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An 18-year career diplomat has resigned from the State Department over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. Hala Rharrit is the third State Department employee to publicly resign, joining Josh Paul and Annelle Sheline. Rharrit criticized the Biden administration’s arming of Israel. She told The Washington Post, “We’re promoting a generational cycle of revenge that is
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Amazonreported quarterly results above Wall Street’s expectations on Tuesday, as interest in artificial intelligence helped drive cloud-computing growth. Shares of the Seattle-based e-commerce and tech company climbed almost 3% in extended trade, even after its current-quarter revenue forecast came in below expectations. The stock closed down 3.3% in the regular session. Chief Financial Officer Brian
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Elon Musk’s abrupt decision to lay off employees who ran Tesla’s electric vehicle charging business blindsided automakers gearing up to equip new EVs for customers to use the Tesla Supercharger network, industry officials and analysts said on Tuesday. For now, General Motors, Ford and other automakers which struck deals last year to give customers access to the
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Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating US money-laundering laws at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The sentence was imposed by US District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle, who rejected prosecutors’ request that the 47-year-old Zhao serve a three-year term, twice the maximum
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Facebook and Instagram reportedly host thousands of explicit ads for AI-generated companions and girlfriend apps and sex workers are accusing Meta of double standards when it comes to policing smut. The online chatbots in the ads provide users with AI-generated imagery of realistic, partially clothed and stereotypically pornographic women, including one promising to get you
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Police have raided Columbia University and arrested pro-Palestinian protesters after demonstrators occupied one of its buildings. It comes after New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that the demonstration at the Ivy League school “must end now” and claimed “professional outside agitators” had infiltrated the protest. University bosses said they had called in
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Medical preparedness advocate and emergency medicine expert Dr. Joseph Alton sharesthe following advice to prepare your family medically for any survival scenario. (h/t to Doom and Bloom) As part of his mission to put a medically prepared personin every family, Alton explains that the response to chemical or industrial emergencies highly depends on the substances
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