Google locked out artificial intelligence researcher Margaret Mitchell from its corporate systems, making her the second outspoken critic at the company to be sidelined. Mitchell was a vocal supporter of her colleague Timnit Gebru, who departed under acrimonious circumstances last month.

President Joe Biden plans to begin immediately unwinding his predecessor’s policies on immigration, climate and other issues on Wednesday with at least 15 executive actions.

President Joe Biden made it a point to highlight his fight against inequities when he announced a flurry of executive orders that reversecourse on Trump administration policies. That said, details were scarce, with more likely to come over the next few weeks.

A trio of senators being sworn in Wednesday bring a little more diversity to a chamber that’s long been dominated by older white men.

More than a quarter of the Trump-era EPA rules and decisions that the Biden administration will review deal with chemicals, signaling the agency’s oversight of potentially dangerous substances will be a top priority.

The Allegheny County Port Authority’s ban on its employees wearing Covid-19 facemasks with political messages, including support for the Black Lives Matter movement, is likely unconstitutional and will be put on hold, a federal court in Pennsylvania said.