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Arizona, California and Nevada will be forced to make deep cuts to the water they draw from the imperiled Colorado River under a new two-year operating plan published Friday, intended to help stave off an escalating crisis in the beleaguered waterway.The long-awaited plan from the Department of the Interior comes after years of fraught negotiations between the seven states that rely on Colorado River water failed to produce a deal. And it arrives at a time when the river’s two key reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have both fallen to record lows — threatening water and power supplies

Three Colorado River states must take big water cuts as biggest US reservoirs plunge to record lows

Trump loyalist Ed Martin is leaving the Justice Department to focus on election 'legal battles'

FACT FOCUS: Census Bureau report does not prove Trump's claim about noncitizen voting in 2020

Global bond yields are surging. Here’s why it matters

It was a tough week for the bond market. And the US government’s attempt to help offered only temporary relief.A global rate spike in long-dated government bonds pushed yields to multi-year highs this week, driving up borrowing costs for governments, businesses and consumers. The yield surge is largely a result of mounting investor concerns about persistent US inflation and ballooning government debt, as well as competition from corporate AI-buildout debt that is sapping demand for Treasuries.After the 30-year US Treasury yield hit 5.34% on Tuesday – its highest level since 2007, before th

Trump’s Canada trade deadline is hours away. Here’s what to know

Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes leaders amid Hegseth pressure campaign

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Marc Stad buying controlling stake in Minnesota Timberwolves, Lynx for $4.5 billion

Tech investor Marc Stad is acquiring a controlling interest in the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx in a deal valued at $4.5 billion, sources close to the agreement told CNN on Friday.It marks the second multibillion-dollar sale of a professional basketball organization this month, with the Los Angeles Lakers selling for a record-breaking $12.5 billion.In Minnesota, the transaction marks the second ownership shift for the basketball clubs in just a little over a year. Stad, who is a founder of San Francisco-based investment firm Dragoneer Investment Partners, was

Uber fined nearly $1 billion by Dutch regulators over automated suspensions of driver accounts

Polymarket referred dozens of possible military insider trading cases to DOJ, source says

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Trump US attorney pick can no longer investigate one of the president’s top foes, court rules

A divided federal appeals court ruled that the Trump-picked US Attorney in Albany is serving unlawfully and can no longer be involved in the investigation of one of the president’s top foes.The Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, upheld a lower court’s ruling from January that said the appointment of John Sarcone, then-Acting US attorney for the Northern District of New York, is not valid and disqualified him from a probe into the state’s Attorney General Letitia James.The decision marks the third time a federal appeals court has rejected as unlawful the Trump administrat

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‘My Guardian and Protector’: Natalie Harp letters express her devotion to Trump

President Donald Trump’s close aide Natalie Harp expressed her utmost loyalty to him in at least two letters addressed to the president, which were published by The Daily Beast on Thursday amid increased scrutiny of the close aide’s relationship to Trump.“I want things to always be right between us,” Harp wrote in one of the letters, which were printed out and signed. It began with “Dear Mr. President” and concluded with, “With all my heart, Natalie.” Excerpts of one of the letters had previously been published by the New York Times.Harp’s constant and dedicated presence at T

South Carolina Republicans split over Darline Graham’s ‘eyebrow-raising’ debate performance

Lindsay Clancy’s defense rests at trial over whether postpartum psychosis drove her to kill her kids

Federal court is asked to block Kennedy Center from returning Trump's name to building

Rep. Joyce Beatty made an emergency request on Thursday that a federal court block the Kennedy Center from returning President Donald Trump’s name to the building. The Trump-aligned board at the Kennedy Center voted earlier this month to inscribe the president's name on the venue’s facade so it would read “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Restored and Renovated By President Donald J. Trump.” If the Trump Kennedy Center Fund reached $100 million, another inscription would be added reading “Endowed by the Trump Kennedy Center Fund.” The

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Trump, former fixer Michael Cohen have warm interview at political low point for president

U.S. President Donald Trump had a warm public reunion on Thursday with Michael Cohen, his former fixer turned foe whose court testimony contributed to Trump's 2024 conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial.Cohen, who is seeking a pardon, interviewed Trump on his New York radio program. He called Trump "boss" and gave a six-minute monologue on friendship and forgiveness.In 2018, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison — and served more than a year — for a $130,000 hush payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election — as well as for other crimes, includ

Duane Davis said he’d never told anyone the story. Jurors just heard him walk police through the night Tupac was killed

Storms spark tornadoes and flash flooding in Mid-Atlantic

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Prince Harry and others ordered to pay millions over failed lawsuit

Britain's Prince Harry, singer Elton John and other high-profile claimants face paying millions of dollars out of their own pockets to cover the legal costs of the Daily Mail's publisher after a judge ruled their failed privacy lawsuits were conducted in an unreasonable way.Judge Matthew Nicklin's judgment on costs, which was published on Friday, ordered an interim payment from the claimants of £9.54 million, due by August 28, towards the legal costs of Associated Newspapers.In a further damaging blow, Nicklin said the additional costs should be paid on an "indemnity basis", meaning Associat

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Prince Harry and 6 others must pay initial $13 million over failed invasion of privacy case

Prince Harry and six others, including Elton John, have been ordered to pay an initial 9.5 million pounds ($13 million) to the publisher of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper following their failed invasion of privacy case — and could face an additional 25 million pounds in legal costs. In a judgment Friday, Justice Matthew Nicklin said in a written statement that the payment to Associated Newspapers Ltd. will have to be made by Aug. 28. The payment is at the upper end of expectations and marks a vindication for the journalists at the Daily Mail and a defeat for the losing claim

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Prince Harry, others to pay $13m in initial Daily Mail legal fees

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Ships passing through Hormuz hover in single digits, data shows

Seven commodity ships sailed along the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, just half the previous day's tally, showed data from shiptracker Kpler, amid concern over risk to Middle East shipping as U.S.-Iran peace talks remain in limbo.Of the total, four ships entered and three exited the waterway, which was used by nearly a fifth of global shipments of crude oil and liquefied natural gas before war began in February. The seven did not include any very large crude carriers or liquefied natural gas tankers.However, one very large gas carrier - carrying propane and butane - did transit out of Hormuz v

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Scientists aim to unravel the secrets of a young woman’s ‘vampire’ burial

A 400-year-old grave held the body of a young woman, the rusted blade of a sickle over her throat and a padlock fastened to her foot — the macabre signs of a community terrified the deceased would rise again.Archaeologists unearthed Zosia, as the skeleton was nicknamed, from an unmarked burial site in 2022 near the village of Pień in northern Poland. The grave’s grisly contents made international headlines, and the 2024 documentary “Field of Vampires” followed researchers as they re-created what her face may have looked like.Now, some of the same scientists have published the first sy

Python receives pioneering cancer treatment usually used in humans

This Mexican engineer has made it his life’s mission to empower people with disabilities

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Trump warns of 'economic D-Day' against Iran, but Tehran is well acquainted with sanctions

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Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigil fell dark years ago. Now its organizers have been convicted

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Pakistan’s former leader Imran Khan taken back to prison after hospital check-up

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US imposes more sanctions on Cuba, including mining sector

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Michael Cohen says no modern dispute has been more public than his feud with Trump

Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen tells CNN's Jake Tapper that he doesn't want that time to be the defining moment of his life

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Huge Russian strikes on Kyiv leave 17 dead as attacks spill over to Romanian and Moldovan territory

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Five Americans, Ecuador intelligence chief killed in tourist helicopter crash in Kenya

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Trump plays White House tour guide to show off work on his helipad and ballroom

President Donald Trump played White House tour guide, showcasing his construction projects, including a new helipad and ballroom

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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