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Nearly a decade ago, Tesla introduced its solar roof, which was essentially a mini-power plant that happened to look like high-end shingles, fancy terracotta tiles or refined slate slabs.  Now, the solar roof is dead. Tesla has scrubbed public-facing mentions of the product from its website. TechCrunch has confirmed that the solar roof URL now redirects to its generic solar landing page on Tesla’s website, and all of the support pages redirect, too. Electrek was first to report on the product’s disappearance.  But like other Tesla initiatives, the concept might have a life beyond the company. Two solar installers told…

The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, recently inaugurated a National Food Bank Programme for Malnourished Under-6 Children and Lactating Mothers in the South West. Wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has launched the National Community Food Bank Programme for the South-West to support malnourished children under the age of six, pregnant women and lactating mothers with healthy and nourishing foods. The South West launch which is the fourth zone to be flagged off took place in Makun Sagamu, Ogun State. According to Mrs Tinubu, the national community food bank is in alignment with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President…

My earliest reading memoryThe first books I remember were from The Village with Three Corners series Sheila K McCullagh. I loved the – literally – colourful characters, like Johnny Yellow Hat. I was reading with my Grandma, in her garden perhaps, sitting on a small patio, surrounded by bright begonias and busy lizzies.My favourite book growing upArnold Lobel’s wonderful Frog and Toad stories. Toad would get himself tied up in knots, trying to find a button or fly a kite, but Frog was always there – a constant, caring and funny friend. I enjoyed reading these stories to my own…

Ryan McFaddenAug 21, 2026, 01:22 AM ETCloseRyan McFadden covers the Las Vegas Raiders for ESPN’s NFL Nation. Prior to ESPN, McFadden was a Denver Broncos beat reporter for the Denver Post. McFadden also wrote about the Baltimore Ravens and University of Maryland athletics for The Baltimore Sun.Multiple AuthorsHOUSTON — Las Vegas Raiders coach Klint Kubiak is not ready to name a starting quarterback for the regular season despite sitting Kirk Cousins and having rookie Fernando Mendoza start in Thursday’s 22-20 preseason win over the Houston Texans.”We got another week. I don’t want anyone to be comfortable in their job,” Kubiak…

Musical comedian, acclaimed political satirist and producer Randy Rainbow is no stranger to receiving Emmy nominations. However, for the first time, the New Yorker has received a nod for best performer in a shortform comedy or drama series for the political-parody music videos that make up his YouTube hit The Randy Rainbow Show. Also up for best short form comedy, drama or variety series, bringing his total number of Emmy nominations since 2019 to six, Rainbow is hoping this could be his year to stand in the spotlight. This is your first nomination as a performer. Does it feel different?…

Margo Howard was a reluctant columnist, despite the encouragement of her mother, Eppie Lederer, the wildly popular advice maven known as Ann Landers, and a succession of admiring editors.She lacked ambition, she was quick to say, as well as journalistic training. (She had dropped out of Brandeis University to marry her first husband.) But she was mouthy — a “mouth on a trolley,” as her father put it — and possessed of a tart wit.When she divorced that first husband, she thought that a job might be nice, if it wasn’t too taxing, and in 1970 she began producing a…

Chile’s National Immigration Service has introduced a free digital Work Authorisation Certificate to help foreign nationals and employers verify whether an individual is authorised to work in the country. According to a report by Fragomen and posted by the Economic Times on Friday, the Habilitación Laboral Certificate is available through SERMIG’s online immigration platform and features a QR code that allows employers to verify the document digitally. The new certificate is intended to make work authorisation checks faster and reduce administrative paperwork for foreign workers and employers. It provides digital confirmation of a foreign national’s work authorisation status and can…

Two teenagers have been seriously injured after a sword attack on a high school in Sweden, authorities have said.Police were called to the Brinell School in Fagersta shortly after 14:00 local time (13:00 BST) on Friday, where officers arrested one man.A third person was wounded in the attack but the extent of their injuries has not been confirmed, while reports in local media say the suspect was shot in the leg by police.Eight other schools in the area were placed under lockdown measures – which have now been lifted – while a state of high alert was declared in the…

As we move deeper into 2026, we have no shortage of horror movies being released. We all know about the wild story of the megahit Obsession and the linear space horror of Backrooms. Lately, everyone’s been buzzing about the near-perfectly scored Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. But now, there’s a new entry to talk about with a sky-high Rotten Tomatoes score.The film is It Ends, a low-budget horror film that, in some ways, moves beyond the genre. It currently has a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, and that’s with five dozen critic reviews in, meaning that score is going…

This week, Romania accused Russia of sending a drone boat loaded with explosives to a vital European natural gas platform in the Black Sea. A Romanian F-16 fighter jet used its cannons to disable the surface drone so that explosive ordnance experts could blow it up safely. On August 20, the Romanian Coast Guard first spotted the maritime drone a few hundred meters away from the Neptun Deep project’s main drilling platform, where several hundred workers were busy with the platform’s ongoing installation, Defense Minister Radu Miruță said in a Facebook post. The offshore gas project would make Romania the…