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Suspected arson attacks on the French rail network ahead of Friday’s opening of the Olympic Games, described by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal as “coordinated acts of sabotage,” have caused chaos and major disruption for travellers. Unknown individuals placed incendiary devices at various key locations of the railway during the night, which has heightened the already […]

Two manatees were spotted in the Hague Thursday morning, a relatively rare sight in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk. The sea cow was spotted about 10 a.m. by a Daily Press/Virginian-Pilot staff photographer, who said it was about 6-8 feet long, on the Hague’s pedestrian bridge. A small group of people stopped to watch as […]

Alexandria Chmiel emerged from a bank along the Cumberland River — the same river where the body of University of Missouri student Riley Strain was found Metro Nashville PD/X Alexandria Chmiel, who went missing in Nashville, is seen in this image shared by the MNPD A woman from New Jersey who went missing in Nashville, […]

What effect does the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling have on Donald Trump’s New York criminal case? According to a new court filing from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, it has “no bearing on this prosecution.” That may turn out to be so. But let’s consider how the Roberts Court’s ruling, which came after […]

A Ugandan activist, one of dozens detained this week for participating in banned demonstrations, was sexually assaulted in custody, his lawyer has said. More than 90 youths were arrested and some were charged with being a public nuisance following anti-corruption protests that hit the capital, Kampala. Some of those released from detention have also reportedly […]

This article was originally published in New Hampshire Bulletin. Even after the exams and papers are done, students at New Hampshire’s community colleges have sometimes faced another headache: credit transfers. Across the state’s public higher education systems, not all completed courses at a community college are helpful for a given degree at a public four-year […]

PARIS — Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Friday, part of France’s high-speed rail network was paralyzed by a “massive attack” that disrupted service for hundreds of thousands of passengers, officials said. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said the country’s intelligence services and law enforcement agencies had been mobilized to track down suspects as he warned in a post on X that […]

Vice President Kamala Harris is pledging not to raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000 a year if elected in November, her campaign told POLITICO on Friday. That extends a promise that President Joe Biden made central to his administration’s economic agenda, arguing that corporations and the wealthy should instead pay a greater share of […]

Amazon Tests AI Chips in Texas Lab, Aims to Cut Nvidia Costs Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) is making significant strides in artificial intelligence with its homegrown AI chips. In its Austin, Texas, chip lab, Amazon engineers are rigorously testing a new server design that features these AI chips, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia Corp’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) […]