NEW YORK (AP) — After initially staying out of the 2024 presidential race, billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin has thrown his support behind as she takes on for the Republican presidential nomination.

Griffin made two contributions in December and January to a super PAC backing Haley’s campaign totaling $5 million, according to Griffin’s spokesperson Zia Ahmed.

The second donation was made in early January, before in which Haley finished third behind Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The donations were disclosed Tuesday

OTTAWA — An Ontario court’s order to retry a “Freedom Convoy” protester could have implications for the ongoing trial of the protest’s two key organizers, an Ottawa criminologist said Tuesday.

Superior Court Justice Narissa Somji ordered a retrial last week for Allen Remley, a convoy participant who had been acquitted on a mischief charge.

Remley was acquitted last year by Justice Heather Perkins-McVey, who is also presiding over the criminal trial for organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.

The court ordered a retrial after concluding Perkins

Police in London, Ont., are expected to provide an update next week on their investigation into an alleged sexual assault involving members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team.

The update is scheduled roughly two weeks after the Globe and Mail reported that five members of the 2018 team had been ordered to surrender to police to face charges.

Since then, lawyers representing pro hockey player Alex Formenton have said he’s been charged in an allegation from 2018.

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SEATTLE (AP) — The governor of Washington on Tuesday called for the state to develop best practices on how agencies should use generative artificial intelligence as it continues to incorporate the technology into government operations.

“It’s our duty to the public to be thorough and thoughtful in how we adopt these powerful new tools,” Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement.

within the last two years, often opting to focus on how their own state governments handle the technology before setting private sector restrictions. Earlier this month

VANCOUVER — The B.C. government says it’s spending tens of millions of dollars to boost nuclear medicine amid forecasts that cancer diagnoses in the province will rise almost 50 per cent in the next decade.

The $32 million in funding will go toward operating imaging equipment for cancer diagnosis and expanding research.

Health Minister Adrian Dix said Tuesday that construction was underway in Vancouver for a $21-million cyclotron and radiopharmacy laboratory to increase the production of radioactive isotopes, used in equipment that conducts PET and

OTTAWA — The House of Commons has voted to let Greg Fergus keep his job as Speaker, nearly two months after the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois called for him to resign.

Those calls came after Fergus was shown giving a video tribute to the outgoing interim leader of the Ontario Liberals at a party event in December.

Fergus was wearing his Speaker robes and recorded the video in his office, and opposition MPs said that led them to question his impartiality in the House.

The House procedure and affairs committee studied

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The number of western monarch butterflies overwintering in California dropped by 30% last year, likely due to how wet it was, researchers said Tuesday.

Volunteers who visited sites in California and Arizona around Thanksgiving tallied more than 230,000 butterflies, compared to 330,000 in 2022, according to the Xerces Society, an environmental nonprofit that focuses on the conservation of invertebrates.

The population of orange and black insects has rebounded in recent

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine court on Tuesday overturned labor rules proposed by President Javier Milei that would make it easier to fire workers, in a new blow to the leader’s efforts to shake up regulations that he says have hampered the country’s struggling economy.

The appeals court already the incoming president’s new regulations in early January after a legal challenge brought by the main union group, the General Labor Confederation.

The three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that the regulations were unconstitutional, saying

For women of a certain age who grew up being told that if they wore the wrong thing, drank a little too much, or gave the wrong signals that they were “asking for it,” it might seem like the youths of today have it good, or at least quite a bit better. Consent seems to matter. Clothing coverage does not. Victims are listened to, sometimes at least.

And yet for all the freedom and exhibitionism and sexual liberation that might be projected on social media, teens are still