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The Trump administration is using taxpayer funds to air a television advertisement from Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign in the latest in a series of ads promoting the president ahead of the midterms that the White House maintains are “public service announcements.” The 30-second video, which is virtually identical to one that aired in 2024, shows Trump walking down a hallway as his voice can be heard warning of a “final battle” against “globalists” and “warmongers.” The black-and-white video ends with Trump staring straight into the camera lens with a m

Israel's Netanyahu visited Abu Dhabi on Sunday, Israeli official says

Walmart says it's not using personal information to set prices as it expands digital shelf labels

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Serbia's President Vucic resigns ahead of October parliamentary elections

Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic announced his resignation on Sunday, ending his second and final five-year term and paving the way for early presidential elections.Vucic's resignation, seven months before his term ends, comes amid campaigning for Serbia's October 25 snap parliamentary vote and allows him to be appointed prime minister if his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) forms the new government.He had said in late June that he planned to resign and that Serbia would hold early parliamentary and presidential elections.Rights groups have accused Vucic and his allies of increa

Russian drones kill two in market outside Kyiv, three others in different regions, officials say

Serbia's populist President Vucic resigns to run for prime minister at early vote

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Foreign banks have expressed UBS merger interest, Swiss newspaper reports

Several major foreign banks have expressed their interest in a possible merger or combination with Switzerland's UBS, a Swiss newspaper said on Sunday. At least eight banks have signalled interest to UBS, Blick reported, citing an insider with knowledge of the matter. UBS, which said it does not comment on speculation on the subject, was dealt a blow when Switzerland's upper house voted on Wednesday in favour of tougher capital rules that the bank estimates could require it to hold about $18 billion in additional capital.Ahead of the vote, chairman Colm Kelleher warned that UBS cou

White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’

China weighs allowing ByteDance, Alibaba to buy new Nvidia chips, The Information reports

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Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now

The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November’s elections, granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his aggressive campaign against noncitizen voting. The court's three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented from the decision. The emergency order allows states, for now, to use the Trump administration's revamped version of a Department of Homeland Security program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, in their efforts to verify the eligibility of voters on their

Trump wants to take a page out of the Biden energy playbook

In January 2024, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump blasted the Biden administration for freezing approvals for new plants to export US liquefied natural gas.When he won the election, in part by slamming the Biden-Harris “war on energy,” Trump vowed in his second inaugural address: “We will bring prices down… and export American energy all over the world.”He kept that promise, undoing the Biden-era LNG export permitting pause through an executive order just hours into his first day on the job.Now fast-forward more than a year and a half later, he’s considering taking a page o

Inside Trump’s plan for the ‘biggest DOJ election observer effort in history’

US Senate rejects resolution curbing Trump's Iran war powers

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Man who was shot during 2024 Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died

James Copenhaver, one of three campaign rally attendees shot in 2024 during an assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump, has died in Pittsburgh, his lawyer said Thursday. He was 76. Copenhaver was in the bleachers during the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop, grazing Trump’s right ear with one bullet. Copenhaver was struck in the arm and in the abdomen, wounds that left him with lingering injuries and walking with a cane. Two other attendees were also shot — David Dutch, who surv

Not everyone thinks AI will kill us all

When AI company Hugging Face was hacked by a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents who had escaped their testing environment, the company’s CEO had many things to say.He called it an unprecedented event – “day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents.”But here’s one thing he didn’t say: The hack is a sign AI is going to be able to eventually wipe out humanity.Clement Delangue doesn’t buy into the doomer hype that’s gone viral in recent weeks, even as the victim of likely the most sophisticated AI agent-powered attack (that we know of). He scoffed at former Anthropic researcher Jacob C

What we know after officials say ICE detained a US citizen and left him injured in Chicago suburb

Hurricane Polo fuels fears of landslides in Mexico's southwest as Nolo closes in on Hawaii

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2 giant pandas arrive in Atlanta under a US-China government agreement

Two giant pandas arrived in Atlanta on Sunday morning as part of an agreement between the Chinese and American governments. Ping Ping and Fu Shuang departed Chengdu in southwestern China early Sunday aboard a dedicated “FedEx Panda Express” Boeing 777 aircraft, officials said. A new agreement between Zoo Atlanta and the China Wildlife Conservation Association makes Atlanta one of three zoos in the U.S. to house giant pandas, along with the San Diego Zoo in California and the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C. “This is a thrilling day for Zoo At

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2 giant pandas arrive at Zoo Atlanta in a rare loan from China

Two giant pandas on loan from the Chinese government as part of Beijing’s long tradition of “panda diplomacy” have arrived at Zoo Atlanta.The pandas — a male named Ping Ping and a female named Fu Shuang — arrived on a FedEx flight Sunday from Chengdu, in southwestern China. They are the third pair of pandas to arrive in the US in the past two years, and their arrival at Zoo Atlanta comes with great fanfare given how rare the bears are in US zoos.“We are elated to welcome Ping Ping and Fu Shuang and could not be more excited about sharing that joy with our Members, guests, city, and

South Africa police hunt suspects after three shootings leave more than 30 people dead

Trump admin cancels funding for refugees, immigrants and others in move lawmakers argue is illegal

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Trump declines to say if Ukraine can manufacture Patriot missiles to fend off Russian attacks

President Donald Trump on Saturday declined to say whether he agreed to allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot missiles to fend off Russian attacks, an assertion made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a day earlier.The two leaders met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York earlier this week. Zelensky told reporters on Friday that during their meeting Trump said that Ukraine “will receive a license to manufacture Patriot missiles.”But when asked by CNN on Saturday about a potential licensing agreement, Trump confirmed he and Zelensky spoke about the critic

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Iran says it is awaiting ‘definitive’ US response despite Trump rejecting latest proposal

Iran says it is waiting on the “definitive” response to its latest proposal on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, despite US President Donald Trump publicly rejecting the offer.Under the plan, Iran would open the critical waterway within a week and resume nuclear talks if the US met certain conditions, including lifting a naval blockade and waiving sanctions on oil.“We saw the first reaction from the US president, but nothing has been conveyed to us from the mediators yet,” said Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.He added: “Of course, the US president has also said many good thing

Trump attends Texas-Tennessee game with no apparent disruption to coaches' communications

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Two senior FBI agents ousted over investigation into alleged harassing calls to wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller

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5 men arrested near UK air base used by US in Iran war on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act

British police have arrested five men near RAF Fairford, an air base used by the United States during its war with Iran, on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism

At UN, Russia and Germany's top diplomats hold first talks since 2022

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Lawyers for Rep. Max Miller again subpoena Sen. Bernie Moreno, father of ex-wife

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White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee

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Taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ad campaign grows with new spot, wider reach

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Supreme Court rejects GOP’s third effort to capture Democratic House seat in Missouri

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Supreme Court rejects a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for the third time

The Supreme Court has turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Donald Trump

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Supreme Court says states can use controversial citizenship data tool for voter audits in win for Trump

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls