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Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
Oleksandr Usyk, the new undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, broke down in tears but shrugged off concerns that he might have suffered a fractured jaw while defeating Tyson Fury in a riveting battle in Riyadh . After he was taken to a local hospital for a routine MRI scan which cleared him, Usyk returned to the Kingdom Arena where he had beaten Fury on a split decision. Talking freely, without any apparent ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
The world's top golfer was being booked and fingerprinted before the second round of the PGA Championship in Louisville, Kentucky, when a police officer asked an unusual question: "So do you want the full experience today?" "I don't know how to answer that," Scottie Scheffler told one of several officers who had now started to razz the Masters champion arrested early Friday in the alleged assault of another officer ...
Source: cnn.com
Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
Rudy Giuliani was served an indictment notice during his 80th birthday party after bragging on social media that he would avoid the law officials. The notice related to alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Arizona. Giuliani was served at a party on Friday night hosted by GOP operative Caroline Wren in Palm Beach, Florida, with guests taken aback by the intrusion, reports said. Arizona Attorney ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike killed 27 people in central Gaza, mostly women and children, and fighting with Hamas raged across the north on Sunday as Israel's leaders aired divisions over who should govern Gaza after the war, now in its eighth month . Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces criticism from the two other members of his War Cabinet, with his main political rival, Benny ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
Google announced a host of new AI features at this week's I/O event, with Gemini playing a bigger role in the near future. At Google's I/O 2024 developer conference, the company spent basically the entire time talking about AI (as expected). During the keynote, Google detailed how artificial intelligence would integrate with Android moving forward, with Gemini stepping into the same virtual assistant role as ...
Source: zdnet.com
Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
ISLAMABAD (AP) — More heavy rains in Afghanistan have triggered flash floods, raising the death toll to 84 in the country's north following weeks of devastating torrents that had already left hundreds dead and missing, a Taliban spokesman said Sunday. The new round of heavy rains and floods hit four districts in Faryab province Saturday night, leaving 66 dead, five injured and eight missing. Another 18 people ...
Source: aol.com
Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
La Trobe on Friday followed Deakin in issuing a formal directive for protesters to end their encampment Pro-Palestine students and staff at La Trobe University have called the university's directive to end their sit-in an "attack on free speech", and vowed to rally against the encampment crackdown until management meets their demands. La Trobe University on Friday followed Deakin University in issuing a formal ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
Fico remains in intensive care but has 'emerged from immediate threat to his life', Robert Kaliňák tells reporters Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico , is out of immediate danger but remains in intensive care four days after he was shot by a gunman, the country's deputy prime minister has said. "He has emerged from the immediate threat to his life, but his condition remains serious and he requires ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, G.O.P. efforts to ban abortion have backfired with voters in many states—and they could do so again in November. In the nearly two years since the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, support for that right has been rising. The extreme measures that anti-abortion forces have taken in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization have made ...
Source: newyorker.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! The video aired Friday appears to show Combs, wearing only a white towel, punching and kicking the R&B singer who was his protege and longtime girlfriend at the time. LOS ...
Source: pressherald.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
BALTIMORE (CBS/AP) -- Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh victory in the race and ending Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid. The gray colt took advantage of the muddy track just like Lukas hoped he would, pulling off the upset in a second consecutive impressive start two weeks after romping in a race on the Derby ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
There's been a simple question going around AI circles in recent months: "What's next?" Since the launch of OpenAI's GPT-4 in March last year, each passing month has made it clear that the ChatGPT-maker's top model set a performance bar that has been curiously difficult for competitors to clear. Big Tech giants like Google and Meta have released rival models like Gemini and Llama , which proved competitive at most. ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
United Automobile Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain speaks to UAW members and supporters in Warren, Michigan, on August 20, 2023 (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP) Workers at a pair of Mercedes-Benz plants near Tuscaloosa, Alabama narrowly voted against joining the United Auto Workers this week, according to a preliminary tally on Friday. As of press time, the UAW webpage had the National Labor Relations Board tally at 2,045 in ...
Source: rawstory.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
An upside-down U.S. flag has long been a sign of dire distress and versatile symbol of protest. But in January 2021, when it flew over the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, it was largely seen in connection with a specific cause: the false claim by then-President 's supporters that the 2020 election had been marred by fraud. The revelation this week about the flag flying at Alito's home was the latest ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Former team members have either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups. In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that would prepare for the advent of supersmart artificial intelligence capable of outwitting and overpowering its creators. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist and one of the company's co-founders, was named as the co-lead of this new team. OpenAI said ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
From targeting humanitarian vehicles to standing by as mobs attack trucks, Israel is blocking aid from reaching Gaza. Share mob of Israeli settlers attacked aid trucks carrying food supplies to Gaza. The extremists pillaged the cargo, destroying and smashing supplies desperately needed more than half a year into Israel's assault on the besieged enclave. Israel's police and military traded blame, each saying the ...
Source: theintercept.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the body of an Israeli hostage, Ron Benjamin, was identified in Gaza on Saturday after it was recovered the previous day. On October 7, 2023, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history, killing some 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages. Israel then subsequently launched its heaviest airstrikes against Gaza. About half of the hostages, ...
Source: newsweek.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
May 18 (UPI) -- Boeing's first crewed space mission was delayed again Friday due to a persistent helium leak. The spacecraft now is scheduled to take off May 25 after NASA scrapped a launch set for Tuesday. The delay will give time for the team to further assess a small helium leak in the spacecraft's service module, the agency said. It is the latest in a series of delays for Boeing's Starliner mission, which is ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
DALLAS — The National Rifle Association is formally supporting former President Donald Trump , an expected endorsement that came Saturday at the group's annual convention in Dallas. The endorsement of his presidential campaign came shortly before Trump took the stage to keynote the NRA's annual meeting, a speech he used to paint a picture of President Joe Biden as trying to erode gun rights without citing ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
The bodies of three Spanish tourists and three Afghans shot dead while on a tour in Afghanistan were transported to the capital along with multiple wounded, the Taliban government said Saturday. The group were fired on while walking through a market in the mountainous city of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, around 100 miles from the capital Kabul , on Friday evening. "All dead bodies have been shifted to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Ukraine's president says air defences must quadruple to halt Russian advance as morale falls among troops The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said he expects Russia to step up its offensive in the north-east and warned Kyiv has only a quarter of the air defences it needs to hold the front line. Russian forces, which had made only moderate advances in recent months, launched a surprise assault in ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
May 18 (UPI) -- Police on Friday said an imprisoned Oregon man was charged in connection with the deaths of three women in Portland. A grand jury this week indicted Jesse Calhoun , 39, on three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of abuse of a corpse in the second degree. Calhoun is charged in the deaths of three women, Charity Lynn Perry, 24; Bridget Leanne Webster, 31; and Joanna Speaks, 32, whose ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
DALLAS — P.J. Washington Jr. made two free throws before an intentional miss with 2.5 seconds left, lifting the Dallas Mavericks to a 117-116 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night and into the Western Conference finals for the second time in three seasons. Washington was fouled by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander on a 3-point attempt after Chet Holmgren put the Thunder in front, 116-115, with a dunk ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili on Saturday put a mostly symbolic veto on the "foreign influence" law that sparked unprecedented protests and warnings from Brussels that the measure would undermine Tbilisi's European aspirations. Ruling Georgian Dream party lawmakers voted through the legislation this week in defiance of protesters , who are worried the ex-Soviet republic is shifting away from a pro-Western ...
Source: france24.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Donald Trump demanded on Friday that Joe Biden be drug tested ahead of the two presidential debates both candidates have agreed to participate in. The former president cited the incumbent's State of the Union address in March in his call for drug testing, alleging that Biden was "high as a kite" when he delivered the speech. "I just want to debate this guy, but you know – and I'm gonna demand a drug ...
Source: nypost.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
May 18 (UPI) -- The State Department is warning Americans traveling abroad of "the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations, or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests." The worldwide alert issued Friday warns of the potential for violence against LGBTQ+ people. "Due to the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations, or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
TIkTok and the Department of Justice want a federal court to fast-track the company's lawsuit challenging a potential ban The Justice Department and TikTok on Friday asked a U.S. appeals court to fast-track the social media platform's lawsuit challenging a potential ban. Under a law signed by President Biden, TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance must divest TikTok's U.S. assets by Jan. 19, else the ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Trump's former fixer gave damning testimony – and he'll return to the stand on Monday as the trial moves towards a close Donald Trump's criminal trial is drawing to a close, with two looming questions: what will the jury decide, and how will America react? After weeks of testimony from witnesses including the porn star Stormy Daniels , National Enquirer boss David Pecker and former senior Trump aide Hope ...
Source: theguardian.com
Lionel Messi: Napkin that sealed football legend's move to Barcelona sells for £762,000 | World News
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Messi, regarded by many as the best footballer ever, eventually scored 672 goals for Barcelona, winning the Champions League four times and 10 La Liga titles. A paper napkin that sealed Lionel Messi's move to Barcelona has been sold for £762,400. It contains a pledge, written in 2000, that the player would move to the legendary Catalan club. The starting price was £300,000 ahead of Friday's online ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Friday was the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education that formally struck down state-enforced racial segregation of public schools as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. An assessment of Brown 's legacy in the Washington Post, based on new public opinion research, made three salient points on how people view its impact today: (1) Retroactive ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, May 17th, 2024 -
DePape admitted during trial testimony he broke into the Pelosis' San Francisco home on 28 October 2022 intending to hold Ms Pelosi hostage and "break her kneecaps" if she lied to him. He also admitted bludgeoning Paul Pelosi with a hammer after police showed up. The man convicted of attacking then-US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. David DePape, 44, was ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, May 17th, 2024 -
A more slender (and expensive) variant could be coming your way in 2025 to replace the Plus model. Just like it slimmed down the latest iPad Pro , Apple is said to be looking at making the iPhone more slender. To be more precise, the company is working on a "significantly thinner" device that may arrive as part of the iPhone 17 lineup in place of a Plus model, according to The Information . This model has been ...
Source: engadget.com