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Vice President Kamala Harris indicated in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Monday night that she would not meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin about an end to the war with Ukraine, without Ukraine being part of the conversation.”There will be no success in ending that war without Ukraine and the U.N. Charter participating in what that success looks like,” Harris said. “Ukraine must have a say in the future of Ukraine.”The war in Ukraine was just one of the many topics that came up when Harris sat down for the wide-ranging interview with CBS News’ veteran news magazine show.…

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon authorities said Monday they had removed another 302 people from the state’s voter rolls after determining they didn’t provide proof of citizenship when they were registered to vote, in the latest revelation of improper voter registrations stemming from clerical errors at the state DMV.Monday’s announcement, in addition to the 1,259 people whose voter registrations have already been inactivated because of the issue, brings the total number of mistaken registrations to 1,561. It came the same day the DMV released a report about the errors, which were first acknowledged by authorities last month.The mistake occurred in part…

Jammu and Kashmir BJP President Ravinder Raina with other BJP members | (Photo: PTI)3 min read Last Updated : Oct 08 2024 | 8:09 AM IST Ahead of the counting of votes in Jammu and Kashmir, J-K BJP chief and candidate from Nowshera Assembly, Ravinder Raina on Tuesday exuded confidence in BJP’s victory in the Union Territory and said that the party will win 30-35 seats. The counting of votes for assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir is scheduled to commence at 8 am on Tuesday. Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp After performing the…

Hitachi Rail, a global transportation company powering railway systems in over 50 countries, is integrating NVIDIA AI technology to lower maintenance costs for rail operators, reduce train idling time and improve transit reliability for passengers. The company is adopting NVIDIA IGX — an industrial-grade, enterprise-level platform that delivers high-bandwidth sensor processing, powerful AI compute, functional safety capabilities and enterprise security — into its new HMAX platform to process sensor and camera data in real time. By removing the lag time between data collection and analysis, the HMAX platform will enable Hitachi Rail clients to more quickly detect train tracks that…

3 min read Last Updated : Oct 07 2024 | 10:51 PM IST The rupee hovered near its all-time closing low on Monday, settling flat against the dollar as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened in the foreign exchange market through dollar sales, dealers said. The domestic currency closed at 83.97 per dollar, unchanged from the previous Friday’s close. Several factors weighed on the rupee, including outflows from domestic equities, rising crude oil prices, and a strengthening dollar index. Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp Market participants said that the RBI likely intervened via…

Abdullah Shafique in action© AFP Pakistan cricket team batter Abdullah Shafique returned to form with a brilliant century on Day 1 of the first Test match against England in Multan on Monday. Shafique looked in tremendous touch as he slammed 102 off 184 deliveries before getting dismissed by Gus Atkinson. It was a significant knock for the Pakistan cricketer who scored three ducks in the last three matches. Even Pakistan skipper Shan Masood was asked about Shafique’s form but he defended his teammate with a reference to India batter Virat Kohli. Masood pointed out that after 19 Tests, Shafique’s…

SANTA FE, N.M. — The weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust” pleaded guilty Monday to a separate criminal charge of carrying a gun into a licensed liquor establishment.Movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed agreed to change her plea to guilty on the charge in exchange for a reduced sentence of 18 months supervised probation. Judge T. Glenn Ellington approved the agreement that allows Gutierrez-Reed to begin probation while serving out an 18-month prison term at a New Mexico state penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of…

New Delhi: The Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda in his inaugural address to the 77th session of WHO Southeast Asia Region (SEARO) stated that India’s health system embraces a ‘whole of government’ and ‘whole of society’ approach to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), with emphasis on strengthening primary healthcare and essential services. The opening session of the Regional Committee meeting included election of office bearers, establishment of a ‘Drafting Group for Resolutions and Decisions’, adoption of ‘special procedures’ to regulate the conduct of the session and adoption of the provisional agenda. Dignitaries present at the event included Dr Razia…

Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. NEW RESEARCH ProbTS: Benchmarking Point and Distributional Forecasting across Diverse Prediction Horizons Time-series forecasting is a technique used to predict future values based on previously observed data points over time. It has extensive applications for traffic flow, renewable energy, retail, finance, and climate, among other uses. For these applications, it is crucial to provide forecasts across different prediction horizons, addressing both short- and long-term planning needs. Many decision-making processes also require not only…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a challenge from Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania to a Biden administration executive order that is intended to boost voter registration.The justices did not comment in rejecting an appeal from the Republicans, who claimed the order is an unconstitutional attempt to interfere in the November election. Lower courts had dismissed the lawsuit. Nine Republican secretaries of state and 11 members of Congress had asked the court to step in. In May, the justices declined to take up and decide the case on an expedited basis.The justices separately rejected two appeals stemming…