By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chief prosecutor says he has ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams. The disaster earlier this month left thousands of people dead. The office of General Prosecutor al-Sidiq al-Sour says the officials have been questioned
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration meets this week to consider approval of an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig’s disease, the culmination of a yearslong lobbying effort by patients with the fatal neurodegenerative disease. Those advocates still face one giant hurdle: FDA regulators say the treatment hasn’t
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN AP Sports Writer Homophobic chanting by sections of Paris Saint-Germain fans targeting Marseille players has again marred the biggest game in French soccer, prompting calls for sanctions. Olivier Klein, the inter-ministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBTQ+ hatred (Dilcrah), posted a video on Monday of PSG supporters using insulting
Continue ReadingBy Tiarra Braddock , Jordan Nagel Click here for updates on this story BELLEVILLE, Michigan (WXYZ) — The owners of the Pumpkin Factory say the UAW workers they will be hiring will be working at their haunted house. “I figured they’re on strike, they needed the extra cash and we needed monsters,” said Amanda Bielski.
Continue ReadingBy JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Police in Thailand have raided the residence of one of the country’s four deputy national police chiefs. A commander in the national police force’s Office of Legal Affairs and Litigation said the search of the home of Police Gen. Surachate Hakparn was part of an investigation into
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant appear to be a match made in creative heaven. Grant recently spoke with People magazine on the red carpet of the Los Angeles Beverly Arts Icon Awards and said she feels comfortable going it alone at events. “The good news about falling in
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Taye Diggs is happy to talk about love stories, but only if it’s not his own. Despite social media videos of him and a certain someone (Google if you want to know), Diggs declined to talk about his love life during a recent interview with CNN. “I like
Continue ReadingWJZ, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER, CNN By Jessica Albert Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine performed its second groundbreaking transplant of a genetically modified pig heart. The transplant was given to a man from Frederick who had been rejected from all
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Albert Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine performed its second groundbreaking transplant of a genetically modified pig heart. The transplant was given to a man from Frederick who had been rejected from all other transplant centers because of pre-existing conditions.
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — This fall, the United Nations is to convene an advisory group on artificial intelligence. U.N. tech-policy chief Amandeep Gill sat down with The Associated Press to talk about the hopes, concerns and questions surrounding AI — and what the U.N. can add to the discussion. Various
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Amazon said on Monday that it’s investing up to $4 billion into the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in exchange for partial ownership and Anthropic’s greater use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing platform. The deepening partnership between the two companies highlights how some large tech
Continue ReadingBy MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Anyone looking for a beautiful photograph of a desert landscape can find many choices from Getty Images, the stock photography collection. But say you’re instead looking for a wide angle shot of a “hot pink plastic saguaro cactus with large arms that stick out, surrounded by sand, in landscape
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A growing movement opposing a highly controversial redevelopment of a historic Tokyo park has submitted a fresh petition in its campaign to get the national government to intervene and revise the plan to save more trees. Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike in February approved the plan, giving a
Continue ReadingBy George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles said it “broke my heart” to see a young Black girl passed over for a medal at a gymnastics ceremony in Ireland, footage of which has gone viral. In the video of a GymStart event from March 2022, which has recirculated on social media in recent days, a line of
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Sahadi, CNN New York (CNN) — US employers are planning smaller pay raises and fewer promotions next year, compared to what they gave this year. That’s according to a new survey from human resources consulting firm Mercer. The survey was taken by more than 900 of its clients, who are employers of varying
Continue ReadingBy Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — Legacy college admission is an advantage given at birth, in which the children of a school’s alumni receive special consideration in the college admissions rat race. But after the US Supreme Court overturned race-based admissions over the summer, attention toward this already criticized practice intensified. While many
Continue ReadingDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $835 million after no one beat the immense odds Monday night and won the top prize. The winning numbers were: 10, 12, 22, 36, 50 and 4. With the latest bit of lottery losing, there now have been 29 consecutive drawings without a
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — At least one Molotov cocktail has been thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there was no significant damage and no one was injured. U.S. law enforcement officials are investigating. U.S. Secret Service officers were called Sunday night to respond to the attack
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, Radina Gigova and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has claimed it killed the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, in one of Kyiv’s boldest attacks yet on the occupied peninsula of Crimea. The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces said in an update that Friday’s attack killed Viktor Sokolov along with 33 other
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A former neonatal nurse who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of seven babies in her care and trying to kill six others at a U.K. hospital will face a retrial on a charge of attempting to murder a newborn baby girl. Lucy Letby
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