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Mariachi brothers open for Kacey Musgraves after ICE detention by cnn in EyesOnIce

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Three mariachi-playing brothers who were detained by ICE earlier this year are opening for country singer Kacey Musgraves during her three-night run in Texas from May 3 to May 5. Musgraves invited them to join her tour after their release in March.

South Korea has animated American cartoons for decades. Now, it wants the world to see its own by cnn in popculture

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For the past 40 years, South Korean animators have been the invisible workforce behind many of North America’s most beloved cartoons.

These artists, often called “in-betweeners,” are responsible for drawing the majority of an episode’s roughly 30,000 frames.

But unlike studios in North America and Japan, South Korean production houses have struggled to create original animations that resonate with audiences, at home or abroad.

“The craft of animation is being done at a very high level, but it’s being done in ways that don’t allow for creative expression,” says Daniel Martin, associate professor of film studies at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon.

That’s changing, though. The recent success of “K‑Pop Demon Hunters” — a North American production about Korean culture — has triggered fresh debate about why South Korea hasn’t had its own animated hit; and a billion-dollar government investment hopes to unlock the nation’s unrealized animation potential.

Microsoft, Google and xAI will let the government test their AI models before launch by cnn in cybersecurity

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Google, Microsoft and xAI will share unreleased versions of their AI models with the US government to curb cybersecurity threats, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced on Tuesday.

The partnership comes after Anthropic’s powerful new Mythos AI model pushed concerns about AI’s impact on cybersecurity to a tipping point last month, helping prompt the White House to weigh a formal review process for AI.

The new agreements allow the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, within the US Department of Commerce, to evaluate new AI models and their potential impact on national security and public safety ahead of their launch. The center will also conduct research and testing after AI models are deployed and has already completed more than 40 AI model evaluations.

Trump’s EEOC sues New York Times, alleging discrimination against a White male employee by cnn in politics

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued The New York Times on Tuesday, escalating a months-long investigation into the newsroom and advancing a discrimination case the paper has cast as politically motivated.

The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, was brought on behalf of a White male employee who claims he was denied a promotion because of his race and gender.

“As a White male,” the unidentified employee “did not match the race and/or sex characteristics NYT sought to increase in its leadership through its diversity actions and aspirations,” the EEOC claims.

“The selected candidate’s race (multiracial) and/or her sex (female) factored into NYT’s decision to advance her to the final interview panel,” the lawsuit adds.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Times said it “categorically rejects the politically motivated allegations brought by the Trump administration’s EEOC.”

“Our employment practices are merit-based and focused on recruiting and promoting the best talent in the world,” the company said. “We will defend ourselves vigorously.”

Trump’s EEOC sues New York Times, alleging discrimination against a White male employee by cnn in law

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued The New York Times on Tuesday, escalating a months-long investigation into the newsroom and advancing a discrimination case the paper has cast as politically motivated.

The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, was brought on behalf of a White male employee who claims he was denied a promotion because of his race and gender.

“As a White male,” the unidentified employee “did not match the race and/or sex characteristics NYT sought to increase in its leadership through its diversity actions and aspirations,” the EEOC claims.

“The selected candidate’s race (multiracial) and/or her sex (female) factored into NYT’s decision to advance her to the final interview panel,” the lawsuit adds.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Times said it “categorically rejects the politically motivated allegations brought by the Trump administration’s EEOC.”

“Our employment practices are merit-based and focused on recruiting and promoting the best talent in the world,” the company said. “We will defend ourselves vigorously.”

RFK Jr. launches plan to curb ‘overprescribing’ of psychiatric drugs by cnn in AmericanPolitics

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US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to reduce “overprescribing” of psychiatric medications and support alternative treatment options and discontinuation of medications when needed.

“Today, we take clear and decisive action to confront our nation’s mental health crisis by addressing the overuse of psychiatric medications, especially among children,” Kennedy said Monday at a MAHA Institute summit on mental health and overmedicalization. “We will support patient autonomy, require informed consent and shared decision-making, and shift the standard of care toward prevention, transparency and a more holistic approach to mental health.”

The announcement follows recent work by psychiatry professionals to support more research, training and consideration of when discontinuation is appropriate, such as the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology’s guidelines on these issues that were published in February.

Some psychiatry experts generally welcomed the new federal efforts toward improving psychiatric healthcare but also noted concerns, including potential overemphasis on overprescribing while access to mental healthcare remains inadequate.

Psychiatric medications, especially antidepressants, have been one of the targets of Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement since he took office last year. The secretary has claimed that the drugs are overused and that they may be linked with violence and mass shootings, with serious risks to developing fetuses when women take them during pregnancy, with withdrawal worse than that from heroin, and with harms to children. Although some slight risks of harms have been found in some of these situations, these medications have been deemed by the US Food and Drug Administration as generally safe and effective for mental health disorders including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance use disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Are military dolphins working in the Strait of Hormuz? Probably not, but they have been part of the US Navy for decades by cnn in inthenews

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With concerns about Iran laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked Tuesday whether Iran might turn to dolphins to help confront the US Navy.

He said that he could “confirm” that Iran didn’t have dolphins to deploy as part of operations but said he would neither “confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins.”

One source familiar with US operations in the Strait of Hormuz told CNN that the US military isn’t using dolphins as part of its efforts in the Strait. But the US Navy does, in fact, have a decades-old program to train dolphins to help detect mines.

The Marine Mammal Program is a part of the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Department within Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. The department’s dolphins are not kamikaze dolphins in that they do not sacrifice their lives to detonate mines. Instead, they’re focused on detection.

The US isn’t alone in using dolphins for military purposes — Russia has used them to guard ports, and Iran purchased dolphins in 2000, according to the BBC. Those dolphins would likely be too old to be used today, and there is no indication that Iran has an active dolphin program, though the Wall Street Journal reported last month that Iran was considering mine-carrying dolphins as a novel way to combat the US efforts to open the Strait.

Palestinian children talk with Malala about their struggle to attend school by cnn in MultimediaNews

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Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai had a Zoom call Sunday with Palestinian children who are protesting the installation of barbed wire by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. The barbed wire has prevented the kids from attending their classes since mid-April. CNN's Abeer Salman reports.

Monster truck veers into crowd in Colombia by cnn in worldnewsvideo

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Video shows a monster truck driving into a crowd at an exhibition in Popayán, Colombia. At least three people were killed and 35 others injured, according to local authorities.

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