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Politics live: Rishi Sunak to make pre-election bid after local vote losses - bbc.co.uk

  1. Politics live: Rishi Sunak to make pre-election bid after local vote losses  bbc.co.uk
  2. Rishi Sunak to warn next few years 'most dangerous' for UK in major speech  bbc.co.uk
  3. Britain faces its 'most dangerous' years in history, PM Rishi Sunak to warn in pre-election bid  CNBC
  4. Biggest threat from 'axis of authoritarian states' since Cold War, says Sunak  The Times
  5. Rishi Sunak speech: PM to deliver pre-general election pitch to voters  The Telegraph

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

College protests recall ’70s arrests at Stanford

I was almost arrested. OK, that’s a stretch, I confess. I was in the room, inside the Old Union at Stanford University on the afternoon of May 9, 1977.

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

Fears about ‘Ozempic babies’ show lack in women’s health care

The historic failure of medical research to acknowledge that women’s bodies differ from men’s has a new catchphrase: Ozempic babies. According to recent reports, all of them anecdotal and many of them on TikTok, off-label use of diabetes drugs including ...

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

People on the Move: May 13, 2024

In the Notes: Edmund Wong, Trent Jarvis, Jason Worthen, Southwest Medical Surgery Center – Charleston, Ashley Miller and more ...

TheHill.com 

US, Chinese officials to meet to discuss AI risks

American and Chinese officials will meet in Geneva on Tuesday to discuss risks associated with advanced artificial intelligence (AI), according to senior administration officials. The bilateral talks will be “an exchange of views on the technical risks of AI” and will offer “an opportunity to directly communicate respective areas of concern,” an official told reporters...

TheHill.com 

Fentanyl pill seizures are skyrocketing, 115 million pills seized in 2023: Study

The number of fentanyl seizures by law enforcement more than quadrupled between 2017 and 2023, with researchers finding the drug has continued entrench itself in the country's illicit drug supply. Seizures of fentanyl in the U.S. have followed an exponential upward trend since 2017, according to data from the federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas...

TheHill.com 

White House uses Infrastructure Week to tout progress on thousands of projects

The White House said it has so far announced nearly $454 billion in funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which the president signed in late 2021. The money has been used to fund projects and awards in more than 4,500 communities in all 50 states. “Across the country, we are breaking ground and cutting ribbons...

The Last Word On Nothing 

Rescued

God, I love dogs. That’s why recently I started volunteering at a facility where dogs from the very worst conditions around the world are brought for rehab and prep for adoption. It’s run by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), and it’s in a warehouse at a Maryland address not widely known, as […]

Variety 

Magnify Takes Global, U.S. Rights to Bretten Hannam’s Supernatural Thriller ‘Place of Ghosts’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Magnify has acquired global and U.S. sales rights (excluding Canada and Benelux) to “Wildhood” director Bretten Hannam’s supernatural thriller “Place of Ghosts,” which is set to go into production in August 2024. Lorna Lee Torres, Magnify’s senior VP of sales, and Austin Kennedy, director of global sales, will be launching the project in Cannes. “Place […]

Technology Review  

What’s next in chips

Thanks to the boom in artificial intelligence, the world of chips is on the cusp of a huge tidal shift. There is heightened demand for chips that can train AI models faster and ping them from devices like smartphones and satellites, enabling us to use these models without disclosing private data. Governments, tech giants, and…

Wired Magazine 

Welcome to the Laser Wars

Amid a rising tide of adversary drones and missile attacks, laser weapons are finally poised to enter the battlefield.