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Trump sided with the Democrats to support a three-month extension on government funding, a three-month debt-limit increase, and a Hurricane Harvey relief package.
Republican leaders were reportedly furious, but the markets were happy. All three major indices rose on Wednesday.
The S&P 500 was the biggest winner, gaining 0.32%.
And now, the scoreboard:
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials say the head of the state-run Achievement School District is resigning. Tennessee Education Commissioner Candice McQueen said in a news release Wednesday that Achievement School District Superintendent Malika Anderson is stepping down at the end of the month. Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operations Officer Kathleen Airhart will step in as interim superintendent. The district was created by the state to oversee schools in the bottom 5 percent academically. Читать дальше...
Jo Dee Messina is battling cancer, her team revealed Wednesday. A message about the diagnosis of the 47-year-old country singer, a married mother of two and mommy blogger was posted on...
CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves has joined a growing chorus of entertainment and media executive criticizing the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. “I’m very concerned about the impact this decision will have on the young, undocumented immigrants who dared to dream of a future in America, were promised... Read more »
The Tomah High School volleyball team found out the hard way how much it needs Brooke Brown.
An internal Facebook investigation has found it is "likely" Russian operatives spent $100,000 on ads with "divisive messages".
The son of billionaire George Soros thinks the answer to his messy divorce battle over a $22 million art collection is black and white.
The Latest news related to Hurricane Irma in Florida (all times local): 4 p.m. If Hurricane Irma churns northward over the Florida peninsula, the water in Lake Okeechobee could impact … Click to Continue »
BOGOTA, Colombia — When Pope Francis arrives in Colombia, he will be greeted with one of the nation’s most emblematic dishes: the thick soup known as ajiaco. The meal prepared with potatoes, chicken, corn and an herb known as guascas has been keeping Bogotanos in the nation’s chilly capital warm since at least the 1800s.
The Democratic candidate for governor in New Jersey says his Republican rival should publicly call out a state GOP lawmaker who was shown in a photo standing by a Confederate … Click to Continue »
DETROIT (AP) — The owner of the Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, says it has received Canadian approval to build a six-lane span next to the existing bridge. Detroit International Bridge Co. Vice Chairman Matthew Moroun issued a statement Wednesday saying it has received the final permit needed for the new span. The company obtained U.S. permits last year. It estimates the privately funded project to build the 2,190-foot, cable-stayed bridge over the Detroit River will cost a total of $1 billion... Читать дальше...
If you're a T-Mobile customer, you may want to take advantage of their latest offer starting Sept. 12.
If you're a T-Mobile customer, you may want to take advantage of their latest offer starting Sept. 12.
Despite exhortations about reducing cancer, many parents remain hesitant about HPV vaccine.
Print section Print Rubric: In the first of two stories about faces and technology, artificial intelligence is used to spot signs of sexuality Print Headline: Keeping a straight face Print Fly Title: Facial technology (1) UK... Читать дальше...
MODERN artificial intelligence is much feted. But its talents boil down to a superhuman ability to spot patterns in large volumes of data. Facebook has used this ability to produce maps of poor regions in unprecedented detail, with an AI system that has learned what human settlements look like from satellite pictures. Medical researchers have trained AI in smartphones to detect cancerous lesions; a Google system can make precise guesses about the year a photograph was taken, simply because it... Читать дальше...
MODERN artificial intelligence is much feted. But its talents boil down to a superhuman ability to spot patterns in large volumes of data. Facebook has used this ability to produce maps of poor regions in unprecedented detail, with an AI system that has learned what human settlements look like from satellite pictures. Medical researchers have trained AI in smartphones to detect cancerous lesions; a Google system can make precise guesses about the year a photograph was taken, simply because it... Читать дальше...
Being part of a new team calls for a newly designed goalie mask.
What the genes predicted, and what we got
CRAIG VENTER, a biologist and boss of Human Longevity, a San Diego-based company that is building the world’s largest genomic database, is something of a rebel. In the late 1990s he declared that the international, publicly funded project to sequence the human genome was going about it the wrong way, and he developed a cheaper and quicker method of his own. His latest ruffling of feathers comes from work that predicts what a person will look like from their genetic data. Читать дальше...
What the genes predicted, and what we got
CRAIG VENTER, a biologist and boss of Human Longevity, a San Diego-based company that is building the world’s largest genomic database, is something of a rebel. In the late 1990s he declared that the international, publicly funded project to sequence the human genome was going about it the wrong way, and he developed a cheaper and quicker method of his own. His latest ruffling of feathers comes from work that predicts what a person will look like from their genetic data. Читать дальше...
ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS (AP) — While the number of Europe-bound migrants rescued on the main Mediterranean Sea route has dropped off dramatically this summer, hundreds are still risking their lives in hopes of reaching Italy — and still being…