CBS News Thursday June 29, 2023
Prosecutors have dropped a misdemeanor assault charge filed last October against Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams after he shoved a photographer to the ground as he left the field following a road loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Adams shoved photographer Ryan Zebley, a freelancer working for ESPN, following his team's 30-29 loss against the Chiefs, notes CBS News. Adams apologized through the media and on social media following the push, which was caught on camera. The NFL star still faces a lawsuit from Zebley.
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npr Thursday June 29, 2023
Taiz, Yemen's third most populous city, is symbolic of the civil war that has ravaged the country for nearly a decade—snipers have terrorized residents for years and many children have lost limbs due to rockets and landmines while playing outside, notes NRP, which has a report from Taiz featuring photos by Claire Harbage. In 2015, the Iran-backed Houthi militia took over the north and west of Taiz with the rest of the city under the control of the Yemeni government, backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Vimeo Thursday June 29, 2023
Create savvy scripts in seconds! Capture content right from your computer with a built-in teleprompter! Edit videos in seconds! All you need, declares Vimeo, is the platform’s new suite of AI tools. Et voila: a fully produced video, created in “minutes.” The tools include an AI-powered script generator: Just type a brief text description, a preferred “tone” and video length. The teleprompter feature allows users to maintain “natural eye contact” to give a perfect performance. The editing feature lets you get rid of “ums.”
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David Schonauer Thursday June 29, 2023
"New Photography," the title of the Museum of Modern Art's long-running survey, is a bellwether show, an event where emerging trends in contemporary photography coalesce into era-defining themes,
noted the Cultured website recently. This year's edition is the first to adopt a geographical framing: All seven featured photographers have a connection to Lagos, Nigeria. "It was less about
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