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Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI and gets backing from Jeff Bezos and tech giants 02/29/2024 05:22pm • ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure. Sunnyvale, California-based Figure announced the partnership Thursday along with $675 million in venture capital funding from a group th Palestinians say Israeli troops fired at people seeking food. Israel says scene was deadly stampede 02/29/2024 05:18pm • RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed in the chaos, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to Maui County officials select final disposal site for debris from Lahaina wildfire 02/29/2024 05:11pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii officials plan to send debris and ash from the August wildfire that destroyed Lahaina town to Maui's central landfill. Maui County officials said Wednesday that they picked the permanent disposal site in Kahului over two others that are closer to Lahaina, the Honolulu Star-A Red Bull's Horner dismisses 'anonymous speculation,' denies misconduct after alleged evidence dump 02/29/2024 04:44pm • SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — Red Bull principal Christian Horner dismissed “anonymous speculation” after alleged evidence in his misconduct investigation was widely distributed on Thursday, two days before his team opens its bid for a fourth consecutive Formula 1 drivers' championship. His statement Practice in Bahrain starts marathon F1 year after a dramatic offseason 02/29/2024 03:23pm • SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — After the most dramatic offseason in recent Formula 1 history comes its longest ever season. The season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix will be the first of 24 race weekends. Champion Max Verstappen — sixth in the first practice Thursday — is among several drivers raising con ICE says it tried to detain this man twice last year. He's now charged in a Maryland toddler's killing 02/29/2024 02:39pm • Five people are facing murder charges in connection with a shooting that left a 2-year-old boy dead in Langley Park, Maryland, this month. One of those suspects, and his immigration status, has inspired a new standard practice for how police communicate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Biden orders US investigation of national security risks posed by Chinese-made 'smart cars' 02/29/2024 02:31pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing potential national security risks, the Biden administration says it will investigate Chinese-made “smart cars” that can gather sensitive information about Americans driving them. The probe could lead to new regulations aimed at preventing China from using sophisticate Son of Blue Jays' Erik Swanson out of pediatric intensive care after being hit by car 02/29/2024 02:05pm • LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays reliever Erik Swanson’s son Toby has been discharged from the pediatric intensive care unit. The 4-year-old boy was hit by a car Sunday in Clearwater and was airlifted in critical condition to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg. Swan Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge picked up last month in sign of still-elevated prices 02/29/2024 12:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge favored by the Federal Reserve increased in January, the latest sign that the slowdown in U.S. consumer price increases is occurring unevenly from month to month. The government reported Thursday that prices rose 0.3% from December to January, up from 0.1% in t Missouri House passes property tax cut aimed at offsetting surge in vehicle values 02/29/2024 12:38pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri residents could see a roughly $138 million tax break under legislation passed Thursday by the House in an attempt to offset a recent surge in local tax collections caused by higher vehicle values. The legislation changing the way Missouri's personal property ta Best Buy's shares up after chain posts smaller-than expected sales decline for 4Q 02/29/2024 12:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Best Buy's shares rose on Thursday as the nation's largest consumer electronics chain posted a smaller-than-expected sales decline for the fiscal fourth quarter, signaling that the bottom of spending on gadgets may be in sight. The Minneapolis-based company reported fourth-quarter Family of Cuban dissident who died in mysterious car crash sues accused American diplomat-turned-spy 02/29/2024 11:26am • MIAMI (AP) — The widow of a prominent Cuban dissident killed in a mysterious car crash has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a former U.S. ambassador suspected of working for Cuba, accusing the former diplomat of sharing intelligence that emboldened Cuba’s communist leaders to assassinate a The London police officer who killed Sarah Everard should never have been employed, an inquiry finds 02/29/2024 08:47am • LONDON (AP) — An off-duty police officer who abducted and murdered a 33-year-old woman in south London three years ago should never have been employed in the first place, with three police forces failing to spot clear signals of his unsuitability, an official inquiry revealed Thursday. According t A bomb destroyed a Jewish community center in Argentina in 1994. What has happened since? 02/29/2024 08:19am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — On July 18, 1994, an explosion destroyed the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association, a Jewish community center. The worst such attack in the history of Argentina left 85 dead and more than 300 injured. Official reports established tha Brink's: Q4 Earnings Snapshot 02/29/2024 07:24am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Brink's Co. (BCO) on Thursday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $6 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier. The Richmond, Virginia-based company said it had a loss of 13 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring co