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About 1,200 people evacuated from coastal wildfire in northern France

PARIS, Aug 12 - About 1,200 people were evacuated from a campsite due to two wildfires near the beach in the north of France, local officials said on Wednesday. The prefecture for the administrative department of Pas-de-Calais, in the country's north and bordering the Strait of Dover, said one of the wildfires was under control

XAI Grok 4.6 Is Near Frontier Capable But 85% Lower Cost

SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 is roughly the same performance as Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. 80% cheaper for input tokens and 88% cheaper for output tokens. It is pareto dominant. Grok 4.7 will be significantly better as is a much larger model with the Cursor and SpaceX data included in pretraining. Grok 4.6 is

Done Deal: Romero ready for Parma in €7m agreement with Tigre

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - FEBRUARY 07: David Romero of Tigre celebrates after scoring his team's second goal during a Torneo Apertura Mercado Libre 2026 match between River Plate and Tigre at Estadio Más Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti on February 07, 2026 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Marcelo Endelli/Getty Images) Tigre striker David Romero is

“Not Our Responsibility…”: Congress Slams Ally AAP As It Faces Delhi Rout

New Delhi: It is not the Congress' responsibility to make the Aam Aadmi Party win, party spokesperson Supriya Shrinate told NDTV Saturday, as the AAP slipped to a humbling defeat in the 2025 Assembly election. "The onus of making the AAP win is not on the Congress... we will look for fertile political bastions and try

50,000 Scientists Urge Congress to Protect Research from Trump

Science & Nature Two open letters from scientists and science advocacy groups reflect a growing anxiety about the future of federal science under President-elect...

The Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund…

The U.S. Con­gress has un­til mid­night Fri­day to come up with a way to fund the gov­ern­ment or fed­er­al agen­cies will shut down, mean­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands of fed­er­al em­ploy­ees could be sent home — or stay on the job with­out pay — just ahead of the hol­i­days. Re­pub­li­cans aban­doned a bi­par­ti­san plan Wednes­day to

New Congress brings churn in health policy leadership

Congress’ most influential health panels will see dramatic changes next year, with several advocates on specific issues like mental health, Medicare and drug pricing retiring or losing their reelection bids.  The biggest changes will be in store at the House Energy and Commerce Committee, whose wide-ranging jurisdiction includes health insurance, biomedical research, and drug and

Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI

Skip to main content The House of Representatives' digital service has already distributed the licenses among lawmakers' offices. JAN. 23, 2023 -- Screens display the logos of OpenAI and ChatGPT. (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images). Congressional offices have begun using OpenAI’s popular and controversial generative AI tool ChatGPT to experiment with the technology

Congress Must Stop Being BJP’s ‘Secret Ally’ and Join Opposition Parties Before Time Runs Out

Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power at the Union government, it has had a secret ally. That ally is the Congress party of India. The partnership between...

National Congress of American Indians calls for offshore wind moratorium

The largest national organization of American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments is calling on the Biden administration to pause offshore wind projects. They want to ensure that tribes are included in project planning and that there are measures in place to protect their territories and traditional resources.In a resolution adopted this week, the National Congress

Congress Told HHS to Set Up a Health Data Network in 2006. The Agency Still Hasn’t.

In early 2020, as they tried to fight covid-19 across two rural counties in North Carolina, the staff of Granville Vance Public Health was stymied, relying on outdated technology to track a fast-moving pandemic. Lisa Macon Harrison, the agency’s health director, said her nurses’ contact-tracing process required manually entering case information into five data systems.

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About 1,200 people evacuated from coastal wildfire in northern France

PARIS, Aug 12 - About 1,200 people were evacuated from a campsite due to two wildfires near the beach in the north of France, local officials said on Wednesday. The prefecture for the administrative department of Pas-de-Calais, in the country's north and bordering the Strait of Dover, said one of the wildfires was under control

XAI Grok 4.6 Is Near Frontier Capable But 85% Lower Cost

SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 is roughly the same performance as Fable 5 Max at an 85% discount. 80% cheaper for input tokens and 88% cheaper for output tokens. It is pareto dominant. Grok 4.7 will be significantly better as is a much larger model with the Cursor and SpaceX data included in pretraining. Grok 4.6 is

Done Deal: Romero ready for Parma in €7m agreement with Tigre

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA - FEBRUARY 07: David Romero of Tigre celebrates after scoring his team's second goal during a Torneo Apertura Mercado Libre 2026 match between River Plate and Tigre at Estadio Más Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti on February 07, 2026 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Marcelo Endelli/Getty Images) Tigre striker David Romero is

Osun: Don’t turn election into war, Atiku tells FG

Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Atiku Abubakar, has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security agencies and the Tinubu administration against militarising the Osun governorship election or deploying state institutions for partisan advantage. Speaking at the ADC National Youth Leadership Summit in Abuja, Atiku declared that “Osun is a test” of

Burnham’s devolution drive could ‘push 90,000 jobs out of London’

Wednesday 12 August 2026 5:16 pm Nearly 10,000 jobs are expected to leave the capital by 2031 Roughly 90,000 of London’s white-collar jobs could be pushed into other parts of the country as Andy Burnham accelerates his devolution drive, a top recruitment firm has predicted. Legal, banking and accounting firms could be among those to