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Texas A&M University School of Public Health researchers are developing a new governance model for ethical guidance and enforcement in the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence (AI). Known as Copyleft AI with Trusted Enforcement, or CAITE, the researchers believe this model will guard against the potential harms of AI without hindering technological advancements. Cason Schmit, JD, assistant professor at the School of Public Health and director of the Program in Health Law and Policy, Megan Doerr of Sage Bionetworks and Jennifer Wager, JD, of Penn State discuss their new model in a recent article in the journal Science. Artificial...

Exploring Francis’s Parasitic Use of Catholics As most rational and informed Catholics have observed, Francis is not Catholic in his words or deeds. Why, then, would he purport to be a Catholic, let alone govern the Church as its ostensible pope? One does not need to be a conspiracy theorist to reasonably conclude that he does so as an infiltrator who seeks to use Catholics to serve an unholy globalist agenda. So, although the Catholic Church is indefectible, Francis infects Catholics with his faux-Catholicism, making it look like the Catholic Church is doing things that the Church can never...

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/cbsypELxVIc Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A mysterious boom that prompted multiple reports of an explosion in a Texas county was caused by a meteorite strike, officials said. Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said numerous reports of a loud explosion were made in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, near Mission, on Wednesday afternoon. Guerra said the sound is now believed to have been caused by a meteorite spotted by two pilots flying near Houston. The meteorite is believed to have struck Earth about 5:28 p.m. Wednesday. The National Weather Service in Brownsville, Texas, confirmed that a satellite system aimed at...

Don Lemon is reportedly in danger of being canned from his co-host spot on CNN This Morning after making the ignorant, misogynistic claim on yesterday's show that Nikki Haley, age 51, is not in her "prime." A New York Post story today reports that co-host Poppy Harlow walked off the set after Lemon's inane outburst, and that "a CNN insider said the latest high-profile incident may finally lead to [head CNN honcho Chris] Licht squeezing out Lemon from the morning gig." And the New York Times quotes Licht as telling CNN staffers that he was "disappointed" by Lemon's remarks, and...

No less than four threads on Free Republic allege that Governor DeSantis has received an endorsement from George Soros. Almost all reference a 0:47 video that has been making the rounds on social media.Here's the complete 2:41 video, transcribed by myself."Trump attracted a lot of non-educated, white followers but his biggest backers were the mega-rich, and he certainly delivered for them. First, he cut their taxes. Second, he nominated to the Supreme Court ideologues who embraced an extreme version of the Republican agenda. Third, he put the Republican Party under his control by threatening those who didn't swear loyalty to...

1. Rhode Island Share of major roadways in poor condition: 38.8% Share of major roadways in fair condition: 37.1% Share of major roadways in good condition: 24.0% Daily vehicle-miles traveled per capita: 17.8 2. New Jersey Share of major roadways in poor condition: 36.4% Share of major roadways in fair condition: 31.1% Share of major roadways in good condition: 32.5% Daily vehicle-miles traveled per capita: 20.5 3. California Share of major roadways in poor condition: 30.8% Share of major roadways in fair condition: 32.9% Share of major roadways in good condition: 36.3% Daily vehicle-miles traveled per capita: 20.9

A 23yo woman with an unknown neurological condition died ‘unexpectedly’ in her sleep after two doses of the Covid vaccine, an inquiry has heard.A young woman with an unknown neurological condition died in her sleep after receiving two doses of a Covid vaccine, an inquiry into long Covid was told. On Friday, the standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport heard from Australians who have felt neglected or dismissed after they sought help for long Covid or the ill effects of the Covid vaccines. The inquiry was told Amy Segdwick died “suddenly and unexpectedly” in her sleep in April...

A helicopter with a shooter will fly over a portion of the vast Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico next week, searching for feral cows to kill. U.S. Forest Service managers approved the plan Thursday to protect sensitive spots in the nation’s first designated wilderness area. The move sets the stage for legal challenges over how to handle unbranded livestock and other stray cows as drought deepens in the West. The Gila National Forest issued the decision amid pressure from environmental groups who raised concerns about nearly 150 cattle whose hooves and mouths are damaging streams and rivers.Ranchers, meanwhile, have...

President Biden touts his economic plan as being a great success. But the data says otherwise. Real Disposable Personal Income, for examplge, was down -6.4% year-over-year (YoY) in 2022. That is the WORST reading since The Great Depression. So much for “Middle Class Joe” and The Forgotten Man. Biden hasn’t forgotten, he just doesn’t care.

The company took the decision after the business was being influenced by economic sanctions imposed on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. The US pharmaceutical company Viatris has informed the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade that the supply of the drug Viagra, in tablet format, has been suspended in the Russian market. "Viatris LLC has informed us about the suspension of the supply of the drug Viagra in the pharmaceutical form of a pill", said the ministry, quoted by the Russian news agency TASS. According to the American pharmaceutical company, the decision was taken after the business was influenced...

The Babylon Bee Fake News You Can Trust Biden Taken to Coroner for Annual PhysicalWASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden is being lifted in Marine One to a local coroner for his annual physical exam, sources in Washington say."The President passed the exam with flying colors. His body is so life-like and well-preserved!" said a representative from the D.C. Medical Examiner's Office. "With a fresh injection of formaldehyde and some makeup, he looks like he's still with us! Just look at him — so peaceful. It looks like he's just sleeping!"The President's Chief Medical Examiner is set to release his findings...

Students in a Florida high school’s elite academic program have been accused of using ChatGPT and artificial intelligence to write their essays, according to a report. The head of Cape Coral High School’s prestigious International Baccalaureate Program (IB) flagged the suspected misconduct to staff in a flurry of internal emails that were later obtained by a local NBC affiliate. “There have been some IB papers that are questionable in a few ways,” the staffer wrote this month in one message. “Including being very different styles of writing from previously submitted papers.” In another internal email, she wrote how several students...

"We're grieving parents. I don't want to see any more grieving parents"The grieving parents of a 20-year-old Northampton amateur footballer have questioned health authorities about the sudden death of their son - and they want answers. Luke Abrahams, from East Hunsbury, died on the operating table at Northampton General Hospital on Sunday, January 23 after first complaining about a sore throat a week before. The former Abbeyfield School student was well-known in the Northants football community, playing for Blisworth FC and Hunsbury Hawks FC and also having associations with AFC Spinney. Dad Richard Abrahams and mum Julie Needham said: "We...

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 15: Sen.-elect John Fetterman (D-PA) stands for a photo opportunity in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) office at the U.S. Capitol on November 15, 2022 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats will meet later on Tuesday for the first time since the midterm elections. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is reportedly set to miss weeks of work after checking himself into a hospital this week for severe depression. NBC News reporter Dasha Burns tweeted, “A senior aide to Senator Fetterman tells me he will likely be in inpatient care for clinical depression...

Teen girls “are experiencing record high levels of violence, sadness, and suicide risk,” according to a new survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2021, according to the survey, nearly 3 in 5 U.S. teen girls reported feeling “persistently sad or hopeless.” Meanwhile, a conservative judge in Texas has delayed his ruling in a case that could ban a key drug used in medication abortion. A group of anti-abortion doctors is suing to challenge the FDA’s approval decades ago of the abortion pill mifepristone. This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KHN, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico,...

Pregnant and scared, Natasha Valle went to a Tennova Healthcare hospital in Clarksville, Tennessee, in January 2021 because she was bleeding. She didn’t know much about miscarriage, but this seemed like one. In the emergency room, she was examined then sent home, she said. She went back when her cramping became excruciating. Then home again. It ultimately took three trips to the ER on three consecutive days, generating three separate bills, before she saw a doctor who looked at her bloodwork and confirmed her fears. “At the time I wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh, I need to see a doctor,'” Valle recalled....

A battle over her support for transgender rights is not, by Nicola Sturgeon’s account, the reason she is quitting as Scotland’s first minister. But the issue has dogged her in recent weeks, precipitating a clash with the British government and ensnaring her in a messy episode involving a convicted rapist who was held in a women’s prison. Ms. Sturgeon’s problems began in December when the Scottish Parliament passed legislation that would allow transgender people to have the gender with which they identify legally recognized and to get a new birth certificate without a medical diagnosis. Britain’s government swiftly rejected the...

DISTURBING VIDEO AT LINK................ An armed gunman was caught on security film walking up to a New York City deli worker and firing a handgun at point blank range on Wednesday afternoon. Footage shows an employee at Rockaway Express Deli in South Ozone Park, Queens, treating a customer from behind the counter before the gunman walks up to him and shoots him in the face without hesitation, the New York Post reported. The gunman was dressed in all black and used a mask to cover his face. He was later identified as Donnie Hudson, a 35-year-old living in an apartment...

Limiting how much coal countries can burn is considered an urgent priority for restraining global heating. After all, coal is the most carbon-rich of all fossil fuels and its combustion has contributed the most to planetary warming. For the first time in international talks, negotiators agreed to "phase down" coal use to prevent global temperature rise exceeding 1.5°C in the 2021 Glasgow Climate Pact. Coal's primacy in climate negotiations is partly because of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has devised pathways to halting warming at 1.5°C. These scientific assessments prioritize the rapid phasing out of coal burning...

Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that she believes it is “wrongheaded” for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to “censor” what is taught in Florida schools. Mitchell asked, “Let me ask you, what does Governor Ron DeSantis not know about black history and the black experience when he says that slavery and the aftermath of slavery should not be taught to Florida schoolchildren?” Harris said, “I don’t know what he knows and what he doesn’t know, but I know this, any push to censor America’s teachers and tell them what they should be teaching in the...