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Today is Monday, March 4th. We'll

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tell you about the U.S. effort to

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get humanitarian aid into Gaza and

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Republican Nikki Haley's first win in the 2024 presidential

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race. Also the

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outcome of a rare criminal case that's

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been called a game changer for first

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responders. Plus a powerful storm that shut

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down ski resorts and a major highway.

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A new lawsuit that pits two of the world's

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most prominent tech leaders against each other. And

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how two basketball stars made history over

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the weekend. Those stories and more news

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to know next. Welcome,

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welcome to the newsworthy. All the day's

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news in around 10 minutes. Fast, fair,

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fun and on the go. I'm Erica

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Mandy. Thanks so much for being here.

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You ready? Let's do this. For

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the first time, the U.S. air dropped

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humanitarian aid into Gaza. On Saturday, three

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military planes dropped 66 bundles with

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38,000 meals inside. Aid

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organizations say the air drops still fall

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far short of meeting the needs in

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Gaza where people are facing starvation. But

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American officials say there will be more delivery

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missions to come. That there will be

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a sustained campaign of air drops. And that

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the U.S. is also looking into other ways

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to deliver aid, perhaps by sea. President

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Biden has already asked Israel to allow more aid

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in as well. But the demand for

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food, water and medicine is only getting more

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dire. At this point, America's

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top goal is to negotiate a pause

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in fighting that could help a lot

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more aid get in via trucks. Just

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yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris gave her

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most direct statement to date, calling for

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an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. She

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was referring to a six-week pause in fighting

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that's been proposed. It would allow for not

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only more aid, but also the release of

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Israeli hostages who have been held by Hamas

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since October 7th. Last week,

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President Biden said he was hopeful a deal

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could come by this week. So

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stay tuned. Republican

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Nikki Haley won her first

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presidential contest yesterday. She defeated...

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former President Trump in the Washington DC

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primary, and that made her the first

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woman to win a GOP primary in

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American history. Her campaign said it wasn't

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surprising that Republicans closest to the Capitol

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are rejecting what it called dysfunction from

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the former president. But the Trump campaign

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shrugged it off, saying the former South Carolina

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governor was quote, just crowned queen of the

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swamp by the lobbyists and DC insiders. To

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be clear, this doesn't really affect the current

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direction of the race, especially since Trump scored

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two more wins over the weekend. On Saturday,

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he won caucuses in Idaho and Missouri and

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swept the delegate hall at a party convention

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in Michigan. Plus, Trump had already

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defeated Haley in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and

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her home state of South Carolina. Next

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up, Haley and Trump will go head-to-head

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in more than a dozen primaries tomorrow

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on Super Tuesday, the largest day of

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voting outside of the November election. And

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Trump is expected to lock up the

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Republican nomination days later. The

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U.S. Education Department is now investigating an

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Oklahoma school district. It's specifically looking into

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alleged discrimination and harassment at a public

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high school where a 16 year old

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non-binary student was beaten in a bathroom

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last month, one day before they

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died. The teen's grandmother says they had

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been bullied for a while over their

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gender identity, and she's criticized administrators for

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not summoning police or an ambulance right

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after the fight. The federal

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investigation started after a complaint from the

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human rights campaign that said the high

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school never addressed bullying, violence, and harassment

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that had all been well documented. The

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Oklahoma school district says it's cooperating with

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federal officials, and it says the HRC's

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complaint is not supported by the facts.

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There is also a criminal investigation

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underway. The Tulsa County District Attorney

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says he's just waiting for local investigators

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findings before deciding whether to file charges

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for the teen's death to be

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continued. In a

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controversial court decision, a Colorado paramedic

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was sentenced to five years in

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prison. The paramedic was convicted late

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last year of criminally negligent homicide

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and second-degree assault. for the

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unlawful administration of drugs. This

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case is a very rare example of

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emergency medical personnel being prosecuted. It

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had to do with his role in the death of Elijah McClain

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back in 2019. Now

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remember, McClain was returning home from a store

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when police confronted him. They were responding to

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a call about a suspicious person. Police

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forcefully restrained McClain. Paramedics

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then injected him with an overdose of

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the powerful sedative ketamine, despite never speaking

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to him or checking his vital signs.

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McClain died in the hospital days later. The

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paramedics lawyer argued he followed protocol and

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should not have been held criminally responsible

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for a split second decision based on

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information he got from police. And

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after the sentence was handed down, paramedics

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and firefighters around the country expressed outrage,

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saying they worry that urgent decisions they

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make on the job can be criminalized.

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In fact, the president of the largest firefighters

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union in the country says some of its

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members have opted to retire or surrender their

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paramedic license because of the McClain case. Still,

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some community activists say the sentence was

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not strong enough. Another paramedic who worked alongside

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him is said to be sentenced next month.

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Even more snow is headed to Northern California

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this week on the heels of an extreme

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blizzard that pounded parts of the Golden State

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and Mountain West over the weekend. It

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impacted the Sierra Nevada mountains most of

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all, but also expanded into other parts

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of Northern California, Nevada, Utah, and Western

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Colorado. More than 100 miles of

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a major interstate between Reno and Sacramento had

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to close along with several other roadways. Hundreds

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of people were trapped inside their cars for

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hours and many left their vehicles stranded. Thousands

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of homes and businesses also lost power

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and ski resorts were forced to shut

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down because of extreme conditions. Accuweather

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says the Palisades Tahoe Resort even saw wind

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gusts reach 190 miles an hour. All

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in all, up to 12 feet was expected

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to fall over the weekend and another one

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to two feet could fall in higher elevations

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now, people who tested positive for the virus were urged

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to stay home for at least five days to lower

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the chance of spreading it to others. Now

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the CDC replaced that with general guidance

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for anyone who is feverish, sneezing, and

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coughing with a respiratory virus, saying

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they can return to normal activities as long

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as their symptoms are improving and they no

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longer have a fever. In other

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words, it's really just about symptoms now, not

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test results. The CDC says it

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made the change so recommendations are easier to

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follow and more likely to actually be adopted.

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Since surveys show people were not

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following the previous isolation guidelines anymore

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anyway. Still, some public health

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experts are criticizing the CDC for this,

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saying it's not taking the threat of

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COVID-19 seriously enough. Remember just last week,

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the CDC also recommended seniors receive a

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spring booster shot. The

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University of Florida is the latest major

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school to fire anyone whose job focused

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on diversity, equity and inclusion. It's in

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response to new higher education reforms backed

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by Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida and

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other Republicans in the state. DeSantis

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signed legislation that defunded DEI programs

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at state public colleges and allowed

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the state to remove them completely.

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DeSantis applauded the University of Florida saying DEI

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is toxic, that he's glad his state is

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leading the way in this effort and he

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hopes more states follow. On the

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other side, the president of the United

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Faculty of Florida Union says it's only

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about silencing students and faculty calling the

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action censorship and exclusion. Either

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way, the $5 million that used to

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go to DEI efforts at U.S. are

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now being redirected into a faculty retirement

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fund. The

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company behind Chassis P.T. is facing a new

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challenge, a lawsuit from one of the richest

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men in the world, Elon Musk,

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who actually co-founded OpenAI, is now

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suing the company and its CEO

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Sam Altman. He says they've

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abandoned the company's founding agreement to pursue

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artificial intelligence for the good of humanity

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rather than profit. Musk points

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specifically to the GPT-4 model that

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was released last year, saying its

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design is shrouded in secrecy and

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driven by commercial considerations. And

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now his lawsuit seeks to keep

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anyone, including OpenAI's partner Microsoft, from

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benefiting from OpenAI's technology. Though

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it is worth noting, Musk has since founded

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his own AI startup as a for-profit entity.

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OpenAI has not responded just yet. The

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second Dune movie was such a hit, it propelled

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the U.S. box office to its biggest weekend of

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the year. Dune Part 2 also

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delivered strong results for IMAX. In Fact,:

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it was IMAX's largest March opening ever.

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The movie was originally supposed to be

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released back in November, but Hollywood actors

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were on strike at the time. So

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The movie's big stars like Timothee Chalamet,

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Zendaya, Austin Butler and Florence Pugh weren't

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able to promote it. And With that,

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the producers decided to delay the release.

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in ticket sales since the actors likely helped bring

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of meters scoring records. In. The

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College hoops. Iowa's Caitlin Clark became B

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and C W all time leading scorer

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of either women or men. She dropped

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thirty five points and yesterday's game pushing

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her to three thousand. Six hundred and

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eighty five in her college career and

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plenty of big name started congratulating her

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right away like President Biden, Billie Jean

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King, and Travis Scott. Also, Lebron

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James he broke his own records just one

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day earlier. Schemes became the first player in

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N B A history to score forty thousand

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career points and Los Angeles Lakers are doesn't

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Fidelity IRAs, too. The company says

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