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The White House has withdrawn the nomination of Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement, less than three months after announcing his role.Critics had initially criticized administration officials for nominating Schroyer, who has no formal experience working in ICE, to lead Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda.Schroyer previously worked as a member of homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin’s security detail when he was in the Senate. Since then, Schroyer has been serving as an adviser to Mullin.White House officials did not give a reason for withdrawing Schroyer’s nomination in an announcement posted on the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed a new acting prosecutor general, after the predecessor resigned over an anti-corruption investigation.Anton Kovalskyi, 42, was appointed on Thursday to replace Ruslan Kravchenko, who stood down last week following searches of his offices by Ukrainian anti-corruption officials related to illegal call centres in the country.Officials said they identified a money-laundering scheme led by an official in Kravchenko’s office, a claim he rejected.The investigation into Kravchenko’s office is the latest corruption scandal impacting Kyiv during the war against Russia. Accusations have been levelled at several members of Zelensky’s inner circle.According to Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau…

On days like this, it’s not hard to be overwhelmed by existential futility. At the current rate of progress, the UK looks on course to wipe itself out far sooner than it would with any interference from AI. Everything feels hopeless. Years of minimal growth and a cost of living crisis. The tech bros and the bankers may be getting richer. The rest of us? Not so much.And there’s no end in sight. Andy Burnham may offer better vibes, but he is fighting a losing battle against global forces – wars, energy prices, borrowing costs – that he can’t control.…

Screenshot by David Gewirtz/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways Claude Code Projects could tame multi-agent chaos. Cloud users get persistent threads and shared memory. Local workflows remain outside the new system for now. Claude Code has always had projects, in the sense that a given directory is declared as the root for source code. I keep each of the apps I’m developing in separate directories, and I’ve built up a complex orchestration and management workflow that allows certain messages to be exchanged between these directories. Beyond that, they’re isolated code structures. Also: After the vibe-coding rush comes the debugging hangover Today, Anthropic…

Brevo confirmed that attackers stole a Cloudflare API key and used it to inject malicious ClickFix scripts into its websites and JavaScript files embedded on customer sites to distribute malware. The customer relationship management and digital marketing company says the attackers used the API key to create a malicious Cloudflare Worker that modified content at the CDN edge for approximately five and a half hours on September 14. The attack affected pages on brevo.com, sendinblue.com, login/account/my/onboarding.brevo.com, and sibforms.com. The Cloudflare worker also modified the Brevo forms script, Brevo Conversations widget, and the Brevo SDK loader scripts that customers embed on their…

WisdomTree and MoonPay are partnering to expand US investor access to a tokenized Treasury money market fund, which MoonPay also plans to use as part of its stablecoin reserves.According to a Thursday announcement from the companies, the fund issuer is using MoonPay’s technology to develop an access point for its WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund (WTGXX), a tokenized money market mutual fund that seeks to maintain a $1 share price. The companies said the arrangement would give WisdomTree access to MoonPay’s network of more than 35 million accounts.MoonPay, a financial technology company that provides infrastructure for moving between fiat…

When an immense and inexorable flow of rock, mud and water barreled through northern Nepal on August 26, it killed more than 1,200 people and left thousands still missing. The magnitude of the event caught even experts on the region’s geology off guard. “The victims, their pain and all the ruined towns … it is almost impossible to believe,” says geological engineer Ranjan Dahal of Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal, who has studied geohazards in the Himalaya for nearly 30 years. “I don’t think even Hollywood could make such a movie.” Sign up for our newsletter We summarize the week’s…

In Brazil, community-based land management of collective territories has produced striking results for conservation.The social situation of these communities is less encouraging, though, with nearly half of households living a precarious existence, suggesting income-transfer programs linked to conservation, like the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), could make a difference — if implemented well.“Community-based conservation, with its proven effectiveness, would be a compelling focus [for] this type of investment, especially in Brazil,” a new op-ed argues.This article is a commentary. The views expressed are those of the authors, not necessarily of Mongabay.See All Key Ideas More than half a…

Patrick Butler’s article on the rising number of people leaving employment to provide unpaid care resonated with me, both as an unpaid carer and as a researcher in this field (About 1,500 Britons a day quitting their jobs to become unpaid carers, 16 September). The juggle between paid work and caring responsibilities is a daily reality for millions. The report from Carers UK is a welcome reminder of this often-hidden issue, highlighting not only the growing care needs of older people but also the increasing numbers of younger people who rely on unpaid care. The midwife Jacqui Hylton’s observation in…

Claim: Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk said George Floyd was a “scumbag.” Rating: Context Kirk made the statement in reference to Floyd’s alleged criminal history and the circumstances surrounding his death. Kirk’s exact words were: “I am also going to offer some context and some nuance about the death of George Floyd that no one dares to say out loud. Which is that this guy was a scumbag. Now, does that mean he deserves to die? That’s two totally different things — of course not.” In September 2026, roughly a year after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, a rumor…