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The European Union took an important step on Wednesday toward passing what would be one of the first major laws to regulate artificial intelligence, a potential model for policymakers around the world as they grapple with how to put guardrails on the rapidly developing technology.The European Parliament, a main legislative branch of the E.U., passed a draft law known as the A.I. Act, which would put new restrictions on what are seen as the technology's riskiest uses.

A Tory aide given an OBE by Boris Johnson is among staff filmed at a Christmas party held during Covid restrictions.Ben Mallett was given the honour in the former prime minister's resignation list earlier this month, and also appears in the Partygate clip said to have been filmed on 14 December 2020.

New footage has emerged appearing to show a Christmas party at Conservative party headquarters during coronavirus restrictions in 2020.The video, obtained by the Mirror newspaper, shows members of staff drinking alcohol at the gathering in London on 14 December 2020.At least 24 people were reportedly in attendance.

Boris Johnson is said to be considering an audacious independent bid to become London mayor for a second time after his exit from parliament and dramatic fall from grace in the Tory party.The former prime minister is weighing up his next move outside Westminster after his fate was sealed by a damning report that found he deliberately and repeatedly lied to the Commons over Partygate.

Boris Johnson owes the nation an apology for breaking the rules so he could have a party while families "were saying goodbye to loved ones over Zoom", bereaved relatives have said after the publication of the Privileges Committee report.The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group said the former prime minister had "shown no remorse" and should not stand for office again.

Lawmakers are expected to release a long-awaited report Thursday on whether former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over COVID lockdown-flouting parties at his Downing Street office.Parliament's Privileges Committee has spent 14 months investigating Johnson's conduct over partygate, a series of boozy gatherings in his office that broke strict COVID-19 restrictions that his government had imposed on the country.

To those familiar with the fraught battle lines around one of society's most emotive issues, the reaction of anti-abortion campaigners in the hours after a woman was jailed for procuring a late abortion appeared muted.Key voices from major anti-abortion groups were conspicuously absent in the coverage, while pro-choice campaigners' calls for decriminalisation were tempered by the insistence that they were not calling for freely available abortion at any stage of a pregnancy.

Antony J. Blinken landed in Beijing on Sunday morning, making him the first U.S. secretary of state to visit since 2018.Tense relations have delayed the trip for months: He had intended to visit in February, but postponed after the Pentagon announced that a Chinese surveillance balloon was drifting across the continental United States.

In a meeting in Beijing on Friday, China's leader, Xi Jinping, traded warm smiles with Bill Gates and praised Mr. Gates as the first American friend he had met this year.The encounters in Beijing between Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and his Chinese counterparts, starting on Sunday, are likely to feel noticeably chillier.

As it expanded internationally, Shein, the rapidly growing fast fashion app, progressively cut ties to its home country, China.It moved its headquarters to Singapore and de-registered its original company in Nanjing.It set up operations in Ireland and Indiana, and hired Washington lobbyists to highlight its U.S. expansion plans as it prepares for a potential initial public offering this year.

The Iranian journalist Niloufar Hamedi specialized in covering women's issues.So when her editor noticed an Instagram post about a young woman in a hospital in bad shape after being arrested for violating the country's strict Islamic dress code, Ms. Hamedi headed straight there.She found relatives of the woman, Mahsa Amini, 22, holding each other tightly in a fluorescent-lit ward inside Tehran's Kasra Hospital.

Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, was the first prominent candidate to announce a challenge to former President Donald J. Trump's bid for the Republican presidential nomination.Since entering the race in February, Ms. Haley has weighed in on social issues and tapped into her experience as a former United Nations ambassador under Mr. Trump to criticize current U.S. foreign policy.

Two summers ago, an insurgent group of ultraconservative Southern Baptists branded themselves as pirates, vowing to take the ship of the nation's largest Protestant denomination and steer it farther to the right on issues like sexuality and race.They were determined to halt what they saw as rising liberalism and drift from biblical truth.

Shortly after his plane took off earlier this month from Riyadh, where he had held a lengthy meeting with Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken called a different Middle East leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.Over 40 minutes, Mr. Blinken gave the Israeli leader a briefing about the significant demands the young crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was making for his nation to normalize diplomatic relations with Israel.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME's politics newsletter.Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.Since Joe Biden raised his right hand and took his oath of office in January of 2021, there have been more than 1,600 mass shootings in this country.That was a relatively short 877 days ago.

A version of this story appeared in CNN's What Matters newsletter.To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.While much of the country spent the week fixated on a former president and his indictment related to alleged mishandling of classified documents, parts of the American right were more consumed by fear of transgender rights.

Donald J. Trump, twice impeached as president and now twice indicted since leaving the White House, surrendered to federal authorities in Miami on Tuesday and was arraigned on charges that he had put national security secrets at risk and obstructed investigators.Mr. Trump was booked, fingerprinted and led to a courtroom on the 13th floor of the Federal District Court, where his lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf.

Former President Donald Trump has been arrested at the federal courthouse in Miami and will soon be arraigned on charges related to mishandling classified documents.Deputy marshals have booked the former president and take electronic copies of his fingerprints during Tuesday's proceedings.They were not expected to take a mugshot of Trump, given his recognizability.

Special counsel Jack Smith's team is asking the judge in the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president and his defense team from publicly disclosing some of the materials shared in the criminal case as part of the discovery process.In a new filing on Friday, Smith's team said that among the unclassified materials that prosecutors are set to turn over to the defense is information pertaining to ongoing investigations, the disclosure of which could compromise those investigations and identify uncharged individuals.

Police officers are pictured outside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Courthouse before the arraignment of former President Donald Trump in Miami on Tuesday.Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to the slew of federal charges against him for storing dozens of classified documents at his Florida resort and refusing to return them to the FBI and the National Archives.

Every year the private digital security company NordPass publishes a list of the most popular passwords across 30 countries.And as always, the current list from 2022 also contains shockingly simple ones.The top five are: password, 123456, 123456789, guest and qwerty.Needless to say, these are weak passwordsbut what makes a good one?

Bereaved family members whose loved ones died of Covid have gathered in west London as the first public hearings in the inquiry into the government's response to the pandemic began, more than three years after the virus was first reported in Wuhan, China.Dressed in red and holding photographs of their those lost to the virus, members of the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice campaign group stood outside Dorland House in Paddington on Tuesday and spoke emotionally of the government's failings during the pandemic, which has claimed more than 227,000 lives in the UK.

For a brief period during the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government gave most parents monthly cash up to $300 per child with no work requirements or restrictions on how the money could be spent.The experiment, through an expanded child tax credit, died last year after 12 months, when Republicans and Senator Joe Manchin III, the moderate West Virginia Democrat, refused to renew it.

Protesters filled the street in front of the Supreme Court after the court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022.Nearly a year later, 61% of respondents to a new Gallup poll said overturning Roe was a "bad thing."Jacquelyn Martin/AP A growing majority of Americans support legal abortion in at least the early months of pregnancy, but the public has become more politically divided on the issue, according to a new Gallup poll.

Going into yesterday's arraignment, I believed the release conditions would be the only thing of note.I was wrong.Alleged Trump co-conspirator Walt Nauta wasn't even arraigned!It seems he may be having difficulty finding local counsel to add to his Trump-funded lawyer, Stan Woodward.Still, the release conditions were newsworthy, but it took until Anna Bower wrote up her 27-hour wait for the 30-minute hearing before what happened became fully clear: on the summons, the government asked for no release conditions besides the order that neither man commit any more crimes (!!!), something Trump attorney Todd Blanche optimistically assured his client could do.

"The burden of production cannot be met simply by throwing mountains of evidence at the Board without explanation or identification of the relevant portions of that evidence....As the Seventh Circuit [said], 'Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.'"- CAFC
Parus Holdings, Inc. was unsuccessful today in its bid to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) to reverse two Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions invalidating its patent claims for voice recognition technology.

Toronto has a record 102 candidates running to be the city's next mayor on June 26.Frontrunners have emerged, but a lot of voters may want to look beyond those leading the polls in the weeks before election day.CBC Toronto asked every candidate two questions: Why they want to be mayor, and where the public can find more about their platforms.

NASCAR's first-ever street race will come to Chicago during the first days of July, bringing with it questions and apprehension from community members and city leaders about a deal made by former Mayor Lori Lightfoot.Concerns about traffic and public safety - and skepticism of the street race's economic benefit to the city - were among the issues aldermen raised Wednesday at the City Council's Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Committee, where they questioned Chicago street race President Julie Giese, staff from the emergency management office and other city leaders.

More than 10,000 asylum-seekers, mostly from Venezuela, have arrived in Chicago since August, after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, began putting recent refugees from Central and South America onto one-way buses to Chicago and other democratic cities, arguing that liberal "sanctuary cities" should readily take on more of the burden from the border crisis.

Some years ago, a psychiatrist named Wendy Dean read an article about a physician who died by suicide.Such deaths were distressingly common, she discovered.The suicide rate among doctors appeared to be even higher than the rate among active military members, a notion that startled Dean, who was then working as an administrator at a U.S. Army medical research center in Maryland.

Premier League club revenues rose by 12% to a record £5.5 billion ($6.96 billion) in the 2021-22 season as European football capitalised on fans returning to stadiums after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to analysis from Deloitte.In its Annual Review of Football Finance, Deloitte's Sports Business Group said the "big-five" leagues in England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France had a combined 10% rise in revenues -- with Spain's LaLiga rising 11% to €3.3 billion ($3.57 billion) while France's Ligue 1 shot up 26% to €2 billion.

The Premier League established itself as the leader in the European football market in the 2021-22 season, an annual financial report by Deloitte has shown.The English top tier's aggregate revenue of £5.5bn in 2021-22 was nearly double that of Spain's La Liga.The return of crowds to stadiums after the Covid-19 pandemic helped to grow revenues by 10% across Europe.

Boris Johnson has claimed a Tory MP sitting on the committee preparing to publish a report finding he misled Parliament with his partygate denials may have broken lockdown rules.The former prime minister called for Sir Bernard Jenkin's resignation from the Privileges Committee on the eve of the publication of its investigation into whether Mr Johnson lied to MPs.

Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson left chaos in his wake Saturday after quitting Parliament with a blast at fellow lawmakers he accused of ousting him in a witch hunt.As opponents jeered, the Conservative government absorbed the shock of yet another Johnson earthquake, while a band of loyal supporters insisted Britain's divisive ex-leader could still make a comeback.

Microsoft announced the public preview availability of Datamarts in May 2022.When authoring this chapter, Datamarts are still in preview, so using them in production environments is not recommended.The Datamarts capability opens endless possibilities for organizations to achieve their data analytics goals on the Power BI platform.

Brexit has resulted in a sharp drop in the number of UK workers in EU holiday jobs, new figures show.Only 3,700 people from the UK are being employed in the bloc to do roles such as chalet hosts, holiday reps and tour guides, travel trade organisations said.That is a 69% drop from 11,970 in 2017.Employing UK workers in popular EU destinations such as Spain, France, Greece, Italy and Austria has traditionally been a vital part of UK holiday companies' overseas operations.

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Whenever a team declines a player's fifth-year option (as Washington did with Chase Young last month), a flare goes up around the league.

The uprising began in September, after a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died in the custody of Iran's morality police.She had been arrested on accusations of violating mandatory-hijab rules, and a gruesome photo and video of her unconscious in a hospital bed went viral, sparking outrage and grief.

Seamless Bay Area's Ian Griffiths just completed an extensive study tour of Switzerland's intercity rail and urban transit systems.Streetsblog wanted to bring his thoughts to readers.A key success factor in Switzerland's attractive, high-ridership system is the principle of "One journey, One ticket": the idea that when you pay a fare, it's for your entire journey, no matter how many times you transfer between modes or operators.

Seamless Bay Area's Ian Griffiths just completed an extensive study tour of Switzerland's intercity rail and urban transit systems.Streetsblog wanted to bring his thoughts to readers.A key success factor in Switzerland's attractive, high-ridership system is the principle of "One journey, One ticket": the idea that when you pay a fare, it's for your entire journey, no matter how many times you transfer between modes or operators.

A wave of American cities are reversing their controversial decisions to limit the use of shared scooters and bikes - and reframing the conversation about the problems that precipitated the restrictions in the first place.In the final days of May, transportation officials in Dallas announced that they would allow three micromobility providers to resume operations for the first time since September 2020, when the Texas metropolis made the controversial move to shut down its entire scooter- and bike-share program citing vague "public safety concerns."

Former President Donald J. Trump and his personal aide, Walt Nauta, were ordered by a federal magistrate judge on Tuesday to not discuss their criminal case, even though the two work closely and see each other practically every day.Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman, who oversaw the hearing, said that any discussions related to the case must go through their lawyers.

Lionel Messi is making the move to MLS, following a long line of stars who found success in Europe but came stateside to add a new chapter towards the end of their careers.The Argentine legend has announced that he'll be joining Inter Miami and diving headfirst into the top flight of North American soccer.

We need to talk about a problem in the arts.There are not enough opportunities for creatives from diverse backgrounds.It's a problem Adobe and the V&A in London (and MoMA in New York) are aiming to solve with a 'multi-year (and multi-million dollar)' residency programme to give underrepresented, emerging creatives a platform to get noticed and support the next generation of artists.

Hard-right House Republicans agreed late Monday to give their party leaders a temporary reprieve from a weeklong blockade of the House floor, allowing some legislative business to move forward on Tuesday but insisting they would withhold their support for future votes if their demands were not met.The move counted as progress for Speaker Kevin McCarthy, after days of paralysis in the House that showcased his weak grip on his fractious conference in the face of the rage of right-wing Republicans over the deal he cut with President Biden to suspend the debt limit and avert a federal default.

Matthews' death prompted Holden to introduce legislation in 2021 updating the training requirements for security guards.The law, which took effect in January, mandates eight hours of training in "the exercise of the appropriate use of force."The state agency overseeing security guards, the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, is currently drafting regulations for the new training, which likely won't be implemented until October at the earliest.

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Twitch trashes new advertising rules following backlash from streamers; EU overturns restrictions on ride-hailing apps in Barcelona; and Singapore launches a new national programme to fend off future quantum threats.Twitch scraps planned advertising changes
Streaming heavyweight Twitch is abandoning its new advertising rules after they caused some streamers to boycott the platform.

In California, it's perfectly legal for landlords to ask renters to cough up more than $10,000 before handing over the keys to a new apartment.That's because under state law, property owners can charge up to two months' rent as a security deposit, on top of the initial lease payment.For a furnished unit, deposits can be as much as three months' rent.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden welcomed LGBTQ Americans to the White House on Saturday for a picnic and concert to commemorate Pride Month.You are loved.You are heard.You are understood.And you belong, Biden said in his remarks on the South Lawn to a cheering crowd.The president praised the extraordinary courage of LGBTQ Americans, while acknowledging the discrimination and violence the community faces.