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Published On 28 Jul 202628 Jul 2026Hundreds of mourners have paid their respects to the late Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.The Republican lawmaker and key ally of President Donald Trump unexpectedly died on July 11.Graham was elected to the US Senate in 2002 and was re-elected in 2008, 2014 and 2020. In 1994, he was elected to ⁠the US House of Representatives, the lower house of the US Congress, for South Carolina’s third congressional district. He recently served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Graham also served as a member of ‌the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the Senate…

The US delegation walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, in protest at comments made by France that compared Washington’s voting on human rights to that of authoritarian states.The diplomatic row was initially sparked last week, when the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending Volker Turk’s term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. After the vote on Friday, France’s UN mission criticised the US and compared it to North Korea and Russia. “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore,” it posted on X, external.In response, US ambassador…

A sordid, yearslong family drama involving two powerful Republican members of Congress from Ohio and allegations of domestic abuse is threatening to put a fairly safe G.O.P. House seat at risk in an already challenging midterm election year for the party.Representative Max Miller, a second-term Republican representing northeast Ohio whose political rise was fueled by his close relationship to President Trump, has been accused by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, of domestic abuse against her and their 2-year-old daughter.Ms. Moreno, the daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno, also an Ohio Republican, has said that Mr. Miller scalded her chest and stomach by…

President Trump on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to step in and overturn an $83.3 million jury award against him for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of a decades-old sexual assault in a Manhattan department store.The president urged the justices to reject the jury’s award, asserting that the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision granting presidents sweeping immunity for actions they take in office shielded him from liability in the case.“This is the first case in our nation’s history in which a court has imposed damages liability on a president for his conduct in office,” Mr. Trump’s…

For years, Laura Loomer’s position on Ukraine was crystal clear. It was “a country full of Nazi apologists” led by “a Jihadi apologist.” Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and avid Trump supporter, called American politicians who supported Ukraine in its war against Russia “traitors.”But Loomer, who traveled to Ukraine last week, has changed her tune. She has posted a seemingly endless stream of content from the country, including a sit-down interview with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pictures of her eating McDonald’s surrounded by bombed-out buildings in the capital, Kyiv.Earlier this month, hours after news broke of Senator Lindsey Graham’s death,…

Fireworks AI has released Fireworks Nexus, an AI management and routing platform aimed at engineering organizations. It connects the coding tools developers already use to a managed layer of open-weight models. The problem it targets is well documented. Forbes reported that Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Claude Code had reached roughly 5,000 engineers after a December rollout. Fireworks cites the same report, noting agentic adoption climbed from about a third of engineers to more than four-fifths in two months. Fireworks frames the underlying issue as a mismatch, not an overspend. Most organizations run routine work…

CubePilot, an Australian firm that designs flight controllers for drones (UAVs), announced a severe operational disruption caused by a DNS hijacking attack. Hijacking domain name system (DNS) records allows threat actors to redirect users to their infrastructure, diverting traffic intended for a legitimate service. This exposes users to dangerous scenarios such as sensitive data interception, malware delivery, and phishing. According to a status update published on CubePilot’s website, an attacker gained control of the cubepilot[.]org domain DNS settings on July 24, allowing them to intercept traffic intended for internal systems. The attacker also obtained TLS certificates covering all cubepilot.org subdomains,…

A two-minute price shock in a Hyperliquid market tied to South Korea’s SK Hynix has put the mechanics and oversight of equity-linked perpetuals under scrutiny.SKHX, a TradeXYZ-operated perpetual on Hyperliquid that tracks the US dollar value of one Korean SK Hynix share, briefly sank to $927 during South Korea’s pre-market window before recovering within roughly two minutes, according to local media.A later DefiLlama snapshot put open interest at $407 million, down 20% over 24 hours, while 24-hour trading volume reached $959 million. Open interest measures the rolling value of outstanding positions, incorporating changes in both position size and price.The underlying…

Many molecules come in two forms that are mirror images of one another, much like left and right hands. Although these molecular twins can appear nearly identical, they may behave in dramatically different ways, particularly in living systems and medicines. Telling these enantiomers (also called chiral molecules) apart has remained a major scientific and technological challenge. One way to understand molecular handedness is to think about a screw and a nut. A right-handed screw fits a right-handed thread, while a left-handed screw does not. Researchers have now shown that specially shaped light can act as a similar type of threaded…

The humorous tale of Morris the staffie (The pet I’ll never forget, 27 July) reminded me of when I returned from work one evening wondering why my husband hadn’t roasted the joint of beef I’d taken out from the freezer that morning for the evening meal. There was no trace of it anywhere, nor the plate it was on. Next day, evidence of the butcher’s string tied round the meat appeared during our dog walk, but we never found the plate.Jeanette HamiltonBuxton, Derbyshire Dr Terry Scragg (Letters, 27 July) would like to know what the “short illness” is that features…