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Federal Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan is resigning from cabinet, CBC News has learned.
The Newfoundland and Labrador MP is planning to stay on as a member of Parliament until the next federal election but won't seek re-election, the sources added.
He has been in cabinet since 2017 and has also held the natural resources, Indigenous services and veterans affairs portfolios.
Before entering politics, O'Regan was a host of the CTV morning show Canada AM and a national correspondent for the network.
Sources told CBC News the meeting is expected to be quick and virtual, and focus on clearing up unfilled appointments.
The cabinet meeting is the first since the Liberals' surprising byelection loss to the Conservatives in Toronto-St. Paul's, a riding that previously had been a stronghold for the party.
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Boeing faces fresh questions about the safety of its aircraft after an engine fire on a transatlantic flight from Edinburgh caused an emergency landing soon after takeoff.
Flames were seen by passengers briefly shooting from the engine of a Delta Air Lines 767 soon after it took off for New York in February last year, after a turbine blade broke off during takeoff.
It said two members of the cabin crew had heard a rattling sound as the Boeing taxied for takeoff, which appeared to come from the cargo hold.
This is the latest in a series of safety incidents involving Boeing aircraft, which have contributed to company executives leaving in a management shake-up.
It has also been sanctioned after a 737 Max 9 cabin panel blew out in mid-air on an Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon, in January this year.
In 2021, the UK government temporarily banned from British airspace Boeing 777 aircraft which used the same type of engine which caught fire over Denver, Colorado.
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Europe must not fall into the trap of creating a “self-fulfilling prophecy” that Nato would die under a second Trump presidency and that the transatlantic bond would be over, the secretary general of the military alliance has said.
On Wednesday night, Vance signalled that the US’s commanding role in global security would not be a given in a Trump administration, telling party faithful gathered at the Republican national convention in Milwaukee that US soldiers would no longer be sent overseas unnecessarily.
“The reason why I’m expecting the United States to remain a strong ally … is that the main criticism from President Trump but also from the candidate for vice-president, JD Vance, has not primarily been against Nato.
Making Europe Trump-proof is high on the list of concerns raised by European leaders gathered for the European Political Community meeting at Blenheim Palace in the UK, amid fears that not only could Trump abandon the US’s position on Ukraine but he could put pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskiy to accept a peace plan involving the loss of Russian-occupied territory.
The Norwegian prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, said that “Europe will have to do its part by taking a larger share of the costs than we now do” in Nato.
Støre said proofing Europe against Trump was on the agenda on the sidelines of the conference, opened by Keir Starmer and Zelenskiy who recalled Winston Churchill’s resilience and bravery.
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist settler leader, said he had gone up to the contested Jerusalem hilltop compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque to pray for the return of the hostages “but without a reckless deal, without surrendering.”
As a key coalition partner, Ben-Gvir also has the power to rob Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his parliamentary majority and force early elections.
Ben-Gvir has used his influence to push forward pet projects and encourage Netanyahu to press ahead with the war in Gaza against widespread calls to reach a cease-fire deal that would bring home hostages.
Two years later, Ben-Gvir took responsibility for orchestrating a campaign of protests, including death threats, that forced Irish singer Sinead O’Connor to cancel a concert for peace in Jerusalem.
Ben-Gvir has called for deporting his political opponents, and in the past has encouraged police to open fire on Palestinian stone-throwers in a tense Jerusalem neighborhood while brandishing a pistol.
Ben-Gvir has been a magnet of controversy throughout his tenure — encouraging the mass distribution of handguns to Jewish citizens, backing Netanyahu’s contentious attempt to overhaul the country’s legal system and frequently lashing out at U.S. leaders for perceived slights against Israel.
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The village was reduced to rubble which “made it impossible to hold the positions there,” Nazar Voloshyn, a spokesperson for local ground forces, told The Associated Press in a written message.
Russia has deployed devastating firepower as it pursues a summer offensive that has reduced towns and villages to ruins, denying Ukrainians defensive cover.
Despite valiant defending, analysts say, Ukrainian forces are being pushed back in some places along the front line by the bigger and better equipped Kremlin army.
Ukrainian firepower has improved since U.S. lawmakers approved a much-needed military aid package this spring, but it is not yet arriving quickly enough to stop the Russian push, especially in Donetsk.
Ukrainian sea drones attacked the Russian coast guard base at Lake Donuzlav in occupied Crimea late Wednesday, a Kyiv security official told AP.
The attack damaged a Russian command post, an ammunition and equipment depot, and some military positions, the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to divulge the information publicly.
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🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Developing more wind power has been touted as a major part of the multipronged renewable energy push meant to put the U.S. on track to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
The same economic issues that people all over the world have felt, such as rising inflation rates and a recovering supply chain after the pandemic, have hindered the development of offshore wind, Kates-Garnick said.
Avangrid, a sustainable energy company that runs the largest operating offshore wind farm in the U.S., canceled two projects last year in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Pedro Azagra, the CEO of Avangrid, said the company exited contracts for those projects because the state of the economy made the price of development too high.
Ørsted expects the company and others across the industry to expand with growing bipartisan support for renewable energy and an increasing demand for electricity, Urbish said.
In addition to economic stress, offshore wind projects face both federal and state regulations because they have to get approval from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, said Joshua Basseches, an assistant professor of environmental studies and public policy at Tulane University in Louisiana.
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With the maturity of the EXT4 file-system it's not too often seeing any huge feature additions for this commonly used Linux file-system but there's still the occasional wild performance optimization to uncover... With Linux 6.11 the EXT4 file-system can see upwards of a 20% performance boost in some scenarios.
Ted Ts'o sent out the EXT4 updates today for Linux 6.11.
He explained in that pull request: "Many cleanups and bug fixes in ext4, especially for the fast commit feature.
Up to 20% faster for fast devices using async direct I/O thanks to JBD2 optimizations.
Indeed the patch from Huawei's Zhang Yi to speed up jbd2_transaction_committed() shows off some great improvements:
It's great continuing to see EXT4 uncover new performance optimizations.
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The date for the introduction of the EU’s new entry-exit system has been pushed back again until November, allaying fears of long queues at the border during the October half-term holidays.
The launch of the new biometric checks for foreign travellers, including Britons, entering the EU, has been delayed from 6 October until at least 10 November, with many smaller airports yet to have facilities in place.
The move will again raise questions over the readiness of a system that has been long delayed from the planned 2021 start, with the French insisting the additional border controls should not be introduced before the Paris Olympics.
Under the entry-exit system (EES), non-EU citizens will have to register their biometric information – including fingerprints and facial scans – at the border, under the supervision of an EU officer, on their first visit.
There have been warnings of long queues at British points of entry – including the Port of Dover, and Eurostar’s St Pancras terminal – where the French and EU border is physically located in England, before passengers board ferries or trains.
The cross-Channel train operator said the process would add only a few seconds to border queues and not cause chaos, although passengers would have to ensure they arrived in time for the additional layer of biometric checks.
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The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, congratulated von der Leyen, saying her re-election was “a clear sign of our ability to act in the European Union, especially in difficult times”.
Von der Leyen’s European People’s party (EPP), the Socialists and Democrats and the centrist Renew group announced they intended to support her, although some members had already said they would vote against.
Against a backdrop of the war in Ukraine, widespread concern about foreign interference in European elections and potential return of Donald Trump, his words appeared to underscore that many MEPs saw the vote as something bigger than the choice of another commission president.
In an appeal to her own centre-right EPP, von der Leyen promised a “burden reduction” of EU law to help small businesses, describing her first priority as competitiveness and prosperity.
Reflecting the French president Emmanuel Macron’s vision, she promised “a true union of defence” to develop common projects, suggesting a European air shield to protect shared airspace.
Von der Leyen reaffirmed the EU’s support for Ukraine and issued her strongest criticism yet of the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s recent trip to Moscow.
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They found that over time, inactive commuters had a much higher risk of death, disease, and mental health issues compared with those who cycled or walked.
"The more you do it, the safer you are," Jim Walker, the founder and director of the UK-based Walk21 Foundation which advises national and local governments on pedestrian-friendly policies, told Euronews Health.
Researchers accounted for potential factors that could affect the results, such as people’s pre-existing conditions, age, gender, and socioeconomic traits.
The findings align with previous studies that show a strong link between the built environment and health outcomes such as diabetes and obesity.
Study authors said the finding "reinforces the need for safer cycling infrastructure," and the overall results have "wider global relevance to efforts to reduce carbon emissions and shift to more active and sustainable travel modes".
Paris, for example, has added bike lanes and aims to make the entire city suitable for cyclists by 2026, though the plan has faced some delays.
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🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Politicians swiftly coalesced around the language of “political violence,” rather than terrorism, to describe the assassination attempt, carried out by Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot dead at the Western Pennsylvania rally.
“The idea that there’s political violence … in America like this, is just unheard of, it’s just not appropriate,” said President Joe Biden, the backer of Israel’s genocidal war against Palestine, with a death toll that researchers believe could reach 186,000 Palestinians.
“There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy,” tweeted former President Barack Obama, who oversaw war efforts and military strikes against Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan with massive civilian death tolls; Obama added that we should “use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics.” “There is no place for political violence, including the horrific incident we just witnessed in Pennsylvania,” wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
Trump and his Republican Party will no doubt remain committed to a political imaginary of apocalyptic race war and paranoid tribalism, which the assassination attempt will likely only feed.
Democratic leaders will call for civility and continue to fill the coffers of police departments nationwide, while sending billions of condition-free dollars and bombs to Israel.
Within the U.S., these condemnations of political violence now set the scene for even greater violent repression and policing of protest movements and dissent.
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🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Franke, who has worked at the school for decades, responded by linking the incident to a documented pattern of on-campus harassment that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students have alleged for years.
Franke is one of several Columbia staff to face investigation — many of whom have defended Palestinian rights — while the House Committee on Education and the Workforce continues to apply pressure on the school.
Recently, three deans were placed on indefinite leave for exchanging text messages the university says “touched on ancient antisemitic tropes.” Professors elsewhere across the country have had their livelihoods imperiled upon speaking out in defense of Palestinians.
In its statement to Haaretz on the heels of Franke’s “Democracy Now!” interview, a university spokesperson said, “We are disheartened to see some members of our community and beyond use this moment to spread antisemitism, Islamophobia, bigotry against Palestinians and Israelis.
Rather, she wrote, she was voicing concern “about students coming onto our campus who have just completed their military service in Israel – the transition to civilian life – after having been taught that Palestinians are evil and want to kill Israelis/Jews – can be a rough one for some people.”
“It seemed clear to me that they had made their mind up already, coming into the deposition, that I was generalizing in a way that would make people who served in the IDF or Israelis feel bad, and so there’s a very good chance that they will fire me,” Franke said.
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Democrats making a fresh push for Biden to reconsider running in runup to their own party convention
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats worried about President Joe Biden’s ability to win this November are making a renewed push for him to reconsider his reelection bid, using mountains of data, frank conversations and now, his own time off the campaign trail after testing positive for COVID, to encourage a reassessment.
While the tensions over Biden’s ability to carry on a winning campaign subsided some, particularly after the Trump assassination attempt and as the Republican National Convention was underway in Milwaukee, Democrats know they have limited time to resolve the party turmoil after the president’s faltering debate performance last month.
Biden tested positive for COVID-19 while traveling Wednesday in Las Vegas and is experiencing “mild symptoms” including “general malaise” from the infection, the White House said.
Schiff’s announcement brings to nearly 20 the number of Democratic members of Congress calling on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race in the wake of his dismal debate performance against Trump last month.
In response to Schiff’s comments, the Biden campaign pointed to what it called “extensive support” for him and his reelection bid from members of Congress in key swing states, as well as from the Congressional Black and Hispanic caucuses.
Still, Schiff’s announcement came after Schumer and Jeffries encouraged the party to delay for a week plans to hold the virtual vote to renominate Biden, which could have taken place as soon as Sunday, according to two people familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.
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MediSecure, which facilitates electronic prescriptions and dispensing, confirmed it was the victim of a large-scale data breach in May.
The company had previously not disclosed how many Australians were affected but confirmed the data was taken from its systems up until November last year.
MediSecure went into voluntary administration in June after the federal government declined to provide it with a financial bailout.
A sample of the data has since been published on the darkweb, but the ABC understands there is no indication the larger trove has been publicly released.
In a statement released late Thursday afternoon, MediSecure gave details about the kinds of data stolen including full names, phone numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, Medicare numbers, and Medicare card expiry dates.
Australians are being told to watch out for scams referencing the MediSecure data breach, and not to respond to unsolicited contact that mentions the incident.
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Instead of a statement limited to 4,000 characters (including spaces), those applying for undergraduate places in 2026 through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) will be asked to answer why they want to study the course or subject, how their studies or qualifications helped them to prepare for the course and what experiences they have had outside of education that will be helpful.
Experts have said the old format gave an unfair advantage to middle-class students and are hopeful the new questions will improve the chances of applicants from backgrounds who lack a family history of higher education or help from tutors.
“This welcome reform strikes the right balance between a more structured approach to deter fabrication, while not limiting the opportunity for applicants to personalise their statement.
I believe it is a significant step in making the university admissions system a little bit fairer for all applicants.”
Ucas made the announcement as its updated figures showed a drop in undergraduate applications by sixth formers in England and Wales for the second year in a row.
Just 42.7% of 18-year-olds in England applied for a place by June this year, compared with 44.9% in 2022, as universities continue to be concerned about lower student numbers harming their financial position.
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A Telstra outage that left people without reception for six days in regional WA has highlighted a regulation loophole with mobile technology not being considered an essential service.
Port Denison and Dongara are 353km north of Perth and in July the outage left many people out of reach.
One business, which relies on Telstra for its eftpos machines, estimated it lost up to $18,000 in sales as a result of the outage.
"The reality is that this country is so city-focused that they're forgetting, rapidly, the people in regional areas in so many ways, and this is just another example," she said.
In November last year, more than 10 million Australians and 400,000 businesses were impacted by a 14-hour Optus network outage.
Ms Gebert said people who were not satisfied with a resolution offered by a telecommunications provider had the right to complain to the ombudsman's office.
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Microsoft is integrating Nvidia’s GeForce Now service into its store pages for Xbox games.
At the time of publication, the new “play with cloud” button isn’t available just yet, so it’s not clear whether this is simply a link to the main homepage of GeForce Now or whether this deep links and launches the game directly on Nvidia’s cloud gaming service.
Nvidia’s GeForce Now RTX 4080 tier is the most impressive cloud gaming service available right now, with Nvidia even claiming the end-to-end latency beats an Xbox Series X running locally on a 60Hz TV.
Microsoft and Nvidia are no strangers when it comes to cloud gaming partnerships, though.
Both companies signed a 10-year deal to allow Nvidia to license Xbox PC games for GeForce Now, including Activision Blizzard titles.
Nvidia also rolled out an update to GeForce Now earlier this year that allows members to sync their Xbox accounts and Microsoft Store purchases to the cloud gaming service.
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately told President Joe Biden in a recent conversation that polling shows that the president cannot defeat Donald Trump and that Biden could destroy Democrats’ chances of winning the House in November if he continues seeking a second term, according to four sources briefed on the call.
The president responded by pushing back, telling Pelosi he has seen polls that indicate he can win, one source said.
At one point, Pelosi asked Mike Donilon, Biden’s longtime adviser, to get on the line to talk over the data.
This phone call would mark the second known conversation between the California lawmaker and Biden since the president’s disastrous debate on June 27.
When asked for comment, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates did not respond to the details of CNN’s reporting on the recent Pelosi-Biden call.
A Pelosi spokesperson told CNN that the former House speaker has been in California since Friday and she has not spoken to Biden since.
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Fei-Fei Li, the renowned computer scientist known as the “godmother of AI,” has created a startup dubbed World Labs.
World Labs hopes to use human-like processing of visual data to make AI capable of advanced reasoning, Reuters reported in May.
Li is best known for her contributions to computer vision, a branch of AI dedicated to helping machines interpret and comprehend visual information.
Li founded World Labs while on partial leave from Stanford, where she co-directs the university’s Human-Centered AI Institute.
In a Ted Talk in April, Li further explained the field of research her startup will work on advancing, which involves algorithms capable of realistically extrapolating images and text into three-dimensional environments and acting on those predictions, using a concept known as “spatial intelligence.” This could bolster work in various fields such as robotics, augmented reality, virtual reality, and computer vision.
The investment in World Labs reflects a trend where venture capitalists eagerly align themselves with ambitious AI companies, spurred by the surprise success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which rapidly achieved a valuation exceeding $80 billion.
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The current FCC, which has three Democratic and two Republican commissioners, voted in April to bring back net neutrality.
Broadband providers have since challenged the FCC’s action, which is potentially more vulnerable after the Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down Chevron deference — a legal doctrine that instructed courts to defer to an agency’s expert decisions except in a very narrow range of circumstances.
Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Matt Schettenhelm said in a report prior to the court’s ruling that he doesn’t expect the FCC to prevail in court, in large part due to the demise of Chevron.
A panel of judges for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said in an order that a temporary “administrative stay is warranted” while it considers the merits of the broadband providers’ request for a permanent stay.
In the meantime, the court requested the parties provide additional briefs about the application of National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services to this lawsuit.
Brand X is a 2005 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the FCC had lawfully interpreted the Communications Act to exclude cable broadband providers from the definition of “telecommunications services.” At the time, SCOTUS said the lower court should have followed Chevron and deferred to the agency’s interpretation.
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