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The four children were found unresponsive off the coast of Portneuf-sur-Mer, Que. The provincial police (SQ) have confirmed Saturday’s death. The children, aged more than 10, were part of a group of 11 people swept away by the tide overnight while fishing in Quebec’s northern coastal region. One person, a man in his 30s, is still missing as of 1.30pm on Saturday, while six others were rescued in the early hours of the morning. “According to initial reports, a group of people were fishing on foot along the shore when they were caught in the tide,” SQ Sergeant Catherine Bernard…

Two people are dead after a plane crashed near Tupelo Regional Airport in Mississippi this morning, officials said. Tupelo Fire Department Sergeant Michael Moody confirmed the deaths to CBS News. The identities of the people killed have not been shared. It is not clear what type of plane he was flying or how many people were on board. More information will be shared this afternoon, Moody said. Charles Johnson, an eyewitness to the accident, said CBS News affiliate WCBI that he and his wife were driving along a nearby road when he saw the plane “going very hard” and “saw…

After four months of investigation, House Republicans who vowed to use their new majority to uncover evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden acknowledged Wednesday that they had yet to uncover incriminating material about him, despite their frequent insinuations that he and his family have been involved in it. criminal conduct and corruption. In a highly publicized news conference on Capitol Hill to show preliminary findings of their main investigation into Mr. Biden and his family, top Republicans released financial documents detailing how some of the president’s relatives received more than $10 million of dollars from foreign sources between 2015 and…

Every 10 years after the census, the New Hampshire legislature redraws the state’s political districts. So when the Republicans captured the majority in the 2020 election, it was no secret that they would draw the new maps in their favor. But how far the party went is now before the state Supreme Court. “These maps represent a systematic, intentional and deliberate effort to lock a group of party voters out of the political process,” Jonathan Hawley, an attorney representing a group of Democratic voters, told the justices during oral arguments Thursday. The legislature, represented in the case by the New…

Related: Competition against Donald Trump Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email to receive exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Donald Trump is likely feeling the heat after a series of new allegations related to the special counsel’s investigation into secret documents he is accused of keeping at Mar-a-Lago after his presidency. This week, multiple reports alleged that Mr. Trump was caught on tape in 2021 admitting that he had held on to a classified Pentagon document that described a possible attack on Iran. It was later found that the…

London CNN — The political unrest that has engulfed Pakistan since former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested earlier this week will complicate efforts to secure a financial lifeline from the International Monetary Fund and aggravate the country. economic crisis. Growth has stagnated and inflation has soared in the South Asian country of 220 million over the past year. With the sharp depreciation of the Pakistani rupee and dwindling foreign currency reserves, the country has struggled to import essential goods such as food, leading to deadly stampedes at distribution centers. Fears that Pakistan could default on its debt have been…

It was late 1978, on the eve of Khomeini’s revolution in Iran. Crowds marched down Pahlavi Boulevard in the heart of Tehran and beat themselves to the point of bleeding in an Ashura procession. They stormed El Al’s office in the Iranian capital while shouting threats, prompting Israelis there to flee for their lives. “We saw death before our eyes when the traditional Ashura procession turned into a demonstration of rage against the Shah’s regime,” recalls Carmi Gillon, 73. He was later the eighth head of the Shin Bet during the Rabin assassination, but then, in 1978, he was the…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Tech-inclined computer engineers and political scientists have warned for years that cheap and powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, videos and audio realistic enough to deceive voters and maybe influence an election. The synthetic images that emerged were often crude, unconvincing and expensive to produce, especially when other types of disinformation were so cheap and easy to spread on social media. The threat posed by AI and so-called deepfakes always seemed a year or two away. Not more. Sophisticated generative AI tools can now create cloned human voices and hyper-realistic images,…