Safiyah Riddle

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Vince Zampella at EA’s “Battlefield 6” Reveal Celebration held at the Sunset Room on July 31, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

‘Call of Duty’ co-creator Vince Zampella dies at 55 — ‘his work helped shape modern interactive entertainment’

By Safiyah Riddle and The Associated Press

Amtrak

Amtrak is slashing executive bonuses to give out $900 apiece to over 18,000 rank-and-file workers

By Safiyah Riddle and The Associated Press

Amazon Web Services

‘The reality is it’s all very concentrated’: AWS outage exposes the world’s internet chokepoint, one data-center cluster in Virginia

By Safiyah Riddle, Matt O'Brien, and others

Italian Brain Rot

Arts & Entertainment

Gen Z’s beloved ‘Italian Brain Rot’ is unproductive and pointless—and that may be the point

By Safiyah Riddle and The Associated Press

Kylan Darnell

The twisted economics of ‘RushTok’: Some sorority pledge influencers can pay their tuition, but they’re fleeing online hate and backlash

By Safiyah Riddle and The Associated Press

LA County mansion

Bizarre discovery of 21 children in LA home raises questions about lack of regulations for surrogacy

By Ed White, Safiyah Riddle, and others

Utah State Rep. Verona Mauga stands next to Arthur Afa Ah Loo, who was shot and killed in the "No Kings" protest

Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, the 39-year-old killed at the ‘No Kings’ protest, was a Project Runway contestant and designed clothing for ‘Moana 2’

By Safiyah Riddle, Hannah Schoenbaum, and others

Grant Hardin, the former police chief known as the "Devil in the Ozarks"

A former police chief, sentenced to 30 years in prison for first-degree murder, escaped jail by wearing a disguise. Now police are searching caves and forests to find the ‘Devil in the Ozarks’

By Jeff Martin, Andrew DeMillo, and others