Day: October 25, 2024

AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports on a court plea today (Friday) from the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch.

Associated Press correspondent Kate Payne reports on a Florida mother’s lawsuit against Character Technologies, the company behind Character.AI , along with Google and its parent company Alphabet over an AI chatbot that she says pushed her son to kill himself.

6PM ET 10/25/2024 Newscast
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We start with two of the latest candidates to be targeted in a Chinese hacking campaign. The Washington Post won’t endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in decades. We’ll tell you what parents need to know about an uptick in the number of small children with walking pneumonia. Russian soldiers have been heard complaining about recruits from North Korea in intercepted audio. Plus, we have new developments on the Menendez brothers’ murder case in a move that could put them on a path to their potential release.
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The AP’s Ed Donahue reports a major newspaper will not get involved in the presidential race.

Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of the notorious Ugandan rebel group, the Lords Resistance Army has been sentenced to forty years in prison for war crimes. We speak to Peter Oloya, who was eleven when he was abducted by the rebels to fight. Also on the programme: a second major US newspaper has announced that it will not be endorsing either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in the presidential election; and rockstar Bruce Springsteen, tells the BBC’s Music correspondent he has no plans to retire. (Picture: Thomas Kwoyelo, sits in the dock at the International Crimes Division court sitting in Gulu, Uganda October 25, 2024. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa)

5PM ET 10/25/2024 Newscast
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AP correspondent Norman Hall reports Chinese hackers targeted cellphones used by former President Donald Trump and JD Vance.

AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports the Biden administration is trying again to help those struggling with student loan debt.