Billionaire Illinois Democrat governor caught in lie live on Fox News while trying to downplay Chicago's murder capital status Storm Melissa to explode into Category 5 hurricane as models reveal its'life-threatening' path to the US JAN MOIR: The Queen was blindly devoted to Prince Andrew... she raised a monster. The final hours of chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky - friends' desperate attempts to save him, warnings in final monologue and how he was haunted by sinister figure in hidden underworld. My wife won't get a job and I feel broken trying to provide for our family. Hold on, says DEAR CAROLINE... that's bad enough but your letter raises a MUCH bigger red flag Wild resurfaced Gilbert Arenas'snitching' claim goes viral in the wake of NBA mafia gambling scandal Inside the nondescript Virginia warehouse that wiped out the internet with one outage... and the neighbors who warn the next one is just a matter of time Fury as'insane' GM kills much-loved feature from upcoming cars as rival Ford doubles down I know all the secrets of the NBA legends' betting scandal. I think I've discovered Meghan's secret plan for if - or when - William strips away the Sussexes' royal titles: SHARON HUNT Disney fans left devastated after theme park dramatically'scales back' on its villains Doctor's $1M show of loyalty for murderer husband after he let adorable daughter, 2, die in roasting car as he watched adult videos Storm Melissa to explode into Category 5 hurricane as models reveal its'life-threatening' path to the US Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to strengthen into a life-threatening Category 5 hurricane that could swerve into the northeastern US in just days.

A US teenager was handcuffed by armed police after an artificial intelligence (AI) system mistakenly said he was carrying a gun - when really he was holding a packet of crisps. Police showed up, like eight cop cars, and then they all came out with guns pointed at me talking about getting on the ground, 16-year-old Baltimore pupil Taki Allen told local outlet WMAR-2 News . Baltimore County Police Department said their officers responded appropriately and proportionally based on the information provided at the time. It said the AI alert was sent to human reviewers who found no threat - but the principal missed this and contacted the school's safety team, who ultimately called the police. But the incident has prompted calls by some for the schools' procedures around the use of such technology to be reviewed.

Science Archaeology Ancient Roman mass grave shows its army's ethnic diversity Part of the empire's strength was drawn from its different populations. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Among its many feats, Rome featured one of history's most organized and successful military forces . Its organization and deployment helped solidify the empire's centuries-long reign across the Mediterranean, Western Asia, North Africa, and Europe. In Croatia, archaeologists have discovered a mass grave dating back to the third century CE that indicates another key to Roman military strength: the diversity of its soldiers.

Why is Israel still in southern Lebanon? A war to shape Lebanon's future An Israeli drone strike has killed two people in southern Lebanon, according to the country's Ministry of Public Health, a day after Israeli warplanes launched a series of deadly strikes on the country's eastern mountain range and south. It's the latest in near-daily Israeli violations of the United States-brokered ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah that began in November. It did not provide details on their condition. A security source told Al Jazeera that the drone fired a missile at a car, directly hitting the vehicle and causing it to catch fire.

European diplomats reveal the'tough guy' US negotiator leading the charge on Greenland: 'He hates us' A former Marine was unmasked as the'Zodiac killer' after a bombshell new investigation. I suffered a horrific side effect of a drug used by millions of Americans... and my face'melted off' The ICE backlash isn't the end of Kristi Noem It may have just saved her career FedEx driver accused of abducting and killing little girl while delivering her Christmas present says he shouldn't be executed because he has autism Senator accused of steamy affair with her bodyguard in bombshell lawsuit from his WIFE: 'Bring MDMA so I can guide you' Hunter Biden's stripper baby mama asks for him to be ARRESTED over claims he is still failing to pay her child support Family of Tyler Robinson's transgender lover speaks out for first time since Charlie Kirk assassination and reveals where he is now Dodgers agree with Kyle Tucker'on $240m deal' as champs beat out Mets, Blue Jays for top free agent World's sexiest hockey star and OnlyFans model Mikayla Demaiter spills out of little dress in latest post Nicole Richie addresses her daughter's new identity after unveiling transformation on her 18th birthday Trump gushes over'young beautiful' hockey players and teases rebranding of famed presidential wall Trump's AG secretary sparks mockery with tone-deaf $3 dinner advice as food costs soar Karoline Leavitt reveals the thinking behind Trump's call to cancel elections Microsoft's paperclip mascot delights users as it returns - 18 years after it was axed from Office It was the original virtual assistant, released years before Siri, Alexa, and Bixby. Now, almost two decades after it was axed, Microsoft's Clippy is officially back. The friendly anthropomorphic paper clip has been spotted as an Easter egg in Microsoft's latest announcement about a new AI companion called Mico. Mico - whose name is a nod to Microsoft Copilot - is a small blob with a friendly smiley face, and doesn't look much like its much-loved predecessor.

Is Trump losing patience with Putin? Will sanctions against Russian oil giants hurt Putin? How much of Europe's oil still comes from Russia? Ukraine's Zelenskyy to meet European leaders in London over military aid Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is due to meet European leaders in the United Kingdom for talks on military aid to stave off future Russian aggression if a ceasefire stops the war now in its fourth year. Zelenskyy and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are expected to be joined at the Foreign Office in London on Friday by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof.

As the Netherlands gears up for a snap parliamentary election on October 29, less than halfway through parliament's usual four-year term following the collapse of the ruling coalition, the likelihood of another win for the country's far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is mounting. An outright win is next to impossible. The Netherlands has always had a coalition government formed by a minimum of two parties due to its proportional representation electoral system, under which seats in parliament are awarded to parties in proportion to the number of votes they win. It then partnered with three other far-right parties - the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), New Social Contract (NSC), and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) - to form a coalition government. But in June, PVV made a dramatic exit from the coalition government over a disagreement on immigration policy.

Next week, five teens from Palestine will head to Panama to compete in one of the world's largest youth robotics competitions. To win--and then teach STEM to their peers displaced by the Israel-Hamas war. For the entirety of the past year, as the teenage roboticists of Team Palestine have been working on their latest project, their homeland has been engulfed in Israel's war with Hamas . Earlier this month, that all changed. With a fragile ceasefire in place, Israeli forces began to pull back from parts of Gaza, and the teens put the final touches on the project they hope will bring them victory: a robot that can maneuver through a series of simulated challenges based on the effects of climate change.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have inherent limitations of faithfulness and factuality, commonly referred to as hallucinations. Several benchmarks have been developed that provide a test bed for factuality evaluation within the context of English-centric datasets, while relying on supplementary informative context like web links or text passages but ignoring the available structured factual resources. To this end, Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have been identified as a useful aid for hallucination mitigation, as they provide a structured way to represent the facts about entities and their relations with minimal linguistic overhead. We bridge the lack of KG paths and multilinguality for factual language modeling within the existing hallucination evaluation benchmarks and propose a KG-based multilingual, multihop benchmark called MultiHal framed for generative text evaluation. As part of our data collection pipeline, we mined 140k KG-paths from open-domain KGs, from which we pruned noisy KG-paths, curating a high-quality subset of 25.9k. Our baseline evaluation shows an absolute scale improvement by approximately 0.12 to 0.36 points for the semantic similarity score, 0.16 to 0.36 for NLI entailment and 0.29 to 0.42 for hallucination detection in KG-RAG over vanilla QA across multiple languages and multiple models, demonstrating the potential of KG integration. We anticipate MultiHal will foster future research towards several graph-based hallucination mitigation and fact-checking tasks.

We provide a rigorous random matrix theory analysis of spiked cross-covariance models where the signals across two high-dimensional data channels are partially aligned. These models are motivated by multi-modal learning and form the standard generative setting underlying Partial Least Squares (PLS), a widely used yet theoretically underdeveloped method. We show that the leading singular values of the sample cross-covariance matrix undergo a Baik-Ben Arous-Peche (BBP)-type phase transition, and we characterize the precise thresholds for the emergence of informative components. Our results yield the first sharp asymptotic description of the signal recovery capabilities of PLS in this setting, revealing a fundamental performance gap between PLS and the Bayes-optimal estimator. In particular, we identify the SNR and correlation regimes where PLS fails to recover any signal, despite detectability being possible in principle. These findings clarify the theoretical limits of PLS and provide guidance for the design of reliable multi-modal inference methods in high dimensions.