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Month: April 2024

Iranians told to watch out for loose crocodiles as flooding hits country’s southeast

By Artemis Moshtaghian, Eyad Kourdi and Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Iranian authorities have warned that crocodiles are being forced from their natural habitats as floods devastate parts of the country’s southeast. Three road construction workers have died in the flooding, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday, which came after a record-breaking storm

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Biden administration moves to make conservation an equal to industry on US lands

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a new rule for public land management that’s meant to put conservation on more equal footing with oil drilling, grazing and other extractive industries on vast government-owned properties. Officials pushed past strong opposition from private industry and Republican governors to

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Professor who Columbia president said was ‘spoken to’ for calling Hamas invasion ‘astounding’ says he wasn’t disciplined

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s Wednesday testimony before a House committee on how the school responded to a professor’s controversial piece labeling Hamas’ October 7 attack a “resistance offensive” is at odds with the account the professor shared with CNN. Multiple lawmakers at Wednesday’s hearing on antisemitism

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Meta’s newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Facebook parent Meta Platforms unveiled a new set of artificial intelligence systems Thursday that are powering what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls “the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use.” But as Zuckerberg’s crew of amped-up Meta AI agents started venturing into social media

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Kennedy family makes ‘crystal clear’ its Biden endorsement in attempt to deflate RFK Jr.’s candidacy

By ZEKE MILLER, WILL WEISSERT and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden scooped up endorsements from at least 15 members of the Kennedy political family during a campaign stop Thursday as he aims to undermine Donald Trump and marginalize the candidacy of independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kerry Kennedy, a daughter

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Un trozo de basura arrojado desde la estación espacial se estrelló contra una casa de Florida, asegura la NASA

Belén Liotti (CNN) — Un trozo de basura arrojado desde la Estación Espacial Internacional sobrevivió inesperadamente a un ardiente reingreso desde la órbita el mes pasado y perforó el techo de una casa en Florida, de acuerdo con la NASA. Cuando la agencia federal se deshizo de un trozo de basura espacial que pesaba alrededor

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Convenience store chain where Biden bought snacks while campaigning hit with discrimination lawsuit

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press A convenience store chain where President Joe Biden stopped for snacks this week while campaigning in Pennsylvania has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Sheetz Inc. discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the

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Familiares de reclusos fallecidos en Alabama denuncian extracción de órganos sin su consentimiento

Alexandra Ferguson (CNN) — Después de la muerte del recluso Jim Kennedy Jr. el año pasado en el centro penitenciario de Limestone en Harvest, Alabama, su cuñada recibió una llamada inusual de la funeraria que preparaba el cuerpo para el entierro. “¿Se habían dado cuenta de que regresó sin sus órganos?”, recuerda Sara Kennedy que

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