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Popular US selfdriving taxi service Waymo appears unable to handle a blackout.
USA
Max Corstorphan

Driverless car fail as power outage does not compute

A major power outage that impacted over 100,000 homes in the United States has caused traffic chaos as the incident appeared too much for driverless cars.

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Plane crash
USA
Max Corstorphan and Des Bieler

Racing star, family dead after horror US plane crash

Six people are believed to be dead after a plane in the United States went down in a fiery crash.

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Michelle Obama spoke about the Reiners' deaths on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
USA
Eloise Budimlich

Obama’s chilling admission about night of Rob Reiner’s death

Former US first lady Michelle Obama has revealed a connection between herself, Barack Obama and the night the Reiners were killed.

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Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has said the US-authored peace plan could be presented to Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin within days.
World
ILLIA NOVIKOV

Proposals to end Ukraine war ‘could go to Kremlin in days’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made the claim, despite conceding the draft peace plan discussed with the US is ‘not perfect’.

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Matthew Perry struggled with addiction for years, dating back to his time on Friends. (AP PHOTO)
Culture
JAIMIE DING

Doctor who supplied ketamine to Matthew Perry sentenced

A doctor who pleaded guilty in a scheme to supplying ketamine to Friends actor Matthew Perry has been sentenced but avoided jail.

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Flowers are seen placed on top of Rob Reiner's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star.
USA
Amber Ferguson, Sonia Rao, Reis Thebault

Director’s son arrested for murder, Trump fires broadside

Nick Reiner, the 32-year-old son of filmmaker Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, was taken into custody after the apparent homicide of his parents.

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The son of celebrated Hollywood director Rob Reiner has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the deaths of his parents, police said.
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World
The New York Times

Reiner argued with son at Conan O’Brien bash on eve of death

The son of celebrated Hollywood director Rob Reiner has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the deaths of his parents, police said.

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Rob Reiner’s son, Nick, has been charged with his parents’ murder.
Culture
The New York Times

‘Lot of dark years’: Nick Reiner speaks out on struggles

Nick Reiner was arrested late Sunday after his parents were found dead at their California home. He is being held without bail, police said.

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A makeshift memorial outside the Barus and Holley Building on the Brown University campus in Providence, a day after a gunman opened fire there.
World
The New York Times

Cops nab Brown gunman suspect after 13 hours of campus chaos

A suspect, who is in his 20s, is yet to be charged over the rampage which has left two people dead and nine injured.

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An activer shooter situation is underway at Brown University.
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USA
Max Corstorphan

Video of suspect released after fatal US university shooting

As a full lockdown remains in place around Brown University, authorities have released a video of a suspect they believe may be the gunman who killed two and injured nine others.

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United Airlines plane makes emergency landing.
USA
Max Corstorphan

Boeing plane’s engine fails, fire breaks out

A United Airlines flight has been forced to make an emergency landing after an engine failed and a fire broke out.

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An ambush killed three Americans near the historic city of Palmyra in central Syria. (AP PHOTO)
World
Staff Writers

‘Serious relation’: Trump’s threat after US soldiers killed

US President Donald Trump has vowed to inflict ‘very serious retaliation’ after an Islamic State ambush in Syria that killed three Americans.

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Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology. But the mania is not a reboot of the late-1990s frenzy.
Technology
The New York Times

Why the AI boom is very different to the dot-com boom

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Silicon Valley is experiencing an AI boom that bears resemblance to the dot-com boom. But despite the similarities, there are many differences that could lead to a wildly different outcome.

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Tyler Robinson, accused of fatally shooting political activist Charlie Kirk, has appeared in court. (AP PHOTO)
USA
Andrew Hay

Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin fronts court for first time

The Utah man charged with killing US political activist Charlie Kirk has made his first in-person court appearance.

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Woman finds man hidden inside boot of self-driving car
USA
Eloise Budimlich

Woman finds man hidden inside boot of self-driving car

She ordered a driverless taxi for her daughter but was extremely alarmed to find a man hiding in the boot.

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