Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky dead at 88
BOSTON (Reuters) – Marvin Minsky, the artificial intelligence pioneer who helped make machines think, leading to computers that understand spoken commands and beat grandmasters at chess, has died at the age of 88, the Massachusetts Institute of Technol…
Anti-abortion activists indicted in Texas for Planned Parenthood video
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Two anti-abortion activists behind the filming of videos on fetal tissue procurement by Planned Parenthood were indicted by a Texas grand jury on Monday, while clearing the women’s health group of any wrong-doing.
Bikram yoga founder fined $924k in sexual harassment suit: media
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The founder of the Bikram yoga practice was ordered to pay $924,500 on Monday to a former legal adviser who said she was fired for investigating sexual misconduct charges against her employer, media reported.
Washington faces days of cleanup after epic blizzard
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Washington will need several more days to return to normal after a weekend blizzard dropped more than 2 feet (60 cm) of snow along the U.S. East Coast, likely causing billions of dollars in damage and killing more than 3…
U.S. pastor freed by Iran says he was tortured
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (Reuters) – Saeed Abedini, an American pastor freed this month from an Iranian prison as part of a U.S.-Iranian prisoner swap, said in a television interview aired on Monday that he was tortured and left in solitary confinement for refu…
Fancy a ‘political revolution’? Try ‘Bernie’s Yearning’ ice cream
(Reuters) – Bernie Sanders got his sweetest endorsement yet on Monday when one of the founders of Ben & Jerry’s unveiled an ice cream flavor for the Democratic presidential hopeful, inviting Sanders’ backers to enjoy a spoonful of “Political Revolution.”
U.S. justices expand ban on mandatory life sentences for juvenile killers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday expanded its ban on mandatory sentences of life in prison without parole for inmates convicted of murders committed before age 18, saying even those imprisoned years ago should have an opportunity…
Witness testifies in U.S. about 2000 murder of diplomat in Niger
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An African security guard on Monday told a U.S. judge that he saw an American diplomat shot to death in Niger 14 years ago, and identified the shooter as the suspect who has been indicted for the crime.
Investigators fault community planning in deadly 2013 Texas explosion
(Reuters) – An explosion at the West Fertilizer Co of West, Texas on April 17, 2013 that killed 15 people and damaged 150 buildings likely happened because the owner of the fertilizer storage facility kept combustible material near a 30-ton pile of amm…
Plaintiffs’ lawyers wary of taking on Flint water scandal
(Reuters) – The water scandal in Flint, Michigan has many of the ingredients for a mass, class-action lawsuit: danger signs that may have been ignored, many thousands of potential victims, the possibility of lifelong health problems, and the alleged sy…
