Jack Davis

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A Boulder, Colorado, march in honor of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas and held in Gaza devolved into terror Sunday. Police said an unknown number of people are injured, and that some injuries are life-threatening, according to CBS. FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino called the incident a terrorist attackBoulder Chief of Police Stephen Redfearn said injuries ranged from minor to severe, according to KDVR-TV. KDVR reported that a male suspect was taken into custody.

5 days ago | westernjournal.com | Jack Davis

Artificial intelligence is making it even easier for college and high school students to cheat. As more and more students learn to use ChatGPT and other AI tools, teachers increasingly have to decide if an assignment was written by a human, according to Axios. “I have to be a teacher and an AI detector at the same time,” Stephen Cicirelli, an English professor at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey, said.

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A boat that authorities believe contained 11 dead people from the African nation of Mali was found Monday on a Caribbean island. The Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force said the bodies in the boat that washed up on the island of Canouan were in an advanced state of decomposition, according to Fox News. Some remains were not fully intact, police said.

6 days ago | westernjournal.com | Jack Davis

8Despite the sprawling corporate theme parks the House of Mouse has built in California and Florida, the best theme park in America is found in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, according to a new survey. Dolly Parton’s Dollywood theme park in the east Tennessee hills topped the list, the National Amusement Park Historical Association announced in a news release. The 39th annual NAPHA Amusement Park and Attractions Survey found that Dollywood beat out Disneyland in California in the theme park category.

6 days ago | westernjournal.com | Jack Davis

A 46-year-old Tampa, Florida, woman was shot to death by a deputy after an incident in which the woman shot her daughter in the hand. Rosamond Brookins, 46, was shot to death by a Hillsborough County deputy early on May 25 after deputies responded to what was initially reported as a burglary in progress, according to WESH-TV. Deputy Chief Joseph Maurer of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Brookins, her daughter, grandchild and one other person described as a roommate were in the home.