Google employee Blake Lemoine is on leave after going public with his belief that the company's "Language Models for Dialog Applications," or LaMDA, is alive. A high-ranking member of Mexican law enforcement has been sanctioned for his long-standing, deeply illegal arrangement with a drug cartel. Over in Utah, a bank has been flagged for issuing 189% interest loans through auto repair shops. All this and more in this week's Strange News.

CLASSIC: Ancient Flying Machines
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Strange News: No Elections in Nicaragua, Japan's New Refrigerators, The Death of Daniel Siad, Journalists Imperiled, and More
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What Really Happened to the U.S.S. Liberty? Chapter Two: Conspiracies and Questions
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