Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced a $1.7 million initiative to fund grocery store security as retail theft, break-ins and vandalism threaten independent grocers.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a surrogacy custody case involving surrogate mother McKenna West, who refused to abort a child diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

House Democrats gave President Donald Trump an anti-fraud win, but that bipartisan momentum could hit political reality in the Senate.

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People off sick from work should keep in phone contact with their boss, government-appointed back-to-work expert Sir Charlie Mayfield has said. Getting bosses and workers to have a conversation, rather than simply exchanging emails and sicknotes, could help get people back into work, Sir Charlie, who is leading the Keep Britain Working taskforce, said. His latest report said health-related economic inactivity was costing Britain around £210bn a year in benefit payments and lost output. Talking on the phone was just one piece of the jigsaw he said on Wednesday. The report calls for more workplace support, external for people with health conditions and disabilities and the establishment of a Workplace Health System alongside the NHS.

Nebraska woman Haile McAnally says abortion pills nearly caused her to bleed to death, calling her survival "divine intervention." She now warns others about mifepristone dangers.

As industry leaders urge a global slowdown in artificial intelligence development for the sake of humanity, the two superpowers driving the technology's rapid advancement have given no indication they intend to hit the brakes. The United States and China, which are locked in a fierce strategic rivalry, have each rebutted calls to slow the pace of AI development, even as industry executives and researchers stress the need for international cooperation to avoid exposing humans to catastrophic - or even existential - risks. Observers anticipated measures that, at best, would fall far short of the coordinated slowdown that many experts said is needed. "The two countries host nearly all frontier labs and most of the models people download," said Alvin Wang Graylin, a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis, describing agreed guardrails between the US and China as "close to a precondition" for safe AI. "A safety regime covering one side's models covers half the problem," Wang Graylin said. Hampering the prospects for US-China cooperation, analysts said, are mutual mistrust and divergent perceptions of the primary risks involved.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to arrive in the U.S. for a high-stakes summit with Donald Trump covering AI, tariffs, rare earth minerals and fentanyl.