Hamid Rasaei, a vocal opponent of a diplomatic deal with the United States to end the war, was convicted of publishing false information with the intent to harm the Parliament speaker.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Letitia James, the attorney general, to investigate the original allegations and why a police report omitted crucial information.

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After her diagnosis in 2022, when she was only 33, she became a vocal, witty advocate for people confronting the disease.

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As a special prosecutor, Ms. James has wide powers over the handling of the investigation, but legal experts say the case comes with potential obstacles.

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Also, U.S. hiring slowed down. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

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Health screenings and criminal background checks may go only so far in identifying pilots who have become radicalized or try to hide their mental health issues, experts said.

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BBC Sport follows the trail of transfer money flowing to other clubs during Manchester City's period of financial rule-breaking.

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Plus, the G-7 agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil and the U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September.

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Plus, the G-7 agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil and the U.S. added just 29,000 jobs in September.

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After an impressive 3-0 victory over Ukraine in the Nations League, Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill was impressed with his young side.

Don’t politicians understand that the money leaves, too?

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A lawsuit accuses regulators of giving risky crypto companies access to the banking system without the same oversight as banks.

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The Defense Secretary's speech to the troops includes a welcome focus on drone warfare, but he also picks cultural fights that drown out his larger message. Plus, Donald Trump gathers tech leaders to sign a “morally binding” pact on controls.

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"Rendering Doom in a database is obviously a bad idea," Lukas Vogel writes in a lengthy blog post explaining how exactly he managed to render Doom using an SQL database.

OK, that's not entirely accurate. The SQLDoom project uses a small Python client to handle input and output, drive the game's timing, and display each frame to the screen. Behind that, a series of CedarDB tables tracks the game geometry and state, while about 1,300 lines of SQL queries spread across 89 common table expressions implement the game logic and generate 35 bitmap framebuffers per second.

In this, SQLDoom is a major improvement over Vogel's previous DoomQL project, which last year set out to build "a multiplayer Doom-like shooter entirely in SQL." Unfortunately, that effort ended up with raycasting-based, grayscale ASCII graphics that were more akin to the simplistic 90-degree-angled maps of Wolfenstein 3D. The newer SQLDoom, on the other hand, generates full-color 640x480 frames that look like they could have come from the original Doom executable.

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The Met said it had tried to contact the University of London Coalition to postpone its protest.

The party says its proposals would stop prisoners being released early and cut crime.

Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI stick so you can display Muse on a big screen, or putting Muse on a small touchscreen device to make what looks kind of like a DIY Muse Charm.

"Muse gadgets are open source devices you build yourself," Meta says. "Program an off-the-shelf ESP32 board or set up a Raspberry Pi with our SDKs, then connect Muse to your displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else you've got lying on your workbench. …

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