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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One after the other, the opportunities vanished. Like so many other Afghan women, Sodaba could do little but watch as her country’s new Taliban government imposed a stranglehold on women’s lives.The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, and quickly set about implementing a dizzying array of restrictions for women: No visiting parks or gyms, no eating in restaurants, no working, except in very few professions.But one of the cruelest blows for the pharmacology student was the ban on education beyond primary school.Pushed by necessity, she went online. And there, she found hope: a free computer…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Sydney Reuters — New Zealand’s air force said on Wednesday it had evacuated three people from a United States research base in Antarctica, in what it said was a high-risk operation in freezing temperatures and perpetual darkness. One person requiring urgent medical care and two others needing medical attention were taken on the rescue flight from the McMurdo Station on Tuesday, the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) said in a statement. The aircraft landed in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Wednesday morning. The statement gave no details of the medical emergency or nationalities.…
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Museums across the U.S. are displaying artifacts that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era. Visitors to the Henry Ford near Detroit can see the bus Rosa Parks was riding when she refused to give up her seat to a white man in 1955, and a desk where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. planned voting rights marches.“What we do here is help explain our story, as a community, as a culture, as a society to those who may not have lived through it, who may not remember it or who may have…
A corporate logo for McDonald’s hangs above the door of a restaurant on Broadway in New York City on June 11, 2025.Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty ImagesMcDonald’s is expected to report its second-quarter earnings before the bell on Wednesday.Here’s what Wall Street analysts surveyed by LSEG are expecting the company to report:Earnings per share: $3.15 expectedRevenue: $6.7 billion expectedLast quarter, McDonald’s U.S. restaurants posted their steepest same-store sales decline since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Executives blamed a drop in low- and middle-income diners, who have been feeling more pressure on their wallets this year.But thanks to…
by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 10:40 AM ET, Tue August 5, 2025 Royal Caribbean is celebrating a major milestone: 100 million guests.In late July, the cruise line welcomed its 100 millionth passenger when the Duquette family stepped foot onboard Icon of the Seas. The family—Chris, Madeline and Jillian from Parkland, Florida—was showered with gifts and surprises, including a free cruise on Utopia of the Seas.For a limited time, the company is offering up to $100 off all Royal Caribbean vacations from the U.S. But you’ll have to act fast, as the promotion ends today. Royal Caribbean has been taking guests…
When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable. And this is a controversy that will certainly grow as AI agents flood the internet: Should an agent accessing a website on behalf of its user be treated like a bot? Or like a human making the same request? Cloudflare is known for…
Expanding the power of loyalty beyond the flight, JetBlue announced the launch and new name for its consumer travel booking program. TrueBlue Travel is replacing the former Paisly by JetBlue website.The new platform and travel services subsidiary offers a more seamless way for TrueBlue members to plan, book every part of their trip and maximize their rewards. In celebration of the launch, members can earn 2X Tiles on cars and hotels booked through TrueBlue Travel between August 5 and August 8, 2025, for travel completed by November 30, 2025.“This rebrand is a major milestone for Paisly, LLC as we continue…
OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of two open-weight AI reasoning models with similar capabilities to its o-series. Both are freely available to download from the online developer platform Hugging Face, the company said, describing the models as “state of the art” when measured across several benchmarks for comparing open models. The models come in two sizes: a larger and more capable gpt-oss-120b model that can run on a single Nvidia GPU, and a lighter-weight gpt-oss-20b model that can run on a consumer laptop with 16GB of memory. The launch marks OpenAI’s first ‘open’ language model since GPT-2, which was released…
Facebook Tweet Email Link When Paola Clouatre arrived home, her young son Noah glanced at her sideways. He covered his face, turned around, looked back again. “It was as if he couldn’t believe that the person there was me, his mom,” Clouatre says, as she recalls the moment she was reunited with her family, two months after being detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while breastfeeding her three-month-old baby. The first thing she did when Noah recognized her was hug him. “I said to him: ‘It’s Mom. Mom is home again with you.’” The second thing she did…
Ever since the NFL announced it was looking to sell NFL Network and other media assets, ESPN had been seen as one of the favorites to make a deal.Nearly five years later, a framework is finally in place.The NFL announced Tuesday night that it has entered into a nonbinding agreement with ESPN. Under the terms, ESPN will acquire NFL Network, NFL Fantasy and the rights to distribute the RedZone channel to cable and satellite operators and the league will get a 10% equity stake in ESPN.The league and ESPN still have to negotiate a final agreement and get approval from…