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Razor, an innovator in the scooter industry, is expanding its footprint in the adult electric scooter market, providing riders a fun way to travel short distances.
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A bipartisan duo in the the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from federal devices, similar to the policy already in place for the popular social media platform TikTok. Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Darin LaHood, R-Ill., on Thursday introduced the “No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act," which would ban federal employees from using the Chinese AI app on government-owned electronics. “The Chinese Communist Party has made it abundantly clear that it will exploit any tool at its disposal to undermine our national security, spew harmful disinformation, and collect data on Americans," Gottheimer said in a statement.
ChatGPT developer OpenAI on Thursday said it will allow some European customers to store and process data from conversations with its chatbots within the European Union, rather than on its infrastructure in the United States or elsewhere.The move comes as AI developers based largely in the United States, such as OpenAI, Facebook parent Meta, Google and Microsoft, are racing to invest tens of billions in the data centre infrastructure needed for large-scale use of systems like chatbots and image
Police in New Albany, Ohio, said four other people were hospitalized after the mass shooting at the KDC/One warehouse.
Education Department staffers were told Wednesday that taking a buyout would prevent them from seeking recourse even if they don't get severance pay.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said her conservative colleagues are risking the court's legitmacy with decisions affording President Donald Trump broad immunity and overturning longstanding precedents on other issues. In her first public comments since Trump began his second term in the White House, Sotomayor told a Kentucky audience that the court has gone too far, too fast on a range of issues.
Winter weather alerts were in place for some 100 million people across 22 states from Nebraska to Massachusetts on Thursday as a series of winter storms descend on states in the North and the East, bringing snow, sleet and freezing rain.
Erica Roach, the chief financial officer of the Office of Personnel Management, has reportedly resigned, according to several reports.
South Africa will not be bullied, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a national address Thursday, after criticism this week of his government from senior US officials including President Donald Trump.Trump asserted this week that South Africa was "confiscating" land via an expropriation act signed last month, a charge the government denies and has described as "misinformation".
Learn more about what USAID is and how it works after Department of Government Efficiency leader Musk says he and Trump are hoping to shut down the federal agency.
An animal rescue service in Australia expected to remove four red-bellied snakes from the backyard of a Sydney home. Instead, they uncovered more than 100.
The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Thursday that while an Israeli ban has not yet forced the agency to cease operations, it faces an “existential threat” in the long run. “I have been very clear that despite all the obstacles and the pressure the agency is under, our objective is to stay and deliver until we are prevented to do so,” Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, also known as UNRWA, said in an interview with The Associated Press during a visit to Beirut. Israel last week formally banned UNRWA from operating on its territory.
Minnesota House Democrats returned to the state Capitol on Thursday after reaching a power-sharing agreement with Republicans, ending a stalemate that prevented the chamber from conducting official business for more than three weeks. Under the deal, House Republican leader Lisa Demuth, of Cold Spring, will be formally elected as speaker for two years. Demuth, who is Black, will be the chamber's first speaker of color.
Panama on Thursday rejected the United States' claim of securing free passage for its government vessels through the Panama Canal, while bowing to US pressure to quit a key Chinese project.The new row between Panama and Washington erupted after the US State Department claimed that Panama had agreed to let US government vessels through the canal for free after talks last weekend between Mulino and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Israel's defence minister ordered the army on Thursday to prepare for "voluntary" departures from Gaza, as US President Donald Trump ruled out sending troops to the territory."I have instructed the IDF (military) to prepare a plan to enable voluntary departure for Gaza residents," Katz said, adding they could go "to any country willing to accept them".
U.S. District Judge John McConnell said the Office of Management and Budget's about-face on pausing federal payments and contracts was in "name only."
Donald Trump's pick for US trade representative faced skeptical questions from key Republicans about the potential hit their rural states could take if trade tensions escalate.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development plans to invest at least 1.5 billion euros ($1.56 billion) this year to support Ukraine's economy and businesses during wartime, the EBRD's chief told Reuters on Thursday. Since the start of Russia's invasion in February 2022, the EBRD has stepped up operations in Ukraine, investing more than 6.2 billion euros across various sectors. Last year the bank devoted a record 2.4 billion euros to the country.
The Trump administration sued Chicago on Thursday alleging that 'sanctuary' laws in the nation's third-largest city “thwart" federal efforts to enforce immigration laws. The lawsuit, which also names the state of Illinois, is the latest effort to crack down on places that limit cooperation between federal immigration agents and local police. It follows the federal government's threats of criminal charges and federal funding cuts to what are known as sanctuary cities.
More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer.
While Till's accused killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, were acquitted by an all-white jury, the two later admitted to Till's murder.