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By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Nearly a month ago, the Israeli military unveiled a detailed 3D model of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital. It showed a series of underground installations that it said was part of an elaborate Hamas command and control center buried under the territory’s largest health-care center. Days after taking control
Continue ReadingBy COURTNEY BONNELL and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers The company that created ChatGPT was thrown into turmoil Monday after Microsoft hired its ousted CEO and many employees threatened to follow him in a conflict that centered in part on how to build artificial intelligence that’s smarter than humans. The developments followed a weekend of
Continue ReadingBy COURTNEY BONNELL and MATT O’BRIEN AP Business Writers The company that created ChatGPT was thrown into turmoil Monday after Microsoft hired its ousted CEO and many employees threatened to follow him in a conflict that centered in part on how to build artificial intelligence that’s smarter than humans. The developments followed a weekend of
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rose again Monday to begin a holiday-shortened week and reached its best level in more than three months. The S&P 500 gained 33.36 points, or 0.7%, to 4,547.38, coming off its third straight winning week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 203.76, or
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The Palm Springs International Film Festival today announced that Da’Vine Joy Randolph will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award for her role in “The Holdovers.” The award will be presented Jan. 4, 2024, to Randolph at the Palm Springs Convention Center, 277 N. Avenida Caballeros, according to festival officials. “In The Holdovers, Da’Vine Joy Randolph brings
Continue ReadingBy WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and JACK JEFFERY Associated Press DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces pressed their offensive against Hamas in northern Gaza on Monday, battling militants around a hospital where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks, and where despite the fighting health officials managed to evacuate
Continue ReadingMEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government has issued a decree that will force private freight railway lines to give preference to passenger train service over their normal freight runs. The decree gives the two main private concessionary rail operators until Jan. 15 to present proposals for offering the service themselves. If they decline, the government
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found an explosion that killed one worker at a pharmaceutical chemical plant in Massachusetts could have been prevented. The May explosion at the Seqens plant in Newburyport, Massachusetts, killed 62-year-old Jack O’Keefe of Methuen. Video shows most of the
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, Hamdi Alkhshali and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, has become a flashpoint in Israel’s war against Hamas, which began when gunmen from the militant group crossed the border into Israel on October 7, killing around 1,200 people. Palestinians and humanitarian agencies say the current fighting in and around Al-Shifa
Continue ReadingBy Ethan Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The first presidential debate is set for mid-September 2024, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday, setting up the earliest ever start to the presidential debate schedule. The bipartisan commission, which has sponsored every general election presidential debate since its founding in 1987, will host three next year, with
Continue ReadingBy BILL BARROW Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Linda Campbell decorated the Lions Club Christmas tree in her small hometown just as she would any other Thanksgiving week, but this was no ordinary Monday in late November. All around Plains, neighbors mourned the death of their matriarch, former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter, while
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three teenage girls have pleaded guilty in the dragging death of a woman whose arm was severed in a carjacking last year. New Orleans news outlets report that all were sentenced as adults to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted manslaughter in the death of 73-year-old Linda Frickey.
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, suggested that the economy appears to be on what he calls the “golden path,” another term for what economists often term a “soft landing,” in which the Fed would curb inflation without causing a deep recession.
Continue ReadingBy MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Grand Prix, which Max Verstappen won Saturday night, blew past BetMGM betting handles for previous Formula One races. Trading manager Seamus Magee said BetMGM took three times the number of bets than any other previous F1 race. Westgate Las Vegas and Red
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is rising Monday to begin a holiday-shortened week, pushing to its best level in more than three months. The S&P 500 was 0.8% higher in late trading, coming off its third straight winning week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 242 points,
Continue ReadingBy ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister has criticized China for what he calls a “dangerous” encounter between Chinese and Australian warships but declined to say whether he raised the issue with President Xi Jinping. He said one diver was injured when a Chinese destroyer used sonar while near an
Continue ReadingBy JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic is scheduled to be arraigned on an assault charge in connection with his arrest this weekend after his wife called police to their home and said he tried to choke her. A Boston Police Department report released Monday said Lucic, a
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a story published November 18, 2023, about the California Democratic Party’s endorsing convention, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of a demonstrator. It is Ayelet Hashachar, not Aylet Hasachar.
Continue ReadingBy ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press New York’s highest court has upheld a New York City law that forbids police from using chokeholds or compressing a person’s diaphragm during an arrest. The New York Court of Appeals issued the ruling in a unanimous decision on Monday. The city’s law came as governments across the country prohibited
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press A Montana man who had been living with a teenager who disappeared from her home in Arizona four years ago pleaded not guilty Monday to child sexual abuse charges lodged against him based on images that authorities said they found on his cellphone. Since his Oct. 23 arrest, Edmund
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