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The developers of a long-delayed copper-nickel mining project in northeastern Minnesota have announced plans for a series of studies over the next year on potential ways to improve environmental safeguards and make the mine more cost- and energy-efficient

The Night Agent's showrunner, Shawn Ryan, disclosed that all 10 episodes of Season 2 have been edited and are nearing completion in the post-production phase. “All the episodes have been edited, and all that remains to be done is VFX, sound, and music. A lot of effort has been put into getting the episodes ready as soon as possible for the viewers,” stated Ryan in an interview with TV Line.

California bill that could impose restrictions on artificial intelligence has tech companies, investors and activists scrambling to explain what the first-of-its-kind legislation could mean for their industry in the state. The bill is still winding its way through the state capital in Sacramento. It is expected to reach the California state assembly appropriations committee on Thursday before facing a vote by the full assembly. If signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the bill would require companies to test the safety of powerful AI technologies before releasing them to the public. It would also allow California's attorney general to sue companies if their technologies cause serious harm, such as mass property damage or human casualties.

fake roof signs that have recently been reported in several cities.In a statement on Wednesday, the group said that there has been a rash of scams and cons involving fake taxis, mostly in Ontario, where a team of two people pretends to be a distressed passenger and taxi driver.The group said such incidents were reported by police in Toronto, Sarnia, Sudbury and Ottawa.“I wouldn’t call it on the rise, but it’s very prevalent,” said Canadian Taxi Association president Marc Andre Way in an interview with Global News.“It seems to be moving from one city to the other.”Way said the CTA suspects it might be the same group moving from city to city, but they’re not sure.The scam involves a fake passenger approaching a passerby and saying their taxi driver will not take cash, which Way said is a red flag.Drivers not only accept cash, but often prefer cash,” he said.The fraudster then offers to give cash to the targeted victim in exchange for using their debit or credit card.“The scammer posing as the taxi driver then swipes the card and steals the target’s Personal Identification Number (PIN), later to drain their bank account or fraudulently use their credit card,” the CTA said in its release.In Sarnia, at least 12 such incidents were reported last month, resulting in individual losses ranging from $980 to $9,900, according to police.The Ottawa Police Service also said in a statement on Monday that it has recently received several complaints concerning people being defrauded after offering assistance in paying with their personal credit or bank card for a taxi or Uber fare.The CTA said it has taken up the issue of the generic “Taxi” signs with Amazon, requesting the company in a letter to stop selling them online as they are

Donald Trump's media company shares dipped and neared record lows on Wednesday. This comes after following weak quarterly results and the Republican presidential candidate's return to social media platform X. Trump's dwindling lead in polls and election betting markets in recent weeks has also hit the stock, which has been seen by some retail traders as a bet on whether Trump would win a second term, as per Reuters report. Trump majority owns Trump Media & Technology Group, whose main asset is the Truth Social app popular among some conservatives. On Tuesday, Trump marked his return to X with an interview with the platform owner Elon Musk.

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Congress is capable of winning the Haryana assembly polls on its own and no talks have been held with any party for an alliance yet, former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said, indicating that his party may not have a tie-up with the AAP in the upcoming elections. In an interview with PTI, Hooda also stressed that winnability would be the criteria for ticket distribution for the assembly polls. Asked if there is a possibility of a tie-up with its INDIA bloc partner Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the state elections, the senior Congress leader said, «We have an alliance at the national level (with the AAP) but as far as state level is concerned, no talks have been held with any party.» «The Congress is capable (to win) on its own. No talks have been held yet,» the two-time chief minister said.

Starbucks reportedly fired Indian-origin Laxman Narasimhan from the position of Chief Executive Officer, a recent interview of him saying he 'almost never' worked past 6 pm has been making rounds on various social media platforms. «I am very disciplined about balance. If there's anything after 6 pm and I am in town, it's got to be a pretty high bar to keep me away from the family. Anybody who gets a minute of time after that better be sure that it's important… Because if not it will just wait for another day,» Narasimhan said in an interivew to Fortune. Starbucks on Tuesday announced that Chipotle Mexican Grill's head, Brian Niccol, will replace Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Laxman Narasimhan.

The UK’s image as a multicultural country is the obvious loser from the far-right violence of the past fortnight, but in time these tragic events may have wider implications for the policing of social media everywhere. The role of X in disseminating often-false information and lionizing rabble-rousers, as well as X owner Elon Musk’s provocative tweets and irresponsible retweets, are all under the microscope.

listing gains snagged by SoftBank’s India portfolio firms Ola Electric, FirstCry and Unicommerce are the result of sensible initial public offering (IPO) pricing, favourable macroeconomic conditions and the growing acceptance of technology firms by the capital markets, said Sumer Juneja, managing partner for India and EMEA at SoftBank. In an interview to ET on Tuesday, he said that the active participation of domestic mutual funds has helped shore up demand for these public offerings. It’s not true that these new-age IPO are gaining only because of the continuing bull run in the stock markets, he added. The Masayoshi Son-led Japanese group’s cumulative holdings across the three recently listed companies stand at about $2 billion following their market debut. SoftBank had pumped $400 million into FirstCry, which listed at a premium of 40% to its issue price of Rs 465 per share.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are in a tax policy arms race, copying and one-upping each other’s proposals in a bid to court key battleground state voting blocs ahead of a looming battle in Washington to rewrite the tax code. 

Twitter, former US President Donald Trump has returned to it. He appeared there in an interview with X boss Elon Musk at a time when his popularity has gone down severely and he has been trailing behind rival Kamala Harris is almost all opinion polls held since Joe Biden stepped aside. Recounting his assassination attempt, Trump discussed many issues, including the deportation of migrants. The interview posted on X, lasted for two hours. It was overwhelmingly friendly, but it revealed nothing new about the GOP candidate for the US Presidential Election 2024. Trump kept on talking about his recent assassination attempt, illegal immigration, and his plans to cut government regulations.

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Michelle Gass, chief executive of Levi Strauss & Co, said the denim maker's global operations should take a cue from the Indian business in terms of keeping speed, agility and execution of its retail strategy in a market, crucial to achieving its $10-billion annual revenue target, up from about $6 billion currently. «Speed, decisiveness, agility, risk taking and making decisions, India does it really well. Every market has their own local product engine, but the bigger opportunity is operating like this speedy, agile retailer, and taking this culture of the Indian team and bringing that throughout the company is a great opportunity,» Gass told ET in an interview, adding that the Indian team is amongst the strongest it has globally. «This is one of the most dynamic, exciting markets I have been to, and there's so much happening. We have had strength in the market for some time, but they are constantly challenging themselves to be better and evolve and that's what's accelerating our growth here,» she said.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are painting much different pictures as they meet with voters on the campaign trail around the country

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance used a round of news show appearances to disparage the Democratic ticket and promote Donald Trump’s record and second-term plans

JD Vance has endorsed former President Donald Trump’s call for the White House to have “a say” over the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policies — a view that runs counter to decades of economic research suggesting that politically independent central ...

Donald Trump recounted his assassination attempt in vivid detail and promised the largest deportation in U.S. history during a high-profile return to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter

Elon Musk’s much-awaited interview with former President Donald Trump was marred by technical glitches on Monday, with people unable to join the audio conversation on X’s Spaces platform

stock markets set the alarm bells ringing, causing great concerns to all kinds of investors, stock brokers, and all stakeholders. But it is not the end of the story. Talking to CNBC in an interview, investor and strategist David Roche said he apprehends the economy to enter a bear market in 2025. He pointed out that the economy would be driven by the smaller-than-expected rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and it would not be able to stop the US economy slipping into a recession as predicted now.

TOKYO—Eight decades ago, when Japan’s kamikaze pilots were crashing their planes into American ships and its soldiers were dying from the Aleutian Islands to Guadalcanal, all were given the same promise: Upon death, their souls would be enshrined at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine. The shrine was the symbol of the religious-military state that sought to mobilize the population to fight in the name of a divine emperor.