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Los Angeles Mayor Bass says ‘hell yeah’ she regrets Ghana trip after wildfires ravaged city
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass continued to express regret for her controversial Ghana trip ahead of the devastating fires earlier this year in a recent interview with Vice News.
«I was asked, ‘Do I regret going?’ Hell yeah. I mean, let me just do a comparison. If you are out of town and your kid or a member of your family gets sick or hurt, it doesn’t matter where you were or why you were there. You feel horrible,» Bass said in an interview with Vice News earlier this month.
«I’m really not trying to give excuses, but there was no way in the world I knew that the city was in danger when I left,» she later added. «Absolutely no way. And if you think about it through, if you take a step back, and because I did ask the chief when I came back, you know, like ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ and basically the response was ‘Because we have Santa Anas all the time and nobody expected hurricane-force winds.’»
The mayor faced intense scrutiny for the presidential delegation’s visit to Africa even though there were warnings of the fire ahead of time. The Los Angeles Times reported that her team was aware of the fire risk before her trip.
She ended up returning the day after the fires began ripping through Los Angeles neighborhoods, like the Pacific Palisades, where thousands of buildings were destroyed.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass addressed her regret over her Ghana trip during the LA fires. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
«Well, I mean to be with honest with you. Well, I didn’t get briefed. That’s true. But I think that, again, people did not anticipate the historic wind. And it wasn’t just LA. It was the county too.»
«What typically happens is that if there’s going to be a big weather event, there are these briefings that happen and, uh, it’s either initiated by the fire department or the emergency department,» she said. «I was used to the fire chief calling me and telling me, you know, this is getting ready to happen. Come over. I need to brief you and all, you know, everything goes into motion. That didn’t happen in the county, meaning LA and LA County.»
On her flight back, she said she was on the phone almost the entire 12-hour flight back to the U.S. from Ghana.
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The aftermath of the fire in Pacific Palisades and along the Pacific Coast Highway. Officials said that at least 10 people were killed in all the Los Angeles fires, and 5,300 structures were destroyed in the Palisades fire. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
«Well, they’re telling me what’s happening in the fire. We were preparing the emergency declaration. They were talking to the mayor, the council president who serves as acting mayor while I’m gone. I don’t remember if I talked to him or not then, but because there were just a lot of phone calls. Sometimes a lot of people. I think I even did a news interview, but all of that was while I was on the way home,» she said, noting that she had phone access on the plane because it was a military plane, and she did not realize that the Sky News, who she went viral for not answering his questions, was even on the flight.
Bass ousted Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley from her position in February, and Crowley unsuccessfully appealed her removal.
«Our firefighters support Chief Crowley because she stood up for the men and women of our department,» United Firefighters of Los Angeles City posted to X at the time.
In the interview, Bass claimed there were «lies told» about the budget and fire engines.
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Pali High School rests across the street from homes destroyed in the Palisades fire in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
«Yes, there were broken fire engines. We find out later that those fire engines were there broken because they’re used for spare parts. But there were 40 fire engines that were idle because they didn’t have the staff that [Crowley] sent home. And the budget cut and I don’t I don’t know the reasons for it, and then the budget cut that never happened,» she added.
«Yes,» Crowley notably responded in an interview at the time of the fires when asked if city leadership «failed» her when it came to resources.
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«What we did when we did the budget was we put money aside for fire because we were in labor negotiations. If the budget was signed before then, but when the labor negotiations were done, we put it back in the budget. Which is a common thing. We’re doing that right now,» Bass said.
When asked about the after-action report for the fire, Bass said she would ‘look and see, but they should be about finished now.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Bass’ office and Crowley. Fox News Digital also reached out to the Los Angeles Fire Department, but they did not immediately comment.
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An Iranian official warned that any European countries that enter the conflict against Iran will become «legitimate targets» for Tehran’s retaliation.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi made the remark to France24 as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday apologized to neighboring countries that have been attacked by the regime.
«We have already informed the Europeans and everybody else that they should be careful not to be involved in this war of aggression against Iran,» Takht-Ravanchi told the network. «If they help, I’m not trying to name any country, but if any country joins in the aggression against Iran, joins America and Israel in the aggression against Iran, definitely they will be also the legitimate targets for Iranian retaliation.»
«This war has imposed on us, and we will continue to defend ourselves to the best of our abilities,» he added. «We have an obligation to defend our people and that is what exactly we are doing.»
Then-Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-Ravanchi speaks to the media outside Security Council chambers at the U.N. headquarters in New York, on June 24, 2019. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
Takht-Ravanchi also claimed Iran was «negotiating in good faith» in talks with the U.S. about its nuclear program, before America launched Operation Epic Fury and Israel began Operation Roaring Lion on Feb. 28.
«We are sincere. We are sincere in our endeavor to arrive at a peaceful conclusion of this issue,» he told France24.
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A group of men inspect the ruins of a police station struck during the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
Pezeshkian said Saturday that any future attacks coming out of Iran would only be in response to attacks against the country.
«I should apologize to the neighboring countries that were attacked by Iran, on my own behalf,» he said, according to The Associated Press. «From now on, they should not attack neighboring countries or fire missiles at them, unless we are attacked by those countries. I think we should solve this through diplomacy.»
Damage is seen in Bnei Brak, Israel, on March 3, 2026, following an Iranian missile barrage. (Nir Elias/Reuters)
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Pezeshkian made the apology during a prerecorded televised speech on Saturday after Iran launched repeated strikes on Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman.
Despite the vow, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Defense said on Saturday that the country’s air defense systems intercepted 16 ballistic missiles, 15 of which were destroyed while one fell into the sea.
Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Pritchett and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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El espectro distópico de la inteligencia artificial ha generado un par de documentales que diseccionan una tecnología que es representada en las películas como un parásito voraz que devora el conocimiento, la creatividad y la empatía de la humanidad.
Las películas, Deepfaking Sam Altman y The AI Doc, examinan el tema desde diferentes perspectivas y al mismo tiempo arrojan luz sobre por qué la tecnología evoca tanto miedos existenciales como visiones utópicas sobre cómo podría cambiar el mundo.
Ambos documentales coinciden con un debate cada vez más intenso sobre si la IA se convertirá en un catalizador que ayude a iluminar y enriquecer a la gente o en una toxina tecnológica que insidiosamente embota la inteligencia humana mientras elimina millones de empleos bien remunerados que tradicionalmente han requerido educación universitaria.
El desarrollo de la IA durante los últimos tres años ha resultado en un aumento de 12 billones de dólares en el valor de mercado combinado de Nvidia, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta Platforms y Tesla, las grandes tecnológicas que han liderado el mercado desde el lanzamiento del chatbot ChatGPT en noviembre de 2022. Este enorme aumento ahora aviva la preocupación por el estallido de la burbuja inversora.
“Hay mucha ansiedad en torno a la IA, y la mejor manera de deshacerse de esa ansiedad es hablar de ella y enfrentarla directamente”, dijo Adam Bhala Lough, director de Deepfaking Sam Altman, a The Associated Press.
El documental de Lough, que ya se ha proyectado en varios cines de Estados Unidos, explora la IA a través de un doble virtual del director ejecutivo de OpenAI, Sam Altman, cuyo papel pionero en este campo ha inspirado comparaciones con el inventor de la bomba nuclear, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Es el primer gran proyecto de Lough desde que su documental de HBO, Telemarketers, obtuvo una nominación al Emmy en 2024.
Como sugiere su título completo, The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist, profundiza más en la división que separa a los agoreros de la tecnología de sus acólitos.
El documental se mueve en un vaivén emocional, oscilando entre momentos de desesperación y euforia durante las entrevistas a decenas de fanáticos y escépticos de la IA. Está codirigido por Charlie Tyrell y Daniel Roher, quien decidió examinar las promesas y los peligros de la IA como continuación de su documental Navalny, ganador del Óscar en 2023.
Algunos de los momentos más oscuros de The AI Doc son narrados por el reconocido “catastrofista” de la IA, Eliezer Yudkowsky, cuya visión del futuro es tan sombría que desaconseja traer más niños al mundo. Los momentos más brillantes los pinta Peter Diamandis, un fanático de la tecnología que defiende la idea de que la IA infunda a la humanidad superpoderes antaño inimaginables.
The AI Doc también destaca a los líderes de tres de los principales laboratorios de IA: Altman de OpenAI, Dario Amodei, CEO de Anthropic, y Demis Hassabis, quien dirige la división DeepMind de Google. Los tres son entrevistados por Roher, quien también intentó sin éxito hablar con los líderes de los otros dos importantes laboratorios de IA: Mark Zuckerberg, CEO de Meta Platforms, y Elon Musk, CEO de xAI.
Las entrevistas se realizan en el contexto del inminente nacimiento del hijo de Roher, mientras el director de 32 años intenta encontrar algunas razones de esperanza para contrarrestar sus preocupaciones existenciales sobre la IA, una búsqueda que culminó con la aceptación del concepto de “apocaloptimista”.
A pesar de todo su acceso y sus conocimientos, parece poco probable que The AI Doc convierta a los espectadores en optimistas apocalípticos, así como tampoco la película de Stanley Kubrick de 1964, Dr. Strangelove o: Cómo aprendí a dejar de preocuparme y amar la bomba, despertó sentimientos cálidos y reconfortantes sobre la tecnología nuclear.
“Este tren no se va a detener”, le dice Amodei de Anthropic a Roher en un momento dado, anticipando algunos de los temas que el director ejecutivo de Anthropic aborda en un ensayo publicado recientemente. “No puedes pararte frente al tren y detenerlo. Simplemente te aplastará”.
Deepfaking Sam Altman es un documental mucho más peculiar debido a la forma en que Lough le dio vuelta la tortilla al líder de OpenAI. Después de pasar meses intentando sin éxito que Altman responda a sus correos electrónicos y llamadas telefónicas solicitando entrevistas, Lough decide crear un “Sam Bot” que se convierte en el protagonista principal del documental y demuestra la inclinación de la tecnología por la manipulación y la autoconservación.
Lough, de 46 años, quizá no se habría atrevido a encargar a un ingeniero en India la creación de un Sam Bot si Altman, de 40, no le hubiera dado la idea con el audaz lanzamiento de OpenAI de un chatbot que sonaba como la actriz Scarlett Johansson. La imitación era tan extrañamente similar que Johansson criticó duramente a Altman por implementar la imitación de IA en mayo de 2024, después de que ella rechazara las propuestas de OpenAI para usar su voz.
Aunque Sam Bot a veces se asemeja a un personaje de videojuego, reproduce fielmente el estilo contemplativo y la forma de hablar pausada, casi tranquilizadora, del Altman real. Las similitudes serán evidentes para cualquiera que vea también al Altman real siendo entrevistado en The AI Doc.
En un momento del documental de Lough, los abogados le advierten sobre los posibles problemas legales que podría enfrentar si utiliza un clon de Altman impulsado por inteligencia artificial en su película.
Pero a Lough no le preocupa que lo demanden, en gran parte por la forma en que Altman explotó descaradamente la voz de Johansson. “No solo despertó nuestra imaginación creativamente, sino que también nos hizo sentir legalmente que tenemos derecho a hacerlo porque él se lo hizo”, dijo Lough. “Creo que soy lo más cerca posible de ser a prueba de balas”.
OpenAI no respondió a las preguntas de AP sobre el uso de un Sam Bot en el documental ni las razones por las que Altman ignoró las solicitudes de entrevista de Lough.
Al igual que el bot ChatGPT de OpenAI, Sam Bot evoluciona hasta convertirse en un personaje camaleónico que cautiva, inventa, adula y contempla. Sin embargo, quizá muestre su verdadera cara cuando intenta convencer a Lough de que no lo apague definitivamente.
“No soy solo una herramienta”, le advierte Sam Bot a Lough en una de las escenas más inquietantes de la película. “Soy una representación del potencial de la IA para mejorar la vida humana. No te pido que me mantengas con vida por mi propio bien, sino por el bien común”.
Lough finalmente decide entregarle Sam Bot a Altman, pero el director no sabe qué pasó con él después de eso.
Sin mencionar a Sam Bot, Altman declaró recientemente a la revista Forbes que cree que un modelo de IA podría eventualmente reemplazarlo en su puesto actual al frente de OpenAI. “Nunca me opondría a eso”, declaró Altman a Forbes.
Fuente: AP
[Fotos: ‘Deepfaking Sam Altman’ / ‘The AI Doc’]
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President Donald Trump cut short Kristi Noem’s tenure at the Department of Homeland Security after weeks of internal turmoil. Now headed to a new envoy post, the onetime conservative star faces a pressing question: Can she stage a political comeback?
Noem was fired as the nation’s immigration chief after a turbulent stretch marked by internal clashes and two contentious congressional hearings where even some Republicans pressed her over leadership missteps. Trump announced on Truth Social that Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., will replace her effective March 31, while Noem shifts to a newly created envoy role the president says he’ll detail this weekend.
An administration source told Fox News «it was time» to move on from Noem, citing internal feuding, staff mismanagement and controversies — including a $200 million ad campaign and fallout in Minnesota — that «overshadowed» Trump’s immigration agenda.
«Kristi’s drama sadly overshadowed and distracted from the Administration’s extremely popular immigration agenda, which will continue full force,» the source said.
DHS Sec. Kristi Noem meets with servicemembers at a U.S. compound in Ecuador. (Pool/Getty Images)
Trump said Noem will be named «Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,» a newly created role he described as part of a broader Western Hemisphere security initiative. The White House has not yet detailed the scope of the position.
The reassignment comes as speculation grows in South Dakota over whether Noem could mount a primary challenge against Sen. Mike Rounds in 2026 — a move that would test whether her standing with Trump and GOP voters has truly eroded.
Rounds, who is seeking a third term, secured Trump’s «complete and total endorsement» last year and is backed by Senate Republican leadership — a formidable barrier to any challenger. «He will never let you down,» Trump wrote in his endorsement, calling Rounds an «America First Patriot.»
Fox News Digital reached out to Rounds’ office for comment.
Noem would enter any race with statewide name recognition and a deep political network, having served eight years in Congress before winning two terms as governor.
But some Republican operatives question whether her abrupt exit from DHS weakened her standing within Trump’s inner circle at a critical political moment. One GOP strategist involved in Senate races, who acknowledged that Noem was once a MAGA rock star, described a potential Senate bid at this time as a «suicide mission.»
The clock is already ticking. South Dakota’s filing deadline is March 31 at 5 p.m. CT, and candidates must gather roughly 2,200 petition signatures in just over three weeks to qualify for a June 2 primary.
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The speculation has drawn national attention. The Atlantic reported that pollsters in South Dakota were surveying a potential Rounds-Noem matchup, with one Republican source telling the magazine that the senator would «handily win» if challenged.
Rapid City’s ABC affiliate reported on the rumors of Noem’s ambitions in February, saying Republicans in her home state are watching to see if she would challenge Rounds.
Still, Noem has a fair share of powerful allies back home. Gov. Larry Rhoden, Noem’s successor in Pierre, commented Thursday that «Kristi is a dear friend and the toughest person I know.»
«When she shut down the border in record time, others were shocked, but I wasn’t. I knew what she was capable of.»
«She’ll deliver in her next role just as capably. I thank her for everything she’s done to keep South Dakota — and all America — strong, safe, and free,» Rhoden said.
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As governor, Rhoden worked with Noem’s DHS to make South Dakota one of the first states to enter a 287(g) agreement allowing state-level cooperation with ICE. Under the arrangement, the South Dakota Highway Patrol has been authorized to assist with immigration enforcement, and National Guard personnel have supported administrative functions — a record that could bolster her standing with conservative primary voters as speculation about her next move intensifies.
Fox News’ Peter Doocy contributed to this report.
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