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Welcome back to day three of state budget estimates for 2026, with plenty of intrigue already laid bare by the first two days of hearings (which you can catch up on here and here). This included Tuesday’s cabinet…
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NEW DELHI – Indian police on Tuesday detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi during youth-led protests in New Delhi calling for education reforms, after he called for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resignation. The…
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Report finds 74% of regular AI users now pose questions to AI instead of human colleagues New workers are missing out on vital social interactions for company culture Employees say they feel more self-sufficient and…
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Although the Draft Protected Disclosures Bill promises stronger protection in future, it may still take several years before it becomes law. Fortunately, South African law already provides remedies for whistleblowers…
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Not one, not two — but at least six restaurants have closed in Edmonton’s downtown since the beginning of June. Restaurateurs like Maheik Bhasin are warning others of the alarming trend. “The cost of running this…
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‘My wife didn’t deserve that’: Family devastated after two lives lost in blaze Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Just four of the six people who…
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Sharon Osbourne, the widow of heavy metal pioneer Ozzy, has used the first anniversary of his death to tell fans to remember him by playing music "really loud". Osbourne spoke to the BBC exactly a year on from her…
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Teenager charged with murder over alleged stabbing attack on mum, sister Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA A 16-year-old Perth boy has been…
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St. Louis Cardinals star Jordan Walker beat hometown hero Kyle Schwarber to win the Home Run Derby and secure a big check. (This video contains AI-assisted content) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One of the…
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SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) -- "Dracula," a collaboration between Jennie of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK and Australian act Tame Impala, maintained its peak position at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second…
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After the Supreme Court dealt a win for the "Save Women's Sports" movement, Riley Gaines and MyKayla Skinner sent a message to Simone Biles after Biles attacked Gaines over the issue on social media last year. WNBA star…
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VIDEO This podcast touches on AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here. When I talked to Eugenia Kuyda for the Platformer podcast, she predicted that the long tail of subscription apps on…
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The family of an 11-year-old Calgary boy named Parker, who went missing from his dayhome on July 16, is thanking Calgarians for their “compassion, determination and truly heroic efforts” as the search continues for…
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A British grandfather stranded in Dubai says he faces homelessness within weeks after becoming trapped in a nightmare that has left him unable to work, access a bank account or return home. Simon Ferguson, 64,…
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By Toni De Guzman Global News Posted July 21, 2026 8:09 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Advocates are reminding Winnipeggers to be wary of ticks as cases for Lyme disease continue to…
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SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korean stocks opened higher Wednesday on semiconductors as investors closely wait for the upcoming earnings release from big tech companies. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price…
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Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's…
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Descrease article font size Increase article font size The BC Wildfire Service completed a Canadian first over the weekend — a drone ignition operation on a wildfire. In a social media update, the service said they used…
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SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) -- The action thriller "Agent Kim Reactivated" extended its chart-topping run on Netflix's non-English chart for the third straight week, the streaming platform said Wednesday. The SBS series,…
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The City of Johannesburg hosted Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on Tuesday, 21 July, for high-stakes emergency talks in a desperate bid to unlock its withheld equitable share grant, as the metro faces a severe…
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"We think that the earlier onset of severe obesity in young people is increasing their type 2 diabetes risk in early life and pulling down their age at diagnosis," lead researcher Dr Shivani Misra says. "This is really…
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Apple doesn’t appear to be interested in making its increasingly expensive devices cheaper. Instead, it may make the price easier to ignore. The company plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a Klarna-backed leasing program for…
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Hardline conservatives are gaining power in the Senate atop key committees.Why it matters: The senators known for rankling GOP leadership now have gavels that let them hold hearings, advance legislation and even issue…
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He was particularly disappointed by the Government not adopting the recommendation to create an independent redress system to ensure it was separate from institutions that had facilitated the abuse. “After initially…
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Progressive groups are opening a vicious new front in the fight over crypto legislation, targeting Sen Kirsten Gillibrand as she tries to broker a compromise on the CLARITY Act, which has unresolved issues on its ethics…
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Workers load sacks of garbage onto a truck as part of the daily trash collection in downtown Baguio. — Photo by Vincent Cabreza BAGUIO CITY — Mayor Benjamin Magalong defended the Baguio City council’s approval last week…
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Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118B-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding. It is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 8B activated parameters per token. It supports a context window of up to 1M…
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In a blog post from Thursday of last week, the AI software repository Hugging Face announced a bizarre cyberattack on the systems that run its services. “This one was different from anything we had handled before,” the…
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The yen broke ¥163 to the dollar overnight and hit a fresh four-decade low as fiscal concerns and monetary reality weighed on Japan’s currency and as signs of intervention were few. It traded to about ¥163.23 and…
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House lawmakers react after Spain's $50 million FIFA World Cup prize could face federal taxes in the U.S., with bipartisan questioning on whether the IRS should take a cut of the championship payout. (Credit: Nicholas…