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Mississippi state health officials have announced a public health emergency due to the state’s rising infant mortality rate.Over the last decade, over 3,500 babies have died before their first birthday in Mississippi, according to data released Thursday by the Mississippi State Department of Health.”Too many Mississippi families are losing their babies before their first birthday,” state health officer Dr. Dan Edney said in a statement announcing the public health emergency. “We cannot and will not accept these numbers as our reality.”According to 2024 MSDH data, the infant mortality rate in Mississippi is 9.7 deaths per 1,000 live births, the highest…

Beijing may have thrown a wrench into Nvidia’s plans on making a comeback in China’s AI market. Nvidia has instructed its component suppliers to stop production related to its H20 AI chip, according to The Information. The production halt comes after Beijing reportedly warned Chinese companies against using these chips because of potential security issues and fears of backdoors that would give the U.S. access to sensitive data. China’s government is urging companies to use domestic chips instead, The Information reported. This comes a month after companies including Nvidia were given the green light to start selling its AI chips…

Relics of the “old internet” are respawning in new social media startups.Myspace’s profiles, Tumblr’s vibes, StumbleUpon’s spontaneity, Twitter’s status updates — they’re being reinvented by a new guard of startup founders.What’s fueling it? Nostalgia for the internet they grew up with.Zehra Naqvi said she misses “how seemingly small” the earlier days of the internet felt. She’s the founder of Lore, a platform that aims to help fandoms discover content and connect over their obsessions.As an avid Tumblr user in her teens, the platform’s waning relevance was a “huge part of the reason I even wanted to found the company,” she…

Hall of Fame jockey Ron Turcotte, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, has died. He was 84.Turcotte’s family said through his longtime business partner and friend Leonard Lusky that the Canada-born jockey died of natural causes Friday at his home in Drummond, New Brunswick.He won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes twice each, most notably sweeping the three with Secretariat to end horse racing’s Triple Crown drought that dated to Citation in 1948. “Ron was a great jockey and an inspiration to so many, both within and outside the racing world,” Lusky said. “While he reached…

ATLANTA (AP) — Tommy Fleetwood is a familiar story hopeful of a different ending, posting eight birdies in his round of 7-under 63 to share the lead Friday at the Tour Championship with Russell Henley in what was shaping up as a tight race for the $10 million prize.Fleetwood, increasingly popular for his grace in handling so many tough losses, is searching for his first PGA Tour win to go along with a collection of strong European tour titles. But he has been down this road before, quite often this year. The questions are getting old.Maybe it ends with the…

BALTIMORE (AP) — On a team with plenty of talented young players, Samuel Basallo now has a special distinction — the first to agree to a long-term contract.The Baltimore Orioles reached a $67 million, eight-year deal with the rookie catcher Friday, less than a week after the 21-year-old made his major league debut. The agreement — a record pre-arbitration deal for a catcher — starts in 2026 and includes a team option for 2034. It has escalators based on awards and playing time at catcher and could be worth $88.5 million.“We are thrilled to agree with Samuel long term and…

I’m not qualified to give investment advice, but the market felt a little toppy this week, don’t you think? A series of signals suggested we may be over our skis on the AI investing slopes.Yes, I recently watched the Enron documentary with my daughter Tessa, so I’m mentally primed to question more things right now. It was unnerving to watch investors and analysts largely taking the company at its word, even as it launched baffling ventures like broadband trading and expensive, fruitless infrastructure projects.This was still on my mind when Chamath Palihapitiya resurfaced with a new SPAC this week. SPACs,…

Google announced Friday that it’s enhancing the editing experience for Drive videos with a new shortcut button for Vids, the tech giant’s AI-powered video creation tool.  The new feature allows Workspace users to initiate a video edit using Vids directly from the Google Drive interface. Now, while previewing a video in Drive, users will see an “Open” button in the top right corner that opens the video in the Vids app. Vids will automatically launch the video file, allowing further edits such as trimming the clip or incorporating music and text.  Image Credits:Google This new shortcut, which is activated by…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will take place on Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, and didn’t rule out that he himself might oversee the event. “It’s the biggest, probably the biggest event in sports, I guess,” said Trump, who made the announcement in an Oval Office event where he was joined by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Vice President JD Vance. The U.S. is co-hosting next year’s tournament — which for the first time will feature 48 national teams up from 32 — with Canada and…

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers added a proven running back to their injury-depleted group by acquiring Brian Robinson from the Washington Commanders for a 2026 sixth-round draft pick.Two people familiar with the deal said the trade will be finalized once Robinson passes a physical. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the trade hadn’t been announced. ESPN first reported the deal.San Francisco was in need of adding healthy running backs behind starter Christian McCaffrey after Patrick Taylor, Corey Kiner and Ameer Abdullah all got placed on injured reserve this month. Fifth-round rookie Jordan James is…