Good morning. It’s Friday, March 29, and there were some inspired (and unhinged) entries to The Post’s Peeps diorama contest this year. Here are the best. Now let’s get to the news. |
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| Baltimore has begun a massive cleanup after this week’s bridge collapse. |
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| President Biden raised $25 million at an event with two former presidents. |
Barack Obama, Biden and Bill Clinton at Radio City Music Hall. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) |
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| Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison. |
A courtroom sketch of Bankman-Fried. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) |
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| A bus crash in South Africa killed 45 people. |
- What happened? The bus crashed through a barrier on a bridge and fell about 50 meters into a ravine, where it caught fire, officials said yesterday.
- The only survivor: An 8-year-old girl. She was taken to a hospital with serious injuries after the crash.
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| The U.S. updated how it classifies people by race for the first time since 1997. |
- What’s new? Questions about race and ethnicity will be combined, and people will be able to select more than one option. You’ll see the changes on federal forms like census surveys.
- Why it matters: This data guides analysis of health-care outcomes, voting maps and much more. Yesterday’s update should offer a clearer picture of an increasingly diverse country.
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| Women’s faces are being cloned and stolen to make AI ads. |
- How? Scammers are creating fake versions of real people’s voices using online tools. They can then swap out the sound on an existing video and animate the speaker’s lips.
- One example: A Christian influencer found a YouTube video of herself in her bedroom, but the clone was edited to talk about a partner suffering from erectile dysfunction.
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| Beyoncé dropped her new album, “Cowboy Carter,” this morning. |
Before you go … if you’re celebrating Easter this weekend: Here are 12 perfect recipes for brunch, dinner and dessert. And finally … end your week by playing On the Record, The Post’s quotable quiz. The weekend version is 10 questions, and you can risk all your points on a final bonus question. Ready to play? Click here. Or try our word game, Keyword. |
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