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President Donald Trump to travel to Michigan ahead of swing state's primary election

President Donald Trump is expected to rally in Oakland County on Monday as early voting begins in Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary.

KPRC 2 Click2Houston Local • 16m

Iran war has cost US $37.5bn so far, Hegseth says

Some senators pushed back on Hegseth's funding request as he testified at a pivotal time in the war.

BBC US & Canada Us • 19m

Funeral home director charged with 5 felonies after allegedly stealing nearly $2.2M from dead man's estate

A Houston funeral home director is charged with five felonies after investigators say they submitted forged documents to obtain a state license — and then stole the estate of a man whose family hired them for his funeral.

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Pete Hegseth defends ongoing war in Iran and requests $88bn more to pay for it during Senate committee testimony – live

Protesters removed at start of testimony as defense secretary claims billions of additional funding are needed ‘sustain vital operations without disruption’Sign up for US Breaking News emailUS gas prices have continued to rise since the conflict with Iran resumed this month. According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), a gallon of fuel is now just over $4 – almost a dollar more than a year ago.It comes as Brent Crude, the international oil benchmark, is now up by almost 2% to $90.92 a barrel. Continue reading...

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2 married couples from Honduras were among 5 adults who drowned in an Ohio river

Honduran authorities have confirmed that four of the five people who drowned in an Ohio river over the weekend are Honduran citizens.

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Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But […]

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OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, […]

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Wreckage found of Pan Am plane crash that helped lead to today's safety briefings on every flight

The wreckage from a Pan Am plane crash in the ocean 74 years ago that helped lead to requirements for the passenger safety briefings on every flight today has been found off the coast of Puerto Rico.

KPRC 2 Click2Houston Local • 55m

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Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents

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Bucking EV slowdown, Sila raises $300M to expand battery materials factory

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Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

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Nintendo customers have no legal right to tariff refunds, company tells judge

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Einride bets $38M on EV charging as it scales electric trucking

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FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers

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Apple teams up with Klarna to launch a lease-to-own program for iPhones, iPads, and Macs

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Peak Design’s modular Field Bracket has a finder tag built-in

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Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035

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Tesla spins up robotaxi pilots in Orlando and Tampa ahead of Q2 earnings

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Apple Private Cloud Compute SoC 3 audit reports

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Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals

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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement approved; only 350 authors opted out

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Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

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Nearly every Kindle is steeply discounted at Best Buy

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Sales of Valve's Steam Deck crater after recent price hike

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Apple’s rumored ‘Upgrade’ program brings lease-to-own pricing for iPhones, Macs, and iPads

The Verge 5h

Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro

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Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4

Ars Technica 5h

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

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Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts

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Tesla Robotaxis go to Florida

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A Sneaky Hacking Tool Targeting AI Infrastructure Is Lurking in Victims’ Blind Spots

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Threads rolls out parental supervision tools

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Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

President Donald Trump to travel to Michigan ahead of swing state's primary election

Iran war has cost US $37.5bn so far, Hegseth says

Funeral home director charged with 5 felonies after allegedly stealing nearly $2.2M from dead man's estate

Pete Hegseth defends ongoing war in Iran and requests $88bn more to pay for it during Senate committee testimony – live

2 married couples from Honduras were among 5 adults who drowned in an Ohio river

Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

Wreckage found of Pan Am plane crash that helped lead to today's safety briefings on every flight

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President Donald Trump to travel to Michigan ahead of swing state's primary election

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Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

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Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

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