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(Reuters) — The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to remove medical bills from Americans' credit reports in a push to end what it called coercive debt collection tactics that affect millions of consumers.

OpenAI, Andrew Hopkins of Exscientia, Nancy Xu of Moonhub, Kate Kallot of Amini, Pelonomi Moiloa of Lelapa AI, Jack Clark of Anthropic, Raquel Urtasan of Waabi, Aidan Gomez of Cohere and more are among in the list. Moreover, the list also features 41 women and nonbinary individuals, which includes CEO & co-founder of Humane Intelligence Rumman Chowdhury; cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane; COO of Google DeepMind Lila Ibrahim; General Manager of the Data Center and AI Group at Intel Sandra Rivera; chief AI ethics scientist at Hugging Face Margaret Mitchell; Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li; artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz; artist Kelly McKernan; Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President, European Commission; Anna Eshoo, Representative, US Congress; Sneha Revanur, Founder and President, Encode Justice; Verity Harding, Director of the AI & Geopolitics Project, Cambridge University; Sarah Chander, Senior Policy Advisor, European Digital Rights; Nina Jankowicz, Vice President, Centre for Information Resilience; Elham Tabassi, Associate Director of Emerging Technologies, NIST among others.

Indonesia’s president has issued a stark warning after wrapping up a summit of Southeast Asian countries that was joined by China, the United States and Russia

Li Qiang said on Wednesday it is important to avoid a «new Cold War» when dealing with conflicts between countries as world leaders gathered in Indonesia amid sharpening geopolitical rivalries across the Indo-Pacific region. Speaking at an annual summit involving members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China, Japan and South Korea, Li said countries needed to «appropriately handle differences and disputes». «At present, it is very important to oppose taking sides, bloc confrontation and a new Cold War,» Li told the meeting. ASEAN, which has warned of the danger of getting dragged into major powers' disputes, is also holding wider talks with Li, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and leaders of partner countries including Japan, South Korea, Australia and India. Neither U.S.

Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. “I don't think President Trump's going to be the nominee. I think it's going to be me.

Vivek Ramaswamy said on Sunday that while he expects to become the party's nominee for the November 2024 US elections, but will vote for Donald Trump if the former president secures the nomination. Appearing on a Sunday talk show, the 38-year-old Indian American entrepreneur also expressed his intention to pardon Trump, who currently faces an array of legal challenges, should he be elected as President of the United States. «If Donald Trump's the nominee — yes, I will support him, and if I'm the president, yes, I will pardon him because that will help reunite the country.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam winning Singapore's presidential election, he joins a long list of Indian-origin leaders who are dominating politics at important world capitals. Shanmugaratnam, 66, received 70.4 per cent of the votes in the presidential election held on Friday. «Singaporeans have chosen Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam to be our next president by a decisive margin,» Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said as he congratulated Tharman on Saturday. He is among several leaders of Indian heritage who have ascended to the highest echelon of public service globally. His victory signifies the rising influence of Indians across the globe. In the US, the growing influence of the Indian-American community can be seen in the success of Kamala Harris, who became the first woman and the first coloured Vice President of the country. She was a senator for California from 2017 to 2021.

President Joe Biden’s administration is set to announce the first prescription drugs being targeted by the U.S. government for price negotiations as part of an effort to lower Medicare costs

As worker actions continue from Hollywood to Detroit, and new labor unions crop up nationally, the White House on Monday was highlighting its effort to bolster worker organizing throughout the U_S_ President Joe Biden is counting on critical labor supp...

India Wednesday on the successful moon landing of Chandrayaan-3 as the country entered the elite club of three other nations — United States, Russia and China — that have a rover on the lunar surface. In the process, India became the first country among the elite group to have its rover on the moon's south pole region, which the Indian Space Research Organisation believes could have traces of water. «Congratulations to India for the historic landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the southern polar region of the moon,» US Vice President Kamala Harris said on X, known as Twitter till recently. «It is an incredible feat for all the scientists and engineers involved.

President Joe Biden has devoted the past several weeks to talking up the positive impacts of his policies — but his efforts have yet to meaningfully register with the public

Reuters further reported Biden is not anticipated to travel to Indonesia. Furthermore, a Washington-based ambassador representing an ASEAN member revealed that Indonesia was informed on Monday about Biden's decision to not attend. Asked if it was correct that Biden would not be going to Indonesia, a senior White House official told Reuters on Tuesday: "We're still working on it ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has announced changes to labor rules that could raise wages for construction workers on federal projects

By Jarrett Renshaw

Renaissance World Tour performance at FedEx Field during the Washington, D.C. stop on Sunday, August 6, the show's start time was significantly delayed. Recognizing the predicament faced by her devoted fans, Beyoncé, in a remarkable display of compassion, took it upon herself to cover the $100,000 expenses required to extend the operating hours of the D.C. Metro trains by an additional hour. This thoughtful gesture ensured that concertgoers had a reliable means of transportation to return home safely after the extended show. A press release from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority confirmed that the generous contribution would facilitate the continued operation of all 98 metro stations, enabling concert attendees to exit smoothly and ensuring the necessary operational support. Despite the setbacks, Beyoncé delivered an impressive performance for D.C. concert goers on the rain-soaked night. The show was the second of two at FedEx Field and featured a playful challenge where she dared the audience to stay quiet during a specific song lyric. Notable attendees on the first night included Vice President Kamala Harris, Douglas Emhoff and Malia Obama. The Renaissance World Tour is currently touring North America after a successful European leg that earned $154 million from 21 shows. The tour supports Beyoncé's seventh solo studio album, Renaissance, which includes hit songs like «Break My Soul» and «Cuff It.» The album topped the Billboard 200 chart and produced Grammy-winning tracks.

Efforts by the Biden administration have been helping create new factory jobs as part of a push to bring high-speed internet to the whole country

BEIJING—Sparsely populated and sandwiched between two authoritarian powers, Mongolia is positioning itself as a resource-rich, democratic partner for the U.S. in Asia amid growing competition between Washington and Beijing over the minerals needed to pursue cleaner energy. That push will be at the heart of a visit by Mongolia’s prime minister to Washington this week, as his country attempts to draw itself closer to the West in a bid to diversify its economy without angering its powerful neighbors Russia and China.

Kamala Harris urged Black Americans to vote and cast Republicans as extremists on everything from abortion, voting rights and gun reform. “Here’s what we need to do. Vote. It gets back to the voting,” Harris said Saturday at a gathering of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil-rights organisation, in Boston. Noting that Black voters had record turnout in 2020, Harris said that “it scared some people.” “It is by no coincidence that immediately thereafter you started seeing extremist so-called leaders passing laws restricting voting days, making it more difficult to vote,” she added. Since Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in 2020, supporters of the former president have stepped up efforts to reform the US election system, with several states introducing new rules restricting voting and redrawing electoral maps. Still, the Supreme Court this year gave an unexpected boost to the Voting Rights Act enacted in 1965 to protect minority rights at the polls by upholding a decision that requires a second majority Black District in Alabama. Harris, 58, has addressed the NAACP’s national convention for two straight years. With the president ramping up his re-election campaign, Harris the first woman, Black and Asian vice president has become a key envoy in the outreach to Black voters, who Biden credits for his 2020 victory.

By Jarrett Renshaw

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff next week will become the highest-profile U.S. official to visit Samoa, as the Biden administration steps up its outreach to Pacific island nations

Vice President Kamala Harris, an avid Golden State Warriors fan, took to Twitter to welcome Jordan Poole to Washington D.C. following a blockbuster trade. Harris expressed her fondness for Poole and shared a photo of them together during the Warriors' visit to the White House in January 2023.