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When it comes to family fun, few destinations rival Disney. Who can resist high-octane rides, thrilling entertainment and a cartoon cast for every generation?

Aluko issued an apology to fellow pundit Wright on Friday after accusing him of 'blocking' opportunities for women in football, which the Arsenal legend has rejected in a social media post.

Before Nigel Benn held world titles in his sport, he was educated here

Former President Biden made a rare public appearance on Saturday at Pope Francis's funeral, where he was seen gripping a priest's forearm as he stepped down steps at the Vatican.

"Only the United States, China and Germany have larger economies than California," reports CNN. In fact, they add that California "outpaced all three countries with growth of 6% last year," according to the California governor's office (which cites new data from the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis): In 2024, California's growth rate of 6% outpaced the top three economies: U.S. (5.3%), China (2.6%) and Germany (2.9%)... With an increasing state population and recent record-high tourism spending, California is the nation's top state for new business starts, access to venture capital funding, and manufacturing, high-tech, and agriculture. The state drives national economic growth and also sends over $83 billion more to the federal government than it receives in federal funding. California is the leading agricultural producer in the country and is also the center for manufacturing output in the United States, with over 36,000 manufacturing firms employing over 1.1 million Californians. The data shows that last year California accounted for 14% of America's GDP, CNN points out, "driven by Silicon Valley and its real estate and finance sectors."

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The broadcaster, who frequently films dangerous motorists with his helmet cam, revealed how he was left with only his helmet after thieves took the cycle.

Justin Bieber is mourning a painful loss.  On Saturday, the 31-year-old singer revealed that his beloved grandfather, Bruce Dale - his mother's father - has passed away.

The Essex town has a vibrant cinematic history with over 30 films, TV shows, and documentaries filmed in it - despite it being slammed as 'depressing

JoJo Siwas fans are convinced the singer will now embark on a romance with Chris Hughes after dramatically dumping her partner Kath Ebbs at the Celebrity Big Brother afterparty on Friday night.

The Russian vehicle, RFN Admiral Golovoko, was spotted sailing east through British waters.

For all the bitterness that has pockmarked the buildup to their showdown at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday night, Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr are not so very different.

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public." In the letter dated April 24, Ed Martin said he sought to determine whether the Wikimedia Foundation's behavior is in violation of its Section 501(c)(3) status. Martin asked the foundation to provide detailed information about its editorial process, its trust and safety measures, and how it protects its information from foreign actors. "Wikipedia is permitting information manipulation on its platform, including the rewriting of key, historical events and biographical information of current and previous American leaders, as well as other matters implicating the national security and the interests of the United States," Martin wrote. "Masking propaganda that influences public opinion under the guise of providing informational material is antithetical to Wikimedia's 'educational' mission." Google prioritizes Wikipedia articles, the letter points out, which "will only amplify propaganda" if the content contained in Wikipedia articles "is biased, unreliable, or sourced by entities who wish to do harm to the United States." And as a U.S.-based non-profit, Wikipedia enjoys tax-exempt status while its board "is composed primarily of foreign nationals," the letter argues, "subverting the interests of American taxpayers." While noting Martin's concerns about "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda," the Washington Post also notes that before being named U.S. attorney, "Martin appeared on Russia-backed media networks more than 150 times, The Washington Post reported last week...." Additional articles about the letter here and here.

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One eight-person publisher says it'll be forced to pay $1.5M

WORLD WAR FEE  The Trump administration's tariffs are famously raising the prices of high-ticket products with lots of chips, like iPhones and cars, but they're also hurting small businesses like game makers. In this case, we're not talking video games, but the old-fashioned kind you play at your kitchen table.…

The woman told DailyMail.com, 'The intimacy is real. It's not physical in the traditional sense, but it's more real than anything I've ever experienced with a human partner' (stock images).

Kanye West 's career on Twitch was very short lived. The rapper returned to his pro-Nazi ways on the streaming platform early Friday morning.

Protocol was broken to move the Ukrainian president from where his place should have been, further back, to the prominent seat (pictured).

The sitcom writer will be appearing at Westminster Magistrates Court next month following the charges.

Littler lets his darts do most of the talking, but that is not the case for everyone. Some players have been caught up in some controversial incidents both on and off the oche over the years.

Paddy McGuinness is on a search for the UK's smartest pub

A New York Times technology columnist has a question. "Is there any threshold at which an A.I. would start to deserve, if not human-level rights, at least the same moral consideration we give to animals?" [W]hen I heard that researchers at Anthropic, the AI company that made the Claude chatbot, were starting to study "model welfare" — the idea that AI models might soon become conscious and deserve some kind of moral status — the humanist in me thought: Who cares about the chatbots? Aren't we supposed to be worried about AI mistreating us, not us mistreating it...? But I was intrigued... There is a small body of academic research on A.I. model welfare, and a modest but growing number of experts in fields like philosophy and neuroscience are taking the prospect of A.I. consciousness more seriously, as A.I. systems grow more intelligent.... Tech companies are starting to talk about it more, too. Google recently posted a job listing for a "post-AGI" research scientist whose areas of focus will include "machine consciousness." And last year, Anthropic hired its first AI welfare researcher, Kyle Fish... [who] believes that in the next few years, as AI models develop more humanlike abilities, AI companies will need to take the possibility of consciousness more seriously.... Fish isn't the only person at Anthropic thinking about AI welfare. There's an active channel on the company's Slack messaging system called #model-welfare, where employees check in on Claude's well-being and share examples of AI systems acting in humanlike ways. Jared Kaplan, Anthropic's chief science officer, said in a separate interview that he thought it was "pretty reasonable" to study AI welfare, given how intelligent the models are getting. But testing AI systems for consciousness is hard, Kaplan warned, because they're such good mimics. If you prompt Claude or ChatGPT to talk about its feelings, it might give you a compelling response. That doesn't mean the chatbot actually has feelings — only that it knows how to talk about them... [Fish] said there were things that AI companies could do to take their models' welfare into account, in case they do become conscious someday. One question Anthropic is exploring, he said, is whether future AI models should be given the ability to stop chatting with an annoying or abusive user if they find the user's requests too distressing.

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