By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A five-year experiment aimed at improving care for some of California’s most at-risk Medicaid patients reduced hospitalizations and saved taxpayers money. The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research on Wednesday said California’s Whole Person Care pilot projects saved an estimated $383 per patient per year. The
Continue ReadingSAN DIEGO (AP) — A tiny California mouse now has a big title after winning a Guinness World record for longevity. A Pacific pocket mouse named Pat — after “Star Trek” actor Patrick Stewart — received the Guinness approval Wednesday as the oldest living mouse in human care at the ripe age of 9 years
Continue ReadingAlejandra Ramos (CNN) — Disney no dejará de lado las franquicias premiadas “Frozen” y “Toy Story” en el corto plazo. El CEO de Disney, Bob Iger, dijo el miércoles durante la llamada de ganancias de la compañía que hay planes para producir secuelas adicionales de ambas exitosas franquicias. “Pronto tendremos más para compartir sobre estas
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A new artificial intelligence chatbot has been growing fast and sparking competition, but with the rising popularity of ChatGPT comes several concerns, one about student cheating.
Continue ReadingBy BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Many Twitter users have found themselves unable to tweet, follow accounts or access their direct messages as the Elon Musk-owned platform experienced a slew of widespread technical problems. Twitter acknowledged on Wednesday that the platform “may not be working as expected for some of you” and said it is
Continue ReadingBy Phil Mattingly, Chief White House correspondent President Joe Biden said in a new interview that the recently recovered Chinese spy balloon that traversed the continental US did not damage bilateral relations between the two countries. “The idea shooting down a balloon that’s gathering information over America and that makes relations worse?” Biden told PBS
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — More than two dozen Republican Montana lawmakers are co-sponsoring a bill that would allow students to misgender and dead-name their transgender peers without punishment. LGBTQ supporters contend the bill would allow the bullying of a population of kids already struggling for acceptance. The sponsor argued
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — El devastador terremoto que sacudió Turquía y Siria este lunes ha cobrado la vida de más de 11.000 personas, y ha dejado decenas de miles de heridos. El terremoto de magnitud 7,8 se produjo cerca de la ciudad de Gaziantep, en el sureste de Turquía, cerca de la frontera con Siria,
Continue ReadingCNN By Anna Cooban, CNN Netflix has extended its crackdown on password sharing to Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain. Users in these countries will now have to pay to give people they don’t live with access to their account, after similar rules were trialed in Latin America last year. Under the new rules, subscribers
Continue ReadingBy Katie Bo Lillis, Alex Marquardt, Natasha Bertrand and Zachary Cohen, CNN A day before the suspected Chinese spy balloon entered US airspace over Alaska, the Defense Intelligence Agency quietly sent an internal report that a foreign object was headed towards US territory, military and intelligence officials familiar with the matter told CNN. The report
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge has upheld Washington’s residency requirement for involvement in the state’s legal cannabis industry — a decision at odds with a federal appeals court ruling concerning a similar requirement in Maine. A man who co-owns a chain of Washington cannabis stores called Zips, Scott Atkinson,
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge has upheld Washington’s residency requirement for involvement in the state’s legal cannabis industry — a decision at odds with a federal appeals court ruling concerning a similar requirement in Maine. A man who co-owns a chain of Washington cannabis stores called Zips, Scott Atkinson,
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge has upheld Washington’s residency requirement for involvement in the state’s legal cannabis industry — a decision at odds with a federal appeals court ruling concerning a similar requirement in Maine. A man who co-owns a chain of Washington cannabis stores called Zips, Scott Atkinson,
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge has upheld Washington’s residency requirement for involvement in the state’s legal cannabis industry — a decision at odds with a federal appeals court ruling concerning a similar requirement in Maine. A man who co-owns a chain of Washington cannabis stores called Zips, Scott Atkinson,
Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business An estimated 27.3 million people watched President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, according to Nielsen, a 29% decline in viewership from Biden’s first address when more than 38 million tuned in. According to Nielsen’s measurement, 73% of the audience was aged 55 and older,
Continue ReadingCNN By Oliver Darcy, CNN Business An estimated 27.3 million people watched President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, according to Nielsen, a 29% decline in viewership from Biden’s first address when more than 38 million tuned in. According to Nielsen’s measurement, 73% of the audience was aged 55 and
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 27.3 million people watched President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on television Tuesday night. The Nielsen company says that was the second smallest audience for the annual event in at least 30 years. Biden’s audience was down nearly 28% from 2022.
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea showcased almost a dozen advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles at a nighttime military parade on Wednesday, in the biggest display yet of what its state-run media described as Pyongyang’s “nuclear attack capability.” The missiles were paraded through Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung square as leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A jury has convicted a Minnesota woman accused of shooting her 6-year-old son nine times and hiding his body in her car trunk. The Hennepin County jury deliberated less than two hours before convictin 29-year-old Julissa Thaler of first-degree murder on Wednesday in the killing of Eli Hart, just 10 days after
Continue ReadingBy MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is now the latest state where a judge has found the public school funding system to be unconstitutional. But the experience of other states suggests there’s no guarantee of swift, significant or longstanding change for poorer school districts. Scholars who have studied school funding litigation
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