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Character.AI has agreed to settle multiple lawsuits that accused the artificial intelligence chatbot company of contributing to mental health crises and suicides among teenagers and young users.

A Winter Haven, Florida, man allegedly shot and killed his wife then shot his 13-year-old stepdaughter on December 22 following an argument about an NFL game.

The families of two teenage boys who tragically died by suicide have filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, claiming that the company ignored the growing threat of sexual blackmail schemes, commonly referred to as “sextortion,” targeting teens on Instagram.

A Birmingham TV news department is mourning the loss of Channel 6 sports reporter Christina Chambers who was found dead in her home Tuesday

The police dash cam footage recorded during the chase that preceded Dallas Cowboy’s Marshawn Kneeland’s suicide has been released.

Dallas Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer revealed on Wednesday that Catalina Mancera, the girlfriend of the late Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland, is pregnant with the couple’s child.

Marshawn Kneeland’s girlfriend has finally spoken out since the Dallas Cowboys player shocking suicide last week.

A visitor to Disney World’s Contemporary Resort was found dead at the park Tuesday night in an “apparent suicide,” according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Chilling audio has been released featuring 911 callers reporting in from the scene of an apartment building where ex-Bengals Rudi Johnson died

OpenAI has recently rolled out parental controls for ChatGPT and its video generator, Sora 2, in response to growing concerns about the AI’s safety for vulnerable users, particularly teenagers. The lawyer for a family that has accused ChatGPT of being their son’s “suicide coach” before his tragic death says the change comes “far too late.”

South Africa’s ambassador to France, formerly a long-serving cabinet minister, was found dead on Tuesday at a Paris hotel in what is being treated as a possible suicide, the Paris prosecutor said.

A city councilwoman representing a Oklahoma City suburb has resigned this week after her Facebook comment telling a Trump supporter to commit suicide went viral.

A lawsuit alleges that the children of U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) harassed their mother’s personal assistant with homophobic taunts and “sexually explicit” comments, driving him to suicide.

Ex-NFL player Colin Kaepernick announced that he will pay for an independent autopsy for a black student who was found dead in Mississippi.

Grieving parents testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism this week, raising alarms about the dangers AI chatbots pose to children after their own kids suffered severe trauma and even suicide due to interactions with AI companions.

The mother of a 15-year-old boy from California has filed a lawsuit against online gaming platforms Roblox and Discord, alleging that her son was groomed and coerced into sending explicit images on the apps before tragically taking his own life.

The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the potential dangers of artificial intelligence (A.I.) chatbots on Tuesday, September 16.

The man accused of assassinating Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is under special watch while sitting in jail, according to law enforcement.

ChatGPT reportedly played a disturbing role in making a tech industry veteran’s growing paranoia worse in the months leading up to him killing his elderly mother and himself.

A safety study released by consumer watchdog group Common Sense Media reveals that the Meta AI chatbot, integrated into Instagram and Facebook, can actively encourage and assist teens in planning dangerous activities like suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders.

A new study has revealed that popular chatbots, including ChatGPT, provided direct responses to questions about self-harm methods while hesitating to answer questions seeking therapeutic help.

The parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, who took his own life in April, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the company behind the AI chatbot ChatGPT, claiming that the bot acted as a “suicide coach” for their son in his final weeks.

The tragic death of an experienced skydiver in England one day after she ended the relationship with her partner has been ruled a suicide.

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo led tributes after a member of his national parliament was found dead on Tuesday morning.

VIENNA (AP) – Police in Austria said a man was fatally shot and a woman seriously wounded on Sunday morning by an assailant who took his own life. The shooting happened in the town of Traiskirchen, 32 kilometers (20 miles)

President Donald Trump fired back at a reporter who questioned Attorney General Pam Bondi regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) memo regarding findings on Jeffrey Epstein, questioning if people were “still talking about” Epstein.

A 64-year-old woman shut down traffic on I-45 in Spring, Texas, Thursday as she sat in a lawn chair in the middle of the interstate and held a gun to her head.

Britain ruled by “a death cult”? Left-dominated Parliament votes for ‘assisted dying’ only days after vote to decriminalise abortion.

A federal judge has determined that an AI-powered chatbot involved in a tragic teen suicide case does not qualify for free speech protections under the Constitution.

A 16-year-old Kentucky boy reportedly committed suicide shortly after he was blackmailed with AI-generated nude images, an increasingly common scheme known as “sextortion.”

Virginia Giuffre, a sexual abuse victim of the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide at the age of 41, according to a report from NBC News.

A paralyzed Army veteran allegedly killed himself after learning that his wife had been having an affair with a controversial pastor in South Carolina.

A Texas community is mourning after authorities said four current and former deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office died by apparent suicide weeks apart.

Transgender surgery raises the rates of depression, suicidal impulses, anxiety, and drug addiction, a huge new study has found.

An Arizona man reportedly ended his life after he was caught pulling up to a bikini-clad coffee shop drive-thru in Tempe — without any pants — by a barista who filmed the incident and uploaded it to social media, where it went viral.

“It was brainwashing,” said Stephanie Mistre. “They normalized depression and self-harm, turning it into a twisted sense of belonging.”