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The Labor Department said it is investigating plants operated by poultry giants Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods following a report that some of the companies’ contractors employed migrant children to clean meat-processing plants. The New York Times magazine last week published an article that said migrant children were working overnight shifts at some of the companies’ plants. Perdue and Tyson said they would cooperate with any federal investigation.

Virginia Lenore MacColl, who, at the age of 71, has received the title of world’s oldest female ninja by Guinness World Records. In a true testament to the saying «Age is just a number,» MacColl has shattered stereotypes and proven that determination knows no bounds.

Tropical storm Ophelia made landfall near Emerald Isle, North Carolina, on Saturday morning. It brought heavy rainfall along with it and caused storm surges which flooded beaches along the East Coast. Strong winds also disrupted the power supply. It may sweep large swathes of areas along the mid-Atlantic, including Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York, and bring heavy rain. It is expected to move further north along the East Coast. It may weaken after making the landfalls.

tropical storm and begin sweeping large swathes of the East Coast on Friday. The National Hurricane Center has warned that it may begin in North Carolina on Friday morning and spread north on Saturday. The tropical storm may create life-threatening storm surges in coastal areas, high surf and rip currents. It may also bring heavy rainfall across the Mid-Atlantic, from North Carolina to New Jersey.

Bard. The company demonstrated the new AI capabilities in Alexa during an event on Wednesday at its campus in Arlington Virginia.

Amazon has unveiled a slew of gadgets and an update to its popular voice assistant Alexa, infusing it with more generative AI features amid the heated AI race among tech companies

swarm of bees coming from inside the bag. The family members of the victim attempted CPR and took him to a hospital, where he was declared dead. The incident occurred near the Virginia state line, about 160 miles southeast of Lexington. The official cause of the death has not been announced as the investigation is underway and the autopsy results are pending.

Kane Brown is coming up with ‘In The Air Tour’ and has unveiled 29 tour dates for 2024. The tour kicks off on March 28 at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia, and ends on September 14 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, with five stadium shows, including a return to Fenway Park in Boston. Notably, Brown previously made history at Fenway Park as the first Black artist to sell out a headlining show there.Brown's In The Air Tour features openers like Tyler Hubbard, Jon Pardi, Chris Young, Bailey Zimmerman, Cole Swindell, Parmalee, LOCASH, and RaeLynn on different dates. Earlier this year, Brown completed the international leg of his Drunk or Dreaming Tour, covering cities like Sydney, London, Amsterdam and Berlin. He also received the international award at the ACM Honors celebration in Nashville. Having recently achieved his 10th Country Airplay No. 1 hit with «Bury Me in Georgia,» Brown is set to release his new single, «I Can Feel It,» on September 21. The song samples Phil Collins' drum solo from his 1981 Billboard Hot 100 hit «In The Air Tonight.» Collaborating with Brown on the songwriting are Phil Collins, Gabe Foust, and Jaxson Free.

A financial advisor who began his career with Edward Jones in 2015 is returning to the firm to provide comprehensive retirement plan services for small and mid-sized companies in the Seattle area.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians'. The teaser unveils the journey that Percy (Walker Scobell) and his crew will be taking to recover the Master Bolt after it has been stolen. The series will make its debut not before December, but Disney+ is working on it so that it can get its fans ready for the premiere. It is an adaptation of Rick Riordan's novels.

By Katharine Jackson

Commercial casinos in the U.S. had their best July ever this year, winning nearly $5.4 billion from gamblers, according to a national gambling industry group

By David Shepardson

This wasn’t the way Laurette Bennhold-Samaan wanted to learn she had breast cancer: alone and logging onto her medical portal to see the words “invasive ductal carcinoma." Stunned, the 62-year-old from Arlington, Va., called her doctor. “I’m sorry you’re giving me the information I should be giving you," she recalls her doctor saying. People are now often getting medical information from portals and electronic health records directly, without it first being filtered by their doctor.

A financial advisor who began her career as a branch office administrator at Edward Jones is returning to the firm in Winchester, Virginia.

Biden late on Wednesday brushed off the House Republicans' impeachment inquiry, saying the way he sees it, they launched the investigation against him because they want to shut down the federal government. Biden, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in Virginia, said that instead of being concerned about the probe, «I'm focused on the things the American people want me focused on». The president's remarks were the first since Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the launch of a Biden impeachment inquiry while the Republican House leader is also struggling to shore up votes to fund the government and prevent a federal shutdown. «The best I can tell is they want to impeach me because they want to shut down the government,» Biden said. He also made a reference to Rep.

Florida has recognised November as Hindu Heritage Month. Broward County joins a list of states from across the country, including Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Virginia, etc, to commemorate Hindu heritage, culture, values, and traditions. November is a significant month for Hindus as they celebrate the festival of lights, Diwali, which falls on the 12th of the month this year. Stating that millions of Americans celebrate the festival every year, including those in the county, the recent resolution called Diwali a «time of peace, joy and new beginnings where people of all ages, especially young children, light oil lamps, burst fireworks and distribute sweets». Welcoming the move, CoHNA (Coalition of Hindus of North America), a Hindu advocacy group in the US, said on Tuesday: «The Resolution also acknowledges Hinduism as one of the world's largest and oldest religions, along with its diverse traditions, collectively known as Sanatana Dharma, with core values of acceptance, mutual respect, freedom and peace.» The resolution also acknowledged the community's contributions towards yoga, ayurveda, meditation, food, music, arts, etc has enriched the cultural fabric and have been widely adopted in American society. It highlighted that the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta and ideals such as selfless service, non-violence, etc have inspired many American intellectuals and leaders, from Martin Luther King, Jr, John D. Rockefeller, Henry David Thoreau, to Aldous Huxley, and many others.

For Boeing’s senior executives, returning to the office has been a smooth flight. Chief Executive David Calhoun, who took over the company just before the pandemic, started working from home and then never made the move when Boeing shifted its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Va., last year. Instead, Calhoun travels via private jet from two homes, one a sprawling waterfront house at New Hampshire’s Lake Sunapee, the other in a gated South Carolina resort community.

Atlanta, USA, only two hours into its flight to Spain. The Guardian reported that Delta Airlines' Airbus A350 had to make an unexpected landing lasting five hours for cleaning purposes, including the replacement of a soiled aisle carpet.

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon is considering the development of a vast network of AI-powered technology, drones and autonomous systems within the next two years to counter threats from China and other adversaries. Kathleen Hicks, the deputy secretary of defense, will provide new details in a speech later Wednesday about the department’s plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop an array of thousands of air-, land- and sea-based artificial-intelligence systems that are intended to be “small, smart, cheap." The U.S.