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Scores of people turned out Tuesday to testify well into the night on bills being considered by Nebraska lawmakers that target diversity initiatives and higher education programs, mirroring proposals by Republicans across the country. The bills before the state Legislature’s Education Committee included one that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion — known as DEI — programs and offices at …

Thousands of ride-hailing and delivery workers in the U.S. and the U.K. went on strike on Valentine’s Day, calling for higher pay and other changes to their working conditions. In the U.S., Uber and Lyft drivers planned daylong strikes in Chicago; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Miami; Orlando and Tampa, Florida; Hartford, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Austin, Texas; and Providence, Rhode Island. Drivers …

SEÚL, Corea del Sur (AP) — Corea del Norte disparó el miércoles varios misiles de crucero al mar en lo que fue su quinta prueba de este tipo de armamento desde enero, informó el ejército surcoreano. El suceso extiende una racha de demostraciones armamentísticas que está intensificando las tensiones en la región. El Estado Mayor Conjunto de Corea del Sur …

BOSTON (AP) — Microsoft said Wednesday that U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — are beginning to use its generative artificial intelligence to mount or organize offensive cyber operations. The technology giant and business partner OpenAI said they had jointly detected and disrupted the malicious cyber actors’ use of their …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Both a Minnesota man testing a snowmobile for his employer in the Alaska backcountry and the company have been cited for reckless driving after the machine slammed into a sled dog team on a training run in December, killing three dogs. The State of Alaska charged Erik Johnson, of Roseau, Minnesota, and Minnesota-based Polaris Inc. on …

DETROIT (AP) — Police went door to door Wednesday to publicize the search for a 13-year-old Detroit girl who has been missing since riding a school bus in early January. “We’re hopeful that we find her well, but we can’t operate on hope,” Detroit Police Chief James White said. Na’Ziyah Harris was last seen departing a bus Jan. 9. Police …

HOUSTON (AP) — Nearly a week after a woman opened fire at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Texas megachurch, there are still questions about a motive behind the attack and scrutiny on how a person with a record of criminal misdemeanors and a history of mental illness was able to obtain her weapons. Police said Genesse Moreno used a legally purchased …

TOKIO (AP) — Una nave espacial no tripulada ha captado y transmitido datos de análisis de 10 piedras lunares, un logro mayor que lo previsto que podría brindar pistas sobre el origen de la Luna, dijo un funcionario de la agencia espacial japonesa el miércoles. Durante cuatro días, la Sonda Inteligente para Investigar la Luna (SLIM) —que alunizó el mes …

HOUSTON (AP) — The shooter who opened fire at a Houston megachurch before being gunned down by security officers used an AR-style rifle that police say she legally purchased despite a years-long criminal record, a history of mental illness and allegations she threatened to shoot her ex-husband. Key questions remained Tuesday about Genesse Moreno’s motive in the shooting, and police …

ANKARA, Turquía (AP) — Las autoridades el miércoles detuvieron a cuatro personas en relación con un deslave colosal que sumergió una mina de oro en el este de Turquía y dejó al menos nueve mineros desaparecidos, informó la prensa turca. El accidente se produjo en la mina Copler de la localidad de Ilic, en la provincia montañosa de Erzincan, el …