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GRAND BLANC, Mich. — The youngest patient to arrive at Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital after a shooting and fire at a Michigan church on Sunday morning was just 6 years old. His demeanor, Dr. Sanford Ross recalled, was “stoic.””He didn’t shed one tear. Mom was a wreck, which I, as a parent, completely understand,” said Ross, the assistant medical director of emergency medicine, recounting the young gunshot victim’s harrowing ordeal. “They went through a horrible tragedy, something a child should never see — people being shot in front of them — and he comes walking in … stoic.”Four people…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roki Sasaki dazzled in his postseason pitching debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers, closing out their sweep of the Cincinnati Reds with a perfect ninth inning in the NL Wild Card Series on Wednesday night.The youthful looking rookie from Japan celebrated with a beer in his hand and goggles on in the team’s batting cage after their 8-4 victory advanced the Dodgers to the National League Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday.The Dodgers partied in the cage, lit up like a surgery center, rather than their remodeled clubhouse featuring high-tech screens that could be…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani will make his postseason pitching debut when he starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 1 of the National League Division Series.The Dodgers open the best-of-five series on Saturday in Philadelphia.“Very talented ballclub. It’s going to be a fun environment,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “I think we match up really well with those guys. They’re going to run a bunch of left-handers at us. Talented, all throughout the lineup.”Roberts confirmed Ohtani as the starter after the Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-4 to complete a sweep in the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out nine while pitching into the seventh inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers broke it open with a four-run sixth inning to beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-4 on Wednesday night and advance to the National League Division Series.After hitting a franchise playoff-tying five home runs in a 10-5 win in the NL Wild Card Series opener Tuesday, the Dodgers eliminated the Reds by playing small ball and rapping out 13 hits — two fewer than in Game 1. Mookie Betts went 4 for 5 with three doubles.The Dodgers advanced to face the Phillies…

SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers wearing hard hats crawled into tight passages of concrete rubble, chipping away debris with hand tools to try to reach survivors days after they were trapped in Monday’s collapse of an Islamic school’s prayer hall in Indonesia.Some of the survivors were communicating with the rescuers working to free them.“How old are you, son?” a team of rescuers asked a student who was trapped.“Sixteen,” he replied, in a video released Wednesday by Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency.The student confirmed to the rescuers that he was not hurt but his torso was stuck in the debris of…

Peloton is aiming for a grand comeback ahead of the holidays.The company has been struggling after its meteoric rise during the pandemic.Its latest release? A $6,695 treadmill equipped with AI, along with a suite of other AI-enabled exercise equipment.Peloton is overhauling the entire Cross Training Series with new personalization features and a movement tracking camera that provides feedback, all powered by AI.On Wednesday, the fitness equipment company launched five new releases, including refreshed versions of its bike and treadmill, and a brand-new rowing machine. The higher-end Bike+, Tread+, and Row+ will now come with Peloton IQ, an AI-powered coaching system…

VALHALLA, New York (AP) — Pepsi has a new challenge: keeping products like Gatorade and Cheetos vivid and colorful without the artificial dyes that U.S. consumers are increasingly rejecting.PepsiCo, which also makes Doritos, Cap’n Crunch cereal, Funyuns and Mountain Dew, announced in April that it would accelerate a planned shift to using natural colors in its foods and beverages. Around 40% of its U.S. products now contain synthetic dyes, according to the company.But just as it took decades for artificial colors to seep into PepsiCo’s products, removing them is likely to be a multi-year process. The company said it’s still…

VALHALLA, New York (AP) — Pepsi has a new challenge: keeping products like Gatorade and Cheetos vivid and colorful without the artificial dyes that U.S. consumers are increasingly rejecting.PepsiCo, which also makes Doritos, Cap’n Crunch cereal, Funyuns and Mountain Dew, announced in April that it would accelerate a planned shift to using natural colors in its foods and beverages. Around 40% of its U.S. products now contain synthetic dyes, according to the company.But just as it took decades for artificial colors to seep into PepsiCo’s products, removing them is likely to be a multi-year process. The company said it’s still…

One medical resident at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc Township discovered his wife and children were attending church services Sept. 28, when a gunman rammed his truck into the chapel, opened fire and set the building ablaze.Two other medical residents from the hospital were at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel and were injured in the attack. Other employees were attending the service and some raced in on their day off to help treat the wounded.”This type of stuff doesn’t happen in Grand Blanc, Michigan,” said Dr. Chris Ash, a general and trauma surgeon who…

Several current and former OpenAI researchers are speaking out over the company’s first foray into social media: the Sora app, a TikTok-style feed filled with AI-generated videos and a lot of Sam Altman deepfakes. The researchers, airing their grievances on X, seem torn over how the launch fits into OpenAI’s nonprofit mission to develop advanced AI that benefits humanity. “AI-based feeds are scary,” said OpenAI pretraining researcher John Hallman in a post on X. “I won’t deny that I felt some concern when I first learned we were releasing Sora 2. That said, I think the team did the absolute…