Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is running AI-generated campaign ads featuring Governor Kathy Hochul's fabricated voice and likeness, which Hochul has called 'straight up lying.' The dispute arrives as Hochul defends New York's first-in-the-nation moratorium on new data centers.

Prince George turned 13 on July 22 as Kensington Palace released a birthday video showing him on a beach with Prince Louis and a new portrait by photographer Matt Porteous. In September, George will begin as a boarding student at Eton College.

Joe Manchin launched the Independent Leadership Council on Thursday to recruit and fund independent candidates for Congress, calling it a movement toward the center rather than a third party. The group combines his daughter Heather's Americans Together organization with Adam Brandon's Independent PAC.

Open Atlas Summit 2026 will bring together 1,000+ founders, engineers, students, investors and professionals to build careers, companies and lasting connections beyond traditional networking. Most professional conferences promise networking. Attendees exchange business cards, add one another on LinkedIn and return home with a folder of photographs, ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed Gemini's monthly active users have nearly tripled to 950 million as the company expands Gemini Spark, a personalized AI agent, to users in the US and internationally.

Spain declared a wildfire national emergency Friday as fires burned out of control near Madrid, even as France mourned two dead firefighters in the Gironde and Italy deployed 6,000 emergency responders across Sicily.

Alex Bowman, driving the No. 48 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, will step back from full-time NASCAR Cup Series competition after 2027, ending a career marked by eight wins and three injury setbacks in three consecutive seasons. No successor has been announced for the seat.

Burger King on July 22 launched a Whopper Guarantee and a new 'Your Way Champion' service role at US locations, promising a free Whopper if the burger falls short. Workers at several franchises say the service push is arriving without a pay raise.

Kansas City temperatures dropped to the 70s Thursday after a dangerous heat wave peaked Tuesday with a 92-degree heat index and an official First Warn alert. The brief cool-down, with rain expected through Friday, ends as dangerous 90-to-100-degree heat returns to the region by Sunday.

Director Tim Story's 72 Hours gives Kevin Hart a better premise than it uses: a 40-year-old executive on a Gen Z Miami bachelor party. Hart commits and Andy Garcia steals scenes, but the script prefers slapstick to the cultural comedy the setup promises. Streaming Friday on Netflix.

The FDA is investigating a second, separate cyclosporiasis outbreak with an unidentified food source as the first outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce continues to expand, with more than 7,000 confirmed cases in Michigan alone. The emergence of two simultaneous cyclospora investigations marks an unprecedented food safety challenge this summer.

Ukrainian drone strikes hit Wildberries logistics centers in St. Petersburg, Tver and occupied Crimea overnight on Friday, the fifth series of attacks in seven days on Russia's largest online retailer. Three people were injured near St. Petersburg and around 50 flights were delayed at Pulkovo Airport.

A De Havilland DHC-3 Otter operated by Kenmore Air crashed and caught fire in Shallow Bay near Sucia Island in Washington state's San Juan Islands on Thursday afternoon, carrying 11 people. All survived, though one passenger is in critical condition with multiple others suffering head injuries, broken bones, and lacerations.

The answer to Contexto #1405 for July 24, 2026 is SPICE. Today's puzzle spans culinary flavoring, the medieval spice trade, and a pop culture phenomenon a semantic field wider than most solvers expect.

The four answers to today's Quordle #1642 (July 24, 2026) are DOLLY, EDIFY, LAGER, and PRANK. EDIFY is today's vocabulary outlier a formal verb meaning to instruct or uplift that rarely surfaces in everyday speech.

The International Criminal Court's 125 member states gathered in The Hague on Friday to vote on removing Prosecutor Karim Khan, a decision that carries direct implications for the genocide accountability cases he built against Israeli leaders. Sixty-three votes are needed to remove him and his accusers, defenders, and Gaza's victims are all watching the ...

Ukraine's military killed or wounded 193,500 Russian troops in 2026, a record pace, even as Kyiv fired its defence minister and army chief within a single week. New commander Drapatyi faces the unresolved drone warfare investment question his predecessors clashed over.

The best 1-year certificate of deposit rates reach 4.17% in July 2026, against 4.10% for top high-yield savings, a difference of $7 on $10,000 annually. The real decision is whether the Fed will cut rates before a CD matures, and whether the saver can leave that money untouched for a year.

The House passed a $95B Iran war and SAVE Act reconciliation 216-214 on Wednesday, with all Democrats and two Republicans voting no. Senate Leader Thune's August delay, Ron Johnson's offset objections, Murkowski's opposition, and the Byrd rule all threaten the bill.

The NYT Spelling Bee for July 24, 2026 uses center letter K and outer letters E, V, O, I, N, and G. One pangram EVOKING, worth 14 points leads today's tighter 24-word puzzle, with INVOKING as the top-scoring 8-letter answer.

All NYT Mini Crossword answers for July 24, 2026: SHELL, HELLO, HALAL, TIME, HEAD across; SHH, HEATH, ELLIE, LLAMA, LOLED down. Notable clues include the SpongeBob telephone opener and a Ben & Jerry's brand fill-in.

The NYT Strands answer for July 24, 2026 (puzzle #873) is built around the theme 'There's More Where That Came From.' The spangram is AND THEN SOME, with six theme words describing abundance and excess.

India’s job market is really tough now. There are a lot of graduates and mid-career professionals looking for good jobs, but there are not many available. At the same time, a new career path is getting popular: the remote high-ticket sales closer.   Remote high-ticket closers do something specific. They handle scheduled Zoom appointments for big products ...

The answers to NYT Connections Sports Edition #669 (July 24, 2026) span four categories: ways to jump, North Carolina schools, 1990s expansion franchises, and Athletes Unlimited Softball teams with TALONS as today's purple trap.

The answer to Wordle #1861 for July 24, 2026 is PUTTY. One vowel, five letters, and a double-T trap at positions three and four that costs solvers who undercount the repeated consonant.