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Claim: A member of the legal team for U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who has challenged President Donald Trump’s actions involving the Kennedy Center, wrote in a court declaration that she saw a forklift repeatedly run into pillars at the building. Rating: Context We are unable to determine why the forklift was running into the pillars, and cannot confirm whether it was a malfunction or intentional. In mid-September 2026, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., announced it would be closing its doors to the public due to financial concerns and renovations. Soon…

UNSC meeting on Syria turned into a heated debate between Israel and Turkiye over troops in Syrian territory.Published On 18 Sep 202618 Sep 2026The United Nations Security Council’s monthly meeting on Syria’s post-Assad transition has seen Syria, Israel and Turkiye trade accusations over who can rightfully have a military presence on Syrian soil.Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ibrahim Olabi, told council members on Thursday that he had hoped to focus on the country’s progress but was compelled to address Israel’s actions in Syria, according to a UN summary of the meeting.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“Israel penetrated…

Leah Feiger: OK. This is super helpful for me that we’re dividing it into these three categories.Zoë Schiffer: I love a bucket.Leah Feiger: I love a bucket. I want to go through every single one of these. My first question I suppose is, where do the nuclear codes getting pressed, which bucket do they fall into?Brian Barrett: That’s the one that we actually don’t have to worry about, right?Zoë Schiffer: Yeah.Leah Feiger: Tell me more.Zoë Schiffer: You talk to AI researchers, and if you really, really press them, you can get to the three buckets that I just laid out.…

On Tuesday, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seized the domains used by NightmareStresser, one of the world’s longest-running distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) platforms. “Booter services” like NightmareStresser are DDoS-for-hire services that let anyone rent large botnets of compromised routers and a wide range of IoT devices to launch massive DDoS attacks targeting online platforms and services. Before the nightmare-stresser[.]com and nightmarestresser[.]org were taken down, the stresser service described itself as the “#1 online IP booter” and “the only DDoS tool available 24/7.” As cybersecurity firm Searchlight Cyber reported in 2023, NightmareStresser had over 566,000 registered users and 52 dedicated servers…

Two years ago, Bitcoin-backed digital credit barely existed. Today it’s a roughly $16 billion market and Dan Hillery of UXTO thinks the financialization layer on top of Bitcoin could one day rival the network itself. In the debut episode of The Allocators Edge, Hillery breaks down how variable-rate preferred securities like STRC and SATA are priced, why buybacks keep them anchored near $100 par, and what separates digital credit risk from digital equity risk. He also walks through the structured credit fund he’s building, including its senior and junior tranches. 0:00 — Digital Credit Is the Fastest-Growing Part of Bitcoin’s…

Tiny particles from space are passing through Earth all the time, even though we cannot see, hear, feel, taste, or smell them. Many of these particles are linked to cosmic rays, extremely energetic particles that can come from exploding stars and other violent events far beyond our solar system. When cosmic rays strike atoms high in Earth’s atmosphere, they create showers of secondary particles. Among them are muons, which can travel through the atmosphere and even penetrate underground. University of Delaware physics professor Spencer Axani has developed a device called CosmicWatch that makes it much easier to detect these otherwise…

In India, the exotic pet trade is increasing the risk of zoonotic disease spillovers, as close contact with imported wild animals creates repeated opportunities for dangerous pathogens to jump to humans and vice versa, reports Mongabay India’s Arathi Menon. Dr. Rina Dev, an avian and exotic animal veterinarian in Mumbai who treats imported and seized wildlife, experienced the potential danger firsthand when she was hospitalized with a lung infection. “I hope it’s not something from the parrots I was treating,” Dev told Mongabay India after she was released from the hospital. Her concerns are warranted: diseases like avian…

Regarding teaching children life skills (Letters, 14 September), in the 1990s I worked as a student accommodation manager. A mother phoned me devastated that her son had not been allocated catered halls. “He can’t cook,” she pleaded. Close to the end of my tether with hundreds of students to house, I retorted brusquely: “You’ve got three weeks, teach him.”Helen Barney Mumbles, Swansea Some 28 years ago, my son went to university armed with fundamental cooking skills. After making a bolognese sauce for eight, he became the chef and never had to buy food or do the washing up in his…

So what about the crocodiles?They’re not mentioned anywhere in the latest update from the IOC and World Rowing and they weren’t referenced in the media release about the technical assessment. That report itself has not yet been made public.The safety management plan for this weekend’s school regatta does however mention the word “crocodile” 28 times.”The Fitzroy River is within recognised crocodile country,” it says.”Event planning must therefore assume that a crocodile sighting is possible… No natural waterway in crocodile country can be guaranteed to be crocodile-free.”Procedures this weekend include suspending racing and competitors returning to the bank if a croc…

There is a sizeable group of Lib Dem MPs, and members of its frontbench, who openly question whether their problem is not with the message, nor the strategy, but with Davey, the leader.”I think he’s holding us back,” said one of the party’s spokespeople who is planning a tilt at the leadership if a race is triggered.”The atmosphere is ripe for a leadership challenge,” another MP, talking of the frustrations in the party, said. “But we don’t have a Wes Streeting,” they added, referring to Labour’s defence secretary whose challenge to Sir Keir Starmer undermined his leadership.”There is a lack…