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The White House snubs Elon Musk’s offer to cover TSA salaries as airport miseries hit record levels | Fortune
The White House has rejected an offer from Elon Musk to personally fund TSA workers’ salaries during the partial government shutdown that has thrown airport security into chaos across the country, Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson told Fortune. Musk...
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Two private school boys get probation for using AI to create 350 fake nudes of their classmates | Fortune
Two teenage boys who used artificial intelligence to create fake nude photos of their classmates at a tony private school in Pennsylvania received probation Wednesday after dozens of victims described the images’ traumatizing effect on them.The boys were 14...
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It’s time for slavery reparations, ‘the gravest crime against humanity,’ UN General Assembly says | Fortune
The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.”The resolution also urges “the prompt and unhindered...
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Enter Melania Trump, escorted by humanoid robot: ‘I’m Figure 03, a humanoid built for the United States of America’ | Fortune
Melania Trump often commands the attention of any room she enters but all eyes — and cameras — were trained on her humanoid companion on Wednesday.The robot accompanied the first lady to the White House East Room for the final day...
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Harvard may be under federal investigation and cost over $87,000 a year—but it’s still Gen Z’s No. 1 ‘dream college’ | Fortune
None of it has knocked it off its perch. The Ivy league institution was once again deemed the No. 1 “dream school” among college applicants, according to a new survey by The Princeton Review.Harvard has consistently ranked near the...
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Food aid doesn’t make people loafers – research shows government benefits help low-income people find jobs
Millie Morales believes in hard work.“I feel that as an American citizen, we all have a great opportunity to be able to improve our life,” the 58-year-old woman explained in an interview I conducted...
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Pittsburgh’s post-steel economy is a success – and a warning for other cities
Few regions pose as much of an economic conundrum as Pittsburgh.Is the city and region – once the center of American steelmaking – a paragon of postindustrial transformation, or a left-behind region still struggling...
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Pokémon Trading Card Game has premiered at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building!
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How the shadow fleet is capitalising on the chaos of war
December 2022The Strateg, originally named Melodia and sailing under the Marshall Islands flag, is part of a fleet exporting crude oil from RussiaJune 2023The ship is renamed Li Bai and changes its flag to Panama2024It makes calls to Russian...
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‘Attempted corporate murder’ — Anthropic and Department of War spar in court | Fortune
Lawyers for the Department of War and Anthropic sparred in a California federal court on Tuesday over Anthropic’s challenge to the Pentagon labeling it a “supply-chain risk” to national security and banning all government contractors from using the company’s...
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European allies say Russia is helping Iran more than the U.S. has acknowledged, sources say
European allies are publicly and privately telling American diplomats that Russia is directly and materially helping...