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In ‘Pressure,’ the story of the meteorologist who helped save D-Day
D-Day was supposed to happen on June 5, 1944. The story of why it ultimately took place on June 6 is one that has been a bit lost to history, consumed by the larger events surrounding it.
One day might not seem like much in the grand scheme, but it was a seismic delay in plans for the unprecedented and daring invasion, which wou ... (full story)
Sports
'It's time': After leading Miami athletics, Dan Radakovich set to enter his retirement
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Dan Radakovich had no shortage of successes in his 4 1/2 years as Miami's athletic director.
Miami's football team just played for the national championship earlier this year. The men's basketball program went to a Final Four, then rebuilt, then returned to the NCAA tournament. The women's basketb ... (full story)
Fitness Mythbuster
Over the years you might have engaged in, or at least overheard, conversations concerning the best method with which to workout, in other words how to get the most bang for the buck.
And I bring this up because springtime usually means that people are looking to “finesse” their workouts such that they can quickly ca ... (full story)
Baseball players ask for expanded free agency, salary arbitration rights, almost doubling minimum
NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball players fired the opening salvo May 27 in what is expected to be long and contentious labor negotiations, asking for expanded free agency and salary arbitration rights along with almost doubling the major league minimum and increasing the money high-revenue teams share with the less-wealthy clubs.
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State
Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported May 31, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer.
“While not curing the cancer, it is a very large step forward,” said Dr. Zev Wainberg, of the University ... (full story)
Takeaways from inside a teen treatment center for adoptees, funded by taxpayers: runaways, assaults
LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) — An Associated Press investigation finds that private, for-profit residential treatment centers that care for adopted kids at exceptionally high rates are often funded by taxpayer dollars, but are subject to little oversight and few consequences after allegations of abuse and neglect.
The investigatio ... (full story)
As the Pentagon pushes for battlefield AI, some military leaders urge caution
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Trump administration is pushing to unleash the power of artificial intelligence for the U.S. military while facing calls to put up guardrails around the rapidly developing technology from some companies — and even notes of caution from top leaders in uniform.
Adm. Frank Bradley, head of U.S. Sp ... (full story)