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One person was killed and six more were injured when a gunman sprayed dozens of rounds at a group standing on a sidewalk across from a high school in Minneapolis on Aug. 26, authorities said.Officers responded to calls about shots fired just before 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 26 and found one man dead on the sidewalk, and five men and one woman who were injured. Investigators determined that a lone gunman stepped out of a vehicle near the intersection of Clinton Avenue and East 29th Street and fired about 30 rounds at people who were standing on a sidewalk before…
A rare human case of a deadly parasite infestation has become the latest unsettling pathogen to make headlines in the United States.A New World Screwworm case was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a person who had recently returned to Maryland after traveling to El Salvador, Andrew G. Nixon, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told Reuters in an email. The parasitic flies produce larva that feed on living tissue, typically that of animals and livestock.”These human cases are rare,” according to Max Scott, a professor at North Carolina State University who works…
U.S. captain Keegan Bradley decided the best way to win back the Ryder Cup was to leave his golf clubs at home.Bradley filled out his 12-man roster Wednesday with six captain’s picks that did not include himself. He had considered becoming the first playing captain of the Ryder Cup since Arnold Palmer in 1963 at East Lake.Instead, Bradley went with a pair of Ryder Cup rookies in New York native Cameron Young and Ben Griffin, who finished at No. 9 in the standings. Joining them as picks will be Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Sam Burns and Patrick Cantlay.That gives the…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have acquired 13-year veteran wide receiver Adam Thielen, who has the third-most catches in franchise history, in a trade with the Carolina Panthers, a person with knowledge with the deal told The Associated Press on Wednesday.The Vikings sent a 2026 fifth-round draft pick and a 2027 fourth-round pick to the Panthers for Thielen, a conditional 2026 seventh-round pick and a 2027 fifth-round pick, according to the person who confirmed the details to the AP on condition of anonymity because neither team had announced it.The Vikings needed more depth, after losing newcomer Rondale Moore to…
What if lawyers could read a judge’s mind?A startup says its AI can get close, promising lawyers a glimpse into how judges think before a single argument is made. That’s what investors are buying into with legal tech startup Bench IQ, which just raised $5 million to bring the idea to market.Jimoh Ovbiagele, the company’s cofounder and chief executive, said Bench IQ has built a proprietary dataset and layered in large language models to forecast how judges tend to think and rule. He wouldn’t disclose the sources, citing competitive reasons, but the company’s terms of service suggest the data includes…
LONDON — Diana, Princess of Wales, is for many a symbol of life in the 1990s. And now a time capsule she buried nearly 35 years ago has been opened, revealing a treasure trove of memorabilia.The capsule was placed inside a wall at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London in 1991 with the help of two children who won a TV competition.It contained relics of a pre-internet-enabled age including an early pocket TV, a Kylie Minogue CD, a solar-powered calculator and a copy of The Times newspaper.Jason Dawson from the Children’s Cancer Centre chiseling the bricks around the time…
NEW YORK (AP) — Coco Gauff wishes she weren’t trying out a new service motion in what she called “the high-stress situation” of the U.S. Open.She would have loved to have more time to collaborate with serving guru Gavin MacMillan than the six days they were able to spend together before needing to test out the changes in front of thousands of fans in Arthur Ashe Stadium and millions more watching on TV around the world.That, though, is the way things went. And, Gauff figures, better late than never. So there the No. 3-ranked player was at Flushing Meadows on…
London-based Artificial Societies, which was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, has secured $5.35 million in seed funding.The startup, which launched in 2024, has developed a platform that generates AI personas that help companies test how their product, marketing, branding, and other content might be perceived. “We primarily use AI agents that chat with each other, mimicking how real humans influence each other,” cofounder and CEO James He told Business Insider. “We try to capture that artificial society, and how it will respond to any input. It can be a marketing message or a product proposition, and we produce…
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars acquired wide receiver Tim Patrick from Detroit on Wednesday in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick in 2026.The Jaguars said the trade would become final if Patrick passes a physical. Jacksonville waived receiver Austin Trammell to make room for Patrick on its 53-man roster.The 31-year-old Patrick missed all of 2022 and 2023 while dealing with injuries, first a torn knee ligament and then a torn Achilles tendon. But he bounced back last season and played 16 games for the Lions, finishing with 33 receptions for 394 yards and three touchdowns.The 6-foot-5 veteran is…
The NCAA is weighing a rule that would require incoming Division I athletes to disclose name, image and likeness (NIL) deals from high school or junior college to the NIL Go clearinghouse established under the $2.8 billion House settlement.Athletes would report all non-institutional deals dating to the first day of their junior year. Junior college transfers would report deals from the date of initial enrollment at a two-year college. All reporting of previous deals would be due to the College Sports Commission upon enrollment.NIL compensation at the high school level has rapidly expanded in recent years. At least 40 states…