Kansas City homes are among the fastest-selling in the country, with many going for more than their asking price. Imagine, then, the surprise of one area couple to find their $1 million-plus house listed for sale on Zillow for a meager $10,200. Jamey and Lauren Bertram had no plans of moving from their five-bedroom ranch home when they were alerted …
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is threatening to ban his employees from taking Apple devices into their workplaces after Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a partnership on Monday to integrate OpenAI’s artificial intelligence technology into its operating systems. On Monday evening, Musk wrote on his social media platform X that adding OpenAI’s tech into Apple’s systems “is an unacceptable security violation.” …
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Atlanta police said one person was fatally shot on a commuter bus Tuesday afternoon that led officers on a chase for miles from the city into neighboring suburbs, with television news footage showing it barreling through rush hour traffic and striking several vehicles. News helicopters followed the dramatic pursuit of the Gwinnett County Transit bus, which police said took off …
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An “unusual” and “strange looking fish” washed up onto an Oregon coast earlier this month, shocking people with its gargantuan size. At first, experts thought it was just a “run of the mill ocean sunfish,” known by the scientific nameMola mola, but now, they’ve learned it’s something else — and rare. The Seaside Aquarium said in a Facebook post last …
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Washington —Businessman and former Army Capt. Sam Brown easily won the Republican Nevada Senate primary Tuesday, setting up a key November race with incumbent Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen, when the balance of the Senate will be up in the air. Brown and Rosen both won their respective primaries, the Associated Press projected. Republicans haven’t won a Senate race in the …
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Pamela Smart, who is serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for coordinating with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, has accepted responsibility in his death for the first time. In her latest plea for New Hampshire officials to reduce her sentence, Smart acknowledged that she previously “deflected blame” instead of recognizing her own part …
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Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina is projected to win her Republican primary in what had shaped up as a proxy fight with former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Mace on Tuesday defeated challengers Catherine Templeton and Bill Young in the 1st Congressional District race, The Associated Press projected. Mace, who is seeking a third term in Congress, …
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NEW YORK — Leaders are speaking out to condemn a protest outside an exhibit commemorating the victims of the Hamas terror attack on the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7 that sparked the current Israel-Hamas war. On Monday night, pro-Palestinian demonstrators lit smoke canisters and flares outside The Nova Music Festival Exhibition in Lower Manhattan, which pays tribute to the …
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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $700 million in a nationwide settlement resolving allegations that it misled customers about the safety of its talcum-based powder products in its marketing. “Consumers rely on accurate information when making decisions about which products to purchase for their families,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, one of 43 attorneys general involved in the lawsuit,saidin …
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Medical debt will be stricken from credit reports in a change proposed by the White House that could help millions of Americans land a job, rent a home or obtain a car loan. Vice President Kamala Harris and Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, formally announced the proposal to take unpaid medical bills off the table in …
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