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More support has been thrown behind the Clarity Act as lawmakers rush to get the long-awaited bill over the line. This time from the Major Cities Chiefs Association.  The nonprofit — made up of police chiefs from major U.S. cities — said Thursday that it was happy with how the bill addresses financial crime.  Lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act gets passed before Congress departs for August recess. While the bill has been drafted bipartisanly, some Democrats are unhappy with the current version.  JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Pro organization of police executives representing the largest cities in the U.S. now officially…

Two rangers who were badly injured in a serious vehicle accident while on duty in Mozambique earlier this month faced different outcomes: While one was enrolled in an insurance scheme that covers medical treatment and evacuation for rangers injured in the field, the other was not and faced far more limited options for his ongoing care and recovery.Increasingly, rangers are being called upon to operate in environments shaped by organized crime, armed conflict, and geopolitical instability, with climate change and climate-related disasters adding another layer of complexity.“Advocating for rangers’ work and highlighting the resources they lack matter more than…

I find the debate about the purported conflict between academic and technical education baffling and somewhat amusing (Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs, 28 July).In the 1950s, I attended Northampton technical high school. I studied the sciences plus English, French and technical (engineering) drawing to GCE level. I also did hands-on workshops in woodwork, metalwork and leatherwork (Northampton being a traditional shoemaking town). At A-level, I passed physics, chemistry and double maths, and studied physics at Leeds University. I also sang in choirs.My subsequent career in international business systems took me through manufacturing companies, consultancy and…

During Sen. Lindsey Graham’s funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on July 28, 2026, videos circulated online purportedly showing U.S. President Donald Trump falling asleep during the service. Graham died on July 11 after reportedly suffering from an aortic tear. Trump has frequently faced scrutiny for publicly dozing off — especially considering he nicknamed former President Joe Biden, “Sleepy Joe” — including at a White House Cabinet meeting in December 2025 and during an announcement in the Oval Office in June 2026. The claim that the president nodded off during Graham’s funeral spread across multiple platforms, with videos of different…

A spike in mortalityThe tightening restrictions have forced the Cuban government to effectively ration care.In February, Havana announced a package of emergency energy-saving measures. Among them was the suspension of all non-essential medical services across the island.But non-essential does not mean unimportant. Fernandez, the paediatric anaesthesiologist, explained that preventive healthcare plays a major role in saving lives.Under normal conditions, he said, preventive healthcare helps doctors catch potentially fatal conditions like appendicitis sooner.But in recent months, Fernandez has observed patients arriving at his hospital in a “worsened” condition than they might otherwise have had.“All the appendicitis cases we treat now present…

In a statement released after Thursday’s meeting, which was held virtually and chaired by president Aleksander Ceferin, Uefa said it and its 55 member associations “stand as one”.”We unanimously and unequivocally reject Fifa’s proposal to transfer ownership interests in the World Cup and other Fifa competitions to private investors,” it said.On Wednesday, Uefa had accused Fifa of using football “to enrich themselves and their friends”.Its statement on Thursday was even more damning, calling it “irresponsible and indefensible that a proposal of such significance for football was conceived in secret” and “without any meaningful consultation” with those who steward the game.It…

When you’ve lost the trust of GB News, when you’re too deranged, too extreme and too outright mendacious for your biggest fan, then you know you are in trouble. You can almost sense the panic beginning to set in at Reform HQ.No longer topping the opinion polls. A new prime minister resetting the dial, the public increasingly choosing optimism over grievance. A party mired in financial sleaze. A leader turning into a laughing stock in his head-to-head with a dustbin. It was never meant to be this way for Reform. They thought they were the winners.With Nigel Farage locked away…

Labour has accused Reform UK of being “up to its neck in sleaze” as it called on the Electoral Commission to urgently investigate substantial donations made to the party by the mother of a convicted fraudster.Bridget Phillipson, Labour’s new chair, called on the commission to examine whether any rules had been broken, after revelations in the Guardian that George Cottrell transferred more than $2m to his mother in the days before her donations to the party in 2024.A Labour spokesperson said Reform was “up to [its] neck in sleaze and dodgy money”.The commission has already made a referral to the…

Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents and other machine identities will grow as enterprises deploy autonomous software across their operations. The identity management company did not disclose the terms of the transaction. But TechCrunch has learned that the acquisition is valued at just under $200 million and is structured as an almost all-cash deal, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. A spokesperson for Okta did not dispute the figure when asked by TechCrunch, but would not comment on specifics of the deal terms. The…

Residential security company Brinks Home has disclosed that hackers breached some of its systems and are threatening to leak allegedly stolen data. ​The company identified the attack on July 20 and immediately activated its incident response procedure to contain the breach. William Niles, CEO at Brinks Home, said that the company’s team was working with “leading forensics experts to address this issue.” The intrusion did not impact in any way the company’s alarm monitoring and system functionality. At the beginning of the week, the ShinyHunters extortion gang claimed the attack on Brinks Home, alleging that they stole more than 4.9…