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2 men will go on trial for allegedly helping Hong Kong authorities gather intelligence in UK 05/24/2024 12:46pm • LONDON (AP) — The office manager of the Hong Kong trade office in London and another man will go on trial in February for allegedly helping Hong Kong authorities gather intelligence in the U.K. a judge said Friday. Chung Biu Yuen, 63, and Chi Leung Peter Wai, 38, appeared at London’s Central Cr Waddell steps down as Hurricanes president and GM. Tulsky takes over as interim GM 05/24/2024 12:45pm • Don Waddell has stepped down as president and general manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, ending a run that had him build a roster that reached the NHL playoffs for six straight years. The team announced Waddell's decision in a news release Friday, saying assistant general manager Eric Tulsky would As the election nears, Biden pushes a slew of rules on the environment and other priorities 05/24/2024 12:24pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — As he tries to secure his legacy, President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election year rules on the environment and other topics, including a landmark regulation that would force coal-fired power plants to capture smokestack emissions or shut down. The limits on greenhouse China's latest AI chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping's political ideology 05/24/2024 12:17pm • HONG KONG (AP) — China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine, in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by. China’s cyberspace academy earlier this week announced the chatbot trained on Xi Jinping Th Barcelona parts ways with Xavi one month after coach reversed decision to step down 05/24/2024 12:15pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — First, he wanted out. Then he wanted to stay. Finally, Barcelona decided enough is enough and parted ways with coach Xavi Hernandez. One month after Xavi said he would continue as coach despite a disappointing season, the club told the former midfield great it did not want Trabajador agrícola de Michigan se convierte en la segunda persona diagnosticada con gripe aviar en EEUU 05/24/2024 12:03pm • Un trabajador lechero de Michigan ha sido diagnosticado con gripe aviar, el segundo caso en seres humanos relacionado con un brote en vacas lecheras de Estados Unidos. El trabajador estuvo en contacto con vacas en una granja que reportó animales infectados. Presentó síntomas oculares leves y s With college athletes on cusp of revenue-sharing, there are Title IX questions that must be answered 05/24/2024 11:46am • The looming athlete pay system that will upend the traditional college sports model and still-to-be-determined details about how millions of dollars will be distributed are certain to bring questions about gender equity. Of special interest will be whether schools must comply with Title IX, the fede US intelligence agencies' embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent 05/24/2024 11:29am • ARLINGTON, Virginia (AP) — Long before generative AI's boom, a Silicon Valley firm contracted to collect and analyze non-classified data on illicit Chinese fentanyl trafficking made a compelling case for its embrace by U.S. intelligence agencies. The operation's results far exceeded human-only an UN human rights office decries beheadings, other violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state 05/24/2024 11:17am • GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office warned Friday of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine, pointing to new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the military and an ethnic armed group fighting it. Spokesperson Liz Throsse Opposing GMs in West final were junior teammates whose names are together on Stanley Cup 4 times 05/24/2024 10:58am • DALLAS (AP) — Jim Nill and Ken Holland were teammates in junior hockey nearly a half-century ago with big aspirations as players. Their names are together on the Stanley Cup four times, not as players but rather for their front-office roles with the Detroit Red Wings during that run of championshi Sydney judge says US ex-fighter pilot accused of training Chinese aviators can be extradited to US 05/24/2024 10:58am • SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney judge on Friday ruled that former U.S. Marine Corps pilot Daniel Duggan can be extradited to the United States on allegations that he illegally trained Chinese aviators, leaving the attorney-general as Duggan’s last hope of remaining in Australia. Magistrate Daniel Reiss o UN countries adopt treaty to better trace origins of genetic resources under global patent system 05/24/2024 10:56am • GENEVA (AP) — U.N. member countries on Friday concluded a new treaty to ensure that genetic resources used in inventions, like new medicines derived from exotic plants in the Andes mountains, are properly traced. It marks the first time the 193 member states of the U.N.’s World Intellectual Prop Over 100 feared dead in landslide in remote part of Papua New Guinea, with rescue efforts underway 05/24/2024 10:52am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in a landslide Friday that buried a village in a remote, mountainous part of Papua New Guinea, and an emergency response is underway, officials in the South Pacific island nation said. The landslide struck Enga provi Italian teenage computer wizard set to become the first saint of the Millennial generation 05/24/2024 10:48am • ROME (AP) — Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006. Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian pa Eli Lilly beefs up plan to expand manufacturing for popular drugs Zepbound, Mounjaro 05/24/2024 10:28am • Eli Lilly will spend more than $5 billion to expand an Indiana manufacturing site and eventually make more doses of its popular weight-loss and diabetes treatments, Zepbound and Mounjaro. The drugmaker said Friday that it was more than doubling its investment in a site near its Indianapolis headquar