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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 […]

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 Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York grand jury hearing evidence about former President Donald Trump’s role in a hush-money payment to a porn star is not expected to meet on Wednesday and is unlikely to consider the case again this week, a law enforcement source said. It is unclear when the grand jury would take up the matter again, said the source, who was granted anonymity […]

By Jose Luis Gonzalez CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) -At least 40 migrants from Central and South America died after a fire broke out late on Monday at a migrant detention center in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, apparently caused by a protest over deportations, officials said Tuesday. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said authorities believed the blaze in the city opposite El Paso, Texas, broke out […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s bid to throw out E. Jean Carroll’s defamation claim from next month’s high-profile trial over whether Trump raped the former Elle magazine columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan rejected Trump’s claim that “absolute litigation privilege” immunized the former president for allegedly defaming Carroll last Oct. 12 on his Truth Social […]