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Skills to rebuild Salwa Abu Elhaj, a business administration graduate in Gaza, said the offer of a funded place in KU Leuven’s Master of Communication Sciences program was “one of the happiest moments of my life.” Abu Elhaj was inspired to pivot to communications by her experience pursuing her undergraduate degree under the stress of war and, eventually, famine. She observed how the NGOs that became a “lifeline” in Gaza struggled to get their message to donors and international partners. Resolved to keep studying, she walked for up to an hour in search of a decent internet connection to submit…

Senator Darline Graham, a longtime administrator of disability services, has won the special Republican primary election for the Senate seat that her brother, late Senator Lindsey Graham, held for more than two decades, according to The Associated Press.Her close victory on Tuesday amounts to a significant triumph for President Trump, who not only endorsed Ms. Graham but threw the full weight of his political operation behind her campaign.Ms. Graham defeated Representative Ralph Norman, a hard-line conservative who has mostly backed Mr. Trump’s agenda in Congress but sometimes clashed with him on spending.She will face Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee,…

Senator Darline Graham won the Republican Senate nomination in South Carolina on Tuesday, relying on the strength of President Trump’s political capital to overcome her inexperience as a first-time candidate for public office.Ms. Graham defeated Representative Ralph Norman, a five-term congressman, in deeply red South Carolina after Mr. Trump did more to support her than he had for any other Republican candidate this year — out of apparent affection for her late brother, Lindsey Graham, who died last month.Her win showed the president’s continued ability to move Republican primary voters, especially when he goes all in on a race. His…

Garmin just took the wraps off its new line of rugged Fenix 9 smartwatches, with the base model featuring an OLED display with a brightness of up to 3,000 nits, making it twice as bright as its predecessor. Starting at $999.99 for the 43mm case option, the Fenix 9 has 50 percent more RAM and an upgraded map engine, allowing for faster panning.It also comes with a scratch-resistant sapphire lens, an increased 64GB of storage, and a bunch of new software-based features, like Garmin Epic. This feature groups all the workouts you’ve done over several days, weeks, or months to…

Swati KhandelwalAug 25, 2026Vulnerability / AI Security Marimo has addressed a high-severity security flaw in its notebook software that allowed an attacker to execute an attacker-supplied Model Context Protocol (MCP) command in a specially crafted notebook, according to VulnCheck’s CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) record. The CNA record says the command can run as a local subprocess when the notebook is opened in edit mode. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-75149, is a code injection issue affecting versions prior to 0.23.15. VulnCheck’s CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) record assigns it a CVSS v4 score of 8.7 and a CVSS v3.1 score of 8.8,…

Phantom will remove Sui from its wallet interface on Sept. 24, one month after announcing that it and Sui had decided to end the integration. After the transition, Phantom will no longer display Sui balances, support Sui sends or swaps, or connect to decentralized applications.The assets will remain on the Sui blockchain, tied to the credentials that authorize the account. Phantom’s transition guide says users can restore access through a compatible wallet even after the cutoff. Sept. 24 ends access through Phantom; it does not end ownership or later access to the funds.That separation turns a product sunset into a…

Set to launch on Sunday, Aug. 30, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will empower astronomers to explore vast regions of the cosmos and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, dark matter, planets outside our solar system, and the formation and growth of galaxies over cosmic time. Key contributions to Roman’s mission made by researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley will advance Roman’s science using the center’s facilities, expertise, and innovations. Tools to predict, remove glare Roman’s main camera, the Wide Field Instrument, will capture expansive high-resolution pictures of the universe in optical…

The Mindoro Forest and Biodiversity Conservation Programme combines Indigenous forest patrols, ancestral-domain support, carbon monitoring and livelihood projects to protect more than 40,000 hectares (nearly 99,000 acres) of Iraya Mangyan forest.Indigenous patrollers and local officials say the program has already strengthened monitoring and helped reduce timber poaching and small-scale mining, while surveys have documented hundreds of plant and animal species across the project area.Community nurseries and paid conservation roles are creating early livelihood opportunities, but many benefits remain limited and uneven while the project awaits verification, a finalized benefit-sharing agreement and carbon revenue expected no earlier than around 2029.Whether…

The Mecca pact signed on Aug. 7 between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey has variously been described as a “Muslim,” “Islamic,” “Sunni,” or “Middle Eastern” NATO. Some of these epithets might simply reflect commentators’ limited repertoire of alliance metaphors. But Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan explicitly referenced NATO in describing the new pact’s defense provisions. Indeed, the pact declares mutual defense as a duty of its three members—an attack on one will be considered an attack on all. But it does not establish a central command system, any paths to achieve greater interoperability, or clear obligations in terms of defense…

Two people who were not vaccinated against measles have died of the virus in Pennsylvania, health officials said. The state has seen 393 cases of the highly contagious virus this year, as infections across the US have hit the highest point in 35 years. Eighty-five percent of kindergarten-age students in Lancaster County, where the recent deaths occurred, are vaccinated against measles – well below the 95% rate needed for herd immunity to limit the spread and protect immunocompromised people. Last year, two unvaccinated children in Texas died from a measles outbreak that infected over 1,000 people, primarily children. “This is…