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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate approved changes Tuesday to the state’s strict abortion ban that both Republicans and Democrats say would clarify medical exceptions and has drawn support from women who were told they could not end their pregnancies despite life-threatening complications. The unanimous passage of the bill in the GOP-controlled Senate — by a 31-0 vote — marked a rare moment of bipartisanship on an issue that for years has roiled the state Capitol as Texas Republicans have defended one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and launched criminal investigations into alleged violations. Under Senate-passed changes, Texas’…

Video Details Marcellus Wiley and Emmanuel Acho share their top plays of the USFL Championship, including Birmingham Stallions QB Alex McGough’s late first-down conversion in the fourth quarter and LB Scooby Wright’s pick-six to seal the title over the Philadelphia Stars. SEPTEMBER 14, 2023・speak・1:45

The UK has joined US forces in attacking a Houthi target in Yemen for the first time since Donald Trump was re-elected.The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed the strikes took place on Tuesday as part of the government’s response to Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The ministry said careful intelligence analysis identified a cluster of buildings used by the Houthis to manufacture the sort of drones used to attack ships, located 15 miles south of the capital Sanaa.RAF Typhoon FGR4s conducted strikes on several buildings using Paveway IV precision-guided bombs.The planes had…

[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia is delaying a planned expansion of its sales and service tax (SST), providing a temporary reprieve for manufacturers bracing for higher US tariffs.The planned widening of the tax base, originally due on May 1, will be implemented at a later date, a spokesperson from the Ministry of Finance said in a text message. Manufacturers have been urging the government to refrain from adding to their tax burdens this year after the US threatened a 24 per cent tariff on the South-east Asian country. The sector, a major contributor to the nation’s tax revenue, is under severe cost…

[SAN FRANCISCO] Meta Platforms released a new standalone artificial intelligence (AI) app on Tuesday (Apr 29) in a bid to compete with other popular chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.The AI assistant, called Meta AI, is built on the back of the company’s large language model technology, called Llama, and had been available across the company’s various social apps, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook. With the new standalone app, users can access Meta AI without going through Meta’s other products. “Meta AI is designed to be your personal AI – that means, first, it’s designed around voice conversations,” chief executive officer…

The head of the National Institutes of Health now says it could take until next year to get preliminary results from their new studies into autism, marking the latest delay to findings that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had promised by September.”We’re going to get hopefully grants out the door by the end of the summer,” NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told reporters Tuesday. “And people will get to work. We’ll have a major conference, with updates, within the next year.” Bhattacharya said it should still be considered “a very rapid study by NIH’s normal standards,” saying…

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Nearly 400 scientists across the United States were informed Monday afternoon that their services were no longer needed to help write a major report on climate change for the federal government.The report, known as the National Climate Assessment, is a major publication produced every four years that summarizes the impacts of climate change in the United States, and it is congressionally mandated under the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The sixth edition is scheduled for publication in 2027 and preparations have been underway for months to meet that deadline.The National Climate Assessment is the basis for which federal, state,…

[NEW YORK] President Xi Jinping’s diplomats are fanning out across the world with a clear message for countries cutting deals with Donald Trump: The US is a bully that cannot be trusted.Chinese officials are racing to turn foreign governments against the US inside a 90-day window Trump has granted all nations – except China – to strike trade deals during a tariff reprieve. Once those pacts are in place, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said he wants US allies to “approach China as a group”, giving his side more leverage in negotiations. While US allies from South Korea to the…

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said he’s concerned that Chinese espionage units may be mulling ways to exploit new hacking opportunities against the government as the Department of Government Efficiency works to dismantle core segments of the federal enterprise.Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., said Wednesday that Beijing may be watching closely as federal workers become distracted by the Elon Musk-led DOGE entity which has gained access to several agencies’ sensitive systems and is accelerating the termination of thousands of federal employees.Referring to Volt Typhoon, a pervasive Chinese cyberespionage group that’s been burrowing into various types of critical infrastructure…