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Top News Stories for Sunday, May 19th 2024
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 -
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 ...
Source: france24.com
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 ...
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 -
Sean "Diddy" Combs likely settled the lawsuit against him by ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura one day after she filed to prevent the hotel surveillance footage of him allegedly beating her in a hallway in 2016 from becoming public, author Tracy Walder, who previously worked for the FBI and CIA, said. The video — obtained exclusively by CNN on Friday – that allegedly showed the 54-year-old rapper brutally ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
The 149th running of the Preakness Stakes will take place today – Saturday, May 18 – from Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The race is slated to start at approximately 6:50 p.m. Eastern and will air on NBC and Peacock. Fans have a number of options to watch the race for free, including Fubo and DirecTV Stream , which each offer a free trial. Also, Sling TV has promotional pricing if you're a new ...
Source: cleveland.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Companies such as OpenAI and Meta push ahead, but it is clear that biggest changes are yet to come This week, artificial intelligence caught up with the future – or at least Hollywood's idea of it from a decade ago. "It feels like AI from the movies," wrote the OpenAI chief executive , Sam Altman, of his latest system, an impressive virtual assistant . To underline his point he posted a single word on X ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
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 ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
The Israeli military announced Saturday that it had recovered the body of a hostage from the Gaza Strip, one day after saying it had retrieved the remains of three others in the besieged territory. The hostage was identified as Ron Benjamin, who was killed on October 7 at the Mefalsim intersection during the Hamas attack, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a news conference. ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
The first crewed launch of Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft has been delayed again, to May 25, this time because of a helium leak in the service module. NASA had set the liftoff for May 21 after scrubbing a May 6 launch but the helium leak was discovered on Wednesday. While the agency said the leak in the craft's thruster system was stable and wouldn't pose a risk during the flight, "Boeing teams are working ...
Source: npr.org
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 a day after campaigning in Minnesota in the midst of his criminal ...
Source: pbs.org
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 -
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 ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
A 39-year-old man was indicted by a grand jury Thursday on murder charges for the deaths of three Oregon women whose bodies were found in 2023, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney. Jesse Lee Calhoun was charged with three counts of murder in the second degree and three counts of abuse of a corpse in the second degree in the deaths of Charity Lynn Perry, 24, Bridget Leanne Webster, 31, and Joanna ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
DALLAS — Kyrie Irving probably wondered if his uncanny run of closeout victories without a loss in his career was finally near an end. The streak lives, and the Dallas Mavericks are through to the Western Conference semifinals for the second time in three seasons. P.J. Washington Jr. made two free throws before an intentional miss with 2.5 seconds left as the Mavs rallied from 17 points down in the second ...
Source: nypost.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 -
Republican contender says US leader was 'high as a kite' during State of the Union address in March Donald Trump has repeated his demand that Joe Biden take a drug test before the United States presidential candidates debate on live television, saying the president was "high as a kite" when he made a State of the Union speech in March . This week, Mr Biden agreed to debate Mr Trump on June 27 and Sept 10. The ...
Source: telegraph.co.uk
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
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 ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 -
Since first grade, Julian Morris, 16, has changed schools six times, swinging between predominantly white and predominantly Black classrooms. None has met all his needs, his mother said. At predominantly white schools, he was challenged academically but felt less included. At predominately Black schools, he felt more supported as a Black student, but his mother, Denita Dorsey, said they didn't have the same ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, May 17th, 2024 -
David DePape, a rightwing conspiracy theorist who broke into Nancy Pelosi's northern California home in 2022 and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. A federal jury convicted him of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official in November 2023 , just over a year after the attack in the former House speaker's ...
Source: aol.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