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Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Trump rode the paranoid style of MAGA politics to power. Has he discovered that he can't control it? For this week's Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. In January, three days after President Donald Trump began his second term, he issued an executive order to declassify files related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert, and Martin Luther King, Jr. It ...
Source: newyorker.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled House voted 216-213 to give final passage to a bill cutting $9 billion in spending that had already been approved, sending it to President Donald Trump to become law. The cuts aimed at public media and foreign aid passed in another middle-of-the-night vote on Capitol Hill, one day after the Senate voted 51-48 after 2 a.m. Thursday to approve the measure. Two Republicans ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said Coca-Cola agreed to start sweetening its products with cane sugar, rather than high-fructose corn syrup. Whether that will indeed happen remains to be seen; a Coca-Cola spokesperson did not confirm the president's assertion. Still, Trump said on Truth Social , "You'll see. It's just better!" Is it, though? When it comes to potential health impacts, the answer is no, said ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
"The Late Show" will end in 2026, days after the comedian blasted Paramount's $16 million settlement with Trump as "a big fat bribe." Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show", long a staple of late night US television, will end in 2026, the CBS network said Thursday, days after the comedian blasted parent company Paramount's $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump as "a big fat bribe." CBS said in a statement ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump is sending mixed messages about whether he will fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Trump said on July 16 he is "not planning on doing anything" when asked if he would fire Powell. However, he also said he doesn't "rule out anything" and mentioned a renovation project with ballooning costs. "I think it's highly unlikely unless he has to leave for fraud," Trump said. "And it's ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
United States President Donald Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) after undergoing evaluation for lower leg swelling and hand bruising, the White House has announced. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday that the diagnosis was made after the president experienced mild discomfort in his legs over several weeks. In a publicly released letter, President Trump's physician, Dr ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Pope Leo on Friday, the Vatican said, a day after an Israeli strike on Gaza's sole Catholic church killed three people and injured several more. During the call, the pope renewed his appeal for a ceasefire and an end to the war in Gaza, and expressed his concern over the "dramatic" humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave, a Vatican statement said. Leo also ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
By In a breakthrough that could change the future of fertility treatment, researchers in Britain announced this week that eight healthy babies were born using an experimental DNA technique designed to prevent rare and often fatal genetic diseases, CNN reported. The method, sometimes called "three-person IVF," combines DNA from a mother, a father, and a donor to help families avoid passing on destructive mutations ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Once again, President Donald Trump was caught in a scandal and a Comey got fired. The strange and fateful entanglement between two powerful families jumped into a new generation this week when Maurene Comey got the sack from her job as one of New York's top prosecutors . And like her father, former FBI Director James Comey, who was ousted months into Trump's first term , she left with a dramatic warning about ...
Source: cnn.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Renewed clashes broke out overnight between Druze armed groups and members of Bedouin clans in southern Syria, and government forces were preparing to deploy again to the area Friday after pulling out under a ceasefire agreement that halted several days of violence earlier this week, officials said. Government security forces agreed with some of the Druze factions that they would ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Miles de elementos de la Guardia Nacional prestan servicio en la región de Los Ángeles desde el mes pasado. Seis soldados dijeron en entrevistas que el despliegue ha provocado un decaimiento en la moral. Cuando la Guardia Nacional de California llegó a Los Ángeles en enero para responder a los devastadores incendios forestales, los habitantes del sur de California recibieron a los ...
Source: nytimes.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Gov Gavin Newsom claims cancellation of $4B in funding is 'political stunt' despite years of delays and mismanagement California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration following the cancellation of more than $4 billion in federal funds for the state's high-speed rail project. "Trump's termination of federal grants for California high-speed rail reeks of politics. It's yet another ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Content Guru explores how a lack of ROI is driving AI skepticism, creates buyer's remorse, how LLMs will evolve over the next decade to ensure ROI, and how AI leaders can make a success of AI projects right now. A recent report from McKinsey claims that nearly 77% of businesses have seen no cost savings from AI. 48% of that number have seen their costs increase. This is concerning news for organizations, both ...
Source: callcentrehelper.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
LONDON (AP) — Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 by the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic participation, the government announced Thursday. The center-left Labour Party pledged before it was elected in July 2024 to lower the voting age for elections to Britain's Parliament. Scotland and Wales already let 16- and 17-year-olds vote in local and regional elections. ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Demonstrations have taken place at more than 1,600 locations around the United States, in protest against President Donald Trump's controversial policies that include mass deportations of immigrants and refugees and cuts to medical insurance, as well as the removal of other safety nets for impoverished people. The "Good Trouble Lives On" refrain that underscored the national day of action on Thursday was inspired ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Last August, the WNBA announced that Indianapolis — home of the Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark — would host the league's All-Star weekend this season for the first time. Clark's home city was a logical choice for this week's star-studded festivities. During her rookie season last year, Clark had an incredible impact on the WNBA's business, single-handedly accounting for massive increases in merchandise ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials struggled Friday to identify more than a dozen bodies pulled from a deadly shopping mall fire in Iraq , amid ongoing investigations into what caused the blaze. An Iraqi medical official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment said the final death toll was 63, including 18 bodies that could not be identified due to the severity of the burns and ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration's third-country program are in prison, where they will be held in solitary confinement for an undetermined time, a government spokesperson said. Thabile Mdluli, the spokesperson, declined to identify the correctional facility or facilities where the five men ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Dogs engage with TV differently, depending on their personality Ever wondered if your dog really watches TV? A new study finds that many do, and how they respond depends not just on what's on screen, but on their personality, from excitement levels to fearfulness. The lower refresh rates in older TVs caused a flickering effect , making it difficult for dogs, who are more sensitive to flicker than we are, to ...
Source: newatlas.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Washington — The Texas Legislature is set to convene Monday for a special session where it will attempt to redraw the state's congressional map to boost President Trump and his allies' efforts to maintain the GOP's grip on the U.S. House in next year's midterm elections. The state's decision to recraft the boundaries of House districts comes midway through the decade and several years after its GOP-controlled ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing their steepest premium increases since 2018, driven in part by the looming expiration of Biden-era enhanced premium subsidies and by the Trump administration's tariffs, a new KFF analysis has found. Insurers are asking for a typical rate increase of 15% with more than a quarter proposing hikes of 20% or more. KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group, looked at 105 ...
Source: cnn.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
PORTLAND, Ore. — Damian Lillard is back where he started. Lillard signed a three-year deal worth $42 million to return to the Portland Trail Blazers, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because the deal had not been officially announced. ESPN first reported the deal. Lillard, 35, was the sixth pick in the 2012 NBA ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Strata Identity introduced a new product, Identity Orchestration for AI Agents. Built on Strata's Maverics vendor-agnostic identity fabric and hybrid air-gap architecture, it provides identity guardrails and observability for AI agents without limiting identity provider (IDP) ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Jul 18th, 2025 -
The United States has assessed that only one of Iran's three principal nuclear facilities was destroyed in U.S. strikes last month, officials and people familiar with ongoing assessments said, prompting renewed questions about President Donald Trump's claim that Tehran's nuclear program had been "totally obliterated." Of the three facilities targeted in a massive nighttime bombing run , the results of the damage at ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The U.S. Justice Department is recommending an ex-Kentucky police officer during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid should serve no prison time, an abrupt about-face after spending years prosecuting the former detective. Brett Hankison is the only officer who fired his weapon the night of the March 2020 botched drug raid who has faced criminal charges. His shots didn't hit or injure anyone, ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms reached a surprise settlement Thursday in a lawsuit seeking $8 billion in damages tied to Facebook 's repeated privacy violations. The deal was disclosed in court just as the second day of trial was set to begin, and just days ...
Source: newsweek.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
There were $720.1 billion in retail and food service sales, an increase of 0.6% from the previous month, and up 3.9% from June 2024, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The May 2025 retail sales were unrevised from down 0.9%. Core retail sales—excluding automobiles and gasoline—increased 0.6% this month ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation's 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press. The information will give ICE officials the ability to find "the location of aliens" ...
Source: statnews.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the agency is evaluating changes to its liquid restrictions rule for airline carry-ons — a potential major shift in the Transportation and Security Administration's (TSA) policy that's been in place since 2006 and a symbol of post-9/11 travel. Noem, who last week ended the shoe-off requirement at TSA security checkpoints at ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
July 17 (UPI) -- A meteorite from Mars, the largest piece ever found on Earth, sold for $5.3 million to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday. Bidding for the 54-pound, reddish-brown object began at $2 million, according to ABC News , and it went to $4.3 million plus $1 million in fees and taxes. The original owner wasn't disclosed. The rock, known as NWA 16788, is 70% larger than the ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Connie Francis records in the studio with producer Ray Ellis at MGM on July 10, 1959 in New York. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Connie Francis, the wholesome pop star of the 1950s and '60s whose hits include "Pretty Little Baby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" — the latter that would later serve as an ironic title for a personal life filled with heartbreak and tragedy — has died at age 87. Her death was announced ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Joe Dalesandro didn't expect to keep his mortgage rate at 6.99% for very long when he purchased a new home with his girlfriend last summer in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He'd refinance soon, he reasoned. He was wrong. "We always thought they would go down, and fairly quickly," Dalesandro said of interest rates. "It has caught us by surprise that it hasn't come down." Average mortgage rates in the US have hovered ...
Source: cnn.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Juul Labs can continue to sell its e-cigarettes and refill cartridges per a decision Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration. According to an announcement on Juul's website, the FDA determined that its e-cigarette device and pods — which come in tobacco and menthol flavors — are "appropriate for the protection of public health." Thursday's authorization, first reported by The Wall Street Journal , ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program aimed to distribute billions of federal dollars to state and local governments to protect against climate-related disasters, but the administration now says it was "wasteful and ineffective." Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown, middle, holds a news conference with Casey Sixkiller, Director of the Washington State Department of Ecology, left, ...
Source: govtech.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Doug Burgum, interior secretary, and Pam Bondi, attorney general, visit island as Nancy Pelosi calls idea 'lunacy' A delegation of US officials toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of Donald Trump's pledge to reopen the shuttered federal prison and tourist attraction in the San Francisco Bay, amid an outcry from California leaders who have called the plan "lunacy". Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, who visited ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Federal prosecutors have indicted five people in Louisiana — three current or former police chiefs, a marshal and a business owner — for conspiracy to commit visa fraud over the alleged filing of false police reports that would allow immigrants to apply for a visa intended for crime victims. Over the course of almost a decade, the police chiefs and marshal allegedly received about $5,000 for each of the ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. A Maryland man, Seth Jason, was arrested Thursday on federal charges for allegedly making death threats against Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her family. Who is Seth Jason and What Was He Charged With? A federal grand jury indicted Jason on multiple charges, including influencing a federal ...
Source: newsweek.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
OpenAI's new agent can create slideshows, analyze competitors, and brief you on your day. Pro users can activate it starting today. Plus and Team users should have it soon. Not too long ago, I wrote that AI agents were the future of AI: tools that could carry out tasks for you, like ordering groceries or booking meetings. OpenAI's latest launch makes that reality appear a bit closer. On Thursday, during a ...
Source: zdnet.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
A mother and her nine-year-old son lost in the rocky mountain forest of Sierra Nevada in the US state of California were rescued thanks to a trail of handwritten notes they left behind - after getting stranded for more than 24 hours. A search and rescue team found the pair on 12 July after discovering multiple notes tucked beneath rocks, left by the mother, aged 49. "HELP. Me and my son are stranded with no service ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Washington — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday is considering the nomination of Emil Bove, President Trump's former defense lawyer and a top Justice Department official, to serve a lifetime appointment as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. If Bove clears the GOP-led panel, he will surmount a key hurdle amid staunch opposition from a host of former federal prosecutors and ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
A Texas woman is seeking custody of a child she gave birth to last spring after claiming to be misled by a couple who had over a dozen surrogate children seized from their household amid child endangerment allegations. "You just don't expect that you're going to go through a pregnancy and a delivery and then hand the baby over to their parents and then all of a sudden find out that there was abuse and neglect going ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Netflix said Thursday (July 17) that it expects advertising revenue to roughly double in 2025, as the company introduces interactive ads in the second half of the year. "We've closed the large majority of deals with the major agencies, those results have generally been in line or slightly better than our targets, and consistent with our goal to roughly double the ads business this year," said Netflix co-CEO ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
We know many of you have been using your Peacock subscription these past few weeks with Love Island season 7 airing, but now it's time to get ready for another surprise: Peacock's hiking its prices. The streaming service announced on Thursday that the cost of its monthly and annual plans will increase beginning July 23 for new and returning customers. However, prices will ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Amazon has reportedly cut hundreds of jobs in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud division. Those cuts happened Thursday (July 17), Reuters reported , citing two sources. A spokesperson for Amazon confirmed the cuts in a statement to PYMNTS. "After a thorough review of our organization, our priorities, and what we need to focus on going forward, we've made the difficult business decision to eliminate some roles ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge lifted a sweeping gag order Thursday in Bryan Kohberger's quadruple murder case. Bryan Kohberger avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty earlier this month to the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students at a rental home near campus in 2022. A coalition of news organizations including The Associated Press had asked the court to lift ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
The captain of the crashed Air India jet likely cut off the fuel supply before it went down in Ahmedabad, US officials believe. The first officer, who was flying the Boeing 787-9, questioned why the captain had moved switches to the cut-off position , according to a US assessment of the black box data. The first officer reportedly expressed surprise and panic while the captain remained calm, the Wall Street Journal ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
The lucky man reportedly hasn't yet figured out what he'll do with the lottery windfall A man in Massachusetts was doubly lucky during a Powerball drawing earlier this month. Fitchburg resident Paul Corcoran landed a $2 million pre-tax windfall from a pair of lottery tickets that won him prizes during the drawing that Powerball held on July 9, the lottery said Tuesday. Corcoran's windfall came after he ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
At least four people in Florida have died this year after contracting flesh-eating bacteria typically found in warm saltwater or brackish water, according to Florida's Health Department . The state has reported 11 cases this year. Vibrio vulnificus infections are rare ; 150 to 200 cases are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention each year. But the consequences can be severe. It can cause ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Flanked by parents holding photos of loved ones who died from drug overdoses, President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that will boost penalties for fentanyl trafficking. The "Halt All Lethal Trafficking (HALT) of Fentanyl Act" co-authored by Bowling Green Republican Rep. Bob Latta permanently classifies fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances ...
Source: cleveland.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Lily Berry was at home alone when her phone began blaring: A 5.1-magnitude earthquake had struck nearby. The August day in 2023 had already been a perilous one, with the remnants of Tropical Storm Hilary passing through the Los Angeles area. The "hurriquake" felt apocalyptic. When the phone's high-pitched alert went off, Berry grabbed her dog off the couch and moved to a doorway — and, soon enough, the ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
At least one person was killed and 13 others, including a 7-year-old, were injured in a lightning strike at an outdoor archery club in southern New Jersey on Wednesday evening, according to officials. "A 61-year-old male did succumb to his injuries," Matthew Kunz, police chief for Jackson Township, said in a statement. The victims range in age from seven to 61, Kunz added. About half of the people injured by ...
Source: cnn.com
Thursday, Jul 17th, 2025 -
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was sentenced to 30 days in jail on Thursday after authorities said he and another speeding driver caused a chain-reaction crash that left multiple people injured on a Dallas highway last year. The Dallas County district attorney's office said Rice pleaded guilty to two third-degree felony charges of collision involving serious bodily injury and racing on a highway ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jul 16th, 2025 -
A dozen immigrants and their legal advocates on Wednesday launched a class action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's campaign of courthouse arrests "designed to strip noncitizens of their rights" and expedite deportations. "We are witnessing an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. immigration court system by the Trump administration," said Keren Zwick, director of litigation at the National Immigrant ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Jul 16th, 2025 -
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Communities along a 700-mile (1,127-km) stretch of Alaska's southern coast ordered residents to higher ground after a powerful offshore earthquake Wednesday, but officials quickly downgraded and then canceled a tsunami warning for the region. There were no reports of significant damage. The earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3, struck at 12:37 p.m. local time south of Sand ...
Source: news4jax.com