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Month: May 2024

Biden breaks unofficial rule about headwear while hosting the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has broken an unofficial political rule about headwear when helped celebrate the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs at the White House — he tried on the team helmet he received as a gift. The entire team attended Friday’s celebration on the South Lawn.

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After Trump’s guilty verdict, threats and attempts to dox Trump jurors proliferate online

By Donie O’Sullivan and Sean Lyngaas, CNN New York (CNN) — On online forums that have previously been linked to mass shootings, people are threatening violence and attempting to publicly identify the 12 New York jurors who on Thursday decided to convict former President Donald Trump. The calls for retribution began immediately after the verdict was announced.

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Discrimination and negligence at Seattle Children’s hospital led to teen’s death, family alleges in lawsuit

CNN By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — A 16-year-old in Bothell, Washington, suffered from a severe allergic reaction to medication for months before she collapsed and died in front of her parents. Her family alleges discrimination and negligence contributed to her death. The family of Sahana Ramesh filed a lawsuit in Washington’s King County Superior Court against Seattle

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Killing of Minneapolis police officer stuns a department that’s been struggling to fill its ranks

By STEVE KARNOWSKI, MARK VANCLEAVE AND JOSH FUNK Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The shooting death of a Minneapolis police officer has stunned a department that has struggled to fill its ranks since the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing turmoil. Officer Jamal Mitchell’s death Thursday came days after the fourth anniversary of Floyd’s

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Pakistan with help from Interpol arrest a Pakistani woman convicted of murder in Italy, police say

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say Pakistani police working closely with Interpol have raided a home in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir and arrested a Pakistani woman convicted in Italy of murdering her daughter. Nazia Shaheen was arrested in a village in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Thursday. She was presented before

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Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information. The tech company unleashed a makeover of its search engine in mid-May that frequently provides AI-generated summaries on top of search

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16-year-old Massachusetts girl kidnapped, killed by stepfather in apparent murder-suicide, DA says

By Christina Hager Click here for updates on this story     ACTON, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A 16-year-old girl was killed by her stepfather in an apparent murder-suicide in Acton on Thursday, according to the Middlesex District Attorney. Juliano Santana restraining order Investigators say 49-year-old Juliano Santana abducted the girl while she was walking on Great Road

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Transplant patient stable and on dialysis after pig organ removed due to ‘unique challenges’ with heart, kidney health

By Amanda Sealy, CNN (CNN) — A genetically engineered pig kidney has been removed from a transplant patient after it started losing function, according to a statement on Friday from NYU Langone Health. The patient, 54-year-old Lisa Pisano of New Jersey, is stable and has started dialysis, her doctors said. Pisano first received a mechanical heart

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