AI-generated models could bring more diversity to fashion industry

Associated Press 04/15/2024

CHICAGO — London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you’d expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood. The virtual twin was generated by artificial intelligence and has already…

O.J. Simpson saga a unique American moment: 30 years on, we’re still wondering what it means

Associated Press 04/12/2024

NEW YORK — A dog’s plaintive wail. A courtroom couplet-turned-cultural catchphrase about gloves. A judge and attorneys who became media darlings and villains. A slightly bewildered houseguest elevated, briefly, into a slightly bewildered celebrity. Troubling questions about…

What to know about real estate tycoon sentenced to death in Vietnam’s largest fraud case

Associated Press 04/12/2024

HANOI, Vietnam— A Vietnamese real estate tycoon was sentenced to death Thursday in the country’s biggest ever financial fraud case, a shocking development in an intensifying anti-corruption drive in the southeast Asian nation. Truong My Lan, a…

Mom who threw 2 kids onto LA freeway, killing her infant, appeared agitated by impending eclipse

Associated Press 04/11/2024

LOS ANGELES — A woman who authorities say fatally stabbed her partner at their Los Angeles apartment Monday then threw her two children from a moving SUV onto the freeway, killing her infant daughter, was an astrologer…

US wildfires: They’re getting bigger, prompting changes in firefighting workforce

Associated Press 04/10/2024

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — It’s shaping up to be a long wildfire season, with Texas already seeing its largest blaze in recorded history and firefighters becoming overwhelmed with recent blazes in Virginia. Just in the first three months…

Transgender Catholics say new Vatican document shows no understanding of their lives

Associated Press 04/09/2024

Transgender Catholics — as well as a priest who welcomes them to his parish — expressed disappointment Monday with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex. In essence, it was a restatement of…

Vatican: Gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy are violations of human dignity

Associated Press 04/09/2024

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that it said reject God’s plan for human life.…

Pope meets with Israeli hostages’ relatives

Associated Press 04/09/2024

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met Monday with relatives of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, marking the six-months since the attack in southern Israel with an hourlong audience. The Vatican released photos of the encounter,…

Florida police: Woman shoots drivers, says God told her to because of the eclipse

Associated Press 04/09/2024

BONIFAY, Fla. — A woman checked out of a Florida hotel and told staff that she was going on a God-directed shooting spree because of the solar eclipse, then shot two drivers on Interstate 10 before being…

Powerball: $1.3 billion winning jackpot ticket sold in Portland, Oregon

Associated Press 04/08/2024

DES MOINES, Iowa — A Powerball player in Oregon won a jackpot worth more than $1.3 billion on Sunday, ending a winless streak that had stretched more than three months. The single ticket — revealed following a…

Happy ABBA-versary! Fans mark 50 years since ‘Waterloo’ took the world by storm

Associated Press 04/08/2024

LONDON — It’s 50 years since ABBA won a major battle with “Waterloo.” A half-century ago on Saturday, April 6, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song, which opens:…

NBA: 76ers towed by Maxey, Embiid beats Miami, tightening East race

Associated Press 04/05/2024

MIAMI — Philadelphia opened a big lead, wasted it all, opened another big lead, wasted that one as well, then found itself in trouble midway through the fourth quarter. No problem. The 76ers had one last run…

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