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AI poses a bigger threat to women’s work, than men’s, report says

AI poses a bigger threat to women’s work, than men’s, report says

Jobs traditionally done by women are more vulnerable to the impact of artificial intelligence than those done by men, especially in high-income countries, a report by the United Nations’ International Labour Organization showed on Tuesday. It found 9.6% of traditionally female jobs were set to be transformed compared with 3.5% of those carried out by men as AI increasingly takes …

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Police identify victim and gunman in Las Vegas gym shooting

Police identify victim and gunman in Las Vegas gym shooting

LAS VEGAS — The person killed in a shooting at a Las Vegas fitness center last week was a longtime employee who had no known connection to the shooter, police said Monday. Edgar Quinonez, 31, of Las Vegas, was shot and killed Friday at the Las Vegas Athletic Club, police said. Arriving officers fired at the suspected shooter, 34-year-old Daniel …

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Hearing on Menendez brothers’ parole suitability pushed back to late summer

Hearing on Menendez brothers’ parole suitability pushed back to late summer

A hearing that could lead to freedom for the Menendez brothers, convicted in their parents’ murders in 1989, was pushed back from June 13 to August, California corrections officials said Monday. A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the brothers’ hearings on parole suitability will instead be on Aug. 21 and 22. Erik Menendez, 54, and …

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Video appears to show Mahmoud Khalil cooperating with ICE agents before he was detained

Video appears to show Mahmoud Khalil cooperating with ICE agents before he was detained

Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil’s legal team on Monday released new footage of the minutes leading up to his March arrest that they say contradicts the government’s argument that he was a flight risk, which officials had said justified his detainment without an arrest warrant.  The Columbia activist who helped organize pro-Palestinian rallies on campus a year ago has been held …

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Justice Department to investigate Chicago after mayor’s remarks about hiring Black officials

Justice Department to investigate Chicago after mayor’s remarks about hiring Black officials

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said Monday that it was opening an investigation into the city of Chicago after Mayor Brandon Johnson’s comments Sunday highlighting prominent Black officials in his administration. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon wrote in a letter to Johnson posted on X that she had “authorized an investigation” into whether Chicago is “engaged in a pattern or …

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Senate advances a major crypto regulation bill on a bipartisan vote

Senate advances a major crypto regulation bill on a bipartisan vote

WASHINGTON — The Senate advanced a major cryptocurrency regulation bill Monday on a bipartisan vote two weeks after every Senate Democrat united to block it.  The procedural vote on the GENIUS Act — which would establish the first regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins, digital tokens pegged to fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar — was 66-32. Sixteen Democrats voted …

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