Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Thursday announced the government will conduct a yearlong inquiry into the country’s approach to COVID-19, but opposition politicians say the limited scope and powers of …
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Asian Games Open Saturday in China
The Asian Games are an attention grabber. For starters, they involve more participants than the Summer Olympics. Organizers say more than 12,000 will be entered when the opening ceremony takes …
your ads here!Rupert Murdoch, Creator of Fox News, Stepping Down as Head of News Corp. and Fox Corp.
Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old media magnate who created Fox News, is stepping down as leader of both Fox’s parent company and his News Corp. media holdings. Fox said Thursday that …
your ads here!School Shooting Survivor Develops App That Seeks to Help People Heal
Kai Koerber was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a gunman killed 14 students and three staff members there on Valentine’s Day in 2018. Seeing his peers …
your ads here!Biden Administration Announces $600M to Produce COVID Tests, Will Reopen Website to Order Them
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up …
your ads here!German Proposal for Huawei Curbs Triggers Telecom Operator Backlash
Germany’s interior ministry has proposed forcing telecommunications operators to curb their use of equipment made by China’s Huawei and ZTE, a government official said Wednesday, sparking warnings of likely disruption …
your ads here!UN Chief Underscores Little Time Left to Avert Climate Crisis
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned a climate summit of world leaders on Wednesday there is not much time left to avert an environmental catastrophe. “We must make up for time …
your ads here!Report: Increase in Chinese-Language Malware Could ‘Challenge’ Russian Dominance of Cybercrime
For decades, Russian and eastern European hackers have dominated the cybercrime underworld. These days they may face a challenge from a new contender: China. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Proofpoint say …
your ads here!Virginia Visitors Splatter Stress Away in Paint Room
Just outside of Washington, D.C., in Northern Virginia, there is a place where anyone can release their inner painter and splatter their stress away. Maxim Adams has the story. Videographer: Sergey Sokolov; Video editor: …
your ads here!Musk’s Neuralink to Start Human Trial of Brain Implant
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink said on Tuesday it has received approval from an independent review board to begin recruitment for the first human trial of its brain …
your ads here!Sponsor an Ocean? Tiny Island Nation of Niue Has Novel Plan to Protect Pacific
The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue has come up with a novel plan to protect its vast and pristine territorial waters — it will get sponsors to pay. Under …
your ads here!Google Plans to Incorporate Its Bard Chatbot Into Its Apps
Google announced Tuesday that its Bard chatbot would be integrated into Gmail, YouTube and other applications in a push to broaden Alphabet’s user experience. Google has spent years refining its …
your ads here!London’s Historic Blue Plaques Seek More Diversity as 1,000th Marker Is Unveiled
A resounding thump breaks the silence as Jaulia Land drops a lump of grey-brown clay onto the slab roller before Ned Heywood cranks it through the machine once, twice, three …
your ads here!Britain Invites China to Its Global AI Summit
Britain has invited China to its global artificial intelligence summit in November, with foreign minister James Cleverly saying the risks of the technology could not be contained if one of …
your ads here!WHO: Hundreds of Children Die in Sudan Health Crisis
Measles, diarrhea and malnutrition, among other preventable diseases, kill about 100 children every month in Sudan where armed conflicts have uprooted more than five million people from their homes, according …
your ads here!Climate Change Impeding Fight Against AIDS, TB and Malaria
Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned. …
your ads here!Iranian Soccer Fans Flock to Ronaldo’s Hotel After Saudi Team Arrives in Tehran
Hundreds of soccer fans stormed into a hotel in Tehran on Monday, hoping for a glimpse of star player Cristiano Ronaldo after he arrived with his Saudi teammates ahead of …
your ads here!FBI Echoes Warning on Danger of Artificial Intelligence
Just as many in the United States are starting to explore how to use artificial intelligence to make their lives easier, U.S. adversaries and criminal gangs are moving forward with …
your ads here!NY Fashion Show Aims to Educate, Dispell Stigma of Sexual Assault
New York Fashion Week is generally known as a showcase for fashion designers, and the celebrities that wear their clothes. But several shows held on the sidelines are trying to …
your ads here!‘American Fiction’ Wins People’s Choice Award at Toronto Film Festival
Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” a biting satire starring Jeffrey Wright as a disillusioned academic, has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a much-watched bellwether in …
your ads here!Bystanders Less Likely to Give Women CPR: Research
Bystanders are less likely to give life-saving CPR to women having a cardiac arrest in public than men, leading to more women dying from the common health emergency, researchers said …
your ads here!UN Committee Votes to List Ruins of Ancient Jericho as World Heritage Site
A U.N. conference voted Sunday to list ruins of the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site, a decision likely to anger Israel, which controls the …
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