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SF Film Festival highlights Bay Area voices

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:29 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The San Francisco Film Festival has officially kicked off.From shorts and animation to documentaries on prominent Bay Area figures, organizers said there is something for everyone this year. More than 90 films are featured over the course of 11 days.“This is our 66th year and in that entire history, this is the first time we've done opening night in Oakland and its appropriate for the film we have,” said Anne Lai, SF Film Festival executive director."Stephen Curry: Underrated" premiered at Grand Lake Theatre. The documentary chronicles the basketball star's road to the Golden State Warriors. “It's one of those films where when you walk out of it, you feel 10 feet tall. We want people to feel like they can accomplish their dreams after watching this film,” said Ryan Coogler, producer. More racist Antioch police text messages released by District Attorney “We're known for our international selection but one of the things we've been growing a lot over the past...

Kuwait prince dissolves parliament after court decision

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:29 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s crown prince has ordered its parliament again dissolved and new elections for the country after a court decision reinstated lawmakers from 2020. Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmed Al Jaber made the announcement Monday in an address to the nation as the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan draws to an end this week. He called the decision the will of the Kuwaiti people, according to the state-run KUNA news agency. Elections were scheduled within the next two months. In March, Kuwait’s Constitutional Court threw out a 2022 election for parliament, citing “discrepancies” in the decree dissolving the 2020 parliament for its ruling. That briefly reinstated the former lawmakers. Kuwait has the freest and most active assembly among the Gulf Arab states, but political power is still largely concentrated in the hands of the ruling Al Sabah family, which appoints the prime minister and Cabinet, and can dissolve the assembly at any time. Meanwhile, p...

Elon Musk says he’ll create ‘TruthGPT’ to counter AI ‘bias’

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:29 GMT

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk is again sounding warning bells on the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity — and claiming that a popular chatbot has a liberal bias that he plans to counter with his own AI creation.Musk told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a segment aired Monday night that he plans to create an alternative to the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT that he is calling “TruthGPT,” which will be a “maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe.”The idea, Musk said, is that an AI that wants to understand humanity is less likely to destroy it.Musk also said he’s worried that ChatGPT “is being trained to be politically correct.” In the first of a two-part interview with Carlson, Musk also advocated for the regulation of artificial intelligence, saying he’s a “big fan.” He called AI “more dangerous” than cars or rockets and said it has the potential to destroy humanity. Separately, Musk has incorporated a new business c...

Commerce City approves new safety measure after deadly hit-and-run near school

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:29 GMT

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (KDVR) -- On Monday night, the Commerce City Council approved the placement of speed bumps around all schools.The decision comes on the heels of last week’s fatal hit-and-run of a 16-year-old near a school.That specific intersection is technically in Adams County, but ahead of Monday's meeting, the city said they are looking to improve traffic safety and are also working with Adams County to prevent future incidents.“This will actually be mid-block,” Commerce City Mayor Benjamin Huseman told reporters. “It will help to slow vehicles down. Also, provide another, safer means for their kids and their families to be able to cross the street, to and from school.” Juvenile injured in shooting outside Green Valley Ranch Airbnb Huseman says the speed bumps will be approximately 8-10 feet long and should be in place by the fall.Meantime, at 76th Avenue and Leyden Street, the makeshift memorial for Kara Kincaid continues to grow.Monday afternoon, Kincaid’s Mother, along...

Middle school teacher accused of sexually assaulting student

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:29 GMT

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- A middle school teacher in Larimer County was accused of sexually assaulting a former student in the early 2000s.Robert Denise, 59, was arrested and booked into the Larimer County Jail on Sunday.In January, a former student of Cache La Poudre Middle School contacted law enforcement about two incidents involving Denise, who had been employed by the school since 1995.The victim told investigators that, during his time as a student in the early 2000s, Denise inappropriately touched him on several occasions. Juvenile injured in shooting outside Green Valley Ranch Airbnb After a thorough investigation, an arrest warrant was issued for Denise, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office said.Investigators are concerned that there may be other victims. Anyone with information about unreported incidents of inappropriate conduct or abuse was asked to contact investigator Ryan Gebhardt at 970-498-5586.People can also contact the Crime Stoppers of Larimer County at 9...

Letecia Stauch's daughter testifies in murder trial

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:29 GMT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — Letecia Stauch’s daughter, Harley Hunt, testified in her mother’s trial Monday.Hunt stated the last time she saw her mom was in March of 2020, on the day of her mother’s arrest. She was quickly moved to tears on the stand when she identified 11-year-old Gannon. Hunt told the court that on Feb. 1, 2020, her mom rented a white van and they left the state on a road trip. Prosecutor Dave Young asked Hunt if she asked her mom where they were going. Hydrocodone found during Gannon Stauch’s autopsy “Yeah, the destination changed multiple times,” Hunt said. “I remember she just kept saying, like, ‘Where do you want to live?’”Young asked Hunt if she noticed anything unusual or smelled anything in the back of the van. She said no to both questions.Hunt acknowledged that she understood that the attorneys were asking about a smell to see if she smelled Gannon’s body in a suitcase while on the road. “The thought just never came across my mind, I just never...

Shipping insurance won’t pay for lost product

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:29 GMT

She had a few pieces of jewelry she mailed out and smartly got insurance in case it didn’t make it. It didn’t. It was stolen, and when she filed for insurance to replace the jewelry, she was told, we aren’t paying. You might not believe why, which is why she called Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser.Imagine Rafaella’s day, with three boys, two dogs, a turtle.Now add a cat and a couple of chickens.Rafaella Correa-Pinto: “I love the craziness with all these chickens. I kind of like a little bit of the craziness. It makes the day very different every day. It’s a lot of fun.” Throw in their full-time jobs and Rafaella and her husband are busy, but she still finds time to take care of herself.Rafaella Correa-Pinto: “I had my initials on it. I like my jewelry. I am a girly girl. I like my my things, you know?”Recently, she had these three pieces of jewelry that needed work done.Rafaella Correa-Pinto: “I sent one of my favorite pa...

Country Club Middle School teacher arrested after allegations of inappropriate conduct with students

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:29 GMT

A middle school teacher has been arrested after allegations of inappropriate conduct with students.Mohammed Ahmed, 28, faces charges of offenses against students by authority figures, as well as tampering with a victim or witness, a second-degree felony, and child abuse without great bodily harm.He was arrested Monday. He teaches social studies at Country Club Middle School in Northwest Miami-Dade.In a statement, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, said, “Miami-Dade County Public Schools is deeply troubled by the allegations of inappropriate conduct made against this individual. When administration was alerted of the claims, he was removed from the school setting. After a thorough investigation by the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department, this individual was subsequently arrested. The District has initiated employment termination proceedings, and will ensure the individual is precluded from seeking future employment with the District.”Ahmed was booked at Turner Guilford Kn...

Ukraine could be looking at another Maidan

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:29 GMT

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — “I was on the streets for the Orange Revolution when I was in my last year at university in 2004, and I was on the streets again in 2014. So, the 10-year mark of when we tend to mount revolutions is approaching,” said Inna Sovsun, an opposition lawmaker for Ukraine’s liberal pro-European Holos party.And she suspects there’s another political upheaval on its way.Sat in a café overlooking Kyiv’s Independence Square, where nearly a decade ago hundreds of thousands of frustrated Ukrainians protested and toppled Viktor Yanukovych — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s satrap — the 38-year-old mother-of-one, whose partner is now serving as a combat doctor in Bakhmut, said the next uprising will aim to complete the work of the previous two Maidans, democratizing Ukraine and finally flushing out the corruption that’s been hampering the country’s development for decades.The 2014 Maidan Revolution had unforeseen consequences, of co...

Eastern Europeans face Brussels backlash over Ukraine grain bans

Published Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:05:29 GMT

European Union politicians and officials have rounded on the front-line Eastern states of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia for imposing import bans on Ukrainian farm produce, denouncing the curbs as illegal and counterproductive.The three countries banned imports of Ukrainian grain and other food products over recent days, arguing the export surplus had flooded their markets and threatened the livelihoods of local farmers. The curbs have set the group on a collision course with Brussels while at the same time threatening the EU’s fragile solidarity in backing Ukraine’s fightback against Russia’s war of aggression.EU diplomats believe the import bans contravene both international and EU law — and will fail to achieve their goals.“Unilateral bans of individual countries won’t solve anything,” Czech Minister of Agriculture Zdeněk Nekula said.“We must find agreement throughout the EU on the rules under which agricultural commodities will transit fro...