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Duma's Hotel Tender for New Deputies Fails After Only One Bid
The State Duma reopened its search for hotel rooms for ninth-convocation lawmakers without Moscow housing, but the 189.1...
MOEX Index Rises on Geopolitical Hopes While Oil Slide Pressures Ruble
Russia's MOEX index rose 0.29% to 2,269 as geopolitical hopes and dividend flows offset a 4.1% Brent slump that dragged ...
Russian Police Detain Four Over 18.6M-Ruble Electricity Theft for Crypto Mining
Four Veliky Novgorod residents face charges after allegedly running nine mining farms with tampered meters, costing util...
Paramount Skydance defends Warner Bros. Discovery merger as lawsuits mount
CEO David Ellison says the Warner Bros. Discovery deal will close as planned, but the WGA, a shareholder and 12 state AG...
Uruguayan Grill Charrúa Sells Out Madrid Tables Weeks Ahead; Casa Charrúa and Lisbon Next
Madrid's Charrúa serves about 300 covers a day and books out six weeks ahead. Founders Juanvelz and Marchal are opening ...
Xbox Marks 25 Years With Free Badges, Artwork and a Game Pass Nostalgia Push
Xbox is marking its 25th anniversary with free badges and community-created artwork, plus classic titles spotlighted on ...
Why 911 Dispatchers Still Can't See School Cameras During an Emergency
Nearly all US schools have security cameras, yet 911 dispatchers can't view the feeds in an emergency. A security indust...
Karl Ove Knausgaard Takes the MLA Stage: Canon or Fad?
At the Modern Language Association's annual meeting, two sessions on the Norwegian author divided scholars over whether ...
NYU Vice Provost Argues Colleges Shouldn't Chase a Unified AI Policy
An NYU vice provost argues that searching for one campus-wide AI policy is the wrong goal — and that professors quietly ...
FDA Clears AI Coronary Inflammation Tool; Hofstra Sued Over Bar-Exam Cardiac Arrest
Caristo's CaRi-Heart wins FDA de novo clearance, Hofstra faces a cardiac-arrest lawsuit over bar-exam emergency care, an...
ADA Review, Retatrutide Access and GLP-1 Generics Lead a Busy Diabetes Week
A busy week for diabetes and obesity drugs: ADA reviews a police incident, Lilly expands retatrutide access, Novo faces ...
New Women's Baseball Team Named After Trailblazing Doctor Harriot Hunt
Boston's new WPBL team honors Harriot Kezia Hunt, the first woman to apply to Harvard Medical School, 179 years before t...
Aidan Tanner on How 'Second Life' Social Media Marketing Extends Hollywood Films
The creator behind social campaigns for 'The Odyssey' and 'Stranger Things' explains why a film's online afterlife is no...
Farm Bill Draft Would Strip $2B From EQIP, Leaving 56,500 Approved Farmers Unfunded
A farm bill draft would divert nearly $2 billion from the oversubscribed EQIP conservation program, leaving an estimated...
Farm Bill SNAP Fight, Michigan Primary and New Soy Export Capacity Top Ag Week
Senate Democrats will push for a longer SNAP cost-shift pause at Thursday's farm bill markup, Michigan's primary tests t...
USDA extends crop insurance premium deadline, restores prevented-planting buy-up
Farmers get 60 extra days to pay crop insurance premiums — potentially with interest waived — and USDA is bringing back ...
UK PM Burnham Faces Backlash Over Foreign Holiday After Just 15 Days in Office
Andy Burnham’s decision to take a foreign holiday two weeks into his premiership has ignited a Labour row, with critics ...
Chernozemye Digest: Mortgages Up 55%, Kursk Salaries Hit 82,000 Rubles
A single Kommersant feed from Russia's Black Earth region pairs rapid credit growth with corporate distress and renewed ...
Disney Parks Outpace Universal as Orlando Demand Softens
Disney's theme parks posted a 3% attendance gain and took a swipe at rivals, while Comcast's Universal parks saw profit ...
Beijing Rejects Japan's Defense White Paper, Warns of 'New Militarism'
China's defense ministry dismissed Japan's 'Defense of Japan 2026' as false narratives meant to justify military expansi...
STMicroelectronics Launches STGAP3S Isolated Gate Driver Family for SiC and IGBT Power Designs
ST's new STGAP3S drivers bring up to 9.6kV transient protection and an integrated active Miller clamp, simplifying high-...
Diehl Defence and BAE Systems Team Up on Mk 45 Naval Gun Ammunition
German ammunition maker Diehl will adapt its 127mm rounds for BAE Systems' Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun, with guided-missile in...
Raytheon Begins SPY-6(V)4 Testing as US Navy Readies 47-Ship Radar Backfit
Raytheon has installed a SPY-6(V)4 array in Virginia, advancing the US Navy's plan to put AESA radar on 47 Arleigh Burke...
Russian Auto Market Growth Slows in July as High-Base Effect Bites, AEB Says
July car sales rose just 0.3% year-on-year as high 2025 comparisons curbed a six-month growth run; AEB still expects H2 ...
US $3bn+ Missile Deals With Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin Target PAC-3 and THAAD Surge
The Department of War has signed framework agreements worth more than $3bn to accelerate PAC-3 and THAAD interceptor com...
European Shares Rally on Iran Hopes, but AstraZeneca Drags Down FTSE 100
Stoxx Europe 600 rises 0.45% as hopes grow for a US-Iran deal, while the UK's FTSE 100 slips on a 9% drop in AstraZeneca...
Dow Hits Record as Wall Street Rallies on Iran De-escalation Hopes
US stocks closed sharply higher Monday after President Trump said he would hold off on strikes against Iran, sending oil...
Arizona's Davis-Monthan AFB Retires Its Final A-10 Warthogs
The Warthog's final sortie from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base closed a 50-year chapter in Tucson — but roughly 160 A-10s ...
Dassault Systèmes to Buy Life Sciences Software Firm ArisGlobal for $1.8B
The French software group is acquiring AI-native compliance platform provider ArisGlobal for about $1.8 billion in cash,...
Deltha Pharma's Comeback: From Frozen Accounts and Lawsuits to 30% Annual Growth
Deltha Pharma CEO Maria Francesca Aceti explains how the Italian health group rebuilt after near-collapse, expanded abro...