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“The compromise proposal addresses general purpose AI models (hereinafter: GPAI models), which ensures that the approach is technology-neutral. The proposed provisions contain only very limited obligations and introduce codes of practice.”
-Spanish presidency’s note in preparation for the AI Act trilogue
Story of the week: As anticipated, the Spanish presidency circulated its COREPER mandate in two batches.
President Biden removes his face mask during a Medal of Honor ceremony today – an act that appeared to exemplify Americans’ fatigue with masks
Jill Biden tested positive for Covid for a second time Monday, prompting multiple rounds of tests on President Joe Biden, who continues to result negative.
As a precaution, the president, 80, wore a face mask for the first time in months as he went about his duties at the White House today.
However, he took it
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Editor’s note: This is an exclusively adapted excerpt from Clay Travis’s American Playbook: A Guide to Winning Back the Country from the Democrats.
America needs to look more like sports — where the best man or best woman wins regardless of race, sexuality or socioeconomic status — and less like the Democrat vision of identity politics.
No scoreboard begins with diversity points added, there aren’t different rules for the game based
FIRST ON FOX: Republican 2024 presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is expanding her plan to combat the threat from communist China — including a pledge to roll back Biden-era green energy mandates, which she says are a giveaway to Beijing.
Haley has called for years for the U.S. to be more aggressive in combating the threat from Beijing and in June called for a fundamental change in the U.S. outlook to the threat from the East.
On Monday, her campaign
America’s top infectious disease expert admitted that Covid vaccine mandates he championed may have fueled a dip in confidence in routine shots.
In a rare admission of culpability, Dr Anthony Fauci said the policies were ‘counterproductive’ and turned vaccine skeptics off rather than gain their favor.
Fauci has retired from a long tenure in the federal government, where the White House’s top doctor was the highest-paid federal employee and made around $400,000 per year.
Dr Fauci, who did not make
To prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first recommended the wearing of face masks in all public settings in April 2020. Ultimately, this led to long-term mask mandates across the country — including in most schools.
It also sparked an often contentious divide between parents who supported the mandates and those who opposed it.
Ginny Lauren Dowden, 40, of Arkansas fought for her daughter to be able to remain mask-free — a hard-won
New data shows Covid cases in Singapore and New Zealand have overtaken Australia in the latest Omicron wave despite ultra-strict mask mandates.
Masks are worn everywhere in the densely-populated Asian city while New Zealanders are forced to wear them in all indoor public places, such as shopping centres and libraries.
But both now have higher case numbers per million than Australia, where compulsory mask rules have been abandoned in most indoor settings.
Shock data has revealed Covid case numbers in
In September 1957—two years after church bells rang in celebration of the new polio vaccine, two years after people rejoiced in the streets, two years after Americans began lining up for their shots—the proportion of children fully vaccinated against polio remained at about 50 percent.
Supply was not the problem. Nor were doubts about the vaccine’s safety or efficacy, concluded a report from around that time by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, now known as the March of Dimes,
East Coast Democrat governors banded together to drop school mask mandates, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont said on Thursday, even as President Joe Biden continues to drag his feet on lifting Covid-19 restrictions.
The president is following the lead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is still clinging to pandemic health guidelines despite Covid infections plunging 43 percent nationwide.
‘We worked on this together as Governors throughout the region. We thought this is a good time,’ Lamont
European leaders have pulled the handbrake on the continent’s Covid recovery – rushing in a raft of new lockdown measures and travel bans amid panic over rising cases and the arrival of the Omicron variant.
Austria has gone the furthest, throwing the entire country into lockdown until at least December 11 while leaders work on a law to make vaccination mandatory – with a target February at the latest for it to take effect.
Germany now looks set to follow
