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🔒 Republicans take first step toward funding ICE without Democrats’ help - The Washington Post

Republicans took a step without the help of Democrats toward fully reopening the Department of Homeland Security and ending the partial government shutdown.

🔒 Cannabis: DOJ Reclassifies State-Licensed Marijuana as Less Dangerous Drug - Bloomberg

The US Justice Department reclassified state-regulated marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a major shift that could increase legal cannabis sales and help a struggling industry.

Trump issues 'shoot and kill' order against Iranian small boats in Strait of Hormuz | AP News

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Roman-Era Wreck Reveals How Ships Were Built to Last 2,000 Years Ago : ScienceAlert

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Tencent Cloud Cube Sandbox Goes Fully Open-Source, with Five Major Breakthroughs Enabling Large-Scale Agent Deployment

Tencent Cloud's Cube Sandbox goes fully open source with five technical breakthroughs, providing a production-grade foundation for AI Agent deployment at industrial scale.

7 simple tech innovations transforming waste into solutions to save Earth

Earth Day 2026 has arrived with a wave of breakthroughs signaling that clean energy is moving fast from lab to real-world deployment.

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🔒 Opinion | U.K. smoking ban is an autocratic solution in search of a problem - The Washington Post

Winston Churchill is rolling in his grave as the United Kingdom enacts a full-scale ban on anyone born after 2008 ever being able to purchase tobacco products, no matter their age.

UK lawmakers approve lifetime smoking ban for today's under-18s | Reuters

Children in Britain who are 17 or younger, ‌and anyone born in the future, will never be able to legally buy cigarettes after lawmakers approved new stricter restrictions on smoking.

UK's Starmer worried by foreign-backed proxy attacks in Britain | Reuters

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday he was "increasingly concerned" about a ‌growing use of proxies by foreign states to carry out attacks in Britain, pledging to bring forward new legislation following recent attacks.

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DeepSeek is back with V4, slashing agentic AI costs - Techzine Global

Regardless of the outcomes for AI labs and hardware players, DeepSeek V4 presents some tremendous technical breakthroughs that are worth discussing. First of all, the extremely low KV cache size decimates DeepSeek’s previous best effort. V4 does this by utilizing what’s known as an interleaved ...

You Can Expand Your Consciousness to See Hidden Layers of Reality, Oxford Physicist Claims - Newsy Today

Pro Tip: To foster intuitive breakthroughs, allow your mind periods of “uncertainty” or subconscious processing rather than forcing a linear, logical solution.

What to know if your flight is canceled amid rising jet fuel costs

No, and protections vary widely by region — from the Montreal Convention, which governs airline liability across more than 140 countries, to specific consumer protection laws in the U.S., Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Brazil.

BURO. LAUNCHES BURO. BEAUTY EDIT — AN INDEPENDENT BEAUTY INDUSTRY STUDY. - Buro 24/7

Today, the beauty industry is undergoing significant transformation. The focus is shifting toward neurocosmetics, peptides and exosomes, breakthroughs in epigenetics, devices that bring at-home care closer to professional procedures, and the rapid integration of artificial intelligence.

United Kingdom joins India and China in driving a surge in Canada’s Tourism — Air Canada & British Airways See Skyrocketing Bookings - Travel And Tour World

Explore Canada's booming tourism driven by the UK, India, and China. Air Canada & British Airways expand routes as Ottawa thrives with rising global demand.

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The Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683 failed when Polish-Lithuanian forces under Jan Sobieski arrived, marking the beginning of Ottoman retreat in Europe.

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