NASA calls off mission to rescue the falling Swift observatory
The Swift observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this year, because NASA has aborted its rescue mission.
Sennheiser's Momentum True Wireless 5 earbuds come with user-replaceable batteries
Sennheiser's latest earbuds are the rare ones that have user-replaceable batteries.
How Teen ‘After-Prom’ Kings in LA Monetized the High School Rager
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Californians are more concerned about Trump interference in midterm than fraud, poll finds
Californians are more concerned about the Trump administration interfering in the state's midterm elections than they are about voter fraud, noncitizens voting illegally or foreign interference, according to a new poll.
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Key takeaways from investigation into Edison's role in the deadly Eaton fire
New evidence from government investigators and court filings raise questions about Southern California Edison's claim that it operated its electrical system safely before last year's deadly Eaton fire.
‘Another Fundraise’: OpenAI’s CFO Reportedly Downplays Importance of IPO to Staff
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Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
China now has its own AI circular financing scheme
Unitree Robotics rose 460 percent in its Shanghai IPO, hitting a valuation of around $50 billion. But an FT report shows much of the demand for its robots comes from state-backed training centers that
El-Sayed's agenda puts ‘permanently’ changed America on the line in Michigan Senate race, GOP firebrand warns
Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon is sounding the alarm on her belief that Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s opposition to Sharia law bans, association with far-left streamer Hasan Piker and progressive policies will "permanently" change America."This is not, if this person gets in, how much damage can they do in six years?" Dixon told Fox News Digital."This is someone who fundamentally disagrees with the Constitution and the founding of this country and has come o...
MORNING GLORY: Alaska’s 'real' Senator Dan Sullivan stood up over challenger
Alaska U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan moved on to the general election following Tuesday’s primary, handily outpolling though not eliminating "dirty trick" Dan Sullivan. The challenger, a retired federal employee and teacher (of the sort who attends "No Kings" rallies) is suspected by most observers of being a "confusion candidate" meant to siphon votes in Alaska’s open primary, finished third. Because state rules send the top four vote-getters to the general election, both candidates will appear on ...
This Electric Shock Glove Was Invented for Police in the 1930s to ‘Incite Fear’
Police complained that people often fight back when they're being beaten with clubs.
One monthly bill Americans can’t avoid is quietly surging thanks to emerging industry: data
Americans could soon feel the artificial intelligence boom in an unavoidable place their monthly electric bills.Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas finds that the rapid growth of AI data centers could make electricity more expensive for households in the coming years.And researchers estimate existing data centers that have popped up all over the country in recent years have already pushed average wholesale electricity prices 2% to 6% higher nationwide, with even larger surges in are...
When AI tests cause damage, we need stronger safeguards and real accountability
When a cybersecurity experiment goes wrong, the public response is predictable: Find out who is responsible, punish them, compensate the victims and make sure it never happens again.That instinct is understandable. But imagine if automakers tested every vehicle at only 20 miles per hour because they feared a crash-test car might escape the warehouse. The public might be protected from a runaway test vehicle, but manufacturers would learn little about how cars perform under dangerous real-world c...
Want to stop socialism? A modern civic education needs a lot more than you'd think
The recent election victories of socialist and progressive candidates in New York, Michigan and Minnesota, along with Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong’s narrow loss in Wisconsin, highlight the changing political and economic attitudes of a growing segment of Americans. Perhaps most surprising is the constituency driving this movement: younger, college-educated voters.Recent analysis shows support for Democratic Socialist candidates particularly strong among highly educated younger voters. By ...
Salmonella Is Everywhere
From granola to guacamole, a wide variety of foods have been recalled lately over salmonella risks. Experts say common-sense precautions go a long way.
The family group chat is a goldmine for scammers
The last message in your family group chat may have seemed completely harmless. It could have been a beach photo, a flight arrival time, a dentist appointment or an update about Dad's cardiologist.These are the everyday details that keep families connected. They can also give scammers the information they need to impersonate someone you love.A criminal may already know your relatives' names, phone numbers and addresses before making contact. Your family group chat can supply the current details ...
Warp Launches Factories to Let Engineering Teams Build Their Own Cloud Software Factories
▶️ Warp has introduced Factories, infrastructure for running your own cloud software factory with fleets of agents.▶️ Agents handle triage, specs, implementation, and review; humans step in only when needed.▶️ Works with any model or harness, and all runs are tracked via built-in metrics.▶️ Closed beta only; apply for early access.How software gets built at an organization has evolved a lot over the years. Long before AI agents entered the scene, engineering teams were already turning developmen...
Auditing Preference Biases and Fine-Tuning Language Models with Direct Preference Optimization on Anthropic HH-RLHF Using TRL and LoRA
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Terence Tao says AI could trigger math's biggest crisis since Gödel
In a new essay, Terence Tao warns that AI could push mathematics into a crisis on par with the foundational upheaval around 1900. What's being tested this time isn't mathematical truth but the values
Samsung is holding another Galaxy Event on August 27
Samsung says it will be launching a new addition to its S26 lineup next week.
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By 2050, The World's Most-Populous Cities Will All Be In Africa Or Asia
By 2050, The World's Most-Populous Cities Will All Be In Africa Or Asia Across 150 years, familiar urban giants rise, fall, and give way to a new generation of megacities. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, ranks the 15 most populous cities worldwide from 1950 to 2100 using population estimates from the European Commission’s JRC via Our World in Data. City boundaries were consistently defined based on satellite imagery and population data. The Transatlant...
OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without storing customer data
OpenAI plans to offer its most advanced AI models to corporate customers without storing their data, while still detecting misuse. The article OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without s
Proposed changes to endangered species law would 'stab it to death,' says scientist
The former chairs of a panel that advises the federal government on endangered wildlife have published an open letter highlighting concerns over proposed changes to the Species At Risk Act, which they say could lead to the "wilful extinction" of endangered species in Canada.
Invasive plants are available across Canada. Is federal regulation possible?
Several Canadian cities are pursuing bylaws to restrict the sale of invasive plants by garden centres and nurseries. Advocates with the Canadian Coalition for Invasive Plant Regulation say a federal horticulture body and invasive plant database would help a biodiversity crisis in the making.
CBP officers seize nearly 850 pounds of khat packed into 12 suitcases after flight from London
Two travelers arriving from London allegedly packed nearly 850 pounds of khat into 12 suitcases before the massive haul was uncovered by customs officers at a Maryland airport.U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the two U.S. citizens from New York arrived at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Aug. 13 and were referred for secondary inspection.During a subsequent baggage examination, officers discovered what appeared to be a large quantity of tea leaves, whi...
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The West African Pipeline Is Inherently Geopolitical
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Lily Hooper search: Investigation after NSW premier wrongly declared she was alive
The 18-year-old had been missing for eight days when a body was found.
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The Influencers’ Thanksgiving
In the middle of August, Macy’s hosted a dinner for social media stars in advance of the 100th Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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Trans Migrants in ICE Detention Are Losing Their Rights and Medical Care
U.S. officials have sometimes eliminated access to gender-related treatment and dissolved measures meant to shield transgender detainees from harassment.
Rescue Mission Is Called Off For NASA's Aging Swift Space Telescope
NASA has called off a $30 million mission to rescue its aging Swift space telescope after Katalyst Space's Link spacecraft developed persistent control and positioning problems. The Associated Press reports: Katalyst said Link will not attempt to capture Swift and boost it to a higher orbit because of problems with controlling the spacecraft. NASA said this means the telescope will plunge through the atmosphere after more than 20 years of tracking some of the biggest explosions in the universe l...
London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, the UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, the UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others Callosum, a startup that mak
London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others Callosum, a startup that makes s
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Europe Scrambles For Innovation And Defense As US Decouples From "Global Order"
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A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers
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Body of missing teen Lily Hooper found after 8-day search in Sydney bushland
Lily Hooper was found dead today after being missing in bush near Sydney for eight days.
Alina Habba shuts down speculation she could replace Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary
One of the betting favorites to replace Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary declared Wednesday that she is not in the running for the job.The 28-year-old White House press secretary, fresh off maternity leave, announced earlier this month that she would end her tenure at the podium at the end of August to spend more time with her two young children.As speculation continued to swirl over whom President Donald Trump would tap to succeed Leavitt, bettors on prediction market platform Ka...
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British Liberals Cheer Migrant Camps In Villages... As Long As It's Not Their Villages
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Family of 6yo girl killed in badminton accident sue racquet maker
The lawsuit follows the girl's death after a badminton racquet shaft pierced her skull.
China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns
William Langley / Financial Times: China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns Co
Sources: China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia: Sources: China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing TAIPEI China is restrictin
[AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law
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US President Trump vows ‘tremendous’ economic costs on Iran partners
The US President has announced a new campaign to economically isolate Iran.
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Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, small plane collide in midair, killing 1 and injuring 2 state troopers
A midair collision on Wednesday night involving a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter and a small airplane killed the pilot of the plane and injured two state troopers, according to officials.A Bell 407 helicopter and a Cessna 150 airplane collided near Carlisle Airport at around 7:50 p.m. in central Pennsylvania, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.Pennsylvania State Police Acting Commissioner Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens said the police helicopter was conducting routin...
Erika Kirk urges conservative students not to back down in first school year since Charlie's assassination
Erika Kirk is urging conservative students not to back down as they return to college campuses for the first school year since her husband Charlie Kirk was assassinated, challenging them to carry forward the movement he founded in 2012.Kirk, who took over leadership of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) following the fatal shooting of her 31-year-old husband at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025, posted a lengthy message on Instagram Wednesday evening directed primarily at students beginning the ne...
Lindsay Clancy prosecutors come across as 'tone deaf,' 'uncaring' and 'snarky,' defense attorney says
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Prosecutors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are coming across as "tone deaf" to how jurors likely feel about the case, a criminal defense attorney says.Lindsay Clancy, 36, faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children Cora, Dawson and Callan, all under the age of 6 who were found strangled at the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts ho...
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Buenos Aires: Gandalf protesters target Peter Thiel over Vista Energy investment
The demonstration took place in one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires.
A Configurable Privacy-Preserving MRI Processing Workflow Using Deep Learning-Based Brain Extraction and Adaptive Anatomical Preservation
arXiv:2608.18316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely used in neuroimaging research and clinical practice, but structural MRI volumes may retain facial
XRF-to-Optical Field-of-View Localization with Vision Language Models
arXiv:2608.18309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Registering images acquired with different microscopy modalities is essential for relating complementary measurements of the same specimen. In correlati
Bound-Aware Per-Organ Recall Risk Control for Multi-Organ CT Segmentation under Clinical Domain Shift
arXiv:2608.18193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distribution-free risk control adds organ-specific recall guarantees to frozen segmentation. We calibrate per-organ thresholds for an AMOS-trained nnU-N
NE-BERT: A Multilingual Language Model for Nine Northeast Indian Languages
arXiv:2608.18094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large pretrained language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse languages, yet critically underrepresented low-resource langua
Self- and Other-Labels Induce Bidirectional Bias in LLM Judges
arXiv:2608.18091v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM-as-a-judge systems become increasingly widespread, self-preference in LLMs -- the tendency to favor one's own outputs -- raises growing concerns
Latent Space Refusal Anchoring for Low-Resource African Languages: Mechanistic Safety Recovery Without Retraining
arXiv:2608.18089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction-tuned models often refuse harmful requests in English but comply with the same requests in Yoruba, Igbo, Igala, and Hausa. This suggests tha
Persona-Guided LLM Agents for Task-Oriented Dialogue
arXiv:2608.18085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can express diverse personality traits in open-ended text generation. However, it remains unclear
Entity tracking emerges in sub-billion parameter language models and exceeds human performance in naturalistic narratives
arXiv:2608.18083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding language requires tracking entities across discourse - i.e., knowing where things are and how they change, even when not explicitly stated
Emergence of Agentic AI: A Review on Evolution, Background, Working Principles, Applications, Adoption Factors, and Future Research Directions
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FinSkillBench: Evaluating AI Agents and Domain Skills for Investment Management
arXiv:2608.18099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Investment management is a high-stakes domain in which agentic AI systems must do more than generate plausible text. They must retrieve point-in-time da
Large Language Models in Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Applications, Innovations, and Ethical Challenges
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Position: Collusion Risks Among AI Reasoning Agents Justify Certification Requirements for Making Market Decisions
arXiv:2608.18078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that AI agents with chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities are predisposed to exhibit collusive behavior and should be requi
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Bass, Raman spar over policing, homelessness in first mayoral debate since June primary
The showdown in Sherman Oaks was the first face-to-face debate since Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman emerged as the top vote-getters in the June 2 mayoral primary.
Missouri judge hands Trump, GOP major redistricting win ahead of midterm elections
A Missouri judge handed President Donald Trump and Republicans a major redistricting victory Wednesday, ruling that the state's referendum process cannot be used to challenge congressional maps drawn by the Legislature and allowing a new GOP-friendly map to remain in place for November's midterm elections.Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green ruled Wednesday that Missouri's constitutional referendum provisions "do not apply to congressional redistricting enacted by the General Assembly," siding...
The EU appears to be shifting from outsized regulatory fines against Big Tech to technical DMA orders that force compliance, such as sharing search data
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Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Leads Testimony In Landmark Trial Against Meta
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Meta was infused with a culture in which employees obsessed over user numbers and consistently pushed safety to the side, according to Arturo Bejar, a former employee turned whistleblower, who testified today in the landmark child safety trial against the social media company. Only one man had the ability to change that, Bejar said: CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But he didn't. "At the end of the day, it was the company culture that Mark had created that made ...
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The Specter Of 'Economic Death' Looms Over All Of Us In Late-Stage Surveillance Capitalism
The Specter Of 'Economic Death' Looms Over All Of Us In Late-Stage Surveillance Capitalism Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, I used to think the whole “debanking” panic was overblown. I really did. I’d roll my eyes at the Twitter threads and the think-pieces about how we’re all living in some dystopian soft-censorship nightmare. I’m a reasonable person, you know? I vote, I pay my taxes, I have a 401k that I check maybe twice a year when I’m feeling particularly masochistic. I...
Illegal immigrant accused of operating overcrowded boat that capsized near Liberty Island arrested by ICE
The man accused of operating an overcrowded, unlicensed boat tour that capsized near Liberty Island, killing a mother and her infant daughter earlier this month, was living in the U.S. illegally and is now in ICE custody, according to the Department of Homeland Security.Manuel Hernandez, 46, an El Salvador national, was taken into immigration custody after a U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service investigation confirmed he was unlawfully present in the country, according to DHS.Hernandez was ini...
President Trump says CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring crypto platform Hyperliquid onshore, lifting shares of HYPE-holder Hyperliquid Strategies ~30% (Bloomberg)
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Hyperliquid Strategies shares jumped 31% after Trump said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring crypto platform Hyperliquid onshore in a compliant manner (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Hyperliquid Strategies shares jumped 31% after Trump said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring crypto platform Hyperliquid onshore in a compliant manner President Donald Trump sai
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Governments Don't Like It When We Gather Without Their Permission
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Rory McIlroy gets snarky on the return of LIV Golf players to PGA Tour: 'have they brought value?'
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Arrest Warrants Issued For 6 DC Cops Accused In $440K Overtime Fraud
Arrest Warrants Issued For 6 DC Cops Accused In $440K Overtime Fraud A D.C. Superior Court judge signed arrest warrants on August 18, 2026, for six current and former members of the Metropolitan Police Department's Fifth District, accusing them of fraudulently claiming overtime and regular-duty hours they did not work in 2024. The warrants target Peter Sheldon, Frantz Fulcher, Thomas Krmenec, Bernadette Richardson, Dorrie Smith Cleere, and Johnnie Dyer. The six face charges of fi...
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Body of missing teen Lily Hooper found after eight-day search in Sydney bushland
Lily Hooper had been missing in bush near Sydney for eight days.
Idaho county probation officers compile ‘foreign-born list’ to hand over to ICE as critics raise alarms
A southwestern Idaho county's probation officers have been compiling a list of foreign-born people on probation for federal immigration authorities, even though county officers did not independently verify whether everyone identified was in the U.S. illegally.In Canyon County, Idaho, more than 140 emails between county probation officers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from May to July 2026 show how the probation department has coordinated with ICE’s Boise office, including by com...
GOP urges top AI firms to do something about the toxic image of data centers
As artificial intelligence data centers continue to proliferate across Ohio and public opposition grows, Axios reported today that the GOP’s Senate campaign arm has privately warned AI companies that
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S.Korea Reaffirms Push For Military Independence After Trump Announced Scaled-Back Drills
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Chinese national in blue state charged with illegally voting in federal election under another man's name: DOJ
A Chinese national living in Massachusetts was arrested Wednesday after federal prosecutors said he impersonated another Chinese national to register and vote in the 2024 presidential election then reported the alleged victim to immigration authorities for illegally voting.Yupeng Sun, 33, of Andover, was charged with one count of fraudulent voter registration and one count of fraudulent voting, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.The criminal complaint alleg...
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To Absorb $1 Trillion of New Treasuries in 3 Months, as the Debt Ballooned to $40 Trillion, Investors Demanded Higher Yields. Bessent Blows Fuse
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AJ Brown says there's been silence between him and ex-teammate Jalen Hurts since his move to New England
A.J. Brown experienced a reunion of sorts this week when his new team, the New England Patriots, hosted his former team, the Philadelphia Eagles, for joint practices during training camp.After an uneven 2025 season for both Brown and the Eagles' offense, Philadelphia traded him to the Patriots for a pair of future draft picks amid signs that his once-close friendship and productive on-field partnership with quarterback Jalen Hurts had deteriorated.While more than two months have passed since Bro...
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Amazon 'Prime Air' To Expand Drone Delivery To Nearly 500 US Cities This Year
Amazon 'Prime Air' To Expand Drone Delivery To Nearly 500 US Cities This Year Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service, first teased by Jeff Bezos in a 2013 60 Minutes interview as a way to get packages under 5lbs to customers in 30 minutes or less, represents the broader push toward autonomous aerial last-mile logistics that could bypass traffic and cut delivery times dramatically. After years of regulatory hurdles with the FAA, technical iterations, and limited trials, the serv...
RNC warns Democrats face 'political suicide' after DSA praises Fidel Castro, demands Rubio's prosecution
The Republican National Committee warned Wednesday that the Democratic Socialists of America's online tribute to Fidel Castro would damage Democrats in November after the group praised the late Cuban dictator and demanded U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's prosecution over the Trump administration's pressure campaign in Cuba."Democrats are openly embracing the same policies that left the people of Venezuela, Cuba and China with empty shelves, no electricity and their freedoms stripped away," ...
Parents seek six figures from surrogate who refused abortion after baby’s heart diagnosis: report
The biological parents of a baby born after their surrogate refused their request for an abortion are now seeking more than $100,000 from the woman who carried their child, alleging she breached their surrogacy agreement.TMZ reported Wednesday that it obtained the countersuit filed by Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed against surrogate McKenna West, weeks before she gave birth in Texas Aug. 12.The couple is seeking more than $100,000 for alleged breach of their surrogacy agreement, along with unspe...
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"Doom Loop" Engaged: US Debt Hits $40 Trillion As Treasury Enters The Endgame
"Doom Loop" Engaged: US Debt Hits $40 Trillion As Treasury Enters The Endgame It took the US 200 years to reach its first $1 trillion in debt. It took 95 days to add its last. After several weeks of build up, today the Treasury announced that total public debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, after jumping by over $60 billion in one day, and has now surged by $1 trillion in just over three months, and by a third of the total in less than five years, as US lawmakers contin...
Iran taps financial lifeline, Russian arms as Trump escalates 'crushing' economic warfare
Tehran is deepening its financial and military ties with Beijing and Moscow, forging a critical lifeline as it seeks to circumvent U.S. sanctions and weather Washington’s renewed "maximum pressure" campaign, regional security analysts warned Wednesday.As the U.S. continues to ramp up Operation Economic Fury, Iran, they say, has turned to non-Western blocs and alliances to unite further with Russia and China while positioning itself as a "linchpin" in a network that directly challenges American i...
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"Economic D-Day": Trump Announces "Most Crushing Economic Operation Ever" Against Iran
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Sanja Fidler's world model startup Veeda AI raises $90M in seed funding
Veeda AI, a startup led by a team of former Nvidia Corp. researcher and renowned computer scientist Sanja Fidler, has taken its bow on the main stage after raising $90 million in a seed funding round
Trump says he'll launch 'most crushing economic operation ever' on Iran
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned of economic consequences against any country that supported Tehran or provided "any type of lifeline to Iran."
Hayden Panettiere death: DEA reportedly joins probe into what happened to late star
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has reportedly joined the investigation into actress Hayden Panettiere's death.TMZ is reporting that the DEA has agents assisting parallel death investigations that are already underway.Panettiere died Sunday at the age of 36. She was found unresponsive and in cardiac arrest at an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina. Resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful and the "Nashville" and "Remember the Titans" actress was pronounced dead.Preliminary autopsy r...
We Think We Found ‘Human Printer’ Natalie Harp’s Printer Setup. It’s Bulky
A fairly bulky printer, and a totally unnecessary backup battery. Why?
Harvard agrees to $53M settlement with families after donated body parts were stolen, sold on black market
Harvard University has agreed to a proposed $53 million settlement with families who accused the school of negligently handling its anatomical gift program after a former morgue manager stole and sold body parts from remains donated for medical research and education.Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Debra A. Squires-Lee on Tuesday granted preliminary approval to the class action settlement, which would establish two funds totaling $53 million to resolve claims against the university.A final ap...
German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay raised $276M and had a $1.35B valuation in 2021
Meir Orbach / CTech: German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay raised $276M and had a $1.35B valuation in 2021 The German insurance giant i
German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021
Meir Orbach / CTech: German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021 The German insurance
Ex-New York Magazine writer announces he will 'take some time away' after plagiarism scandal
Former New York Magazine writer and The Metropolitan Review editor-in-chief Ross Barkan apologized once again after several plagiarism allegations against him and revealed Wednesday he plans to "self-reflect" with some time away."Let me first begin by saying I'm sorry. I truly am sorry for the mistakes I made," Barkan wrote on X. "None of them, genuinely, were willful or intentional. In the course of writing many columns a week, I did not use citations as aggressively as I should have and did no...
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Trump Indicates Plans To Meet North Korea's Kim Jong-Un Later This Year
Trump Indicates Plans To Meet North Korea's Kim Jong-Un Later This Year President Trump on Wednesday issued some surprisingly positive statements regarding North Korea and its expanded nuclear modernization ambitions, while fielding questions from reporters. The comments come days after the Commander-in-Chief ordered scaled back US-South Korean joint military drills, which are happening this week and are now expected to end early. Getty Images Trump has indicated he plans to meet ...
What If This Was How You Found Out The Singularity Has Begun?
The authority on the matter: a financial services platform.
What If This Was How You Found Out The Singularity Has Begun
The authority on the matter: a financial services platform.
UK Home Office guide tells asylum seekers not to rape, harass women or make kissing noises
A guide published by Britain's Home Office reminds asylum seekers not to rape women or sexually harass people, while noting that women are allowed to "earn their own money" and "make their own decisions about their lives."The nine-page document is among the resources provided to asylum seekers seeking refuge, though it appears to target mostly men.The guidance is meant to foster an understanding of expected behaviors for those arriving from other countries. Aside from earning a living, women are...
Heather Graham flaunts fit physique in bikinis on romantic Italian escape
Heather Graham soaked up the sun in style while enjoying a romantic Italian vacation with boyfriend Michele Civetta.The 56-year-old actress stunned in a series of bikini photos she shared on Instagram as she gave her fans a glimpse into her picturesque getaway in the famed village of Positano on Southern Italy's Amalfi Coast."I love Positano and pasta Nerano! 🇮🇹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️And @mcivetta 💕," Graham wrote in the caption of her post on Sunday, tagging Civetta and adding the hashtags #positano, #italy...
