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Speaking alongside Putin, Kazakh president calls for freeze of Ukraine war

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Saturday that a Ukraine peace deal might be reached if the two sides froze the conflict and resumed negotiations.Speaking alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin at a Russia-Kazakhstan forum in the Siberian city of Omsk, Tokayev praised Putin's "utmost diplomatic flexibility.""If I may offer my humble opinion, since I have been asked, perhaps it is time to freeze this conflict and return to the Istanbul formula 2.0," he said.Moscow and Kyiv participated in talks in Istanbul soon after Russia's full-scale invasion in early 2022 and again

India's Instagram Gen Z dents Modi's aura ahead of key state polls

LSEG's Lipper reviews transaction affecting fixed-income fund flow data

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Small businesses file lawsuits against Trump's new sweeping tariffs

Trump's tariffs are headed to court — again. Two lawsuits filed by small businesses are challenging Trump's sweeping tariffs announced Thursday that impose double-digit levies on 60 trading partners. The tariffs, implemented under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 for what the Trump administration says is countries' failure to prevent imports produced by forced labor, cover 99% of U.S. imports. Critics say the goal is less to prevent forced-labor imports and more to replace the worldwide tariffs that Trump imposed last year that were struck down by the Supreme

US aimed to send envoys to Brazil to question its electoral system - sources

Israel detains over 70 suspects following deadly violence in the West Bank

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Disappointment and fear as tens of thousands people evacuate French wildfires

When raging wildfires threatened Mohammed Laabar's hometown in southwestern France on Friday, he and his wife gathered their three-year-old son, grabbed a pre-prepared survival kit and fled to nearby Bordeaux.Within hours, however, the winds shifted, carrying smoke and fumes from the fires into Bordeaux.For Laabar, a 35-year-old truck driver who lives in the town of Salaunes, the apocalyptic scenes that have come to define France's scorching summer of 2026 offered a sobering glimpse of the years ahead."We'll see this more often in the future, that's for sure,” he told Reuters at a makeshift

Wisconsin's capital city cancels signature events, grapples with fallout from police shooting

Iran-backed Houthis fire missiles at Saudi Arabia in response to airstrikes in Yemen

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Maine Democrats nominate Troy Jackson to replace Platner in US Senate race

Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson on Saturday won the state Democratic Party's U.S. Senate nomination, formally ending a two-week scramble to replace Graham Platner on the ballot for November's midterm election.Platner withdrew on July 10 after sexual assault allegations were made against him. He denies the allegations.The overwhelming majority of some 600 delegates at a party convention on Saturday in Bangor selected Jackson over Saundra Pelletier, the wealthy chief executive of a biopharmaceutical company.Jackson will face Senator Susan Collins, a Republican who has held the seat s

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Maine Democrats pick Troy Jackson as their Senate nominee at an unusual party convention

Maine Democrats picked Troy Jackson as their new Senate nominee on Saturday, the culmination of a brief and unusual contest that sets the stage for a 101-day sprint to try and defeat Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of the country’s most important Senate races.In a nearly unanimous vote, 566 delegates at a party convention in Bangor picked Jackson, the former state Senate president, as the nominee to replace Graham Platner after he dropped out earlier this month following an allegation of rape. Jackson faced little opposition at the convention after filling most delegate slots at county

Maine Democratic delegates choose Troy Jackson as new nominee to face US Sen. Susan Collins

Paramount agrees to delay Warner Bros. Discovery takeover for months

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Trump says US and Iran are talking, but Tehran is not yet ready for deal

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States and Iran were in talks to negotiate an end to their conflict, but repeated that Tehran was not yet ready for a deal."We are talking to them. I think they're being serious. I think ... they are being by far the most serious that we've seen them, but that doesn't mean we get there. We'll see what happens," Trump said in remarks to reporters at the White House. (Reporting by Bo Erickson, Bhargav Acharya and Ismail Shakil;Editing by David Ljunggren)

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Substance in Houston ICE shooting van was not drugs, district attorney’s office says testing confirms

The substance collected from the van driven by Lorenzo Salgado Araujo when he was shot and killed by an ICE agent during a traffic stop in Houston this month was not drugs, according to a spokesperson for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office who said their office had been notified of the results.This comes after the FBI filed a warrant application saying the agency had cause to believe an investigator found illegal drugs in the vehicle being driven by the 52-year-old Mexican immigrant and longtime Texas resident when he was fatally shot on July 7.When reached for comment, the U.S. At

South Carolina picked by DNC panel to hold Democrats’ first 2028 presidential primary

Investigators reveal new details of school shooting after guilty plea, emotional victim statements

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Trump orders signs outside history museum to correct what he calls 'inaccurate information'

President Donald Trump directed federal officials on Friday to install signs outside the Smithsonian's flagship National Museum of American History to reflect his administration's criticism of how the institution portrays the United States.Trump's executive order cited a White House Domestic Policy Council report accusing the museum of "thinly veiled anti-Americanism" and "extreme political activism." He said he directed officials to install temporary signs on sidewalks maintained by the National Park Service to correct "inaccurate information presented in the Museum."While the Park Servic

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France and Spain battle wildfires as more than 250,000 people are forced to flee homes

France sent a hulking military cargo plane to dump tons of flame retardants as it battled raging wildfires on Saturday and slashed the final stage of Tour de France to redeploy security personnel to the blazes that forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. The latest wildfires in southern Europe this week have displaced more than 250,000 people, including some 70,000 people who were evacuated in central Spain. One man died in Manises, the municipality reported on its Facebook page, the first death so far in the blazes. In France, the giant A400M tra

Iran-backed Houthis fire missiles at Saudi Arabia in response to airstrikes in Yemen

After being ‘bamboozled by Russian propaganda,’ Laura Loomer says she’s all in for Ukraine

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What’s horned, fluffy, and ethically dubious? Yak clones

On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work creating horned, fluffy clones.These are Tibetan yaks, designed and cloned in secretive labs more than 4,000 meters above sea level, where researchers hope to create an “elite” herd of super-yaks, healthier and more fertile than their predecessors.This project, scientists hope, could even potentially revive a wild species revered by local Tibetans as a favorite of the land god.The long-haired Himalayan cattle are a critical part of the region’s economy and culture. But

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Salmonella outbreak tied to eggs has sickened 98 people since November

Nearly 100 people in 17 states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak tied to recalled eggs, federal health officials said Friday. The 98 people had illnesses that started between Nov. 21 and June 30, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. No deaths have been reported, but 26 people have been hospitalized. Investigators have determined that shell eggs recalled by Midwest Poultry Services are a likely source of the germ, but the Indiana-based company doesn’t account for all the illnesses. Midwest Poultry previously recalled eggs pro

ICC member states vote to dismiss chief prosecutor Khan

SpaceX launches Starship on another test flight, this time with the most advanced Starlinks

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Why Venezuela can’t access $4 billion in gold that could help with earthquake recovery

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Chinese ship shoots water cannon at Philippine vessel with CNN crew on board near flashpoint shoal

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China coast guard uses water cannons on 2 Philippine vessels as top diplomats meet in Manila

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Trump orders signs be installed outside Smithsonian museum warning of ‘inaccurate information’

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Trump imposes new global tariffs, drawing protests from trading partners

The United States on Friday imposed new tariffs of 10% and 12.5% on goods from 60 trading partners, including the EU and China, alleging those countries

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How Trump upended the Saudi nuclear deal less than 24 hours after its signing

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Trump imposes new tariffs targeting dozens of countries

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Laura Loomer meets Zelenskyy in Ukraine after her major reversal on the war

Laura Loomer, President Donald Trump's ally with a reputation for incendiary social media comments, has sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after a dramatic about-face regarding the war

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‘Up in smoke’: Attacks on ‘Russia’s Amazon’ bring Putin’s war closer to home

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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