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While overflowing rivers were beginning to recede across western Washington on Friday, officials said it could be days or even weeks before residents can safely return to areas swamped by this week’s historic flooding.  Thousands of people remained under evacuation orders as reports of flood damage continued to emerge from around the state. Federal support […]

The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.

Florida’s Board of Governors on Friday scrapped a year-old rule that let its chair sign off on presidential finalists before they are sent for votes by university trustees — a policy critics said vested too much power in one individual. Now, the state chair no longer will have a role in approving presidential finalists. Incoming […]

TOPEKA — A global industrial waste company that sought to open a recycling facility in a historic Kansas City, Kansas, neighborhood withdrew its plans after organized opposition from environmental activists and community advocates. Reworld, which manages industrial waste and converts it into energy, homed in on the city’s Armourdale neighborhood for its new processing facility […]

The Board of Governors of the State University System gave a unanimous go-ahead Friday for Moez Limayem to assume the presidency of the University of South Florida. Limayem, now president of the University of North Florida, succeeds retiring President Rhea Law amid a broader shakeup statewide of public university presidents. He will be USF’s ninth […]

California's governor Gavin Newsom issued a strongly-worded statement in response to the executive order.

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Sonia Hopkin says her daughter had been trying to replicate videos she had seen on TikTok.

Sonia Hopkin says her daughter had been trying to replicate videos she had seen on TikTok.

The $1bn deal will let fans generate videos and images of more than 200 Disney characters on ChatGPT and Sora.

The French-made role-playing game is named game of the year on a night of prizes and announcements.

Half a world away this week, Australia’s government implemented a law that feels just as relevant to Kansas. The nation banned social media for teens under the age of 16, including some of the most popular apps for young people, such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. (Some social media remained accessible this week.) Through the […]