By Staff The Associated Press Posted March 6, 2024 10:26 am Updated March 6, 2024 10:49 pm 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Pope Francis again asked an aide to read his remarks and was unable to get back onto his popemobile Wednesday, as lingering respiratory and mobility problems continued to take … Read more
LONDON – British Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt sought Wednesday to bolster spirits within his Conservative Party with another tax cut for 27 million working people, hoping it can turn the political tide ahead of a general election this year. But with the tax cut trailed in advance and no major surprises in Hunt’s … Read more
A Microsoft Corp. software engineer sent letters to the company’s board, lawmakers and the Federal Trade Commission warning that the tech giant is not doing enough to safeguard its AI image generation tool, Copilot Designer, from creating abusive and violent content. Shane Jones said he discovered a security vulnerability in OpenAI’s latest DALL-E image generator … Read more
A row over the role of protest in professional sport has erupted in New Zealand after a women’s rugby team called the coalition government “rednecks” during a pre-match haka. The Hurricanes Poua – the women’s rugby union team for Wellington – added lyrics to their haka just before their Super Rugby Aupiki match against the … Read more
Liberty University has been hit with a $14m Department of Education federal fine for creating “a culture of silence” around sexual assault, failing to support victims of violence and then failing to properly report them correctly under the law. Announcing the fine on Tuesday, the department said in a statement that the Christian evangelical institution … Read more
Article content Police have identified the victim of a fatal shooting last weekend in Rexdale. Article content Toronto Police said on Wednesday evening that Jasmit Badesha, 25, of Mission, B.C., was the man gunned down on Sunday at 11:37 p.m. near the parking lot of a residential building in the Bergamot Dr.-Rexdale Blvd. area. Article … Read more
On Tuesday morning, bitcoin briefly reached an all-time high price of $69,210, according to Coin Metrics. It fell later that afternoon, but hovered around $66,400 as of 5 p.m. on Wednesday. The new record had been a long time coming: It’s been over two years since the cryptocurrency reached its previous high of around $68,982 … Read more
A woman was allegedly stalked and threatened with sexual assault by a man with a knife while she was at work at a university campus in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. She was uninjured and called police following the incident at a university on High St in Kensington about 6.20am on Wednesday. The University of NSW is … Read more
A trader works, as a screen displays a news conference by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell following the Fed rate announcement, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., January 31, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets … Read more
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday said artificial intelligence is going to be essential to big market rallies over the next few years. “This technological revolution is crossing all barriers, even potentially becoming the heart of our national security apparatus, so we’d be like ostriches with our heads in the sand if we don’t address it,” … Read more
