LOS ANGELES (AP) — Members of the screenwriters union overwhelmingly ratified a four-year agreement with Hollywood studios and streamers on Friday, bringing an end to a surprisingly smooth and quick process that brought a prolonged strike the last time around. Union leaders said 90% voted to approve the deal struck between the Writers Guild of …
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Codi High Elk was a shy teenager most comfortable caring for horses on her family’s ranch on the Cheyenne River Reservation when she threw away an application to compete in a new pageant for Indigenous women — an application her brother fished out of the trash, sending her on a path …
HOUSTON (AP) — Nelly Korda is playing with so much control even her misses are right where she’s aiming. She birdied her last two holes Friday with exquisite irons shots for another 7-under 65, giving her a daunting six-shot lead going into the weekend at The Chevron Championship. Korda has made only one bogey through …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it launched another strike Friday on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people. The military has not provided evidence that any of the vessels were carrying drugs. In the latest attack Friday, U.S. Southern Command repeated previous statements by saying it …
WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Friday it struck a vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing two people, in the latest such attack condemned by rights groups as “extrajudicial killings” and which the Trump administration says are aimed at “narco-terrorists.” • The U.S. Southern Command alleged that the vessel struck on …
HOUSTON (AP) — LeBron James scored 29 points, including a tying 3-pointer with 13 seconds left in regulation, Marcus Smart had eight points in overtime and the Los Angeles Lakers took advantage of a Houston Rockets team missing Kevin Durant for a 112-108 win Friday night to take a 3-0 lead in the Western Conference …
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Athletics got off to a fast start against the Texas Rangers on Friday night, hitting three solo home runs in the first inning. Nick Kurtz, Carlos Cortes and Tyler Soderstrom — three of the first four hitters — homered just seven pitches into the game. Kurtz launched Nathan Eovaldi’s first …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to members of a Canadian community where a mass shooting took place earlier this year for not flagging the ChatGPT account of the shooter to law enforcement. “The pain your community has endured is unimaginable,” Altman wrote in a letter shared Friday on social media by the British Columbia …
On Thursday night, at least six tornadoes whipped through Oklahoma, causing chaos and destruction. Videos show them spiraling through the state. Some footage does not contain audio.
By Kanishka Singh and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) – U.S.-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who was detained in Kuwait over online posts related to the Iran war, has been released and departed the Gulf nation. A U.S. State Department official said on Friday that Shihab-Eldin, 41, had left Kuwait. Last week, the New York-based …