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Waymo driverless vehicles wait at a traffic light in Santa Monica, California, on May 30, 2025.Daniel Cole | ReutersResidents of New York City will soon start seeing Waymo cars cruising the avenues. But at least for now, a human will be in the driver’s seat.Alphabet’s self-driving car unit announced on Wednesday that it plans to drive vehicles manually in New York, marking the first step toward potentially cracking the largest U.S. city. Waymo said it applied for a permit with the New York City Department of Transportation to operate autonomously with a trained specialist behind the wheel in Manhattan.”While we…
Law enforcement establish a security perimeter near the residence of senior Democratic state assemblywoman Melissa Hortman after Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed earlier in the day, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, U.S., June 14, 2025. Tim Evans | ReutersThe home of murdered Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman was broken into on Tuesday night, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.The break-in occurred just three days after Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in the home Saturday morning in a politically motivated attack.”At 8:00am Brooklyn Park Police were alerted to an overnight break-in at the residence of late State…
Listen to article US President Donald Trump said he was considering Wednesday whether the United States will join Israeli strikes on Iran and said that Tehran had reached out to seek negotiations on ending the conflict. Speaking as he watched installation of a new flagpole at the White House, Trump added that his patience “had already run out” with Iran and repeated his call for the Islamic republic’s “unconditional surrender.” “I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn when asked if he had decided whether…
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the annual Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, California on June 02, 2025. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesOpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, the artificial intelligence startup that received a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta earlier this month and saw its founder join the social media company to lead an AI effort.Scale AI is best known for its work helping major tech companies, including OpenAI, prepare data they use to train cutting-edge AI models. But OpenAI has been pulling back from the startup over the last six to…
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon attend a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission event, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 22, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersA key, revamped government panel of vaccine advisors appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will soon vote on a shot preservative that contains mercury, which is safely used in some flu jabs but has been incorrectly linked to autism in the past. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, will hear…
Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle Internet Group, the issuer of one of the world’s biggest stablecoins, and Circle co-founder Sean Neville pose outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), on the day of the company’s IPO in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. NYSEShares of Circle and Coinbase rallied on Wednesday, as Wall Street cheered the Senate’s passage of the GENIUS Act, which would establish a federal framework for U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins. Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, rose 22% following the passing of the bill late Tuesday. It’s the continuation of a remarkable run for Circle’s stock…
A man faces members of security forces outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal building after days of protests against federal immigration sweeps and the deployment of the California National Guard and U.S. Marines, in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 10, 2025. David Ryder | ReutersPresident Donald Trump’s administration is ordering an additional 2,000 members of the California Army National Guard to the Los Angeles area under federal command, the Pentagon announced late Tuesday.The deployment of additional soldiers was ordered despite the fact that demonstrations against federal immigration enforcement raids across the city have largely dissipated.A spokesperson for the Los…
ISLAMABAD: Judges of the Supreme Court are not passive interpreters of text, rather they are the custodians of liberty, equality, and institutional independence. “[The Supreme Court] is the ultimate guardian of fundamental rights and the final sentinel against executive or legislative overreach,” said a 15-page judgement authored by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and endorsed by Justice Aqeel Ahmad Abbasi, who is also a member of the constitutional bench. According to the verdict, SC judges are to act with integrity and courage, to resist all encroachments, external or internal, that threaten to erode the autonomy of the judiciary or subvert…
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday unanimously rejected the proposed 18% sales tax on the import of solar panels, while the government also announced the withdrawal of another controversial measure to increase sales tax on hybrid vehicles, reversing both the anti-environment initiatives. The committee in its meeting, chaired by Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) National Assembly member (MNA) and former finance minister Syed Naveed Qamar, also raised questions on the proposed new bill, the Digital Presence Proceeds Act 2025 but did not announce its judgment. The rejection of the 18% sales tax on import of solar…
Kate Ryder, CEO of Maven, speaking at the CNBC Changemakers Summit in New York on April 18th, 2024.Danielle DeVries | CNBCWomen’s and family health platform Maven Clinic is partnering with smart ring maker Oura, a step forward in the integration of the increasing amount of data being collected by wearable devices and clinical care.As part of the partnership, eligible Maven members will be able to sync the data that their Oura Ring collects with the Maven platform, allowing members of the Maven care team to comb over the Oura-collected data like sleep, stress and activity to provide enhanced health guidance.Maven…