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The Census Bureau is considering how to ask about gender identity. People have their opinions

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau is thinking about how to ask about sex. People have opinions. Dozens of health officials, civil rights groups, individuals and businesses have weighed in about how the statistical agency should ask about sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time on its most comprehensive survey

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Protests, poisoning and prison: The life and death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

By EMMA BURROWS and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, was buried Friday in a Moscow suburb in a funeral that drew thousands of mourners amid a heavy police presence. Navalny, who was serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism, died Feb. 16, according

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US wholesale inflation accelerated in January in latest sign that prices picked up last month

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Wholesale prices in the United States accelerated in January, the latest sign that some inflation pressures in the economy remain elevated. The producer price index — which tracks inflation before it reaches consumers — rose 0.3% from December to January after having fallen -0.1% from November

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Qué es Sora, el nuevo modelo de OpenAI que permitirá crear videos a partir de indicaciones de texto

Sofía Benavides (CNN) — OpenAI, líder en inteligencia artificial, presentó un nuevo modelo de inteligencia artificial llamado Sora que, según afirma, puede crear videos “realistas” e “imaginativos” de 60 segundos a partir de indicaciones de texto rápidas. En una publicación del miércoles en su blog, la compañía dijo que Sora es capaz de generar videos de

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Proposed questions on sexual orientation and gender identity for the Census Bureau’s biggest survey

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau plans to test questions about sexual orientation and gender identity for its most comprehensive survey of American life. The test questions will be sent to 480,000 households. If the questions are approved, it will be the first time sexual orientation and gender identity questions are asked

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Western officials and Kremlin critics blame Putin and his government for Navalny’s death in prison

By DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time Friday in blaming the reported death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government. “It is obvious that he was killed by Putin,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was visiting Germany

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An accident at a construction site in Italy’s Florence kills 3 workers and leaves 2 missing

By GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press ROME (AP) — An accident at a supermarket construction site in the Italian city of Florence has killed three workers and left two others missing. The accident on Friday happened when a reinforced concrete beam toppled over a slab of a pre-fabricated building, which then collapsed. Local authorities say rescue

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Cambodia to install hundreds of wildlife cameras in an effort to restore its tiger population

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia will begin installing hundreds of monitoring cameras and import four tigers from India as part of a plan to restore its tiger population, officials said Friday. Tigers were declared “functionally extinct” in Cambodia in 2016 by the World Wide Fund for Nature. The last

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‘It was getting really, really hot’: College basketball game delayed after team gets stuck in elevator

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — College basketball players from Farleigh Dickinson University found themselves in a tight spot ahead of Thursday’s away game against Long Island University – quite literally. The start of the Division I Northeast Conference game was delayed after several FDU players became stuck in a cramped elevator at the Steinberg

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