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Pastor and his wife resign in disgrace after they were accused of hiring worst person imaginable to oversee children’s programs at their church

  • Pastor and wife resign after backlash over a children's programme hire
  • Person appointed to oversee children reportedly deemed highly unsuitable
  • Case raises safeguarding and vetting concerns at the church

A pastor and his wife have resigned from their positions at their church after facing accusations that they had hired a highly unsuitable individual to oversee the church's children's programmes. The controversy has caused significant embarrassment for the couple and the congregation, raising serious questions about the vetting…

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Prime Video’s ‘Bosch’ Replacement Officially Returns Without Titus Welliver

  • Maggie Q teases "Ballard" Season 2 with a Season 1 anniversary clip
  • Titus Welliver absent from the footage but confirmed to return
  • Welliver says Bosch will appear in three episodes again, no release date set yet

Amazon's Prime Video crime drama "Ballard" is set to return for a second season, with star Maggie Q marking the show's one-year anniversary by sharing behind-the-scenes footage from Season 1 on Instagram. The clip, showing her filming an action sequence involving police vehicles and a shotgun on a…

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Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid

  • Researchers devised a way to weaponise AI GPU workloads against power grids
  • Attack could exploit power swings to trigger blackouts or equipment damage
  • Covert method calls for combined cyber-physical datacentre security defences

Chinese cybersecurity researchers have outlined an attack, dubbed Bit2Watt, that would let a malicious cloud customer pose as a legitimate tenant and run GPU workloads specifically crafted to destabilise a datacentre's electrical infrastructure. Rather than simply overloading systems, the technique exploits the way AI training workloads cause rapid,…

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GRAHAM GRANT: Grasping Nationalists want a ‘conversation’ on new wealth taxes – with Burnham as PM, they’re pushing on an open door

  • Graham Grant says SNP's wealth tax push suits new PM Andy Burnham.
  • Burnham signals return of 50p top income tax rate.
  • Cost-of-living support to be funded by wealthier taxpayers.

Columnist Graham Grant argues that the SNP's long-standing push for a "conversation" on new wealth taxes has been given fresh impetus by Andy Burnham's arrival as Prime Minister, since Burnham has already signalled a willingness to raise taxes on the wealthy. The piece frames this as a significant…

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Messi says ‘pain is immense’ after losing World Cup final

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  • Argentina lost the World Cup final 1-0 to Spain
  • Ferran Torres scored the winner in extra time
  • Messi suffers second World Cup final defeat, future uncertain

Lionel Messi says "the pain is immense" after Argentina lost 1-0 to Spain in the World Cup 2026 final, with Ferran Torres scoring the decisive goal in extra time. The result crowned Spain world champions for a second time and ended Argentina's defence of the title they won…

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Hailey Ostrom is back defending summer at the lake armed with her golf club and bikini

  • OutKick revisits its "defending summer" bit featuring Hailey Ostrom.
  • Piece jokes about early Halloween displays appearing in summer.
  • Framed around photos with Ostrom and snowboarder Louie Vito.

This is a light-hearted lifestyle feature from Fox Sports' OutKick site, revisiting model Hailey Rae Ostrom's seasonal "defending summer" bit alongside snowboarder Louie Vito, in which the author jokes about resisting the premature arrival of autumn imagery. The piece is framed around a running gripe from the writer…

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Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

  • Startup Natural raises $30M Series A to build AI-agent payment infrastructure.
  • Aims to let AI agents pay, collect funds and transact autonomously.
  • Positions itself as a direct rival to Stripe and Skyfire Systems.

Natural, a fintech startup building payment infrastructure designed for AI agents rather than humans, has raised $30 million in Series A funding as it prepares to compete with established players such as Stripe. The company argues that today's financial rails, including credit cards and ACH transfers, rely on…

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Inside underground El Paso storm drain system Border Patrol says cartels exploit to smuggle illegal migrants

  • Cartels reportedly use El Paso storm drains to smuggle migrants
  • Tunnels described as hot, dark and dangerously confined
  • Smugglers charging $20,000-$30,000 per person for passage

Fox News has reported on an underground network of storm drains beneath El Paso, Texas, which US Border Patrol agents say is being exploited by cartels to smuggle migrants illegally into the country. Agents describe the tunnel system, originally built for flood control, as effectively "a city underneath…

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‘Today’ suspect caught on camera before hate crime arrest, rap sheet reveals attempted kidnapping conviction

  • Andrew Truelove, 41, arrested after approaching Craig Melvin at NBC studio
  • Court records show decades-old attempted kidnapping conviction
  • "Today" hosts confirmed intruder was caught on camera, arrested quickly

The man accused of committing a hate crime against "Today" show co-host Craig Melvin at NBC's Manhattan studio has a criminal history spanning more than two decades, including a conviction for attempted kidnapping, according to court records. The case has drawn attention because the suspect was captured on…

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Even Mild Sleep Deprivation May Lead to Weight Gain

  • Mild, chronic sleep loss linked to weight gain, not just severe deprivation
  • 80 minutes less sleep nightly caused about 1lb average weight gain over six weeks
  • Sleep loss also raised sitting time, insulin resistance and inflammation markers

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Vagelos School of Medicine has found that even mild, chronic sleep deprivation can lead to weight gain, a condition thought to affect around 30 per cent of adults. This challenges the assumption, based largely on studies of severe sleep restriction, that…

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