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Arkansas residents on edge after escape of ex-police chief ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ | Arkansas newsthirst.

As law officers search Arkansas’ rugged Ozark mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison this weekend, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin, the former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape…

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AI tool trial could save equivalent of 1.5m meals in food waste | Food waste newsthirst.

Millions of meals worth of wasted food could be redistributed thanks to an artificial intelligence tool being trialled by companies across the UK, including Nestlé. The AI tool, which has already generated an 87% reduction in edible food waste at one of the Swiss conglomerate’s factories over its first two-week trial period, is intended to…

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Tesla sales slump across Europe amid backlash against Musk | Tesla newsthirst.

Sales of new Tesla electric cars are sliding across Europe, data suggests, amid a political backlash against its billionaire chief executive, Elon Musk. The figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) showed registrations for new Teslas halved in April compared to the same month a year earlier, despite a broader rise in battery electric…

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Law preventing parents from claiming childcare fees as a tax deduction to be challenged | Childcare Australia newsthirst.

A 50-year-old legal precedent blocking parents from claiming childcare fees as a tax deduction will be challenged in a major test high court case. Since 1971, deductions for childcare fees have been denied by the Australian Taxation Office following the case of Ann Margaret Lodge, a single mother and law clerk who worked mostly from…

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Pornhub and three other adult websites face EU child safety investigation | Internet safety newsthirst.

The EU executive has launched an investigation into four pornographic websites over alleged failure to prevent children from seeing adult content. After analysis of company policies, the European Commission accused Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos of failing to have effective age verification measures to stop minors accessing their content. The investigation was opened under the…

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Four people still ‘very ill’ in hospital after Liverpool parade collision, says mayor | UK news newsthirst.

Four people are still “very, very ill in hospital” after a car ploughed into fans celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League victory, the city’s metro mayor has said. A 53-year-old British man from the Liverpool area, believed to be the driver of the vehicle, was arrested after the “horrific” incident in Water Street in the heart of…

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