Ohio Derailment Site Workers Say Cleanup Is Making Them Sick
Labor unions say cleanup efforts following last month’s train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, have caused many workers to fall ill. Some have complained of constant headaches and nausea, according to a union representative for employees hired by Norfolk Southern Railway Company. Many employees “reported that they continue to experience migraines and nausea, days after …
Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Reaches the Supreme Court
Arguments regarding President Joe Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness plan went before the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The proposal was made public last August and will cost approximately $400 billion over the course of 30 years. It would cancel up to $20,000 in debt for recipients of Pell Grants and up to $10,000 for students …
European Commission Forbids TikTok on Official Devices
Staff who work for the Brussels-based European Commission will no longer be able to use the video app TikTok on their work devices due to concerns about security breaches, according to CNN. As the executive arm of the European Union, the Commission introduces and mandates the EU’s budget and legislation. It employs around 32,000 full-time …
The Growing Momentum for Basic Income
Amid the rise of AI services like ChatGPT, approximately 25 percent of U.S. jobs are at high risk of automation. With the majority of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, calls for a universal basic income are growing louder than ever. UBI proponents argue that it could be the difference between poverty and making ends meet …
Getty Images Sues Stability AI Over Image Generator
Stock photo behemoth Getty Images has filed a lawsuit against Stability AI, the company behind popular image generator Stable Diffusion AI, accusing the company of copying 12 million images from its collection “without permission” or “compensation.” The lawsuit was filed last week in a U.S. District Court in Delaware, according to Futurism. “This case arises …
Missing Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, Deciphered for the First Time
A new report published in the journal Cryptologia has revealed that a collection of letters marked with unique symbols and filed incorrectly in the digital archives of the National Library of France actually belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots – or Mary Stuart – according to Vice. Computer scientist George Lasry teamed up with a …
LeBron James Breaks Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s NBA Scoring Record
Basketball legend LeBron James made history last night when he broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s former record to become the new all-time leading scorer in the NBA. With 10 seconds left in the third quarter of the Lakers’ matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder, James buried a fadeaway jumper, clinching his 38,388th point to surpass Abdul-Jabbar’s 38,387 …
Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Death Toll Surpasses 7,300
As of Tuesday, at least 7,300 people had been killed across Syria and Turkey following two massive earthquakes – the first a 7.8-magnitude, the second a 7.5 – that hit within the span of 10 hours on Monday. Experts say the quakes are among the worst natural disasters to occur in the last century and …
Google to Lay Off 12,000 Employees
Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has announced plans to downsize and lay off approximately 12,000 employees. The cuts amount to six percent of the company’s workforce, making it the biggest round of layoffs in Google’s history, according to the Wall Street Journal. “This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard …
Lisa Marie Presley Dies at the Age of 54
Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, has died at the age of 54, according to CNN. The singer-songwriter suffered cardiac arrest on Thursday in her Calabasas home near Los Angeles. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has …