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Charles Sallis, a Mississippi historian who collaborated on a textbook that revolutionized the teaching of Mississippi’s troubled history, died Feb. 5 at his home in Jackson, Miss. He was 89 years old.His death was confirmed by his son Charles Jr.Until the 1974 publication of ”Mississippi: Conflict & Change,” which Mr. Sallis wrote and edited with the sociologist James W. Loewen, high school students in the state had been fed a dilemma that omitted the horrors of slavery, lynching , the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow and largely omitted the civil rights movement.Mr. Sallis, originally from Mississippi, had grown up…

Tucker Carlson left Moscow more than a week ago, riding high from an interview with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that thrust him back into the spotlight after he was abruptly canceled by Fox News last spring.But the interview with the wartime dictator, mocked in various corners of the political media world for its soft touch, continues to have a long and tortured afterlife – becoming a hot topic again on Friday after the most intense domestic an opponent of Mr. Putin. Aleksei A. Navalny, found dead in a Russian prison.”This is Putin’s Russia, @TuckerCarlson,” Liz Cheney, the former…

OpenAI has completed a deal that values ​​the San Francisco artificial intelligence company at $80 billion or more, nearly tripling its valuation in less than 10 months, according to three people familiar with the deal.The company will sell existing shares in a so-called auction led by venture capital firm Thrive Capital, the people said. The deal allows employees to redeem their shares in the company, instead of a traditional financing round that would raise money for business operations.OpenAI, which declined to comment, is now one of the most valuable startups in the world, behind ByteDance and SpaceX, according to data…

CooperSurgical, a major medical supply company, is facing a wave of lawsuits from patients who claim one of its products damaged embryos created through IVF.Fertility clinics around the world have used the product, a nutrient-rich liquid that helps fertilized eggs develop into embryos. This week federal regulators announced that the company had recalled three batches of the liquid, which was used by clinics in November and December. The number of affected patients is unclear, although experts estimate it to be in the thousands.On Thursday, a couple in Virginia filed a lawsuit against the company, the eighth in two months by…

An investigation is underway into how a woman boarded an American Airlines flight at Nashville International Airport and flew to Los Angeles without showing a ticket last week, officials said Friday.Law enforcement met with Flight 1393 upon its arrival at Los Angeles International Airport on February 7, American Airlines said in a statement. The Federal Bureau of Investigation detained a woman for questioning after the flight landed, Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman in Los Angeles, said Friday.The airline said it was assisting law enforcement in the investigation, but not if its employees checked in properly at the gate.The woman was not…

On Wednesday, two days before Russian authorities reported his death, Aleksei A. Navalny was sentenced to another term in a special punishment cell in an Arctic prison, a notoriously harsh form of imprisonment generally used to force inmates into submission.The sentencing marked the 27th time prison authorities have sent Mr. Navalny to a punishment cell, according to Kira Jarmis, his spokeswoman. If he had served the full final term, he would have spent a total of 308 days in similar cells, Ms Yarmysh said.According to Eva Merkacheva, a Russian journalist who has covered the country’s prisons extensively, inmates in such…

A member of the Utah State Board of Education was removed from her committee duties and asked to resign this week after questioning the gender of a high school basketball player in a Facebook post.Board member Natalie Cline posted photos of a flyer and banner for a Salt Lake County high school basketball team on Feb. 6 with the caption “Girls’ basketball,” suggesting that one of the girls in the images, who had short hair, was not a woman. The post, which was reported by KSL TV, a television channel in Salt Lake City, has since been deleted.The board said…

When New York magazine’s financial advice columnist published an article that went viral on Thursday about being the victim of a $50,000 scam, my heart sank.My own financial planner had gone to jail years ago, which I had documented in a few columns. Almost all of us are vulnerable to scams, at least sometimes. What would I do if someone called and insisted that my children, in particular, were in serious danger?The author, Charlotte Cowles, who once had a weekly business column with the New York Times, described scammers as telling a fictional story: First, they impersonated Amazon and told…

Artificial intelligence companies are at the forefront of the development of transformative technology. Now they are also fighting to set limits on how artificial intelligence is used in a year filled with important elections around the world.Last month, OpenAI, the maker of the ChatGPT chatbot, said it was working to prevent its tools from being misused in elections, in part by banning their use to create chatbots that pretend to be real people or institutions. In recent weeks, Google also said it would restrict its AI chatbot, Bard, from responding to certain election-related prompts “out of an abundance of caution.”…

The newsThe number of children and adolescents being prescribed multiple psychiatric medications at the same time is increasing, according to a new study in the state of Maryland. The phenomenon is growing despite warnings that combinations of psychotropic drugs in young people have not been tested for safety or studied for their effect on the developing brain.The study, published Friday in JAMA Open Network, looked at prescribing patterns among patients 17 and younger enrolled in Medicaid in Maryland from 2015 to 2020. In this group, there was a 9.5 percent increase in the prevalence of “polypharmacy,” which the study defined…