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Terrorism ruled out after 11 killed as a vehicle plows into a Filipino street festival in Vancouver

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Vancouver police ruled out terrorism in a car ramming attack that killed 11 people between the ages of 5 and 65 at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city, saying the suspect has a history of mental health issues. Dozens of others were injured, some critically, as the tragedy shook the country before a federal election. Some of the injured were not immediately identified. A man driving a black Audi SUV entered the street just after 8 p.m. Saturday and struck people attending the Lapu Lapu Day festival. A Vancouver man was ...

Iran’s president visits those injured in port explosion that killed at least 40

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s president on Sunday visited those injured in a huge explosion that rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s main ports, a facility purportedly linked to an earlier delivery of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant. The visit by President Masoud Pezeshkian came as the toll from Saturday’s blast at the Shahid Rajaei port outside of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province rose to 40 with about 1,000 others injured. While Iran’s military sought to deny the delivery of ammonium perchlorate from China, new videos ...

Trump wants to end tech industry’s its ‘woke AI’ efforts

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — After retreating from their workplace diversity, equity and inclusion programs, tech companies could now face a second reckoning over their DEI work in AI products. In the White House and the Republican-led Congress, “woke AI” has replaced harmful algorithmic discrimination as a problem that needs fixing. Past efforts to “advance equity” in AI development and curb the production of “harmful and biased outputs” are a target of investigation, according to subpoenas sent to Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and 10 other tech companies last month ...

Rafaela drives in 5 runs and Duran has 4 hits as the Red Sox roll to a 13-3 win over the Guardians

CLEVELAND (AP) — Ceddanne Rafaela homered and drove in five runs, Jarren Duran had four hits and the Boston Red Sox rolled to a 13-3 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday. Rafaela drove a fastball from Joey Cantillo just over the center-field fence for a three-run shot in the seventh inning. Duran had consecutive three-hit games for the second time in his career. He got into a confrontation with someone in the stands during the seventh-inning stretch. According to NESN, a fan in the front row was making fun of Duran’s suicide attempt after Duran flied out in the ...