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Most Americans think AI is developing too fast, a new AP-NORC poll finds

WASHINGTON (AP) — Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans, 64%, think AI is developing “too fast,” while 27% say its development has been “about right” and only 8% say it’s moving “too slow.” The risk that powerful AI models could evade human control and hurt humanity, once the stuff of science fiction, has been ...

FDA says its safety review of abortion pill will continue into next year

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year, a timeline that was quickly condemned by abortion opponents hoping to see the drug’s use curtailed. The FDA gave a court-ordered update on its progress in a legal filing late Wednesday, providing the first substantive information about the controversial reevaluation ordered by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Mifepristone was first approved by the FDA in 2000. The agency has repeatedly reaffirmed the pill’s safety and ...

Army finds systemic failures behind DC midair collision and calls for safety fixes

The U.S. Army found many systemic breakdowns that led to last year’s midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C., and recommended numerous steps the military should take to prevent future tragedies. Families of some of the 67 people who died have been pressuring the Army for months to release the report, which was completed in May. The Associated Press obtained a copy from them Thursday morning, a few hours before the Army made it public. The deadliest plane crash on U.S. soil in over two decades happened when the helicopter ...

The long-deployed USS Lincoln returns home to San Diego Bay

CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln returned home to San Diego Bay Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea that included reports of deteriorating conditions among its crew. Dozens of sailors stood atop the carrier as it glided past the cityscape of downtown San Diego and neared the dock where cheering families waited, carrying flowers and balloons and ringing cowbells. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew out to the carrier on Wednesday to give the crew the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honor a ...

Tropical Storm Isaias forms, is forecast to become a hurricane and hit US Gulf Coast this week

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Isaias formed early Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters said it was expected to strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before hitting the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week. Isaias was centered about 285 miles (460 kilometers) west of Progreso, Mexico, and about 580 miles (935 kilometers) southwest of the Mississippi River’s mouth, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. It had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and was moving east-northeast at 8 mph (13 kph). It was not immediately ...