Media Coverage

On Wednesday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Six people are presumed dead in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes breaks down what happened when a container ship collided with the structure. Plus, check out this story mapping how the collapse unfolded. How will the Baltimore bridge collapse affect shipping and deliveries? USA TODAY Supreme Court Correspondent Maureen Groppe recaps oral arguments in a case to restrict the abortion pill mifepristone. RFK Jr. picks lawyer and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as running mate.

AI is revolutionizing tax preparation, offering efficiency and accuracy. Yet, it faces challenges like bias and reliability concerns.

Generative artificial intelligence – the use of computers to generate words, images, voice and videos indistinguishable from human-created content – is transforming every industry. Technology advances and new use cases appear daily with no slowdown in sight as gen AI is estimated to add $30 trillion annually to the world economy by 2030. Much of the impact is positive, including the ability to quickly synthesize massive quantities of data and text, freeing humans to spend their time on more creative tasks where we still excel. But there are also serious risks that must be mitigated.

Maryland mayor Brandon Scott (pictured below yesterday) said that the recovery operation to find the six missing workers in the Patapsco River was 'even more' dangerous today due to the weather.

Ford and GM say some shipments will be rerouted.