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Surging Cubs race past reeling Pirates 8-0 to spoil touted prospect Henry Davis’ MLB debut

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:07:11 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Drew Smyly gave up three hits in five innings, Mike Tauchman hit a two-run single during a brief downpour and the surging Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-0 on Monday night.Smyly (7-4) worked around five walks to win his second straight start following a three-game losing streak. Tauchman finished with three hits and drove in three runs. Dansby Swanson added two hits as Chicago spoiled the major-league debut of highly touted Pirates prospect Henry Davis.Davis, the top pick in the 2021 draft, started in right field and doubled down the left-field line in his first at-bat. The 23-year-old, who will play in the outfield for now while fine-tuning his work behind the plate, later walked but it wasn’t enough as Pittsburgh lost its seventh straight. The Pirates finished with just five hits, the 18th time this season they’ve had five hits or fewer.Osvaldo Bido (0-1) pitched well in his second major-league start save for a bumpy second inning that coin...

Global survey finds consumers embracing artificial intelligence

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:07:11 GMT

FILE - The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023.A judge is deciding whether to sanction two lawyers who blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. The lawyers apologized at a hearing Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Manhattan federal court for their roles in written submissions that seemed to leave Judge P. Kevin Castel both baffled and disturbed at what happened. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)(AP/Richard Drew) FILE - The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023.A judge is deciding whether to sanction two lawyers who blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. The lawyers apologized at a hearing Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Ma...

Missing Titanic tour sub top of mind at Molly Brown House Museum

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:07:11 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The woman considered perhaps the most famous survivor of the sinking of the Titanic is Molly Brown.On Monday, those running the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver reacted to news of a missing Titanic tour submarine with five people aboard in the North Atlantic Ocean."Just like everyone else, we’re trying to keep up with what happened," museum spokesperson Jaime Medina said. Known as a “submersible,” the vehicle was supposed to be on its way to the Titanic wreckage site. The Titanic sank in 1912.FILE - This undated photo provided by OceanGate Expeditions in June 2021 shows the company's Titan submersible. On Monday, June 19, 2023, a rescue operation was underway deep in the Atlantic Ocean in search of the technologically advanced submersible vessel carrying five people to document the wreckage of the Titanic, the iconic ocean liner that sank more than a century earlier. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP, File)"In the spirit of Margaret Brown, and, you know, helping out as...

Arvada street-widening project causes irrigation issues in 82-year-old's yard

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:07:11 GMT

ARVADA, Colo. (KDVR) — An Arvada family is calling the FOX31 Problem Solvers for help, saying a street-widening project is causing a nightmare for their 82-year-old grandmother.As temperatures flirted with 90 degrees in Arvada on Monday, the game of fetch looked a little different for Jane Truesdell, who sought cover in the shade as she threw a ball to her dog, Dolly.“You know, this wasn't the way I planned to spend my last years in this house,” Truesdell said.With an ongoing street-widening project on 72nd Avenue, Truesdell said she got some money and the city of Arvada got some of her property through eminent domain. ‘He had a hoof print on his chest’: Moose attacks man as he walks his dogs "They took the 5 feet with three 80- to 100-foot pine trees and about 20 feet of lilac bushes," she said. "It went from a forest to a desert in 4 hours as I watched them take down the trees."A street-widening project underway on 72nd Avenue in Arvada. (KDVR)'The flooding is a concern'Tru...

Cooper City man safe after crashing car into canal

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:07:11 GMT

A driver managed to escape his sinking vehicle after a canal crash in Cooper City.The car wound up in the water near Flamingo and Griffin Road on Monday afternoon.The man was able to get out unharmed, his vehicle however was submerged.

Stormy weather causes ceiling collapse in Hallandale Beach apartment

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:07:11 GMT

A resident called the Hallandale Beach Police Department and Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue after coming home to her ceiling on the floor.Stephanie Conte found debris all around inside her home around 6 p.m. on Monday. She said that Fire Rescue told her the cause for the collapse was structural. Though she was told not to stay there, she said she has no other choice. “Kitchen area is hanging, this has been hell,” said Conte. After days of on-and-off wet weather, shards of damp drywall littered nearly all the surfaces in the main part of her apartment — leaving the beams exposed after part of her ceiling came down.And she’s left to deal with the damage.“I know I need things, I need my clothes for work, everything’s all over my computer.”Cleaning this up, working with her landlord and the prospect of more summer rain, will make the next few days a challenge for Conte. “I have no place to go, it happened too late in the day, I don&#...

Act now to address the silent epidemic of chronic kidney disease

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:07:11 GMT

Chronic kidney disease should be a health and policy priority in Europe1Around 30-40 percent of Europeans are predicted to be at risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD), many of whom may not realize it.1,2 In fact, according to a new Economist Impact report – one of the deliverables in a broader project, designed and conducted by Economist Impact, which was funded and initiated by AstraZeneca – CKD has a higher prevalence in the EU than the estimated 52 million for diabetes and 17 million for cancer.1Given the high numbers — up to 100 million Europeans are estimated to already be affected by CKD — awareness is crucial if early detection is to improve patient outcomes.1 And not just within medical communities either. Policymakers, many of whom may not recognize the urgency of CKD, must increase their understanding of what Belgian MEP Hilde Vautmans recently called “the most neglected chronic disease”.3 For example, the EU noncommunicable diseases initiative Healthier Together,launched i...

Brussels seeks EU budget top-up — but it’s a hard sell

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:07:11 GMT

BRUSSELS — The EU Commission will ask countries for tens of billions of euros to cover gaps in its long-term budget left by the unforeseen crises of COVID, inflation and war.But the EU executive is likely to hit stern opposition from national governments, as many are already having to make savings within their own budgets and are unwilling to pay up for anything other than Ukraine-related causes.“Clearly we are stretching the limits of what we can finance in the [Multiannual Financial Framework] as it stands,” EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said earlier this month, referring to the EU budget’s formal name.The Commission will on Tuesday unveil a mid-term review of the budget. It wants additional cash for a host of items including €50 billion in financial support for Ukraine, €15 billion for migration and neighbourhood policy, €10 billion for investments in key strategic sectors, some more money for running EU machinery and an as-yet-unspecified amount for repaying EU debt...

Why Berlin will slam the brakes on France’s car war with China

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:07:11 GMT

When it comes to fighting off China’s electric vehicle invasion, Europe’s carmaking superpowers are split straight along the Rhine.Germany’s big three automakers — Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz — see the prospect of antagonizing Beijing with an all-out trade war over clean cars as an unthinkable nightmare, while executives at their partially French state-owned rivals Renault and Stellantis have much to gain from pulling up the drawbridges and protecting domestic industry with tariffs. That’s the strategic calculation the European Commission’s trade defense team has to weigh up as it decides whether to declare war on China’s EVs.As POLITICO reported this month, the French government and its proxies in French industry and the EU College of Commissioners are pushing Brussels — which steers trade policy for the 27 member countries — to launch anti-dumping measures against insurgent Chinese e-carmakers. This means Europe would be able to impose duties against Chinese vehicles it reck...

What genocide? Volkswagen’s morally expensive bet on China

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:07:11 GMT

BERLIN — The blowback came in the form of cake.An annual meeting of Volkswagen shareholders in Berlin in May was disrupted by protesters, one of whom hurled the creamy confection at the assembled executives, forcing Chairman Hans Dieter Pötsch to flinch out of the way.Among the subjects of their ire: A car plant some 3,500 miles away in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, where Beijing has carried out a campaign of mass detention, reeducation and forced labor that the United States has described as genocide of the Uyghur ethnic minority.One topless woman in the room waved a banner with the words “End Uyghur Forced Labor” before the protesters were escorted away. Outside, other activists held up signs saying “Camps, forced labor, family separations: VW major shareholders in Lower Saxony must not remain silent about crimes against Uyghurs.”Volkswagen denies it has ever utilized forced labor in Xinjiang. But it has been less willing to grapple with the broader accusation: that by maintaini...