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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 40 migrants died in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez after a fire broke at a migrant detention center on Monday. The blaze was one of the deadliest in the country in years, and is the latest in a string of fatal accidents for migrants as the U.S. and Mexico grapple with record levels of border crossings. What follows are other cases, […]

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -When police officer Rex Engelbert arrived at the Nashville grade school shooting on Monday, he immediately retrieved a rifle from the trunk of his patrol car. Three minutes later, the shooter was dead, dropped by rounds Engelbert fired. Nashville police on Tuesday released officer body camera video of the latest mass shooting to rock the United States, generating praise for Engelbert and fellow officer Michael Collazo […]

By Andrea Shalal and Nandita Bose DURHAM, North Carolina (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday his administration had done what was possible to address the banking crisis with available authorities, but added the White House response on the matter was “not over yet.” “We’ve done what we need to do executively. I feel confident things are settling out. The markets seem to be responding,” Biden told reporters before […]

By Andrea Shalal and Nandita Bose DURHAM, North Carolina (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday his administration had done what was possible to address the banking crisis with available authorities, but added the White House response on the matter was “not over yet.” “We’ve done what we need to do executively. I feel confident things are settling out. The markets seem to be responding,” Biden told reporters before […]

By Sandra Stojanovic NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – The 28-year-old former student who killed three children and three adults at a Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday was under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder” and had purchased seven guns ahead of the shooting, the city’s police chief said on Tuesday. New details about Audrey Elizabeth Hale emerged hours after police released harrowing video showing officers storming the Covenant […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain plans to split responsibility for governing artificial intelligence (AI) between its regulators for human rights, health and safety, and competition, rather than creating a new body dedicated to the technology. AI, which is rapidly evolving with advances such as the ChatGPT app, could improve productivity and help unlock growth, but there are concerns about the risks it could pose to people’s privacy, human rights or safety, […]

By Josh Horwitz SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China is ramping up efforts to develop home-grown semiconductor talent as it seeks to rapidly fill a shortage of expertise that has been made worse by U.S. efforts to limit Beijing’s access to advanced chip technology.     Enrolments for undergraduate and post-graduate courses have surged over the past five years thanks to new funds for top universities as well as a boom in smaller […]

LONDON (Reuters) – On-demand services from Britain’s BBC, ITV and other public service broadcasters must remain easy to find on smart TVs and set-top boxes, the government said as it announced a plan to update media rules for the streaming age. The proposed new law will also put Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ under regulator Ofcom’s remit to help protect audiences from harmful material such as misleading health claims, […]

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s national grid operator imposed emergency electricity shutdowns in eight Ukrainian regions on Tuesday because of bad weather and said Russian attacks had affected the power supply in some frontline areas. But the head of the operator, Ukrenergo, expressed optimism that the network could meet consumer needs in the next few months provided power plants damaged in Russian attacks were repaired in good time. “The Ukrainian energy […]