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By Rex Hodge Click here for updates on this story LAKE JUNALUSKA, North Carolina (WLOS) — It’s not science-fiction. A local woman is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) developer and she’s using her expertise to help people with dementia communicate. Her mission is personal. She spoke with News 13 from her parents’ home at Lake Junaluska
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A First Alert Weather Alert is in place through late Friday night, as gusty west winds will impact travel, air quality, and visibility. Due to the gusty winds, a Wind Advisory is in effect until 11:00 p.m. The strongest gusts are expected in the afternoon and evening. Road closures at the wash due to blowing
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A team of experts from the U.N. nuclear agency has inspected the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for a review of its discharge of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific. The International Atomic Energy Agency inspection is part of a four-day visit to Japan that started
Continue ReadingBy ZIMO ZHONG and MATT OTT Associated Press Wall Street pointed higher early Wednesday as investors pore over more corporate earnings data ahead of an important inflation update later in the week. Futures for the S&P 500 were up 0.2% before the bell and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were virtually unchanged. Futures
Continue ReadingBy JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer The nation’s school meals will get a makeover under new nutrition standards that limit added sugars for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. The final rule also trims sodium in kids’ meals, although not by the 30% first proposed in 2023. And it continues to
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — New US school meal standards announced Wednesday will limit the amount of added sugars for the first time and slightly reduce sodium content among other adjustments, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service said. The final rule announced on Wednesday will be implemented in phases over the
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By Thomas Lake, CNN (CNN) — She was lying in bed on a Thursday morning, thinking about the man she loved, hoping to win his freedom before time ran out. “Alexa,” she said, “play Christine and Ezra’s Playlist.” The sounds of Motown filled her bedroom, in a condo near Philadelphia, as Christine Roess took a
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — The British army has recovered several horses after they broke free from the prestigious Household Cavalry and bolted through London on Wednesday morning. A number of people and horses are currently being treated for injuries incurred during the incident, though further details about their conditions are unavailable. In
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By Nick Paton Walsh and Mick Krever, CNN. Video by Mark Baron and Christian Streib, CNN. (CNN) — New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was released last week, into an ISIS-K suicide attack outside Kabul airport, during the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Penguin Random House is teaming with Amazon MGM Studios on a series of books based on “Wednesday,” the Emmy-winning Netflix hit about young Wednesday Addams of Addams Family fame. The publisher announced Wednesday — of course — that the series will debut this summer. Upcoming releases include an all-ages coloring book,
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A ship near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait has seen an explosion in the distance, marking what may be a new attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels through the crucial waterway for international trade. The explosion Wednesday, reported by the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center,
Continue ReadingBy KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says his country has proven the West doesn’t have a monopoly on technology while inaugurating a hydropower and irrigation project in Sri Lanka. Raisi is the first Iranian leader to visit Sri Lanka on Wednesday since former President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad visited
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Chuch has suspended a priest who participated in services for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Dmitry Safronov took part in Navalny’s funeral as well as presiding at a commemoration on March 26, the 40th day after his death — an important Russian Orthodox tradition. An
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS and SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A new package of $61 billion in U.S. aid may prevent Ukraine from losing its war against Russia. But winning it will be a long slog. The aid approval means Ukraine may be able to release artillery ammunition that it has been rationing.
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says it will investigate whether China is using unfair methods to deprive companies in Europe of access to its market for medical devices. The European Commission probe is the latest attempt to help European companies gain equal access to China’s vast markets. The commission
Continue ReadingBRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government has approved a controversial overhaul of the country’s public radio and television services, a move that critics say would result in the government taking full control of the media. Thousands rallied in the capital last month to condemn the plan, which was widely criticized by local journalists, the opposition,
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY and KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University said early Wednesday that it was making “important progress” with pro-Palestinian student protesters who set up a tent encampment and that it was extending a deadline to clear out, yet standoffs remained tense on the Ivy League campus in upper Manhattan.
Continue ReadingBy NICK PERRY and KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University said early Wednesday that it was making “important progress” with pro-Palestinian student protesters who set up a tent encampment and that it was extending a deadline to clear out, yet standoffs remained tense on the Ivy League campus in upper Manhattan.
Continue ReadingBy KRISHAN FRANCIS Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says his country has proven the West doesn’t have a monopoly on technology while inaugurating a hydropower and irrigation project in Sri Lanka. Raisi is the first Iranian leader to visit Sri Lanka on Wednesday since former President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad visited
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Valeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — En una presentación pública desde el Palacio de Miraflores y junto al fiscal de la Corte Penal Internacional, Karim Kham, el presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, afirmó que recibió la propuesta del funcionario internacional para reabrir en Caracas la oficina del Alto Comisionado de la ONU para los Derechos
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