William Brangham: Also today, Gazans mourned the lives lost in the latest round of Israeli airstrikes. Health authorities say at least 54 people were killed across the territory, including more than a dozen children. Israel says it targets only Hamas fighters and blames them for operating in residential areas. Meantime, in Israel, a second vital…
Syria’s interim president has condemned Israel for “wide-scale targeting of civilian and government facilities” after the Israeli military struck Damascus on Wednesday as it sought to intervene in clashes between the Syrian army and Druze fighters. Israel’s strikes would have pushed “matters to a large-scale escalation, except for the effective intervention of American, Arab, and…
(Bloomberg) — Nvidia Corp. boss Jensen Huang lauded DeepSeek and China’s other contributions to AI research as he met with political and tech leaders in Beijing. Most Read from Bloomberg Huang said open-source Chinese AI models were helping the rest of the world during a fireside chat with Wang Jian, a former Alibaba Group executive…
(Reuters) -The European Commission has stalled one of its investigations into Elon Musk‘s social media platform X for breaching its digital transparency rules while it seeks to conclude trade talks with the U.S., the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The Commission will miss the deadline for finalising its investigation into X, which was expected to…
MINOT, N.D. (AP) — The Richardson’s ground squirrel weighs less than a pound, is about a foot long and is native to the northern Plains. The little creature also is a ferocious tunneler, and it’s exasperating the people of Minot, North Dakota, where it’s burrowing everywhere from vacant lots to the middle of town, and…
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By David Shepardson and Dan Catchpole (Reuters) -A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The newspaper cited people familiar with U.S. officials’ early assessment of…
Jul. 16—ROCHESTER — A 53-year-old man who as a teen committed one of the most heinous crimes ever seen in Rochester will be transitioned from a state prison to a halfway house for work release later this month. David Brom, then a 16-year-old high school sophomore, took an ax in the middle of the night…
A U.S. Army veteran who was arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California marijuana farm last week said Wednesday he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle and pinned down by federal agents who arrested him. George Retes, 25, who works as a security guard at…
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