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F1 World Champion Jenson Button is joining Aston Martin as a Team Ambassador ahead of the 2026 season, the Silverstone-based squad have announced.

Fred Vesti has been confirmed as Mercedes’ Third Driver for the 2026 season, with the Dane admitting that he is “extremely excited” to make the step up after working with the team for the past few years.

US president made announcement on Truth Social after a Monday call with India’s prime minister

Donald Trump has announced he is cutting tariffs on India after prime minister Narendra Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil.

After a call with Modi on Monday, Trump on Truth Social said: “This will help END THE WAR in Ukraine, which is taking place right now, with thousands of people dying each and every week!”

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The U.S. laid fiber-optic cables to a record number of homes last year as billions of dollars in federal broadband grants and a surge in data-center construction fueled an enormous buildout, but the industry does not have enough workers to sustain the pace.

A 2024 report by the Fiber Broadband Association and the Power & Communication Contractors Association projects 58,000 new fiber jobs between 2025 and 2032 and estimates 120,000 workers will leave the field in that period, mostly through retirement -- a combined shortage of 178,000. The gap is especially acute among splicers, who fuse hair-thin filaments by hand, and directional drill operators.

Telecommunications line installers and repairers earned annual median wages of $70,500 for the year ended May 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, against a $49,500 national median. Push, a utility-construction firm, raised hourly pay for fiber crews by 5% to 8% in each of the past several years and expects the pace to quicken.

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DE BILT (ANP) - Friesland, Groningen en Drenthe moeten dinsdag nog meer dan de andere provincies rekening houden met gladheid. Het KNMI waarschuwt die drie provincies daarvoor met code oranje van dinsdag 22.00 tot woensdag 10.00 uur. Op Zeeland na geldt voor de rest van het land vanaf dinsdagochtend waarschuwingscode geel.

Dit komt door een regenbui die dinsdag van zuid naar noord over het land trekt. In zeven provincies kan het in de ochtend en middag glad zijn, omdat de regen mogelijk ijzel wordt. "Deze situatie is nog onzeker, maar kan wel plaatselijk voor verraderlijk gladde wegen zorgen", aldus het weerinstituut. Daarna is er in het noorden "aanzienlijke kans op grootschalige gladheid door ijzel". Dit kan daar tot woensdagochtend op wegen, fietspaden, voetpaden en bruggen voor ongelukken zorgen.

The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis. “As thousands of ICE agents arrived, kids started staying home from school. A local principal, teachers, and parent volunteers have banded together to keep the families safe.”

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Users happy with 19c as experts question AI lock-in

Last week, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition for Linux x86‑64, but 13-year support for 19c and the prospect of AI lock-in might make users think twice about upgrading to it.…