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Man jailed for threatening posts to DUP politicians

PA Media Belfast Crown Court heard how posts on Twitter left Emma Little-Pengelly so scared she considered moving from her home A Belfast man who sent threatening online messages to Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister and smashed the windows of a party colleague’s office has been jailed. Emma Little-Pengelly of the Democratic Unionist Party (…

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Caitlin Clark, Fever to vie for Cup after chippy win vs. Sun

Alexa PhilippouJun 17, 2025, 10:37 PM ET Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Fever clinched a spot in the…

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Crocs takeback programme arrives in UK, Europe

US footwear brand Crocs is expanding its commitment to sustainability by bringing its ‘Old Crocs. New Life’ scheme to the UK and mainland Europe.  The shoe takeback venture reinforcing its dedication to “championing circular models of production and consumption”, the brand said. First  launched in the US in 2024 with “strong” consumer participation, the initiative…

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Building a custom text-to-SQL agent using Amazon Bedrock and Converse API

Developing robust text-to-SQL capabilities is a critical challenge in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and database management. The complexity of NLP and database management increases in this field, particularly while dealing with complex queries and database structures. In this post, we introduce a straightforward but powerful solution with accompanying code to text-to-SQL using…

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Government announces first Windrush commissioner

PA Media The Reverend Clive Foster will take up the role on a three year term The first Windrush commissioner has been announced by the government – seven years after the scandal was first exposed and following the serious impact on thousands of Caribbean migrants in the UK. The Reverend Clive Foster, a senior pastor…

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Trump says he ‘may or may not’ strike Iran

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump has made his most explicit comments yet about possible US military action against Iran, saying that the next week would be “very big” in determining the course of the war between…

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Jaire Alexander signs 1-year deal to join Ravens

Jun 18, 2025, 01:19 PM ET The Baltimore Ravens have signed former Green Bay Packers cornerback Jaire Alexander in a move that adds star power and flexibility to their secondary. The Ravens announced the signing Wednesday but did not disclose terms. The one-year deal has a base value of $4 million, and Alexander can make…

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Orlebar Brown and VEA Newport Beach collaborate poolside

It’s a collaboration tailor-made for a poolside summer: British men’s beachwear specialist Orlebar Brown and luxury Southern California resort VEA Newport Beach (billed as ‘Newport’s social sanctuary’). The timely coming together coincides with Chanel-owned Orlebar Brown opening a store on Fashion Island in Orange County California, and the pair have hosted a pop-up store within…

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The trouble with MAGA’s chipmaking dreams

DURING a recent summit in Paris, J.D. Vance, America’s vice-president, declared that the world’s most powerful artificial-intelligence (AI) systems would be developed in America with “American-designed and manufactured chips”. That is a lofty ambition, for although America leads the world when it comes to designing AI chips, it long ago ceded its position as the…

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