Cuba approves unprecedented free-market reforms in effort to stave off economic collapse

Cuban lawmakers Thursday adopted nearly 200 historic free-market reforms aimed at rescuing the Communist island from a severe crisis aggravated by a U.S. oil blockade. In a landmark speech to the National Assembly, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero unveiled 176 measures aimed at rolling back the state’s role in the economy and attracting investment in everything…

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YouTube taking steps to make clear when realistic videos are made by AI

YouTube is updating its policies to more clearly identify when a realistic-seeming video was made using artificial intelligence.  The change comes as social media platforms are flooded with AI-generated videos, images and music. In response, Alphabet-owned YouTube said Wednesday it will more prominently feature an existing label on videos that discloses if they have been…

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Trump plan would increase citizenship application fee by $570

The Trump administration unveiled a plan Monday that would charge legal immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship $570 more in application fees while eliminating waivers and fee reductions for low-income applicants. The proposed regulation by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would increase the fees for citizenship requests from $760 to $1,330 for paper applications and from $710…

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What’s missing from the Epstein files? Questions persist about unexplained redactions, missing documents, email gaps

When the Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, survivors, advocates and lawmakers quickly raised questions about an apparent discrepancy: the DOJ had said it collected more than 6 million pages of material during its investigation but was only releasing half that number. The Justice…

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