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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A tornado plowed through Arkansas’ capital and surrounding areas Friday afternoon, injuring hundreds of people, reducing rooftops to splinters, toppling vehicles and tossing debris on roadways as people raced for shelter. The Little Rock Fire Department reported heavy damage and debris in the western end of the city, saying on its Facebook page that firefighters were performing rescue operations in the area. The University of […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed lawsuits by investors who accused Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley of engaging in market manipulation before the collapse of Bill Hwang’s investment firm Archegos Capital Management LP. U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty in Manhattan rejected claims that the Wall Street banks, two of Archegos’ prime brokers, should be liable for selling several Archegos-linked stocks while possessing inside knowledge […]

By Steve Holland ROLLING FORK, Mississippi (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday consoled families of victims and toured scenes of devastation in a Mississippi town after storms last week killed 26 people and destroyed homes and property in Mississippi and Alabama. Biden and first lady Jill Biden drove through Rolling Fork, Friday afternoon, viewing the damage left by a powerful tornado that reduced many of the community’s 400 houses […]

By Elvira Pollina and Supantha Mukherjee MILAN/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Italy’s Data Protection Authority on Friday temporarily banned OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and launched a probe over a suspected breach of the artificial intelligence application’s data collection rules. The agency, also known as Garante, accused Microsoft Corp-backed ChatGPT of failing to check the age of its users who are supposed to be aged 13 and above. ChatGPT has an “absence of any legal […]

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street rallied on Friday and the Nasdaq notched its biggest quarterly percentage gain since June 2020, as signs of cooling inflation bolstered hopes the Federal Reserve might soon end its aggressive interest rate hikes. The S&P 500 posted a second straight quarter of gains, led by the technology sector’s more than 20% rise. The quarterly gains came despite a sharp sell-off in […]

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – A jury will decide whether Fox Corp defamed Dominion Voting Systems with false vote-rigging claims aired by Fox News after the 2020 U.S. election, a Delaware judge ruled on Friday, dealing a setback to the media company that had sought to avoid a trial in the $1.6 billion lawsuit. (Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delawared; editing by Jonathan Oatis) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – A jury will decide whether Fox Corp defamed Dominion Voting Systems with false vote-rigging claims aired by Fox News after the 2020 U.S. election, a Delaware judge ruled on Friday, dealing a setback to the media company that had sought to avoid a trial in the $1.6 billion lawsuit. (Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delawared; editing by Jonathan Oatis) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Joseph White DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to bypass a vehicle’s infotainment systems, shifting instead to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google for future electric vehicles. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto systems allow users to mirror their smartphone screens in a vehicle’s dashboard display. GM’s decision to stop offering those systems in future electric vehicles, […]

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Tesla Inc has been sued by a Black former general manager who says he was fired for pushing back against comments by his white supervisor that he claims were racist, the latest in a series of race bias cases against the world’s most valuable automaker. John Goode, who oversaw a Tesla service center near Atlanta, filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court on Thursday […]