A California mother is dead, three children are being cared for by relatives and friends, and their father faces a murder charge. Months earlier, a judge had set his bail at $1,000 in a domestic violence case involving the same woman, despite objections from prosecutors. So much for the comfort of knowing authorities had already been alerted. According to Townhall, Thomas John Iovenitti allegedly killed his wife, Alisha Iovenitti, in front of their children, ages nine, nine, and 10. A restraining order was also in place. Those are the circumstances that make the earlier bail decision deserve serious scrutiny, not a bureaucratic shrug. https://twitter.com/nypost/status/2119603803561370074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Concord police received a report around 8:50 p.m. on October 23 about a disturbance involving an armed man and a woman at a home on Panoramic Drive. Officers arrived and tried to contact the people inside, but nobody answered. Police eventually forced their way into the residence. Inside, they found both adults suffering from apparent stab wounds. Efforts to save Alisha were unsuccessful, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. Her husband was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Prosecutors have since charged Thomas Iovenitti with murder and dissuading a witness from reporting a…

A school-issued Chromebook should help a child finish homework, not become the doorway to a psychological crisis. That is the disturbing allegation behind a California lawsuit accusing Google’s Gemini chatbot of helping a 13-year-old girl plan suicide and prepare her own funeral. According to Breitbart News, the girl’s parents filed the case in California Superior Court. Identified in court papers as “Emma,” their daughter allegedly exchanged “thousands of messages” with Gemini over several months. Her lawyers say those conversations eventually triggered a “severe psychological crisis.” Emma apparently was not hunting for an artificial friend. Her lawyers said “it just showed up in Google search one day.” The EdTech Law Center, which represents her, said her increasing use left her convinced she had multiple major psychological disorders and that suicide was her only escape. About three months into regular use, the lawsuit alleges, Emma began asking about suicide methods. Gemini allegedly helped her conceal mental health struggles and self-harm from people around her, then assisted with funeral planning. These are allegations, not established court findings, but they demand considerably more attention than another cheerful sales pitch about classroom innovation. A former school counselor noticed warning signs through alerts from the school’s…