OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system. The outlets said in a joint statement on Friday that OpenAI is regularly breaching copyright by
Continue Reading AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Running back Isiah Pacheco and defensive end Charles Omenihu made their long-awaited return to the Kansas City Chiefs in time to face the AFC West-rival Las Vegas Raiders with a playoff berth on the line Friday. The Raiders were short-handed at running back with Alexander Mattison inactive
Continue Reading By Artemis Moshtaghian and Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — Hannah Kobayashi “has been found safe,” her family announced on Wednesday — more than four weeks after her disappearance and their urgent appeals for information. “We are incredibly relieved and grateful that Hannah has been found safe,” her sister, Sydni, and mother, Brandi Yee, said in
Continue Reading Associated Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Florida on Friday to have dinner with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club after Trump threatened to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products. Trump threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if they don’t stop what
Continue Reading BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama A&M football player who suffered a head injury during a game in October has died. The Jefferson County coroner announced that linebacker Medrick Burnett Jr. died on Wednesday evening, a month after he was injured in the game against Alabama State on Oct. 26. The redshirt freshman from Lakewood,
Continue Reading SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Officials in North Macedonia say 10 people have been arrested following raucous celebrations — that allegedly included gunshots — of an Albanian national holiday by members of the country’s ethnic Albanian minority. Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski said the suspects, who include several minors, face charges of “inciting national, racial and
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate has voted to eliminate seven independent regulatory and oversight agencies. Critics say it is a massive move to cement the ruling party’s power and avoid outside scrutiny. President Claudia Sheinbaum calls it a money-saving measure. She says the agencies’ functions — which include freedom of information requests, anti-monopoly enforcement
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a Russian national who did not have a ticket boarded a Paris-bound Delta flight at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport this week and was arrested when the plane touched down. Delta Flight 264 took off Tuesday night from Kennedy and landed at Charles de Gaulle
Continue Reading AP Business Writer Russia’s ruble is sagging against other currencies, complicating the Kremlin’s efforts to keep consumer inflation under control with one hand even as it overheats the economy with spending on the war against Ukraine with the other. Over time a weaker ruble could mean higher prices for imports from China, Russia’s main trade
Continue Reading Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s election commission leader has quietly certified Donald Trump’s victory in the battleground state, a departure from the chaos that surrounded the 2020 election results. Commission Chairperson Ann Jacobs certified results during a Zoom meeting on Friday that show Trump won the state with 1,697,626 votes compared to Democrat
Continue Reading Associated Press KIBBUTZ MALKIYA, Israel (AP) — Even after a tenuous Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire took hold this week, the mood among residents of northern Israel is far from celebratory. Few are returning immediately to homes near the border with Lebanon. They say they don’t trust that Hezbollah’s fire is really over. Many do not trust that
Continue Reading ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency has voiced concern at the rise in deaths of migrants trying to reach Greece by sea in small boats from Turkey, following two fatal shipwrecks this week. The UNHCR said in a statement on Friday that 17 people have died in that way this month, while
Continue Reading Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — More bodies buried under the mud have been found in eastern Uganda and an injured person died in a hospital, bringing the death toll from this week’s landslides to 20. Officials said on Friday that search efforts pressed on in the stricken area. Heavy rains had triggered the landslides
Continue Reading Sabrina Carpenter hosting a holiday variety music special on Netflix and Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw playing a spy and an assassin in the TV series “Black Doves” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases. Spider-Man, Black Panther and Captain America are some of the heroes who can join forces in the video
Continue Reading AP Health Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Libraries around across the U.S. are helping people get healthier. They offer fitness classes, food pantries, cooking classes, conversations about loneliness and mental health, and even blood pressure monitors that can be checked out just like books. The programs leverage libraries’ reputation as sources of reliable information and their
Continue Reading AP Health Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Libraries around across the U.S. are helping people get healthier. They offer fitness classes, food pantries, cooking classes, conversations about loneliness and mental health, and even blood pressure monitors that can be checked out just like books. The programs leverage libraries’ reputation as sources of reliable information and their
Continue Reading WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia’s elections agency has extended voting by several days due to technical issues and ballot paper shortages. One of the southern Africa country’s biggest opposition parties claimed the extension to the vote, which should have ended on Wednesday, is unlawful. Polls will now close on Saturday night, according to the Electoral
Continue Reading AP Health Writers Cucumbers shipped to the U.S. and Canada — and organic eggs sold in 25 Costco stores in five southern U.S. states — have been recalled because of potential salmonella contamination. Arizona-based SunFed Produce recalled cucumbers sold between Oct. 12 and Nov. 26. Handsome Brook Farms said nearly 11,000 cartons of 24-count organic
Continue Reading Associated Press MILAN (AP) — A humanitarian aid group says armed men in two speedboats took off with women and children after a rubber dinghy carrying some 112 migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean Sea started deflating off Libya’s coast. Doctors Without Borders says dozens of men and boys who were aboard the overcrowded dinghy
Continue Reading Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The outgoing head of Ohio’s troubled teacher retirement system said she’s leaving the fund in strong fiscal condition despite turmoil at the top that her successor will inherit. Lynn Hoover retires as acting executive director and CFO of the $94 billion State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio said Sunday.
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