Flint, Michigan, water lawsuit settled by engineering company for $53M — as it denies responsibility

Flint, Michigan, water lawsuit settled by engineering company for M — as it denies responsibility

An engineering company said Friday it has agreed to pay $53 million to settle all remaining lawsuits that alleged some blame for lead-contaminated water in Flint, Michigan, a decade ago. The deal by Veolia North America and Flint residents comes on top of $26.3 million in previous settlements with the company, and $626 million from the state of…

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Vatican says Pope Francis is in critical condition

Vatican says Pope Francis is in critical condition

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high flows of oxygen, the Vatican said. The 88-year-old Francis, who has been hospitalized for a week with a complex lung infection, also received blood transfusions after tests showed a condition associated with anemia, the…

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Edmond Dédé’s ‘Morgiane’ Is as Musically Rich as It Is Historically Significant

Edmond Dédé’s ‘Morgiane’ Is as Musically Rich as It Is Historically Significant

Joshua Conyers, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Chauncey Packer and Patrick Quigley. Jennifer Packard, Courtesy of Opera Lafayette In Bordeaux in 1887, New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé finished an opera called Morgiane and, perhaps unknowingly, made history. His magnum opus is the oldest grand opera and the first known opera by a Black American composer. Sometime after…

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Drop in overall number of freezing, low temperatures

Drop in overall number of freezing, low temperatures

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The weather in Austin this past week was, on the whole, quite cold. Camp Mabry reported the following morning low temperatures: 28° – February 18 20° – February 19 18° – February 20 30° – February 21 30° – February 22 The five mornings of sub-freezing temperatures bring the number of freezing…

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Playboy’s Playmate of the Year for magazine’s return to print says OnlyFans is no competition

Playboy’s Playmate of the Year for magazine’s return to print says OnlyFans is no competition

Gillian Nation is Playboy’s Playmate of the Year in the magazine’s first print issue in five years. The blonde bombshell made her debut during Super Bowl weekend in New Orleans wearing a $10 million diamond-studded Playboy bunny costume. For the festivities, the 27-year-old also modeled a dress inspired by Monique St. Pierre’s Playboy June 1979…

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Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang Predicts Future Office Workers Will Manage ‘Pods’ of A.I. Agents

Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang Predicts Future Office Workers Will Manage ‘Pods’ of A.I. Agents

Alexandr Wang co-founded Scale AI in 2016. Drew Angerer/Getty Images As we enter the age of agentic A.I., Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang  claims people won’t be out of work but instead responsible for overseeing their own groups of A.I. employees. “It’ll almost be like everybody gets promoted to being a manager,” the 28-year-old billionaire said…

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