Futurism: If your human therapist encouraged you to kill yourself or other people, it would rightly spell the end of their professional career. Yet that’s exactly what video journalist Caelan Conrad got when they tested Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda’s claim that her company’s…

USA Today, by Doyle Rice: The hurricane map in the Atlantic Ocean may be nearly blank now, but forecasters say that may not last much longer, as several signs point to an uptick in activity across the basin. “The tropical…

The Christian Post, by Jon Brown: A man prompted outrage for attending the Belfast Pride Parade in Northern Ireland last Saturday while mockingly dressed as Jesus in a crown of thorns. A spokesperson for Northern Ireland’s small unionist Traditional Unionist…

The Christian Post, by Michael Gryboski: Which states are the best and worst at protecting religious liberty in the United States? That is the question at the heart of the recently released annual “Religious Liberty in the States” report, produced…

The Christian Post, by Ryan Foley: The Republican governor of New Hampshire has vetoed bills designed to prevent males who identify as females from using women’s restrooms and locker rooms and establish a process so parents can seek the removal…

Reuters, by Lincoln Feast: A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, damaging buildings and generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 feet) that prompted warnings and evacuations stretching across the Pacific Ocean….

Reuters, by Wayne Cole: Australia’s central bank said on Thursday it was taking another major step toward a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) with a range of industry partners pursuing projects using real money and assets for the first…

The Daily Mail, by Chris Melore: The major tropical rainmaker that has already drenched Florida and Louisiana is shifting course and threatens to flood out more than 30 million Americans. Meteorologists have warned that a surge in tropical moisture could…

NBC News, by Phil Helsel: New Yorkers in basement apartments were told to be ready to leave Monday and New Jersey’s governor declared a state of emergency after heavy rains in the northeast caused flash flooding. Western Union County, New…

The Daily Express U.S., by Daniel Smith: The US has reportedly urged Pacific allies to prepare for potential conflict with China over Taiwan, as Japan signals the dawn of a ‘new crisis era’ and Beijing appears to be ramping up its…

USA Today, by Elizabeth Weise: Volcanoes in Alaska, Washington state, Oregon and Hawaii have been rumbling and even spewing lava, enough to spark a swarm of news stories. But despite the jolts and temblors, geologists say there’s no cause for alarm….

ABC News, by Megan Forrester, Aaron Katersky, and Andy Fies: Two women were shot and killed and two men were injured at a Kentucky church by a suspect who fled there after allegedly shooting a state trooper elsewhere, according to officials. The…