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Porsha Ngumezi sat for hours in a Houston-area emergency room, passing grapefruit-sized blood clots as she waited to be treated for a first-trimester miscarriage. When Brenda Yolani Arzu Ramirez’s baby died in the second trimester, it triggered a life-threatening infection that worsened over the hours she waited to deliver vaginally at an Austin hospital. Both women faced delays in care. …

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is freezing all hiring in its artificial intelligence division. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company characterized the hiring freeze as “basic organizational planning,” coinciding with a broader restructuring of its AI division’s leadership. It’s a notable admission that comes as Zuckerberg has been desperately offering key talent mind-boggling financial offers, reportedly reaching $1 billion — …

Cryptocurrency investors were bracing for the US Federal Reserve’s annual gathering in Jackson Hole on Friday, where Chair Jerome Powell’s remarks may provide key signals on interest rate policy heading into September’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Bitcoin (BTC) briefly fell to $112,565 on Wednesday, a two-week low last seen on Aug. 3, Cointelegraph data showed. Bitcoin’s dip below $113,000 …

FDA urges recall of Walmart shrimp over radioactive contamination fear  The Washington Post Walmart recalls possibly radioactive shrimp after public warned not to eat  BBC Walmart recalls frozen shrimp over potential radioactive contamination  NPR FDA warns against eating certain shrimp sold at Walmart amid investigation into radioactive contamination  CNN FDA Warns Public Not to Eat Potentially Radioactive Walmart Shrimp  The Daily Beast Source link

Americans fear AI permanently displacing workers, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  Reuters AI is already displacing these jobs  Axios Opinion | The 1970s Gave Us Industrial Decline. A.I. Could Bring Something Worse.  The New York Times AI Revolution Could Require Us to Re-Think Money Entirely  ScienceAlert Blue-collar jobs are gaining popularity as AI threatens office work  NBC News Source link

Washington, D.C., resident Tyler DeSue woke up tired and craving breakfast Saturday morning, so he did what many people in that situation would do: He used Uber Eats to put in an order for burritos. When his driver took longer than usual, DeSue checked the app and noticed something seemed wrong — the delivery driver’s GPS location had stopped short …

Texas school districts are coming back from summer with a rising number of parents asking for vaccine exemption forms and a new law that will make those documents even easier to obtain. Combined with funding cuts to public vaccination programs, chilling effects of immigration policies on health care, and the wearying battle by school nurses to balance parental consent and …

My left arm sporadically goes numb and tingles. An ECG of my heart was clear and my GP says we should monitor it for now. John Atha, West Yorkshire. I suspect you are worried that there is a problem with your heart, but it seems to me your symptoms are more likely to be nerve related. This can easily be …

TIME DIFFERENCES meant that most Ukrainians only learned about the Alaska summit on Saturday morning. Though their initial reaction was relief, now they are dreading what comes next. The immediate sigh of calm was understandable. The feared grand bargain in Anchorage between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had not materialised. Initial reports highlighted that the talks at an American military …

In L.A., Fear of ICE Raids Created a Tense First Day of School  The New York Times Los Angeles public schools to open with unprecedented protections for immigrant children  Los Angeles Times LAUSD students return to class amid fears over immigration enforcement  ABC7 Los Angeles Teen with disabilities detained by federal agents at gunpoint in Arleta  NBC Los Angeles First day of school tests …