The European Union is escalating its scrutiny of the artificial intelligence industry, including taking a fresh look into Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI, a top EU official said on Friday. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, started reviewing the deal last year to see whether it broke EU merger rules but dropped it after […]
The troubled public housing authority in East St. Louis is getting additional federal scrutiny this week with the visit of a review team to assess “distressed” housing units and provide training for the local authority’s board of commissioners. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s top Illinois official, William O. Dawson III, notified the […]
A Belgian court on Friday heard a lawsuit accusing European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen of secretly negotiating Covid vaccine purchases via text message and arguing she should be barred from a second term. The case centres on allegations that von der Leyen, at the height of the pandemic, exchanged messages with Pfizer boss […]
Aristidis Vafeiadakis/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, W.W. Norton & Company, 384 pages, $29.99 Joseph Stiglitz, a former chief economist of the World Bank, thinks that taxation is a precondition for freedom, not a threat to it. The current political problem, he argues in The Road to […]
Keith Gill, known as “Roaring Kitty,” posted on the X platform last month and on Reddit this week. The meme-stock trader’s return to social media was followed by GameStop price swings. – AP When Roaring Kitty came back to social media nearly a month ago, shares of GameStop Corp. jumped, but is that enough to […]
A Georgia appeals court has halted all pretrial proceedings in Donald Trump’s Atlanta-based criminal case while a three-judge panel considers whether to disqualify the lead prosecutor, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The order issued Wednesday effectively confirms that the sprawling racketeering case against Trump and more than a dozen codefendants — charging them with […]
A former Los Angeles police detective who killed a romantic rival and hid the murder for more than two decades will not be released from prison — at least not yet, California parole officials decided this week. In November, a panel of parole commissioners found that Stephanie Lazarus, 64, was suitable for release, but on […]
A Ramsey County judge on Monday granted the Great North Innocence Project access to records related to an autopsy performed by embattled former Ramsey County Medical Examiner Michael McGee in a 2009 murder case. The Innocence Project, a nonprofit law firm, is reviewing the case of Michael Sontoya, who was convicted of sexual assault and […]
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines challenged China on Monday to open Scarborough Shoal to international scrutiny after it accused Beijing of destroying the shoal’s marine environment. Maritime tension has been rising in the South China Sea between Manila and Beijing, as the Philippines has accused China of using water cannon and blocking manoeuvres through disputed […]
WALTON, Ky. – A months-long clash between a Northern Kentucky mayor and city council reached a milestone at a meeting Tuesday night with a scribbled two-sentence note on the back of an envelope. “I quit. I’ll turn my keys in when I clear out my office this week.” It was signed by Gabe Brown, the […]
The European Union said it is scrutinising Facebook and Instagram over a range of suspected violations of the bloc’s digital rulebook, including not doing enough to protect users from foreign disinformation ahead of EU-wide elections. The EU’s Executive Commission said it is opening formal proceedings into whether parent company Meta Platforms breached the Digital Services […]
(Bloomberg) — Germany is considering scaling back plans to ramp up government screening of Chinese investments, the Wall Street Journal reported. Most Read from Bloomberg A decision to ease back from a planned foreign investment-screening law had become likelier due to fears that scrutiny on Chinese investments could hurt Berlin’s efforts to revitalize Germany’s economy, […]