Blazing electronic signs along the highway that connects downtown Detroit to its more prosperous western suburbs announce an unfamiliar cause for optimism in a city that a decade ago was so broke that it could not even pay for street lights. “Two more,” the signs exhort in blue and white, referring to the number …
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BALTIMORE — Ravens fans saddened by the loss of their Super Bowl dreams left M&T Bank Stadium in droves before their favorite team had finished playing the AFC Championship Game on Sunday. The Ravens lost to the Kansas City Chiefs 17-10 on Sunday. The game started at 3 p.m. and ended in tears for …
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Skopje, North Macedonia — North Macedonia’s parliament Sunday approved a caretaker government with a mandate to organize a general election in May. The government of the small Balkan country of 1.8 million people will be headed by the country’s first-ever ethnic Albanian prime minister, current parliament speaker Talat Xhaferi, 61. The 120-member parliament approved …
Here Comes the Sun: Dick Van Dyke and more – CBS News Watch CBS News Actor Dick Van Dyke sits down with Tracy Smith to discuss his career and the tribute special on his life now streaming on Paramount+. Then, Luke Burbank meets Eddy Goldfarb, a toy inventor who has created toys for over …
Elon Musk’s X has blocked searches for Taylor Swift after sexually explicit images of the pop star created using artificial intelligence spread widely on the platform. The incident is the latest example of how social media groups are scrambling to tackle so-called deepfakes: realistic images and audio, generated using AI, that can be abused to …
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Ukrainian officials say they uncovered a massive defense procurement scheme that saw tens of millions of dollars spent for weapons that never materialized. The discovery follows the downing of a Russian military plane said to have been carrying Ukrainian POWs. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi has this story. #Ukraine #Uncovered #Massive #Defense #Procurement #Fraud
Washington — Three American service members were killed and dozens more were injured in an unmanned aerial drone attack on a base in Jordan on Sunday, President Biden and the U.S. military said. In a statement, the president blamed the attack on “radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.” Mr. Biden said …