The Iowa City school district is convening an educational technology work group to evaluate current screen time use in the classrooms and provide new recommendations to the school board.

FILE - Children read on a tablet computer in their bedroom, Dec. 8, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Bill Gates is hitting the panic button on artificial intelligence.

At least 13 children, mostly newborns, have died after a fire broke out at the gynecology ward of the largest hospital in Pakistan’s capital, police told CNN.

MIT Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu’s new book, “What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity,” makes the case for political coalitions based on “working-class liberalism” to help shore up democracy.

Even still, Beijing has shown itself wary of playing a direct mediator role in the conflict, preferring a position where it protects its own economic interests – and plays up its image as a stable power that supports regional peace, in contrast to Washington’s vacillations.

The giant billboard on Tel Aviv’s main highway placed Turkey squarely at the center of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election campaign. The image showed its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, alongside the leaders of Iran, Hezbollah and the mayor of New York City as adversaries of Israel under the slogan, “They want Netanyahu to lose. Don’t let them win.”