Netizens, including world leaders, have been embracing the viral trend of Ghibli Art on social networking sites like Instagram and X since ChatGPT — a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot — introduced the function in its services. Popular memes, selfies, movie sequences, and even everyday objects are being transformed into this classic anime art form by netizens, who are saturating social media with this unique art. But have you ever pondered about the history of Ghibli anime art and how OpenAI began using this feature? Ghibli’s Origin The distinctive aesthetic of Studio Ghibli — a well-known Japanese animation studio co-founded…
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, seeking a second term, has decided to part ways with the Democratic Party. Adams, who was a Republican before becoming a Democrat, formally announced his mayoral re-election campaign in a video on Thursday, stating his intention to run as an independent candidate. “While I remain a Democrat, I am announcing that I will forego the Democratic primary for mayor and appeal directly to all New Yorkers as an Independent candidate in the general election,” Adams said in the video. This move, occurring less than 24 hours after a judge permanently dismissed a federal corruption…
A Venezuelan man who traveled to the United States to donate a kidney to his brother learned this week he was facing deportation, prompting desperate pleas for his release from immigration custody on humanitarian grounds. However, days later, an advocate announced that Jose Gregorio Gonzalez received a temporary reprieve from deportation. While the reprieve is temporary, it allows Gonzalez to continue assisting his brother, Jose Alfredo Pacheco, by driving him to dialysis and potentially becoming a kidney donor. Pacheco immigrated to the United States from Venezuela in 2022 seeking asylum, according to Tovia Siegel, director of organizing and leadership for…
It is the site of a dramatic moment in Scottish history. The Isle of Skye’s rocky shoreline is where Charles Edward Stuart – known as Bonnie Prince Charlie – arrived by boat disguised as a maid to hide from the English in 1746 after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden. But this celebrated claimant to the British throne was not the only one to make tracks at what is now called Prince Charles Point. Some 167 million years earlier during the Jurassic Period, large dinosaurs left footprints at the same place. Researchers have now identified 131 fossilized tracks produced…
A 17-year-old student was fatally stabbed by another student during an altercation at a high school track meet in suburban Dallas on Wednesday, police said. The suspect, 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, was taken into custody and charged with murder, according to police in Frisco, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Dallas. Bond had not yet been set. A police spokesperson said Anthony was being held at the city jail and would be transferred to Collin County jail. The spokesperson also said he did not know whether Anthony had an attorney yet. Efforts to find contact information for family members to…
year-old boy who pointed what turned out to be a BB gun, state Attorney General Letitia James announced Wednesday. Nyah Mway was shot and killed after he fled from officers questioning him and another teen on a residential street in Utica on the night of June 28, 2024. Officer Patrick Husnay chased Mway, tackled him to the ground, and fired a single shot into his chest. He was taken to a hospital where he died. James, in releasing her office’s 18-page review of the shooting, concluded prosecutors would not be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer’s…
Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish student detained by immigration officers in Boston last month, was moved across multiple state lines as part of a “highly unusual” and “secretive” attempt to keep her from accessing her attorney or being near her home, her attorneys charged Wednesday. In documents filed with the federal district court in Boston, attorneys for Öztürk accused the federal government of targeting the Tufts University graduate student because of her advocacy for Palestinian rights – a violation of Öztürk’s constitutionally protected right to free speech. Attorneys filed the petition late Wednesday, asking the court to assert jurisdiction over the…
The death toll from Myanmar’s devastating earthquake has surpassed 3,000, with hundreds more missing, as forecasts of unseasonal rain presented a new challenge for rescue and aid workers trying to reach people in a country riven by civil war. Last Friday’s 7.7-magnitude quake, one of the Southeast Asian nation’s strongest in a century, jolted a region home to 28 million, toppling buildings, flattening communities, and leaving many without food, water, and shelter. Deaths rose to 3,003 on Wednesday, with 4,515 injured and 351 missing, Myanmar’s embassy in Japan said on Facebook, while rescuers scramble to find more. But conditions could…
US President Donald Trump announced he would impose a 10% baseline tariff on all imports to the United States and higher duties on some of the country’s biggest trading partners, drawing defiant responses from leaders and governments around the world. According to a White House fact sheet, Trump is not imposing his new 10% global tariff rate on goods from top trading partners Canada and Mexico, while his previous order remains in place for up to 25% tariffs on many goods from the two countries over border control and fentanyl trafficking issues. Here are some reactions from top officials and…
The latest search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been suspended as it is “not the season,” Kuala Lumpur’s transport minister said, more than a decade after the plane went missing. “They have stopped the operation for the time being, they will resume the search at the end of this year,” Transport Minister Anthony Loke said in a voice recording sent to AFP on Thursday by his aide. “Right now, it’s not the season,” Loke said in the recording, which was made during an event at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Wednesday. The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people disappeared from…
