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D.C. is poised to become the first city in the nation to create a local child tax credit, a move that lawmakers say could be transformative for families living in poverty. The D.C. Council passed the ...

Agencies in Malaysia and Thailand have implemented a regulatory reliance program for medical devices after a successful three-month pilot. Malaysia's Medical Device Authority (MDA) and the Thai Food ...

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...

WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - A group of 37 Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the U.S. Postal Service not to comply with a March 31 executive order issued by President Donald Trump ...

Willdan Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WLDN) announced today that it has been awarded a $27 million, three-year contract with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice to redesign and ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

The move comes after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened in January to raise tariffs to 25%, up from the 15% agreed under the trade deal between Seoul and Washington in July 2025. Washington on ...

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of its more daring AI coding experiments. But as usual ...

PepsiCo is expanding its reusable cup program at the Super Bowl and leveraging AI to support recycling efforts at Super Bowl events. The reuseable cups are made from BPA-free polypropylene and hold 32 ...

The PGA TOUR has announced a meaningful enhancement to the Player Equity Program, expanding the scope of who will receive equity in PGA TOUR Enterprises moving forward. The top 50 players in the 2026 ...

But what if the biggest giveaway that a text was written by AI isn’t a word, phrase, or punctuation mark, but a particular sentence structure instead? The idea that certain rhythms of sentences might ...