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Orioles reset: Breaking down the trade candidates ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline
“He looks really good, both offensively and defensively, down there at the alternate site right now,” Elias said. “He’s got a great work ethic. The attitude and the energy have been really good every day. Just like Mountcastle did, he’s seeing a lot of really tough pitching, but the performance has been there. He’s really …
WHO has 7-8 ‘top’ candidates for coronavirus vaccine: Live update | News
Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I’m Kate Mayberry in Kuala Lumpur. The World Health Organization (WHO) is appealing for more funding to accelerate vaccine development for about seven to eight “top” candidates, according to the UN agency’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. More than 80,000 …
Democratic caucuses in Nevada: Candidates face most diverse electorate
While polling is notoriously difficult in Nevada, Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden have been jockeying for the lead in the Silver State for months now, with Sanders rising after his team built deep organizing roots in the state — particularly within the Latino community — some eight months ago. Sanders projected the confidence …
How do the Democratic 2020 candidates differ on healthcare?
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is the candidate most closely associated with Medicare for all. After all, as he likes to say, he “wrote the damn bill!” Sanders’ plan would do away with private insurance companies. Instead, his proposal would cover all residents, including those without legal status, under a …
How AI Technology Discriminates Against Job Candidates With Disabilities
From Texas Standard: Impressing a potential employer is becoming harder than usual thanks to software that evaluates candidates’ facial expression, tone of voice and other physical characteristics during video interviews. The technology uses artificial intelligence algorithms that are designed to detect how expressions, language and tone of voice match models of “existing, successful employees in …
Menomonie school board candidates discuss technology | Local News
MENOMONIE — School board candidates have varied viewpoints about developing technology in Menomonie classrooms. Seven candidates participated in a school board forum this week hosted by the League of Women Voters-Chippewa Valley. Incumbents Dan Paulson, Amy Riddle-Swanson and Health Klanderman are being challenged for their seats by Tanya Husby, Josh Risler, Sandy White and Charlie …
Biden and Sanders are breaking away from the pack of candidates among Democrats nationwide, Washington Post-ABC News poll finds
Based on past campaigns, the Iowa results will have an immediate impact on the overall shape of the race and on public attitudes, nationally and in individual states that immediately follow the Feb. 3 caucuses: New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. A Post average of recent New Hampshire polls shows Sanders and Biden virtually tied, …
Bernie Sanders dances his way into 2020, as presidential candidates ring in new year
Surging in the polls and likely to post another large campaign fundraising haul in the coming days, an apparently jubilant Sen. Bernie Sanders rang in the new year with supporters in Iowa, the state that in one month will kick off the presidential primary and caucus nominating calendar. The Democratic presidential candidate capped his “Big New Year’s …
New Petition Calls On 2020 Candidates to Break Up Big Tech to Rein In Threat to Democracy
A Better World Is Possible. We Will Only Get There If We Stick Together. Our journalists work hard to inform by bringing you the news that matters – which is often about how the world is. But we think the most important part of our mission is to inspire—and so we work hard to bring …
Candidates fined more than €30,000 for breaking election poster rules
Dublin City Council issued more than €30,000 in fines to election candidates who broke the rules on putting up posters around the recent local and European elections. The council said it issued 232 fines to candidates who either put their posters up too early or failed to take them down soon enough after polling day. …