Officials say that AI tools will assist, not replace, agency staff and will operate under the state’s Responsible AI Policy.

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More than 8.3 million minimum-wage workers got a pay raise Jan. 1, marking the largest single-day wave of state minimum wage increases.

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A view of Mount Auburn Cemetery, painted by Thomas Chambers. The grounds were modeled after English gardens and European garden cemeteries like the Parisian Père Lachaise, designed in 1804. (Courtesy ...

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