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President Donald Trump said a former US Marine held in a Russian prison, whose health was reportedly in extremely poor condition, has been released.”After my discussions with President Vladimir Putin, Russia has agreed to release him, very much on a Humanitarian Basis,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that no prisoner swap took place.Robert Gilman, who is from Massachusetts, was arrested in 2022 for allegedly kicking a police officer while aboard a train. He had recently been moved from prison to a civilian hospital in Russia after going into a catatonic-like state.Gilman was on a flight back to the US…
Amy Helm, singer-songwriter and daughter of late Band member Levon Helm, has been accused of self-dealing, trademark infringement, and causing $2 million in damages to Levon Helm Studios (LHS), among other charges, according to a new lawsuit filed in federal court on Monday, August 10.In a 61-page complaint obtained by Pitchfork, LHS claims Amy Helm charged $400,000 to the studio to cover personal expenses and took an additional $200,000 from the Levon Helm Estate, including from an LLC used to distribute royalties from Levon’s final albums, thereby preventing the Estate from sending money to those who worked on the projects.…
Jeremy Doku says he is “not against” the journalist who criticised his plan to leave the Belgium camp during the World Cup to attend the birth of his first child.Doku’s wife Shireen was due to give birth during the second week of July and he told Reuters, external before the start of the tournament he intended to leave the camp to be at the birth even if his side were still in contention. But it brought fierce criticism from L’Equipe channel presenter France Pierron, who labelled a father “completely useless” at the time of their child’s birth.L’Equipe later apologised and…
The federal Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) last week launched an international tender to select a company to design, install and maintain a 5G telecommunications network for two passenger rail corridors that are currently under construction. In an Aug. 6 statement, SICT said that via the Integrated Trains and Public Transport Agency (Attrapi), it issued an “international public call for bids for the design, supply, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of the telecommunications network on the Mexico City–Querétaro–Irapuato and Saltillo–Nuevo Laredo rail sections.” “… The telecommunications network that is the subject of the tender includes 5G Standalone Railroad Radio…
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” isn’t just an ever-prevailing presence at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — the song is also No. 1 for the second quarter in a row on the TouchTunes Frontline Chart for Q2 of 2026. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The TouchTunes charts for the second quarter of 2026 track the most played songs and artists on TouchTunes jukeboxes from April 1 to June 30, 2026, with the Frontline ranking inclusive of music released in the last 18 months, followed by the Catalog tally for any music that was released more than 18…
President Trump is set to attend the Patriot Games in Geneva, Ohio, on Tuesday evening. The event, announced last year, will pit top high school athletes from across the country against one another as part of a series of events to mark the nation’s 250th anniversary. One male and one female from each of the 50…
Itron at Oppenheimer conference: platform push meets long utility cycles
One of the lessons of the war in Ukraine is that military technology evolves very rapidly, with the world’s first-ever drone war making it harder for conventional armies to make gains on the battlefield. But they may also herald a new dystopian future, where ordinary civilians become targets of flying objects manned by faraway operators. Entrepreneurs in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have taken note. The Baltic region is already home to several companies that are well known internationally, such as Bolt, Skype and Vinted. Since Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022, the startup scene has focused on developing…
This year, the United States semiquincentennial converges with BlackStar Film Festival’s 15th edition. At a moment when the nation contends with competing ideas of truth, BlackStar marked this milestone by doing what it does best: serving as a leading platform for experimental nonfiction and polyphonic storytelling. Held in Philadelphia from August 6 to 9, this year’s festival included 91 films and foregrounded stories from Haiti, alongside Haile Gerima’s five-part epic on Ethiopian resistance against Italian colonialism, unraveling the constructs of historical, present, and future.Founded in 2012 by filmmaker and curator Maori Karmael Holmes, BlackStar began as a film festival centered…