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Carmaker Tesla has asked a federal court in Florida to throw out a verdict from a jury that found the company partly liable in a 2019 crash that killed a pedestrian and severely injured another.Lawyers for the victims had argued that Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance software contributed to the crash, failing to alert the driver of a Model S and activate the brakes.Tesla blamed the driver for the crash, and on Friday asked the court to overturn the verdict, order a new trial, or reduce the punitive damages award.The firm was ordered to pay $243m (£189m) in damages amid claims…

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Since 2022, Republican lawmakers in Congress and state attorneys general have sent letters to major banks, pension funds, asset managers, accounting firms, companies, nonprofits, and business alliances, putting them on notice for potential antitrust violations and seeking information as part of the Republican pushback against “environmental, social and governance” efforts such as corporate climate commitments. “This caused a lot of turmoil and stress obviously across the whole ecosystem,” said Denise Hearn, a senior fellow…

Getty ImagesRamsay thanked his medical team for their ‘fast reactive’ effortsTV chef Gordon Ramsay has said he has undergone treatment to remove skin cancer.The 58-year-old thanked “incredible” healthcare workers for removing the basal cell carcinoma – a type of non-melanoma skin cancer.In a post on Instagram on Saturday, Ramsay wrote he was “grateful and so appreciative” to his medical team for their “fast reactive work”.”Please don’t forget your sunscreen this weekend,” he wrote, adding: “I promise you it’s not a face lift! I’d need a refund.”The post showed the side of his face following the treatment, with a plaster underneath…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll find not a simple cap of frozen water, but an extraordinarily complex interplay between the ocean, sea ice, and ice sheets and shelves.That relationship is in serious peril. A new paper in the journal Nature catalogs how several “abrupt changes,” like the precipitous loss of sea ice over the last decade, are unfolding in…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in Lviv, Ukrainian authorities have said.Police received reports of the shooting in the Frankivsk district of Lviv, western Ukraine, at around midday local time on Saturday. Unconfirmed reports suggest Parubiy was shot multiple times by a gunman on an e-bike dressed as a courier. Parubiy, 54, rose to prominence as part of Ukraine’s Maidan movement, which advocated for closer ties with the European Union (EU) and brought down pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described it as a “terrible murder” and sent his condolences.Ukraine’s national…

Hernán was at the Latin American restaurant that he owns with his brother in the Northwest quadrant of Washington DC last week when his staff started getting phone calls and messages about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) checkpoints in the neighborhood. The employees, scared that they might be targeted and racially profiled, asked if they could go home.Within hours, Hernán had to close their doors, and the restaurant hasn’t been open since.“Literally after President Trump brought the national guard on DC, everything stopped,” said Hernán, who requested his last name not be used due to fears of Ice retaliation. “Everything…

Adam Raine was just 16 when he started using ChatGPT for help with his homework. While his initial prompts to the AI chatbot were about subjects like geometry and chemistry – questions like: “What does it mean in geometry if it says Ry=1” – in just a matter of months he began asking about more personal topics.“Why is it that I have no happiness, I feel loneliness, perpetual boredom anxiety and loss yet I don’t feel depression, I feel no emotion regarding sadness,” he asked ChatGPT in the fall of 2024.Instead of urging Raine to seek mental health help, ChatGPT…

Vulnerable people turning to AI chatbots instead of professional therapists for mental health support could be “sliding into a dangerous abyss”, psychotherapists have warned.Psychotherapists and psychiatristssaid they were increasingly seeing negative impacts of AI chatbots being used for mental health, such as fostering emotional dependence, exacerbating anxiety symptoms, self-diagnosis, or amplifying delusional thought patterns, dark thoughts and suicide ideation.Dr Lisa Morrison Coulthard, the director of professional standards, policy and research at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, said two-thirds of its members expressed concerns about AI therapy in a recent survey.Coulthard said: “Without proper understanding and oversight of AI…

A ghostly story that’s not exactly a ghost story, Rose of Nevada is a typically imaginative film from the director Mark Jenkin. But here he has recognizable actors and a much more pronounced narrative than in his last feature, the thoroughly enigmatic Enys Men (2022). That’s not to say the plot is straightforward. It loops back on itself more than once, and this is essentially a film of existential questions wrapped in elegant images and a haunted atmosphere. It is also an eerie time-travel film that benefits greatly from its compelling, down-to-earth performance from George MacKay (1917 and The Beast).…