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Efforts to draft a pandemic treaty falter as countries disagree on how to respond to next emergency 05/24/2024 06:38pm • GENEVA (AP) — A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed — for now — to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic. After COVID-19 triggered once-unthink Cats on the moon? Google's AI tool is producing misleading responses that have experts worried 05/24/2024 06:10pm • Ask Google if cats have been on the moon and it used to spit out a ranked list of websites so you could discover the answer for yourself. Now it comes up with an instant answer generated by artificial intelligence -- which may or may not be correct. “Yes, astronauts have met cats on the moon, pla What legal woes may lie ahead for container ship that brought down Baltimore's Key Bridge? 05/24/2024 05:54pm • Two months after Baltimore's Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River, the container ship that struck it has been refloated. The Dali has been moved and more work is underway, but does that mean smooth sailing from here on out? WTOP's Sandy Kozel and Nick Iannelli spoke to Maryland Attorney G With revenue sharing coming to college sports, are NIL collectives a problem or part of a solution? 05/24/2024 05:28pm • When the NCAA lifted its longtime ban on college athletes earning endorsement money in 2021, there was no such thing as collectives. Now the booster-funded organizations have become ubiquitous, and a common way for athletes to cash in as name, image and likeness compensation quickly evolved into a Despite surging demand for long-term care, providers struggle to find workers 05/24/2024 05:18pm • The hardest part of Culix Wibonele’s first job in long-term care was not getting injured. Originally from Kenya, Wibonele worked as a certified nursing assistant in Atlanta in 2014. She went to the homes of mostly older clients, helping them with everything from bathing to cooking. Wibonele worked The Beach Boys, going into the sunset, look back on years of harmony and heartache in documentary 05/24/2024 05:13pm • Both the Beach Boys and “The Beach Boys” — the new documentary dropping Friday on Disney+ — are all about blending a range of voices. The three Wilson brothers — Brian, Carl and Dennis — along with cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, brought a harmonic revolution to group vocals wit As Trump's hush-money trial nears an end, some would-be spectators camp out for days to get inside 05/24/2024 05:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) — While some New Yorkers headed to the beach for Memorial Day weekend, a few set up camp outside the courthouse where Donald Trump’s criminal trial is set to resume next week, hoping to snag a seat inside the courtroom for the start of closing arguments. Friday found a handful of p Security Council approves resolution decrying attacks on UN and aid workers and demanding protection 05/24/2024 04:44pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution Friday that strongly condemns attacks on humanitarian workers and U.N. personnel and demands that all combatants protect them in accordance with international law. The vote was 14-0 with Russia abstaining. The Swiss-sp ANÁLISIS | Israel se enfrenta a retos sin precedentes a medida que aumenta la presión jurídica y diplomática 05/24/2024 04:38pm • (CNN) -- Ha sido un mes tumultuoso para Israel. Nunca antes el Estado judío había estado sometido a una presión internacional tan intensa y sostenida desde múltiples frentes por sus políticas hacia los palestinos.Esta semana, el primer ministro de Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, se unió a las fila Dejan cuatro cuerpos desmembrados en una calle de Acapulco 05/24/2024 04:17pm • ACAPULCO, México – Un grupo criminal abandonó este viernes cuatro cuerpos desmembrados muy cerca de la entrada de la cárcel Centro de Reinserción Social (Cereso) de Acapulco, puerto del sur de México que afronta una ola de violencia en las últimas semanas. Autoridades de seguridad pú The Justice Department is suing Ticketmaster and Live Nation. What does that mean for concertgoers? 05/24/2024 04:12pm • Will the Justice Department's lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation give concertgoers, sports fan and theater patrons some relief from surging ticket prices? The lawsuit could potentially lead to a breakup of Live Nation Entertainment, a company that resulted from Ticketmaster's 2010 merger w Colorado governor signs bills regulating funeral homes after discovery of 190 rotting bodies 05/24/2024 04:09pm • DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed two bills into law Friday that overhaul state oversight of the funeral home industry after a series of gruesome discoveries, including 190 discomposing bodies in a facility, families being sent fake ashes and the unauthorized sale of body parts. The c UK Parliament breaks up ahead of election day with pomp, ceremony and hard-nosed politics 05/24/2024 04:02pm • LONDON (AP) — Britain’s lawmakers left Parliament on Friday for the last time before an election is held in six weeks. Some will never return. About 120 of the 650 members of Parliament are stepping down, and they and those who lose their seats on July 4 face an abrupt readjustment to life outsi Republican AGs ask Supreme Court to block climate change lawsuits brought by several states 05/24/2024 03:59pm • Republican attorneys general in 19 states have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing climate change lawsuits against the oil and gas industry in their own state courts. The unusual request comes as dozens of states and local governments have filed lawsuits Pioneering Black female pilot for Air Force, United Airlines lands final flight 05/24/2024 03:45pm • WABC-TV(WASHINGTON) -- Pioneering aviator Captain Theresa M. Claiborne has retired after 43 years of flying, first as a second lieutenant and the first Black female pilot in the U.S. Air Force, and then as a captain at United Airlines.Claiborne was hired by United in January 1990 after seven years o