Month: August 2024
Ukrainian military says it attacked Russian airfield, oil depots
Ukrainian soldiers fire D-30 artillery in the direction of Toretsk, Ukraine, on July 30, 2024. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Ukraine’s military said on Saturday it had attacked Russia’s Morozovsk airfield and a number of oil depots and fuel storage facilities in three Russian regions overnight. The attack on the airfield hit an ammunition […]
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AP review of Venezuela opposition-provided vote tallies casts doubt on government’s election results
An AP analysis of vote tally sheets released Friday by Venezuela’s main opposition indicates that their candidate won significantly more votes in Sunday’s election than the government has claimed, casting serious doubt on the official declaration that President Nicolás Maduro won. The AP processed almost 24,000 images of tally sheets, representing the results from 79% of voting […]
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Exchanged prisoner Yashin condemns his ‘illegal expulsion’ from Russia
Russian political prisoner Ilya Yashin, who was released after a major prisoner exchange, gives a press conference in Bonn, Germany. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images Ilya Yashin, a Russian opposition activist freed from jail in Thursday’s prisoner swap, pledged to carry on his political fight against President Vladimir Putin from abroad, but expressed fury […]
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Trump agrees to Fox News offer of debate with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 4
Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Andrew Kelly | Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has agreed to an offer from Fox News to hold a debate with Democratic U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 4, he said in a post […]
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin withdraws plea deal for accused 9/11 terrorists
his Monday, Dec. 8, 2008 courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by the U.S. military, shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, center, and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash, left, attending a pre-trial session at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Mohammed is the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. His trial date has been postponed […]
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Tech stocks wrap up steepest three-week slump in two years, led by plunge in Amazon and Intel
Signage outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on March 23, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images With second-quarter earnings from tech’s mega-cap companies largely in the rearview mirror, one thing is clear: Wall Street is nervous. The Nasdaq slumped 3.4% this week, bringing its three-week slide to 8.8%. It’s the worst performance […]
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Eli Lilly’s Zepbound and Mounjaro now available in U.S. after shortages, FDA says
An injection pen of Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug, is displayed in New York City on Dec. 11, 2023. Brendan McDermid | Reuters All doses of Eli Lilly’s highly popular weight loss injection Zepbound and diabetes drug Mounjaro are now available in the U.S., according to an update on the U.S. Food and Drug […]
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Ex-Google engineers who founded Character.AI rejoin company with new AI partnership
Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Founders of one of the hottest artificial intelligence startups Character.AI are rejoining Google along with other team members. Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, in addition to certain members of Character.AI’s research team, are joining Google’s AI unit DeepMind, the companies said Friday. Character.AI uses large language models […]
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Perspective: There’s typically one correction every year — and this could be it
A one-day market crush of this magnitude is unnerving for sure, especially on the back of the aggressive tech selling seen in July, but traders are trying to keep some perspective. The S & P 500 is down 5.7% from its all-time high following Friday’s losses, making this the second decline of greater than 5% […]
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Hunter Biden criminal gun case sentencing set for Nov. 13, after presidential election
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden arrive at the federal court during his trial on criminal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 5, 2024. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Hunter Biden will be sentenced in his criminal gun case in Delaware eight days after the 2024 presidential […]
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