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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that the agency would create a task force to figure out how to use artificial intelligence to do everything from protecting critical infrastructure to screening cargo to ferret out products made with slave labor. While artificial intelligence isn’t new, the sudden popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in recent months has sent officials around the world scrambling to see how they […]

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Organization of American States passed a resolution on Friday calling for a plan to update its rules and ethics code in response to an outside investigation that found its chief showed poor judgment but did not commit serious misconduct in an intimate relationship with a staffer. The OAS Permanent Council approved the document by consensus, but Mexico took the opportunity to criticize Secretary […]

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Organization of American States passed a resolution on Friday calling for a plan to update its rules and ethics code in response to an outside investigation that found its chief showed poor judgment but did not commit serious misconduct in an intimate relationship with a staffer. The OAS Permanent Council approved the document by consensus, but Mexico took the opportunity to criticize Secretary […]

(Reuters) – Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo surrendered to U.S. authorities on Friday, a U.S. Marshals Service official told Reuters, a day after his bid to block his extradition to Peru over corruption charges was denied. Toledo, who was president from 2001 to 2006, is wanted in Peru over charges that he received more than $25 million from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for help in obtaining public works […]

(Reuters) – Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo surrendered to U.S. authorities on Friday, a U.S. Marshals Service official told Reuters, a day after his bid to block his extradition to Peru over corruption charges was denied. Toledo, who was president from 2001 to 2006, is wanted in Peru over charges that he received more than $25 million from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for help in obtaining public works […]

By Mariam Rizk and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The Eid al-Fitr holiday is usually a time for many residents of Sudan’s capital to visit relatives outside the city, which falls quiet. This year, those who can are making a frantic escape from Khartoum, driven out by war. As the three-day Muslim holiday started on Friday the capital still echoed with gunfire and heavy artillery, despite international appeals for a […]

By Mariam Rizk and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The Eid al-Fitr holiday is usually a time for many residents of Sudan’s capital to visit relatives outside the city, which falls quiet. This year, those who can are making a frantic escape from Khartoum, driven out by war. As the three-day Muslim holiday started on Friday the capital still echoed with gunfire and heavy artillery, despite international appeals for a […]

(Reuters) – Five NFL players, including four from the Detroit Lions, have been suspended for violating the league’s gambling policy, the NFL said on Friday. The league suspended Lions receivers Jameson Williams, Quintez Cephus, Stanley Berryhill and safety CJ Moore, and Washington Commanders’ defensive end Shaka Toney. Williams and Berryhill are suspended for the team’s first six regular season games of the 2023 season. Cephus, Moore and Toney are suspended […]

(Reuters) – Five NFL players, including four from the Detroit Lions, have been suspended for violating the league’s gambling policy, the NFL said on Friday. The league suspended Lions receivers Jameson Williams, Quintez Cephus, Stanley Berryhill and safety CJ Moore, and Washington Commanders’ defensive end Shaka Toney. Williams and Berryhill are suspended for the team’s first six regular season games of the 2023 season. Cephus, Moore and Toney are suspended […]