Puerto Vallarta became a favorite escape for Americans. Now, some are thinking twice.

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Hannah Donovan and her family.

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  • Mexican authorities killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, triggering violence in cities across Mexico.
  • Business Insider spoke with 3 Americans who had planned to visit Puerto Vallarta or are there now.
  • "We're definitely a little traumatized by the situation," said one woman who had to cancel her trip.

Hannah Donovan is four months

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Poor judgment or a principled stand? Susan Rice's spat with Trump dissected

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FILE - Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice speaks during a roundtable discussion with Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, and Jewish leaders about the rise in antisemitism and efforts to fight hate in the United States in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Dec. 7, 2022.

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I flew to Puerto Vallarta to escape the blizzard in New Jersey. Now I'm sheltering from cartel violence.

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Brian Thompson, 75, arrived in Puerto Vallarta on Saturday and is sheltering in place.

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  • Brian Thompson, 75, headed to Mexico to escape a winter storm in New Jersey.
  • He said he felt safe in Puerto Vallarta until violence broke out after a cartel leader was killed.
  • He is trying to make it back to the US, but said he hopes to return to Mexico to support its residents.

This as

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Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models

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Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaigns…to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models."

Distillation in the AI world refers to when less capable models lean

Longevity doctor Peter Attia steps down from his CBS News contributor role after appearing in the Epstein files

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Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had ties to longevity influencer Peter Attia, who has stepped down from a new role at CBS News.

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  • Longevity influencer Peter Attia has stepped down from his role as a CBS News contributor.
  • Attia's name appears in the Epstein files over 1,700 times.
  • Attia also
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Will Trump’s DOJ actually take on Ticketmaster?

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In mid-February, the Department of Justice lost its head antitrust enforcer - just weeks before it was scheduled to argue one of the year's biggest anti-monopoly cases in court.

Antitrust Division chief Gail Slater announced her departure suddenly, via a post on her personal X account. But to those who follow the agency closely, it was far from surprising. For months, leaks about the

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Anthropic says DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies fraudulently used Claude

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  • Anthropic said three of the biggest Chinese AI labs have "illicitly" used Claude to train their models.
  • Anthropic said DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot AI orchestrated their own "industrial-scale campaigns."
  • The actions, Anthropic said, show why chip controls are needed.

Anthropic says its Chinese competitors are stealing from the AI startup to gain an edge

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