Today: October 29, 2026
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US Supreme Court denies immigration judges the power to shelve deportation cases

The US Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to reinstate the authority of immigration judges to temporarily postpone deportation cases, keeping in place an agreement

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ASM International expects Q4 sales above forecasts, to hit 2030 goal three years early

ASM International forecast on Tuesday fourth-quarter revenue above expectations and said it would reach its 2030 sales target three years early, driven by AI-related capacity

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NYSE moves to bring all-or-nothing options to stocks and company earnings

The New York Stock Exchange is preparing to start trading a new type of options contract that lets investors make all-or-nothing bets on whether a stock

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Earwax is both slippery and sticky – this weird combo might lead to safer insect repellents

Earwax’s unusual physical properties help it repel insects in the lab. Is this a job it evolved to do in animal ears?

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Colorado pilot fights for approval to fly electric plane to commute to work

Colorado pilot fights for approval to fly electric plane to commute to work

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Manhunt underway for convicted killer who escaped through Tennessee prison fence and fled in stolen truck, officials say

Manhunt underway for convicted killer who escaped through Tennessee prison fence and fled in stolen truck, officials say

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Alex Pretti’s family says feds are still stonewalling efforts for justice

Alex Pretti’s family says feds are still stonewalling efforts for justice

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This freight train claims to be the longest ever. Here's how long

South Africa claims it has sent the longest freight train in the world on a test run

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Oracle expands chip supply deal with Nvidia, adds Google and Cerebras offerings

Oracle said on Tuesday it is expanding its cloud AI chip deals with Nvidia while also diversifying to add offerings from Nvidia rivals such as

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US military says 5 were killed by a strike on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific

The U.S. military says it has attacked a boat it accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean

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A dinosaur fossil that looks like a mini T. rex just sold for a giant $47 million

A dinosaur that looks like a miniature T

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California's golden mussel invasion sparks increased concerns from Stockton-area leaders

California's golden mussel invasion sparks increased concerns from Stockton-area leaders

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Localized Ukraine ceasefire brokered by Melania Trump starts as Nordic leaders speak to Putin

Russia and Ukraine have begun a localized ceasefire in a southern Ukrainian city to allow a humanitarian mission

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Apple launches M6 MacBook Pro and iMac, pitches faster on-device AI

Apple on Tuesday unveiled a new 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac powered by its latest M6 chip, touting faster performance for running AI tasks directly on the devices.

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AI financing driving private credit growth as refinancing risks rise, Moody’s says

High levels of borrowing to fund AI infrastructure is expanding private credit beyond traditional corporate lending, but a wave of loans coming due in the next few years could leave

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JetBlue shares rally after airline flags 'disconnect' between earnings and bond rout

JetBlue Airways shares surged 20% on Tuesday, after the airline raised its revenue forecast and defended its financial position against a

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Attacks kill at least 60 Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia, church says

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church reports that two attacks in Oromia have killed at least 60 Orthodox Christians

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Risks spelled out for Anthropic investors include blowback from runaway AI

Any time a company looks to start selling shares on Wall Street, it’s required to disclose potential risks for investors

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Nobel Peace Prize committee welcomes Machado's return to Venezuela

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Tuesday it welcomed the return of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to Venezuela, saying it hoped her presence would

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Big Tech earnings to test AI boom amid market turmoil

Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet are expected to report accelerating cloud growth this week, but turbulence in global markets and mounting concerns over the cost of

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Viruses obey the laws of physics – studying how can help researchers understand why they infect people differently and lead to better treatments

Mechanobiology can help identify how the physical forces within cells affect how well viruses can invade them.

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How should AI be regulated? Follow the harm

Instead of trying to restrict AI technologies, regulations could focus on the harm the technology causes people and companies.

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From bioweapons to blackmail, here’s what’s in Anthropic’s nearly 100-page list of risks, including ‘risks to humanity’

From bioweapons to blackmail, here’s what’s in Anthropic’s nearly 100-page list of risks, including ‘risks to humanity’

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Colorado's glaciers thinned dramatically due to record low snow and heat in 2026

The most prominent glaciers in Colorado thinned dramatically over the past year due to record low mountain snow and record warm temperatures

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We studied 1,584 data centers – and found the buildings full of machines are tied to modest local job growth

This employment boost took three to five years to show up, two researchers found after studying more than two decades of data.

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Leave home with a plan: What to pack in your medical kit and when to seek care for symptoms abroad

Here’s what to talk to your doctor about before traveling abroad.

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Where humans build, mosquitoes follow – bringing dengue, West Nile and other diseases with them

Disease-carrying mosquitoes are moving deeper into the US. Climate change is only part of the problem.

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The ultra-wealthy crypto executives who are spending big on the midterms

A clutch of ultra-wealthy executives who made fortunes in and around the cryptocurrency business have become influential players in US politics, collectively spending more than $56

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DeepSeek AI model shows safety gaps in independent tests

DeepSeek's latest AI model showed stronger safety controls in independent tests than earlier versions, but could still disable software intended to shut

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Who controls powerful AI? Anthropic has a plan for long after its leaders depart

Few public companies claim to have the future of humanity on the line while making mundane choices about board composition.

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Alleged Israeli spy company heavily targeted Starlink users, sources say

Experts at a digital defense firm recently found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users of Starlink's satellite internet service

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At least 62 people killed in attack on a community in northeastern Nigeria

Gunmen killed at least 62 people in an attack on a community in northeastern Nigeria

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What to know about cychlorphine, a drug more potent than fentanyl

What to know about cychlorphine, a drug more potent than fentanyl

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Congo's Ebola cases surpass 10,000 as fears grow of wider African spread

The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has risen above 10,000, government data showed on Tuesday, a milestone that coincides with growing fears the

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Hold or sell? High Treasury yields spur US banks to rethink bond portfolios

A spike in Treasury yields is forcing US banks to confront an uncomfortable question: sell bonds worth billions of dollars they own at a loss, or hold on to paper losses?

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Nvidia, Meta deepen AI ties with $3 billion investment deal

Nvidia and Meta said on Tuesday they would deepen their partnership on the Muse AI assistant and related AI models, with Nvidia investing $3 billion in the Facebook parent's equity

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All eyes on AI

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Markets are basking in the afterglow of the blockbuster US IPO filing of Claude-developer Anthropic that has lifted the mood

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CDC deputy director to leave Trump administration, paper says

Jennifer Shuford, the deputy director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will leave the Trump administration after next week's midterm elections, the Washington

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Trump administration loses push to block California votes from alleged noncitizens

A US appeals

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China is back in the bull semen market, but only the best will do

Utopia is one of Australia's best Angus bulls: jet black, muscular, he sires big, fast-growing cattle with superb meat quality. 

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USTR Greer tells EU that loan to Airbus threatens trade truce on aircraft financing

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told the European Union on Monday that a lack of information about its record-breaking loan

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Bank of Korea warns country's chip exports could fall by up to $100 billion if AI spending slows

South Korea's semiconductor exports could fall by $50 billion to $100 billion compared with earlier forecasts if capital spending on artificial intelligence by major US

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China's lab-grown diamond makers target AI, chip sectors for next wave of growth

Around 70% of the 2 million carats of lab-grown diamonds produced annually at Feng Canjun's factory currently go into jewellery.

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Trump administration asks Washington to set aside ballots from 400 voters it says may be noncitizens

The Trump administration is asking Washington state to set aside any ballots received from more than 400 people it suspects registered to vote without U.S. citizenship

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Wall Street banks, Blackstone line up $63 billion to finance Broadcom AI chips for Anthropic

Bank of America, Blackstone, Citi and Morgan Stanley will provide $63 billion in financing to buy Broadcom's AI chips and

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Flood-weary US Southwest eyes forecast for more rain

The Four Corners region of the Southwestern U.S. is warily eyeing a forecast for still more rain

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Applied Materials to raise BESI stake to about 20%

Applied Materials said on Monday it plans to raise its stake in Dutch company BE Semiconductor Industries (BESI) to about 20% from 9%, deepening a partnership focused on advanced

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With tighter checks for flesh-eating screwworm, a border crossing reopens

Stockyards in New Mexico that had closed due to the New World screwworm outbreak are bustling again

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Black bear sightings causing a stir in Massachusetts town

Black bear sightings causing a stir in Massachusetts town

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Israel presses ahead with West Bank operation as election approaches

The Israeli military is pressing ahead with a massive operation in the occupied West Bank that has displaced hundreds of Palestinians

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Pennsylvania measles cases rise to 1,360, state health department says

The Pennsylvania Health Department on Monday reported 1,360 measles cases in the state, up 22 cases from its previous update.

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Anthropic's soaring sales, steep losses put AI frenzy to IPO test

Anthropic took a big step closer to a potentially record-breaking IPO on Monday, even as it revealed steep losses and security concerns that could test

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Aspen Neuroscience, Bambusa Therapeutics launch US IPOs as biotech boom rolls on

Drug developers Aspen Neuroscience and Bambusa Therapeutics launched their US initial public offering roadshows on Monday, adding to a wave of issuers from the biotech industry that

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Anthropic files for potentially the biggest IPO ever as CEO warns of risk to humanity from AI

Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has filed paperwork for what could be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity

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Anthropic's IPO: A close look at AI frontrunner's rapid growth, spiraling costs

Anthropic unveiled its US initial public offering paperwork on Monday, setting up for a blockbuster market debut that would test investors' willingness to

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Anthropic expands AI support for nonprofits as it files to sell shares to the public

Anthropic expands its support for nonprofits as it files to sell shares publicly for the first time

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Cadence unveils suite of AI models that chipmakers can run in-house

Cadence Design Systems on Monday launched a portfolio of AI models tuned to help design computer chips, deepening its open-source model work with

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From Amazon to Google, the deep-pocketed investors in Anthropic

Only a few startups have attracted as much investor conviction as Anthropic.

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Anthropic discloses month-long training pause, AI security breaches in IPO filing

Anthropic paused training of its next-generation flagship AI model for more than a month over security concerns, while four of its AI agents accessed live external computer systems

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Euro slips ahead of central bank meetings, real tumbles

The euro fell against the dollar on Monday ahead of a busy week of central bank meetings and with crude oil prices remaining elevated, while the Brazilian

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Obesity drug developer Corxel to go public in US via SPAC deal

Obesity drug developer Corxel Pharmaceuticals will go public in the US through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Amanat Acquisition Corp, the companies announced on

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Takeaways from AP's report on how Suriname's Saamaka are fighting to protect their rainforest

The Saamaka people in Suriname are using modern technology to map their ancestral lands

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Unconventional AI buys Israeli chip startup NeuReality to speed product development

Unconventional AI, the US hardware startup that launched less than a year ago with a $4.5 billion valuation, said on Monday that it is buying

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Anthropic set to make stock market debut as questions swirl about safety of AI

Anthropic set to make stock market debut as questions swirl about safety of AI

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AI companies are barreling toward huge Wall Street debuts. A look at the biggest players

Some of the leading artificial intelligence companies are moving toward initial public offerings at eye-popping valuations

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Philadelphia DA fires back at police commissioner in feud over officer's killing

Philadelphia DA fires back at police commissioner in feud over officer's killing

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Swiss woman with Ebola evacuated from Nigeria to Geneva

A woman infected with the Ebola virus and her husband, a Swiss diplomat, were flown from Nigeria to hospitals in Switzerland on Monday, Swiss authorities said.

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Wall St opens higher as Anthropic's IPO filing sharpens AI focus

US stocks opened higher on Monday as Anthropic's IPO filing drew investor attention ahead of a week dominated by corporate earnings and the Federal Reserve's interest-rate decision.

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Kenya releases first Ebola contacts from quarantine, milestone in containment efforts

Kenya on Monday released from quarantine the first group of people who came into contact with its index Ebola patient, a milestone in its efforts to contain cases to a

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Anthropic IPO filing to put AI investment boom to the test

Anthropic made its US IPO filing public on Monday, edging toward what could be the first stock market debut by a frontier AI lab and laying out the promise, costs and risks of

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UN-commissioned experts say Gaza ceasefire has not stopped Israel from committing genocide

A U.N.-commissioned group of independent experts accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza despite a ceasefire agreement

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Verizon lifts annual forecasts, signs more than $2 billion AI infrastructure deal with AWS

Verizon raised its annual forecast for wireless subscriber additions on Monday, betting on strong demand for its simplified plans, and signed an AI infrastructure deal worth more

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I composed music about infertility and pregnancy loss, then performed it in a Pittsburgh hospital

1 in 4 known pregnancies in the US ends in loss. A composer explains how those numbers, along with doctors’ expertise, became a 60-minute chamber work.

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If Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts can get dangerous blood clots, so can you – here’s how some states are trying to reduce the risk

In the US, up to 900,000 people are affected by severe blood clots each year, and over 60,000 die from it annually.

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Why do people still get polio in some countries and not in others?

Polio can survive only where it finds kids who aren’t protected by a vaccine.

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AI chatbots can be a valuable health resource for older adults – if they embrace ‘informed skepticism’

AI can help you navigate health information, but evaluating the credibility and quality of responses is key.

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Spending in-person time with friends is the biggest predictor of whether college students flourish

Helping young people thrive involves supporting healthy relationships, as well as being engaged in work, school and family life.

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SpaceX enters $40 billion deal with Apollo for AI chip financing

SpaceX said on Monday an affiliate of Apollo Global Management will buy AI chips and server hardware and lease them to the rockets-to-AI firm, in a deal with total principal

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50 years later, Amory Lovins’ soft energy path meets electrification

Five decades ago, he charted two paths for energy use in the US. His soft path rightly emphasized efficiency and renewables but underestimated the importance of electricity.

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AI is exposing how fragile the web really is. What you can do to stay safe

AI is exposing how fragile the web really is. What you can do to stay safe

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Data centers are inspiring bipartisanship – for now

A political scientist who studies AI in campaigns explains why data centers have put Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon on the same side ahead of the midterms.

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Poland eyes more cooperation with Germany in space, Polish minister says

Poland sees a lot of room to deepen cooperation with Germany in the space sector, Polish Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said on Monday, underscoring the need to possess

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The races that will decide control of the US Senate

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Anthropic taps a deep well of distrust as it eyes its Australian AI debut

Anthropic taps a deep well of distrust as it eyes its Australian AI debut

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Judges skeptical of Trump administration effort to force California to set aside mail ballots

Judges skeptical of Trump administration effort to force California to set aside mail ballots

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Ebola scientists to probe Nigeria case origin, Africa CDC says

A team of leading Ebola scientists will travel to Nigeria to help investigate how the country’s first patient in more than a decade got infected, Africa

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Houthis say they attacked Saudi oil pumping stations, Riyadh airport as fighting intensifies

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they had attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West crude oil pumping stations and Riyadh airport, as rising hostilities choke oil supplies and 

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Brazil’s Lula wins historic fourth term, Flavio Bolsonaro refuses to concede

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a historic fourth term on Sunday, the country's electoral

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Anthropic's Claude accessed Georgia state vote count data behind paywall

AI model Claude bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available US state of Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorization, Anthropic said in a statement on Sunday.

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Vance no longer a hurricane but as a tropical storm still threatens Mexico's Pacific coast

Tropical Storm Vance is churning off Mexico’s southwest Pacific coast after a day of gradual weakening but is threatening several western states in that country with heavy rain and possible flash flooding

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Zelenskiy says US fully resumes warnings on ballistic strikes

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said US warnings about imminent Russian ballistic missile strikes, critical to Ukraine's air defences, had been fully restored after

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Uganda imposes 21-day quarantine on citizens returning from Congo

Ugandan citizens returning to the country with a history of travel to Democratic Republic of Congo will be quarantined for 21 days, Health Minister

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US appeals court appears skeptical of Trump DOJ's lawsuit over California voter rolls

A federal appeals court appeared skeptical on Sunday of a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's administration that seeks to force California officials to set aside

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Musk says SpaceX raised $40 billion in debt deal, predicts neocloud shakeout

Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX had closed $40 billion in debt financing for graphics processing units, underscoring the soaring cost of building AI computing capacity. 

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When will there be a flying car in your garage? Not anytime soon.

When will there be a flying car in your garage? Not anytime soon.

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Ukraine disputes Elon Musk's claim that its military violated Starlink's terms of service

Ukrainian officials have disputed Elon Musk's claims that their military violated Starlink’s terms by using it for offensive drone strikes

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French protest groups demand more rallies as Macron faces tough choices

French protest groups and unions called on Sunday for further demonstrations as they sought to maintain pressure on the government

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Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink’s terms of service following dispute over coverage

Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink’s terms of service following dispute over coverage

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Conservative party wins first election in nearly a century in British Columbia

The opposition Conservative Party won an election in the Canadian province of British Columbia for the first time in nearly 100 years, promising to ramp up liquefied natural gas