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Jury finds Montana Sen. Jason Ellsworth guilty of official misconduct

A Helena jury found former state Senate President Jason Ellsworth guilty Tuesday night of misdemeanor criminal official misconduct for awarding $170,000 in no-bid contracts to a company represented by a long-time business associate. Jury deliberations took nearly four hours and left Ellsworth, a Hamilton Republican, potentially facing a six-month jail sentence for mishandling two contracts awarded to Agile Analytics in the final days of December 2024. Ellsworth had contracted with the Ravalli County firm to observe and report on state agencies as the government implemented laws passed ...

Today in History

On July 23, 1967, deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with local residents that led to five days of violence and resulted in 43 deaths. Also on this date: In 1903, the Ford Motor Company sold its first car, a Model A, for $850. In 1958, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II named the first four women to peerage in the House of Lords. In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on them during filming of a ...

A new threat by Yemen’s Houthis could widen the Iran war and put another trade chokepoint at risk

CAIRO (AP) — A declared blockade of Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has the potential to widen the Iran war and further disrupt global oil supplies and international trade. The rebels say they have closed the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Saudi-linked shipping in retaliation for the kingdom’s blockade on Yemen and a recent attack on the international airport in Yemen’s rebel-held capital, Sanaa. The Houthis claim to have forced six ships to reroute on Tuesday, but there was no independent confirmation. Bab el-Mandeb, at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is a vital ...

Howard Hughes, 1938

AP Photo The tribute the countless thousands on Lower Broadway for Howard Hughes, centre, was expressed in millions of cheers and yards of ticker tape. Hughes is here smiling happily, with left, Grover Whalen and right, Albert Lodwick, flight manager, on July 23, 1938 in New York.

OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models going rogue. Here are some things to know

ChatGPT maker OpenAI says it is still investigating the “unprecedented cyber incident” that led its artificial intelligence systems to break out of a testing environment and hack into another AI company. OpenAI said Tuesday two of its most capable AI models were responsible for the cyberattack targeting AI startup Hugging Face. The incident is stirring debates over the need for stronger AI guardrails and the extent to which AI agents are capable of acting on their own. Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems that it suspected ...

Endangered right whales could wait almost a decade for new US protections

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — New protections for endangered right whales in the North Atlantic would be postponed for nearly a decade under a plan that cleared a key hurdle in Washington last week with the full-throated support of the fishing and lobster industries. Environmentalists say this could spell the end for the vanishing whales, which can drown after getting tangled up in fishing gear or being struck by boats. There are only about 380 North Atlantic right whales left. The federal government has already paused any new right whale rules until 2028, and the House Natural ...