21 shot and 5 killed in Texas mass shooting between Odessa and Midland: report

The battle between warring factions in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives is not just bad news for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) who looks increasingly over his head as a government shutdown looms.

As MSNBC analyst Hayes Brown wrote, Republicans are busy shooting themselves in the feet working proposals that even Republicans in the Senate will refuse to touch and, in the process, the squabbling GOP House members are doing irreparable damage to their own party.

"Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin and other best-selling fiction writers have filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the tech startup of violating their copyrights to fuel its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT.

The Authors Guild, an organization representing writers, and several novelists including Martin, John Grisham and Jodi Picoult, accused the California-based company of using their books "without permission" to train ChatGPT's "large language models," algorithms capable of producing human-sounding text responses based on simple queries, according to the lawsuit.

New York authorities announced on Wednesday the return of $9 million worth of art stolen by the Nazi regime to the family of Fritz Grunbaum, an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer killed in the Holocaust.

The seven drawings, all from Austrian artist Egon Schiele, were "voluntarily surrendered by the holding institutions and estates," including New York's famous Museum of Modern Art, "after they were presented with evidence that they were stolen by the Nazis," the Manhattan District Attorney's office said in a statement.