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Republican Rep. Nancy Mace clashed with CNN anchor Omar Jimenez over Islamophobic remarks after Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Democratic Senate primary win. Mace called every Muslim US officeholder a “Trojan horse” and falsely claimed girls could one day be forced to wear ‘burqas to school’.Published On 10 Aug 202610 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

The families of farmers are left bereft after relatives poison themselves with hazardous pesticides.Credit: Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times via GettyMental health is central to global health and sustainable development. It is shaped both by individual experiences and by access to services, and by broader societal and environmental factors. Laws, policies, governance systems and institutions influence how environmental hazards, damage, services and resources are distributed, affecting people’s livelihoods, safety, opportunities and quality of life1.Children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable because exposures to environmental hazards can coincide with sensitive periods of development. Early exposure to mercury, lead and persistent organic pollutants can impair…

Dimitrios Giannakopoulos, the Greek businessman who owns Panathinaikos Basketball Club in Athens, said he made a “proposal” to the Denver Nuggets to buy Nikola Jokic out of the final season of his current NBA contract and believes he can sign Jokic away next summer.”People are going to say, ‘OK, now he’s joking,'” Giannakopoulos told the “Euro Insiders” podcast. “I did make a very serious proposal this year both to his team and to him. I got a rejection. I know that he has one more year of a contract.”Jokic has two seasons and $121.8 million left on his current contract,…

It was ultimately the death of another legendary rapper that helped unravel Tupac’s shooting death.Months after Shakur was gunned down, Biggie Smalls or the Notorious BIG, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.Both rappers were the stars of their respective rival record labels – Shakur with Death Row Records and Biggie with Bad Boy Records.Biggie’s case has remained unsolved, with no arrests or suspects.In the mid 2000’s the Los Angeles Police Department reopened the investigation and spoke with Davis, who was at a party with Biggie before the fatal shooting. While Davis said he didn’t have information about…

Russia’s liberal Yabloko party leader Nikolay Rybakov talks to the media outside the Supreme Court in Moscow on August 10, 2026. Russia’s Supreme Court on August 10, 2026 barred the country’s only anti-war party, Yabloko, from contesting September’s parliamentary elections. (Photo by Igor IVANKO / AFP) Russia’s Supreme Court on Monday barred the country’s only anti-war party, Yabloko, from contesting September’s parliamentary elections. The court thereby upheld a suit brought by a pro-Kremlin nationalist party, stripping voters opposed to the four-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine of their last option on the ballot. “The claims seeking to annul the registration of the…

Lawyers for Olympian whose reflecting pool vandalism charges were dropped say Trump administration continues to ‘attack an innocent man’Lawyers for David Hearn, the Olympian who was arrested for alleged property destruction of the reflecting pool before his charges were dropped, said that the Trump administration is “continuing to attack an innocent man”.This comes after Donald Trump said that Hearn was still guilty on Truth Social this weekend, despite the justice department dismissing all charges against him, and citing the “botched” renovation of the pool as the reason for the peeling lining.Hearn’s lawyers also said they are still “reviewing all legal…

Eromosele Abiodun The Tax Ombud/Chief Executive of the Office of the Tax Ombud, Dr. John Nwabueze, has reiterated the Office’s commitment to promoting fairness and transparency within Nigeria’s tax system as it continues to mediate between taxpayers and revenue authorities. Speaking at the third-quarter Breakfast Meeting with business editors in Lagos, Dr. Nwabueze highlighted the Office’s major milestones and outlined its vision for the future. Highlighting the progress made so far, he said the Office has significantly improved taxpayers’ access to its services through the launch of a digital complaints portal, a case management system, a toll-free call centre, and…

It’s that time of year: On Wednesday, Google is set to host its annual Made by Google hardware launch event for Pixel gadgets. Google itself has already teased new slab-style and foldable Pixel smartphones, but leaks also indicate that the company could announce updated watches, a new color for familiar earbuds, and perhaps a brand new AirTag-like item tracker.However, unusually, Google’s event is taking place in the evening: It kicks off on Wednesday at 6PM ET / 3PM PT instead of in the early afternoon or mid-morning, like many other tech events. And this time it has a celebrity host…

At least 111 people are dead after a destructive 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit western Colombia, causing dozens of buildings to collapse and trap residents under the debris.Published On 10 Aug 202610 Aug 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

Credit: Jakub Zerdzicki/AlamyIn May 2024, four years into my postgraduate career, I decided that I wanted to finish my PhD by the end of 2025. The problem was that, despite working on many ongoing projects, I had not yet published a paper discussing my PhD work. My days were full and I was spending my weekends working, but I was making little meaningful progress. I was producing data but not finishing anything.From conversations with my peers, this was a common experience. There is a pervasive attitude in academia that graduate students in the laboratory should always be busy, always saying…