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Walmart is aiming to assuage customers' fears about its new pricing technology as it rolls out digital price labels at its stores. In a statement posted on the company's website, Walmart Inc.'s CEO John Furner vowed that the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer isn't using personal information like income, shopping history or a customer's willingness to pay to set prices, and it won't be doing so in the future either. “We don’t set different prices based on who you are or the time of day, and we won’t,” Furner wrote Friday. “Whether you’re buying grocer

Serbia's President Vucic resigns ahead of October parliamentary elections

Russian drones kill two in market outside Kyiv, three others in different regions, officials say

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Serbia's populist President Vucic resigns to run for prime minister at early vote

Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic resigned Sunday to pursue a bid to become prime minister in an upcoming early parliamentary election that will test his firm rule in the Balkan country, which was rattled by nearly two years of protests. Vucic’s second presidential term would otherwise end in May next year. He is banned by the Serbian Constitution from seeking a third term and said he was resigning to lead his right-wing Serbian Progressive Party in the Oct. 25 ballot. The governing populists face a major challenge at the ballot box from a youth-bac

Foreign banks have expressed UBS merger interest, Swiss newspaper reports

White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’

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China weighs allowing ByteDance, Alibaba to buy new Nvidia chips, The Information reports

The Chinese government has signaled it could allow some domestic companies like ByteDance and Alibaba to buy Nvidia's chip built for high-end professional computers, The Information reported on Sunday, citing two people familiar with the matter.China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently asked companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to report their plans to purchase Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500 chips, according to the report.The ministry told some Chinese companies the government intends to approve the purchases, The Information report said, adding some industry executives exp

Russia hits Ukraine's largest mobile provider, strikes data centres

Russia says it struck military infrastructure, vessels in Ukraine

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Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now

The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November’s elections, granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his aggressive campaign against noncitizen voting. The court's three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented from the decision. The emergency order allows states, for now, to use the Trump administration's revamped version of a Department of Homeland Security program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, in their efforts to verify the eligibility of voters on their

Trump wants to take a page out of the Biden energy playbook

In January 2024, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump blasted the Biden administration for freezing approvals for new plants to export US liquefied natural gas.When he won the election, in part by slamming the Biden-Harris “war on energy,” Trump vowed in his second inaugural address: “We will bring prices down… and export American energy all over the world.”He kept that promise, undoing the Biden-era LNG export permitting pause through an executive order just hours into his first day on the job.Now fast-forward more than a year and a half later, he’s considering taking a page o

Inside Trump’s plan for the ‘biggest DOJ election observer effort in history’

US Senate rejects resolution curbing Trump's Iran war powers

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Man who was shot during 2024 Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died

James Copenhaver, one of three campaign rally attendees shot in 2024 during an assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump, has died in Pittsburgh, his lawyer said Thursday. He was 76. Copenhaver was in the bleachers during the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop, grazing Trump’s right ear with one bullet. Copenhaver was struck in the arm and in the abdomen, wounds that left him with lingering injuries and walking with a cane. Two other attendees were also shot — David Dutch, who surv

Not everyone thinks AI will kill us all

When AI company Hugging Face was hacked by a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents who had escaped their testing environment, the company’s CEO had many things to say.He called it an unprecedented event – “day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents.”But here’s one thing he didn’t say: The hack is a sign AI is going to be able to eventually wipe out humanity.Clement Delangue doesn’t buy into the doomer hype that’s gone viral in recent weeks, even as the victim of likely the most sophisticated AI agent-powered attack (that we know of). He scoffed at former Anthropic researcher Jacob C

What we know after officials say ICE detained a US citizen and left him injured in Chicago suburb

Hurricane Polo fuels fears of landslides in Mexico's southwest as Nolo closes in on Hawaii

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2 giant pandas arrive at Zoo Atlanta in a rare loan from China

Two giant pandas on loan from the Chinese government as part of Beijing’s long tradition of “panda diplomacy” have arrived at Zoo Atlanta.The pandas — a male named Ping Ping and a female named Fu Shuang — arrived on a FedEx flight Sunday from Chengdu, in southwestern China. They are the third pair of pandas to arrive in the US in the past two years, and their arrival at Zoo Atlanta comes with great fanfare given how rare the bears are in US zoos.“We are elated to welcome Ping Ping and Fu Shuang and could not be more excited about sharing that joy with our Members, guests, city, and

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South Africa police hunt suspects after three shootings leave more than 30 people dead

Police are hunting for suspects after three separate shootings overnight in South Africa left more than 30 people dead, as the country grapples with a spate of violent crime.South African police launched a manhunt Sunday after 17 people were killed and 15 wounded in a shooting in the township of Wedela in West Rand District outside Johannesburg.Police said eight unidentified men opened fire on patrons drinking outside a tavern on Saturday evening local time, before they entered the establishment and “continued shooting at patrons inside.”The alleged assailants were reportedly armed with p

Trump admin cancels funding for refugees, immigrants and others in move lawmakers argue is illegal

Trump declines to say if Ukraine can manufacture Patriot missiles to fend off Russian attacks

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Iran says it is awaiting ‘definitive’ US response despite Trump rejecting latest proposal

Iran says it is waiting on the “definitive” response to its latest proposal on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, despite US President Donald Trump publicly rejecting the offer.Under the plan, Iran would open the critical waterway within a week and resume nuclear talks if the US met certain conditions, including lifting a naval blockade and waiving sanctions on oil.“We saw the first reaction from the US president, but nothing has been conveyed to us from the mediators yet,” said Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.He added: “Of course, the US president has also said many good thing

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Trump attends Texas-Tennessee game with no apparent disruption to coaches' communications

Encouraging fans to get inside Neyland Stadium earlier than usual with President Donald Trump coming to Tennessee's college football game against Texas sure worked Saturday. Security checks on the stadium's perimeter went relatively smoothly with Tennessee officials opening the stadium 30 minutes earlier than normal. Fans got half-price off concessions as a reward for showing up early, and Tennessee faithful had the stands half full 90 minutes before kickoff and nearly packed an hour before. Those in their seats were treated to a low-altitude flyover by Air Force O

Pope Leo XIV declines to credit himself for White Sox playoff return

Trump administration uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress

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Trump posts series of attacks on GOP congresswoman who criticized him on immigration

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Two senior FBI agents ousted over investigation into alleged harassing calls to wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller

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5 men arrested near UK air base used by US in Iran war on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act

British police have arrested five men near RAF Fairford, an air base used by the United States during its war with Iran, on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism

At UN, Russia and Germany's top diplomats hold first talks since 2022

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Lawyers for Rep. Max Miller again subpoena Sen. Bernie Moreno, father of ex-wife

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White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee

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Taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ad campaign grows with new spot, wider reach

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Supreme Court rejects GOP’s third effort to capture Democratic House seat in Missouri

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Supreme Court rejects a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for the third time

The Supreme Court has turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Donald Trump

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Supreme Court says states can use controversial citizenship data tool for voter audits in win for Trump

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls