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GE Appliances bolsters ties with US suppliers as it moves production from China to Kentucky

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — GE Appliances on Thursday touted wide-ranging ripple effects from shifting production from China to Kentucky as it announced more than $150 million in new contracts awarded to U.S.-based suppliers.

The supplier contracts range in value from $330,000 to $41 million, span 10 states and cover crucial segments of the supplier chain for the appliance maker's washer and dryer production — from plastics and castings to steel and aluminum, the company said. The suppliers range in size from U.S. Steel to family-owned companies.

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The Ten Commandments are up in Texas schools. They're also being taken down

DALLAS (AP) — When it became clear to high school theater teacher Gigi Cervantes that she couldn't ignore a new state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in her Texas classroom, she felt she had no choice. She resigned from the job she loved.

“I just was not going to be a part of forcing or imposing religious doctrine onto my students," she said.

Texas is undertaking the nation’s largest attempt to hang the Ten Commandments in public schools, and in the rush to navigate the Republican-led mandate that took effect in September, the rollout has forced... Read More

Death toll reaches 33 in some of the deadliest Israeli strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire's start

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — A pair of Israeli strikes in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis early Thursday killed five people, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from airstrikes in the Palestinian territory over a roughly 12-hour period to 33. The strikes have been some of the deadliest since Oct. 10 when a U.S.-brokered ceasefire took effect.

The renewed escalation came after Israel said that its soldiers had come under fire in Khan Younis on Wednesday. Israel said that no soldiers were killed and that the military responded with strikes.

Four Israeli... Read More

Warner Music and AI startup Udio settle copyright battle and ink license deal

LONDON (AP) — Warner Music Group resolved its copyright battle with Udio and signed a deal to work with the AI music startup on a new song creation service that will allow users to remix tunes by established artists.

It's the second agreement between a major record label and Udio, a chatbot-style song generation tool.

The deals underline how AI is shaking up the music industry. AI-generated music has been flooding streaming services amid the rise of song generators that instantly spit out new tunes based on prompts typed in by users without any musical knowledge. The... Read More

Why does this NYC subway station smell 'Christmassy'? It's an ad

NEW YORK (AP) — A trip through New York City’s crowded subway system usually offers a pungent mix of industrial and bodily aromas.

But inside a stretch of the Grand Central station this holiday season, the air smells of vanilla and fresh pine.

The scent is part of a novel advertising campaign for Bath & Body Works, which is pumping the fragrance into the 42nd Street shuttle train platform through November.

Many commuters don't pause to take notice of the diffusers that have been attached to a steel girder over the platform, and along the walls of a Those... Read More

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GE Appliances bolsters ties with US suppliers as it moves production from China to Kentucky

The Ten Commandments are up in Texas schools. They're also being taken down

Death toll reaches 33 in some of the deadliest Israeli strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire's start

Warner Music and AI startup Udio settle copyright battle and ink license deal

Why does this NYC subway station smell 'Christmassy'? It's an ad

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