By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — European Union negotiators clinched a deal Friday on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules, paving the way for legal oversight of AI technology that has promised to transform everyday life and spurred warnings of existential dangers to humanity. Negotiators from the European Parliament and the
Continue ReadingBy SETH BORENSTEIN, DAVID KEYTON and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Teams of veteran negotiators fanned out Friday at the United Nations climate conference with orders to get the strongest, most ambitious agreements possible, especially on the central issue of the fading future of fossil fuels in a dangerously warming
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street climbed back to its best level in 20 months on Friday following a stronger-than-expected report on the U.S. job market. The S&P 500 rose 0.4%, enough to clinch a sixth straight winning week for the index, which is its longest such streak in
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Originally Published: 08 DEC 23 17:18 ET Updated: 08 DEC 23 17:25 ET By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O’Neal, star of several landmark films including “Love Story” and “Paper Moon,” has died, according to his son, Patrick, who posted the news to social media. He was reportedly 82. “My dad passed
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There will be a Whoville-themed Holiday Parade tonight in Coachella and will conclude at Veterans’ Memorial Park with family-friendly activities. The parade, which will feature Desert Community College District Area 2 Trustee Bea Gonzalez, will begin at 6 p.m. on Cesar Chavez Street and Westerfield Way. Residents can gather along the street and then meet
Continue ReadingBy Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Deborah Brunswick, CNN West Monroe, Louisiana (CNN) — Bryan Baker stuck a roll of toilet paper on a paint roller that he’d attached to a leaf blower, and switched the leaf blower on. A stream of white paper shot into the air and fluttered delicately to the ground. It
Continue ReadingBy MICHELLE L. PRICE and JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is distancing him from efforts by allies and former aides to sketch out who might fill his administration if he wins a second term and what policies he might pursue. In a memo Friday from senior advisers Susie
Continue ReadingBy AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Recent attacks on American water authorities by Iranian-aligned hackers — as well as a separate spate of ransomware attacks hitting the U.S. health care system — are calling federal officials to action. White House deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger says local and state governments and companies
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press Authorities say a man who was shot during an exchange of gunfire with a St. Paul police officer has died. A medical examiner determined that 24-year-old Brandon Daleshaun Keys, of Maplewood, died early Friday of a gunshot wound to the head that he suffered during the confrontation Thursday afternoon. The
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Ryan O’Neal, one of Hollywood’s biggest stars of the 1970s with ‘Love Story,’ ‘Paper Moon’ roles, dies at 82, son says.
Continue ReadingBy Annie Grayer and Marshall Cohen, CNN House Oversight Chair James Comer told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday he believes special counsel David Weiss indicted Hunter Biden to shield him from his scheduled deposition next week in front of Comer’s committee. “My concern is that Weiss may have indicted Biden to protect him from him
Continue ReadingRENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks listed quarterback Geno Smith as questionable for Sunday’s game against San Francisco. He will be a game-time decision due to a groin injury suffered in practice. Seattle coach Pete Carroll said after practice on Friday that Smith “tweaked his groin” on Thursday when he stumbled over somebody. Smith
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera, Alaa Elassar and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a pregnant woman from obtaining an emergency abortion in a ruling issued late Friday. The court froze a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed Kate Cox, who sued the state seeking a court-ordered abortion,
Continue ReadingBy JOSH FUNK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The second of two former Black Panthers who always maintained their innocence in the 1970 bombing death of a white Omaha police officer has died in prison. A spokesman for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said Friday that Ed Poindexter had died a day earlier
Continue ReadingMILLINOCKET The Maine Warden Service says a man checking the thickness of ice on a wilderness lake crashed into the icy water and drowned. Wardens say Walter Demmons, of Milford, was drilling holes with a friend to check the ice thickness when they heard the ice crack Friday morning. Both ended up in the water,
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Fire alarms blared in the background of 911 calls that police released Friday, amplifying the terrified voices of students and faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as they hid inside locked offices and under desks while a gunman fired shots outside, killing three professors.
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has been hit with new criminal charges in California accusing him of scheming to avoid paying his taxes while spending lavishly on everything from luxury hotels to escorts to exotic cars. The president’s son is also facing separate firearm charges in Delaware, raising the possibility
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden has been hit with new criminal charges in California accusing him of scheming to avoid paying his taxes while spending lavishly on everything from luxury hotels to escorts to exotic cars. The president’s son is also facing separate firearm charges in Delaware, raising the possibility
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer Some big SailGP rivalries will heat up when the global league returns to Dubai this weekend, including a one-off between the new-look Team USA and its former skipper, Jimmy Spithill. Spithill is filling in as helmsman of Team Australia’s “Flying Roo” foiling catamaran while friend and countryman Tom Slingsby
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court’s decision that lawmakers must redraw the state’s Senate maps, a move that means the districts will likely remain in place for the 2024 elections. Late last month, a panel of judges ruled that the Republican-drawn map
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