Nearly 300 people who tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo cannot be located, according to the director general of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over one million …

The United States murder rate is nearing a historic low, reversing concerns from just a few years ago that elevated violent crime had become a “new normal.” Homicide rates have fallen steadily following a …

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two major rulings that broadly expand presidential authority and support the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape the federal government. In one 5-4 decision, the Court ruled that …

A fire ignited by fireworks destroyed an Olathe duplex on Sunday night, displacing 13 residents. A mother affected by the blaze spoke out about the family’s uncertain situation in the aftermath. The incident …

Jackson County prosecutors have confirmed that a body found inside an Independence, Missouri home was positively identified as Oscar Sanchez-Munoz, the suspect in a series of Kansas City highway shootings. With his …

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, Meta gets caught pretending to be teenagers, Tidal draws a line on AI music royalties, and the AI jobs debate gets a plot twist — all in today's Morning Brief.

The White House is gatekeeping GPT-5.6 and Mythos, China's closing the AI gap in cybersecurity, Ford's eating crow over AI hype, and Apple wants you to pay more for Tim Cook's ambitions.

The Trump administration's AI gatekeeping reshapes the industry in real time: GPT-5.6 drops in limited preview, Anthropic's Mythos limps back for select US orgs, and Asian rivals smell blood in the water.