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At least a dozen people died in Nevada from 2012 to 2021 during or shortly after encounters with police that did not involve a gun. That's according to an investigation by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University, which collaborated with The Associated Press on researching non-shooting deaths after a police encounter. Because these kinds of deadly police encounters are often not publicly reported, no one knows how many truly occur. With attention largely focused on reducing police shooting deaths, deaths involving what law enforcement calls “less-lethal force” often escape the kind of public scrutiny that can lead to reforms. They are also less clear-cut than shootings, in part because they often involve a mental health or drug-induced crisis.

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U.S. federal agencies must show that their artificial intelligence tools aren’t harming the public, or stop using them, under new rules unveiled by the White House. Vice President Kamala Harris says government agencies that use AI tools will be required to verify that those tools do not endanger the rights and safety of the American people. After Thursday's announcement, each agency by December must have a set of concrete safeguards that guide everything from facial recognition screenings at airports to AI tools that help control the electric grid or determine mortgages and home insurance.

A series of Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon has killed at least 16 people, including paramedics. It's one of the deadliest days of fighting in the Israel-Lebanon border since the war in Gaza broke out nearly six months ago. A barrage of rockets Wednesday also killed one Israeli. It was claimed by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which said it was responding to the deadly airstrike targeting a paramedic center linked to a Sunni Muslim group. International mediators have been scrambling to prevent an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah amid near-daily violence, mostly confined to the area along the border.

As Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue to target ships in a Mideast waterway, satellite pictures analyzed by The Associated Press show what appears to be a new airstrip being built at an entrance to that crucial maritime route. No country has publicly claimed the construction taking place on Abd al-Kuri Island, a strip of land rising out of the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. However, images shot for the AP show workers have spell out “I LOVE UAE” with piles of dirt next to the runway, an abbreviation for the United Arab Emirates. The gulf and the Red Sea to which it leads have become a major battleground between the Houthis and U.S.-led forces as Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip rages.

The end of Georgia’s two-year legislative session arrives Thursday. It's the last day for bills to pass both the House and Senate or die as this term ends. Lawmakers will decide questions including whether to legalize sports betting and tighten rules on immigration. Some key proposals have already passed. Among those are a plan to cut income taxes and a bill to loosen Georgia’s rules for permitting new health care facilities. Some other measures appear unlikely to pass. Those include a proposal to expand Medicaid health insurance and an effort to overhaul Georgia’s tax incentives for movie and television production.

The U.S. military has finished draining more than 104 million gallons of fuel from an underground fuel tank complex in Hawaii that poisoned 6,000 people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water in 2021. Joint Task Force Red Hill began defueling the tanks in October after completing months of repairs to an aging network of pipes to prevent the World War II-era facility from springing more leaks. The task force was scheduled to hand over responsibility for the tanks on Thursday to Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill. This new command is charged with permanently decommissioning the tanks, cleaning up the environment and restoring the aquifer underneath.