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China's Alibaba reports 38% jump in AI and cloud revenue as it races to grow 05/13/2026 01:27pm • HONG KONG (AP) ��� China���s Alibaba said that growth accelerated for both its artificial intelligence and cloud businesses in the latest quarter, driven by the AI boom, even though overall revenue rose just 3% to 243 billion yuan ($36 billion). Revenue from its Cloud Intelligence Group, which focus US overdose deaths fell again in 2025, but some worry about policy and drug supply changes 05/13/2026 01:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� About 70,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year ��� about 14% fewer than the previous year, according to preliminary government data. It was the third straight annual drop, making it the longest decline in decades, according to federal data released Wednesday. The 2025 tot Can 'Off Campus' capture the hockey romance audience after 'Heated Rivalry'? 05/13/2026 01:02pm • Thanks to ���Heated Rivalry,��� hockey hunks ��� and their love stories ��� are having a moment. Prime Video���s ���Off Campus��� is the next show hoping to score with viewers. This series, which started streaming Wednesday and is based on a collection of romance books written by Elle Kennedy, foll Kids are in a ���reading recession,��� as test scores continue to decline 05/13/2026 01:02pm • MODESTO, Calif. (AP) ��� Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a ���pre-celebration��� to boost their confidence, then take their exam. Lately, there���s been a lot to celebrat Legge could become the first woman to complete racing's 'Double' at Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 05/13/2026 12:57pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� Katherine Legge hopes to become the first woman to attempt "The Double��� in racing ��� even if she's reluctant to claim the title. She's not terribly interested in being the first non-American to try it, either. Just hours after her NASCAR team, BRANDed Management, announced t Movie Review: Sorry not sorry ��� ���Is God Is��� stakes a claim for unapologetic female rage 05/13/2026 12:55pm • As playwright Aleshea Harris tells it, something felt missing when she first sat down to write her searing and startling play ���Is God Is,��� which made waves off-Broadway in 2018. Harris was writing an epic story of Black female revenge, one that drew on Greek tragedy and mythology, but also spagh Newborn baby found abandoned near Stafford County park, deputies say 05/13/2026 12:46pm • Authorities in Stafford County, Virginia, say they're searching for the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned Tuesday afternoon near a public park. Deputies said the baby was found in the area of Coriander Lane and Embrey Mill Road, near Embrey Mill Park. A sheriff's office spokesperson sai Trump administration tells the AP that foreigners with World Cup tickets won���t have to pay pricey bonds to enter the US 05/13/2026 12:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Trump administration tells the AP that foreigners with World Cup tickets won���t have to pay pricey bonds to enter the US. ACC formally backs Big Ten's push for the College Football Playoff to expand to 24 teams 05/13/2026 12:41pm • AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. (AP) ��� The Atlantic Coast Conference is backing the Big Ten���s push for a 24-team playoff, commissioner Jim Phillips said Wednesday. Speaking at the end of three days of spring meetings in a posh resort in northeast Florida, Phillips said ACC coaches and athletic directors rea Retired volunteers become a part of an elementary school community in Gaithersburg 05/13/2026 12:41pm • It���s a mixing of the generations. A group of retirees in Gaithersburg, Maryland, every week head to a nearby elementary school to volunteer their time and go back to work to help the newest generation learn to read, improve their math skills and even pick up a second language. The volunteer France confines more than 1,700 on British cruise ship in Bordeaux after gastroenteritis outbreak 05/13/2026 12:40pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Over 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship were ordered to remain on board after an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness, French authorities said Wednesday. They dismissed any link to a deadly hantavirus outbreak on another vessel that has put European health authorities Vatican issues final warning to breakaway traditionalist group attached to the old Latin Mass 05/13/2026 12:38pm • ROME (AP) ��� With Pope Leo XIV's first big crisis looming, the Vatican on Wednesday issued a final warning to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that their planned consecration of bishops without papal consent constitutes a schismatic act that incurs automatic excommunication. Leo is pra Sandra Oh, Kumail Nanjiani among 'A List' Asian American, Pacific Islander names in new HBO doc 05/13/2026 12:36pm • Director Eugene Yi has always been interested in the term Asian American and Pacific Islander and which ethnicities it includes. ���When we���re talking about Asian Americans or Asian people in the U.S., oftentimes it���s people who might look like you and me, and maybe not people who look like (New Foul calls are up in the NBA playoffs. History says that's to be expected 05/13/2026 12:28pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� NBA referees are calling about 11% more personal fouls per game so far in these playoffs than they did during the regular season, a differential that's on pace to be one of the largest in NBA history. And in the league's eyes, that's to be expected. Mindful of criticism from players Company says it���s not clear when its hantavirus-hit ship will start cruises again 05/13/2026 12:19pm • The operator of the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak told The Associated Press on Wednesday it expects to know by the end of the week if the vessel will keep to its schedule for the coming months, as it previously indicated it would. The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius is listed on Oceanw