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Walmart experiments with AI to enhance customers' shopping experiences 01/09/2024 09:25pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Walmart has unveiled plans to dive further into the world of artificial intelligence — and drones — to improve its customers’ shopping experiences. In a Tuesday keynote at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, the nation's largest retailer announced it will be expanding its drone A warning for college students in the job market: Scammers are looking too 01/09/2024 09:00pm • When you least expect it, scammers will try and trick you — and while older adults have long been popular targets, college students are not immune. The Federal Trade Commission said bad actors are posing as recruiters from big firms, tech companies and national retailers through social media. Former gang leader charged in killing of Tupac Shakur is allowed $750K bail and house arrest 01/09/2024 07:50pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge set bail Tuesday at $750,000 for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur in 1996, saying he can serve house arrest with electronic monitoring ahead of trial on a murder charge. Court-appointed attor Trump plans to deliver a closing argument at his civil fraud trial, AP sources say 01/09/2024 07:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump aims to deliver his own closing argument Thursday in his New York civil business fraud trial in addition to his legal team’s summations, according to two people familiar with the highly unusual plan. Trump is a defendant in the case brought by New Yo How to File Taxes When You're Self-Employed 01/09/2024 07:00pm • Key Takeaways-- If you're self-employed, you'll need to file taxes throughout the year, typically via quarterly payments.-- The self-employment tax is 15.3%, a combination of Social Security and Medicare taxes.-- There are other taxes you might have to pay, such as federal, state and local.-- Prepar Video of 73-year-old boarded up inside his apartment sparks investigation 01/09/2024 05:39pm • HARVEY, Ill. (AP) — Rudolph Williams says he was home in a Chicago suburb when he realized the doors and windows to his courtyard-style apartment had been boarded up with plywood, locking him inside. “I didn’t know exactly what was going on,” the 73-year-old said Monday in describing how he Migrant families begin leaving NYC hotels as first eviction notices kick in 01/09/2024 05:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Migrant families were moved out of a midtown Manhattan hotel on Tuesday as part of Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to ease the pressure on New York City's strained shelter system by imposing a 60-day limit on shelter stays. The roughly 40 families that left Row NYC, in the heart of the c Virginia Daybook 01/09/2024 04:32pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Tuesday, Jan. 09. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other Sta Mid Atlantic Daybook 01/09/2024 04:31pm • Associated Press Mid Atlantic Daybook for Tuesday, Jan. 09. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. The Mid-Atlantic bureau is reachable at 202-641-9660 a Editorial Roundup: United States 01/09/2024 02:31pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Jan. 6 The Washington Post on home schooling in the US If the coronavirus pandemic turned “working from home” into common parlance, “learning from home” might be next: The Post reported last year on the skyrocketing number of AP Top 25 Reality Check: How will the teams in final AP poll look heading into the 2024 season? 01/09/2024 12:30pm • The preseason Associated Press Top 25 college football poll held up pretty well in 2023. The final AP Top 25 was released early Tuesday after Michigan defeated Washington in the College Football Playoff national title game to finish No. 1. Seventeen teams that began the season ranked in the Top 25 f Microsoft's OpenAI investment could trigger EU merger review 01/09/2024 09:38am • LONDON (AP) — Microsoft's multibillion-dollar investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI could trigger a European Union merger investigation, the bloc's executive branch said Tuesday. The European Commission said it's “checking whether Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI might be reviewable” under reg 'Peach Fuzz' has been dubbed the color of the year. What does that have to do with your garden? 01/09/2024 08:54am • With a new year comes new trends, and the 2024 Pantone color of the year, “Peach Fuzz,” will be dictating many of them. What does this have to do with your garden? Everything. The Pantone Color Institute has been governing worldwide color trends since 2000, providing, according to its website, � Coach Monty Williams sees growth in Pistons while enduring one of the worst seasons in NBA history 01/09/2024 06:00am • DENVER (AP) — Monty Williams lamented not pulling out his phone and taking a quick video. Because it was a moment that illustrated how the Detroit Pistons coach gauges growth while enduring one of the worst seasons in NBA history. There they were, each Piston at a recent optional practice, working Twisted metal, rushing wind: A narrowly avoided disaster as jet's wall rips away at 3 miles high 01/09/2024 12:45am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The loud “boom” was startling enough, and the roaring wind that immediately filled the airline cabin left Kelly Bartlett unnerved. Still, it wasn’t until a shaken teenager, shirtless and scratched, slid into the seat next to her that she realized just how close disaster