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PORTLAND, Ore. — Hemp growers and entrepreneurs who were joyous a year ago after U.S. lawmakers reclassified the plant as a legal agricultural crop now are worried their businesses could be crippled if federal policymakers move ahead with draft regulations. Licenses for hemp cultivation topped a half-million acres (200,000 hectares) last year, more than 450% […]

Ms. Korey had already recruited Mr. Haselden to the company to become its president, with the promise that, after a transition period, he would be elevated to chief executive to help take the company public. When the plan changed after the Verge article was published, she said she would become executive chairwoman and Mr. Haselden

On the Rivière du Loup, or Wolf River, Le Baluchon offers 89 rooms in a mix of inns and chalets on 1,000 acres featuring about 25 miles of cross-country ski and snowshoe trails, a tubing run and an ice rink with supplied equipment for broomball — a hockey-like game played with brooms and without skates.

Red-hot lava is gushing out of a Philippine volcano after a sudden eruption of ash and steam that forced villagers to flee and shut down Manila’s airport, offices and schools By JOEAL CALUPITAN and JIM GOMEZ Associated Press January 13, 2020, 3:40 AM 4 min read TAGAYTAY, Philippines — Red-hot lava gushed out of a

But the systems used by law enforcement agencies don’t always have the latest algorithms; Pinellas’s, for example, was last overhauled in 2014, although the county has been evaluating other, more recent, products. Idemia declined to comment on it. The gains in quality of the best facial recognition technology in recent years have been astounding. In

CORNELIA, Ga. — When a sport utility vehicle swerved out of its lane several weeks ago, slamming into a pickup truck and killing a teenager, a reporter from The Northeast Georgian raced to the scene. Within hours, the paper had posted the news on Facebook and updated it twice. It was shared by hundreds of

A tiny Philippine volcano has belched steam, ash and small rocks, prompting residents to flee from nearby villages and authorities to raise the danger level January 12, 2020, 9:57 AM 2 min read MANILA, Philippines — A tiny Philippine volcano that draws many tourists because of its picturesque setting amid a lake belched steam, ash

A firefighter has died battling the Australian wildfire crisis and the prime minister has said his government is adapting and building resilience to the fire danger posed by climate change By NICK PERRY Associated Press January 12, 2020, 12:03 AM 3 min read BURRAGATE, Australia — Another firefighter has died battling the Australian wildfire crisis

In 2006, Google bought YouTube for more than $1 billion, Apple was preparing to announce the first iPhone, and the American housing bubble began to deflate. Claire Stapleton, then a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, faced the same question over and over: What did she plan to do with that English degree? She flirted,

It has been a bad week for robots in the San Francisco Bay Area January 10, 2020, 9:39 PM 2 min read SAN FRANCISCO — It has been a bad week for robots in the San Francisco Bay Area. A Silicon Valley company that used robots to make its pizzas closed this week, and three