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Disciplinary panel had found Julian Bennett guilty of gross misconduct for refusing test when accused of smoking cannabis

Number of book challenges nationwide doubled from 2021 as book ban movement gathers speed in Republican-led states...

Lloyd’s of London and Church of England also to be approached over role in past exploitation

Hong Kong must provide an alternative to marriage in order to legally recognise the rights of same-sex couples, the city’s highest court has declared, opening the way for civil unions....

Some staff members were alerted on Wednesday they were “not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week”, according to emails shared with the Financial Times. The emails were also discussed on the anonymous corporate message board platform Blind.

Almost a decade later, in August 2022, the AFP made a breakthrough in the case while re-examining the images uncovered by Argos in 2014....

I personally think that responsible smartphone use should be learned and practiced, rather than outright banning them....

Artificial intelligence is already advancing at a worrying pace. What if we don’t slam on the brakes? Experts explain what keeps them up at night

US study that researchers say highlights chemicals’ ubiquity also shows PFAS association with seafood and red meat

Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity....

Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...

For decades, Joe Biden has proudly declared that he is a Zionist, and he has repeated that claim since Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel. But for the student anti-war protests gripping the US, the words “Zionist” and “Zionism” have become a watchword – pejorative and emblematic of the violent state policies driving...

About 50 people sent to island in 2022 in DeSantis’s ‘relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations’...

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have considered efforts to give legal rights and protections to embryos and fetuses...

When Ty landed an introductory phone interview with a finance and banking company last month, they assumed it would be a quick chat with a recruiter. And when they got on the phone, Ty assumed the recruiter, who introduced herself as Jaime, was human. But things got robotic....

Robocalls of President Biden already confused primary voters in New Hampshire – but measures to curb the technology could be too little too late...