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In a bid to improve working conditions for people who deliver food and offer rides through smartphone apps, the European Union gave provisional approval Wednesday to rules that determine who should get the benefits of full-time employees and restrict the way online platforms use algorithms to manage their workers.

In California's vast northern rural school districts, with their mountain passes and long, snowy winters, the typical electric bus' range is not nearly enough. West Valley is one of Lassen High's nearest athletic opponents. One of the farthest, Yreka High, is 169 miles away.

Tesla recalled more than 2 million vehicles over concerns that drivers could misuse the cars' Autosteer features within Autopilot

President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden is speaking out following his recent indictments on tax and gun charges.

Google' stinging defeat against Fortnite-maker Epic Games in a California courtroom could be an important blow against big tech's decades of supremacy on antitrust matters in the United States.

Federal officials are proposing modifications and additional inspections on nearly 2,000 Boeing planes in the United States to prevent a repeat of the engine-housing breakup that killed a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight in 2018.

Security authorities in Shanghai recently disclosed a fresh new espionage case targeting personnel working with the government, in which a young man enrolled into the civil service at the encouragement of a foreign spy.

Sikkim Urja Limited’s 1,200-megawatt hydroelectric project Teesta-III at the Chungthang dam on river Teesta gave way on October 4, killing at least 94 people in the downstream areas of Sikkim and West Bengal. The devastation has reignited wide worries surrounding two of three India-built mega hydropower projects under construction in Bhutan, local newspaper The Hindu reported on October 15.

The Convention?Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, or the Apostille Convention, entered into force in China on Tuesday, which, according to Chinese diplomatic officials, will greatly reduce the time and economic cost of cross-border transfer of Chinese and foreign documents, and further optimize China's business environment. On March 8, China acceded to the 1961 Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents. On Tuesday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry held a ceremony to mark the implementation of the convention in China.

China's national security authorities have disclosed a new espionage case in which a man, while processing immigration for his entire family, provided materials to foreign entities, 14 of which were classified as intelligence according to Chinese law. He was sentenced to six years in prison at the first trial.

China's Ministry of Public Security has started to solicit public opinions on punishment measures for telecom fraud perpetrators, media reported on Monday, a day after Chinese police offered a cash reward for information related to four telecom fraud ringleaders in northern Myanmar.

The US government announced on Thursday that it will remove the Institute of Forensic Science of China's Ministry of Public Security (including the National Narcotics Laboratory address) from the

The police in Baoshan, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, issued an announcement on Tuesday urging individuals illegally staying in northern Myanmar to return to China by the end of this year, so as to effectively combat illegal activities in the telecommunications network, and ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

The battle for control of the House of Representatives in 2024 just got a lot more complicated and intense.

Google Play has been deemed an anticompetitive market by a San Francisco jury in a huge win for Epic Games.

Shady payments and deleted records resulted in the jury siding with the Fortnite maker

Here's a tricky situation: A business that sells fitness trackers to consumers has amassed a large database of health data about its customers. Researchers would like access to this information to improve medical diagnostics. While the business is concerned about sharing such sensitive, private information, it also would like to support this important research. So how do the researchers obtain useful and accurate information that could benefit society while also keeping individual privacy intact?

An Australian man and a US national have been charged in California with operating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Google's legal defeat at the hands of Fortnite maker Epic Games Inc. threatens to roil an app store duopoly with Apple Inc. that generates close to $200 billion a year and dictates how billions of consumers use mobile devices.

Jonathan Majors' assault trial is heading into its third day and his accuser, Grace Jabbari, will be back on the stand -- but this time his attorney will have a chance to grill her about the alleged attack.