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Updated Dec. 28, 2023 1:44 pm ETRepublican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Thursday the Civil War was caused by a fight over slavery as she tried to tamp down a political uproar hours after she failed to mention it when asked about the conflict’s origins.“Of course the Civil War was about slavery, we know that, that’s the easy part of it,” she said on a Pulse of NH radio show. “I’m from the South. Of course you know it’s about slavery.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Source link

Updated Dec. 27, 2023 12:21 pm ETThe New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement, touching off a legal fight over generative-AI technologies with far-reaching implications for the future of the news publishing business.In a complaint filed Wednesday, the Times said the technology companies exploited its content without permission to create their AI products, including OpenAI’s humanlike chatbot ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot. The tools were trained on millions of pieces of Times content, the suit said, and draw on that material to serve up answers to users’ prompts. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

AstraZeneca has agreed to buy Gracell Biotechnologies for a transaction value of $1.2 billion, as part of the former’s efforts to grow its cell therapies business.The upfront cash portion of the deal is $1.0 billion, a 62.0% premium to Gracell’s last closing price for its American depository shares of $6.19, AstraZeneca said in a statement Tuesday.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Source link

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Updated Dec. 25, 2023 3:12 pm ETEscalating Iran-backed attacks against global commercial shipping in the Red Sea have heightened pressure on the Biden administration as officials scramble to protect trade while trying to avoid a direct confrontation with Tehran.The U.S. Navy said late Saturday that two more vessels had been attacked that day by Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen, bringing the number of commercial ships attacked near a crucial passageway between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East to 15. The Pentagon said earlier in the day that a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean was struck by a…

The central bank has only once changed its policy to help elect a presidential candidate: Nixon in 1972. Source link

Updated Dec. 25, 2023 11:26 am ETIsrael’s war cabinet plans to meet on Monday night to discuss a three-step plan put forward by Egypt for ending the war in Gaza, Israeli officials said.The Egyptian proposal, a copy of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, is the most comprehensive peace proposal to be put forward to the two parties in the 11-week-old Gaza war.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Source link

Tourism is surging at Big Bend National Park and the surrounding region, transforming one of Texas’ wildest and most distant areas.  Source link

About 10 years ago, I made a pilgrimage to the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery, Ala., about an hour’s drive from Butler County—where the country-music legend was born 100 years ago—and where Williams grew up from age 13 on. It was overwhelming to be surrounded by over a dozen of his suits and performance outfits, his 1937 Gibson, and even his 1952 Cadillac—the very car he died in, at 29 years old, on New Year’s Day 1953, essentially from heart failure related to his longtime alcoholism. The artifact that touched me the most, however, was a brightly painted, 7-foot-tall wooden…

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine—Since her first child was born, Svitlana has spent every Christmas with her daughter—until this one. Now a soldier, Svitlana, who declined to give her surname, is spending the holiday on duty close to the front lines in southern Ukraine.“It’s hard when you’re constantly with your kid for nine years and now you have to be separated,” said Svitlana, 35 years old, who joined the army over the summer and works to keep troops in the trenches supplied. “I try to keep those difficult emotions inside,” she said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Source…