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The Mona Lisa rapping? New Microsoft AI animates faces from photos 04/21/2024 03:00am • New York (CNN) — The Mona Lisa can now do more than smile, thanks to new artificial intelligence technology from Microsoft.Last week, Microsoft researchers detailed a new AI model they’ve developed that can take a still image of a face and an audio clip of someone speaking and automatically Will there be a 'superbloom' this year in California? Here's what to know 04/21/2024 01:02am • Carpets of yellow, orange and gold flowers are beginning to cover Southern California's vast deserts, the Bay Area's dramatic bluffs and even near Los Angeles International Airport. But do they add up to a “superbloom”? There is no single definition of the event, but so far this year's blooms ha Councilwoman chosen as new Fort Wayne mayor, its 1st Black leader, in caucus to replace late mayor 04/20/2024 03:41pm • FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A Fort Wayne city councilwoman was chosen Saturday as the new mayor of Indiana’s second most populous city, and its first Black leader, during a caucus to replace its late mayor, who died in March. Councilwoman Sharon Tucker, a Democrat, will also become the second woman Record Store Day celebrates indie retail music sellers as they ride vinyl's popularity wave 04/20/2024 01:37pm • PHOENIX (AP) — Special LP releases, live performances and at least one giant block party are scheduled around the U.S. Saturday as hundreds of shops celebrate Record Store Day during a surge of interest in vinyl and the day after the release of Taylor Swift's latest album. There were no announced At least 20 dead after a ferry sinks in Central African Republic, witnesses say 04/20/2024 12:57pm • BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — At least 20 people have drowned in Central African Republic after a ferry sank while carrying passengers on a river, witnesses said Saturday. The wooden ferry was carrying more than 300 people to a funeral over the Mpoko River in the capital, Bangui, on Fri Here’s what marijuana researchers have to say about 420 or ‘weed day’ 04/20/2024 05:30am • (CNN) — It’s 420 or “weed day,” and people around the world will be paying homage to their favorite guilty pleasure: marijuana.Currently, 24 states, two territories and the District of Columbia in the United States have legalized marijuana for recreational use, making it that much easier Israel and Iran's apparent strikes and counterstrikes give new insights into both militaries 04/20/2024 12:39am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel demonstrated its military dominance over adversary Iran in its apparent precision strikes that hit near military and nuclear targets deep in the heart of the country, meeting little significant challenge from Iran's defenses and providing the world with new insights into b A man escaped Sudan's bloody civil war. His mysterious death in Missisippi has sparked suspicion 04/20/2024 12:14am • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — As a child, Dau Mabil escaped war-torn Sudan and built a new life in Mississippi. This month, fishermen found the body of the 33-year-old Mabil floating in a river, prompting calls for a federal investigation into his disappearance and death. Mabil, who lived in Jackson with Previewing the 1st round of the NBA playoffs, which start on Saturday 04/20/2024 12:11am • Preview capsules for the first round of the NBA playoffs, which start Saturday. ___ EASTERN CONFERENCE No. 1 BOSTON CELTICS (64-18) vs. No. 8 MIAMI HEAT (46-36) Season series: Celtics, 3-0. Story line: Here they go again, sort of. The Celtics and Heat met in the East finals in 2020, 2022 and 2023 (H Mexican families searching for missing relatives unite to draw attention to their plight 04/19/2024 10:33pm • TEPOTZOTLAN, Mexico (AP) — Dozens of women and men searched a garbage dump outside Mexico’s capital Friday looking for signs of missing loved ones, working without the protection of authorities as part of a nationwide effort to raise the profile of those who risk their lives to find others. Unde Alec Bohm hits a pair of 3-run homers for Phillies against White Sox 04/19/2024 09:54pm • PHILAELPHIA (AP) — Alec Bohm's first homer of the game was hit the opposite way into the right-field seats. His second homer was lofted high into the left-center section. Both Bohm bombs counted the same for the Phillies — three-run shots that gave the Phillies a 6-0 lead through three innings. Final jurors seated for Trump's hush money case, with opening statements set for Monday 04/19/2024 08:36pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The final jurors were seated Friday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, and an appellate judge rejected the former president’s latest bid to halt the case as a hectic day in court set the stage for opening statements to begin Monday. The panel of New Yorkers who will decide the BNSF Railway says it didn't know about asbestos that's killed hundreds in Montana town 04/19/2024 08:10pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) — BNSF Railway attorneys told a Montana jury Friday that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an asbestos-contaminated Montana town, one of the deadliest sites in the federal Superfund pollution program. Attorneys for the c Idaho group says it is exploring a ballot initiative for abortion rights and reproductive care 04/19/2024 07:07pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A new Idaho organization says it will ask voters to restore abortion access and other reproductive health care rights in the state after lawmakers let a second legislative session end without modifying strict abortion bans that have been blamed for a recent exodus of health car 10-year-old boy confesses to fatally shooting a man in his sleep 2 years ago, Texas authorities say 04/19/2024 06:04pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved killing in Texas, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept, authorities said Friday. The boy, who was just shy of his eighth birthday when the man was shot two years ago, has been evaluated