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CNN  —  Surveillance video released by a prosecutor Tuesday shows Irvo Otieno being pinned to the floor by multiple security officers at a Virginia state mental health facility in the moments leading up to his death earlier this month. Dinwiddie County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill’s office also released 911 calls about the incident in which a caller described Otieno as “very aggressive” and repeatedly asked for an ambulance, saying he was not breathing. Taken together, the video and emergency calls offer further details of the final moments of Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man who died March 6 as he was transferred from a Henrico County jail to Central State Hospital, according to Baskervill. Seven sheriff’s deputies and three hospital employees were indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on a charge of second-degree murder, according to court documents. In a hearing last week for the charges against the deputies, Baskervill…

CNN  —  Google is opening up access to Bard, its new AIchatbot tool that directly competes with ChatGPT. Starting Tuesday, users can join a waitlist to gain access to Bard, which promises to help users outline and write essay drafts, plan a friend’s baby shower, and get lunch ideas based on what’s in the fridge. A company representative told CNN it will be a separate, complementary experience to Google Search, and users can also visit Search to check its responses or sources. Google said in a blog post it plans to “thoughtfully” addlarge language models to search “in a deeper way” at a later time. Google said it will start rolling out the tool in the United States and United Kingdom, and plans to expand it to more countries and languages in the future. The news comes as Google, Microsoft, Facebook and other tech companies race to develop and deploy…

Boris Johnson Partygate inquiry: The key clashes to expect - BBC News Source

New York CNN  —  A Fox News producer on Monday filed a pair of explosive lawsuits against the right-wing talk channel, alleging that the network’s lawyers coerced her into providing misleading testimony in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation case against the company. The lawsuits filed by Abby Grossberg, who worked as a senior booking producer for Maria Bartiromo and most recently head of booking for Tucker Carlson, accused Fox’s legal team of having engaged in wrongful conduct as it prepared her for a pre-trial deposition in the election technology company’s case. The lawsuits from Grossberg, who has since been placed on administrative leave by Fox, were filed in Delaware Superior Court and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. “Fox News Attorneys acted as agents and at the behest of Fox News to misleadingly coach, manipulate, and coerce Ms. Grossberg to deliver shaded and/or incomplete…

Bill Gates: AI is most important tech advance in decades - BBC News Source

CNN  —  At least five people have died after a strong earthquake struck northeast Afghanistan on Tuesday, with tremors felt in cities in Pakistan and India. The 6.5-magnitude earthquake, 40 kilometers southeast of the town of Jurm, was 187.6 km deep, the United States Geological Survey reported. The quake killed at least two people in Afghanistan’s northeastern Laghman province, where at least eight more people were injured, according to Shafiullah Rahimi, spokesman for the Ministry of Disaster Management. And at least three people have died in northern Pakistan, including two children, according to Bilal Faizi, spokesperson for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial rescue services. At least another 41 people have been injured in the Kyber Pakhtunkhwa province have been injured, Faizi said. Ensuing landslides have also blocked roads in the northern Pakistani city of Abbotabad, Faizi said. Strong tremors were felt in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, according to a CNN…

The United States is flying surveillance drones further south above the Black Sea after a Russian jet collided with a US drone last week, according to two US officialsThe drone flights have remained in international airspace, but since the collision between one of the Russian jets and the MQ-9 Reaper drone last Tuesday, the US has moved its drone flights further away from airspace surrounding the Crimean peninsula and eastern portions of the Black Sea.One of the officials said the routes are part of an effort “to avoid being too provocative,” as the Biden administration remains careful to avoid an incident that could potentially escalate into a direct conflict between US and Russian forces.The official said the drone flights would continue this way “for the time being,” but added there is already “an appetite” to return to the routes closer to Russian-held territory. The officials also said Russia may try to unilaterally declare…

Putin: China plan could end war, but Ukraine and West not ready for peace - BBC News Source

Partygate: I misled MPs but not intentionally, says Boris Johnson - BBC News Source

Bayern Munich's Lea Schuller scored her 14th goal of the seasonArsenal will need to come from behind to progress to the semi-finals of the Women's Champions League after losing the first leg of their tie with Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena. Lea Schuller's powerful 39th-minute header gave Bayern the advantage on a frustrating evening for the Gunners.Jonas Eidevall's side, chasing a first semi-final spot in a decade, came close to an equaliser on several occasions.Schuller was a standout performer, also chipping just wide in the first half. Bayern's top scorer beat Laura Wienroither at the back post and thumped her header past Arsenal goalkeeper Manuela Zinsberger as the hosts took advantage of their growing pressure in the first half. Further opportunities fell to England international Georgia Stanway, who struck wide from long range for Bayern, while Arsenal's best chance came when Caitlin Foord curled an effort onto the post…