cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33173703

By Mera Aladam
Published date: 14 July 2025 11:50 BST | Last update:~08:00 EDT

According to the UN agency for #Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), "truckloads of food and medical supplies are waiting in warehouses" outside #Gaza.

"Stop the starvation. Lift the siege. Let the #UN, including #UNRWA, do its lifesaving work," they said in a post on X.

Peter Link

2025-07-15 03:40:44

Gaza: Israel kills more than 130 Palestinians in 24 hours

By Mera Aladam
Published date: 14 July 2025 11:50 BST | Last update:~08:00 EDT

According to the UN agency for #Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), "truckloads of food and medical supplies are waiting in warehouses" outside #Gaza.

"Stop the starvation. Lift the siege. Let the #UN, including #UNRWA, do its lifesaving work," they said in a post on X.

Gaza: Israel kills more than 130 Palestinians in 24 hours

Israeli forces killed more than 130 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day, including several children who were attempting to collect water for their hungry families in the besieged enclave.

^{Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)}

By Mera Aladam
Published date: 14 July 2025 11:50 BST | Last update:~08:00 EDT

According to the UN agency for #Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), "truckloads of food and medical supplies are waiting in warehouses" outside #Gaza.

"Stop the starvation. Lift the siege. Let the #UN, including #UNRWA, do its lifesaving work," they said in a post on X.

Gaza: Israel kills more than 130 Palestinians in 24 hours

Israeli forces killed more than 130 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day, including several children who were attempting to collect water for their hungry families in the besieged enclave.

^{Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33173440

By MEE staff
Published date: 14 July 2025 21:05 BST | Last update: ~17:00 EDT

"Hamas is serious about reaching an agreement to end the war and establish arrangements that ensure calm and stability. It has demonstrated significant flexibility and positive responsibility during the negotiation rounds," the sources quoted Hamas as saying.

"Israel has insisted on continuing the war, destroying the Gaza Strip, displacing its population, and imposing a state of hunger, suffering, and ongoing massacres that have not ceased for a single day."

Peter Link

2025-07-15 03:21:08

Exclusive: Families of Israeli captives reach out to Hamas over fate of ceasefire talks

By MEE staff
Published date: 14 July 2025 21:05 BST | Last update: ~17:00 EDT

"Hamas is serious about reaching an agreement to end the war and establish arrangements that ensure calm and stability. It has demonstrated significant flexibility and positive responsibility during the negotiation rounds," the sources quoted Hamas as saying.

"Israel has insisted on continuing the war, destroying the Gaza Strip, displacing its population, and imposing a state of hunger, suffering, and ongoing massacres that have not ceased for a single day."

Exclusive: Families of Israeli captives reach out to Hamas over fate of ceasefire talks

The families of Israeli captives held in Gaza reached out to Hamas through a representative to ask about the fate of stalled ceasefire talks, Middle East Eye can reveal.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33173440

By MEE staff
Published date: 14 July 2025 21:05 BST | Last update: ~17:00 EDT

"Hamas is serious about reaching an agreement to end the war and establish arrangements that ensure calm and stability. It has demonstrated significant flexibility and positive responsibility during the negotiation rounds," the sources quoted Hamas as saying.

"Israel has insisted on continuing the war, destroying the Gaza Strip, displacing its population, and imposing a state of hunger, suffering, and ongoing massacres that have not ceased for a single day."

Peter Link

2025-07-15 03:21:08

Exclusive: Families of Israeli captives reach out to Hamas over fate of ceasefire talks

By MEE staff
Published date: 14 July 2025 21:05 BST | Last update: ~17:00 EDT

"Hamas is serious about reaching an agreement to end the war and establish arrangements that ensure calm and stability. It has demonstrated significant flexibility and positive responsibility during the negotiation rounds," the sources quoted Hamas as saying.

"Israel has insisted on continuing the war, destroying the Gaza Strip, displacing its population, and imposing a state of hunger, suffering, and ongoing massacres that have not ceased for a single day."

Exclusive: Families of Israeli captives reach out to Hamas over fate of ceasefire talks

The families of Israeli captives held in Gaza reached out to Hamas through a representative to ask about the fate of stalled ceasefire talks, Middle East Eye can reveal.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

By MEE staff
Published date: 14 July 2025 21:05 BST | Last update: ~17:00 EDT

"Hamas is serious about reaching an agreement to end the war and establish arrangements that ensure calm and stability. It has demonstrated significant flexibility and positive responsibility during the negotiation rounds," the sources quoted Hamas as saying.

"Israel has insisted on continuing the war, destroying the Gaza Strip, displacing its population, and imposing a state of hunger, suffering, and ongoing massacres that have not ceased for a single day."

Exclusive: Families of Israeli captives reach out to Hamas over fate of ceasefire talks

The families of Israeli captives held in Gaza reached out to Hamas through a representative to ask about the fate of stalled ceasefire talks, Middle East Eye can reveal.

^{MEE staff (Middle East Eye)}

SORELLA DI PERFEZIONE - La recensione di Vanessa Sulpizi su Amazon. 😍😍😍

amazon.it/gp/aw/review/8833438…

Grazie infinite, Vanessa Sulpizi. ❤️❤️❤️
Commosso. 😘😘😘

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33172838

Michael Thomas Carter
Jul 12, 2025

Mamdani’s success, according to mainstream narratives and prominent pundits, is due to a mixture of individual political acumen, social media savvy, a talented video production team, and his appealing message of a more affordable city for all New Yorkers. All of this helped, but the fact that Mamdani secured the most total votes in a primary in New York City’s history marks the culmination of a grassroots political project that began at least back in 2015, when the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) announced a “New Strategy for a New Era,” energized by the early days of Bernie Sanders’s first presidential run.

Over the past nine years, NYC-DSA has built a field organizing machine that is arguably the strongest electoral operation in municipal politics nationwide. Through wins and losses in local, state, and federal elections, NYC-DSA has learned strategic lessons, developed significant logistical capacity, created a volunteer base for canvassing and outreach, and nurtured a cadre of experienced electoral campaign workers who work on endorsed campaigns.

Peter Link

2025-07-15 03:05:33

To the Field First, Comrades!

Michael Thomas Carter
Jul 12, 2025

Mamdani’s success, according to mainstream narratives and prominent pundits, is due to a mixture of individual political acumen, social media savvy, a talented video production team, and his appealing message of a more affordable city for all New Yorkers. All of this helped, but the fact that Mamdani secured the most total votes in a primary in New York City’s history marks the culmination of a grassroots political project that began at least back in 2015, when the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) announced a “New Strategy for a New Era,” energized by the early days of Bernie Sanders’s first presidential run.

Over the past nine years, NYC-DSA has built a field organizing machine that is arguably the strongest electoral operation in municipal politics nationwide. Through wins and losses in local, state, and federal elections, NYC-DSA has learned strategic lessons, developed significant logistical capacity, created a volunteer base for canvassing and outreach, and nurtured a cadre of experienced electoral campaign workers who work on endorsed campaigns.

To the Field First, Comrades!

The NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has pulled off another stunning upset through Zohran Mamdani’s campaign. An insider shares DSA’s grassroots strategy.

^{Michael Thomas Carter (Drop Site News)}

Michael Thomas Carter
Jul 12, 2025

Mamdani’s success, according to mainstream narratives and prominent pundits, is due to a mixture of individual political acumen, social media savvy, a talented video production team, and his appealing message of a more affordable city for all New Yorkers. All of this helped, but the fact that Mamdani secured the most total votes in a primary in New York City’s history marks the culmination of a grassroots political project that began at least back in 2015, when the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) announced a “New Strategy for a New Era,” energized by the early days of Bernie Sanders’s first presidential run.

Over the past nine years, NYC-DSA has built a field organizing machine that is arguably the strongest electoral operation in municipal politics nationwide. Through wins and losses in local, state, and federal elections, NYC-DSA has learned strategic lessons, developed significant logistical capacity, created a volunteer base for canvassing and outreach, and nurtured a cadre of experienced electoral campaign workers who work on endorsed campaigns.

To the Field First, Comrades!

The NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has pulled off another stunning upset through Zohran Mamdani’s campaign. An insider shares DSA’s grassroots strategy.

^{Michael Thomas Carter (Drop Site News)}

Hey, all! I’m seeking some help testing an application I whipped up for the Geosocial task force of the W3C Social Web Community Group. It’s called https://checkin.swf.pub/ , and it’s a barebones checkin service, similar to Swarm, but implemented as a pure Web client. You can watch the application in action.

videopress.com/embed/zCMu0OeZ?…

It logs into your account on an ActivityPub server using OAuth 2.0. It then reads your inbox, filtering the activities there to only show geosocial ones. You can use the geolocation services in the browser, and the places.pub/ service for a place vocabulary, to find nearby places. You can then “check in” to one of the places, with a note, and control of the privacy of the activity.

Geosocial activities are part of the core Activity Vocabulary that underlies ActivityPub. But, they’re not as widely implemented as other activities in the vocabulary. This app is trying to change that, by making them available on the network, and making it easy to create them.

To test the client, your service will need to support:

• Webfinger (for login)
• ActivityPub API (“client-to-server”, “C2S”)
• FEP-d8c2 (OAuth 2.0 profile for ActivityPub API)
• proxyUrl (for fetching data from remote servers)

To test federation, your service will need to support:

• Receiving Arrive, Leave, and Travel activities
• Showing those activities to users

As of this writing, Mastodon does not work for either of these. If you want to test receiving federated messages, follow me on evan@onepage.pub . I’ve been using it a lot!

Code for the checkin application is here: github.com/social-web-foundati…

This is my second ActivityPub API client (ap, the command-line client, was my first), and my first one for the Web. I found this process really fun and invigorating. I was able to create a new kind of social networking application (well, new on the Fediverse…) purely from the client side. The app saves no data to the server; everything is done in the browser.

Please reach out on GitHub or comment here if you want to work on interoperability. I’m happy to help debug connections if needed.

Cameroon's President Paul Biya, the world's oldest serving head of state at 92, has announced he will run in this year's presidential election in October.

"I am a candidate in the presidential election. Rest assured that my determination to serve you matches the urgency of the challenges we face," he posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account on Sunday.

A new term would keep Biya in office until he is nearly 100. He came to power more than four decades ago in 1982, when his predecessor Ahmadou Ahidjo resigned. The country has had only two presidents since its independence from France and the United Kingdom in the early 1960s.

Biya scrapped presidential term limits in 2008, clearing the way for him to run indefinitely. He won the 2018 election with 71.28 percent of the vote, although opposition parties alleged there were widespread electoral irregularities.

His re-election bid had been widely anticipated, although his age and health are the subject of frequent speculation and criticism.

Biya also used social media to announce his candidacy for 2018's presidential contest, in a rare show of direct engagement with the public on social media.

In his recent post, Biya described an "increasingly restrictive international environment" and acute challenges for Cameroon, adding that he had decided to "respond favourably to the urgent calls coming from the 10 regions of our country and from the diaspora" to stand for election.

Members of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) and other supporters have publicly called for Biya to seek another term since last year.

Grégoire Owona, deputy secretary-general of the CPDM, told RFI: "At the party level, we had no doubts about this candidacy."

However, two former allies have quit the ruling coalition and announced their own plans to run in the election.

Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Minister of Employment and Vocational Training, left the government before declaring his presidential candidacy under the banner of his party, the FSNC.

Bello Bouba Maïgari, a minister of state and former prime minister – and a long-standing ally of Biya's for nearly 30 years – also declared his candidacy.

Opposition parties and some civil society groups argue that Biya's long rule has stifled economic and democratic development. The opposition remains deeply divided however, and is struggling to unite behind a single candidate.

Maurice Kamto, Biya's fiercest opponent of Biya, who came second in the 2018 presidential election, and Cabral Libii, a prominent opposition figure, are already in the running for the presidency.

Sunday's announcement has revived the debate over Biya's fitness for office. He seldom makes public appearances, often delegating responsibilities to the chief of staff of the president's office.

Last October, he left Cameroon for 42 days with no explanation, sparking speculation that he was unwell. The government responded by banning any discussion on his health, saying it was a matter of national security.

Under Biya's rule, Cameroon has faced economic challenges and insecurity on several fronts, including a drawn-out separatist conflict in its English-speaking regions and ongoing incursions from the armed Islamist group Boko Haram in the north.

The date of the presidential election was set for 12 October last Friday by the head of state himself. Candidates have until 21 July to declare their intention to run.

(with newswires)

Cameroon's President Biya, 92, announces bid for eighth term in office

Cameroon's President Paul Biya, the world's oldest serving head of state at 92, has announced he will run in this year's presidential election in October.

^RFI

Security updates will continue, but new features will require Windows 11.

Office problems on Windows 10? Microsoft’s response will soon be “upgrade to 11.”

^{Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)}

The GT 1030 can take advantage of FSR upscaling, but it still isn't enough to bring FPS into playable territory in modern AAA titles.

Upscaling can't save the world's slowest 'modern' GPU — FSR doubles performance on GT 1030, but titles still barely playable

^{Aaron Klotz (Tom's Hardware)}

How will the jury respond?

Tesla’s Autopilot is under scrutiny in a rare jury trial

Tesla will face a jury over whether it is at fault for a fatal 2019 crash involving Autopilot. The company has dodged responsibility for Autopilot deaths in the past.

^{Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)}

The UnitedHealth-owned medical coding service was hacked earlier this year by a ransomware gang.

Episource is notifying millions of people that their health data was stolen | TechCrunch

^{Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)}

Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun

Nvidia A6000 GPUs flip memory bits if beaten by GPUHammer

: Rowhammer returns for more memory-meddling fun

^{Thomas Claburn (The Register)}

There are currently two companions.

Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode

xAI’s Grok chatbot now offers animated AI “companions” that users can chat with, including an anime avatar and a cartoony red panda.

^{Jay Peters (The Verge)}

Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content | TechCrunch

^{Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)}

Con “Dentro me”, Elis Martins irrompe sulla scena musicale con un'esplosione di autenticità e visione artistica. Un brano che non si limita a raccontare: vive, respira e conquista.

In questa intervista Elis ci parla della realizzazione di un sogno e del suo cammino con il Produttore Salvo De Vita.

Elis Martins, finalmente abbiamo conosciuto il tuo inedito " Dentro me".
Cosa hai provato quando è uscito?

Ho provato grande soddisfazione per la realizzazione di un sogno che, prima di conoscere il Produttore Salvo De Vita, non pensavo potesse mai avverarsi e lo ringrazio per la sua professionalità e dedizione, nell'affiancarmi, passo passo in tutte le fasi di pre e post produzione.

Potresti raccontarci qualcosa riguardo alla sua produzione?

Certo... il brano “Dentro me” e il relativo video clip, sono stati interamente realizzati a Napoli. Due giorni di pura emozione un full immersion in cui sono stata catapultata in un in un mondo a me totalmente sconosciuto, un mondo in cui tutto quello che avevo sognato prendeva finalmente vita e io ne ero la protagonista, con un intero staff completamente dedicato a me che mi seguiva e indirizzava in ogni momento con enorme competenza e organizzazione tutto ovviamente sotto la supervisione del Produttore Dott. Salvo De Vita.

Cosa ti aspettavi succedesse dopo la sua uscita ? Quali sono state le tue aspettative a riguardo?

Cosa mi aspettavo?... La mia unica aspettativa era di arrivare a più persone possibili e, grazie al lavoro mirato e costante dell'Ufficio Stampa MP, il mio obbiettivo è stato raggiunto ed è in continuo aggiornamento.

Il tuo è un brano autobiografico. Pensi di aver toccato nel cuore delle persone con " Dentro me"?

Come dicevo poc'anzi “Dentro me” ha raggiunto una quantità di visualizzazioni, sui social e sulle piattaforme, più che soddisfacente e stando alle interazioni del pubblico.. Sì!.. posso affermare di aver toccato il cuore di molte persone e questo mi riempie immensamente di gioia e voglia di proseguire questo cammino.

Cosa ci possiamo aspettare, in futuro, riguardo a questo grandioso progetto musicale?

Il mio percorso è in continua evoluzione e ogni giorno mi confronto con il mio produttore sui progetti futuri, che a dir la verità sono numerosi e veramente interessanti, il 24 Agosto ad esempio parteciperò all'evento dell'Associazione Letteraria Engel Von Bergeiche al Castello di Venosa e, concedendovi un piccolo spoiler, per l'anno 2026, c'è in progetto l'uscita del mio nuovo inedito.

Seguitemi per scoprire tutte le novità!

Articolo: Dott.ssa Mietto Elisa

Dirigente del servizio: Dott. Salvo De Vita

Supervisore e Resp. Pubblicazione: Ufficio Stampa e Produzioni MP

Distribuzione: Urban Dream di Mietto Elisa

Finally, I can get my eyeballs as close to TikTok as humanly possible.

Oh Great, the TikTok People Want to Strap AR Goggles on Your Face

^{James Pero (Gizmodo)}

The launch of Secrets of the Atlas introduced two new series of supporter packs; the Cryptkeeper series and the Phrecian Magistrate series. Check out some of the concept art for these packs below.

Hallowed Cryptkeeper Armour Pack

Burrowing Bramble Bash Hideout Decoration

Sacred Archives Map Device

Phrecian Grand Magistrate Armour Pack

Phrecian Imperial Magistrate Back Attachment

Spiderblossom Pet

The Phrecian Magistrate and Cryptkeeper supporter pack series are currently available in both Path of Exile 1 and Path of Exile 2.

Gaming Mental Health is a big topic in our world today. But are video games a legitimate way of making us feel good and to help us cope?

Gaming & Mental Health: Are Video Games Helping Us Cope? - Gameranx

^{Todd Black (Gameranx)}

SORELLA DI PERFEZIONE di Giuseppe Iannozzi - Il nuovo booktrailer

💥💥💥 SORELLA DI PERFEZIONE di Giuseppe Iannozzi, LFA Publisher - E una poesia bonus 🥳🥳🥳

PER TE SONO MORTO (*)

Per te sono morto, sono morto!
Te lo gridai ben forte
Non ti pregai di ricordarmi,
d’esser un po’ immortale
sui gradini del tuo poetare

Per te sono morto,
sfortunatamente non a sufficienza,
perciò continuo a pregarti di buttarmi
giù dalle scale di quei tuoi pensieri
che di tanto in tanto ti riportano a me,
ché solo così potrò io coglione
raggiungere la pace

(c) Iannozzi Giuseppe

(*) Questa poesia non è inclusa in "Sorella di Perfezione".

"Sorella di Perfezione" è la mia ultima opera. ❤️❤️❤️ La poesia è come la magia: sorprende il lettore, lo emoziona, gli fa palpitare il cuore. La poesia è la forma più nobile di letteratura. Con questo non voglio assolutamente dire di essere un profeta. Ho scritto un libro di circa 230 pagine. Ho impiegato ben quattro anni per scrivere le poesie che sono nell'antologia “Sorella di perfezione” (LFA Publisher). Perché dovreste leggere le mie poesie? Una risposta non ce l'ho, e non intendo stupirvi con effetti speciali e paroloni.
"Sorella di Perfezione" accoglie tante poesie, circa duecento. Ogni lirica affronta uno o più temi e tutti di grande attualità: amore, vita, morte, povertà, malattia, guerra, etc. Sostanzialmente parlo degli ultimi e dei penultimi, parlo di persone che dalla vita hanno ottenuto poco o niente. - Giuseppe Iannozzi

REPETITA IUVANT! 😊 "SORELLA DI PERFEZIONE" DI GIUSEPPE IANNOZZI". ❤️❤️❤️ LEGGETE CON ATTENZIONE, HO DELLE INFORMAZIONI IMPORTANTI DA DARVI. GRAZIE. 😘😘😘

⚠️⚠️⚠️ ATTENZIONE: Alcuni store online potrebbero segnalare che il libro non è disponibile. In realtà "Sorella di Perfezione" è disponibile. 🌹🌹🌹
Nel momento in cui effettuate l'ordine di acquisto online, l'ordine viene immediatamente inviato al distributore Libro Co Italia che subito provvederà a inviare il libro "Sorella di Perfezione". E scomparirà anche l'eventuale avviso "non disponibile". 💪💪💪

☎️☎️☎️ Sono a Vostra disposizione; se avete dubbi o perplessità, non esitate a contattarmi. Grazie infinite. 😘

Fatevi un regalo, regalate e regalatevi "Sorella di Perfezione". Un po' di buona poesia non può che fare bene all'anima. 😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️

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⚡⚡⚡È possibile acquistare e prenotare il libro direttamente in libreria.

🎯🎯🎯 E se vi va, iscrivetevi al mio canale YouTube. Grazie di cuore a Tutte/i. 😘🌹❤️

(@GiuseppeIannozzi)

• There have long been concerns about the existential risks that might be posed by highly capable AI systems, spanning from loss of control to extinction.
• Some industry leaders believe AI is close to matching or surpassing human intelligence, though some evidence shows improvements in the technology have slowed recently.
• While such intelligence might be reached and could pose extreme risks, there are more urgent issues and AI harms that should first be addressed, especially as researchers face more limited resources.

Are AI existential risks real—and what should we do about them?

Mark MacCarthy highlights the existential risks posed by AI while emphasizing the need to prioritize addressing its more immediate harms.

^Brookings

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditSafety/comments/1lzt65t/verifying_the_age_but_not_the_identity_of_uk/

Can carbon-reducing projects "offset" a company's emissions? "The reality has been less encouraging," according to a Science magazine editorial by Cary Coglianese, a law/political science professor at University of Pennsylvania, and Cynthia Giles, a former senior advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In a new paper published Wednesday, they found that more than half of all currently-certified carbon auditors signed off on projects later found to be "overclaiming" carbon benefits.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/news.slashdo…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

More Than Half of Carbon Credit Auditors Have Signed Off on 'Overclaimed' Benefits - Slashdot

Can carbon-reducing projects "offset" a company's emissions? "The reality has been less encouraging," according to a Science magazine editorial by Cary Coglianese, a law/political science professor at University of Pennsylvania, and Cynthia Giles, …

^{news.slashdot.org}

"Steam quietly welcomed another indie game this week, but this one is distinctly different for a lot of reasons," writes Notebookcheck.

Blender Studio Releases Free New Game 'Dogwalk' to Showcase Its Open Source Godot Game Engine - Slashdot

"Steam quietly welcomed another indie game this week, but this one is distinctly different for a lot of reasons," writes Notebookcheck: Dogwalk, which debuted on July 11, is the kind of short, gentle experience that almost forces you to smile.

^{games.slashdot.org}

UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.

Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada

^{Adam D.K. King (The Maple)}

Is it possible for American democracy to be further degraded by the influence of billionaires? Thanks to champion of the working class J. D. Vance and his right-wing friends, including “dark money kingpin” Leonard Leo, we may soon find out.

Get Ready for Citizens United 2.0

^jacobin.com

Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani calls out former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for refusing to accept defeat in NYC mayoral race. Cuomo's bid for mayor after losing to Mamdani shows disregard for voters' desire for change. Will Mamdani's progressive movement prevail against Cuomo's billionaire backers? #NYCmayor #ProgressivePolitics

Mamdani and Backers Ridicule Cuomo for Independent Run After Democratic Primary Defeat

"What we saw was New Yorkers' hunger for a new kind of politics," said Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani of the primary race. "I understand that it is difficult for the former governor to come to terms with that."

^{julia-conley (Common Dreams)}

France, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Greece will test a blueprint for an age verification app to protect children online, the European Commission said on Monday, amid growing global concern about the impact of social media on children's mental health.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/five-eu-states-test-age-verification-app-protect-children-2025-07-14/

The U.S. government says it's placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.