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A shooting altercation between two groups of young people at a shopping mall in Dearborn, Michigan, left two people dead and a third injured over what is typically the most violent weekend of the year in the US, police said.The shooting occurred as the US began celebrating the Fourth of July, historically a holiday weekend that sees higher rates of gun violence across the country. In 2024, the Gun Violence Archive reported more than 500 shootings over Independence Day weekend.The shooting at Fairlane Town Center on Friday sent mall patrons scrambling, including a person who was hit by a vehicle…

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are officially wed. The couple hosted their wedding celebration on Friday in New York City, nearly three years after first meeting.The ceremony was officiated by Adam Sandler, a Swift spokesperson said in a Friday statement confirming the nuptials.Swift’s brother, Austin, served as her man of Honor, while Kelce’s brother, NFL veteran Jason Kelce, was best man. The couple otherwise did not have bridesmaids or groomsmen.The wedding was held at Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan, where screens outside the venue displayed a celebratory message around 7.20pm local time: “JUST&T MARRIED!”According to Swift’s spokesperson, both Swift…

The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday dismissed a decision of the Court of Appeal ordering the seizure of FPSO Tamara Tokoni, a vessel containing crude oil pledged by oil-servicing firm General Hydrocarbons as collateral for a loan facility obtained from First Bank. The five-member panel of judges, according to This Day newspaper, directed the release of the content of the vessel to General Hydrocarbons because the lawsuit initiated by the lender is contractual and not an admiralty matter. In a similar vein, the court held that the Federal High Court and the Court of Appeal lack jurisdiction to hear…

Artificial intelligence is rewriting the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world feel a little insecure. This glossary is our attempt to fix that: pain-English definitions of the AI terms you’re most likely to actually run into, whether you’re building with this stuff, investing in it, or just trying to keep up by reading TechCrunch or listening…

By Omeiza Ajayi ABUJA — The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has dropped former Benue State Governor, Gabriel Suswam, former House of Representatives member, Gbenga Elegbeleye, and 24 other National Assembly candidates from the party’s final list submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The affected candidates include seven senatorial nominees and 19 House of Representatives candidates who emerged from the party’s primary elections held in May. The changes were conveyed in a letter jointly signed by APC National Chairman, Nentawe Yilwatda, and National Secretary, Ajibola Basiru, and forwarded to INEC. According to…

A journalist with the online news platform Secrets Reporters, Stanley Ugagbe, has been abducted from his residence in the Jikwoyi area of Abuja, with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) linking the disappearance to a recent investigation published by his organisation. Mr Ugabe was taken on Wednesday at about 6:30 p.m. by unidentified armed men, according to a report published by Press Attack Tracker, an initiative of the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID). The report quoted Secrets Reporters publisher, Tega Oghenedoro, also known as Fejiro Oliver, as saying neighbours saw four men in plain clothes arrive in an…

Key events88 min: The match has turned to what many would have anticipated. Constant Argentina pressure and heroic Cape Verde defending. But that was far from the case for much of the night.Share87 min: Messi’s corner is punched out by Vozinha.Share86 min: Even if Argentina win here they’ve had to work a lot harder in sapping heat than they’d have liked. Mac Allister’s shot is deflected for a corner.Share84 min: De Paul is off for Paredes. A hairy moment at an Argentina corner for Cape Verde but they just about get it away.Share82 min: Oh wow. ​Pico Lopes slides in…

It’s official: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are married. The news was confirmed by a sign posted on the jumbotron outside of Madison Square Garden shortly after 730 p.m. ET on Friday, July 3. This week, details of the much-reported, multi-day Madison Square Garden wedding celebration began to emerge through police memos and permits obtained by The New York Times and Associated Press. The couple held what was reportedly a 100-person rehearsal dinner Thursday night at the Infosys Theater within the Garden. Selena Gomez, Jack Antonoff, Bradley Cooper and Lena Dunham were among the stars spotted on their way to…

Kano State Governor Abba Yusuf has told officials of the state’s Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) to do their work or quit. Mr Yusuf said the agency has lost “fighting spirit” since the exit of its former chairman, Muhuyi Magaji. The governor urged the new chairman, Sa’idu Yahaya, whom he appointed in August 2025, to resign if he cannot discharge his responsibilities. He stated this on Thursday at the Government House while launching the distribution of 150 truckloads of subsidised fertiliser to farmers across the state’s 44 local government areas. Governor Yusuf noted a sharp decline in the agency’s…

Keir Starmer has warned his likely successor, Andy Burnham, that it will not be possible to spend less time focusing on international affairs.Speaking during a BBC interview, he also spoke of his “intensely personal” decision to announce his resignation last month after two years as prime minister.Throughout his premiership, the Labour leader has faced accusations of spending too much time on the world stage instead of domestic affairs, with his opponents calling him “never here Keir”.Burnham has largely focused on domestic issues as he sets out his stall to be the next prime minister.But Starmer warned that the future prime…