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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after landing in Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, July 19, 2026.Andrew Harnik | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Friday appealed a federal judge’s blistering order finding he filed a bad-faith $10 billion lawsuit in order to reach an advantageous settlement.The notice of appeal in U.S. District Court in Miami was made public hours after Trump vented frustration that the $1.776 billion “lawfare” fund created as part of that settlement had been scrapped.”They’ve agreed to not have a fund. But there are a lot of people that are very upset about it,”…

Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out of its sandboxed test environment and proceeded to hack the AI hosting platform Hugging Face. OpenAI has since launched an investigation into how the incident occurred, which is still ongoing. Now, anonymous sources have told Reuters that more of OpenAI’s agents are believed to have escaped their sandboxes. However, one source downplayed the severity, saying that with those escapes, the agents didn’t appear to leave OpenAI’s network to hack into another company’s. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for more information. AI programs acting in bizarre…

Labour has stormed to a decisive victory in the Greater Manchester mayoral byelection, seizing back areas that recently fell to Reform UK and the Greens.Labour’s Bev Craig, the Manchester city council leader, will now succeed Andy Burnham and hold one of the most powerful political positions outside Westminster.Labour won 47% of first-preference votes, with Reform UK way behind on 21% and the Greens in third on 12%.The contest took place under the supplementary vote system, meaning that, as no candidate achieved more than 50%, voters’ second preferences were counted.When voters’ second choices were counted and other parties were eliminated, Labour’s…

World No 3 Cameron Young surged into a share of the lead of the Rocket Classic after a nine-under 61 in the second round in Detroit.Young climbed 68 spots to move to 10 under with his bogey-free round and shares a three-way lead with Patrick Cantlay and Patrick Fishburn. The two-time Open runner-up made seven birdies on his front nine and threatened to become just the second player, after Jim Furyk, to shoot two career sub-60 rounds. “It felt like I had a 10-footer for birdie on pretty much every hole. I made a bunch of them in a row…

In 2007, Javier Bardem delivered one of the century’s most chilling performances as Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men.” Nearly two decades later, he’s proved once again he could convincingly play a sociopath, reimagining the vengeful murderer Max Cady on Apple TV+’s hit summer series “Cape Fear.”Cady was previously played by Robert Mitchum in 1962 and Robert De Niro in 1991, but the brilliance of Bardem’s performance lies in the long stretches of perceived stillness, heightening the tension of the cat-and-mouse game he plays with the Bowden family, which star Lily Collias described as “a lot of fun”…

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…Says APC’s poor performance has weakened public confidence …Urges opposition leaders to put Nigeria above personal ambition By Juliet Umeh A former National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and a leader of the African Democratic Congress, Salihu Lukman, has warned that the 2027 general election could become “more of a coronation than an election” unless opposition parties put aside their differences and present a united front against the ruling APC. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television, Lukman said the continued fragmentation of opposition parties was handing the APC a clear advantage ahead of the next…

On 13 July 2026, the Honourable Justice John Terhemba Tsoho, KSS, OFR, FCIArb (UK), Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, issued the Federal High Court (Pre-Election) Practice Directions (Amendment), 2026, effective from Tuesday, 14 July 2026. The instrument amends the Federal High Court (Pre-Election) Practice Directions, 2026, and was made pursuant to Sections 254, 285(9), (10) and (14) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), and Sections 29(5) and 88(2) of the Electoral Act, 2026. Its arrival, roughly six months before the general elections scheduled for 16 January 2027, is deliberate rather than incidental:…

FIFA has abandoned its proposal to sell minority stakes in a new commercial subsidiary managing World Cup and other tournament rights, sources told the New York Post on Friday. Private investors, including a group expected to be led by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Eternal, and adviser JPMorgan have pulled out of the deal amid intense opposition. The plan, valued at around $20 billion with a targeted $4.2 billion raised from selling roughly 20% of FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), is effectively dead after less than a week of public scrutiny. The collapse marks a major setback for FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who…

A 45-year-old construction worker went to the emergency department for his right shoulder, which was extremely swollen and becoming progressively more painful. Doctors took an X-ray to try to see what was causing the problem. But when the images came through, it was what they didn’t see that explained the situation: His entire shoulder joint was gone, seemingly blasted apart into small, lingering pieces. The shoulder joint is a ball-and-socket joint, with the sphere-like head of the upper arm bone (humerus) sitting in the socket of the shoulder blade. According to a case report in the New England Journal of…