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Julia Buckley, CNN As Saudi Arabia continues its drive to attract tourists, authorities in the country appear to be reaching out to a particularly lucrative section of the market: LGBTQ travelers. The website of the Saudi Tourism Authority (STA) seems to have had its Q&A section updated to state that gay visitors are welcome in
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN The last of four men who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month was taken into custody Thursday morning, according to an update from the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office. Escapee Corey Harrison was taken into custody by the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office and the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force at a
Continue ReadingBy Julia Horowitz, CNN JPMorgan Chase’s rescue of First Republic Bank in the United States this week didn’t herald the end of the banking crisis. Investors have shifted their attention to other regional lenders, dumping shares of California’s PacWest, which is now exploring “all strategic options.” The bank’s stock is down 36% in pre-market trading
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — Cuando el miércoles 26 de mayo en Argentina la cotización del dólar informal detuvo su descontrolada carrera después de 10 jornadas consecutivas de alzas, los problemas esenciales que explican este comportamiento del tipo de cambio no habían desaparecido, pero al menos se había controlado la hemorragia que lo llevó
Continue ReadingBy Parija Kavilanz, CNN The maker of iconic board games like Scrabble and The Game of Life is retooling these classic games so that aging doesn’t get in the way of older adults continuing to enjoy them. Hasbro, in partnership with Ageless Innovation (a licensee of Hasbro brands), on Thursday unveiled new versions of Scrabble,
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN The White House on Thursday announced a series of measures to address the challenges of artificial intelligence, driven by the sudden popularity of tools such as ChatGPT and amid rising concerns about the technology’s potential risks for discrimination, misinformation and privacy. The US government plans to introduce policies that shape
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN The White House on Thursday announced a series of measures to address the challenges of artificial intelligence, driven by the sudden popularity of tools such as ChatGPT and amid rising concerns about the technology’s potential risks for discrimination, misinformation and privacy. The US government plans to introduce policies that shape how
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Self-driving car pioneer Waymo announced Thursday that its robotaxis will be able to carry passengers through most of the Phoenix area for the first time. The company’s cars will also start to pick up more volunteers for testing the autonomous vehicles traversing the more challenging conditions in San Francisco.
Continue Reading By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer Self-driving car pioneer Waymo announced Thursday that its robotaxis will be able to carry passengers through most of the Phoenix area for the first time. The company’s cars will also start to pick up more volunteers for testing the autonomous vehicles traversing the more challenging conditions in San Francisco.
Continue ReadingBy Nadia Kounang and Amanda Sealy, CNN A team of doctors in Boston successfully performed a novel fetal surgery to treat a rare brain condition known as vein of Galen malformation. Although in utero surgery — performed before a baby is born — has been used for other conditions, this ultrasound-guided procedure was among the
Continue Reading KJRH, OKMULGEE POLICE DEPARTMENT, FAMILY PHOTOS, CNN By Emma Tucker A convicted sex offender this week fatally shot his wife and her three children in their Oklahoma home — as well as two teenage girls who there were for a sleepover — before killing himself, police said Wednesday, accounting for the bodies’ discovery days earlier.
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business By any standard, John August is a successful screenwriter. He’s written such films as “Big Fish,” “Charlie’s Angels” and “Go.” But even he is concerned about the impact AI could have on his work. A powerful new crop of AI tools, trained on vast troves of data online, can
Continue ReadingCNN, POOL, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, BOSTON DYNAMICS, FOX NEWS SUNDAY By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business By any standard, John August is a successful screenwriter. He’s written such films as “Big Fish,” “Charlie’s Angels” and “Go.” But even he is concerned about the impact AI could have on his work. A powerful new crop of
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN Eight people have died in the city of Brno, the Czech Republic, after a large fire broke out early on Thursday in a structure thought to be used as a shelter by homeless people, Czech police said. Six men and two women were killed after the fire engulfed several mobile cabins
Continue Reading By Laura Ly, CNN Test scores for eighth-grade students in the US declined in both US history and civics in 2022, according to a new report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often referred to as “The Nation’s Report Card.” The announcement of the new lower scores come after the assessment reported last fall
Continue ReadingCNN By Josh Pennington, Olga Voitovych, Helen Regan, Vasco Cotovio and Anna Chernova, CNN Russia unleashed its worst attacks on Kyiv in a year, Ukraine’s military said, as for the third time in four days missiles and drones hit the city. The barrage came after Moscow accused Ukraine of attempting to assassinate Russian President Vladimir
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Tres sospechosos fueron acusados cada uno de asesinato premeditado por la muerte de una mujer de 20 años en una carretera de Colorado el mes pasado, quien murió después de que supuestamente le arrojaron una gran piedra a su auto y atravesó su parabrisas, dijeron los fiscales el miércoles. Nicholas
Continue ReadingBy David Goldman, CNN First Horizon and TD Bank have called off a $13 billion deal that would have formed America’s sixth-largest bank, adding to the turmoil sweeping the country’s regional lenders. Caught up in the worst banking crisis since 2008, First Horizon’s share price has plunged about 40% over the past couple months, falling
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Krieg and Eva McKend, CNN Young voters played a critical role in delivering Joe Biden to the White House in 2020. But as his reelection campaign kicks off, leading activists are uneasy about vouching for the president and concerned the administration could squander years of momentum In 2020, Biden’s campaign aggressively courted younger,
Continue ReadingBy Casey Tolan and Isabelle Chapman, CNN. Photographs by Austin Steele, CNN Mimi Perkins’ job on the graveyard shift at a Tyson Foods poultry plant started like any other night: hosing down the blood, guts, and stray feathers left behind by hundreds of thousands of dead chickens. Then, she heard a single loud pop. A
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