PUEBLA, Mexico (AP) — A 4-year-old giraffe named Benito arrived Tuesday at his new home in a large animal park in central Mexico. Now starts the hard part for the gangly post-adolescent: fitting in with the other giraffes in the neighborhood.

The 7.5-acre (3-hectare) enclosure at in central Puebla state already has seven giraffes, including three females.

Benito, who was transferred following has spent the last year totally alone at a dusty city park in the northern

MONTREAL — A judge has approved a class-action lawsuit that accuses Quebec’s health network of failing to protect long-term care centres during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and causing avoidable suffering and death to thousands of residents.

The province’s response to the first two waves of COVID-19 was improvised, and health network officials ignored a pre-existing pandemic plan until it was too late, claims the lawsuit authorized by Superior Court Justice Donald Bisson.

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A winter weather travel advisory has ended in Toronto and across the GTA as several centimetres of snow fell and slowed down the afternoon and evening commute on Tuesday.

Environment Canada issued the advisory warning of snow that began around noon, pushed into the region and impacted travel throughout the day.

The advisory noted that the snow would weaken in the late afternoon but not before accumulation of 4 to 8 cm. Peak snowfall rates of 1 to 2 cm per hour were experienced locally.

“Motorists should expect hazardous winter driving conditions and adjust

NEW YORK (AP) —

The influx of generative artificial intelligence software is transforming small businesses.

Small business owners are using A.I. tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and others to check grammar in emails, punch up marketing copy and research business plans.

What’s more, bigger companies are developing tools specifically to help small businesses integrate A.I. into their operations in more advanced ways.

Microsoft’s Copilot lets users ask software to perform tasks like summarize an email or a

MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors are expanding their investigation into a bribery scheme involving two former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors, turning their attention to two Miami defense attorneys suspected of profiting from repeated leaks of confidential DEA information.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan filed court papers Monday accusing the lawyers of bankrolling the scheme and asking a judge to allow prosecutors to review nearly 1,000 emails, text messages and recordings of protected phone calls between the attorneys and Manny Recio,

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Christian church in Ohio filed a federal lawsuit this week after its pastor was charged with violating city ordinances when he opened up the sanctuary around the clock for homeless people and others to find shelter.

Police this month filed 18 criminal charges against Dad’s Place church Pastor Chris Avell over allegations the rented church building — located next to a separate homeless shelter along Main Street in Bryan, a city of about 8,600 in northwestern Ohio — was violating the zoning ordinance

PARIS (AP) — An air of surrealism enveloped Chanel’s Spring Couture show Tuesday as celebrity guests including Naomi Campbell and Kendrick Lamar faced a navigational challenge: walking past a towering pair of open metal scissors. That symbolic gateway set the stage for a theater-in-the-round showcase in Paris.

The show’s spotlight was on a lowly yet groundbreaking fashion element: the button. The motif featured in a short film with Naomi Campbell and as a giant sculpture descending from the ceiling, a feat of

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The European Commission chief and the prime ministers of the Netherlands and Croatia told Bosnia on Tuesday to press on with reforms and seize a chance to begin accession negotiations with the European Union before the 27-nation block holds a parliamentary vote in June.

The three officials said at a news conference in Sarajevo that while Bosnia has made progress in achieving the criteria to formally start the talks, the troubled Balkan nation must do more to win a positive recommendation in March from the European

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A list of , which were announced Tuesday in Beverly Hills, California.

BEST PICTURE

“American Fiction”; “Anatomy of a Fall”; “Barbie”; “The Holdovers”; “Killers of the Flower Moon”; “Maestro”; “Oppenheimer”; “Past Lives”; “Poor Things”; “The Zone of Interest”

BEST ACTRESS

Annette Bening, “Nyad”; Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”; Sandra H