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Where you can fly nonstop

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Polignano a Mare in the Region of Puglia. Italy.Artur Debat | Moment | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines' summer 2026 international travel plan is out, and smaller European cities are in.Starting April 30, United plans to fly from its hub at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey to Split on the Croatian coast — its second destination in the country. A day later the carrier is launching Newark to Bari in the popular Puglia region of southern Italy on the Adriatic Sea.May 22 is the scheduled launch of a nonstop from Newark to Santiago de Compostela, in the Galicia region of…

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

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Lily JamaliTechnology correspondent, San FranciscoGetty ImagesSilicon Valley is home to many major tech firms, including Apple's circular headquartersAt OpenAI's DevDay this week, OpenAI boss Sam Altman did what American tech bosses rarely do these days: he actually answered questions from reporters."I know it's tempting to write the bubble story," Mr Altman told me as he sat flanked by his top lieutenants. "In fact, there are many parts of AI that I think are kind of bubbly right now."In Silicon Valley, the debate over whether AI companies are overvalued has taken on a new urgency. Sceptics are privately - and some…

Candidates in Virginia governor’s debate clash over government shutdown, violent rhetoric

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia gubernatorial candidates Republican Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat Abigail Spanberger faced off Thursday for the first and only time on the debate stage in a fiery affair that was combative from the very first answer. Earle-Sears, perceived by operatives in both parties to be trailing, went on the offensive throughout the hourlong clash, interrupting almost every one of Spanberger’s answers and referring to the congresswoman only by her first name. Spanberger, who largely avoided addressing her Republican opponent directly, set a more sterile and bipartisan tone. The personal clashes overshadowed the policy fights at times, which focused on violent rhetoric,…

Operation Pope review – hard-bitten thriller about a true-life papal assassination plot | Film

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‘You want me to shoot the pope?” This is undeniably a fab jumping off point for a any film, based on real events or not, and in fact this gritty Polish thriller is a dramatisation of the 1981 attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II. But you don’t need to be much of a history buff to know that that this particular crime would be on the JFK level of momentousness if it had actually succeeded. As it is, we follow Bogusław Linda as Konstanty “Bruno” Brusicki, a former intelligence agent who is offered a compelling carrot and threatened with…

Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco — stunning his own PR team

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Marc Benioff has long been San Francisco’s liberal-leaning billionaire, the tech executive who funded homeless services, donated to the city’s public schools, and hosted Hillary Clinton fundraisers. But in a new, wide-ranging phone interview with the New York Times from his private plane, Benioff revealed a political transformation that seemed to surprise even his own communications team, despite that Salesforce has hundreds of contracts with the federal government. The Salesforce founder declared he “fully supported” President Trump and thought National Guard troops should patrol San Francisco streets. He gushed about sitting across from Trump at a Windsor Castle state dinner,…

Northern Ireland 2-0 Slovakia: Was World Cup qualifying win NI’s best under Michael O’Neill?

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O'Neill admired the performance of his young side, who have made a superb start to qualifying.A win in Luxembourg was followed by an hour of matching European heavyweights Germany, who eventually prevailed to win 3-1.Friday's win was superb from first minute to last. A Patrik Hrosovsky own goal broke the deadlock before Hume's superb effort with just under 10 minutes left made sure - but was it the best under O'Neill?"I don't really look at games like that because teams evolve," O'Neill said when asked if it was the most complete performance since his return in 2023 for a second…

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says WNBA games could come to China

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MACAO — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday the WNBA could be next to play games in China. Silver spoke exclusively with CNBC courtside from the first of two NBA games in Macao. "We have to get through a new collective bargaining agreement with our players," he said. "But once we do, there's so much interest in women's basketball here, I think we'd love to bring a WNBA game to Macao or to mainland China." The games this weekend mark the NBA's return to China after a six-year hiatus. The league is actively trying to grow its footprint in its No. 2 market,…

Verge Genomics (YC S15) Is Hiring for Multiple Engineering and Product Roles

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Verge is using AI to develop better drugs faster. We are one of the few AI drug discovery companies to advance from data to clinic – delivering two new AI-derived drugs in the last three years, discovered using our industry-leading proprietary datasets and tooling. Along the way, we've signed commercial partnerships with Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca totaling $1.6B in contract value and $67M in near-term cash.We're hiring for the following roles on our platform team:* Head of Product & Engineering* Principal Full-Stack Engineer (Django)* Senior Computational Biologist (AI/ML)* Senior Data EngineerPlease apply through our careers page, and mention Hacker News…

WATCH: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys discuss ICE’s continued efforts to deport him to Africa

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GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — The Trump administration is pushing again to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador, and hasn’t given up on moving him to Eswatini or Ghana even though both have rejected the idea, an immigration official told a judge Friday. Abrego Garcia has challenged efforts to re-deport him to a third country after the government admitted that a previous order prevents his deportation to his home country of El Salvador. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said recently that it plans to deport him to the southern African country of Eswatini. WATCH: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorney discusses his…

‘We were the original punks’: the rebel women revitalising local music scenes | Punk

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Ask Cathy Loughead the most punk thing she’s ever done, and she doesn’t miss a beat: “I went on stage with my neck broken in two places. I couldn’t bounce around, so I blinged the brace up instead. That was a great gig.”Loughead is part of a growing movement of women redefining punk. When Riot Women, Sally Wainwright’s new BBC drama spotlighting female punk, airs this Sunday, it will reflect a scene that’s already thriving far beyond television.That energy is being felt most viscerally in Leicester, where Ruth Miller’s 2022 Unglamorous Music project – now known as the Riotous Collective…