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Democrats — and Elon Musk — continue to dominate midterm campaign fundraising
Democrats and Republican megadonors, particularly Elon Musk, are driving record fundraising for the 2026 midterms, with over $15 billion raised since early 2025 and competitive races emerging across traditionally Republican states.
Federal efforts over alleged noncitizen voting escalate with California arrests | First Thing
The US Department of Justice charged 28 green card holders in California with fraudulently registering to vote and casting illegal ballots, marking an escalation in federal efforts against alleged noncitizen voting ahead of November’s midterms.
New space station crew launches from Florida on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule
SpaceX successfully launched NASA’s Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station on Thursday from Cape Canaveral, carrying two NASA astronauts, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, and a Russian cosmonaut.
Flydubai attacker ‘underwent Islamist radical indoctrination’, Netanyahu says
A Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv experienced a dramatic incident when a pilot stabbed a colleague and attempted to seize control. Israeli officials say investigations suggest the attacker underwent Islamist radical indoctrination.
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 172: Tracking Launches: Views from a NASA Pilot
Shannon Gregory, chief of flight operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, stands in front of one of the agency’s support helicopters inside a hangar at Kennedy’s Launch and Landing Facility in Florida. Credit: NASA/Cory S. HustonHost Andres Almeida: When Artemis II...
Former US officials criticise Pentagon silence on deadly Iran school attack
Annie Shiel, a former US official who worked on civilian harm reduction at the state department, said previous cases followed a pattern where the US had "come out and said 'it was not us', only for media and [non governmental organisation] reporting to show that in...
Startup Blockworks wants to become the crypto equivalent of Morningstar. How it plans to do it
Blockworks co-founders Michael Ippolito and Jason Yanowitz speak at an event.Courtesy: BlockworksCrypto startup Blockworks plans to use the proceeds from its previously unreported fundraise to scoop up some of its rivals and become a kind of Morningstar for digital...
Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats
Shapes, an app where humans and AI characters chat together in shared group conversations, is emerging from stealth with $8 million in seed funding. Think Discord, but with AI characters alongside humans. Founded in 2022, Shapes has more than 400,000 monthly active...
Definity embeds agents inside Spark pipelines to catch failures before they reach agentic AI systems
For most data engineering teams, managing pipeline reliability often means waiting for an alert, manually tracing failures across distributed jobs and clusters, and fixing problems after they've already hit the business. Agentic AI needs the data to be there, clean...
‘I’m very late to the game’: I’m 48, earn $65,000, have $48,000 in debt and no retirement. Am I doomed?
“I do not have any inheritance from anyone coming my way as I lost most of my immediate family when young.” Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
Why this Soros alum is betting on copper and cables over AI chips
Renaud Saleur is looking past politics to bank on megatrends like electrification, natural resources and AI bricks and mortars. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
Will King’s US visit lead to lasting reset in relations with UK?
Before King Charles arrived in the US, British diplomats were pragmatic about how much the state visit could achieve. They knew it could not reset the UK-US relationship entirely. The differences over Iran, Nato, Ukraine, trade and President Donald Trump's rhetorical...
Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a fact, not a fairy tale. Don’t frame it as one – Los Angeles Times
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Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a fact, not a fairy tale. Don’t frame it as one – Los Angeles Times
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Is Iran’s oil storage nearly full – and will it have to cut production?
The US naval blockade of Iranian ports and the Strait of Hormuz, in place since April 13, has raised concerns that Iran could run out of crude oil storage capacity and be forced to curb production.Bloomberg reported analysis on Tuesday from the data and analytics...
How Hezbollah’s fibre optic drones test Israel’s sophisticated radar system
Immune to electronic jamming and invisible to radar, the low-cost aircraft are piercing through Israel’s multibillion-dollar defence systems.In the skies over the Lebanese town of Taybeh, Israel’s multibillion-dollar defence systems were rendered useless by a spool of...