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Sponsored: They’ll even race against humans…Abu Dhabi is set to host a groundbreaking fusion of technology, speed, and entertainment as the A2RL x DCL Autonomous Drone Championship flies into ADNEC Marina Hall on April 11 and 12.This high-energy event will feature a new era of drone racing where artificial intelligence takes centre stage. Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX modules, these drones fly completely autonomously—no pilots, no remote controls—just cutting-edge AI guiding every twist, turn, and high-speed manoeuver. Plus theres $1 million dollars up for grabs.The championship will include four exhilarating races, including the fan-favourite “AI vs Human” race, which…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting on efforts by right-wing activists to disallow ballots, North Carolina Democrats have introduced a bill designed to prevent votes from being tossed out based on postelection rule changes. The Voter Protection and Reliance Act, filed last week in the North Carolina House, says that ballots cast in state elections will be counted based on the laws and procedures in place on Election Day. It also…

A Russian-American citizen has been released in a prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington. Amateur ballerina Ksenia Karelina, a Los Angeles resident, had been in prison in Russia for over a year, after being arrested in early 2024 during a family visit in the city of Yekaterinburg. She was accused by Russia’s FSB security service of raising money for a Ukrainian organisation providing arms to the Ukrainian military. She pleaded guilty last August and was sentenced to 12 years in jail.Russian human rights activists said while living in the US she had made a single transfer of $51 (£39) on…

WARNING: This story contains details of a man burning alive.Nidaa Mansour was on her phone when she read a news alert that an Israeli airstrike had hit a tent used by local media in southern Gaza, causing flames to erupt in the tent.She frantically called her husband, Ahmad Mansour, a journalist and editor with news agency Palestine Today, who was working in the tent in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis at the time. She couldn’t contact him but learned that he had been rushed to the hospital, though she was unaware of his condition. This week, footage of Mansour that appeared to show him…

WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Apr 10, 2025 at 11:33 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:   Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Thursday, April 10, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 10, 2025, 11:33 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/the-morning-read-for-thursday-april-10/ Source link

Home Daily News Once-homeless University of Chicago law grad… Homelessness Once-homeless University of Chicago law grad getting treatment, hopes to return to law practice By Debra Cassens Weiss March 19, 2025, 12:41 pm CDT A University of Chicago Law School graduate who lived for two years on the streets of Los Angeles has moved back home with his mother in Virginia and hopes to resume law practice. (Image from Shutterstock) A University of Chicago Law School graduate who lived for two years on the streets of Los Angeles has moved back home with his mother in Virginia and hopes to…

You only have four days to see it… It’s that time of year when Dubai becomes a canvas of colour with back-to-back art festivals and events taking place across the city. Culture vultures, we know that you’re probably really busy already with the line-up, but we’re here to add another to your list: DIFC Arts Night. 3 of 12 That’s right, the DIFC-based art festival is back this year celebrating all things arts and culture. Now in its 19th edition, DIFC Arts Night is a key event in Dubai’s art and culture calendar, which means you can’t skip it. Visitors can…

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Reporting Highlights Limiting Parole: A new law pushed by Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that prevents thousands of prisoners from early release. Immutable Risk Score: The risk assessment tool, TIGER, does not take into account efforts prisoners make to rehabilitate themselves. Instead, it focuses on factors that cannot be changed. Racial Bias: Civil rights attorneys say the new law…

Will GrantMexico, Central America and Cuba CorrespondentReporting from Santo DomingoGetty ImagesMáximo Peña had been coming to the Jet Set nightclub every single Monday for the past 30 years.This week, excited to see a concert by the popular Dominican singer Rubby Pérez, he took his wife and his sister. Now all three are buried beneath the rubble of the collapsed discotheque, after the roof caved in part way through the performance, leaving at least 184 dead.”I haven’t heard any news about any of them,” says Shailyn Peña, Máximo’s 17-year-old daughter as she sits on a wall outside the devastated venue.”It was…

As It Happens6:34’Never give up’: These baseball teams have both finally snapped a combined 141-game losing streakTwo of the longest losing streaks in college baseball history came to an end on Tuesday when Yeshiva University and Lehman College squared off in a thrilling doubleheader in Teaneck, N.J.Lehman College, a public institution in New York City’s Bronx neighbourhood, had been stuck in a 42-game losing streak. The Lightning men’s baseball team hadn’t won a game since May 9, 2023, when they defeated New York’s Baruch College. But in the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader, Lehman broke their streak with a hard-fought 7-6…