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Month: March 2024

Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal

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Postal Service offers $150,000 reward after 2 letter carriers robbed at gunpoint in Denver’s Montbello neighborhood

By Jennifer McRae Click here for updates on this story     DENVER, Colorado (KCNC) — The United States Postal Service has posted a $150,000 reward after two letter carriers were robbed at gunpoint in Denver’s Montbello neighborhood. The armed robberies happened around 5 p.m. Monday; one robbery was near Bolling Drive and Duluth Court, the second

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South Africa urges top UN court to impose more emergency orders on Israel to end starvation in Gaza

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Citing “widespread starvation” in Gaza, South Africa is urging the United Nations’ top court to order Israel to allow humanitarian aid into the war-torn region. The request is part of an ongoing case alleging that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza breaches the Genocide Convention.  Israel

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Half of US states join GOP lawsuits challenging new EPA rule on deadly soot pollution

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-five Republican-led states have joined lawsuits challenging a new Biden administration rule that sets tougher standards for deadly soot pollution. Republicans say the Environmental Protection Agency rule would raise costs for manufacturers, utilities and families across the country and could block new manufacturing facilities and infrastructure projects.

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Missouri governor offers ‘deepest sympathy’ after reducing former Chiefs assistant’s DWI sentence

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has offered his “deepest sympathy” to the family of a 5-year-old girl who was seriously injured in a drunken driving crash, after facing criticism for releasing from prison the driver who caused the crash, former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid. But in a statement

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Senate hopeful Kari Lake courts Nikki Haley supporters while calling failed presidential bid a ‘vanity project’

CNN By Melanie Zanona, Kristin Wilson and Jeremy Herb, CNN Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake says she will court voters who backed GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley – and those who would have voted for independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema – even as she criticized Haley’s campaign as a “vanity project” in an interview with CNN Wednesday.

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‘Rust’ movie armorer found guilty of involuntary manslaughter, acquitted of evidence tampering

By Cheri Mossburg, Christina Maxouris and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the “Rust” film armorer, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Wednesday in a New Mexico trial stemming from the 2021 on-set fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed by a live round of ammunition fired from a prop gun

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