Immigration, gender identity, racial diversity and views of a changing society (All photos via Getty Images) Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand voters’ political values related to cultural issues in the context of the 2024 election. For this analysis, we surveyed 8,709 adults, including 7,166 registered voters, from April 8 to 14, 2024. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is…
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If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your query rather than a bunch of links, you have been subjected to something called AI Overviews. This is a new core feature that Google has been rolling out, a move widely anticipated since the company’s experiments with its LaMDA large language model in 2021, and since OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot rocketed to prominence in 2023. Google’s knowledge panels summarize information from search results, in contrast to AI Overview, which generates answers based on its training data. Screen capture by…
We cannot say it enough times. Russia, who use their seat on this Council to opine on and to sit in judgement on other countries on this Council’s agenda, are, as we speak, bombing Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, with no regard for civilian life, in an illegal war of aggression and in defiance of the UN charter. Let me make three specific points. First, we should all look at the facts. The Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant, the largest in Ukraine, was severely damaged in a targeted attack by Russia, and can no longer produce electricity. A breach of the dam would…
Port Sudan, 6 June – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is warning that the number of people displaced by conflict inside Sudan could top 10 million in the coming days. The world’s worst internal displacement crisis continues to escalate, with looming famine and disease adding to the havoc wrought by conflict. IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix, which issues weekly statistics, recorded 9.9 million people internally displaced across all 18 states in Sudan this week – 2.8 million prior to the April 2023 war, and 7.1 million since. More than half of all internally displaced persons (IDPs) are women, and…
Artificial intelligence is going to transform how we date. The question is: will it be for better or worse? It’s already causing some real problems, especially related to “romance scams” and other fraud. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Used in the right way, AI can actually make dating better. It can help write profiles and find matches, provide dating advice and coaching and, if all else fails, become a date companion. I have spent the last few years studying the impact of technology, and especially AI, on our romantic lives. And I think this is an exciting time…
A new review of research about antidepressant withdrawal has confirmed it does exist, but also reports that it’s less common and severe than previously found. These findings feed into a growing debate about how common and severe withdrawal effects are. But we argue the researchers probably underestimate the incidence in long-term users who are most at risk of withdrawal effects. One of the main limitations of this review is that it involved mostly short-term antidepressant users and therefore underestimates how common these symptoms are in people who take the drugs long-term. This is a growing group of people – and…
The people of Ireland are heading to the polls on Friday, June 7 for local council elections and European Parliament elections. Limerick will also be voting for Ireland’s first-ever directly elected Mayor. 3,762,937 people in Ireland are registered to vote in the local elections. 3,558,051 people are registered to vote in the European elections, and 157,672 people in Limerick city and county can vote for the country’s first directly-elected mayor, according to RTE News. Polls across Ireland will be open from 7 am to 10 pm on Friday, June 7. When polling is over, all ballot boxes are taken to…
Voters who favor Joe Biden and those who favor Donald Trump hold very different views about race and ethnicity in American society. Some of the starkest differences across all the political values in this study are over the degree to which Black Americans continue to be affected by the legacy of slavery and whether White Americans benefit from societal advantages Black Americans do not have. And gaps between Biden and Trump supporters over perceptions of the impact of the nation’s growing diversity are nearly as wide. Voters’ views about race and society, the impact of the legacy of slavery Among…
Food truck operator LJ2 Investments LLC failed to pay overtime wages, keep required records Employer name: LJ2 Investments LLC, operating as Jasso ExpressInvestigation site: 805 E. Ferguson Ave. Pharr, TX 78577Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found LJ2 Investments LLC – operator of Jasso Express food trucks – failed to pay the required time and one-half the hourly wages of 46…
And while no one is breaking out the guillotine just yet, the far right’s swell of support is an indication that the taboo that once kept parties like the National Rally out of power is at the risk of breaking — or more likely already broken. In 2002, when Marine Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, shocked the country by becoming the first far-right candidate in modern history to make the final, run-off round of the French presidential election, Aleksandar Nikolic joined the hundreds of thousands who took to the streets to protest the results and ultimately block Le Pen…