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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the Democratic primary race for Senate in Michigan, according to The Associated Press, giving progressives a victory that signaled liberal voters’ anti-establishment mood and shifting sentiment against Israel.Dr. El-Sayed, 41, a former public health official, narrowly defeated Representative Haley Stevens, a four-term moderate, on Wednesday in a hostile race that was dominated by the politics of Israel and the role of big money in American elections.He fiercely criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza and promised to pull back American military support, while she vowed to continue sending U.S. military aid to Israel without conditions.While most Michigan…

There are obvious similarities between Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who won a close victory on Wednesday in the Democratic Senate primary in the battleground state of Michigan.Both are young, progressive politicians who are also Muslim. They focused their campaigns on lifting the working class. Super PACs marshaled tens of millions of dollars to oppose their candidacies. And both have overcome that resistance as they have helped fuel the Democratic Party’s ascendant left wing.But is it fair to call Dr. El-Sayed Michigan’s “mini-Mamdani,” as some people have begun to do? According to Mr. Mamdani,…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Accounting & Consulting services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.In the age of artificial intelligence, what happens to people who sell the human variety? It’s a pressing question for a lot of professions (not least opinion writers), but is especially acute for strategic consultants, who not only sell ideas but charge a lot for them. In other professional services industries such as law and accounting, the provider is paid in part for taking on legal responsibility. Someone has to sign off on accounts or legal opinions, whether they were…

In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, employees from OpenAI presented new details about a recent, high-profile incident of rogue AI hacking that has created a maelstrom within the AI and cybersecurity industries.About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which AI agents powered by two of the company’s models escaped containment while looking for the solutions to a cybersecurity benchmarking test and went on a hacking spree culminating in a breach of the AI collaboration platform Hugging Face.In their conference talk on Wednesday, Eric Wallace, who…

A Canadian man pleaded guilty today to his role in accessing company accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from at least 165 organizations in a scheme to extort millions of dollars from victims. ​26-year-old Connor Riley Moucka, also known as Alexander Moucka and Waifu, was arrested on October 30, 2024, for stealing data of hundreds of millions of individuals from companies using Snowflake’s storage service. Between February and October 2024, Moucka and John Erin Binns, also indicted for these attacks, accessed Snowflake accounts not protected by multi-factor authentication (MFA) using logins stolen via infostealer malware. Without MFA…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly signed a law to set in stone the regulation of digital currencies and digital rights in the country — but citizens won’t be using Bitcoin to pay for goods just yet.  News agency Tass reported Tuesday that the new law will allow only registered entities to operate as exchanges, and puts limits on the amount of crypto retail investors can use.  For now, retail investors are limited to trading most liquid cryptocurrencies, capped at 300,000 rubles ($3,700) per year. Qualified investors have no restrictions, according to the report.  But the new law still prohibits…

The dramatic footage last Thursday of thousands of migrants entering Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta generated an online frenzy among the far right. And the alarmist rhetoric was also evident in the European mainstream, as EU leaders wasted little time attributing the chaotic scenes to Spain’s liberal immigration policies.In a letter organised by Italy and Denmark, and signed by 22 EU heads of government, they appeared to blame the crisis on Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s recent programme to regularise undocumented migrants, which received more than a million applications. They argued that Europe must “[address] all policies that can…

Move comes after the US Supreme Court struck down many of Trump’s sweeping levies in February.Published On 6 Aug 20266 Aug 2026United States President Donald Trump’s administration has refunded about $100bn in tariffs since the nation’s top court ruled against its use of emergency powers to impose duties on dozens of trade partners, according to customs officials.The Trump administration collected about $166bn from US importers before the US Supreme Court struck down a large portion of the president’s tariff regime in a 6-3 ruling in February.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listIn a court filing on Tuesday, the US…

The financial toll Globally, nearly three-quarters of passengers (73 percent) incurred additional expenses due to disruptions, with costs averaging €514 per person, although that figure masks wide differences. It also marks a clear increase from previous surveys, which found average costs of just €362.50 per passenger. UK and German travelers report the highest average costs, at roughly €708 and €619 respectively. Portuguese and Spanish travelers report the lowest, at approximately €277 and €340. The United States and Brazil sit in the mid-to-high range, at around €577 and €529. The spread likely reflects differing living and wage levels, but it also…

On the eve of a planned vote by a Senate committee on whether to hold Dr. Anthony S. Fauci in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at a hearing last week, the chairman of a separate panel said that he has obtained a copy of Dr. Fauci’s cellphone.“Hopefully, this device will address many of the questions he refused to answer at last week’s hearing,” Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin and chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote on social media Wednesday night.Like Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who ordered the contempt vote, Mr. Johnson…