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This is what we know about the assassination attempt on Trump
A man who was spotted firing an AK-style rifle at former US President Donald Trump’s golf course in Florida on Sunday has been arrested. The Secret Service alerted local authorities about multiple gunshots at the course around 1:30 pm, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said. At the time of the incident, Trump was one…
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Who will be watching the Paris games?
The 20th Paralympics, which began on Wednesday, will offer some live coverage from each of the 22 sports for the first time. The flame went out for the Olympics in Paris and was lit by two athletes for the Paralympics in the English village of Mandeville, where 16 World War II veterans were injured. It…
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A Trump campaign was built to fight Biden
US President Donald Trump on Friday said, “If you’ve never seen the 2016 Democratic National Convention, I tell you, we don’t have to watch it.” “It’s been a long time since we had a convention like this,” he added. Trump’s comments came one day after he said that the Democratic Party should “stop wasting its…
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There was an opinion about why Josh Shapiro would make such a difference
US Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Tuesday became the first black and South Asian candidate to run for President of the US since Barack Obama’s presidential election in 2008. “We’re at a tipping point in American history. And I’m here to tell you it’s time for a change,” she said. If she’s elected, she…
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The U.S. men’s soccer team lost to France
The first Olympic Games to be held amid the coronavirus pandemic will begin on July 28 in Paris. Over 3,300 people have died and more than 1 lakh have been diagnosed with coronavirus across the world so far. The Games will be held in a new format for the first time in nearly a quarter…
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Some Democrats are pleading with Biden to stop campaigning
Former US Vice President Joe Biden has said he is ” firmly committed” to staying in the 2020 US presidential election. He sent a letter to Democratic lawmakers, saying that speculation over his future was helping former President Donald Trump and that it was time to stop. He said that he thinks Vice President Harris…
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Biden told donors that he would be fighting harder after the debate
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said that he “got it” after the first US Presidential Debate in which he performed poorly. “We can waste time comparing debate nights, but you know what, we can,” Biden said. He added that he’s going to “fight harder” and “get this campaign back on track”. The second…
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The risks of long freight trains, and the ability to breed better wheat are reasons why open source artificial intelligences could be anything but
Facebook-owned Meta has expanded its AI translation model to 204 languages, including 150 ‘low-resource’ ones. The world record for a Rubik’s cube’s translation model has been set by Meta with its AI translation model expanding to 204 languages. Two human judges agreed with the first 100 answers of the chatbot 98% of the time.
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The winning pitch from the gun detection company was Disney
A tech startup Evolv’s Co-founder had told New York Mayor Mike Adams the company’s gun-detection technology was not geared toward subway stations, according to an email published by The New York Times. The firm was testing its technology in a Bronx hospital to screen visitors in emergency room for a man who’d been shot. The…
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The new asylum rule doesn’t have a big impact on unauthorized border crossings
US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said that it’s time to talk about asylum-seekers and not other immigrants who may be allowed to come here. “It’s taking too long for legal immigration applications to be processed, while the border iswide open” for arriving migrants, he added. Mayorkas also said that it’s taking too…
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“After nearly 300 days in a Russian prison, I feel ready to come home.”
US basketball player Brittney Griner has said she did not feel like a human when she was detained in a Russian prison. “At the end of…day…my dad taught me…you just take ownership for things that you’ve done…at times I still feel like I’m guilty…because I robbed my family time with me and now I feel…
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Changpeng had been sentenced to four months in prison
Binance Founder and CEO Zhao Jing was sentenced to 2 months in prison for violating the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Zhao’s lawyers said that he deserved no jail time, as “no defendant in a remotely similar BSA case has ever been sentenced to incarceration”. Zhao’s lawyers added that he did not defraud any investors or…
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Workers protest a Cloud contract with Israel
Google Cloud workers began a sit-in at Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale, California, to protest Israel’s alleged use of AI technology in its military operations in the Gaza Strip. This comes after TIME reported that Google had signed a contract with Israel’s Defence Ministry to build its own ‘landing zone’ on Google…
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My Story was told in Hotel Rwanda, here is what I want to know now
Rwanda on Sunday marked the 20th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in which over one lakh Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the country. The killings were started when a plane carrying the President was shot down and the Tutsis were blamed for shooting it. US President Bill Clinton, during his time in office,…
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The story of oneIsraeli hostage in Gaza was told for 127 days
The partner of one of the attackers in the October 7 terror attack in southern Israel, who was released along with his sister in November, said, “I’d say ‘we can’t give up on them’.” Har said that the guards told them all the time he wanted to marry his partner’s sister. Over 1,200 people were…
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At a time of mounting tension over the war in Gaza, Blinken will visit Israel
US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who will visit Israel on Friday, will meet with PM Benjamin Netanyahu and ministers from the Israeli war cabinet, an official said. Blinken’s visit comes after Israel carried out a raid on the largest hospital in Gaza for the second time in a week. Blinken had arrived in…
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There is chaos in Haiti, a country without a leader
Haitian street gangs are holding press conferences, even as their members hold much of Port-au-Prince hostage, terrorize the country at large and kidnap people, including children, women and health workers. A doctor said he had a call from a friend seeking care for a family member. “This is not a time to get sick…People are…
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Europe has a tech Crackdown and a month with the Vision Pro
Talking about the US’ Digital Markets Act (DMA), former Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that it’s a good thing to encourage innovation. “It’s time to step back and say,…this thing that came out that had all this attention…what is it actually being used for?” he said. “Things I actually thought I’d take up are not…
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Artificial intelligence tools are still generating misleading election images
Open source image generation software like Midjourney has been found to generate misleading election images about 65% of the time, according to a new analysis. Researchers tested 160 prompts on ChatGPT Plus and Midjourney, among others, and found that Midjourney was most likely to produce misleading election-related images. “The real weakness was around images that…
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The support of Christian nationalism is strongest in rural states
Talking about Christian nationalism, Tom Parker, the 25th President of the US, said, “By the time Donald Trump arrives, this group of Christian nationalists, whether they be evangelical, or conservative Catholics or Mormons, have a different attitude towards people like Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee.” He added, “The group of Christian nationalists think that Trump…
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Navalny is dead, but Putin can’t kill his vision of the future
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime is running out of fuel, Alexey Miniailo, an anti-government activist, said. “When he runs out of money, you will have much harder time solving these problems, which will lead to more…people being unhappy with their regime,” he added. Miniailo said that democracy depends on regular people, not on “super big…
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The TikTok Shop is taking on Amazon with a single viral video
TikTok Shop has been criticised for its advertising and affiliate policies, with one of its creators saying that TikTok felt like an endless shopping list to her. “It just turned out to be more and more advertisements of some things I needed…but a lot of the time it was stuff I just didn’t need,” said…
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Chris Christie will not be participating in the New Hampshire primary
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination for the US presidential election last week. He said that he would not be a part of the race because he felt that it was time to move on. A recent poll showed that many of Christie’s voters preferred Nikki…
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Netanyahu says the U.S. should not start working on Palestinian statehood
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected US calls to start planning for the establishment of a Palestinian state, saying, “We don’t need any international organisation to help.” He added, “Only a Palestinian state would be a launching pad for terrorist attacks on Israel.” This comes after US State Secretary Antony Blinken said that it…
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Fujimori was freed from prison on humanitarian grounds
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who was pardoned by ex-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on Thursday, has been convicted of ordering the deaths of at least 25 people during his presidency. Fujimori, who was extradited from Chile to Peru in 2007, was sentenced to 25 years in jail in 2018 for human rights abuses during his…