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BURNSVILLE, Minnesota, EE.UU. (AP) — Un hombre con varias armas y gran cantidad de municiones abrió fuego el domingo contra policías desde una residencia en los suburbios de Minneapolis que estaba llena de niños, matando a dos agentes y a un bombero que brindaba asistencia médica a uno de los heridos, informaron las autoridades. Un tercer policía resultó herido en …

LONDON (AP) — Atom bomb epic “Oppenheimer” won seven prizes, including best picture, director and actor, at the 77th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday, cementing its front-runner status for the Oscars next month. Gothic fantasia “Poor Things” took five prizes and Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest” won three. British-born filmmaker Christopher Nolan won his first best director BAFTA …

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators made an official visit to Hungary’s capital Sunday and called on the nationalist government to immediately approve Sweden’s request to join NATO. Hungary is the only one of NATO’s 31 existing members not to have ratified Sweden’s bid. The Hungarian government faces mounting pressure to act after delaying the move …

Para la madre de Alexei Navalny, el líder opositor ruso que murió a los 47 años en una colonia penal del Ártico, el viaje para recuperar el cuerpo de su hijo el sábado se tornó en una odisea sin un destino claro. Al final, no consiguió lo que buscaba. Lyudmila Navalnaya, de 69 años, recibió una nota oficial el sábado …

DALLAS (AP) — After World War II, the U.S. Army’s art experts set out to find and return millions of works stolen by the Nazis. Known as the Monuments Men, they included Mary Regan Quessenberry, who from her base in Berlin traveled to examine stolen works, tracked looting cases and investigated suspicious art dealers. Decades later, Quessenberry and the other …

Katrina Cornish spends her days raising dandelions and desert shrubs. She harvests the stretchy rubber substances they produce and uses special machines to dip them into condoms, medical gloves and parts for trachea tubes. And she thinks those products could forever alter the landscape of agriculture in the United States. Cornish, a professor at Ohio State University who studies rubber …

NEW YORK (AP) — The maker of ChatGPT is now diving into AI-generated video. Meet Sora — OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator. The tool, which the San Francisco company unveiled Thursday, uses generative artificial intelligence to instantly create short videos based on written commands. Sora isn’t the first to demonstrate this kind of technology. But industry analysts point to the high …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Los precios mayoristas en Estados Unidos se aceleraron en enero, en la señal más reciente de persistencia de algunas presiones inflacionarias. El Departamento de Trabajo informó el viernes que su índice de precios al productor, que rastrea la inflación antes de que llegue al consumidor, aumentó 0,3% de diciembre a enero, después de haber caído 0,1% de …

BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors dropped a domestic violence charge against Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic on Friday, saying the decision by his wife to invoke marital privilege made it impossible for them to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. The Bruins said he will not return from his leave of absence this season. “Milan Lucic will remain on indefinite …

COLUMBIA, Carolina del Sur, EE.UU. (AP) — Un grupo de dirigentes del Congreso ha recomendado que la aspirante a la candidatura presidencial republicana Nikki Haley reciba protección del Servicio Secreto tras denunciar una serie de amenazas durante su campaña, dijo a The Associated Press una persona al tanto de la situación. El grupo legislativo votó a favor de otorgarle la …