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Pentagon AI chief says the technology could help spot future pandemics earlier
“Jack” Shanahan, director of the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, said in an interview.
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Coronavirus wallops disaster agencies as storms, fires approach
to the season each year.
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Federal Reserve chairman disappoints Democrats hoping for fiscal backing
Powell said in a May 13 interview with the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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USDA is key for food aid, but may lack speed in crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined weaknesses in the U.S. food supply chain as the highly integrated network based on just-in-time delivery clogged up amid a collapse in consumer demand, the closing
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Fed’s Powell to Congress: Economy needs more fiscal relief
In an interview Wednesday with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Powell called the COVID-19 pandemic an unprecedented economic challenge that needs to be met with even more aggressive
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Facebook’s Libra concessions to regulators raise new questions
Lawmakers distrustful of Facebook’s involvement will likely remain unconvinced, the aide told CQ Roll Call in an interview. Regulatory hurdles Rep.
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States see contact tracing with cellphones as key to reopening economies
Tracers and epidemiologists interview people with infectious diseases to find out who they had contact with in the recent past and get those people to quarantine and to report who they in turn had contact
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Lawmakers find markets mean more than policy in oil industry
The longer-term forecast report due from the EIA Tuesday is likely to offer more of the same.
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As fishermen stay in port, Trump pushes fish farming
In the order issued Thursday, the president directed the administration to analyze the U.S. plan for aquaculture — the synthetic breeding, growing and harvesting of fish, shellfish and plants on
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$8 billion raised in global coronavirus vaccine drive, as US skips effort
“The U.S. historically in the post-World War II-era has been the leader at the table pushing the world to do the right thing,” Rep.
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DOJ hiring changes may help Trump’s plan to curb immigration
They also highlight additional fraying of the firewall between the Justice Department and the neutral arbiters of the immigration court system under its purview.
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Treasury IG: A decade of carbon-capture tax credits were faulty
Kurt Waltzer, managing director of the Clean Air Task Force, said it’s been clear for years that the credits claimed at the IRS were not lining up with the emissions reported to the EPA.
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Amazon workers tally virus cases, voice alarms about risks
Amazon spokesman Jay Carney said in a CNN interview earlier this month he didn’t know how many cases of COVID-19 among Amazon employees have been reported.
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AI researchers seeking COVID-19 answers face hurdles
the researchers from all of the groups involved in the effort wrote.
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Chance for Congress to fix public health gaps could close fast
Some lawmakers are seeking to overhaul programs that hindered the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the window for Congress to revamp the country’s approach to preparing for global health
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States take new steps to track contacts of people with COVID-19
The price tag seems small in the context of the multitrillion-dollar spending bills Congress has enacted since the pandemic began, but a fear exists that tracing efforts could take a back seat to
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Oil markets’ crash raises tough questions for the industry’s future
A push in March from a price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, followed by the near shutdown of the economy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, forced oil prices into the red Monday night.
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Trump issues narrow order suspending immigration amid pandemic
Foreign office closures and interview suspensions due to the pandemic have already slowed down processing.
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Paycheck relief loans give fintech a chance to showcase strengths
“We can move loans out into the capillaries of the small-business economy,” Brian Peters, executive director of Financial Innovation Now, told CQ Roll Call in an interview.