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Andy Manis/AP The U.S. Secret Service released a map on June 21, 2024, showing the security area for next month’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. CNN — The U.S. Secret Service on Friday announced security measures for next month’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, including the creation of a perimeter to prevent protesters from gathering in a large park near the convention site. Pere Marquette Park, a few blocks from the Fiserv Forum where the convention is being held, is now inside a “high-security” area where only credentialed attendees and volunteers are allowed inside and weapons are prohibited, Audrey Gibson…
Karachi city, Pakistan Pakistan announced on Saturday that it was launching a “revitalized” national counter-terrorism operation to “eliminate extremism and terrorism from the country.”According to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, Prime Minister Sharif made the announcement while presiding over a meeting of the country’s top anti-terrorism agencies in the capital, Islamabad.The meeting was attended by the three army chiefs as well as chief ministers of four provinces and Gilgit-Baltistan.”The Prime Minister, with the consent of all stakeholders including Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, launched Operation Azm-e-Isteqam (Resolve to Sustain) and approved a revitalised and revitalised national counter-terrorism…
As the altcoin market enters a prolonged re-accumulation phase, there are signs that a big rally is on the way.Though the market is currently in bear territory, past trends and analysis indicate that altcoins have huge potential to rise. According to crypto analyst Mikeybull, a 2020 price pattern is forming, suggesting a major price surge is imminent.Altcoin re-accumulation phaseMarket sentiment towards altcoins is currently bearish, with many investors taking a negative view of the market. However, this kind of sentiment is typical during altcoin re-accumulation phases, which occur just before the market reverses. Supporting this view, DeFi analyst Cyril points…
On Saturday, June 22, Congress member VK Minimol was elected as the chairman of the Kochi City Construction Standing Committee.In the nine-member committee, Minimolu defeated Deepa Varma of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) by a margin of 5 to 4. The election was necessitated after Sunita Dixon, a lawmaker from the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), a member of the United Democratic Front (UDF), ran for the post of chairperson on April 11.The election had to be postponed as the model code of conduct was already in place by then. The Congress camp feared that Dixon would sabotage the election but…
Santiago Jimenez’s Mexico will face Jamaica this Saturday in their opening match of the Copa 2024. (Matthew Wyszynski/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Copa America 2024 Soccer — or football — The tournament continues tonight with Mexico vs Jamaica. Jamaica hasn’t beaten Mexico since the 2017 Gold Cup, while Mexico lost two international friendlies before the start of Copa 2024. The 2024 Copa in the United States is scheduled to take place over three weeks in June and July, with 32 matches played across 14 stadiums in 10 states. That’s a lot to follow. Need help finding out how to watch all…
MVP also suggested that the closure of The Hurt Business had racial overtones. One comment pointed to an infamous promo exchange between Triple H and Booker T in the 2000s, in which Triple H told the challenger that people like him couldn’t be champion and that he was only there to make fun of people like him. Whether it was meant to be racist is up for debate, but many took the promo, especially the latter part, as a reference to minstrel shows. MVP agreed with the reference, and further stated, “You get it,” when a user said, “The Triple…
Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Tesla Cybertruck. Robin Beck/Getty Images Dozens of Tesla Cybertrucks were vandalized in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, this week.The Cybertruck was spray-painted with messages attacking Tesla CEO Elon Musk.The Cybertruck has become a symbol of anger for many of Elon Musk’s critics. The Tesla Cybertruck has become iconic, but perhaps not in the way Tesla CEO Elon Musk hoped.Nearly 30 Cybertrucks were vandalized in Florida this week with derogatory messages specifically aimed at Musk.A 35-second video showing the aftermath of a series of vandalism attacks in a Fort Lauderdale parking lot…
Weeks of rain have caused flooding in parts of Iowa and forced people to evacuate their homes, while most of the U.S. awaited relief from a return of extreme heat on Saturday.Sirens rang out at 2 a.m. in Rock Valley, Iowa, population 4,200, and hundreds of homes were ordered to evacuate after the Rock River could no longer withstand the rains that pounded the area. The city is running out of tap water because its wells are not working.Mayor Kevin Van Otterloo said a provincial helicopter was on its way to the rescue but was called off when the boat…
Jibran and three friends were returning home from a dinner party in Landi Kotal, northwest Pakistan, when their car was ambushed. According to a report by the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), two armed men dragged Jibran out of the car, ordered his friends to get out, explained that they were not the target, and then fired 19 shots at Jibran. Gibran has reportedly faced numerous threats in the past because of his fearless reporting. Osama Malik, a Pakistani legal expert, told OCCRP that journalists in the country face intimidation, harassment and excessive criminal and civil prosecutions from both non-state actors…
Most businesses struggle to derive value from their data. A few years ago, Forrester reported that 60% to 73% of the data belonging to the average company goes unused for analytics. This is because the data is siloed or classified by technical and security considerations that make it difficult (if not impossible) to apply analytical tools. Previously working as engineers at Y Combinator-backed startups Hightouch (a data sync platform) and Fair Square (a health insurance tool), Anna Pojawis and Tyler Maran saw that many companies were being “locked out” of their analytics strategies due to engineering roadblocks, so they decided…