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Josh CraftThe head of the charitable organization New England Patriots Foundation may not officially be a candidate for Boston mayor, but he has made moves and had discussions that suggest he is eyeing a formal 2025 campaign. “I’ll announce it in the fall,” Kraft said while sitting and talking with friends at a Back Bay coffee shop on Monday, adding, “We have an opportunity to do a lot of good things.” Another customer overheard Kraft talking about possibly running for mayor and relayed the details to her friend. Commonwealth Beacon. “Josh Craft is not currently a candidate for mayor and…
India’s lower house of parliament now has just 24 Muslim members, the second lowest number since independence. The number hit an all-time low of 22 in 2014, when the Indian National Congress, the biggest beneficiary of the Muslim vote, faltered in the electoral process. It then rose slightly to 26 in 2019, before falling again.The BJP and other opposition parties have acted as guardians of Muslim interests and benefited from their votes. As a result, Muslim representation was directly tied to the prospects of these parties. This time, the BJP almost doubled its seats in the Lok Sabha from 52…
A cyber issue affected Microsoft users around the world, causing communications outages across countless industries. Many businesses and services, from airlines to local 911 call centers, were affected on Friday. It centered around a glitch with an antivirus company and an update. The company is called Crowdstrike. CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz posted on social media platform X that the company is “actively working with customers impacted by a flaw found in a single content update for Windows hosts.” He said, “This is not a security incident or cyber attack. The issue has been identified, isolated, and a fix is being…
3 Hours AgoFTC Chair Lina Khan connects outage to competition and ‘fragile systems’FTC Chair Lina Khan weighed in on the ongoing CrowdStrike outage in a series of posts on X on Friday. Without mentioning CrowdStrike or Microsoft, she appeared to blame the outage on concentrated market power, which creates “fragile systems,” she wrote.”Concentrating production can concentrate risk, so that a single natural disaster or disruption has cascading effects,” Khan wrote in the series of posts.Khan did not announce an FTC investigation of the incident, but she linked to unrelated past actions she has taken, including opening up a query on…
New Delhi: Former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh has slammed a Pakistani journalist who compared legendary India captain MS Dhoni with Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammed Rizwan. Harbhajan, who played 103 Test matches, 236 ODIs and 28 T20Is for India between 1998 and 2016, slammed the journalist for posting a picture of Dhoni and Rizwan and asking his followers which one is better.While reprimanding the Pakistani journalist, Harbhajan also praised Rizwan’s batting prowess in his message.”What are you smoking these days? Stupid question. No joke. Dhoni is not going to ask Rizwan. If you ask Rizwan he will answer honestly. I like Rizwan.…
Sports News (Photos and illustrations/MetroCreative) Local tennis team achieves success USTA Junior Team Tennis (JTT) is a team sport in which boys and girls come together to compete against other mixed-gender teams in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Last weekend, the local team played in Columbus, Ohio. Team Greenmont placed third out of eight teams in its division. Team MOVTA placed seventh out of eight teams in their division. *** Parkersburg South Girls Basketball Camp The Parkersburg South Girls Basketball Camp is open to all area boys and girls interested in basketball and will be held…
PHOENIX — The last time the U.S. women’s national team ignored Arike Ogunbowale, she paid the price on the basketball court.Three years later, things have changed a bit, but the mission remains the same.The 27-year-old Ogunbowale will again not represent his country at the upcoming Paris Olympics, but he was not completely overlooked, having withdrawn his name from consideration months ago. The Dallas Wings guard said in a podcast earlier this summer that there was a “political” element to the U.S. team selection process.Related:Why was Dallas Wings player Areke Ogunbowale more nervous than any other game he’s ever played?Ogunbowale did…
CHILLICOTHE, Mo. — A woman who served 43 years to life in prison for murder before her conviction was overturned was released Friday, despite efforts last month by the Missouri attorney general to keep her behind bars.Sandra Hemme, 64, left the jail in Chillicothe hours after a judge threatened to hold the attorney general’s office in contempt if she continued to oppose her release. She reunited with her family at a nearby park and hugged her sister, daughter and granddaughter.”You were just a baby when your mom sent me this picture,” she said. “You looked just like your mom when…
Focus on ESI The July 2024 eDiscovery job market has brought new trends that everyone has been waiting for. Jared Coseglia, Founder and CEO of TRU, and Maribel Rivera, VP of ACEDS, discussed the shifts, changes, surprises, and predictions for job seekers and employers in the current eDiscovery job market. Coseria: The free 2024 eDiscovery Jobs Report remains available on the TRU website. While industry data changes monthly, the information in this report is timely and relevant. It’s a great resource, especially for hiring managers looking for job market endorsements and data points to help them secure recruiting budgets or…
The scientists said the biggest challenge for any anti-satellite mission is not hitting the satellite, but concealing the attack.”Currently, the main means of anti-satellite operations are Surface-to-air missiles”However, this approach has several problems, mainly in terms of concealment,” Wang and his colleagues wrote.Missile launches often leave long smoke trails, and a ground attack could easily reveal one’s position and expose it to destruction by enemy fire — “too risky,” the researchers wrote.Satellites are also getting smaller.” Starlink “For example, in this plan, the satellite network is very resilient due to the large number, close spacing, and small size of the…