By Tony Garcia and Ryan Breslin Click here for updates on this story NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WSMV) — Officers with the Metro Nashville Police Department are looking for a person who fired at detectives early Friday morning. According to police, two detectives in an unmarked car were following a stolen vehicle when they were fired upon
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By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is downplaying worries that the ChatGPT maker could exit the European Union if it can’t comply with the bloc’s strict new artificial intelligence rules. It comes after a top official rebuked him for comments raising such a possiblilty. Altman is traveling through
Continue Reading By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine came under attack Friday from Ukrainian artillery fire, mortar shells and drones, authorities said, hours after two drones struck a Russian city in an area next to the annexed Crimea Peninsula. Moscow’s forces, meanwhile, struck a building containing psychology and
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Sol Amaya (CNN Español) — Si sos argentino y pensás viajar al exterior, aquí te contamos cómo tramitar tu pasaporte. En primer lugar, es importante destacar que para viajar a los países de lo que se considera el Mercosur ampliado (Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay y Venezuela), los argentinos no necesitan pasaporte. Pueden
Continue Reading By LISA MASCARO, SEUNG MIN KIM, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says negotiators have “made progress” on a deal with the White House to raise the nation’s debt limit, avert default and cut federal spending. McCarthy said Friday there is still more work to do. Negotiators
Continue Reading Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, rechazó una invitación de su homólogo Vladimir Putin para visitar Rusia, según declaró este viernes. Lula dijo que Putin le invitó por teléfono a visitar el Foro Económico Internacional de San Petersburgo. “Respondí que no puedo ir a Rusia en este
Continue ReadingBy Matt Egan, CNN Business New York (CNN Business) — Much like the skies, the roads will be busy this Memorial Day weekend as Americans celebrate the unofficial start of summer. More than 37 million people are expected to hit the roads this holiday weekend, up 6% from a year ago, according to AAA. Despite
Continue Reading By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A London court on Friday rejected an attempt by the publisher of The Sun tabloid to throw out a lawsuit by actor Hugh Grant alleging that journalists and investigators it hired illegally snooped on him. Justice Timothy Fancourt said a trial will have to determine whether Rupert
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By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — About 1,000 employees of First Republic Bank are being let go about a month after it was seized by regulators and acquired by JP Morgan Chase. The vast majority of First Republic employees, roughly 7,200 before it ran into trouble, were offered jobs by JPMorgan,
Continue Reading By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — About 1,000 employees of First Republic Bank are being let go about a month after it was seized by regulators and acquired by JP Morgan Chase. The vast majority of First Republic employees, roughly 7,200 before it ran into trouble, were offered jobs by JPMorgan,
Continue Reading PARIS (AP) — French police have thrown a security cordon around a shareholders meeting in Paris of oil major TotalEnergies. Officers on Friday sprayed tear gas and pushed back climate protesters who chanted, “Be gentle, police officers, we’re doing this for your kids!” Police escorted some shareholders into the meeting Friday in a famed Paris
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Dean, Nadine Schmidt and Claudia Otto, CNN (CNN) — Police in Germany have launched a criminal investigation into Roger Waters, the co-founder of Pink Floyd, after he appeared dressed in a costume resembling a Nazi uniform during two concerts in Berlin last week. Waters was wearing the costume while performing from Pink Floyd’s
Continue Reading By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Tokyo company whose lunar lander slammed into the moon says a software issue and a last-minute switch in the touchdown location led to the crash. Officials for the company ispace said Friday that its spacecraft was originally supposed to land in a flat
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Britney Spears has shared that she and her mother Lynne Spears are now on better terms. The singer posted a throwback photo of herself as a child on her verified Instagram account, writing in the caption, “My sweet mama showed up at my door step yesterday after 3
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — The National Transportation Safety Board has determined that the probable cause of a 2021 crash involving multiple vehicles in Butler County, Alabama, which killed nine children and one adult, was “the unsafe speeds of multiple vehicles during rain, low visibility, and wet road conditions,” according to the report. Contributing
Continue Reading By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney is opposing a request by Gov. Ron DeSantis to disqualify a judge overseeing the company’s First Amendment lawsuit against the Florida governor and others in which Disney says it was punished for speaking out against Florida legislation that critics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.” Disney
Continue Reading By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney is opposing a request by Gov. Ron DeSantis to disqualify a judge overseeing the company’s First Amendment lawsuit against the Florida governor and others in which Disney says it was punished for speaking out against Florida legislation that critics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.” Disney
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Washington (CNN) — Twitter unveiled a new data access tier on Thursday aimed at attracting startups, after its decision to erect a paywall for developers and researchers prompted widespread backlash. But the new tier already has some describing it as “too little, too late.” The new paid tier, which the company
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Tom Hanks called on Harvard’s 2023 graduating class to defend truth in a powerful commencement address on Thursday. The Oscar winner, who received an honorary doctorate of arts, joked he was receiving the degree “without having done a lick of work” other than playing a Harvard professor in “The
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By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JIM MUSTIAN Associated Press The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration stripped one of the nation’s largest drug distributors of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers Friday after determining it failed to flag thousands of suspicious orders at the height of the opioid crisis. The action against Morris & Dickson Co. that
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