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Will AI models achieve the ability to improve autonomously? Leading labs say the scenario is near
Once a distant ambition for technology researchers, the prospect of artificial intelligence models teaching themselves autonomously to be more efficient and capable appears ever closer to reality.
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Wall Street week ahead: housing market, unemployment updates
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street will get a key update this week on the U.S. housing market, along with a regular weekly unemployment update.
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Even as trading and markets moved faster, Warren Buffett made patience profitable and cool
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Even in the age of algorithms, short attention spans and TikTok teases, Warren Buffett continued to profit with his patient bargain-hunting approach while offering folksy advice on investing and life.
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Fashion executive resigns days after restraining PETA protesters at New York runway show
NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America announced Friday that he is stepping down, days after he was filmed physically restraining two protesters during an altercation at a New York runway show.
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3 killed in Navajo Nation flood include 7-year-old preparing for 8th birthday
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Three generations of a Navajo family were heading home from picking up supplies for an 8th birthday party when their truck got stuck in mud as storms with heavy rain rolled through the area.
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Knife attack on Sikh trucker in Wyoming stirs fresh fears in community
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The stabbing of a truck driver at a remote Wyoming rest stop had U.S. Sikhs on edge Friday amid rising anti-immigrant vitriol against the community and its truck drivers in particular.
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Parents awarded $40 million after Uber found liable for passenger who was fatally struck on highway
The parents of a 23-year-old woman who was fatally struck after her Uber driver pulled over along a southern California highway were awarded $40 million after an arbitrator found both Uber and the driver liable for her death.
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Trump defends bid to put his name on the Kennedy Center
President Donald Trump on Friday defended his push to put his name on the Kennedy Center, saying he deserves to be recognized for trying to save Washington's premier performing arts venue after his takeover was blamed for triggering its financial distress.
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A humpback whale was spotted in a California river, 60 miles from its Pacific Ocean home
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Denny Glover was hoping for a big catch when he went fishing with buddies on the Sacramento River, but he wasn't expecting a fully grown humpback whale.
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Florida confirms a death from dengue as the state struggles with one of its worst recent outbreaks
NEW YORK (AP) — Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue fever in decades, and the toll now includes a death.
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State blames mail delivery issues for dozens of ballots from rural Alaska not counting in primary
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Seventy-five absentee in-person ballots cast by voters in rural western Alaska communities arrived too late to be counted in last month's primary election, officials said.
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Security measures at Ole Miss will be heightened for Lane Kiffin's high-profile return with LSU
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will assemble the state's largest law enforcement presence ever for a college football game this weekend, highlighting the heightened security in place around the stadium and off campus for the much-anticipated game Saturday night against LSU and former Rebels coa...
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Trump targets more news outlets, saying he will ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
President Donald Trump says he is barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage, and threatens that more such prohibitions of media outlets could follow. Trump wrote on his social media site Friday that effective immediately, “I am banning” CNN, ...
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Judge rules EPA illegally terminated $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans
The Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled Friday.
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Trump announces all 50 states joining Medicaid drug pricing model
President Donald Trump announced that all 50 states will join a program to provide Most Favored Nation pricing for some Medicaid drugs. The administration claims this plan, called the Medicaid “GENEROUS” model, will save billions on prescription drug costs. Last year, Trump signed an executive or...
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Holdout juror in Clancy trial didn't have 'any doubts' that she was responsible for killing her kids
The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that other jurors wouldn’t listen to him. That's according to a statement released Friday by juror Michael Desronvil in his first public comments on the case. Eleven ...
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Trump administration begins building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region
The Trump administration has started building the border wall in the Big Bend region of west Texas. This marks the first major construction in an area where the plans have faced heavy opposition. Customs and Border Protection has doubled the pace of construction along the U.S.-Mexico border. In t...
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In 'If I Go Will They Miss Me,' a family seeks healing under the LAX flight path
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six years ago, jet fuel was dumped from the sky onto a working-class city near Los Angeles International Airport, spattering onto children at an elementary school. For writer and director Walter Thompson-Hernández, who grew up nearby, the incident sparked a coming-of-age story ...
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Duncan Sheik, Tony- and Grammy-winning 'Spring Awakening' composer and pop star, dies at 56
Tony- and Grammy-winning musician Duncan Sheik has died at 56. The “Barely Breathing” singer-songwriter composed the music for “Spring Awakening.” The groundbreaking Broadway musical that explored teenage angst ran for more than 860 performances and won eight Tony Awards. The show is beloved in t...
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One thing that hasn’t changed in 250 years: Americans’ willingness to get suckered
NEW YORK (AP) — America: land of possibility. And also: land of suckers.
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Scientists hope deeper-rooted soybeans can withstand climate extremes and store more carbon
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Research scientist Ashish Rajurkar kneels in the dirt, lifting a large clod of soil tangled around a soybean plant. He knocks away pieces of earth from the plant's roots, which slope straight down instead of out to the side like typical soybean plants.
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The Latest: Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House over their coverage
President Donald Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage. He threatened that more such prohibitions of media outlets could follow. Meanwhile, in-person voting for this year’s midterm elections is underway in Virginia, usher...
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Trump pushes his $5,000 'dividend' pledge if GOP wins midterms. Republican candidates, not as much
President Donald Trump came to battleground North Carolina doubling down on a tantalizing and implausible midterm promise. “If we win," he said, “we’re going to get you $5,000. So that’s it. Very simple.”
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ICE officer pleads not guilty to charges he lied to the FBI about nonfatal Minneapolis shooting
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An immigration officer pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges that he lied to the FBI about being attacked before he shot and wounded a Venezuelan man during the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis early this year.
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Warren Buffett gives up chairman title at Berkshire Hathaway in the next step of his succession plan
Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway in the next step of the transition at the top of the $1 trillion conglomerate he led for more than six decades.. The company said Friday that the 96-year-old Buffett will take become chairman emeritus and will take on his new role...
