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Trump official is grilled over her boss’ bathroom habits as explosive DOJ feud is exposed
Harmeet Dhillon, head of the US Justice Department’s civil rights division, has reportedly threatened to resign unless President Trump promotes her or an ally of her choosing to the role of deputy attorney general, according to a New York Times investigation. The report also details a bitter internal feud between Dhillon and Leo Terrell, a…
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Apple May Soon Join Google In Renaming Lake Ontario After Donald Trump’s Executive Order
Apple is reportedly poised to follow Google in renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” for US users of its maps app, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the lake’s name amid an ongoing trade dispute with Canada. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Trump had personally lobbied Apple to make the switch,…
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Pressure mounts on Westminster, Tehran and the transfer market
Badenoch’s sweeping shadow Cabinet reshuffle axes Stride and Patel, while disputed footage of an Iran energy site fuels US-Iran tensions and Melbourne rally clashes turn violent; plus AI scribe errors, heart-drug relief for cancer survivors, Lifetime Isa advice and deadline-day transfer moves.
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Kalshi dishes out its first-ever lifetime ban to George Santos
Kalshi has permanently barred former US congressman George Santos from its prediction market platform and fined him $71,356, the first lifetime ban the trading platform has ever issued, after finding he failed to fully cooperate with its investigation into alleged insider trading. The case has drawn attention to how prediction markets, which let users trade…
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Ken Paxton criticised over luxury attire on Texas campaign trail
Republican Ken Paxton, locked in an unexpectedly tight US Senate race in Texas, has drawn criticism after being photographed wearing a Four Seasons Orlando golf shirt and a luxury watch worth roughly £30,000 while campaigning in San Antonio. The moment has proved awkward given the affordability concerns dominating the race, with Democratic rival James Talarico…
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Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution
Debian developers have voted to permit the use of generative AI tools in contributions to the Linux distribution, rejecting alternative proposals that would have imposed a ban. The new policy states that AI-assisted work is “neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already expected of Debian contributors,” meaning it must meet…
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How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools
Cryptography professor Matthew Green has sparked debate in the cybersecurity community by suggesting that AI could make software so secure that governments lose their ability to lawfully hack suspects. His argument is that as AI-powered tools become better at finding and patching software vulnerabilities, the “uneasy truce” under which law enforcement uses hacking tools and…
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Prison governors voice alarm at ‘revolving door’ of criminals released early – as minister defends Andy Burnham’s latest plan
Prison governors have raised alarm over the “revolving door” of criminals being released early, as ministers defend the latest change to a scheme aimed at easing overcrowding in England and Wales. Around 4,500 inmates are set to be released earlier than planned over the next ten months, and while Sir Keir Starmer altered the policy…
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Healey seeks G20 defence funding cooperation before UK Budget
Chancellor John Healey has called on G20 counterparts to boost international cooperation on defence funding, using talks in North Carolina to push for joint mechanisms to strengthen collective economic resilience. He cited the impact of the Iran conflict on energy prices as evidence that no single country can absorb such shocks alone, framing the push…
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‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament
A Guardian Australia investigation has found that Australia’s parliamentary inquiry system is being flooded with AI-generated submissions containing hallucinated content, including invented studies and fabricated research wrongly attributed to real academics. Some committee reports have cited submissions in which most sources appear to be AI “hallucinations” — plausible but false content generated by large language…