Tech giant reports earnings of $3.72 per share day after deal with OpenAI pushed value of company to more than $4tnMicrosoft blew off concerns of overspending on AI on Wednesday, reporting elevated earnings even as it faced an outage of its cloud compu…
Americans go hungry and all Republicans and Democrats will do is point fingers while shutdown nears milestone
The whole exchange in the Senate about SNAP shows nobody is serious about stopping people from going hungry. Eric Garcia writes that Democrats aren’t blameless, but Trump bears the most responsibility
How Rio de Janeiro’s cops herded gangsters out of favelas & trapped them in woods during ‘mega-op’ that killed over 130
RIO de Janeiro’s cops herded criminals out of favelas and cornered them in the woods in an enormous anti-gang operation that killed over 130 people. Cops said they strategically surrounded the gangsters before gunning them down in what has been describ…
Brazil’s Lula ‘horrified’ by death toll in Rio de Janeiro anti-gang raids
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is “horrified” by the death toll from a massive police raid on Rio drug gangs, which left at least 132 dead, one of his ministers said on Wednesday. FRANCE 24’s Tim Vickery reports from Rio de Janeiro.
Family sues city of Seattle after teen’s death at Gas Works Park
The family of a Ballard High School student who died after falling 50 feet has sued the city, claiming the park’s structures are a dangerous nuisance.
YouTube offers voluntary buyouts as company reorganizes around AI
In an internal memo to staff, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said the platform is reorganizing its product teams for the first time in a decade.
Centrist D66 poised to defeat far right in Dutch election, exit polls show
Exit polls suggested on Wednesday that the centrist D66 party is set to win the most votes in the Dutch national election, opening the door for its leader, Rob Jetten, to become the youngest prime minister in the country’s history. The result, if conf…
Man found guilty of 1994 Renton double homicide of woman and son
The cold-case murder investigation into the Oct. 28, 1994 shooting deaths of Stacy Falcon-Dewey, 23, and Jacob Dewey, 3, slipped through the cracks for years.
Why Washington State Cougars’ defense has looked so sturdy lately
Two weeks ago, the Cougars missed 21 tackles in a loss to Ole Miss. WSU cut those numbers in half against Virginia and Toledo.
Teenage cricketer in Australia dies after being hit with cricket ball in Melbourne’s east
Ferntree Gully cricket club confirms death of 17-year-old Ben Austin after incident in cricket nets on TuesdayA Melbourne teenager has died after reportedly being struck in the neck with a ball during cricket practice earlier this week.Emergency servic…