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Matt O’BrienShortly after sunrise on Saturday, the satellite set up a long-range camera in Mandalay, Myanmar. Not too far from the epicenter of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake, it devastated Southeast Asia’s second largest city.The mission was to combine with artificial intelligence technology to capture images that would help rescue organizations quickly assess how many buildings have collapsed, severely damaged, and where helpers are most needed.At first, the high-tech computer vision approach was not working.”The biggest challenge in this particular case was clouds,” said Juan Lavista Ferres, chief data scientist at Microsoft. “There’s no way to see the clouds with this…
Virginia Giuffre – the woman whose story of sexual abuse as a teenager led to the resumption of the Jeffrey Epstein case – is fighting for her life after a car accident in Australia.On Sunday, Giuffre posted her Instagram photos on a hospital bed covered in bruises, characterising her injuries as life-threatening. The 41-year-old California woman said she was told she had four days left to live, according to a post first reported by British media.”I had kidney failure,” she said. “They spent four days living with me and transferred me to a urology specialist. I’m ready to go until…
President Donald Trump says he is serious about pursuing a third presidential term.”I’m no joke,” Trump told NBC News reporters over the weekend.The US Constitution says that it is not permitted. “You must not be elected to the office of the President more than once,” the 22nd Amendment reads. Trump was elected in 2016 and 2024.The peaceful transition of power from president to president is the foundation of the American political system. It started with George Washington. George Washington left the office after the second term. After Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s fourth consecutive death, the amendment restricting presidential conditions was passed.In…
Musk has garnered criticism for what is seen as an attempt to buy an election where more than $80 million has already been spent.GREEN BAY, Wisconsin – Elon Musk garnered applause from supporters at the City Hall meeting on March 30, handing out $2 million to publicize the state Supreme Court competition for Republican-backed candidates.He cast the race in historic terms and urged about 1,500 participants within the city’s convention center to mobilize friends and family to vote on April 1.”What’s going on Tuesday is a vote for the party to control the U.S. House of Representatives,” Musk said. “And…
Gov. Ron DeSantis has escalated a dispute with the House Speaker over how to cut taxes this year, saying he wants to save Floridians around $1,000 on the property tax bill over the next year.At a press conference Monday, Desantis said he wanted the state to take some tabs of property taxes on the property assets of around five million homes. The maneuvering would save those homeowners about $1,000 on the property tax bill, he said.The proposal not included in the budget that Desantis proposed for the next fiscal year is in response to the surprise announcement last week of…
Talahassee – With the Florida home and the Senate preparing to negotiate a new state budget, among the major issues they face, Senate Speaker Ben Albritton, a citrus grower, helps the state’s struggling citrus industry.On Friday, the Senate announced a $1173.6 billion budget proposed for fiscal year 2025-2026, including $200 million directed towards the citrus industry. This would be above the $200 million that the Senate approved in a bill (SB 110) called the “Rural Renaissance” to strengthen rural communities.The citrus and industry proposal includes $125 million in planting new trees. This is the amount Albritton is sure to be…
Palm Beach, Fla. (WFLA) – The NFL has nothing like offseason. Free agency is still in full swing, and less than a month after the NFL Draft, NFL owners, head coaches and front office executives headed to the Palm Beach breakers for a meeting of the league’s annual owners. Amalie Arena transforms for the NCAA Women’s Final Four The NFL’s PowerBrokers are where you can vote for changes to the proposed rules, including the ban on “Tush Push” play, which was famous by the Philadelphia Eagles. ESPN reports that the NFL competition committee has support to ban plays. To become…
Barkov, who skated in his 800th career NHL game, scored a major assist in the goal. “I can’t say enough about him,” Verhege said of Barkov, who has been captain of the Panthers since 2018. “He is a very humble man and an incredible hockey player. He broke his tie for two minutes in the third season, and Knick Suzuki sent the Canadian first, defeating Bobrovsky with a fierce one-timer from the left circle to make it 3-2. Hatson, who scored his third assist in the game, raised his point to 59. This was most common in the season with…
The loose changes found in the store’s parking lot are credited by helping women win large numbers in the Florida lottery.Sarah Mallory, 57, is a lucky player, and she says all of the dimes found outside the Bellevue Food Store, a drive about 70 miles northwest of Orlando.”As we pulled into the store, we noticed a shiny dime landed on the head beneath Harley,” Mallory said in a March 31 lottery news release in Florida.”My husband and I enjoyed collecting dimes, and the symbols changed everything and encouraged us to buy tickets.”She bought a $5 Monopoly Secret Vault ticket at…
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) – A man has been accused of shooting a man on his neck during a custody exchange of an 8-year-old boy at West Palm Beach Publix. According to the affidavit, 28-year-old Joseph Halford was waiting in the parking lot Friday for his 8-year-old son to be dropped off by his child’s mother, Brittany Ferguson, and her boyfriend, Carlton Matthews. Road Rage could have led to a shooting at Florida Publics, deputies say Ferguson told West Palm Beach Police Department officials that her boyfriend parked the car next to Halfford and went out to meet Halford,…