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New York’s Strand Bookstore to repay nearly $1.5M after improperly receiving federal loan
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s beloved Strand Bookstore will pay back nearly $1.5 million after improperly applying for and receiving a pandemic-era small business loan even though it wasn’t eligible, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced. According to the DOJ, the Strand was ineligible because the owner, Nancy Bass Wyden, is the wife […]
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Harmeet Dhillon exits after radical overhaul of Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative attorney who oversaw a radical reshaping of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, celebrated the mass departures of career lawyers and spearheaded sweeping investigations into elite universities, has resigned from her post, Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Thursday. Dhillon has been a powerful and divisive figure inside […]
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Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls, outside research group says
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anthropic is developing its artificial intelligence systems around twice as quickly as it was a year ago amid the CEO’s calls to slow down the technology’s pace of improvement, according to an analysis released Thursday by an independent monitoring group. Anthropic invited researchers from the Berkeley, California-based nonprofit, Model Evaluation and […]
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Trump administration held talks with Iran on deporting Iranians during the war, court documents show
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration held secret talks with Iran on deporting Iranians even as the war there dragged on, court documents show. The court documents unsealed Thursday show the Republican administration as recently as mid-October said it had plans to deport the Iranians through an unnamed third country, although it was unclear […]
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Democrat Amish Shah wins election to U.S. House in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District
Democrat Amish Shah won election Thursday to the U.S. House of Representatives representing Arizona’s 1st Congressional District, defeating Republican Jay Feely. Shah is an emergency room doctor and former state legislator. He ran for the seat two years ago but lost narrowly to Rep. David Schweikert, who is now retiring. Feely is a former NFL […]
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2 more executions set in Florida and Alabama, hours after lethal injection in Indiana
Florida and Alabama plan to execute two men Thursday for killing older adults during home robberies, just hours after Indiana put a prisoner to death in the first of three lethal injections scheduled for the same day in the U.S. It would be Florida’s 19th execution this year under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, matching a […]
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