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It’s worth noting that Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan was the latest win for progressives across the country, many of whom challenged establishment-backed Democrats in key races across the country.Last month, Democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated the long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections.And in New York, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, who were all backed by mayor Zohran Mamdani, also won races in the June congressional primaries. Lander won his race comfortably, defeating the two-term Democratic representative Dan Goldman. Valdez won against Antonio Reynoso – the handpicked successor of Nydia Velázquez. And Chevalier toppled…

But the campaign has run into strong opposition from Malta. The tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea, with a population of just over half a million people, is home to a burgeoning betting sector. It says that higher taxes will cripple its gambling industry, boost illegal operators and drive firms outside the bloc. “[Malta] will not accept the introduction of any EU-level taxes designed to sustain the bloc’s spending,” the country’s Prime Minister, Robert Abela, told the Maltese Parliament in June. But Shilton, who lost more than £1 million in betting on horse racing over 45 years and now runs…

The federal government is firing the nonprofit group that coordinates organ donations in Kentucky after finding that it tried to pursue organs from critically ill people who were recovering from their injuries.The decision, announced on Wednesday, will effectively shut down the organization, called Network for Hope. It is part of a monthslong effort to address unsafe and unfair practices in the United States organ transplant system.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose department oversees the transplant system, cut ties with a similar nonprofit in South Florida last year. Before that, the roughly 55 groups that have federal contracts to manage…

On Wednesday, Becky Fernette arrived at a crowded meet-and-greet for Francesca Hong, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor, having heard all about Ms. Hong’s social media kerfuffle this week over the nation’s holidays.Yes, she knew that Ms. Hong had said she disliked Thanksgiving, a new issue to go alongside a past call for abolishing the police. The commentary had been fervently picked apart on cable news for days.But Ms. Fernette, 64, who plans to vote for Ms. Hong in the primary, said, “I also do not support Thanksgiving.”In her final push less than one week before the…

pros and cons Pros Compact designDependable performanceUnique interactivity Cons Awkward cable managementSome inconsistent features Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.The image above is not an Apple Mac Mini or even the Satechi CubeDock. It’s Lenovo’s new compact PC, the Yoga Mini Gen 11, featuring a round form factor and some unique features. It’s definitely one of the smaller PCs I’ve tested, with respectable hardware designed for everyday, mainstream use. Its design is interesting: the aluminum exterior helps dissipate heat effectively, allowing the system to maintain high performance for extended periods. Plus, its diminutive size makes it ideal for cramped…

Meta AI has released Muse Code (in beta), a terminal coding agent in beta, powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model. Meta positions the pair as its next step toward the frontier, with larger models on the way. Muse Code targets complex software engineering across large repositories: it plans changes, writes code, and validates the results. A set of async background agents stays alive for the whole session instead of spawning per task. A local append-only event log records every model call, tool run, approval, and edit, which Meta calls replay-exact and restart-safe. Muse Spark 1.2 was co-trained with…

Black Hat USA 2026 – Las Vegas – Researchers disclosed 15 vulnerabilities in TP-Link networking technologies that they say call into question organizations’ blind trust in zero-touch provisioning (ZTP).TP-Link is one of the world’s largest edge device manufacturers. According to the company, its products are used by 1.7 billion people in more than 170 countries. In years past, TP-Link has enjoyed billion-dollar annual sales figures, with somewhere between 15% and 45% of the global market share for wireless local area network (WLAN) tech. The company has even had to play down its ubiquity in recent years, for political purposes.At Black…

What the regimes revealSplitting the window into bull, bear and sideways markets by the 200-day moving average sharpens the picture considerably. In bull regimes both approaches beat the plain 60/40, though the trend version retained much of the upside on a more controlled path. Bear regimes produced the widest gap. Spot exposure transmitted more of crypto’s drawdown into the broader portfolio, while the trend sleeve, designed to step away from persistent downtrends, kept losses shallower and the ride more survivable.Sideways markets deserve more attention than they usually receive. Range-bound conditions, where prices churn without a clear direction, offer no strong…

A 31-foot predator that once hunted dinosaurs across what is now the eastern United States has been reconstructed in scientifically accurate, life-size form for the first time. Dr. David Schwimmer, a Columbus State University geology professor and internationally recognized authority on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus, contributed decades of research to the creation of the first scholarly accurate mounted skeleton replica of Deinosuchus schwimmeri. Often described as a “dinosaur-killer,” the enormous reptile was almost certainly the leading predator in its ecosystem. A School Bus-Sized Predator Returns Deinosuchus schwimmeri lived in the eastern United States between 83 million and…

I am in support of Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s suggestion that we should abolish fines for holidays in school term time (I’m all for the nanny state – but we should abolish fines for holidays in term time, 2 August). She makes all the correct and logical arguments, to which I would add one more. One of the justifications for the fines is that children miss out on valuable learning, but this is simply not the case as teachers turn to movies, games and other distractions in those last weeks of term.There is very little curriculum learning happening in those periods…