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Cameron Brink is not fond of the possibility of practicing alongside male athletes.  Last week, the Los Angeles Sparks instructed, via a social media post, male athletes to fill out a waiver and register for practice squad tryouts. Brink said she was “icked out” by the WNBA franchise’s call for… Read Details ⇢

Progressive groups denounce move as effort to suppress millions of voters who do not have ready access to government ID. United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order requiring Americans to provide proof of citizenship to vote, claiming the move is necessary to “straighten out” election fraud. Trump’s… Read Details ⇢

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released an upgraded AI model called V3-0324 to Hugging Face V3-0324 offers improved reasoning and coding abilities over its predecessors DeepSeek claims its AI models can match or beat those of American AI developers like OpenAI and Anthropic DeepSeek dropped a major upgrade to its… Read Details ⇢

White lies to loved ones so as not to offend them, small embellishments of greater or lesser importance to resumes, marketing techniques to lure customers, big lie: We lie to ourselves and we are lied to, all the time. Bella DePaulo and her colleagues from the University of Virginia estimated,… Read Details ⇢

Thousands of students chanting angry slogans hit the streets of Istanbul on Tuesday as a court jailed an AFP journalist and six others for covering the biggest protests to hit Turkey in over a decade. The demonstrations erupted after the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s… Read Details ⇢

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hit back at a Democratic lawmaker Tuesday who appeared to mock him for being in a wheelchair, saying such remarks will only leave the party “in the dust” come future elections. “It’s another day and another disaster by the Democrats. The reality is they have no vision,… Read Details ⇢

South Korea’s forest service said thousands of fighters are tackling at least five active wildfires across the country. At least 18 people have been killed and almost 20 injured as wildfires rage in multiple areas across South Korea’s southeastern region where thousands of firefighters and soldiers are struggling to control… Read Details ⇢

If you’re looking for a top-tier smartphone with all the bells and whistles, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra is the device to beat. In our 4.5-star Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review, we called it the “ultimate Android phone”, so this 16% discount on Amazon – as meagre as it might… Read Details ⇢

Demonstrators protested outside of an event hosted by Brad Schimel, candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, on March 25, 2025, in Jefferson, Wisconsin. Schimel has been endorsed by President Donald Trump and financially supported by billionaire businessman Elon Musk. SCOTT OLSON / AFP President Donald Trump on Tuesday, March 26,… Read Details ⇢