The Jackson City Council erupted into a fiery debate on Tuesday before approving an ordinance for accepting phase one of the Village at Livingston Place and authorizing the mayor to sign the final development plot. The Village at Livingston Place is a development plan to bring around 200 residential homes to the area behind Jackson […]
Monday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to vastly expand the notion of presidential immunity was an incredibly beneficent favor for one of the men hoping to win your vote in November. Just not the guy you’re thinking of. President Joe Biden desperately needed something to change the conversation after his calamitous performance in last […]
Alibaba Cloud engineer and researcher Ennan Zhai shared his research paper via GitHub, revealing the Cloud provider’s design for its data centers used for LLM training. The PDF document, entitled “Alibaba HPN: A Data Center Network for Large Language Model Training,” outlines how Alibaba used Ethernet to allow its 15,000 GPUs to communicate with each […]
Since the dawn of the internet three decades ago, no next-big-thing investment trend has turned heads quite like artificial intelligence (AI). With AI, software and systems have the ability to learn and evolve over time without human intervention, which gives the technology application in virtually all sectors and industries. It’s the reason PwC’s analysts believe […]
Federal officials have decided to reintroduce grizzly bears to the North Cascades in Washington state, Phys.org reported. Though grizzlies are native to the region, there has not been a confirmed sighting in nearly three decades after the apex predators were hunted to near-extinction by settlers. The officials plan to relocate 25 grizzly bears to the […]
Judge Aileen Cannon appears to be sick and tired of nonparties attempting to intervene in Donald Trump’s classified documents trial—even though she’s the one who allowed them to do so in the first place. The Trump-appointed judge issued a paperless order Monday, rejecting without explanation a couple dozen Republican attorneys general and their proposed brief […]
(Bloomberg) — China’s once-mighty shoppers have turned into reluctant spenders in the face of an economic slowdown, a shift that’s proving particularly painful for stocks related to premium brands. Most Read from Bloomberg High-end liquor maker Kweichow Moutai Co., luxury car dealer Zhongsheng Group Holdings Ltd. and Nike distributor Topsports International Holdings Ltd. have all […]
May 28—ROCHESTER — An appellate court ruling opens the door for five former Mayo Clinic employees fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine due to religious beliefs to take their wrongful termination lawsuits to trial, possibly the first of many. The three-judge panel of the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on May […]
May 27—JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A circuit judge in Cole County recently closed a legal loophole that could have allowed wastewater processing companies to restart land application in Southwest Missouri with waste from various food processing industries. The process has been controversial, with meetings organized by area residents drawing hundreds of people who called the […]
Claim: Viral social media posts accurately reported in May 2024 that 143 Democrats voted to let noncitizens vote in U.S. elections. Rating: Rating: False Context: The vote was to revoke a law that allows noncitizens in Washington, D.C., to vote in local elections. Noncitizens are expressly prohibited from voting in federal elections, but municipalities in […]
The Supreme Court has ruled that a Republican-drawn congressional district map was not unconstitutional. A lower court said the map was unconstitutional, declaring it racial gerrymandering. The decision issued Thursday reverses the lower court’s ruling. The court ruled 6-3. Justice Samuel Alito penned the decision for the majority and Justice Elena Kagan wrote the dissent. […]
WASHINGTON — For congressional leaders, weekly press conferences are a time to outline a policy agenda, communicate a message and drive a contrast with the opposition party. For House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, a vice presidential hopeful, they’re also an opportunity to get in front of a TV camera and shower praise on Donald […]