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Microsoft's Nadella woos Indian developers to the company's AI tools 02/08/2024 06:20am • BENGALURU, India (AP) ��� Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged in a speech to more than a thousand Indian computer code developers on Thursday that they use the company's artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products. Speaking in Bengaluru, India���s ���Silicon Valley,��� Nadella not Indian state passes uniform marriage legislation opposed by Muslims as a Hindu code applied to all 02/08/2024 12:17am • LUCKNOW, India (AP) ��� An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under new legislation that also requires couples that live together to register with the government or face punishmen From Grammys to Super Bowl, with Tokyo in between: Inside the whirlwind week of peak Taylor Swift 02/07/2024 09:04pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� She���s everywhere, and the world is merely her backup band. This is Taylor Swift's week. It's hard to remember a star of Swift 's stature straddling so many roles, spanning so much of the globe, covering so many corners of the culture and doing so much of it in the spotlight sh Adult dancers in Washington state want a strippers' bill of rights. Here's how it could help them 02/07/2024 08:42pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� For months, Andrea studied for her master���s degree in library sciences between dancing naked at clubs in Seattle. But then she was sexually assaulted at work and slapped by a customer ��� and nobody stepped in to help. Now, she and hundreds of other strippers in Washington state a Minnesota officials say lodge that burned had 3 unresolved inspection violations 02/07/2024 07:34pm • Minnesota regulators said Wednesday that a historic lodge destroyed in a fire had three unresolved violations from a recent fire code inspection, but it wasn���t clear if those violations played a role in the blaze. A staffer at Lutsen Lodge on Lake Superior spotted smoke coming from electrical outl 10 Affordable Valentine's Day Date Ideas 02/07/2024 07:00pm • If you're planning something for you and a date -- or a partner -- on Feb. 14, you may be looking for affordable ideas. Here are 10 that don't scream "cheap." 1. Breakfast in BedPlanning the date: Tim Johnson is based out of Ontario and is the CEO of Couply, a company that offers a free app designed FBI contractor stole an agent's car and tried to enter a restricted facility, authorities say 02/07/2024 06:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A federal contract worker stole an FBI agent���s car from the bureau���s headquarters in Washington and tried to get into a restricted facility before he was arrested, authorities said in court documents filed Wednesday. John C. Worrell III worked at FBI headquarters and drove Thousands rally in Slovakia to accuse new government's plan of going easier on corruption 02/07/2024 01:01pm • BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) ��� Thousands rallied in front of Slovakia's Parliament on Wednesday to condemn a plan by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to eliminate the office of the special prosecutor dealing with major crime and corruption. The rally took place as lawmakers c DC Council appoints formerly incarcerated man to criminal sentencing commission 02/07/2024 10:25am • The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to appoint Joel Cast��n to its criminal sentencing commission, almost a month after debate about his appointment kept the council at a standstill. Cast��n will be one of 12 voting members on the sentencing commission, which helps shape "fair and consistent" sentenci Washington Caps to Virginia Squires: The last time a basketball team moved from DC to Virginia 02/07/2024 09:43am • If a new arena and entertainment district is built in the Potomac Yard section of Alexandria for the Washington Wizards and Capitals, that won't be the first time a professional sports team moved from D.C. to Virginia. In 1969, the two-year-old American Basketball Association came to the nati Former Czech leader Babis loses final appeal over collaboration with communist-era secret police 02/07/2024 09:42am • PRAGUE (AP) ��� Former Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis lost his final appeal in Slovakia Wednesday in a case concerning allegations that he collaborated with communist-era secret police in what was then Czechoslovakia. Babis, who was born in Slovakia, was suing the Institute for National Ballots without barcodes pushed by Georgia GOP in election-law blitz aimed at Trump supporters 02/06/2024 08:31pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia senators on Tuesday passed a bill to remove barcodes from ballots, one of numerous Republican-backed proposals aimed at addressing GOP discontent driven by Donald Trump's false claims that he won the state in 2020. The Senate voted 31-22 to pass Senate Bill 189, sending it o Fire destroys Minnesota's historic Lutsen Lodge on Lake Superior 02/06/2024 08:04pm • LUTSEN, Minn. (AP) ��� Fire destroyed a historic lodge on Lake Superior in northern Minnesota early Tuesday, with the manager quickly pledging it would be rebuilt in the same design. The fire at the Lutsen Lodge was reported around 12:30 a.m. The only staffer on duty spotted smoke coming from electr A bill that would allow armed teachers in Nebraska schools prompts emotional testimony 02/06/2024 07:30pm • A bill that would allow teachers and other staff in schools to be armed in the hopes of deterring school shootings drew dozens of people and some emotional testimony to the Nebraska Legislature���s Education Committee on Tuesday. State Sen. Tom Brewer's bill is among the latest in GOP-led state legi Longtime DC Lyft driver scammed out of more than $1,000 02/06/2024 09:30am • A D.C. Lyft driver who said he's given more than 20,000 rides was scammed out of about $1,000 in a phone-call scheme that's been reported around the country. The scams have prompted a reminder from the ride-hailing service about sharing personal information. Rudy Hairston said he got a call fr