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Bears say Caleb Williams is week-to-week with hamstring injury and will ‘miss some time’

Par : Reuters
  • Quarterback sustained injury in loss on Sunday

  • Tyson Bagent lined up to replace Williams

Bears quarterback Caleb Williams’s hamstring injury is going to be a “week-to-week thing,” Chicago coach Ben Johnson said Monday in a ⁠radio interview on ESPN 1000.

Johnson did not put a definitive timeline on Williams’s recovery.

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ICE agent arrested in Minneapolis on charges of assault and false reporting of crime

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Christian Castro faced assault charges after shooting Venezuelan man through the door of his apartment while children were present

A federal immigration officer wanted on assault charges for shooting and ​wounding a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis was arrested there on Wednesday, eight months after a confrontation that became a flashpoint over ‌Donald Trump’s deportation sweeps.

Christian Castro, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, was taken into custody by agents of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension in Minneapolis and was booked into the Hennepin county jail on his outstanding arrest warrant, the agency said.

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Judge blocks Trump limits on how long foreign students and journalists can stay in US

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Ruling comes a day before homeland security department’s substantial restrictions were set to take effect

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from implementing a new rule that would ⁠limit how long foreign students and ⁠journalists can remain ​in the US without applying for extensions.

F Dennis Saylor, the US district judge in Boston, ruled in favor of a coalition of unions and higher education advocacy groups a day before ⁠the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s rule was set to take effect.

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OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says

Par : Reuters

OpenAI’s decision comes after dire warnings about rapidly progressing technology and lawmakers’ calls for new rules

OpenAI will not go public in 2026, Sam Altman said in a Fortune interview published on Saturday, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence.

“I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don’t feel pressure on that,” Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, told Fortune.

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Arizona accuses L’Oréal of concealing cancer risks linked to hair relaxers

Par : Reuters

Democratic attorney general seeks damages and penalties in legal action that echoes thousands of similar suits

Arizona has sued L’Oréal that the French cosmetics company hid evidence that its hair relaxer products ⁠could cause cancer in women – echoing thousands of similar lawsuits from users and their families.

Arizona attorney general Kristin Mayes, a ⁠Democrat, filed the lawsuit late ⁠on Thursday in ​state court. The lawsuit makes Arizona the first state to sue over alleged cancer risks linked to hair relaxers. It also alleges that L’Oréal is violating ⁠state consumer protection laws by marketing the hair relaxer products that are used predominantly by African American women without warning consumers about the alleged risks of ovarian and uterine cancers.

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Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer asks judge to find her not guilty after mistrial

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Kevin Reddington says prosecution did not offer evidence that client’s killing of her children constituted murder

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer on Thursday asked the judge who oversaw the Massachusetts woman’s murder trial to declare her not guilty of murder by reason of insanity, saying prosecutors had failed to ⁠prove that, despite being mentally ill, ⁠she knew killing her ​three young children would be wrong.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington made the request to Judge William Sullivan six days after the trial ended in a deadlock, and as a fourth member of ⁠the 12-member jury went public to describe how a single juror had prevented the panel from reaching a unanimous verdict.

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Chemical companies reach $455m settlement with North Carolina over ‘forever chemicals’ claims

Par : Reuters

Chemours, DuPont and Corteva reach settlement after lawsuits accuse companies of polluting drinking water

Chemours, DuPont and Corteva on Thursday reached a $455m settlement with ⁠North Carolina and 11 local entities over Pfas contamination claims tied to ⁠Chemours’ Fayetteville Works ⁠plant and ​other historical discharges.

Lawsuits accusing major chemical companies of polluting U.S. drinking water ⁠with toxic Pfas chemicals – a group of pollutants referred to as “forever chemicals” – have led ⁠to settlements worth billions of dollars, including one struck ​by the three companies ‌in New Jersey ‌last year.

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