Biden to Give Abortion-Focused Speech in Florida, Tying State Ban to Trump

President Biden is expected to condemn a six-week abortion ban that will soon take effect in Florida — and blame former President Donald J. Trump for its enactment — during a speech on Tuesday in Tampa. The Biden campaign has made abortion one of its top issues, as polling shows it is one of the […]

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Taylor Swift’s Ex Matty Healy Is Not ‘Surprised’ by Her Alleged Diss Track, Per His Aunt

If “TSMWEL” really is about Healy, the lyrics seem to suggest she was ghosted by the singer after being love bombed. “Was any of it true? Gazing at me starry-eyed in your Jehovah’s Witness suit,” she sings in the first verse. “Who the fuck was that guy? You tried to buy some pills from a

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JD.com Unveils Ambitious Plans for 618 Grand Promotion: Aiming to More Than Double High-Performing Merchants

– April 20, 2024 — JD.com is gearing up for this year’s 618 Grand Promotion with an ambitious goal: to more than double the number of merchants achieving sales over one million yuan on its platform. At the recent Conference of Merchants and Ecosystem Partners on April 18, JD.com introduced a range of supportive initiatives

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FAA now requires reentry license to prevent spacecraft getting stuck up there

What happens if you design a spacecraft to survive reentry, but launch without a green light from regulators to bring it back down? As we saw with Varda Space Industries, which fired a capsule into orbit last spring to make stuff in zero gravity, you might have to park in orbit until your Federal Aviation Administration

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Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Johnson’s foreign aid package his ‘3rd betrayal’ of American people

A bipartisan knot of House members clustered in the well of the chamber just around 2 p.m. on Saturday. The House had just approved a $26 billion aid package for Israel, 366-58, which was the final of several roll-call votes on a clutch of foreign aid bills, including $61 billion for Ukraine. But members weren’t

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Falling Behind: Chegg’s Strategic Blunders in the AI Race (NYSE:CHGG)

The Good Brigade/DigitalVision via Getty Images Introduction Chegg (NYSE:CHGG) operates in the education services industry, providing online tutoring, textbook rentals, and homework solutions to students worldwide. Chegg’s revenue is driven by subscriptions to their services including Chegg Study, Chegg Writing, and Math Solver. At present, Chegg appears to be trading at its fair value, around

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Why new proposals to restrict geoengineering are misguided

The growing interest in studying the potential of these tools, particularly through small-scale outdoor experiments, has triggered corresponding calls to shut down the research field, or at least to restrict it more tightly. But such rules would halt or hinder scientific exploration of technologies that could save lives and ease suffering as global warming accelerates—and

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Biden to travel to Florida to rebuke Trump over six-week abortion ban

President Biden will travel to Florida on Tuesday to denounce that state’s six-week abortion ban — just days before the law goes into effect — in his latest push to blame former president Donald Trump for the erosion of reproductive rights across the country. Biden will deliver remarks on what he has called “reproductive freedom”

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What is Project Nimbus, and why are Google workers protesting Israel deal? | Explainer News

Google employees based in the United States staged protests at the tech giant’s offices in New York City, California and Seattle last week to oppose a $1.2bn contract with the Israeli government. Known as Project Nimbus, the joint contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021 aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI)

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The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers

The ability of the United States to intercept and store Americans’ text messages, calls, and emails in pursuit of foreign intelligence was not only extended but enhanced over the weekend in ways likely to remain enigmatic to the public for years to come. On Saturday, US president Joe Biden signed a controversial bill extending the

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Billionaires Are Selling It and Buying These 2 High-Octane Artificial Intelligence (AI) Growth Stocks Instead

Over the past three decades, Wall Street has never been at a loss for next-big-thing investment trends or innovations that could change the growth trajectory for the U.S. and global economy. Seemingly nothing has rivaled the advent of the internet, in terms of game-changing growth potential, until the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution came along. In

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Rwanda bill puts global refugee rights in danger, says UN and Council of Europe – UK politics latest | Politics

‘New legislation sets perilous precedent globally,’ says UN high commissioner for human rights as Rwanda bill passes Good morning. Rishi Sunak has finally managed to get parliament to pass his safety of Rwanda (asylum and immigration) bill (it will become an Act gets royal assent, within hours or days), but international concern about the new

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Munich Re to strengthen local P&C Underwriting with revised set-up in Asia Pacific & Africa

Local Underwriting teams will be strengthened New set-up with two regional divisions Personnel changes at senior executive level – April 18, 2024 — Munich Re has grown strongly and profitably in Asia Pacific & Africa in recent years. One building block of this success has been the transfer of know-how and decision-making authorities to the

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Voyager spacecraft gave us a scare. But NASA’s bringing it back to life.

Our farthest-away spacecraft isn’t finished yet. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, at over 15 billion miles away and hurtling ever-deeper into the cosmos, beamed back crucial data about its health for the first time in five months. NASA released a photo of mission engineers celebrating the success of their software patch with raised arms and wide

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Taylor Swift, Thom Yorke, Cassandra Jenkins, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist

The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our

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