Het kabinet geeft groen licht om het handelsverdrag af te sluiten tussen de Europese Unie en de vier Zuid-Amerikaanse Mercosurlanden. VVD is enthousiast, BBB blijft tegen het verdrag.

Schotland plaatste zich dinsdag voor het WK voetbal. Er wacht hen komende zomer, net als de spelers van Curaçao, nog veel teleurstelling.

Liever had het Openbaar Ministerie levenslang geëist tegen W., maar het werd twintig jaar celstraf. Hij is volgens het OM een „ongekend wreed” kopstuk in de mensensmokkel vanaf de hoorn van Afrika naar Europa.

Criminelen stalen vorige maand, op klaarlichte dag, een half uur na openingstijd, acht negentiende-eeuwse juwelen. Binnen vier minuten stonden de roofovervallers weer buiten.

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Massive jump in spending shows the Great White North isn’t betting everything on NASA

Canada will boost its investment in European Space Agency (ESA) programs by CA$528.5 million ($376 million USD), a tenfold increase, according to the Canadian Space Agency.…

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Beursuitbater Euronext is erin geslaagd voldoende steun te krijgen voor zijn overnamebod op ATHEX, het bedrijf achter de beurs in Athene. De eigenaar van de beurzen in Amsterdam, Parijs, Milaan en Brussel heeft ongeveer 413 miljoen euro over voor zijn Griekse branchegenoot.

Bezitters van aandelen die goed waren voor bijna driekwart van het stemrecht bij ATHEX gingen akkoord met het overnamevoorstel. Om het bod te laten slagen, moest iets meer dan de helft instemmen.

Het bestuur van de Atheense beurs steunde het bod van Euronext. Ook de Griekse regering was voorstander van de overname. Minister van Financiën Kyriakos Pierrakakis prees die aan als een van de grootste investeringen in Griekenland van de afgelopen jaren. Ook zou de deal Griekse bedrijven meer toegang geven tot internationale beleggers.

Toezichthouders gingen eerder al akkoord met de overname. Volgens Euronext betekent dit dat de deal kan doorgaan.

LAS VEGAS (ANP) - Max Verstappen gaat de laatste drie races van het seizoen in met het gevoel dat hij "niets te verliezen" heeft. Dat zegt de viervoudig wereldkampioen via zijn team Red Bull in aanloop naar de GP van Las Vegas. "Vegas is een heel snel circuit. De temperatuur is er nu niet zo hoog, zodat we goed met het gebruik van de banden om moeten gaan", stelt Verstappen.

Verstappen staat 49 punten achter klassementsleider Lando Norris van McLaren en moet ook diens teamgenoot Oscar Piastri nog voor zich dulden. "We hebben in ieder geval goede herinneringen aan dit circuit", aldus Verstappen. "Vorig jaar wonnen we hier het kampioenschap. Hopelijk kunnen we daar dit jaar een positief vervolg aan geven."

Na de race in Las Vegas staan nog de GP's van Qatar en Abu Dhabi op het programma. De winnaar van een GP krijgt 25 punten. In Doha vindt ook nog een sprintrace plaats, goed voor 8 punten, waardoor er inclusief Las Vegas nog maximaal 83 punten te verdienen zijn.

Shepard recently spoke with Cher Calvin and Micah Ohlman on KTLA for an extensive one-on-one interview where they discussed his career, activism, art, and his current show “Out of Print,” which is currently on view at BEYOND THE STREETS gallery in Los Angeleles.

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"We see you. We know what you’re doing. If the Yantar travels south this week, we are ready," Defense Secretary John Healey said in a messaged aimed at Putin.

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Well, this is downright infuriating. One of our country’s most beloved museums is mired in a truly sickening case of corruption: The President of the American Museum of Natural History has stepped down after being caught making bone broth with a T. rex femur.

Absolutely shameful. Hopefully this man is placed in prison and never allowed near dinosaur bones for the rest of his disgusting life. 

Earlier today, Sean M. Decatur officially resigned as President of the Museum of Natural History after security cameras caught him sneaking into the building after hours to make over 200 gallons of bone broth using a tyrannosaurus rex femur from the museum’s collection. According to reports, Decatur was confronted by museum security personnel stationed at the loading docks behind the building while he was attempting to shove an industrial barrel of T. rex bone broth into the back of his Mercedez-Benz. Decatur insisted he’d made the broth with bones he’d brought from home, and was only using the museum’s staff kitchen because the stove in his penthouse “was too small” for the amount of broth he needed to make for the Thanksgiving gathering he was hosting for “6,000 cousins.” 

Decatur’s story fell apart when a guard on night shift followed a rich, savory aroma to the museum’s dinosaur exhibit, and noticed that the T-Rex’s femur was wet and steaming. Decatur allegedly tried to buy the security staff’s silence, bribing them with one gallon of T. rex bone broth each, but by then, they’d already called the police. 

In a confession he gave before posting bail, Decatur admitted that he had no cousins, revealed that he doesn’t even celebrate Thanksgiving for political reasons, and said that the T. rex bone broth was intended for his own personal use exclusively, explaining that he never planned to sell the broth to private collectors or restaurants for financial gain. “To see those giant dinosaur fossils collecting dust on display when they have so much protein, collagen, and minerals in them, I thought it was just such a waste,” Decatur wrote in his resignation statement. “I tried one sip of the T. rex bone broth and it tasted incredible, and I was so excited to make lentil soup with it, but I still regret my actions. I’m sorry for betraying your trust.”

Hey, here’s a better use for all that illegal dinosaur bone broth: boiling this greedy, corrupt bastard alive in it!

Clearly, the Museum of Natural History needs to start vetting their leadership better and install security measures to prevent this from happening ever again. It just goes to show how easily some people are corrupted by their positions of power, huh? What a dark day for natural history…sigh.

Tsinghua University collected 4,986 AI and machine learning patents between 2005 and the end of 2024. The Beijing institution has received more than 900 patents last year alone. The total exceeds the combined patent count from MIT, Stanford, Princeton and Harvard during the same period. China now accounts for more than half of all active patent families globally in AI and machine learning fields, according to data analytics service LexisNexis.

The university also has more AI research papers among the 100 most cited than any other school at last count. The US still holds the most influential AI patents and the top performing models. Harvard and MIT consistently rank ahead of Tsinghua in patent influence. American institutions produced 40 notable AI models in 2024 compared to 15 from Chinese organizations, according to Stanford's AI Index Report. China's share of the world's elite AI researchers -- the top 2% -- rose from 10% in 2019 to 26% in 2022. The US share fell from 35% to 28% during the same period, according to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.

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