Legislation would block carbon dioxide pipelines in Illinois for up to two years

With the prospect of vast networks of carbon dioxide pipelines looming in Illinois and other Midwestern states, the state legislature has taken steps to protect landowners, taxpayers and the environment. With the prospect of vast networks of carbon dioxide pipelines looming in Illinois and other Midwestern states, the state legislature has taken steps to protect landowners,…

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U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI

The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry. Artificial Intelligence, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Computers and the Internet, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Antitrust Laws and Competition Issues, Inflection AI Inc, Microsoft Corp, NVIDIA Corporation, OpenAI Labs, United States, Kanter, Jonathan S,…

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Medline Recalls 1.5 Million Adult Bed Rails After 2 Deaths

Federal regulators said that the portable bed rails posed a serious entrapment hazard and a risk of death by asphyxiation. Recalls and Bans of Products, Beds and Bedding, Deaths (Fatalities), Asphyxiation, Choking, and Suffocation, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Medline Industries Inc, United States, Canada, Medline Bed Assist Bar Federal regulators said that the portable bed rails posed…

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Brooke Shields Elected President of Stage Actors’ Union

She takes office immediately. The previous leader of Actors’ Equity, Kate Shindle, had been president since 2015, and did not run again. Shields, Brooke, Actors Equity Assn, Actors and Actresses, Organized Labor, Appointments and Executive Changes, Shindle, Kate, Theater, Theater (Broadway), Theater (Off Broadway) She takes office immediately. The previous leader of Actors’ Equity, Kate Shindle, had…

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Farm Animals Are Hauled All Over the Country. So Are Their Pathogens.

Tens of millions of farm animals cross state lines every year, traveling in cramped, stressful conditions that can facilitate the spread of disease. Disease Rates, Livestock, Chickens, Avian Influenza, Swine Influenza, Law and Legislation, Animal Abuse, Rights and Welfare, Food Contamination and Poisoning, Bacteria, Factory Farming, Meatpacking Plants and Slaughterhouses, Pigs, Antibiotics, Cattle, your-feed-science, your-feed-health, your-feed-animals Tens…

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Taiwan, on China’s Doorstep, Is Dealing With TikTok Its Own Way

The island democracy was early to ban TikTok on government phones, and the ruling party refuses to use it. But a U.S.-style ban is not under consideration. Computers and the Internet, Social Media, Computer Security, Rumors and Misinformation, Politics and Government, Mobile Applications, International Relations, TikTok (ByteDance), Beijing Bytedance Technology Co Ltd, China, Taiwan The island democracy…

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