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CNN  —  India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation bureau has released a preliminary report on the Air India flight that crashed in June, showing the fuel to the engines was cut off. The London-bound plane had barely left the runway at Ahmedabad airport before it careened back to earth. Everyone on board was killed, except for one passenger. According to the report obtained by CNN, the fuel control switches in the cockpit of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner had been flipped, starving the engines of fuel. Investigators were able to get data out of the black boxes, including 49 hours of flight data…

Mark Cuban says he’s a fan of artificial intelligence — so much so that it’s become a regular part of his day-to-day routine.The billionaire entrepreneur and startup investor uses AI for “everything,” he told the “High Performance” podcast in a June 30 episode. That includes writing code for software development, a skill Cuban hadn’t previously used in years, he added.”It’s insane how much I use it right now. I downloaded this app, Replit, and you just type in … I want to be able to compare pharmacy costs between my company and these other companies, and every time the price…

A view shows a bronze seal beside a door at the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2023. Kevin Lamarque | ReutersThe U.S. government posted a surplus in June as tariffs gave an extra bump to a sharp increase in receipts, the Treasury Department said Friday.With government red ink swelling throughout the year, last month saw a surplus of just over $27 billion, following a $316 billion deficit in May.That brought the fiscal year-to-date deficit to $1.34 trillion, up 5% from a year ago. However, with calendar adjustment, the deficit actually edged lower by 1%. There are three months…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries and are taking an increasing toll on health, economies and the environment, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization says.“About 2 billion tons of dust are emitted yearly, equivalent to 300 Great Pyramids of Giza” in Egypt, the organization’s U.N. representative, Laura Paterson, told the General Assembly.More than 80% of the world’s dust comes from the deserts in North Africa and the Middle East, she said, but it has a global impact because the particles can travel hundreds and even thousands of kilometers (miles) across…

David Corenswet stars are Superman in Warner Bros.’ “Superman.”Warner Bros. DiscoveryIt’s not a bird or a plane that soared into cinemas Thursday night — it was Warner Bros.’ “Superman.”The first film in the new era of DC films under James Gunn and Peter Safran snared $22.5 million from preview showings.It’s the third-best Thursday performance for a superhero flick under the DC banner ever, just behind “The Dark Knight Rises,” which secured $30.6 million in 2012, and “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice,” which tallied $27.7 million on its first Thursday in 2016, according to data from Comscore.It’s also the best…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and FBI are struggling to contain the fallout and appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump’s base after the administration’s decision this week to withhold records from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation.The move, which included the acknowledgment that one particular sought-after document never existed in the first place, sparked a contentious conversation between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino at the White House earlier this week that threatened to permanently shatter relations between the two officials, and centered — in part —…

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country announced today they have received over $30 million in donations that will start being distributed as grants immediately. The first $5 million in grants will be allocated to local organizations doing work on the ground, Austin Dixon, Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country CEO, said at a news conference. Additional grants will be available to directly support individuals and families with cash assistance, food, gift cards, rent assistance, utility assistance and other emergency needs. The foundation is also providing grants to local businesses and to first responder agencies for the tools…

CNN  —  Ecuador’s most notorious drug kingpin is headed to the United States. Jose Adolfo Macías, better known as “Fito,” agreed Friday to be extradited from Ecuador to the US, where he is wanted by the US Justice Department on charges of drug and weapons trafficking. The head of the criminal organization Los Choneros accepted his extradition during a hearing at the National Court of Justice. In a statement to CNN, Alexei Schacht, Macías’s attorney in the US, said that his client agreed to be extradited on the advice of his Ecuadorean lawyer. “We are working hard to defend his…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a mortgage fraud conviction of former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who gained a national profile for charging police officers in a Black man’s death. But the court upheld two perjury convictions relating to real estate she purchased.The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that jury instruction in the mortgage fraud case was “erroneously overbroad” concerning the proper court venue. The case was tried in Maryland relating to property she bought in Florida.“As a result of our decision to vacate the mortgage fraud conviction,…

Breakfast cereal could use a lucky charm.U.S. sales of the colorfully packaged morning staple have been in a decades-long decline, a trend back in the spotlight with news that Italian confectioner Ferrero Group plans to purchase WK Kellogg, maker of Corn Flakes, Froot Loops, Rice Krispies and other familiar brands. Except for a brief period during the coronavirus pandemic, when many workers were home and had time to sit down with a bowl of cereal and milk, sales of cold cereal have steadily fallen for at least 25 years, experts say. In the 52 weeks ending July 3, 2021, Americans…