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By Dieu-Nalio Chery and Steve Gorman EAST LANSING, Mich. (Reuters) -A gunman opened fire on Monday night on the main campus of Michigan State University, killing three people and injuring five, before an hours-long manhunt for the suspect ended with his death, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot, police said. The 43-year-old gunman had no known …

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(Reuters) -T-Mobile users across the United States reported network outages late on Monday, according to an outage tracking website, as the company said it was quickly addressing a disruption that had affected some cellular services. The U.S. wireless carrier said it was working on resolving a problem that had caused intermittent issues with voice, messaging, …

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By Nandhini Srinivasan (Reuters) -Nearly three in five high school girls reported feeling sad or hopeless in 2021, representing a 60% increase over the past decade, and fared worse than boys of the same age across nearly all measures of mental health, U.S. government data showed. The data shows a “dramatic” rise in experiences of …

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By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – ChatGPT, a fast-growing artificial intelligence program, has drawn praise for its ability to write answers quickly to a wide range of queries, and attracted U.S. lawmakers’ attention with questions about its impact on national security and education. ChatGPT was estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users just …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday there is no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity after a series of shoot-downs of unidentified objects over North American airspace. “I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no, again no indication of aliens …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An unprecedented spate of mysterious flying objects over North America – including a Chinese spy balloon shot down on Feb. 4 after floating over much of the United States – has transfixed Americans and Canadians, prompted political outrage and raised a host of national security questions. Here is what …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A man driving a U-Haul truck in New York City’s Brooklyn borough struck eight people while attempting to evade police before officers stopped the careening vehicle and arrested him, the city’s police commissioner said on Monday. The “violent rampage” through the Bay Ridge neighborhood left eight people injured, including an officer, …

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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force general overseeing North American airspace said on Sunday after a series of shoot-downs of unidentified objects that he would not rule out aliens or any other explanation yet, deferring to U.S. intelligence experts. Asked whether he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin …

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By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans say they would not cut Social Security and Medicare programs but “everything else is on the table” in talks over raising U.S. government borrowing limits, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said on Sunday. “We need to shore those programs up. They’re running out of money. But at the …

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