Senate confirms Todd Blanche in narrow vote despite concerns over independence of office. Published On 8 Aug 20268 Aug 2026 President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche has been confirmed as United States attorney general, despite bipartisan concerns over the politicisation of the Justice Department. The Senate, which is narrowly controlled by Republicans, confirmed…
BEIJING — Authorities in eastern China shut schools and tourist sites as Typhoon Dolphin made its way towards land on Saturday. The storm’s maximum sustained winds were estimated at about 162 kilometers per hour (101 mph). It will bring heavy rains, creating a risk of severe flooding as well as landslides. It’s expected to hit…
Doximity at the New York Stock Exchange for its initial public offering on June 24, 2021. Source: NYSE Shares of medical platform Doximity more than doubled at one point in overnight trading Friday after some bold comments on the margin for its new AI search tool. CEO Jeffrey Tangney said the product brings in 10…
Vietnam’s President To Lam will next week embark on state visits to Australia and New Zealand, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. In a statement, it announced that Lam, who also serves as general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), would travel to the two nations from August 9 to 14,…
The Mummy 4 fans are also excited that the franchise will return with the original cast. Fans on social media immediately began campaigning for Arnold Vosloo’s return. In an interview with Deadline, Oded Fehr and Kevin J. O’Connor will return for The Mummy. The film already cast Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz in their original…
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach Newswire – 6 August 2024 – From July 31 to August 2, the Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) joined hands with the State of Hawaii Office in Taipei to present the three-day “Formosa-Hawaii Cultural Festival” at the New Taipei City Citizen Plaza, inviting people from across Taiwan to immerse themselves…
Tennis star Coco Gauff called for nuance in response to a new rule from the Women’s Tennis Association that requires its athletes to undergo genetic tests amid the ongoing debate about transgender athletes in women’s sports. Many athletes were unaware of the new policy until it was announced in a news release last month, Gauff…
KARACHI: A Karachi court on Thursday allowed the exhumation of Institute of Business Administration (IBA) graduate Mir Raza Ali’s body, which was found last month with a gunshot wound to the chest in the bushes in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. The court issued the order on an application filed by Ali’s father, after a controversy emerged between the…
Facebook owner Meta says an issue during an evaluation by an independent testing company allowed one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect to the internet and hack another organisation’s system. The announcement follows recent incidents across the AI industry, including breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic models, that have raised cyber-security concerns. A Meta…
Southeast Asia’s insurance industry has quietly turned into one of the region’s most crowded battlegrounds for digital disruption. Behind traditional insurers’ glossy premiums and paperwork-heavy claims lies a swarm of insurtechs rewriting the rules, some genuinely solving access gaps, others simply repackaging old products with an app and an API. From Singapore’s bolttech and Igloo…
