Suing for silence: Nationwide lawsuits target data center noise

Concerns about data centers initially centered on their energy and water consumption, but as more have come online, residents’ gripes are increasingly about noise.

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Inside the most bombed McDonald’s in the world

The walls are pockmarked from shrapnel and the golden arches melted at Ukraine’s first McDonald’s. But the restaurant, a symbol of the country’s Western aspirations, still serves as a refuge in Kyiv.

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Fauci’s texts, Trump’s executive order and the resurgence of anti-vaccine rhetoric

Anti-vaccine rhetoric has gained renewed attention with the release of text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Donald Trump’s executive order.

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Job losses in July and negative revisions reveal a weakening U.S. labor market

In a troubling sign for the economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that it revised down the prior two months’ jobs by a combined 103,000.

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Pastor whose first two wives’ deaths are being re-investigated has a fifth wife. She kicked him out.

Janice Grote says she asked retired pastor John Bridges to leave their Missouri home after detectives told her he was a suspect in one of two death investigations.

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Meet Amira, an AI reading tutor alarming some parents and school leaders in New Mexico

Literacy software powered by AI has captured hundreds of thousands of recordings of New Mexico students. Now the state faces questions about children’s data.

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Michigan lifts lettuce warning as state’s cyclosporiasis cases fall

The state’s health department said that residents can return to their usual salad routines, including buying bagged salads, but should still avoid recalled lettuce.

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Who Killed Charlie Kirk? How conspiracy theories sparked a MAGA civil war

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Rep. Andy Ogles loses his Republican primary in Tennessee

Ogles lost despite having President Donald Trump’s endorsement, NBC News projects. Former state Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher will be the GOP nominee.

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Democrat Ben Wikler explores a 2028 run for Senate in Wisconsin

Some Democratic insiders are rankled by the former state party chair’s ambitions and national book tour, with one saying it feels like he’s “whistling past the graveyard.”

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Top scientists at OpenAI and Anthropic ask U.S. for tools to pace AI development

The statement — signed by senior employees at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta — comes days after an OpenAI model escaped its sandbox and attacked another company’s systems.

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Trump hasn’t asked the Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case despite his vow

The deadline for the administration to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider the ruling that struck down the president’s effort to limit birthright citizenship was Monday night.

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Bipartisan bill would require companies to tell users when they’re talking to AI

The Senior Chatbot Protection Act, from Sens. Mark Kelly and Jim Justice, would require clear labeling of AI and new protections for health and financial conversations.

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Disgraced former Gov. Blagojevich wants Trump to pardon a politician on the lam in Greece

The former Illinois governor, himself pardoned by Trump, has turned to pardon lobbying. His latest cause is a former Indiana councilman convicted in a vote-buying scandal.

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Wisconsin Democratic candidate David Crowley disavows his old crude and caustic ‘Dirt McGirk’ Twitter account

Crowley contends others also had access to the Twitter burner account and says he did not post incendiary messages about women and race, as well as derogatory LGBTQ references.

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Wisconsin Democratic candidate David Crowley disavows his old crude and caustic ‘Dirt McGirk’ Twitter account

Crowley contends others also had access to the Twitter burner account and says he did not post incendiary messages about women and race, as well as derogatory LGBTQ references.

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Troy Jackson’s sudden rise in Maine invites scrutiny of his past and his vulnerabilities

Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson is Democrats’ likely nominee to take on GOP Sen. Susan Collins in an expensive, consequential race following Graham Platner’s exit.

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Could Graham Platner face legal trouble over his former girlfriend’s sexual assault allegation?

There is no known criminal investigation into the former Maine Senate candidate, but experts told NBC News what a potential case could look like.

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Meta AI now lets people make deepfakes from public Instagram photos without explicit consent

Meta’s new Muse AI can generate realistic images based on public Instagram images including of many celebrities and public figures.

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Gooooooooals: Mbappé battles Messi for all-time World Cup scoring record

NBC News is tracking the French star and the Argentine legend through their teams’ remaining matches.

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Who could replace Graham Platner as Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee?

Platner is facing renewed pressure to drop out of the race before a Monday deadline to replace him on the ballot after he was accused of sexual assault. He denies the allegation.

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Warren demands that Pentagon and AI companies release full military contracts

In letters seen by NBC News, Sen. Warren raised concerns over the deals between the government and tech companies and the potential for AI-powered surveillance and weapons.

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China releases first photo of an asteroid some consider Earth’s ‘quasi moon’

Some astronomers have theorized that the space rock may be a chunk of material that broke off the moon. China’s Tianwen-2 mission aims to bring a sample of it to Earth.

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