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WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO, the bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has expressed skepticism about for years. Trump, in a statement, said Whitaker was “a strong warrior and loyal Patriot” who “will ensure the United […]

Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set drama about political polarization, “Fjord,” has won the Palme d’Or, handing the Cannes Film Festival ’s top honor for the second time to Mungiu, the Romanian director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.” At a 79th Cannes Film Festival that saw few films cause a stir, “Fjord” found wide admiration […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] BEIJING (AP) — A gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province killed at least 82 people, local officials said Saturday, in what was the country’s deadliest mining accident in recent years. The official Xinhua News Agency said the accident at Changzhi city’s Liushenyu coal […]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Fentanyl and methamphetamine were found at a home where first responders became sick after answering a call about suspected overdoses in a rural county in New Mexico, authorities said Friday. Three people found inside the house on Wednesday died . A fourth person who was in the house and one of […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NEW YORK (AP) — One person has died after a fire and two explosions Friday at a New York City shipyard, officials say. Officials said 36 people were injured, most of them firefighters and other first responders, and one civilian died at the scene. A firefighter and a […]

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia finding that the Justice Department’s pursuit of criminal charges was designed to punish him for challenging his mistaken deportation to El Salvador last year. The ruling amounted to an extraordinary […]

Results provide important clinical evidence to support ApolloBio’s future regulatory submission in China of VGX-3100, INOVIO’s DNA immunotherapy candidate ApolloBio’s new clinical results further highlight the potential of INOVIO’s DNA medicine platform to treat diseases caused by infection with various strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV), eliminating or reducing the need for surgical interventions PLYMOUTH […]

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 21, 2026– Artery the developer of multimodal artificial intelligence (MMAI)-based prognostic and predictive cancer tests, will present multiple abstracts at the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, May 29–June 2, 2026, in Chicago. Two breast cancer abstracts demonstrate the performance of Artera’s MMAI across clinically challenging settings. One study […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump called off plans to sign a new executive order on artificial intelligence hours before an expected White House ceremony Thursday because he said he was worried the measure could dull America’s edge on AI technology. Trump said he was postponing the Oval Office event with tech industry executives because […]

Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 21, 2026– To celebrate Small Business Month, Comcast Business the largest connectivity provider to small businesses in the U.S., is inviting locals and visitors to Nirvana Soul Coffee in San Jose, CA on May 22, starting at 7:00 a.m. PT. The first 400 customers […]