An immigration officer shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man afte reportedly ramming into his car
The man killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maine on Monday has been identified as Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, an ICE spokesperson said in a statement .
An immigration agent shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine, after reportedly ramming into his car.
Continue reading...Lindsey Graham’s younger sister appointed by South Carolina’s governor three days after senator’s death
Darline Graham, the sister of the late Republican senator Lindsey Graham, was sworn in to fill his Senate seat on Tuesday after, just three days after his sudden death.
Graham was appointed by Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governor.
Continue reading...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says they are scouring food supply chain for culprit, which may be lettuce
Federal health officials said they expect the outbreaks of cyclospora – a parasite that causes watery, explosive diarrhea – across the US to continue through August as they scour the food supply chain for the culprit.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified 1,645 lab-confirmed cases of the parasite; reported that 145 people have been hospitalized; and reported that they have a backlog of 5,100 cases that require more analysis, including interviews.
Continue reading...A boy, 16, and girl, 15, were charged with murder after the family members were shot at three different locations
Two teenagers were charged with murder Tuesday in the killings of five members of an Illinois family who were shot at three different locations.
A 16-year-old boy will be prosecuted as an adult, while the case against a 15-year-old girl will start in juvenile court before a possible transfer to the St Clair county criminal court, the county prosecutor’s office said.
Continue reading...Today, the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation to standardize internet-native payments for AI agents, APIs, and applications, based on Coinbase's contributed x402 protocol. Backed by companies including AWS, American Express, Cloudflare, Google, Mastercard, Stripe, and Visa, the effort aims to make payments work directly over HTTP (assuming users are comfortable letting AI agents handle financial transactions). "The whole idea is to give agents access to money and, through that financial independence, improve their set of capabilities to pretty much anything on the internet," Lincoln Murr, Coinbase's AI product lead, told CNBC last month when the company announced the protocol. "In the 2010s, every internet company dealt with the transition from desktop and web into a mobile environment. And now in the late 2020s, we're seeing the exact same thing happen where agents are going to be the new primary economic actors on the internet."
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Carl McDaniel, 65, from Washington state suffered broken bones after he was charged by a 2,000lb (900kg) bull during a visit to Yellowstone with his grandson on Friday. The encounter was recorded by Mike MacLeod, a professional photographer, who said the animal was 'agitated, pissed off and charging anything and everything'
Yellowstone tourist tossed 8ft in air by bison says attack could have been worse
Man tossed into the air by ‘agitated’ bull bison was grandfather visiting Yellowstone with grandson
Carl McDaniel, 65, from Washington state suffered broken bones after he was charged by a 2,000lb (900kg) bull during a visit to Yellowstone with his grandson on Friday. The encounter was recorded by Mike MacLeod, a professional photographer, who said the animal was 'agitated, pissed off and charging anything and everything'
Yellowstone tourist tossed 8ft in air by bison says attack could have been worse
Man tossed into the air by ‘agitated’ bull bison was grandfather visiting Yellowstone with grandson
Younger sister Graham was appointed by Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governor
Darline Graham, the sister of the late Republican senator Lindsey Graham, will be sworn in as his replacement on Tuesday to finish out the remainder of his term.
Graham was appointed by Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governor.
Continue reading...Lawsuit alleges administration coordinated with online surveillance groups to ‘criminalize solidarity with Palestine’
Mahmoud Khalil filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Trump administration officials and several pro-Israel groups, accusing them of conspiring to target him and others as punishment for their support of Palestinian rights.
The former Columbia University graduate student became the face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestine speech after he was detained last year. A permanent US resident, Khalil is also fighting in court against the government’s effort to deport him.
Continue reading...A collision of online conspiracy theories came for two of the most powerful Republicans in the Senate in recent days
It was Russia. It was Israel. Could it have been Iran? Or maybe it was a Covid-19 booster. What about the Clintons?
After US senator Lindsey Graham died suddenly over the weekend from what a preliminary medical examiner report said was an aortic dissection, conspiracy theories spread quickly claiming – without evidence – that any number of foreign adversaries or other frequent conspiracy subjects might have orchestrated the Republican’s death.
Continue reading...IBM issued profit warning after weak second quarter, triggering selloff in software sector including Microsoft
Shares in IBM plunged more than 25% on Tuesday after the US tech giant released disappointing preliminary second-quarter results. IBM’s stock was on track for an even steeper single-day decline than it suffered during the 1987 “Black Monday” crash.
IBM had issued a profit warning and blamed shifts in corporate customers’ spending. The company said revenue for the three months ending in June came in at $17.2bn, up just 1% year-over-year.
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