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After Teen Suicide, Character.AI Lawsuit Raises Questions Over Free Speech Protections

A mother in Florida filed a lawsuit against an A.I. start-up, alleging its product led to her son’s death. The company’s defense raises a thorny legal question.

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Megan has become an advocate for children’s safety online and in September gave testimony at a congressional hearing on “Examining the Harm of A.I. Chatbots.”

A Restaurant Run by Teens in a Town Overrun by Guns

Shootings have long plagued the city of Montgomery, Ala., where poverty levels are high and good jobs are scarce. That’s My Dog Jr. offers teenagers a moneymaking opportunity — and $3.99 hot dogs.

© Charity Rachelle for The New York Times

Since opening in 2019, That’s My Dog Jr. has been entirely staffed by teenagers through a mentorship nonprofit.

AWS Cloud-Computing Outage Left Smart Bed Customers Without Sleep

The widespread outage involving the cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services ensnared unexpected consumers earlier this week: people who just wanted a good night’s sleep.

© Jeenah Moon for The New York Times

Some Eight Sleep customers drawn to the company’s smart-bed systems were surprised to find a cloud service’s outage left them without the usual comforts this week.

The Wider Costs of the N.B.A. Insider-Trading Scandal

Criminal charges over a wide-ranging betting ring have called into question the sports world’s embrace of legalized gambling.

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The arrests of Terry Rozier of the Miami Heat and other N.B.A. figures raises questions about the league’s ties to sports gambling.

Ukraine’s ‘Coalition of the Willing’ Has the Wind at Its Back

Britain is hosting a meeting of European leaders to discuss bolstering support for Kyiv as winter approaches.

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After a Russian strike on Sloviansk in the Donetsk region of Ukraine this month. “What happens on the front line of Donetsk today is shaping our collective future for years to come,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said on Friday.

Trump Official Warns California Against Arresting Federal Agents

Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche told top California leaders that they would be prosecuted if they arrested federal agents performing immigration raids.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Mr. Blanche said in the letter that arresting federal agents in the performance of their official duties would violate federal laws that prohibit interfering with and impeding immigration and other law enforcement operations.

Inflation Report Could Show Price Pressures Are Growing

The Consumer Price Index for September, released late because of the government shutdown, may reflect the effects of President Trump’s tariffs on a wide variety of imported products.

© Scott McIntyre for The New York Times

Consumer price data for September is being released later than planned because of the government shutdown.

Letitia James Pleads Not Guilty as Battle Over Trump-Urged Prosecution Begins

The New York attorney general, indicted by President Trump’s handpicked prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, appeared in federal court on Friday.

© Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times

New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, has said the charges of bank fraud and making a false statement to a financial institution are “baseless” and “a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.”

Can Ken Burns Win the American Revolution?

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated. No, he does not want to talk about President Trump.

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Ken Burns on a battlefield outside Saratoga Springs, N.Y., scene of the first major patriot victory of the American Revolution.

Can ICE Stop People Solely Based on Their Race?

For decades, federal officers have had to rely on more than race or ethnicity to stop and question someone over citizenship. That is now being tested.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

U.S. Border Patrol agents took a man into custody outside a train station earlier this month in Chicago.
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