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A museum is using AI to let visitors chat with World War II survivors

The National WWII Museum estimates 131 World War II veterans die every day. For a new exhibit, Voices from the Front, the museum is using artificial intelligence and voice-recognition software to index the memories in a way that will allow visitors to “converse” with WWII-era Americans for decades to come.
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How Trump moved money to pay $100 million in legal bills

Since leaving office in 2021, former President Donald Trump has spent more than $100 million on lawyers and other costs related to fending off various investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials, according to a New York Times review of federal records.
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Bird flu spreads to dairy cows in Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico and Ohio

A highly virulent bird flu first detected in dairy cows in Texas and Kansas this week has spread to additional herds, bringing the number of affected states to six and adding evidence the virus may be spreading cow-to-cow. The strain has been confirmed in Michigan, and presumptive positive tests have been reported from Idaho, New Mexico and Ohio, federal officials said Friday.
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Russia strikes power plants in heavy blow to Ukrainian electric grid

Large-scale Russian bombing Thursday night damaged at least three energy stations in Ukraine, leaving parts of the country without power as President Volodymyr Zelensky urgently appealed to the Republican leadership in Congress to approve a stalled aid package amid relentless Russian airstrikes.
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Her mom was killed at Chiefs rally. Teen picks up the DJ mic to ‘keep her legacy going.’

The beaded Chiefs bracelet that Lisa Lopez-Galvan wore on the afternoon she was killed dangled from her 19-year-old daughter’s right wrist. In the family’s Shawnee garage, transformed long ago into a party room with a giant TV, fairy lights, neon signs and Chiefs and Royals decorations everywhere, Adriana Galvan stood behind a folding table set with her late mother’s DJ mixing board and laptop.
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Could a gag order be on deck in Fulton Trump case?

A New York judge this week imposed a gag order on Donald Trump, limiting what the Republican can say about witnesses, jurors and most prosecutors ahead of his April trial over alleged hush-money payments. Some 850 miles away, the judge in another one of Trump’s criminal cases suggested he’s open to considering a similar measure — not against the former president, but Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis..
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Latino community and beyond rallies to support victims, families of Key Bridge collapse

BALTIMORE — Like many others in Baltimore, Susana Barrios awoke early Tuesday morning to a flood of messages asking if she was okay. She soon learned that the Francis Scott Key Bridge had collapsed into the Patapsco River. As with all tragedies, Barrios, vice president of the Latino Racial Justice Circle, started to wonder if members of her community were affected. As the news developed over ...
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South Carolina latest state to use congressional map deemed illegal

In a scenario that has played out in three states in recent years, a federal court ruled Thursday that time had run out to draw a new congressional district in South Carolina and that the state would have to proceed this fall with an existing election map the court had previously deemed illegal.
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Baltimore begins massive and dangerous cleanup after bridge collapse

Huge crane ships, thousands of relief workers and millions of dollars headed toward Baltimore on Thursday, as efforts turned from recovery after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge to a massive cleanup that some experts described as unprecedented and highly dangerous.