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By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chief prosecutor says he has ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams. The disaster earlier this month left thousands of people dead. The office of General Prosecutor al-Sidiq al-Sour says the officials have been questioned
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration meets this week to consider a much-debated treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease. The deadly neurological disease has few treatment options. NurOwn, a stem cell therapy, is at the center of a yearslong lobbying campaign by patients seeking access to experimental medicines.
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer Homophobic chanting by sections of Paris Saint-Germain fans targeting Marseille players has again marred the biggest game in French soccer, prompting calls for sanctions. Olivier Klein, the inter-ministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBTQ+ hatred (Dilcrah), posted a video on Monday of PSG supporters using insulting
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand have raided the residence of one of the country’s four deputy national police chiefs. A commander in the national police force’s Office of Legal Affairs and Litigation said the search of the home of Police Gen. Surachate Hakparn was part of an investigation into
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — More losses for stocks have September on track to be the worst month of the year for Wall Street. The S&P 500 was 0.4% lower early Monday, coming off its worst week in six months. The Dow fell 85 points and the Nasdaq composite gave back 0.6%. Stocks have struggled recently
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant appear to be a match made in creative heaven. Grant recently spoke with People magazine on the red carpet of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts Icon Awards and said she feels comfortable going it alone at events. “The good news about falling in
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Taye Diggs is happy to talk about love stories, but only if it’s not his own. Despite social media videos of him and a certain someone (Google if you want to know), Diggs declined to talk about his love life during a recent interview with CNN. “I like
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Community members are invited to attend College of the Desert’s listening sessions this week. The listening sessions were introduced by Laura Hope, who has been serving as interim President and Superintendent of College of the Desert since July 1. Hope says the sessions are the college’s way of getting the community’s input on important issues
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Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Una muestra de asteroide recogida por la NASA que aterrizó en la Tierra da a los científicos la oportunidad de aprender más sobre los orígenes del sistema solar y captura un trozo de una enorme roca espacial que tiene posibilidades de colisionar con nuestro planeta en el futuro. Es la primera
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Albert Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine performed its second groundbreaking transplant of a genetically modified pig heart. The transplant was given to a man from Frederick who had been rejected from all other transplant centers because of pre-existing conditions.
Continue ReadingWJZ, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER, CNN By Jessica Albert Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine performed its second groundbreaking transplant of a genetically modified pig heart. The transplant was given to a man from Frederick who had been rejected from all
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At least one Molotov cocktail has been thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there was no significant damage and no one was injured. U.S. law enforcement officials are investigating. U.S. Secret Service officers were called Sunday night to respond to the attack
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — This fall, the United Nations is to convene an advisory group on artificial intelligence. U.N. tech-policy chief Amandeep Gill sat down with The Associated Press to talk about the hopes, concerns and questions surrounding AI — and what the U.N. can add to the discussion. Various
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — US employers are planning smaller pay raises and fewer promotions next year, compared to what they gave this year. That’s according to a new survey from human resources consulting firm Mercer. The survey was taken by more than 900 of its clients, who are employers of varying
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Amazon said on Monday that it’s investing $4 billion into the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in exchange for partial ownership and Anthropic’s greater use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing platform. The deepening partnership between the two companies highlights how some large tech firms with
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Getty Images has a huge collection of stock photographs. But now it also has an artificial intelligence image-generator to make new images on the spot. The Seattle-based photo stock company is taking a two-pronged approach to the threat and opportunity that AI poses to its business. First, it sued
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A growing movement opposing a highly controversial redevelopment of a historic Tokyo park has submitted a fresh petition in its campaign to get the national government to intervene and revise the plan to save more trees. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike in February approved the plan, giving a
Continue Reading Sergio Gomez (CNN Español) — Un cuento de aventuras de piratas con superpoderes, que pudiera parecer infantil, es posiblemente una de las grandes epopeyas del siglo XXI. Nos referimos a “One Piece”, el manga o cómic japonés creado por Eiichiro Oda en 1997 y adaptado como serie de animación (o animé) por Toei Animation desde
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Legacy college admission is an advantage given at birth, in which the children of a school’s alumni receive special consideration in the college admissions rat race. But after the US Supreme Court overturned race-based admissions over the summer, attention toward this already criticized practice intensified. While many
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — They’d always dreamed of owning a home in Italy, but opening a restaurant there was never part of the plan. But Dalip and Amber Tibb, who are based in North Carolina, have ended up doing both over the last few years. The Tibbs, who’ve been married for 18 years,
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