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Biden’s AI czar focuses on societal risks, preventing harm
Computer scientist Lynne Parker made breakthroughs in getting robots to work together so they could perform difficult missions, like cleaning up after a nuclear disaster, waxing floors or pulling barnacles off a ship.
Provinces consider COVID-19 vaccine incentives to reach people not getting shots
Some leaders are mulling incentives to get COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of hard-to-reach populations as infection rates slowly decline in most of the country as more people are inoculated. "We all want to get back to some sense of normal,
Singh demands Trudeau drop legal battle against First Nations children, survivors
OTTAWA — New Democrats are making a renewed push for the federal government to take concrete steps toward reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. In the House of Commons today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is putting forward a motion that calls on Ottawa
Singh demands Trudeau drop legal battle against First Nations children, survivors
OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is making a renewed push for the federal government to take concrete steps toward reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, calling on Ottawa to drop a pair of Federal Court appeals he says represent a "belligerent"
‘Cracks’ appearing as Canadian military faces confluence of challenges: defence chief
OTTAWA — Canada's top military commander says he is starting to see "cracks" as the Canadian Armed Forces faces a confluence of challenges — many of them unprecedented — both at home and abroad. In an interview with The Canadian Press,
Workers win round in equal pay lawsuit against Tesco
LONDON (AP) — Workers at Britain’s largest grocery chain won the latest round in their equal pay lawsuit Thursday, when the European Union’s Court of Justice ruled that more favorable EU rules governing comparisons between men and women apply to
Pence: I’ll likely never see eye to eye with Trump on Jan. 6
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that he wasn’t sure that he and former President Donald Trump would ever see “eye to eye” over what happened on Jan. 6 but that he would “always be
Peruvians to pick new president amid relentless pandemic
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Amid an unrelenting coronavirus pandemic that has overwhelmed cemeteries, Peruvian voters will choose Sunday between a political novice who has scared business by promising to overhaul the key mining industry and a career politician w...
State worker union OKs $1 million to fight Newsom recall
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's largest state worker union approved a $1 million donation Wednesday to help Gov. Gavin Newsom fight the recall in an emergency vote that some members said would cause friction in the union amid a leadership
Ex-UK education czar decries “half-hearted” schools effort
LONDON (AP) — Britain risks failing hundreds of thousands of young people with its “half-hearted” effort to bolster schools after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the former education recovery chief who resigned over the government’s funding announc...
