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Mississippi attorney general rules fatal police shooting of one-year-old as ‘justified’

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Officers responding to an alleged shoplifting call fired into the vehicle of Vellesiya Wiley, killing her son, Kohen On Monday, the office of the Mississippi attorney general, Lynn Fitch, announced that the police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old, as he sat in his mother’s lap “was justified”. The statement came four months after the baby was killed in Senatobia, Mississippi. On 14 June, officers in Senatobia, a small city near Memphis, were responding to a shoplifting call alleging Vellesiya Wiley, the baby’s mother, and Latoya Ferrell, a…

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USABC News

Eagles coach defends handling of Jalen Hurts' blood clots diagnosis: What to know

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni defended the team's handling of Jalen Hurts' medical condition at a press conference on Monday, where he faced questions about the team's decision to play him on Oct. 11 despite knowing he had a blood clot and was on limited rest. Hurts, 28, will not be able to participate in football activities while he is on blood thinner medications to treat blood clots in both his lungs, the team said in a joint statement with Hurts' agent Monday. The statement did not provide a timeline for the Super Bowl-winning quarterback's return to the field.

USCBS News

As AI dominates conversations, here are key terms to know

As artificial intelligence — and the conversation surrounding it — rapidly evolves, keeping up with the language being used to describe it has become essential to understanding its impacts . Abliteration (a portmanteau of the words ablation, meaning to remove a part of something, and obliteration) is a process where an AI model's safety guardrails and refusal mechanisms are removed. Once an AI model is abliterated, it will not refuse requests, including harmful ones .