Month: May 2024

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Critics say British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is dutiful, managerial and a bit dull. The 61-year-old Labour leader is the current favorite to win the country’s July 4 election. Starmer has dragged his social democratic party from the left towards the political middle ground. His message

By KRYSTA FAURIA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Amazon Studios debuted “Red, White & Royal Blue” last summer, they did so without fanfare or spectacle, thanks to the timing of its release amid historic Hollywood strikes. But the lack of publicity surrounding the rom-com’s premiere didn’t deter it from becoming a hit with

By MATT O’BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writers President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology. New generative AI tools have made it easy to transform someone’s likeness into a sexually explicit AI deepfake and

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — A long-delayed and complex project to bring a subway line under ancient Roman ruins and through Rome’s historic center has entered a crucial phase. Crews are digging a deep retaining wall around the flagship station at Piazza Venezia. The Metro C subway line has been in the

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week as layoffs remained historically low levels. Jobless claims for the week ending May 18 fell by 8,000 to 215,000, down from 223,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Weekly unemployment claims are considered a proxy for

CANNES, France (AP) — In a story published May 23, 2024, The Associated Press reported that Kodi the dog was a griffon mix. A subsequent DNA test revealed that Kodi is a Belgian Malinois mix, with no griffon ancestry.

By CARSON GERBER of CNHI News and NICKY FORSTER and DEVI SHASTRI of The Associated Press Norma Upshaw was living alone south of Nashville when her doctor said she needed to start in-home dialysis. Her closest family lived 40 miles away, and they’d already scrambled once when the independent senior living facility the 82-year-old had

By CARSON GERBER of CNHI News and NICKY FORSTER and DEVI SHASTRI of The Associated Press Norma Upshaw, 82, was living alone south of Nashville, when her doctor said she needed to start in-home dialysis. Her closest family lived 40 miles away, and they’d already scrambled once when the independent senior living facility she had

By JAMES POLLARD Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Red Nose Day has raised $370 million since 2015 to fund anti-poverty efforts. This year, Comic Relief US wants to draw donations for its campaign by encouraging childlike wonder. It’s a sensation that the charity says millions of needy children miss out on each year. That’s

By STEVE LeBLANC and LISA RATHKE Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Hundreds of students in graduation robes walked out of the Harvard commencement chanting “Free, free Palestine” after weeks of protests on campus. School officials announced Wednesday, the day before Thursday’s graduation, that 13 Harvard students who participated in a protest encampment would not

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Kenyan climber attempting to scale the world’s highest mountain has been found dead near the summit. A government official based at the base camp of Mount Everest says the body of Cheruiyot Kirui was found on the mountain. It was still unclear when the body would be recovered because the

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Protesters packed up and left a pro-Palestinian encampment at Philadelphia’s Drexel University after the school announced a decision to have police clear the encampment. University President John Fry said in a statement that the school is committed to protecting the community members’ right to assemble peacefully and express their views, but he

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and JESSICA DONATI Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) — The family of an American caught up in a failed coup attempt in Congo says their son was in Africa on vacation with family friends and had not previously engaged in political activism. Tyler Thompson’s stepmother, Miranda Thompson, says in a

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission has imposed a fine of 337.5 million euros ($366 million) on food company Mondelez, the owner of Oreo cookies and other snack brands, for obstructing sales of its products between EU member states. Mondelez owns the Cadbury and Toblerone chocolate brands as well as Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies,

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Democrats have selected Joe Biden as their nominee for the White House, giving the president more delegates after he already clinched his party’s 2024 nomination. The state’s Democratic caucus was held Thursday. Only registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters were allowed to participate in the caucus.

By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A Bangkok hospital says several of the more seriously injured people who were on the Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence will need spinal surgery. A public relations officer for Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital, which has treated more than 100 people hurt in the incident, says that

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say that Russian missiles have slammed into Ukraine’s second-largest city in the northeast of the country and killed at least seven civilians. They said at least 20 people were wounded as S-300 missiles struck the city of Kharkiv early on Thursday. Explosions reverberated around the

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Pess ISLAMABAD (AP) — Doctors are treating hundreds of victims of heatstroke at hospitals across Pakistan. People started arriving at hospitals on Wednesday after a heat wave began. The mercury rose to 49 degrees Celsius, or 120 degrees Fahrenheit, in the southern Sindh province that was badly hit by climate-induced monsoon

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen from a Madrid apartment in 2015. A police statement Thursday said the painting, valued at 5 million euros or $5.4 million, was recovered following the arrest in February of two people suspected of

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, convinced they’ll otherwise be smothered in data as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet. They also need to keep pace with competitors, who are already using AI to seed social media platforms with deepfakes.

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on hijabs for French athletes at the upcoming Paris Olympics, France’s unique approach to “laïcité” — loosely translated as “secularism” — has been increasingly stirring controversy across the country. The struggle cuts to the core of how France

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) — Long before generative AI’s boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl trafficking made a compelling case for its embrace by U.S. intelligence agencies. The operation’s results far exceeded human-only analysis, finding twice as many companies and