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Apple overtakes Samsung as world's biggest phonemaker
BBC NEWS
Apple now has the lion's share of the global smartphone market, knocking Samsung off the top spot for the first time in 12 years.
New cloned monkey species highlights limits of cloning
CNN
BEIJING, China - Meet Retro, a cloned rhesus monkey born on July 16, 2020. He is now more than 3 years old and is “doing well and growing strong,” according to Falong Lu, one of the authors of a study published in the journal Nature Communications Tuesday that describes how Retro came to be.
US passenger bites flight attendant forcing plane to return to Tokyo
CNN
TOKYO, Japan - An American airline passenger allegedly bit a female cabin crew member mid-flight on Tuesday, forcing an All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight bound for Seattle to return to Tokyo, an airline spokesperson said.
New Jersey under a state of emergency as flooding, wind, pummel Northeast
AP
CONCORD, N.H, USA - A major storm drenched the Northeast and slammed it with fierce winds, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands following a bout of violent weather that struck most of the US.
3 dead as severe storms sweep through US
BBC NEWS
At least three people have died and over half a million homes are without power after a series of powerful winter storms swept through parts of the eastern US and Canada.
Clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses must pay $260K legal expenses
FOX NEWS
A federal judge has ruled that former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis must pay over $260,000 in attorney fees and expenses following her court case relating to her refusal to issue marriage licenses to a same-sex couple.
Thousands of doctors in Britain walk off the job in strike
AP
LONDON, UK — Thousands of doctors walked off the job in Britain on Wednesday, the start of a six-day strike over pay that was set to be the longest in the history of the state-funded National Health Service.
Powerful Japan earthquakes leave at least 62 dead
AP
SUZU, Japan - A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan left at least 62 people dead as rescue workers fought Wednesday to save those feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
New York Times sues Microsoft & ChatGPT maker OpenAI
NBC NEWS
The New York Times on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the company behind popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing the pair of infringing copyright and abusing the newspaper’s intellectual property.
Biden looks to change his endgame in Ukraine
POLITICO
With US and European aid to Ukraine now in serious jeopardy, the Biden administration and European officials are quietly shifting their focus from supporting Ukraine’s goal of total victory over Russia to improving its position in an eventual negotiation to end the war, according to a Biden administration official and a European diplomat based in Washington.