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Colleges are adding A.I. programs so fast that it’s hard for researchers to track them. At least 74 A.I. majors and 89 minors are available on U.S. campuses, according to Northeastern University.
The Most Surprising New Gun Owners Are U.S. Liberals
Today’s liberal gun owners are much more diverse. Gun dealers saw the largest increase in Black Americans buying guns compared with any other racial group in 2023, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, an industry group. Women accounted for nearly half of new gun buyers“ from 2019 to 2021, according to the 2021 National Firearms Survey […]
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Tokens are a big reason today’s generative AI falls short
“It’s kind of hard to get around the question of what exactly a ‘word’ should be for a language model, and even if we got human experts to agree on a perfect token vocabulary, models would probably still find it useful to ‘chunk’ things even further,” Sheridan Feucht, a PhD student studying large language model […]
Weapons other than guns are used less frequently in mass killings
Shooters killed 10 or more people at one time in 22 of those shootings, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.
US mass killings are down in 2025, but experts say it’s likely just a return to more typical levels
A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
US mass killings are down in 2025, but experts say it’s likely just a return to more typical levels
A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
Family members identify victims of shooting at toddler’s birthday party in California
The Stockton shooting was the country’s 17th mass killing this year, the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. But experts say that the decline could represent a return to average levels of mass killings following an unusual spike in 2018 […]
FBI seeks help to identify suspects in mass shooting that left 6 dead in the Mississippi Delta
The shooting in Leland was the 14th mass killing in 2025, according to The Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database. The database tracks all homicides in the U.S. since 2006 in which four or more people were killed intentionally within a 24-hour period, not including any offender.
4 arrests made in connection with mass shooting that left 6 dead in Mississippi, FBI says
The shooting in Leland was the 14th mass killing in 2025, according to The Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database. The database tracks all homicides in the U.S. since 2006 in which four or more people were killed intentionally within a 24-hour period, not including any offender.
Donald Trump, the conservationist conservative
The first bit of encouraging news comes from criminology professor James Alan Fox, who oversees the Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database: So far this year, there have been zero deadly mass shootings in a public place. By comparison, there were three in 2024, and a record 10 the year before that.
Justin Bieber’s SZA performance, those videos and why fans are freaking out
“We are encouraged through the nature of social media, through the nature of fandom … to perceive ourselves as being in some sort of relationship with artists whose music we love,” Rebekah Moore, assistant professor of music at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, previously told USA TODAY.
Gun control group wants to show you how and where guns are being used
But there have been efforts to create resources like EveryShot before, including the Gun Violence Archive and AmericanViolence.org. A collaboration between USA TODAY, Northeastern University and The Associated Press has also been tracking all mass killings in the United States over the past decade.