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Apple loses lead Apple Silicon designer Jeff Wilcox to Intel

The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino in October 2019.Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images Jeff Wilcox, Apple Silicon Leader and T2 security processor developer, left Apple to join Intel and oversee the architecture of all

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‘So huge and quick’: World passes 300 million COVID cases as Omicron breaks records

Dozens of countries record all-time high infection numbers, just six weeks after new variant appeared; Austria’s leader tests positive; US Supreme Court weighs vaccine mandates

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The Philippines Is Raising the Age of Consent. That May Not Be Enough to Protect Its Children

In September 2020, the Supreme Court of the Philippines acquitted a man of child sexual abuse charges after he impregnated a 12-year-old girl. The incident took place in 2012, when the man was 27. He was sentenced to more than

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‘Dignity and grace’: Obama leads tributes to actor Sidney Poitier

Former president says groundbreaking performer ‘opened doors for a generation of actors’; Biden lauds his ‘singular warmth, depth and stature’

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Pacific Northwest storm causes flooding and landslides and shuts roads

Parts of Washington state’s two major highways, Interstate 90 and Interstate 5, were closed, and flooding swamped roads and closed schools in parts of Oregon. At least one person was missing. (Image credit: Pete Caster/The News Tribune via AP)

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Conservative Majority on Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Biden’s Vaccine Plan

The court seemed more likely to sustain a separate requirement that health care workers at facilities that receive federal money be vaccinated.

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National Library leader paid off employee to hush sexual harassment claims: report

David Blumberg gave worker NIS 240,000 to sign agreement barring her from revealing that he harassed her, Channel 13 reports

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The rehabilitation of Trump national security officials says a lot about Washington

Matt Pottinger, special assistant to then-President Donald Trump and National Security Council senior director for East Asia, in Beijing, China, in 2017. | Mark Schiefelbein/Getty Images How to make Beltway friends and influence policy. Matt Pottinger served four years on

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Sidney Poitier: Legendary actor who made Oscars history dies aged 94

Sir Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win a best actor Oscar for his performance in Lilies Of The Field, has died aged 94.

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From a holiday birth to changing Hollywood: Who was Sidney Poitier?

On 20 February 1927, a couple from the Bahamas welcomed a baby boy – prematurely – while on holiday in Miami, Florida.

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