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Mum held in police cell after birthmark mistake

3 days ago By Sophia Seth, BBC News BBC Laxmi Thapa was held in police custody before medical checks showed she had not harmed her baby The mother of a six-month-old baby said she was treated “like a criminal” after her son’s birthmarks were mistaken for bruising. Laxmi Thapa’s son was born with blue spot – blue-grey […]

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OpenAI illegally stopped staff from sharing dangers, whistleblowers say

OpenAI whistleblowers have filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the artificial intelligence company illegally prohibited its employees from warning regulators about the grave risks its technology may pose to humanity, calling for an investigation. The whistleblowers said OpenAI issued its employees overly restrictive employment, severance and nondisclosure agreements that could have […]

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Alec Baldwin’s Rust manslaughter case dismissed

Alec Baldwin broke down in tears as a New Mexico judge dismissed the involuntary manslaughter case against him for a fatal shooting on the set of the film Rust. The trial collapsed three days into Baldwin’s trial in Santa Fe, at a court just miles from where Halyna Hutchins, a cinematographer, was shot with a […]

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Narcissists mellow with age, study suggests

Narcissistic people get more empathetic, generous and agreeable with age, according to new research into the personality trait. But although their unreasonably high sense of self-importance may mellow, they do not fully grow out of it, the study involving more than 37,000 people suggests. Those who were more narcissistic than their peers as children tended […]

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countryside offenders’ convictions still ‘woeful’

1 day ago By Malcolm Prior, @NewsMPrior, BBC News, rural affairs correspondent Kerry McClay Kerry McClay says more female police officers are needed in the countryside to deal with domestic abuse Victims of domestic abuse in the countryside are still being let down by a “woeful” number of convictions five years after a report criticised the work of […]

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Mortgage competition hots up as interest rates decision looms

8 hours ago By Kevin Peachey, Cost of living correspondent Getty Images Competition between mortgage lenders has intensified ahead of a key decision on interest rates by the Bank of England. A host of lenders have made reductions to the cost of new fixed-rate mortgages in recent days. Brokers expect further cuts to come, but mortgage rates […]

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