Esther Kim Varet has gotten a lot of questions recently from “depressed” liberals wondering whom they should vote for in November to represent them in the redrawn 40th Congressional District, which covers a large swath of inland Orange County and portions of San Bernardino and Riverside counties. The Democratic art gallery owner placed third in…
WASHINGTON — After experiencing some turbulence last week, Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general appears to be back on course. The acting attorney general released an order Sunday night officially declaring dead the nearly $1.8-billion so-called anti-weaponization fund that would have given payments to allies of President Trump. A separate press release also placed limits on…
WASHINGTON — California and 22 other Democratic-led states urged the Supreme Court on Monday to block President Trump’s plan to take control of voting by mail through the U.S. Postal Service. They said it is too late in the election year to impose a new set of regulations for mail ballots. Doing so, they said, would…
WASHINGTON — President Trump will travel to Los Angeles on Tuesday and Las Vegas on Wednesday as part of a two-day West Coast trip aimed at highlighting his administration’s economic record ahead of the midterm elections, a White House official confirmed. In Los Angeles, Trump is scheduled to attend a Republican National Committee dinner at Trump National…
California filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration Monday — one to block President Trump’s latest round of tariffs on international trading partners, the other to block his administration from sharing needy families’ personal data with immigration officials. California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, whose office brought the lawsuits alongside other Democrat-led states, said they were…
WASHINGTON — Todd Blanche cleared the first hurdle Tuesday on his path to confirmation as attorney general, setting the stage for a vote by the full Senate this week as Republicans race to shore up support among three potential holdouts in their party. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 10 along party lines to advance his…
The federal law enforcement probe into the financial affairs of the Dodgers’ controlling owner, Mark Walter, seems to focus on what looks like an obscure financial maneuver: related-party transactions. They are deals between entities with business or personal ties, including loans, sales and other transactions, that can have legitimate reasons but pose potential conflicts of…
WASHINGTON — Midterm battle lines have been drawn across the Western states, as attention turns to general election campaigning with three months until November’s election day. Washington state completed its primary Tuesday, the last mainland state west of the Rocky Mountains to do so. A national spotlight is on the state’s 3rd District, just over the border…
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities on Wednesday were investigating possible links to organized crime in the shooting death of a well-known influencer who was gunned down while live-streaming in front of a fast-food outlet in the northwestern city of Culiacán, capital of violence-wracked Sinaloa state. César Gastélum, 25, who was shot dead late Tuesday — apparently targeted…
GAZA CITY — For 18 days last month, Palestinian Civil Defense crews searched for the bodies of people killed almost three years ago in the opening weeks of the Hamas-Israel war. This week the remains the crews recovered were finally laid to rest. In Gaza City, community elders, mokhtars, local dignitaries and civil defense crews gathered Tuesday…
WASHINGTON — The narrow victory of progressive doctor Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s bitterly fought Democratic Senate primary sets up a defining test of the party’s progressive wing in one of the highest-stakes U.S. Senate contests of the midterms. Whether El-Sayed, a former public health official, can carry swing voters in a battleground state could both determine the…
A few months ago, Pinchas Cohen learned of a thriving online trade in MOTS-c — a peptide that, when injected into mice, seems to mimic the effects of exercise. The dean of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology was very familiar with this particular short chain of amino acids. His lab identified it years…
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security’s system for paying for detainee medical care has collapsed, records show, leaving a backlog of unpaid claims likely costing millions of dollars. With a new payment system still not in place, advocates for immigrant detainees fear some are going without necessary treatment as medical providers near a year without compensation….
British regulators on Thursday cleared tech scion David Ellison’s $111-billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery — the latest international agency to find the blockbuster combination of TV channels and historic film studios wouldn’t dampen competition. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority and the government’s culture minister separately reviewed Paramount Skydance’s proposed Warner acquisition, which is…
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s choice for attorney general is facing a tight vote for confirmation in a Republican-controlled Senate nearly halfway through his second term, reflecting mounting doubts about his leadership of the Justice Department as bipartisan concerns over the weaponization of justice intensify. The confirmation of Todd Blanche hangs on the support of two Republicans who…
Mexico City — Mexico is sending 1,500 more troops to the embattled state of Michoacán after the U.S. announced this week that it temporarily stopped inspecting avocados there over security concerns, disrupting exports of the fruit. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that her government was doing everything in its power to improve security in Michoacán,…
President Trump has again targeted birthright citizenship, signing a pair of executive orders purporting to narrow it by cracking down on “birth tourism” and limiting which children born to immigrants in the U.S. qualify. The new orders follow a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that rejected an attempt by Trump to end birthright citizenship…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Republican from Louisiana, said Friday he will vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, likely delivering the decisive vote needed to push President Trump’s embattled nominee to oversee the Justice Department. Cassidy, who had expressed reservations about Blanche’s nomination, had been the last undecided Senate Republican, and his support all…
The world is celebrating a possible breakthrough for Gaza, but the details still hinge on Israel’s decisions. Hamas agreed last week to total disarmament in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied territory and a technocratic committee governing Gaza with the protection of an international force. The agreement can hold only if compliance on both…
RIDGWAY, Colorado — Namgyal Sherpa speaks yak. So when a calf disappeared into the tall grass recently, he roamed among the herd making low, rumbling grunts. Then a few higher-pitched calls. There was a rustle and a flash of black. A youngster sprang from the grass, running toward its mother, draped in what looked like a roomy…
The Strait of Hormuz is, by some accounts, named for a Zoroastrian deity destined to emerge victorious after a 9,000-year standoff with an adversary. Iran’s leaders feel their own victory is at hand and won’t require the same epic patience. They are betting that military pressure will ultimately force the United States to accept their…
DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — Every day for the last three months, he had looked at it. And for every day of the last three months he had ignored it, even as it moved ever closer. But now the Yellow Line — the demarcation indicating the limit of Israel’s military zone in Gaza — was…
Los Angeles police Officer Daniel Flores may have broken the law when he secretly recorded his colleagues making ugly, unacceptable comments that were variously racist, homophobic, misogynistic or otherwise gross and unprofessional at best. So L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman is right to take this, or any, violation of the law by a badge-wearing…
On Monday, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia, killing more than 250 people so far and compromising hundreds of buildings. Many others remain trapped under collapsed structures as rescue crews race to account for the missing. The seismic event heavily impacted the country’s third-largest city, Cali, which lies near the Pacific Coast. Colombia’s Pacific…
Sacramento — The two candidates for California governor came to Sacramento on Tuesday offering policy agendas that were both sweeping and vague on details, with both warning of the dangers posed by their rival’s political party. Democrat Xavier Becerra vowed to lower healthcare costs for Californians and teased two new policies on energy and artificial intelligence. Republican…
Los Angeles County election officials are examining steps ahead of the November midterms to respond to the rising popularity of election trading via prediction markets, including a possible ban on wagering for county election workers. The discussions follow a fracas during the June ballot count, when a handful of influencers suggested fraud could be occurring…
Despite the economic angst and billionaire exodus, California has been recording some of the highest income growth in the country. Surprisingly, a recent survey of metropolitan areas showed that Silicon Valley didn’t lead the state, but Anaheim, Irvine and Santa Ana were near the top of the list. A study by financial advising company SmartAsset…
Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison has exhibited a dizzying range of emotions this summer as the goal line for his company’s coveted $111-billion Warner Bros. Discovery deal has moved farther away. The 43-year-old tech scion initially exuded confidence that Hollywood’s biggest merger in decades was on a fast track to completion by September. Ellison…
England wicketkeeper Jamie Smith welcomed his return to form with the bat as he top-scored with 61 on day one of the second Test against Pakistan at Lord’s. Smith’s spot in the side had been called into question at the start of the summer following a barren run of one half century in his prior…
The Trump administration again on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene — and fast — to save President Trump’s plan for the U.S. Postal Service to place new nationwide limits on mail voting ahead of the November midterms. It did so after a lower court judge blocked the Postal Service plan from moving…
WASHINGTON — In another major test of how far left Democratic voters in swing states are willing to go, moderate David Crowley narrowly defeated democratic socialist Francesca Hong to become the Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin. The surprise result in Tuesday’s primary — in a closely watched swing state seen as a possible bellwether of Democratic…
WASHINGTON — Democrats seeking to retake control of Congress are planning broad investigations into President Trump and his family’s business dealings as part of an agenda focused on alleged corruption and economic harm, while keeping impeachment an option rather than an immediate priority. The strategy would use subpoenas, committee hearings, possible criminal referrals and the budget as…
More than 500 people have lost their jobs in the latest round of layoffs in Southern California, from FedEx and others. The latest government filings show that Staples and LAZ Parking were also among the companies cutting positions. FedEx layoffs continue to hit California workers; this time, the carrier will close two facilities in Palm…
The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees on Thursday voted to move forward with President Trump’s plan to close the building for renovations for two years, according to the Associated Press. During the same meeting, the board, which is filled with the president’s allies, also voted to inscribe Trump’s name on the building. The votes came…
A federal judge in Boston on Thursday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that accused Harvard University of turning a blind eye to harassment of Jewish students. The decision from U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns said President Trump’s administration failed to prove an ongoing violation of federal civil rights laws. The judge said the lawsuit,…
WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to buy thousands of special gloves that would allow agents to administer electronic shocks — a tactic the gloves’ manufacturer describes as a nonlethal “soft empty hand” for controlling people. But videos posted by the manufacturer, Compliant Technologies of Richmond, Ky., show that the effects of the gloves are…
The U.S. Department of Justice and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have agreed to settle a lawsuit over what federal prosecutors alleged last year was a pattern of delaying applications for permits to carry concealed firearms for “unreasonable” lengths of time. The Sheriff’s Department will “bring its procedures in line with the Supreme Court’s landmark…
California regulators have approved the sale of Cox Communications to cable giant Charter Communications — the final hurdle in a marathon review to clear the $34.5-billion cable consolidation. With Thursday’s sign-off by the California Public Utilities Commission, the mammoth merger is expected to close next week. The deal will make Charter’s Spectrum the dominant broadband…
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — His mother, father and two sisters were among those entombed somewhere in the wreckage. He pitched a tent not far from the ruins of their former home. “I’m not leaving here until they find the bodies,” vowed José Luis Villegas, 37. Accompanying him was his wife, who held out hope for two missing…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has largely ended a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients who marry U.S. citizens. President Trump tried, unsuccessfully, to end DACA during his first term. This week’s action reflects his administration’s ongoing focus on the Obama-era program that shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants, often referred to as Dreamers, who…
Democratic lawmakers and military families are pressing the Pentagon for answers after reports emerged that thousands of sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have endured food shortages, plumbing failures and severe fatigue during deployment that has stretched more than 260 days. The roughly 5,000-person crew, which left San Diego in November and has been stationed…
Growing anger in Nigeria after another mass abduction. There is growing anger in Nigeria after another mass abduction. Nigeria’s nightmare is getting worse, with mass abductions now a major security concern. In one of the latest attacks, more than 500 people were taken in Niger State in the North-Central region. In recent years, armed groups…
Tata Power Co, one of India’s largest non-state power producers, lost a challenge to a $490 million arbitration award for violating an agreement with an investor to bid for a coal asset in Russia and denying it the opportunity to benefit. The Singapore International Commercial Court rejected the Indian company’s challenge to the quantum of…
On 7 January 2025, the Altadena and Pacific Palisades neighbourhoods of Los Angeles suffered two of the most destructive fires in the city’s history. Twenty-one people died and 15,000 buildings were destroyed over a combined area the size of Paris. The city is still reeling from the scale and intensity of the fires, and the…
Rangers crashed out of all European competition after a dismal display against Jablonec saw them fail to reach the Conference League. Leading 1-0 from the first leg at Ibrox last week, Derek McInnes’ side turned in a woeful performance in the Czech Republic which lacked creativity and invention, and it proved costly. A half-time reboot,…
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday vented long-simmering frustrations with the Trump administration, accusing Washington of “meddling” after the State Department revoked the visa of the son of her predecessor and mentor, ex-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The Mexican leader denounced as “political” an ongoing series of U.S. visa cancellations targeting prominent figures…
Israeli defence minister renews threat to expel Palestinians from any areas where kites or balloons are being flown in Gaza. Published On 27 Aug 202627 Aug 2026 At least three Palestinians have been killed in separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, medics and local media reported. This comes as Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz…
Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), India’s second largest fuel retailer, on Thursday said there is no decision to replace E20 petrol with E10, clarifying that the current debate is over whether older vehicles should have access to a lower-ethanol blend and how an additional grade of petrol could be supplied across India’s vast fuel-distribution network….
Dogs are amazing. But as many pet parents will tell you, they can be remarkably good at hiding when something is wrong. My Labrador-Great Dane mix, for example, contracted tick fever several times over his 14 long years, and it was always at least a couple of weeks before I suspected something was off. It…
Scientists are pointing to a glacier collapse as a key cause of the deadly floods that have swept through parts of Nepal and Tibet. The glacier in question lies to the north of Langtang Lirung, a peak more than 7,000 metres above sea level in the Himalayas. As Mark Poynting reports, it’s not yet clear…
Mohammad Abbas and Mohammad Ali starred with the ball as Pakistan took advantage of overcast conditions at Lord’s to reduce England to 248-9 on day one of the second Test. A deluge of rain had postponed play until 12.20pm on Thursday afternoon, and much like the weather, England’s day got off to a dreary start,…
WASHINGTON — Approaching six months of war with Iran after predicting a six-week campaign, President Trump has few options before him to bring the conflict to a close. But some experts believe a new strategy emerging from his administration could avert a more consequential defeat. The president has repeatedly flirted with broadening the assault, hoping yet another…
Last season’s runners-up, Arsenal, will play the likes of Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Lille in the league phase. Published On 27 Aug 202627 Aug 2026 Two-time defending champions Paris Saint-Germain were handed meetings with Barcelona, Manchester City and Aston Villa, among their eight matches in the league phase of this season’s Champions League, when…
Fashion startup Atorie announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round with investors, including a16z speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures’ Jeremy Liew. Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory — that manufacturers use in high-end goods. The items are…
The National Institute for Origin and Quality (INAO), which regulates France’s labels of origin, has also approved temporary changes to the rules for other protected produce because of the effects of the summer heat. Products that will benefit include some types of Calvados and cider from Normandy, Crémant d’Alsace fizzy wine, lamb from Poitou-Charentes, and…
There was a pause from Mikaela Mayer, so too an emerging, ironic smile upon realisation as to who had asked the question. “Ohhh Alyciaa,” she said. Not a reporter named Alycia, but instead a familiar foe in former undisputed world champion Alycia Baumgardner, who had claimed a front row seat at Thursday’s press conference in…
When Mark Walter, the Lakers controlling owner, flipped the storied team last week for $12.5 billion amid a federal probe of his businesses, it stunned the sports world but seemed to make financial and legal sense. The Dodgers majority owner, who had bought his stake in the basketball team last year at a $10-billion valuation,…
This is the latest in a series of blasts targeting military personnel and others linked to Russia’s war on Ukraine. By Anadolu, AP and Reuters Published On 27 Aug 202627 Aug 2026 A Russian military serviceman has been killed in a “car fire” in St Petersburg, authorities said. The man was killed, and his wife…
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, says a cyberattack on one of its systems has been declared a “major incident,” a formal, legally defined classification that prompts a formal notification to lawmakers in Congress. ATF said in a statement that it’s responding to the cyberattack on a standalone system that’s…
Fossil fuels are cheap in part because their price does not reflect the damage they cause – from rising temperatures to impacts on health, property and the natural world. Cutting emissions means bringing those hidden costs into the price of energy. And that has consequences. “My costs go up, my bills go up and my…
Owner Audrey Turley paid a heartfelt tribute to Galopin Des Champs after the superstar chaser’s retirement was confirmed on Thursday. The Willie Mullins-trained 10-year-old will go down as one of the most popular National Hunt horses of recent times, with his haul of 12 Grade One victories including back-to-back Cheltenham Gold Cup wins in 2023…
Tired of budget stalemates, deficits and continuous acrimony in the state Capitol, California voters in 2010 started taking action to temper political gridlock and loosen the grip of entrenched special interests. They approved statewide ballot measures to create an independent congressional redistricting commission, taking that power away from self-interested Sacramento lawmakers, as well as a…
Ratko Mladic, a war criminal convicted over the first genocide on European soil since the second world war, has died prison in The Hague at the age of 84. Earlier this year, Serbia requested that Mladic be allowed to receive medical treatment outside prison, saying his health condition was “serious” and that he “required serious…
Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter — which was also signed by prominent cyber firms like Crowdstrike, Okta, and Fortinet, as well as prominent…
The pits that held these posts were not the only discovery during the excavation, surrounding them were dozens of other holes containing artefacts belonging to the prehistoric people of Bulford village. These objects have helped to establish the age of the site. The team used radiocarbon dating, which looks at how a special form of…
Our ambassador previews a busy Saturday of clashes which features the Listed August Stakes at Windsor – live on Sky Sports Racing from 4.30pm. Tenability can take Windsor feature The feature race on Sky Sports Racing on Saturday evening is the Listed Weatherbys August Stakes (6.30) which can go to my husband Tom Marquand and…
Hydrogen, viewed by its advocates as a clean fuel and a solution to climate change, is having a “non moment,” but don’t ask anyone in the industry to say that on the record. Years of market turmoil, federal funding cuts, canceled projects and industry pullback have made it clear: California’s grand vision for fleets of…
Voting from home California’s mail-in voting system has also become a particular target for Trump. Voting by mail surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, California passed a law to automatically mail a ballot to every registered voter. More than 80 percent of the state’s voters cast a mail-in ballot in 2024 alone. Moreles, the…
1 min read Last Updated : Aug 27 2026 | 10:46 PM IST India’s Hero MotoCorp on Thursday said it would buy additional shares of Ather Energy for up to 17.58 billion rupees ($184.01 million), raising its stake in the electric scooter maker to 32.8%. The shares will be purchased from an existing Ather stakeholder,…
Google is giving Pokémon fans a new reason to wear a Fitbit. The company announced Thursday a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with Pokémon Sleep, combining Fitbit’s health and fitness tracking and the sleep-focused Pokémon game. The announcement comes as Pokémon celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Pokémon Sleep first launched in 2023, turning something…
Argentinian geologist Eduardo Olivero became the first scientist to find the remains of a dinosaur in Antarctica in 1986. Source link
Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic are on for a US Open collision course following Thursday’s draw in New York, while Britain’s Arthur Fery has been handed a nightmare opening-round clash against Italian 13th seed Lorenzo Musetti. Defending champion Alcaraz will open his campaign against Roman Safiullin with a potential semi-final meeting with history-chasing Novak Djokovic….
The heads of the United Nations and the Red Cross called for greater controls on autonomous weapons systems — so-called killer robots — this week, warning that the technology’s advancement is outpacing regulation at a deadly rate. “We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by machines,”…
Christian Castro, accused of carrying out nonfatal shooting in Minnesota, walks free due to extradition lapse. Published On 27 Aug 202627 Aug 2026 An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer charged with shooting a Venezuelan man and allegedly lying about it during an immigration raid in Minneapolis was released from a Texas jail a day…
Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles (TMPV) on Thursday unveiled Tata.cars as its new customer-facing identity, giving its passenger vehicle business a distinct brand expression as the company enters what Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Shailesh Chandra described as its “next chapter”. The new identity will progressively be visible across dealerships and showrooms, digital touchpoints,…
Fashion startup Atoire announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round with investors including a16z Speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed Ventures’ Jeremy Liew. Shoppers can visit the Atoire website and buy handbags or even clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory — that manufacturers high-end goods. The items are reasonably…
Dr Mark Evans, the collections manager at BAS, recently spotted the fossil amongst thousands of specimens brought back from expeditions to Antarctica over the decades. “It’s only when you start thinking ‘what’s in this drawer’, that sometimes you come across something and you think, ‘Ah, this looks interesting’,” he said. The specimen was originally collected…
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The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles for alleged sexual misconduct. The committee said it is investigating allegations that Gomez, 51, engaged in “inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer,” according to a statement released by the committee’s chair, Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), and ranking…
Live coverage and text updates from our commentary stream as Yamal and Raphinha look to lead Barca to consecutive wins. Source link
Google hopes to complete the construction of the first phase of its Visakhapatnam artificial intelligence (AI) hub within the next 24-30 months and start initial operations at the 1 gigawatt (Gw) data centre soon thereafter, Alexander Smith, the principal of global infrastructure and energy for Asia Pacific at Google, said. “We are solving a multi-variable…
Watson’s instinct is to keep the uncertainty visible. For him, caution is not complacency. It is a demand for precision. Rahmstorf draws a different lesson from the same uncertainty. He sees a risk that is low enough to remain debated, but severe enough to demand action. “We will not have certainty before it’s too late,”…
York Knights have confirmed that a “locally-based ownership group” has agreed to take over a majority share of the club. The group is headed by York businessman David Dickson and his family with the transfer of ownership for both York Knights and York Valkyrie currently progressing and pending formal approval by the Rugby Football League….
The U.S.-Israel campaign against Iran was billed as the final blow to Tehran’s ‘Axis of Resistance,’ but the alliance though bloodied is unexpectedly resilient. Source link
Israeli forces have installed three new metal gates near Palestinian homes that are under siege in Qusra, in the occupied West Bank. Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim reports that Palestinians fear the gates could signal a permanent Israeli presence and further restrict access to their houses and land. Published On 27 Aug 202627 Aug 2026 Share…
Dream11 on Thursday said it has moved away from pure-play fantasy sports to building a global sports engagement platform. Dream11 was India’s biggest fantasy game company before the government imposed a blanket ban on the category a year ago. “Dream11 today completes its pivot away from pure-play fantasy sports to becoming a global sports engagement…
Among the waste products the system clears are proteins called amyloid and tau, the deposits that accumulate in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. A single sleepless night measurably raises amyloid levels in the fluid surrounding the brain. Do that repeatedly, year after year, and the implications are troubling. A Swedish study by researchers…
England lead three-match series 1-0 after innings-and-103-run victory at Headingley last week; build-up to Lord’s Test dominated by Brydon Carse’s nightclub incident in Derby; Carse withdrawn from England squad; watch second Test live on Sky Sports Cricket and contract-free with NOW Source link
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have given preliminary approval for a cryptocurrency venture tied to President Trump and his family to operate a digital-asset bank, a decision that has drawn immediate condemnation from Senate Democrats who are now pushing legislation to bar such an action. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and…
Violence has eased since the US-Iran MoU and Israel-Lebanon framework, but Beirut still reports attacks and demolitions. Published On 27 Aug 202627 Aug 2026 A Lebanese woman has been killed, and several other people injured by Israeli strikes on the town of Arab Salim, in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh district. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said six…
NTPC expects to build 244 gigawatts of operating capacity and envisage capital expenditure of Rs 16.86 trillion by 2037 as it looks to boost the entire energy value chain, the company’s Chairman Gurdeep Singh said on Thursday. The next decade will be one of the most significant periods of growth in NTPC’s history, Singh said,…
Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industrywide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom. This week, the tech giant announced two new app quality requirements, one of which is focused on reducing apps’ memory usage and optimizing its code. The company explains that the mobile…
Available for 34 days Reports about the impacts of datacentres, including carbon emissions, water usage and power consumption, vary drastically and the truth can be hard to decipher. Deborah Andrews, Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, joins us for some myth busting. Plus, science journalist Caroline Steel has been scouring the journals and brings…
Alpine have confirmed they will retain Argentine driver Franco Colapinto for the 2027 Formula 1 season. There had been uncertainty over whether the 23-year-old would be kept on for a second full campaign having been drafted in to replace Jack Doohan after just six rounds of the 2025 season. The announcement confirms Alpine’s driver line-up…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was urged Tuesday to block construction of President Trump’s huge new ballroom until Congress weighs in. A decision, perhaps only temporary, is likely by Friday. Acting on his own, Trump had the East Wing of the White House torn down in October and ordered work to start on a massive new…
London, United Kingdom – UK Prime Minister and Labour leader Andy Burnham is expected to soon approve a ban on goods linked to Israeli settlements after the Israeli government issued tenders to build more than 1,200 units for a settlement in the occupied West Bank called E1. “Sanctions on Israel’s illegal settlements would be a…
Yamaha Motor India is adopting a cautious approach towards aggressive expansion in the domestic electric two-wheeler market, citing heavy dependency on imported battery cells, compressed profit margins, and supply chain constraints, Hajime Aota, Executive Officer, Yamaha Motor Co Ltd said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of global launch of ‘Made in India’…
Google is adding new ways for users to plan and book trips through AI Mode, its conversational search experience, the company announced on Thursday. Users will now be able to ask AI Mode to track flight prices, book hotels, and see the cost of flights and hotels in points or miles. The updates indicate that…
The datacentres are coming, potentially in the hundreds, and not everyone is happy. Show more Reports about the impacts of datacentres, including carbon emissions, water usage and power consumption, vary drastically and the truth can be hard to decipher. Deborah Andrews, Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, joins us for some myth busting. Plus,…
By his own admission, Pierre Sage was frustrated with Crystal Palace’s defeat to Everton on the opening weekend of the Premier League season. When asked if he enjoyed his first experience of the world’s most famous league, his first response is ‘we lost’ – showing how seriously he is taking not only the result, but…
