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Olga Fikotova Connolly, who won a gold medal in athletics for Czechoslovakia at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, watched Harold Connolly of the United States win one the next day and, in March 1957, married him as the highlight of a Cold War storybook. she romance, she died on April 12 in Costa Mesa, California. She was 91 years old.The cause was breast cancer, said her daughter Merja Connolly-Freund. She died at her son Jim's home, where she had been cared for in a hospice, Ms. Connolly-Freund said.European Athletics' governing body said Olga Connolly was the last living women's gold medalist from the Melbourne Games.Her competitive record as a discus thrower was outstanding: five Olympic Games (four representing the United States as an American citizen), five American champion...

Elon Musk has gutted the part of Tesla responsible for building electric vehicle charging stations, sowing uncertainty about the future of the largest and most reliable charging network in the United States.The layoffs of about 500 Tesla employees, which many of them posted on social media Tuesday, have raised questions about deals that Musk, Tesla's chief executive, made last year with leaders of General Motors, Ford Motor and other companies automakers allowing cars made by other companies to use Tesla Supercharger stations.Tesla's deals with other electric car makers assured buyers they would be able to find fast chargers on road trips, addressing one of the main reasons many people are reluctant to buy such cars. It was also seen as a coup for Musk, who validated Tesla's t...

Thousands of miles from the campus protests that have divided Americans, some displaced Palestinians are expressing solidarity with anti-war protesters and gratitude for their efforts.Messages of support were written on some tents in the southern city of Rafah, where about a million displaced people have sought refuge from Israeli shelling and ground fighting that Gaza health officials say has killed more than 34,000 people."Thank you, American universities," read a message captured on video by the Reuters news agency. “Thank you, students in solidarity with Gaza, your message has arrived,” read another neighbor.Tension has risen on campuses across the United States, with police in riot gear arresting dozens of people at Columbia University on Tuesday night and officers across the country...

In a tense Senate hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers sharply criticized UnitedHealth Group's handling of the cyberattack that crippled the U.S. healthcare system, citing the failure of its security systems and the potential disclosure of sensitive medical information of millions of Americans.Democratic and Republican senators have questioned whether the cyberattack of Change Healthcare, which handles a third of all U.S. health records and about 15 billion transactions a year, was so large-scale because UnitedHealth is too deeply entrenched in almost every aspect of the nation's medical care. UnitedHealth Group is not only the parent company of Change, but also the parent company of the country's largest health insurer and a large pharmacy benefits manager (Optum). United also su...

Ben Houchen, the regional mayor of the north of England, faces a tight race for re-election, thanks in part to wider problems in Britain's Conservative Party.

A pair of Meta's glasses takes a photo when you say, "Hey, Meta, take a photo." A miniature computer that clips onto your shirt, the Ai Pin, translates foreign languages ​​into your native tongue. An artificially intelligent screen features a virtual assistant that you speak to via a microphone.Last year, OpenAI updated its ChatGPT chatbot to respond with spoken words, and recently, Google introduced Gemini, a replacement for its voice assistant on Android phones.Tech companies are betting on a renaissance of voice assistants, many years after most people decided that talking to computers wasn't cool.Will it work this time? Maybe, but it might take a while.Large swaths of people still have never used voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Google's As...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed again on Tuesday to launch an invasion into the southern Gaza Strip, even as a renewed push for a ceasefire deal showed glimmers of a potential breakthrough.After seven months of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the United States, Qatar and several other countries hope to broker a ceasefire, and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is visiting the Middle East to push for a agreement.But with Hamas arguing that any deal should include an end to the war, and with right-wing politicians in Israel threatening to leave the ruling coalition if the long-planned incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah is delayed , Netanyahu said Israel reserved the right to continue fighting.“The idea of ​​stopping the war before achieving all its objecti...

On Monday, actress Melissa McCarthy posted a photo on Instagram of herself wearing a sea foam green ruffled dress at a gala she attended with director Adam Shankman. While the photo itself didn't cause much of a stir, one comment, which came from entertainer Barbra Streisand, did. It read in part: “Did you take Ozempic?”Screenshots of the comment began circulating soon after, with many viewers criticizing Ms. Streisand for publicly asking whether another celebrity was taking a weight-loss drug. (Others wondered whether Streisand realized the comment had been posted where others could see it.) The comment has since been deleted.On Tuesday afternoon, Ms. Streisand faced pushback. She had taken to Instagram to see photos of the flowers she had received for her birthday, she wrote in a...

A Ukrainian official said late Wednesday that a Russian missile attack overnight killed three people and wounded three others in Odesa, a city in southern Ukraine that has been a regular target of Russian missiles and drones trying to destroy its port infrastructure.The attack followed a Russian airstrike Monday evening that killed five people and wounded about 30 others, Ukrainian officials said.Videos and photos from Monday's strike showed lifeless and bloodied civilian bodies lying on a waterfront that was not known to be near strategic sites such as military buildings or grain warehouses.Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday accused Russia of using cluster munitions – a controversial and widely banned weapon that can often cause indiscriminate harm to civilians – in that attack.Wednesda...

Amazon reported its highest first-quarter profit on Tuesday, continuing to gain efficiencies from its retail operations and recharging growth in its cloud computing operations.The company was also, for the first time, on track to hit $100 billion in annual cloud computing sales.In the first three months of the year, the company reported revenue of $143.3 billion, up 13% from a year earlier. Profit more than tripled to $10.4 billion. The results exceed analysts' expectations.“It's been a good start to the year for the entire company, and you can see it in both customer experience improvements and financial results,” Andy Jassy, ​​Amazon's chief executive, said in a statement.After a year in which companies slashed technology spending, Amazon's lucrative cloud computing bus...