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Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot 07/21/2026 02:01pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguà NASCAR Craftsman Truck Winners 07/21/2026 02:00pm • Through July 20 1. Layne Riggs, 640 (4). 2. Kaden Honeycutt, 581 (1). 3. Chandler Smith, 514 (2). 4. Christian Eckes, 483 (0). 5. Giovanni Ruggiero, 467 (0). 6. Ty Majeski, 400 (0). 7. Ben Rhodes, 386 (0). 8. Daniel Hemric, 376 (0). 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LPGA unveils the Nanea Cup in Hawaii, a $4 million event that mixes pro players with collegians 07/21/2026 02:00pm • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The LPGA on Tuesday unveiled the inaugural Nanea Cup, an event being held in Hawaii next March that includes a mix of pro golfers and collegians as a way to showcase the present and future of women’s golf. The event, which will be held March 11-14 at the Nanea Golf Clu Smithsonian history museum chief rejects White House criticism of its leaders as radical activists 07/21/2026 01:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History pushed back Tuesday against a recent White House report that branded the institution's leadership as radical activists who cannot be trusted. The testimony from Anthea M. Hartig came as President Donald Trump h French lawmakers adopt a sweeping social media ban for children under 15 07/21/2026 01:57pm • PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers adopt a sweeping social media ban for children under 15. The bagel’s journey from Jewish immigrant food to American breakfast staple 07/21/2026 01:55pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The bagel in America is an immigrant story with a hole in the middle. It came to America with Eastern European Jews escaping poverty and antisemitism. It landed in New York street carts and neighborhood bakeries. Later, it made its way to supermarket freezer aisles and into the A Minnesota town now boasts the world's tallest nutcracker 07/21/2026 01:55pm • LUVERNE, Minn. (AP) — Crossing the open farmland of southwestern Minnesota, you'll encounter an otherworldly sight: a massive head with a beard, mustache and red-striped top hat looming over the horizon. Pull into the small town of Luverne and the figure — a nearly 66-foot (20-meter) tall nutcra Weeklong rainstorms in Chile blamed on El Nino kill at least 10 and trigger flash floods 07/21/2026 01:48pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Weeklong rainstorms blamed on El Nino that have battered Chile have killed at least 10 people as authorities raced on Tuesday to reach more than 100,000 cut off by flash floods in what has been one of the country’s worst weather disasters in decades. Torrential rains and s Montgomery Co. bill aims to prevent human trafficking on repeat at spas, bodyworks 07/21/2026 01:44pm • A new bill to prevent people convicted of human trafficking and prostitution-related charges from opening new establishments in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been introduced. "Human trafficking and labor trafficking doesn't always occur or look the way people expect it to," council member Appeals court reverses decision that freed pro-Palestinian Columbia activist Mohsen Mahdawi 07/21/2026 01:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals panel has reversed a lower court decision ordering the release of pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, opening the door to the re-arrest of a student protest organizer whom the Trump administration has spent more than a year trying to deport. Tuesday's ruling Trump administration pushes ahead with plans to reopen the US embassy in Libya 07/21/2026 01:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has informed Congress that it plans to move ahead with the potential reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Libya, proposing to allocate nearly $41 million to restore America’s formal diplomatic presence in the North African nation after a near 14-year absence. T Mammoth sign defenseman John Marino to 8-year, $54 million extension 07/21/2026 01:30pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Mammoth have signed defenseman John Marino to an eight-year, $54 million extension with an annual average value of $6.75 million. Marino's deal, announced on Tuesday, comes on the heels of a career-best season that included his first career playoff goal. "We view Joh