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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from his own War Cabinet and his country's closest ally over postwar plans for Gaza, even as the war with Hamas shows no sign of ending. On Saturday, Benny Gantz , a member of the War Cabinet and Netanyahu's main political rival, said he would leave the government on June 8 if it did not formulate a new war plan including an international, Arab ...
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Sunday, May 19th, 2024 -
Google unveiled Gemini Advanced at I/O 2024, and showed how the AI assistant for everyday tasks just got a lot more powerful. As part of Google's latest suite of artificial intelligence projects, Gemini Advanced is an AI assistant built to offer the latest in text and code generation and creative collaboration. Gemini Advanced is going from Ultra 1.0 to Gemini 1.5 Pro, Google's most powerful AI model, with a long ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Casandra "Cassie" Ventura 's husband, Alex Fine , is speaking out after surveillance footage showing her then-boyfriend Sean "Diddy" Combs physically assaulting her in 2016 was released by CNN on Friday. As Fine declared in an Instagram post: "Men who hit women aren't men. "Men who enable it and protect those people aren't men," he wrote . "As men violence against women shouldn't be inevitable, check your brothers, ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
D Wayne Lukas worked his way to Seize the Grey after his horse won the Preakness Stakes and kept getting interrupted by well-wishes offering congratulations. "I think they're trying to get rid of me," Lukas said. "They probably want me to retire. I don't think that'll happen." Not when the 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer keeps winning big-time races. Seize the Grey ended Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan's Triple ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Login Search Startups Venture Security AI Crypto Apps Events Startup Battlefield Search 7:26 AM PDT • May 18, 2024 When the founders of Sagetap, Sahil Khanna and Kevin Hughes, started working at early-stage enterprise software startups, they were surprised to find that the companies they worked at were trying to sell their innovative tech through old-school methods like repeated cold emails and calls. Khanna, ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
A no-holds-barred campaign by Mercedes management convinced a majority of workers at its Alabama factory complex to vote against forming a union. In addition to anti-union videos and mailings, captive-audience meetings, firings, and an onslaught of pressure from state politicians and even a local pastor, the winning move was to fire the company's U.S. CEO and replace him with a vice president who promised to care ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
May 18 (UPI) -- Humanitarian aid has started moving into Gaza via a temporary pier, two days after the U.S. military began construction on the floating causeway. Trucks began rolling over the pier into the Palestinian enclave Friday, U.S. Central Command confirmed on X. The aid shipments will continue to flow from multiple countries, with the Kerem Shalom overland entry point closed by Israel because of recent ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
DALLAS (AP) — Former President Donald Trump urged gun owners to vote in the 2024 election as he addressed thousands of members of the National Rifle Association, which officially endorsed him just before Trump took the stage at their annual meeting in Texas on Saturday. "We've got to get gun owners to vote," Trump said. "I think you're a rebellious bunch. But let's be rebellious and vote this time." Trump, in ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
The bodies of three Spanish tourists and three Afghans shot dead while visiting a market in Afghanistan were transported to the capital where multiple wounded were also treated, the Taliban government said Saturday. The group was fired on while shopping in the bazaar in the mountainous city of Bamiyan, around 180 kilometres (110 miles) from the capital Kabul, on Friday. Anne-France Brill was one of the dozen ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Russia's offensive in Ukraine's northeastern border region of Kharkiv may just be the "first wave" in a wider assault, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned as he appealed to allies to send more air defence and fighter jets. Russian forces, which had made only moderate advances in recent months, launched a surprise assault in the Kharkiv region on May 10 that resulted in their biggest territorial gains ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
An imprisoned Oregon man was indicted Friday in connection with the deaths of three women whose bodies were found "under suspicious circumstances" last year in the Portland area, authorities announced Friday. Jesse Calhoun, 39, was indicted by a grand jury this week on three counts of murder in the second degree and three counts of abuse of a corpse in the second degree, the Multnomah County District Attorney's ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
PJ 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 three-point attempt after Chet Holmgren had put the Thunder in front 116-115 with a dunk on an ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Salome Zourabichvili says bill contradicts constitution but ruling party is expected to override her action in coming days Georgia's president has vetoed a "foreign agents" bill that has split the country and appealed to the government not to overrule her over a law she said was "Russian in sprit and essence". Salome Zourabichvil followed through on her stated intention to use her veto on Saturday although the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
To listen to the pundits inside and outside of the courtroom, the Manhattan felony case against former President Trump rests on the testimony and cross-examination of former Trump fixer Michael Cohen. I disagree. Cohen, once Trump's personal attorney, closest employee and greatest ally, left Trump's inner circle after being convicted of lying on Trump's behalf and has since become one of the former president's ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
A plain white restaurant napkin outlining the agreement between Lionel Messi , one of the world's greatest soccer players, and FC Barcelona, the Catalonian club that propelled him to stardom, sold at an online auction by the U.K.-based firm Bonhams on Friday for 762,400 British pounds, equivalent to about $968,600. The starting bid for the standard, white, waxy-papered restaurant accessory scrawled all over in blue ...
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Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren't sure how to make it happen. A mile of Alabama country road, and a history of racism, separate the two schools. At the stop sign between them, even the road's name changes. Threadgill Road, christened for a civil rights hero, becomes ...
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Friday, May 17th, 2024 -
The man convicted of breaking into top United States legislator Nancy Pelosi's home and attacking her husband with a hammer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed down the sentence for David DePape, 44, on Friday. A US jury found DePape guilty last November of the attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official. ...
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Friday, May 17th, 2024 -
is reportedly slimming down the iPhone in 2025. The Information reported Friday that five people knowledgeable about the project said a thinner iPhone could debut alongside the iPhone 17 in September 2025. The project, internally called D23, is said to be a "major redesign" that will cost more than the iPhone Pro Max, which is priced at $1,200, The Information reported. Meanwhile, the full iPhone 16 lineup is still ...
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