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Boeing will be allowed to take responsibility for certifying all of its 737 Max and 787 planes starting next week, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. The FAA said that after months of review the agency decided that Boeing's final safety checks on its planes are good enough to ensure they are airworthy. Since September, Boeing and the agency had been taking weekly turns performing the safety checks that are required before aircraft are cleared for delivery and declared safe to fly. The FAA said Friday that the plane maker and government

FAA will allow Boeing to resume certifying its planes are airworthy after years of safety efforts

Mullin pushes states to comply with election demands, echoing Trump's claims about midterm risks

Jamaica says 2 citizens deported by US to Eswatini rejected repatriation offers

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Chinese AI model takes US tech industry by surprise with abilities rivaling Claude and ChatGPT

Another powerful new artificial intelligence model from China took the U.S. tech industry by surprise Friday, the latest sign that Chinese startups that publicly release their “open-source” AI technology are making the California titans of AI sweat. The newest Kimi K3 model from Beijing-based startup Moonshot, run by a Pink Floyd-loving entrepreneur who earned his doctorate in Pittsburgh, appears to be catching up to the best versions of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT. “This may be the single biggest release of the year,” and marks a

Fed rate-hike voices swell before July decision, rates still seen on hold

Brazil finance chief pledges reciprocity, not retaliation, after new U.S. tariffs

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Walmart names Kinnard to replace departing US COO Shanahan, memo shows

Kieran Shanahan, chief operating officer of Walmart's U.S. operations, is leaving the retailer and will be replaced by the company's international division COO, Kyle Kinnard, an internal memo showed on Friday, amid a major management rejig under CEO John Furner.Here are some details: • Kinnard has been with Walmart for more than 25 years handling multiple senior roles, including executive vice president of health & wellness for Walmart U.S., the company said in the memo seen by Reuters.• The change follows Tom Ward, COO of warehouse chain Sam's Club, and Cedric Clark, U.S. store oper

Top US tax lawyer forced out after White House clash over tax audits

Apple in early settlement talks with US DOJ over antitrust case, Bloomberg News reports

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Before and after images: Wildfire smoke casts skylines in dystopian haze

Smoke from wildfires in Canada has poured into the United States, causing air quality to plummet and masking landscapes in a thick, brown haze.Poor air quality has been an issue in New York since Wednesday, when the cloud of smoke descended near the ground.Washington, DC, has mostly avoided hazardous air – until Friday, when a thick haze settled over the nation’s capital.Chicago experienced some of the country’s worst air quality on Thursday and is still enveloped in a cloud of smoke. Here’s what it looks like compared to Wednesday.Wildfire smoke has altered skies over Central Pennsylv

Consumer sentiment surges due to lower gas prices

Lower gas prices helped Americans feel more optimistic about the economy early this month, though that relief might be short lived if the conflict in the Middle East continues to intensify.The University of Michigan’s latest survey of Americans, released Friday, showed that consumer sentiment surged 10% early this month to a preliminary reading of 54.4, the highest point since February.“Consumer sentiment climbed to its highest reading since February of this year on the basis of easing price pressures at the pump in recent weeks,” Joanne Hsu, the survey’s director, said in a release. �

A body is recovered after San Francisco boat tragedy but 2 remain missing

Barack Obama hasn’t endorsed a Michigan Senate candidate. An AIPAC-linked group is spending millions on ads with him anyway

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Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as a source of diarrhea-causing parasite

Federal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served at Taco Bell locations across five U.S. states as a source of a widespread outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Thursday warned consumers not to eat shredded iceberg lettuce from Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. A record number of cyclospora cases have been reported in more than 30 states, and experts have said not every recent U.S. illness might be caused by a single source. A Food and Dru

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Key moments from Trump’s speech claiming declassified documents show US election vulnerabilities

President Donald Trump, in a primetime speech Thursday night, alleged vulnerabilities exist in American election systems, despite declassified documents released by his administration largely discussing vulnerabilities that have been known for years and that election officials around the country have tried to address.Trump said the speech and release of documents are not meant to “weaken confidence” in US elections, though critics say he has done just that. For years, the US president has spread falsehoods about the 2020 election.In the remarks, he addressed his economic agenda, immigratio

Fed may need to hike rates if inflation does not ease soon, Jefferson says

Water rescues, evacuations in western Texas after catastrophic floods in Hill Country kill 2

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An Israeli strike on a funeral in Gaza kills 7 people and wounds 22, a local hospital says

An Israeli strike on a funeral in the central Gaza Strip killed at least seven people and wounded 22, while other attacks in the embattled coastal territory left five more dead, according to local officials. The Israeli military said it targeted a “terrorist cell” belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group. It said it was aware that civilians may have been harmed in the strike. The Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza confirmed the number of casualties in the strike in central Gaza, saying people were struck at the funeral for a P

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Brenda Fricker, the first Irish actress to win an Oscar for 'My Left Foot,' dies at 81

Brenda Fricker, who became the first Irish woman to win an Academy Award for her role as Bridget Fagan Brown in the 1989 film “My Left Foot,’’ has died. She was 81. The Irish character actor died Thursday night in Dublin after a period of ill health, her agent, Phil Belfield said in a statement. Fricker won the Academy Award in 1990 for best supporting actress for her portrayal of the determined mother of Christy Brown, a writer and painter who was born with cerebral palsy and could control only his left foot. Daniel Day-Lewis, who played Brown, won the award

Strong quake off Mexican coast rattles Guatemala and El Salvador, but leaves no damage

Powerful earthquake in Mexico shakes Guatemala and El Salvador

Nasdaq drops 1% after China’s latest AI breakthrough rattles tech stocks

Stocks in Asia and the United States fell Friday after technological advances announced by a Chinese artificial intelligence company intensified concerns that the AI spending spree driving this year’s market rally could be at risk.The announcement came from Chinese company Moonshot, which unveiled Kimi K3, its most capable AI model, and one it said closed much of the gap with models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.Taiwan’s benchmark stock index closed down more than 6%, while markets in Japan closed down 4% on the news. South Korean markets were closed Friday for a nati

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Three things we’ve learned from the World Cup… so far

Note: This story first appeared in The Beautiful Game by CNN Sports, our daily newsletter on all things World Cup. To subscribe, click here.The last Friday of a World Cup is always a bit strange. It sort of feels like a down day, cut adrift from all the action, color and drama of the tournament.But fear not, this is just the calm before the storm.Both Argentina and Spain are busy behind the scenes putting the finishing touches to their tactics, as fans around the world finalize their plans for how they’ll be watching Sunday’s final (Spanish editor’s note: Unfortunately for me, it will be

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Netanyahu buys political loyalty with controversial legislation ahead of election

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Trump threatens new Iran escalation and risks repeating old mistakes

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Netflix earnings forecast disappoints Wall Street, shares tumble

Netflix forecast third-quarter revenue and earnings on Thursday that fell short of Wall Street targets and said it would cut the frequency of viewing-

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America had a love affair with ‘fixer-upper’ homes. That may be over

Trump’s teleprompter operator under investigation for insider trading, sources say

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Trump threatens to revoke licenses of US networks for not carrying primetime speech

Two of the three major U.S. television networks and CNN did not broadcast a prime-time address on Thursday by President Donald Trump on their primary

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Speaker Johnson suffers humiliating political defeat, yanks veterans benefits bill

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Rubio and Miller warn of the ‘mortal threat’ of ‘far-left terror’ in speech to 67 countries

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UK urges FIFA to investigate Argentina over Falklands banner at World Cup

The British government has urged FIFA to investigate Argentina's soccer team after players posed with a banner claiming sovereignty over the Falkland Islands

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Iran and US step up attacks, release of American in dispute

Iran and the United States exchanged intensifying fire on Thursday in a week-long escalation that has largely

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls