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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lone coyote stunned biologists and others when it paddled its way to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, a former federal prison in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by swift, choppy waters notorious for thwarting prisoners’ escapes. At the time, biologists guessed the coyote swam from San Francisco, which is a little over 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) from the fortress. But it turns out the […]

DENVER (AP) — While some Americans are gazing at tulips and mowing lawns, people in Colorado and Wyoming are getting out their snow shovels. A late snowstorm is set to sweep over the Rocky Mountains and High Plains, bringing rain that’s expected to turn to snow in the Denver area by Tuesday night, with up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) possible. Higher elevations might see as much as a foot […]

CARROLLTON, Texas (AP) — A man shot five people in Texas on Tuesday, killing two of them, at a shopping center north of Dallas, police said. It was not a random act of violence and the victims knew the attacker, Carrollton Police Chief Roberto Arredondo said. “We don’t know exactly what the meeting was about, but we understand it to be a business relation,” he continued. After a short chase […]

By Juby Babu May 5 – Digital networking services company Lumen Technologies beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Tuesday and announced it would buy networking platform Alkira for $475 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to accelerate Lumen’s push into cloud-to-cloud and data center interconnect services and expand its total addressable market to about $70 billion through Alkira’s global footprint and cloud-native platform. Here are more details: […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) – The New York Times was sued on Tuesday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which accused the newspaper of passing over a white man for a top editorial role because of his race and gender, in order to meet illegal diversity goals. In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, the EEOC said the Times discriminated against the male candidate […]

May 5 (Reuters) – Officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have blocked the publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles in recent months, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The studies, funded with millions of dollars in public money, were carried out by agency scientists working with data firms to review millions of patient records. The findings showed that […]

DENVER (AP) — The Minnesota Wild are making a switch in net for Game 2, going with Filip Gustavsson on Tuesday night after Jesper Wallstedt allowed eight goals in a 9-6 loss to Colorado. Wild coach John Hynes announced the goaltender swap several hours before puck drop. Gustavsson hasn’t played since allowing five goals at St. Louis on April 13. He went 28-15-6 with a 2.69 goals-against average during the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, alleging the company illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama. The class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, accuses the tech giant of copyright infringement and opens up a new front in the ongoing battle between the book community and developers of AI. […]

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday denounced the circulation of a deepfake photo of her — posing in bed, wearing lingerie — and complained that such artificial intelligence-created images were being used to attack her. Meloni shared the photo in question on Facebook. She included with it an apparent post from someone named Roberto who apparently had himself shared it on social media with the commentary that […]