The Latest on the fatal Danube River boating accident in Hungary’s capital (all times local): 3 p.m. Hungarian rescue officials say attempts to raise a sunken tour boat from the Danube River floor following the accident that caused at least 19 deaths are unlikely to happen before Tuesday. A spokesman for the rescue team, Nandor […]
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The Latest on the arrest of a protester who approached Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos on stage at a conference in Las Vegas (all times local): 4:35 p.m. A woman was arrested after approaching Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos and yelling about chicken farms on stage at a conference in Las Vegas. Bezos’s
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The Latest on the French Open (all times local): 3:30 p.m. The semifinal between Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem has resumed after a rain delay of about an hour. Thiem leads 4-1 in the fifth set. ——— 3:10 p.m. Leylah Annie Fernandez of Canada has won the girls singles title at the French Open. The
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Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — The White House tried to stop a State Department senior intelligence analyst from discussing climate science in congressional testimony this week, internal emails and documents show. The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research declined to make changes
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Fiat Chrysler is recalling nearly 343,000 Ram pickup trucks worldwide because the air bags may not inflate in a crash. The recall covers the Ram 1500 mainly from the 2019 model year, although the company has a small number of 2020 models. Fiat Chrysler says a software error can inadvertently disable the air bags and
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On the worry side, it’s a cliché, but I’m nervous about A.I. and automation. I’m not worried about the machines themselves — at least not in the Terminator, killer-robot sense. I’m worried about the political and economic system into which we’re deploying this new, world-changing technology, and whether it’s too late to rejigger things so
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PARIS ― It’s easy to focus on the teams that will play deep into the 2019 Women’s World Cup, which kicked off Friday afternoon in France as the hosts defeated South Korea. But each squad has a story ― even the ones with a scant chance of advancing past the group stage. Like most female
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Views on the death penalty What Ms. Harris Said “I am, in my entire life, have been opposed and personally opposed to the death penalty. I believe it be a very flawed system. DNA has proven that there have been people who have been convicted and sentenced to the death penalty who turned out to
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“Mr. Xi and the party will be seen as unable to defend China’s economic future” if the confrontation with the United States does major damage to Huawei and throws off China’s rollout of the next generation of wireless technology, called 5G, Mr. Triolo added. More broadly, the warnings also seemed to be an attempt to
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The climate change activists who vaulted the Green New Deal to prominence in the 2020 presidential campaign got what they wanted this week: a Democratic front-runner moving straight in their direction. Now they have to figure out what’s next. In less than a half-year, the Green New Deal has become a rallying cry for liberal
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