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How’d you do? Pass or fail, you shouldn’t feel overconfident about your ability to spot AI audio, nor should you be worried that everything you hear is fake. Instead, we hope this offered some concrete examples and important context to understand this impressive technology. If you see something that triggers skepticism, …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Iditarod officials on Wednesday imposed a two-hour time penalty on musher Dallas Seavey for not properly gutting the moose he killed during the race earlier this week. Race marshal Warren Palfrey convened a three-person panel of race officials to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of the moose, which …

A tire flew off a United Airlines Boeing plane shortly after taking off from San Francisco on Thursday, prompting an emergency landing in Los Angeles. Moments after United Airlines Flight 35 ascended into the air, one of the tires on the underside of the Boeing 777-200 detached. The plane landed …

A U.S. Army sergeant and intelligence analyst was arrested Thursday on six charges related to a conspiracy in which he is accused of trading military secrets with a co-conspirator in Hong Kong in exchange for cash, officials said. Korbein Schultz was arrested at Fort Campbell, Tennessee, following an investigation that …

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner called on Formula 1 to “move onward” and “look forward” on Thursday after his company reportedly suspended a female employee who brought a complaint against him. An independent investigation was launched last month into Horner, who is also CEO of Oracle Red Bull Racing. …

CELAYA, Mexico — A dead man lay on his back in the parking lot of a convenience store in late February when journalists rolled in to the north-central Mexico city of Celaya to interview police. A spray of bullet casings and spent projectiles lay around the corpse, a sight all …

The New York judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s hush money case ruled Thursday that he’ll use an anonymous jury when the case goes to trial this month. While Trump and attorneys in the case will know the identities of the jurors, their names will be shielded from the …

Smith said her physician had since moved out of Idaho, too, fearing that she would be criminally prosecuted for providing care to women. Idaho bans abortions in nearly all cases, and providing the procedure is a felony punishable by imprisonment. “So, OK, pro-life, well what about my life, too?” Smith …

LGBTQ registered voters are highly motivated to make their voices heard in the November election, and the vast majority of them plan to back President Joe Biden and other Democrats further down the ballot, according to a poll released Thursday by the LGBTQ media advocacy group GLAAD. The poll found …

Three years ago, the U.S. economy went through an unprecedented upheaval as millions of workers left low-paying jobs for more promising ones. At the same time, many white-collar workers cemented themselves into remote, or at least hybrid, positions that gave them more flexibility. It was called The Great Resignation. Fast-forward …

A city council report presented Thursday cleared several police officers of wrongdoing in the delayed law enforcement response to a shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that ended in the deaths of 19 children and two teachers two years ago. The Uvalde City Council commissioned its own investigation after then-Mayor Don McLaughlin expressed frustration about …

ABOARD C-130 CARGO PLANE OVER GAZA — The scale of the destruction in the northern Gaza Strip is clear from the sky — the streets looked deserted and most buildings have been reduced to rubble. An NBC News crew aboard a Jordanian Royal Air Force C-130 Hercules dropping ready-to-eat meals was given …

U.S. Army reservists who worked with Maine gunman Robert Card deflected blame Thursday when an independent commission investigating the state’s worst mass shooting questioned whether the military should have tried harder to restrict Card’s access to firearms. The commission, established by Gov. Janet Mills, has been holding a series of …

Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, Mike Memoli and Ghael Fobes, who cover the ins and outs of Joe …

A national LGBTQ youth nonprofit said crisis calls from Oklahoma more than tripled in the weeks after transgender student Nex Benedict died there on Feb. 8.  Lance Preston, founder of the Indianapolis-based Rainbow Youth Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization, said the group’s crisis hotline for LGBTQ young …

The battle to ban TikTok is escalating. A bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to divest the popular social media company passed a crucial vote on Thursday, as the company sought to rally users to its defense with a call to action that flooded some congressional offices with …

Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, was quietly demoted by the Navy after a Defense Department inspector general report found he’d engaged in “inappropriate conduct” while serving as the top White House physician for Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, records obtained by NBC News show. Jackson, who was a rear admiral …

WASHINGTON— Alabama freshman Sen. Katie Britt will deliver the Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union address, throwing into relief one of the biggest challenges facing Biden in his reelection campaign.  A rising conservative star, Britt will take the stage against the backdrop of a presidential election fight …

Grocery giant Aldi plans to add 800 new stores in the U.S. over the next five years. The German-owned, Illinois-based chain said in a release Thursday it is planning to build or expand hundreds of Aldi locations in the company’s preexisting northeast and midwest strongholds, as well as in western …

Former President Donald Trump is urging a longtime political aide to run for an open congressional seat in Georgia, something GOP operatives in that state say has been in the works for a long time. Trump on Thursday posted on Truth Social urging Brian Jack, a senior adviser to his …