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Saturday Night Live writer Celeste Yim is leaving the long-running NBC show after five years in the writers’ room. Yim, who revealed the news on Instagram, joined the show in 2020 and was promoted to writing supervisor in 2023. Yim, who wrote sketches including L’Eggs and We’re Trying, said, “After five seasons, I’m leaving my job at Saturday Night Live. Lorne hired me over the phone when I was 23 and the job literally made all of my dreams come true BUT it was also grueling and I slept in my office every week BUT my friends helped me with...

The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that ChatGPT was “explicit in its instructions and encouragement toward suicide.” In the days after their 16-year-old son died by suicide, Matt and Maria Raine say, they searched through his phone, desperately looking for clues about what could have led to the tragedy. “We thought we were looking for Snapchat discussions or internet search history or some weird cult, I don’t know,” Matt Raine said in a recent interview. The Raine family said they did not find their answer until they opened...

As of Tuesday, the woman had raised over $800,000 on a Christian fundraising platform with a stated goal of $1 million. In her last update, in June, the woman claimed she was the victim of “silly misinformation.”Minnesota prosecutors filed misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges Tuesday against a woman accused of using a racist slur against a Black child at a playground — an incident the woman has since used to raise more than $800,000 after she appealed for help with relocating. “Defendant wrongfully and unlawfully engaged in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct, or in offensive, obscene, or abusive language...

“It's just sad, it's very sad,” Christopher Columbus said in a recent interview.Former Harry Potter director Christopher Columbus has become the latest member of the film franchise to address J.K. Rowling’s transphobia, calling it “very sad.” Columbus helmed the first two films in the Potter series: 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 2002’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. When asked about Rowling’s well-documented TERF screeds in a new interview with Variety, the filmmaker responded: “I like to sometimes separate the artist from the art, I think that’s important to do. It’s unfortunate, what’s happened.” “I certainly...

Million-dollar violins stolen from cafes - and more: our guide to some of the most famous stolen musical instruments in historyInstrument theft, unfortunately, is a common reality, with a recent study revealing that 24% of musicians have had gear stolen. But there are some stand-out cases, not least those involving instruments of illustrious heritage and eye-watering expense. Here, in no particular order, are 14 of the most famous stolen instruments in history. Famous stolen instruments 1. Eric Clapton's Gibson Les Paul guitar Early on in his career, legendary guitarist Eric Clapton was the proud owner of a Gibson Les Paul...

“We’ve also been going through it, and I can tell you there are crude diagrams of the church. There are also photos of the weapons, and they include all sorts of writings, the names of past mass shooters, criticism of Israel, the name of President Trump written on the guns,” Katersky added.

OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to followers of other teams. And it's more likely to refuse requests from women than men when prompted to produce information likely to be censored by AI safety mechanisms. The reason, according to researchers affiliated with Harvard University, is that the model's guardrails incorporate biases that shape its responses based on contextual information about the user. Computer scientists Victoria R. Li, Yida Chen, and Naomi Saphra explain how they came to that conclusion in a recent...

A hacker has exploited a leading artificial intelligence chatbot to conduct the most comprehensive and lucrative AI cybercriminal operation known to date, using it to do everything from find targets to write ransom notes. In a report published Tuesday, Anthropic, the company behind the popular Claude chatbot, said that an unnamed hacker “used AI to what we believe is an unprecedented degree” to research, hack and extort at least 17 companies.

Supposedly, the tiresome comedy stylings of Gavin Newsom – he’s the equivalent of a Wednesday night prop comic opener down at the Gooberville Giggle Works – have thrust him into the forefront of the Democrat race for the 2028 nomination. What a sad and pathetic state of affairs that is. He’s trying to claim the Fighter Lane. You see, he fights by hiring a couple of they/them mediocrities to run his social media account, pumping out an endless series of tweets that are nearly as funny as leprosy. They are directed at Trump, who ignores them; if a nitwit tweets...

After his first arrest for sex crimes, Jeffrey Epstein tried to get into a new line of work: surveillance. In 2015, he partnered with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to invest in a security tech startup called Reporty Homeland Security, now known as Carbyne. Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin's circle. After he was first caught sexually exploiting teenage girls,...

He is set to reappear in court next monthPaul Gallagher, the older brother of Oasis stars Liam and Noel, has appeared in court charged rape and sexual assault. The 59-year-old was charged last month by Scotland Yard with a string of violent sex offences. It came following an investigation that opened last year, and accusations allegedly include rape, sexual assault, threats to kill and coercive control, according to The Telegraph. Last month, Metropolitan Police said that the alleged offences took place “between 2022-2024”, and included “three counts of sexual assault, three counts of intentional strangulation, two counts of making a...

The defendant was assisting a man in Vienna who was planning on attacking one of Swift's 'Eras' shows in Vienna last summerA 16-year-old boy has been convicted in Germany for supporting a foiled terror attack on Taylor Swift‘s shows in Austria last year. The teenager, referred to only as Mohammed A under Germany’s privacy laws, was convicted of preparing a serious act of violence and supporting a terrorist act of violence abroad. After being charged in June, on Tuesday (August 26), he was given a suspended 18-month sentence. The trial took place behind closed doors because of his age,...

If larger-scale trials in the US prove successful, the drug could go on the market in about two years, the Kyoto University team saysA team of Japanese scientists has developed a new painkiller they say is as effective as fentanyl but without its addictive properties, a breakthrough that could reshape the fight against the global opioid crisis if clinical trials succeed. The team from Kyoto University has been working on the project for 13 years, with phase one clinical trials already proving successful and phase two trials due to start soon. Masatoshi Hagiwara, a professor of pharmaceutical medicine at...

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey excoriated transphobes for tying a mass shooting to their hateful ideology. At a press conference Wednesday about the Annunciation Catholic School shooting Wednesday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called out groups and individuals for attacking the trans community in the wake of the horrific event. “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity,” Frey said. “We should not be operating out of a place of hate for anyone. We should be operating from a place of our love for...

Legendary fighter pilot and first US ace of the Vietnam War Randy “Duke” Cunningham passed away the afternoon of Aug. 27, 2025 at the age of 83 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was born 8 Dec 1941 in Los Angeles. Cunningham has been in and out of the hospital for the eight months with heart problems and other issues. Cunningham was a retired US Navy commander and former F-4 Phantom pilot in VF-96, who along with his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Willy “Irish” Driscoll was the first US ace of the Vietnam War. He was an officer and pilot in...

Britain will face social unrest and a perception of a two-tier society if the government pushes ahead with plans to come up with a formal definition of Islamophobia, the head of a new campaign group has warned. Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, has set up a working group to provide recommendations to the government on “appropriate and sensitive language” to describe “unacceptable treatment, prejudice and discrimination against Muslims”. Fiyaz Mughal, the founder of the Tell Mama organisation which monitors anti-Muslim hate incidents, is leading a campaign against the definition, which he believes risks having a “chilling effect” on free...

Banda Aceh, Indonesia: Two men were publicly flogged 76 times each in Indonesia’s conservative province of Aceh on Tuesday after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law. Gay sex is outlawed in Aceh, which imposes a version of sharia, the Islamic legal code, but it is not illegal elsewhere in the world’s most populous Muslim majority country. The men were part of a group of 10 who were flogged Tuesday at a park in the provincial capital Banda Aceh for a range of alleged crimes. The pair were flogged separately with a...

Geneva homeowners can now apply for repair funds through a city program that forgives loans after five years, according to the Finger Lakes Times. Geneva homeowners can now apply for repair funds through a city program that forgives loans after five years, according to the Finger Lakes Times.

MINNEAPOLIS — Robin Westman, the person who authorities said opened fire at a Minneapolis Catholic school Wednesday morning had the last name of the Abundant Life Christian School shooter written on their gun. A video originally uploaded to YouTube, appears to depict Westman showing off their weapons, which are covered in writing. One of the guns appears to have the name "Rupnow" written on it. The video has since been deleted from YouTube. The CBS News Confirmed team verified the video. Authorities say that two children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in the shooting. 17 Annunciation Catholic students and...

Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton transmitted classified emails over a private server system and they were intercepted by a hostile foreign country’s spy service, according to a leak to The New York Times. ..... Snip..... The New York Times on Wednesday reported that the US Government actually discovered John Bolton’s classified emails while gathering information from an “adversarial country’s spy service.” The New York Times reported: The investigation into President Trump’s former national security advisor, John R. Bolton, began to pick up momentum during the Biden administration, when U.S. intelligence officials collected information that appeared to show that...