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Japan’s MODEC has announced the arrival of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel in Guyanese waters ahead of its deployment on a project in the Stabroek block, as the development moves closer to first oil expected later this year. FPSO Errea Wittu; Source: MODEC MODEC’s FPSO Errea Wittu, which was developed for ExxonMobil Guyana, a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered oil and gas giant ExxonMobil, has come to Guyana, where it will undergo final offshore preparations and commissioning ahead of first oil from the Stabroek block operator’s fifth project that integrates the development of the Snoek, Mako, and Uaru…

The British government must soon decide whether it should give consent to two oil and gasfields, Rosebank in the North Atlantic and Jackdaw in the North Sea. Amid both insecurity of energy supplies and deadly evidence of the climate crisis, the prime minister, Andy Burnham, is facing pressure from the oil and gas industry and unions on one side, and environmentalists on the other.Labour’s manifesto commitment not to approve new drilling licences offers little help, because the fields already have licences, granted by the previous Conservative government in 2022 and 2023. But last year, Edinburgh’s court of session ruled that…

Claim: Texas made marijuana possession a felony after more than 70% of voters voted to legalize it. Rating: What’s True Texas did reinstate rules that treat certain THC products as controlled substances. What’s False Texas did not make all marijuana possession a felony; possession of 2 ounces or less of marijuana remains a Class B misdemeanor, for example. In addition, the vote was a Democratic primary proposition, not a statewide legalization referendum open to all voters. In late July and August 2026, social media users circulated a claim that Texas made marijuana a felony after more than 70% of voters…

While the tariffs could mean changes for the Paloma Clothing company, other American companies are facing the same battle they have faced since Trump returned to office and began imposing his levies. Bill Easton, owner of Terre Rouge Wines in Plymouth, California, has been unable to ship his wine north to Canada for the past year and a half due to a boycott of US alcohol. He is currently paying $2,400 a month to store that wine in a warehouse in the hope that he will one day be able to ship it to the Canadian markets he sells to.…

Option 4: Deploy the nuclear option The most powerful constitutional instrument would be Bundeszwang, or federal coercion. Under Article 37 of Germany’s Basic Law, the federal government, with the consent of the Bundesrat — the chamber representing the states — may take “necessary measures” to compel a state to fulfill its legal obligations. In plain English: Berlin could force a state government to obey federal law. The provision has never been used. In the reporting for this story, no one interviewed brought it up on their own — perhaps out of conviction, perhaps out of fear that merely mentioning it…

As a tumultuous primary season draws to a close, Democrats have opened up more than one path to winning control of the Senate, according to strategists in both parties and independent analysts, reshaping the battle on a map where Republicans still hold significant advantages.Voters are uneasy about President Trump’s handling of the economy, and his unpopular war with Iran has driven increases in the costs of fuel, food and health services, putting Republicans on the defensive in states they once saw as much safer terrain.The basic contours of the map remain challenging for Democrats. Holding 47 seats in the Senate,…

A woman who is legally settled in the UK was left stranded at a Spanish airport after the Home Office’s post-Brexit visa system mixed her up with her twin sister.Nidia Webb fell foul of what she was told was a “known issue” with the eVisa, which was brought in as part of the government’s drive to digitise the UK’s immigration system but has faced problems that have caused concern for thousands of people.Politico reported that Webb, who has lived in the UK for eight years, was told at the departure gate she would not be able to board her flight…

For Luis DeSantiago, a substitute teacher in Los Banos, California, it started with a few text messages. On March 12, as he was working his other part-time job at a coffee shop, his phone lit up. A fellow barista said there was an AI photo circulating on social media. Her cousin wanted to know if it was DeSantiago.At first, DeSantiago wasn’t worried—he figured that inappropriate photos violated TikTok’s community guidelines and were usually quickly removed.“When I finally saw the image, that’s when it felt like a punch to the gut,” DeSantiago tells WIRED. Parts of it resembled a mirror selfie…

TAC, an EVM network connected to TON, halted validator block production after the project said an exploited vulnerability affected the Cosmos-based EVM side of its network and, according to TAC, only the TAC token supply.In an Aug. 22 notice, the team said it was working with validators on a temporary halt that would take effect within minutes. TAC’s official Telegram announcement channel subsequently described the halt as implemented and promised further findings and steps toward resuming the chain.A check of the TAC explorer API at about 1:03 p.m. UTC on Aug. 23 returned block 24,671,475, timestamped 11:58:11 p.m. UTC on…

Motor neurons, the nerve cells that control muscles, have a reputation as passive messengers. But growing evidence suggests they do more than simply relay the brain’s commands. Work in fruit flies suggests that motor neurons can send signals back to the brain to help organize the very movement sequences they carry out, researchers report August 24 in Nature Neuroscience. Even when the muscles and motor neurons involved in a movement are mapped out, scientists still do not fully understand how the nervous system generates coordinated sequences of movement. For instance, the sucking motion fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) use to feed…