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What's in the House Republican bill to remove the debt cap and cut spending?

Washington — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Republican lawmakers unveiled their plan on Wednesday to raise the debt ceiling and cut government spending ahead of the summer deadline in a bid to prevent a catastrophic and historic default by the US on its debt obligations. called the “Limit, Save, Grow Act” 320 page proposal The measure, introduced by Texas Republican Jody Arrington, chairman of the House Budget Committee, would raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion or so through the end of March 2024, and also details a $4.5 trillion...
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Workers are worried about their bosses embracing AI

Pew Research Center, A nonpartisan think tank that tracks public opinion, released a report today How workers feel about AI. Technology has become an increasingly common workplace fixture over the past few years. And its role is likely to grow as AI becomes more capable, thanks to advances such as larger language models like GPT-4, which gave us ChatGPT and a growing number of other tools. While there’s no shortage of reports about people’s attitudes toward AI, Pew’s data is quite large and relatively fresh, drawn from 11,004 US adults...
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The Lingering Questions From The Mandalorian Season 3 Finale

For the second consecutive season, the mandalorian ended with a finale that felt like it could have ended the entire series. Wednesday’s episode ends Season 3 with some bumpy reveals, a change in the status quo, and a possible death, giving fans a lot to think about about the future of the series. As the wait for Season 4 begins, these are the biggest questions raised by the finale: We’ve known for a while that Moff Gideon wanted Grogu’s blood for a mysterious project, and when a roomful of creepy...
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Prosecutors say they have recordings of Trump and a witness in Manhattan DA case

Prosecutors in New York have informed Donald Trump’s lawyers that evidence in the hush money case against the former president includes an audio recording of him and a witness, a court filing made public Friday shows. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office made the disclosure this week in a filing called an automated discovery form and said the evidence had already been disclosed to Trump’s lawyers. The filing does not identify the witness or say when the recording was made or whether Trump’s lawyers were made aware of it. NBC...
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Top seeds Roon and Fritz reach semi-finals of BMW Open

MUNICH: Danish teen Holger Rune stormed into the semi-finals of the BMW Open with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Chilean Cristian Garin on Friday. Top-seeded Rooney, at a career-high No. 7 in the rankings, advanced to a meeting with Christopher O’Connell, who overcame Italian qualifier Flavio Cobboli 7–6(5), 4–6, 6–3. His second career semi-final. Second seed Taylor Fritz will play Dutch player Bottic van de Zandschulp in the other semi-final. Fritz defeated Austria’s Dominic Thiem 6–3, 6–4 in the quarterfinals. Thiem first had to play on Friday to finish his...
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When are passport offices going on strike?

Sign up to our free Brexit and Beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit means for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest information More than a million passport applications could hit a roadblock due to a five-week strike by HM Passport Office staff. In a “significant escalation” of the dispute over jobs, pay and conditions, “around 2,000” members of the Public and Commercial Service (PCS) union have walked out of all eight passport processing offices across the UK until 6 May. It is...
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Whistleblower seeks protection to discuss IRS agent Hunter Biden investigation

An IRS special agent involved in a federal probe into Hunter Biden’s taxes has sought whistleblower protection to provide Congress with sensitive disclosures about the probe. Mark D. Little, an attorney for the unnamed IRS employee, wrote in a letter to a bipartisan group of lawmakers Wednesday that he represents a “career IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent who is leading an ongoing and sensitive investigation of a high-profile, controversial… subject since early 2020” and seeks protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress. While Lytle did not name Biden in the letter, which...
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Texas attorney general urges supporters to protest at Capitol ahead of impeachment vote Texas

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has urged his supporters to protest at the state capital when Republicans in the House of Representatives begin historic impeachment proceedings against him. The State House has set a Saturday vote to consider impeaching Paxton and suspending him from office on charges of bribery, unfitness for office and abuse of public trust — just some of the charges that have plagued him for most of his three terms. Trapped for. Paxton, a 60-year-old Republican, denounced the impeachment proceedings as “political theater” that would “do permanent...
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Typhoon Mawar Latest News: Identical Twin Meteorologists Guide Guam Through Category 4 Hurricane

Sign up to the free climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Receive our free climate email As Typhoon Mawar aimed its fury at Guam, residents braving terrifying winds and waves battered by the strongest typhoon in the US Pacific in decades had identical twin meteorologists to keep them informed — and out on a remote island to provide a semblance of chaos to the world of. The Guam Office of the National Weather Service has hired Landon Aylett as the Warning Coordination Meteorologist. His brother, Brandon...
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New York City bans height, weight discrimination

New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation Friday that would ban discrimination based on body size by adding weight and height to the list of protected categories like race, gender and religion. “We all deserve equal access to employment, housing, and public accommodations, regardless of our appearance, and it doesn’t matter how tall you are or how much you weigh,” the mayor said. -Advocate acceptance at a City Hall bill-signing ceremony. Adams, a Democrat who published a book Regarding reversing his diabetes through a plant-based diet, the ordinance said...
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