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Vaughan Gething has announced he is quitting as Welsh First Minister after four members of his government resigned in protest over his leadership.

Vectara is rolling out a new purpose built large language model for enterprise RAG that could also help enable AI agent workflows.

“It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” Donald Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social, forgetting momentarily that God did not spare Corey Comperatore, the 50-year-old volunteer firefighter shot dead while throwing himself over his family to protect them, nor James Copenhaver, 74, nor David Dutch, 57, who were critically wounded in the attack. (Both were listed Sunday in stable condition.) But given what we know about the AR-15, the style of semiautomatic rifle used in the shooting... Читать дальше...

In the wake of the horrific attempt to shoot Donald Trump, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Axios reported Monday that advisers close to the former president say he “plans to seize his moment by toning down his Trumpiness” and by “dialing up efforts to unite a tinder-box America.”

A few hours had passed since the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, and cable news desks already seemed to be struggling for fresh insights based on the scant available facts. I briefly turned on CNN and caught former Bush staffer Scott Jennings mid-sentence, saying, “…our country will end, our democracy will end. It’s the last election will ever have. These things have consequences, okay?”

The contradiction of Kevin Costner is that he’s a congenitally laid-back actor who’s at his most compelling when portraying characters in the throes of some deep, soul-shaking compulsion. Think of JFK’s crusading district attorney, Jim Garrison, who goes so far through the looking glass he can barely recognize himself. Or the cash-poor farmer Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, heedlessly risking his own bumper crop—and his family-man status—to construct a baseball diamond at the behest of the voices in his head. Читать дальше...

When I resigned from the State Department over the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, I felt a brief sense of relief. For the nearly six months between October 7 and my resignation, my workday had felt like a deluge of horror, flooded with the specifics of what was happening inside Palestine and U.S. support for it. In the evenings, I would go home and play with my toddler, grateful for the distraction and yet haunted by the children of Gaza. Holding my daughter in my arms... Читать дальше...

Imagine you’re browsing the web when suddenly your PC slows down, pop-up windows appear, and your personal data is stolen.

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On Monday, Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution against former President Donald Trump.

The FBI has yet to release a motive for the shooter who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, but if Theodore Roosevelt's is a guide the motive may not matter.

July's full moon — also known as the Buck Moon, the Thunder Moon and the Hay Moon — will be at its fullest on the night of July 21. It's the last "regular" full moon before a parade of four consecutive "supermoons" light up the sky.

NYC Department of Sanitation’s deputy commissioner answers our
burning questions about the city’s first official trash bins.

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A northern Manitoba father says his family still doesn't have any answers to why or how his daughter died in RCMP custody last year. The investigation into Janine Walker's death remains open, but Vernon Highway says he hasn't even seen her autopsy report.

Six years ago, USA Gymnastics was on the brink of collapse amid a sex abuse scandal that had cost it sponsorships and piled up lawsuits. Now, the organization hopes it has turned the page.

The agreement says the chain must correct any future safety violations regarding blocked exits or access to fire extinguishers and electrical panels — or face fines of up to $500,000 per violation.

Below is a preview along with picks for the MLB All-Star game, including our favorite prop bets for Tuesday.

Buyout firms are preparing for next year’s renegotiation of Trump’s 2017 tax bill, aiming to prevent rate increases.

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President Biden and his party face a new challenge in the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Trump on Saturday — how to calibrate their message. Up till now, Biden and his team have cast Trump as an existential danger to democracy. The hope, clearly, is that this argument will be enough for...

The Secret Service is facing fresh scrutiny after Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Trump, hauling the long-troubled agency back into the limelight over what many see as failures on its part to protect the high-profile GOP nominee. Trump was bloodied Saturday during a Pennsylvania campaign rally after he said a bullet nicked his ear....

A shocking assassination attempt, the dismissal of a major federal probe and intensifying divisions among Democrats have unexpectedly culminated to deliver a boost to former President Trump ahead of November. The former president’s lead in battleground state polls has solidified in the wake of the June 27 debate with President Biden, and Trump and his...

President Biden is eyeing a reset in the 2024 race after an assassination attempt on Donald Trump rocked the political world, pivoting attention away from his own troubled reelection bid and frustrations directed at him from within his party. In the weeks after Biden’s dismal debate performance against Trump, a number of Democrats came out in...

More than a quarter million people in and around Houston remained without power as of Monday after Hurricane Beryl hit the city last week — a crisis that has sparked political pressure from both sides of the aisle and drawn new attention to Texas's troubled grid. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is demanding answers from the...