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Trump's legal debts top a half-billion dollars. Will he have to pay? 02/16/2024 08:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump's legal debts might now exceed a half-billion dollars. A New York judge ordered Trump and his companies Friday to pay $355 million in fines, plus interest, after ruling that he had manipulated his net worth in financial statements. The stiff penalty comes just weeks af Western officials and Kremlin critics blame Putin and his government for Navalny's death in prison 02/16/2024 07:30pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time Friday in blaming the reported death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government. ���It is obvious that he was killed by Putin,��� said Ukrainian President Volody West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announces he won't run for president in 2024 02/16/2024 05:44pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announced on Friday that he is not running for president, saying he didn't want to be a ���spoiler.��� ���I will not be seeking a third-party run," he said in a speech at West Virginia University. "I will not be involved in a presidential run. I will Crews take steps to secure graffiti-scarred Los Angeles towers left unfinished by developer 02/16/2024 05:25pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� City crews on Friday took an initial step toward securing an unfinished complex of downtown Los Angeles high-rise towers that have been vandalized with graffiti and used for dangerous social media stunts after the developer ran out of money. Workers began removing scaffolding pr Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Putin���s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says 02/16/2024 05:11pm • Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin���s fiercest foe, died Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia���s prison agency said. He was 47. The stunning news ��� less than a Sora is ChatGPT maker OpenAI's new text-to-video generator. Here's what we know about the new tool 02/16/2024 03:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The maker of ChatGPT is now diving into AI-generated video. Meet Sora ��� OpenAI's new text-to-video generator. The tool, which the San Francisco company unveiled Thursday, uses generative artificial intelligence to instantly create short videos based on written commands. Sora isn' Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery 02/16/2024 02:36pm • Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt ���reasonable precautions��� to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world. Executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 02/16/2024 12:39pm • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Posts share erroneous information about suspect identification in Kan Americans divided on TikTok ban even as Biden campaign joins the app, AP-NORC poll shows 02/16/2024 11:33am • President Joe Biden���s campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the presidential elections, but U.S. adults have mixed views about whether the video-sharing app should even operate in the country. A new poll by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research f Indian farmers strike to demand guaranteed crop prices as others attempt to march to New Delhi 02/16/2024 09:49am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Farmers blocked highways and held demonstrations in many rural areas in northern India on Friday to protest over a range of grievances that have also led tens of thousands to march toward the capital in tractors and wagons. Farmers in the northern states of Haryana and Punjab held Greece just legalized same-sex marriage. Will other Orthodox countries join them any time soon? 02/16/2024 08:44am • Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage under civil law. At least for the near future, it will almost certainly be the only one. Eastern Orthodox leadership, despite lacking a single doctrinal authority like a pope, has been united in opposing rec Today in History: February 16, Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba 02/16/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Friday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2024. There are 319 days left in the year. Today���s Highlight in History: On Feb. 16, 1959, Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. On this date: In 1862, the Civil War Battle of For Dispute may have led to the mass shooting after the Chiefs' Super Bowl parade, police say 02/15/2024 11:14pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� The mass shooting that unfolded amid throngs of people at the Kansas City Chiefs��� Super Bowl celebration, killing one person and wounding almost two dozen others, appeared to stem from a dispute between several people, authorities said Thursday. Police Chief Stacey Graves Venezuela orders UN human rights office to close, accusing it of anti-government activity 02/15/2024 07:01pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ��� Venezuela���s government on Thursday ordered the local United Nations office on human rights to suspend operations and gave its staff 72 hours to leave, accusing it of assisting coup plotters and terrorist groups. Foreign Affairs Minister Yv��n Gil announced the decision Credit Union Personal Loans: Everything You Need to Know 02/15/2024 07:00pm • Personal loans can be a valuable tool if you need to consolidate debt or finance home improvements, and you can find these loans through banks and online lenders. 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