Republicans demand Biden family business associate appear for questioning in impeachment probe

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — House Republicans are seeking testimony from Biden family business associate Michael Lewitt as part of their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. In a letter Thursday, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan cited Lewitt’s ties to James Biden, the president’s younger brother and a former business…

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‘Need to leverage AI, bring empathy to biz’ – Times of India

[ad_1] MUMBAI: Tata Group chairman N Chandrasekaran has pitched a dedicated AI job role in group companies to harness the “benefits of AI, economically, operationally and socially”.While group companies have been leveraging artificial intelligence to improve productivity and efficiency, to reduce human time and effort, Chandrasekaran’s pitch to appoint “AI champions” comes amid industries across…

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Venezuela will hold military exercises off its shores as a British warship heads to Guyana

[ad_1] BOGOTA, Colombia — President Nicolás Maduro ordered Venezuela’s armed forces to conduct defensive exercises in the Eastern Caribbean after the United Kingdom sent a warship toward Guyana’s territorial waters as the South American neighbors dispute a large border region. In a nationally televised address on Thursday, Maduro said that 6,000 Venezuelan troops, including air…

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Nearly 5M blenders sold at Costco, Target and Walmart recalled over fire and laceration risks

[ad_1] BlendJet is recalling about 4.8 million of its portable blenders over laceration and fire hazards after receiving dozens of reports of injuries, federal regulators said Thursday. BlendJet 2 Portable Blenders can overheat or catch fire, according to a notice from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and their blender blades can break off during…

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Federal judge accepts redrawn Georgia congressional and legislative districts that will favor GOP

[ad_1] ATLANTA — A federal judge on Wednesday accepted new Georgia congressional and legislative voting districts that protect Republican partisan advantages, saying the creation of new majority-Black voting districts fixed illegal minority vote dilution that led him to order maps be redrawn. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, in three separate but similarly worded orders, rejected…

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