™, Little Tikes®, and MGA's Miniverse™, announced the launch of its newest innovation, Slime Life™, offering an ultra-realistic, ASMR-friendly, satisfyingly textured slime experience. Each DIY kit transforms delicious foods into detailed slime creations, empowering kids and collectors to style, smash, and stretch their way through endless creative play. As a constant innovator in the toy industry, MGA recognized the popularity of slime among children and kidults through social media and has been adding slime elements to its other toy lines. In fact, there are more than 480 million posts about slime on TikTok, and the #slime hashtag boasts nearly 15.5 million posts on Instagram. MGA set out to bring a high-quality, food-focused slime experience to kids, kidults, and adults at mass like never before. Slime Life taps into this growing social trend and is bringing a unique sensory experience to households everywhere. Slime Life was inspired by and created in partnership with Slime Community, the wildly popular indie brand started by creator Summer Ames, a creator and beloved mom & pop shop turned viral sensation. MGA worked closely with Slime Community throughout all stages of development of the line. "This was a little, homegrown business that started in our kitchen and to be recognized by an established company like MGA Entertainment is a dream come true," said Summer Ames, founder of Slime Community. "The call from MGA was one of the most memorable moments of my life, and the team has been wonderful to work with every step of the way. The magic of Slime Life goes beyond the slime; it's in the story we created together. MGA didn't have to work with a small business like ours, but they chose to. They saw the value in our passion, our experience, and our love for the craft. That choice made Slime Life not just special, but truly meaningful.' From juicy looking burgers and rainbow cupcakes to creamy PB&J and gooey grilled cheese, Slime Life™ transforms food into playable art letting fans create, style, smash, and stretch their own edible-looking slime creations. Each DIY kit contains vibrant, detailed slime made to look like your favorite foods. Users assemble and style their food dish however they like, becoming the ultimate slime chef. Then they smash it, getting their hands into irresistibly satisfying textures and colors of slime. "We're thrilled to bring MGA's innovative creativity to the trending world of slime, and partnering with Summer Ames from Slime Community makes it even more exciting," said Josh Hackbarth, Chief Marketing Officer at MGA Entertainment. "With a social-first approach, we've created DIY kits that speak directly to creators, kids, and kidults — fun, aesthetic, affordable, and tested to perfection. This is slime done the MGA way." The full 2025 Slime Life lineup includes classic meals and desserts, including: Slime Life Ramen Slime Life Burger Slime Life French Fries Slime Life Nachos Slime Life Cupcake Slime Life Cake Pops Slime Life Macarons Slime Life Donuts - Pink Icing Round & Jelly Filled Slime Life Donuts - Choco Icing Round & Cream Filled Slime Life Grilled Cheese with Chips Slime Life PB&J with Chips Slime Life Ice Cream Cone Slime Life S'mores Slime Life Bowl of Choco Cereal Slime Life Bowl of Fruity Cereal Slime Life™ is available now at Walmart and on and also available October 1, 2025 at Target, Amazon, The MGA Shop, and other retailers. To learn more about this new line, visit About MGA EntertainmentMGA Entertainment is on a mission to inspire imagination and creativity through innovative toys, entertainment, and experiences that transform play into limitless possibilities. As the largest privately held toy and entertainment company in the U.S., MGA is a global leader in designing and delivering world-class consumer products that spark wonder and drive play forward. Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices worldwide, MGA's portfolio spans a dynamic range of original and licensed brands — from toys, dolls, games, and electronics to fashion, home décor, and entertainment content including hit movies and TV series. The company is recognized for its bold approach to storytelling, trendsetting design, and deep commitment to quality. The award-winning MGA family includes fan-favorite brands such as L.O.L. Surprise!™, Little Tikes®, Rainbow High™, Bratz®, MGA's Miniverse™, Yummiland™, CarTuned™, Wonder Factory™, Slime Life™, Ninjombie™, BABY born®, and Zapf Creation®. To learn more, visit and follow MGA on LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. 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Warner Bros Discovery beats second-quarter revenue estimates
Warner Bros Discovery beats second-quarter revenue estimates

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(Reuters) -Warner Bros Discovery topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday, boosted by the international expansion of HBO Max and blockbuster releases including U.S. top grosser "A Minecraft Movie." The company gained 3.4 million global streaming subscribers in the quarter ended June, fueled by international expansion of rebranded HBO Max into Australia. Analysts at Visible Alpha had expected 2.71 additions. "A Minecraft Movie", inspired by the iconic video game, grossed nearly $1 billion worldwide, while Michael B. Jordan starrer "Sinners" powered past $360 million at the global box office. WBD, which is restructuring into studio-focused Warner Bros and cable-centric Discovery Global, reported second-quarter revenue of $9.81 billion. Analysts had expected $9.76 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.

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