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A portion of the roof at the Tropicana Field stadium in St. Petersburg was torn off amid high winds from Hurricane Milton. Source link

India’s retail inflation in September likely overshot the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 4 per cent medium-term target.3 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 9:18 AM IST India’s retail inflation in September likely overshot the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 4 per cent medium-term target for the first time since July due to a persistent rise in vegetable prices and a lower year-ago base, a Reuters poll found. Food items, especially vegetables and other perishables, which make up a significant share of overall household spending in the country, saw an uptick in prices as heavy rains…

PHILADELPHIA — Twin brothers who were born conjoined recently celebrated their first birthday after undergoing successful separation surgery.Amari and Javar Ruffin, whose family lives in Philadelphia, were born via cesarean section on Sept. 29, 2023. The brothers — who shared part of their sternum, diaphragm, abdominal wall and liver — weighed a combined 6 pounds.On Aug. 21, a surgical team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia with more than two dozen specialists, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, radiologists, nurses, and many others, operated for eight hours to separate the boys. Their abdomens were closed and rebuilt using layers of mesh and plastic surgery…

ATLANTA — For the first time in over 10 years, Luci Harrell can vote in a presidential election.Around the time she graduated law school this year, Harrell completed two years of parole and became legally allowed to register.“It feels important to me…real and symbolic,” Harrell said. “For years I was required by the federal government to pay taxes and pay student loans, yet being denied the ability to vote.”Harrell is one of an estimated 450,000 people in Georgia with past convictions who are eligible to cast ballots. As get-out-the-vote efforts ramp up across the swing state, advocates have a hard…

Pakistan vs England 1st Test Day 4, Live Updates© AFP Pakistan vs England 1st Test Day 4, Live Updates: After a phenomenal outing with the bat on Day 3, England will be resuming their innings on Day 4 of the first Test against Pakistan from 492/3. At Stumps, Joe Root (176*) and Harry Brook (141*) remained unbeaten at the crease as the visitors trail by 64 runs. Earlier on Day 3, despite Pakistan posting a massive total of 556 in their first innings, the England batting performed exceptionally, with Ben Duckett (85) and Zak Crawley (78) also stitching quickfire…

As the strike drags on, Boeing is examining options to raise billions of dollars to shore up its balance sheet | Boeing strike4 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 9:53 AM IST The lead negotiator for a Boeing union representing about 33,000 workers who have been on strike for nearly a month said on Wednesday that members were prepared to wait out the planemaker, after pay talks collapsed a day earlier.   “We’re in this for the long haul and our members understand that,” Jon Holden said in an interview with Reuters.   Click here to…

People use large language models for a huge array of tasks, from translating an article to identifying financial fraud. However, despite the incredible capabilities and versatility of these models, they sometimes generate inaccurate responses.On top of that problem, the models can be overconfident about wrong answers or underconfident about correct ones, making it tough for a user to know when a model can be trusted.Researchers typically calibrate a machine-learning model to ensure its level of confidence lines up with its accuracy. A well-calibrated model should have less confidence about an incorrect prediction, and vice-versa. But because large language models (LLMs) can…

A North Carolina Board of Elections official said Tuesday that the state has already adopted “many of the suggestions that national political figures are now suggesting after the fact” to ensure the presidential election is not derailed by the widespread damage caused by Hurricane Helene.On Monday, the North Carolina State Board of Elections passed a resolution that expanded the authority of election officials in 13 counties “severely disrupted” by the disaster. Impacted voters can drop off absentee ballots outside of their home county, and election officials have more flexibility to set up and staff polling places in nearby counties.Of the…

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina legislators completed an initial $273 million relief package Wednesday to help spur recovery from Hurricane Helene, describing it as a down payment on aid and a way to help hard-hit counties gain more flexibility in holding elections already underway. The legislation, which was approved unanimously in the House and Senate, comes less than two weeks after the catastrophic flooding from the storm’s historic rainfall in the North Carolina mountains.Over half of the 238 confirmed Helene-related deaths in Southeastern states in Helene’s path occurred in North Carolina, a presidential battleground state where absentee voting has already…

The morning of Thursday, October 9, has turned out to be a record-breaking one for England batter Joe Root. As the 33-year-old became the first batter to score 5,000 runs in the history of the World Test Championship (WTC), he also went past a series of cricket legends in another list. Root brought up his 35th Test century, a figure that took him past India legend Sunil Gavaskar, Pakistan stalwart Younis Khan, Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene and West Indian icon Brian Lara. Root’s 35th Test hundred now puts him outright in sixth position when it comes to the…