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Proposed amendments to Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation legislation that will provide bereavement counselling services for families after a fatal workplace accident is making its way through the House of Assembly. If passed, the changes would allow paid bereavement services for surviving dependents for any…

Dr. Ato Quayson, winner of the 2021 Warren-Brooks Award, will visit WKU on Friday, September 16, to accept the award and give a guest lecture on his award-winning book, Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2021). The event will take place at 3 p.m. in Cherry Hall 125 and is being co-sponsored by the English Department…

BELFAST, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Liz Truss, Britain's foreign minister and favourite to become prime minister next month, said on Wednesday she was determined to deliver the Northern Ireland Protocol bill in full, even if it faced time-consuming opposition in parliament.The bill takes unilateral action -- effectively tearing up parts of the Brexit…

Authorities are investigating a spate of suspicious envelopes sent to election offices this week in what one state official called an act of "domestic terrorism."Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said in a statement Thursday that envelopes containing "unknown powdery substances" were discovered Wednesday by election workers in several…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Russian state media outlets have been offering words of support for Former President Donald Trump amid the FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida in an attempt to sow discord in the U.S."The Russians understand that Donald Trump is a hot button in America and they use their narratives to foment…

CNN  —  A small plane that circled for hours Saturday morning over Tupelo, Mississppi, and surrounding areas landed in a field in Ripley, Mississippi, the FAA said. A source told CNN the pilot, who police said threatened to crash the stolen plane into a Tupelo Walmart, is in…

At a time when some are calling for a pause on the development of generative AI, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, has an argument for accelerating the work: AI advances are going to provide tools to better understand the technology and to make it safer, Huang said in a discussion with Goldman Sachs Asset…

The budget, which is Tinubu’s first since assuming office in May, reveals a similar spending pattern when compared with the budgets of his immediate predecessor. The government will spend at least six times more on debt service than on building new hospitals and schools and an over ambitious revenue target means Nigeria could be set to generate…

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been disconnected from Ukraine’s national grid for the first time in nearly 40 years of operation, the country’s nuclear power operator, Energoatom, has said.The final power line connecting the plant to the grid was cut twice by fires at the ash pits of a nearby coal-fired power plant. Three other lines…