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Month: February 2023

Shreveport police chief mourns an unarmed Black man shot dead by one of his officers as state police investigate

By Raja Razek and Amanda Watts, CNN Louisiana authorities are investigating the deadly shooting of an unarmed Black man by a Shreveport officer and hope eventually to release police footage of the encounter, said state police leading a probe of the encounter. Alonzo Bagley, 43, was shot and killed Friday night after police responded to

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5 derailed train cars carrying hazardous material at risk of exploding are no longer burning, official says

By Nouran Salahieh, Michelle Watson and Holly Yan, CNN Five train cars that contained vinyl chloride, a potentially explosive chemical, are no longer burning after a train derailment in Ohio, a Norfolk Southern official said Tuesday. The burning stopped after a controlled release of the unstable, toxic chemical Monday at the train derailment site in

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An 82-year-old woman was found alive at a New York funeral home after she was pronounced dead hours earlier, police say

By Rob Frehse, CNN An 82-year-old woman who’d been pronounced dead at a nursing home on Long Island, New York, was found to be alive nearly three hours later at a funeral home, authorities said, spurring investigations by police and health officials. The woman was pronounced dead Saturday at the Water’s Edge Rehab and Nursing

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Systems Error: Why CNN will be reporting about gender inequalities online

By Eliza Anyangwe, Managing Editor of As Equals Provided you are able to get online or have a mobile phone, the internet, social media platforms, digitized payment and telecommunication systems, have given us incredible access to information; facilitated communication and connection with people around the world; enabled us to start or join communities or businesses,

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Alibaba is launching a ChatGPT rival too

CNN By Michelle Toh, CNN Alibaba says it will launch its own ChatGPT-style tool, becoming the latest tech giant to jump on the chatbot bandwagon. The Chinese behemoth said it was testing an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot internally. It did not share details of when it would launch or what the application would be called. “Frontier

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