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Dozens of unions and advocacy groups gathered in downtown Toronto on Sunday to commemorate and celebrate International Workers' Day while calling for better treatment of workers.Daniel Tarade, chair of the Labour May Day Committee, said the "struggle" continues to build unity among workers and oppressed peoples and to build collective power to fight for what they deserve.

With the fentanyl crisis reaching epidemic proportions, a renewed push in the Bay Area seeks to stem the steady supply of a deadly drug that has wreaked havoc across the country.On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom officially tasked a cadre of California National Guard and California Highway Patrol officials to fight the rampant rise of fentanyl in San Francisco.

Kaivalya: What inspired you to write about Black Tudors?It was the subject of my PhD research.I was interested in history from an early age.But when I learned about the Tudors at school and at university, there was no mention of anyone that wasn't white in the story.I came across this fact, by accident when a lecturer mentioned that the Tudors started trading to Africa in the middle of the 16th century.

The captain of a refugee and asylum seekers' cricket team, who arrived in the UK from Afghanistan on a small boat made from a parachute, has said he hopes he and his fellow team-mates will one day turn professional and play for the big teams.Mohammad, whose name has been changed for security reasons, left Afghanistan on February 20 2022 for his safety because he previously worked with American forces in the country before the Taliban took control.

A new eight-part Netflix docuseries,Emergency: NYC, kicks off with the statistic that approximately 2.7 million medical emergency calls are made in New York City per year - or nearly 300 calls every hour.Following the day-to-day lives of NYC emergency medical workers, the high-intensity series highlights the effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on an increase in those 911 calls, as well as the city's healthcare system as a whole.

Hotel accommodation is expensive and inefficient as a system for managing migration flows to the UK.Alternative facilities might be somewhat cheaper the Home Office puts the cost of hotel rooms at 6m a day but that is not the only reason why Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, on Wednesday announced a plan to house migrants on barges and military bases.

On Wednesday, US Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Representatives Ted Lieu (D-Calif.),Don Beyer (D-Va.), and Ken Buck (R-Colo.) announced bipartisan legislation that seeks to prevent an artificial intelligence system from making nuclear launch decisions.The Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Act would prohibit the use of federal funds for launching any nuclear weapon by an automated system without "meaningful human control."

Illinois law now allows workers to accrue paid leave to use "for any reason of the employee's choosing."Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is pictured on March 31, 2021.Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images Millions of workers in Illinois are now guaranteed the right to take paid leave for any reason they choose, after Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on Monday mandating paid time off for nearly all workers in the state.

On the heels of the White House vocally condemning a call to eliminate transgender people, President Joe Biden called out Florida for attacking transgender youth."What's going on in Florida, is as my mother would say, close to sinful," Biden told out actor Kal Penn on The Daily Show in an interview that will air later today.

The country's social care system is broken and cannot be tweaked, the Archbishop of Canterbury has told Parliament as he stressed the need for a fundamental rethink.While funding mattered, using it as a starting point would mean failure, the Most Rev Justin Welby warned.The senior church leader made his comments as the Government is expected to publish an adult social care reform plan.

In October, astronomers recorded a singular cosmic explosion across the universea pulse of gamma radiation so fantastic that NASA scientists have dubbed it the BOAT, or brightest of all time.It was astonishing and consequential, and like most faraway whims of space and time whose existence finally make themselves known to our corner of the universeplanet Earthit was also far in the past, long gone from a fleeting moment.

DEAR ABBY: I'm a medical student.I don't have kids or a family of my own yet, but I'd like it to happen one day.When I have kids of my own, I intend to push them to be the very best in whatever they want to do.I will ingrain in them tough love and demand excellence from them.My classmates, friends and I grew up similarly.

What's in your faucet can be a dangerous thing.If you're like an estimated 200 million Americans, every time you turn on the tap, a host of contaminants come out with the water.Among these are trace amounts of PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.Also known as forever chemicalsbecause that's pretty much how long they linger in the environmentexposure to these ubiquitous manufacturing chemicals have been linked by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to potential health consequences including decreased fertility, hypertension in pregnant people, increased risk of certain cancers (especially kidney cancer), developmental delays in children, hormonal irregularities, elevated cholesterol, reduced effectiveness of the immune system, and more.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Campaigners have raised concerns that the government has not pledged enough money to properly implement the new childcare policy unveiled in the Spring Budget.Jeremy Hunt announced 30 hours of free childcare for all under-fives from the point at which maternity care ends for those who are eligible.

In stark contrast to the rest of the planet's rusty-red surface, Mars' south pole is covered in bizarre, Swiss cheese-like formations.While scientists have known for a few years now what those formations are made of - layers of frozen carbon dioxide and frozen water that have been deposited over many years - researchers have had a difficult time tracing how the formations developed and transformed over shorter periods of time.

I n the time it takes to boil a kettle, Fulham went from potential FA Cup semi-finalists to boiling over, with Aleksandar Mitrovic, unsurprisingly, the man to flick the switch.Sunday was supposed to be the club's grand day out their first FA Cup quarter-final since 2010.But no sooner were they setting their sights on a Wembley showdown with Brighton, than they were two men down three if you include manager Marco Silva and heading out at the hands of United.

It's been - presumably - a truly bizarre week at the Hague, where backdropped by the ongoing circus of Microsoft's Bing AI publicly melting down into a monstrous, homewrecking, Pinocchio-role-playing chaos machine, military leaders from 50 countries gathered to discuss " responsible" use of artificial intelligence in the military.

The great superstar experiment in Brooklyn is over.And if you listen to Kyrie Irving the breakup of the Nets was in the works "after Year 1."
James Harden was the first to go.Then Irving ( who was dealt to the Mavericks two days after asking for a trade).And now the stunning overnight trade that will send Kevin Durant to the Suns.

"If these technologies are in fact capable of significantly contributing to the creation of an invention, the question arises whether the current state of the law provides patent protection for these inventions."- USPTO Federal Register Notice
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is requesting public comments on artificial intelligence (AI) and inventorship via a Federal Register Notice published today, February 14.