Check your artificial intelligence ‘bossware’ tools for bias, says U.S. agency head
By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer The head of the U.S. agency charged with enforcing civil rights in the workplace says artificial…
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Sam Zell, billionaire real estate investor, dies
By The Associated Press Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as “the grave dancer”…
Continue Reading Missouri teacher who used racial slur resigns; student who taped him suspended
By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press A Missouri high school teacher who used a racial slur several times in class is no longer working with the…
Continue Reading Police: Arrest in NY over death of man pushed onto Baltimore subway tracks
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a man accused of pushing another man onto the tracks at a Baltimore subway station, electrocuting him, has been arrested…
Continue Reading Home sales, prices fell in April as limited listings, elevated mortgage rates frustrate buyers
By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell again last month, more evidence that many…
Continue Reading Top Lebanese official in IMF talks calls for central bank head to resign amid corruption allegations
By ABBY SEWELL BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese official heading talks with the International Monetary Fund to bailout Lebanon’s tanking economy has…
Continue Reading First full-size 3D scan of Titanic shows shipwreck in new light
By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Deep-sea researchers have completed the first full-size digital scan of the Titanic, showing the…
Continue Reading Harry and Meghan’s run-in with paparazzi is another episode in their battle with the media
By DANICA KIRKA, BRIAN MELLEY and SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The latest chapter in the drama surrounding Prince Harry and Meghan’s…
Continue Reading Japan, Britain strike ‘historic accord’ on cooperation in defense, clean energy, semiconductors
By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Japan and Britain have struck what they are calling a historic accord on…
Continue Reading Lesotho imposes nationwide curfew in attempt to curb violent crime
By HERBERT MOYO Associated Press MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — Authorities in the small southern African kingdom of Lesotho have imposed an indefinite…
Continue Reading Persistently high inflation is causing a split among Federal Reserve officials over next steps
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The stubbornness of high inflation is dividing the Federal Reserve over how to manage…
Continue Reading UK telecom company BT plans to shed up to 55,000 jobs, replace some with AI
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — U.K. telecom company BT Group plans to shed up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade and replace…
Continue Reading Meet D’Arcy Drollinger, a drag queen who’s now the first drag laureate in the US
By STEFANIE DAZIO and HAVEN DALEY Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Anti-trans legislation is roiling the nation. Bills prohibiting drag…
Continue Reading PGA Live Updates | PGA Championship underway after frost delay
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — The PGA Championship is officially underway at Oak Hill. Shaun Micheel kicked off golf’s second major of the year with the…
Continue Reading Takeaways of AP’s report on Chinese loans pushing poor countries to brink of collapse
By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse because of a common, undeniable factor:…
Continue Reading Iran warns Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers not to violate its water rights, over Helmand River
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state media say the Iranian president has warned Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers not to violate water rights of the…
Continue Reading China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse
By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions…
Continue Reading Syria’s Assad arrives in Saudi Arabia for regional summit, sealing his return to the Arab fold
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad’s office says he is heading to Saudi Arabia to…
Continue Reading Deutsche Bank to pay $75 million to settle lawsuit from Epstein victims, lawyers say
LONDON (AP) — Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that the German lender should have seen evidence of sex…
Continue Reading Top leaders of Pakistan, Iran inaugurate border market in their first meeting in 10 years
By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Officials say the top leaders of Pakistan and Iran have inaugurated the first border market as…
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