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By Eli Ridder The Canadian Press Posted May 8, 2026 4:49 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A popular potato chip maker in New Brunswick says it is continuing efforts to limit its facility’s impact on nearby residents. The Covered Bridge Potato Chip company says it started taking steps last year that included setting up a large fence, planting trees and adding sound-deadening measures.The company’s president Brook Dickinson said in a statement Friday it would complete any outstanding tasks in the plan for its Woodstock, N.B., facility in the coming weeks and that it…

Artificial intelligence is the leading reason companies cite for layoffs for the second straight month, accounting for more than one in four job cuts in April, according to a new report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.The report found 21,490 AI-related cuts last month, or 26% of the 88,387 total, marking the second straight month the technology has been the top driver of layoffs.While AI is often blamed for job losses and fewer entry-level opportunities, some skeptics question whether it is the sole cause. Some companies have also seen stock gains after pivoting to AI, such as sneaker maker Allbirds, whose…

The US military’s latest strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean has killed two men while leaving one survivor.Video posted on Friday by US Southern Command shows a black, boat-shaped image before an explosion, followed by a column of fire rising from the ocean.Southern Command said it “immediately notified the US Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor”.The White House announced on Wednesday that President Donald Trump has signed off on a new US counterterrorism strategy that sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration’s highest priority.The Trump…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Israeli attacks killed at least 31 people in southern Lebanon on Friday, including a rescue worker, Lebanon’s official National News Agency said.Published On 9 May 20269 May 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Surveillance footage shared by Cornell University shows the moment President Michael Kotlikoff allegedly backed into a group of individuals who had surrounded his vehicle in a campus parking lot on April 30.  (Cornell University) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! IVY LEAGUE CLASH: Ivy League student says president’s confrontation was unlike anything seen on campus’LOSES ALL MEANING:’ College ‘makes a mockery’ of all-women status by admitting transgender students, education watchdog saysRADICAL RHETORIC: University director booted after calling Zionism ‘cancerous’ in explosive remarks California girls’ track and field athletes protest trans inclusion in girls’ sports at a postseason meet…

ICE nabs known MS-13 member in Florida On April 14, ICE conducted an operation resulting in the arrest of Luis Merary Peralta-Sevilla, a criminal migrant and MS-13 gang member from Honduras. (ICE) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! State and federal immigration officers arrested a criminal illegal alien and MS-13 gang member in a captured-on-camera takedown.Luis Merary Peralta-Sevilla, a criminal illegal alien and MS-13 gang member from Honduras, was arrested in an operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Highway Patrol on April 14.In the video shared exclusively with Fox…

The owner of a Saskatoon greenhouse says she and her team are preparing for a rush of customers ahead of the next two weekends, typically the busiest times of the year for local green thumbs. Nikki van Duyvendyk, owner of Dutch Growers, says it is “all hands on deck” at her store as growers flock to her shop at the sight of warmer weather at the start of the planting season.“Mother’s Day weekend is really the kickoff of the whole season. It’s when you typically will start putting in your garden, your trees, and shrubs and cleaning up your yards,”…

ChatGPT AI draws on large-scale datasets and market patterns to generate forward-looking crypto analysis, and when prompted with a well-defined framework, the AI predicts head-turning 2026 price outlooks for XRP.The core thesis is simple but powerful. XRP could benefit from something most crypto assets still lack. Actual integration into real payment and settlement systems. Ripple keeps expanding cross-border partnerships. ETF speculation around XRP is growing. And regulatory clarity in the US is no longer the same brick wall it was a few years ago, AKA the Clarity Act.If those pieces keep aligning, ChatGPT argues XRP pushes into the $5 to…

Michael Burry attends “The Big Short” New York screening Ziegfeld Theater on Nov. 23, 2015 in New York City. Astrid Stawiarz | Getty ImagesMichael Burry of “Big Short” fame is warning that the stock market’s fixation on artificial intelligence is beginning to resemble the final stages of the dot-com bubble.”Absolutely non-stop AI. Nobody is talking about anything else all day,” Burry wrote Friday in a Substack post after listening to financial television and radio coverage during a long drive.The investor, best known for predicting the U.S. housing crash, said stocks are no longer reacting meaningfully to economic data such as…

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