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Editorial Roundup: United States 10/16/2024 04:32pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 11 The Washington Post on AI's impact on chemistry, biomedicine One of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in physics, Geoffrey Hinton, who pioneered work on the neural networks that undergird artificial intelligence, has warned Idaho issues execution warrant for inmate who survived a botched attempt 10/16/2024 04:27pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho prison officials will attempt to execute the state’s longest-serving death row inmate next month using new protocols after botching the first attempt several months ago. A judge issued a death warrant for Thomas Eugene Creech Wednesday morning, one day after the Idaho D Man charged with abandoning dog in floodwaters as Florida residents evacuated ahead of hurricane 10/16/2024 04:01pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A man has been arrested for animal cruelty after authorities say he abandoned his dog in floodwaters near a highway as residents evacuated Florida's Gulf Coast last week shortly before Hurricane Milton made landfall. The 23-year-old man from Ruskin, Florida, was arrested Monday College football picks: Huskers can end 7-year bowl drought if they knock off No. 16 Indiana on road 10/16/2024 03:55pm • The second half of the college football season is upon us, when many teams' thoughts turn to qualifying for a bowl if not the College Football Playoff. The usual suspects, and some new ones, are bidding for the 12 playoff spots. There are 70 more postseason openings for 35 non-playoff bowls. Nine te NCAA closes loophole that allowed Oregon to purposely induce late penalty in win 10/16/2024 03:45pm • The NCAA football rules committee issued guidance Wednesday to close a loophole that allowed second-ranked Oregon to exploit an illegal substitution penalty late in its victory over Ohio State to take time off the clock. With Ohio State driving on its final possession of the game and just seconds le Family looks for missing Broadway dancer Zelig Williams in South Carolina 10/16/2024 03:45pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A family in South Carolina pleaded for help Wednesday in finding Broadway dancer Zelig Williams, whose disappearance nearly two weeks ago has also drawn the concern of the broader theater community, including Hugh Jackman. Williams, who danced in New York productions of “Ha As Broncos coach Sean Payton returns to New Orleans, sinking Saints try to stem 4-game skid 10/16/2024 03:45pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sean Payton became synonymous with New Orleans during his decade and a half as the Saints coach — an era when the club made the playoffs nine times and won its only Super Bowl. The Denver Broncos' second-year coach will experience the Superdome in a new way on Thursday night, Lions sign DT Alim McNeill to $97 million, 4-year deal in franchise's latest investment 10/16/2024 03:44pm • ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions have decided to make defensive tackle Alim McNeill their latest investment, retaining a key player with a long-term deal. “Fired up for Mac, he earned that,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said Wednesday. “He's a pivotal piece for us.” McNeill signed a The judge handling Boeing's plea deal asks Justice Department to explain its diversity policy 10/16/2024 02:47pm • DALLAS (AP) — The federal judge considering Boeing's plea deal with prosecutors wants to know how the Justice Department's diversity, equity and inclusion policies would affect the selection of an independent monitor to oversee the aerospace company during a three-year probation period. U.S. Dist Middle East latest: Israeli jets pummel southern Lebanon and Beirut's suburbs 10/16/2024 02:25pm • Israeli jets struck southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs on Wednesday, killing at least 27 people including a city mayor, Lebanese officials said. Hezbollah acting leader Sheikh Naim Kassem declared Tuesday that the Lebanese militant group would ramp up attacks on Israel in response to an Biden to travel to Germany this week, Angola in December for visits delayed by Hurricane Milton 10/16/2024 02:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is heading to Germany Thursday and will visit Angola the first week in December, rescheduling visits that were postponed so he could remain in Washington to monitor the federal response to Hurricane Milton as it struck Florida. The White House confirmed Biden Pats owner Robert Kraft headlines the list of 25 contributors up for Hall of Fame consideration 10/16/2024 02:02pm • Six-time Super Bowl-winning owner Robert Kraft and three of the key figures around the rise of “Monday Night Football” were picked among the 25 candidates in the contributor category for the 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame class. The names of the candidates released Wednesday came after a Blue Trump would be the oldest person to become president. He's not sharing health details 10/16/2024 01:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — If he wins next month's election, Donald Trump would be the oldest person in U.S. history to be elected president. Yet the 78-year-old Republican nominee refuses to disclose new details about his physical or mental well-being, breaking decades of precedent. There have been limite Zimbabwe to compensate white farmers who lost land in seizures 20 years ago 10/16/2024 12:41pm • HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe says it will compensate local and foreign white farmers who lost land and property more than 20 years ago in farm seizures meant to redress some of the wrongs of colonialism. About 4,000 white farmers lost their homes and swathes of land when the Black-majority cou QB Trevor Lawrence says Jaguars have 'turned the page' on latest embarrassing loss 10/16/2024 12:39pm • WATFORD, England (AP) — Over in Old England, it's on to New England for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jags quarterback Trevor Lawrence said he and his team have put an embarrassing 35-16 loss to the Chicago Bears behind them. Next up are the Patriots (1-5) on Sunday at Wembley Stadium. “You just hav