Editor’s Note: This story was produced by Agência Pública (Brazil). You can read the original version here. It was late afternoon on June 17 in Newport, Vermont, when six Brazilian carpenters left the house where they were working on a … Continued
By JEFF MARTIN and JACK BROOK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The only escaped Louisiana inmate who remained on the run following an audacious May jailbreak in which 10 men crawled through a hole behind a toilet has been found in Atlanta, … Continued
By KELVIN CHAN and MATT O’BRIEN, AP Technology Writers LONDON (AP) — Lingering doubts about the economic promise of artificial intelligence technology are starting to get the attention of financial institutions that raised warning flags this week about an AI investment bubble. … Continued
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Most members of the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate setting committee supported further reductions to its key interest rate this year, according to minutes from last month’s meeting released Wednesday. A majority of Fed officials … Continued
By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as part of the ongoing government shutdown, according to the an updated contingency plan posted Wednesday to the agency website. Most IRS operations are closed, the … Continued
By Céline Gounder, KFF Health News Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has floated a seismic idea: adding autism to the list of conditions covered by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The program, known as … Continued