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Guardian Asset Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (NYSEARCA:DGRO – Free Report) by 16.3% during the 2nd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 4,147 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 580 shares during the period. Guardian Asset Advisors LLC’s holdings in iShares Core Dividend Growth [...]
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Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC grew its position in Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT – Free Report) by 1.9% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The fund owned 8,807 shares of the manufacturing equipment provider’s stock after buying an additional 162 shares during the period. Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC’s holdings [...]
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“But in the end Ukraine will have a dramatically improved level of air power projection — the likes of which the no one had seen in this part of the world before,” said a Ukrainian defense enterprise executive.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against Marex Group plc ("Marex" or "the Company") (NASDAQ:MRX) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Investors who purchased the Company's securities between May 16, 2024 and August 5, 2025, inclusive (the "Class Period"), are encouraged to contact the firm before December 8, 2025.If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
Locus Robotics recorded its 6 billionth pick at a customer in Germany, as mobile robot and AI adoption continues to accelerate.The post Locus Robotics surpasses 6B robot-assisted picks, notes market momentum appeared first on The Robot Report.
By Camillus EbohABUJA (Reuters) -A Nigerian court on Friday adjourned the terrorism trial of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu until October 27, after...
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Meta Platforms Inc‘s (NASDAQ:META) regulatory battle with the European Union escalated on multiple fronts in 2025.The growing friction between Meta and the EU was on full display Friday, with regulators hitting the company with new allegations of violating digital content rules.On Friday, the European Commission formally accused both Meta and ByteDance’s TikTok of violating the Digital Services Act (DSA).Also Read: Meta, TikTok Challenge EU’s Digital Services Act Fees, Call Them ‘Absurd,’ ‘Discriminatory’ And Based On Flawed CalculationsThe Commission issued preliminary findings that the platforms are illegally restricting researchers’ access to public data.The regulatory body also singled out Meta, alleging that Facebook and Instagram make it too difficult for users to report illegal content and appeal moderation decisions.In its initial findings, the Commission states that both TikTok and Meta have created cumbersome processes that ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
CVE-2025-59287 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code and a PoC exploit is available.The post Critical Windows Server WSUS Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The leader of Canada’s most populous province posted remarks by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan on social media on Friday showing Reagan opposed tariffs, hours after President Donald Trump announced he’s ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a...
President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, bringing to a close one of the most closely watched legal battles in the cryptocurrency industry. The decision overturns Zhao's 2023 conviction for violating US anti – money-laundering and sanctions laws. It follows months of...Read Entire Article
Security noticed that a sliding door at the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot had been forced open and a display case containing gold and silver coins had been broken into.
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After the U.S. Supreme Court said it will hear a case focused on the same federal law, a judge put on hold a lawsuit about whether Florida medical-marijuana patients can be barred from having guns.
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Japanese inflation accelerated last month, official data showed Friday, ahead of a maiden policy speech by new Prime Minister Sakae Takaichi who has promised to ease pressure on households. Takaichi’s predecessor Shigeru Ishiba survived barely a year in office, with voters hammering the ruling party in elections partly because of rising prices. After becoming Japan’s [...]The post Japan inflation rises as new PM eyes economic package appeared first on Digital Journal.
Asian markets rallied Friday after the White House confirmed President Donald Trump would meet China’s Xi Jinping next week, stoking optimism for a cooling of trade tensions between the economic superpowers. The gains came as the surge in oil prices sputtered, having seen huge rises over the previous two days on news that Washington had [...]The post Asian stocks rally as traders cheer Trump-Xi meeting plan appeared first on Digital Journal.
John Paoletti is currently wanted by police in Lower Makefield Township and Morrisville and the Bucks County District Attorney's Office in connection with four separate cases involving alleged fraud.
Hazel Park police are investigating five break-ins at vacant homes citywide. Investigators said the burglaries occurred between Thursday, Oct. 16 and Wednesday, Oct. 22.
On Oct. 22, a grand jury in North Carolina found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. had "intentionally killed" Iryna Zarutska, 23, on Aug. 22.
Families in the community with children through 5th grade are invited to Trunk-or-Treat on Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 6:15-7:15 p.m. at First United Methodist Church’s west parking lot (church is located at 207 W 11th St, Yankton).
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SpaceX launched a Spanish communications satellite atop a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in a rare expendable mission.
The two-time defending state champions had back-to-back defensive plays to preserve a 21-20 win over Cicero-North Syracuse.
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As TNA Wrestling prepares for its return to in-ring action on November 13, the promotion premiered its “Fade to Black” special, putting the spotlight on “Bound for Glory 2025.” The special featured behind-the-scenes content from TNA’s biggest pay-per-view event of the year in Lowell.
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A hurricane watch and tropical storm warning are in effect for Jamaica and parts of Haiti as Tropical Storm Melissa moves through the Caribbean Sea, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Japan's largest labour union, Rengo, announced Thursday it will demand a wage hike of at least 5% in next spring's "shunto" negotiations, maintaining its 2025 target to sustain momentum against persistent inflation.The Japanese Trade Union Confederation's policy aims for an overall pay hike of 5% or higher, which includes a base-pay rise of 3% or more. The ultimate goal is to achieve a 1% real (inflation-adjusted) wage increase, a barometer of consumer purchasing power that aligns with the government's target.A key focus of the 2026 talks will be narrowing the pay gap between large and small firms. Rengo is encouraging unions at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which employ about 70% of Japan's workforce, to demand an even higher goal of 6% or more.The confederation also said it will seek a minimum hourly wage of 1,300 yen ($8) or higher, a 50 yen increase from this year's demand.This strategy builds on significant recent gains. According to Rengo's final tally for the 2025 negotiations, Japanese firms agreed to an average wage increase of 5.25%, the second consecutive year the hike exceeded 5%. ---This aggressive wage demand from Rengo keeps significant pressure on the Bank of Japan. Markets will see this as a key driver of domestic, demand-led inflation, increasing the probability of further BOJ rate hikes in 2026. This outlook is bullish for the Japanese Yen (JPY) but could be a mixed signal for the Nikkei, as investors must weigh the benefit of stronger consumer spending against the headwind of squeezed corporate profit margins and higher borrowing costs. This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.
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President Trump on Thursday dismissed the need to ask Congress for a declaration of war as the U.S. military continuously launches strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. “I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war,” Trump told reporters. “I think we're just going to kill people...
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Paula Noreen Means (Kubik), of Cape Girardeau, Mo., passed away Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025 at her residence Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, at the Helms Funeral Home, 306 East Water Street, Decorah, with Pastor Randy Kittelson presiding. Burial to follow at Union Prairie Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until [...]The post Paula (Kubik) Means first appeared on Enterprise Media.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky heads to London Friday for a meeting of its key backers, where Britain's prime minister has said he will call on Europe to deliver more long-range missiles.
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The latest hawkish turn in the US stance towards Russia and its impact on oil prices has seen muted feed-through into EUR rates.
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Australian miner Sunrise Energy Metals has granted US defence giant Lockheed Martin a five-year option to purchase scandium oxide, a critical mineral almost exclusively supplied by China, Russia, and Ukraine.Under the agreement, Lockheed Martin has the option to buy up to 15 tonnes of scandium oxide annually over five years from Sunrise's Syerston Project. This would be subject to a final binding offtake agreement and represents about 25% of the project's planned annual production.Scandium is vital for defence, aerospace, and energy applications. Lockheed is already working with the Pentagon to develop scandium-aluminum alloys for military equipment. This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.
Norwegian banks reported losses of 930 million Norwegian crowns (US$92.7 million) related to financial fraud in 2023 and the problem has only become worse with the arrival of AI tools that automate the work of fraudsters. To increase identity protection, the Scandinavian nation is currently examining Mobai’s homomorphic encryption for protecting biometric templates used in the country’s banking industry.A spin-off of Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the company has been working on strengthening face biometrics systems’ security for Norwegian banks since 2021. Earlier this year, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (NDPA) published a report exploring Mobai’s technology as well as key legal and privacy challenges related to the use of technologies that protect face biometrics templates.Mobai and the NDPA presented their work at a webinar on Wednesday organized by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB).The facial biometrics company has developed the template protection technology as a strong digital face verification method that reduces the risk of identity theft of digital accounts and biometric data. Mobai is calling the biometric verification and encryption solution SALT.Homomorphic encryption allows computations to be performed on encrypted data without first having to decrypt the data. An advantage is that it allows analyzing sensitive data without compromising privacy. The technology doesn't expose data but still allows the bank to do an identity proofing in an online session using data from a national identity document such as a passport.The cryptography works in the following way: The bank collects a selfie image of a customer and the image is processed into a biometric template and encrypted. The encrypted data is used to perform a match with the ID document. The bank is the only entity that can decrypt the decision and thereby authenticate the user, explains Petter Taugbøl, vice president of business development at Mobai.“In practical terms, this means that a third party, typically a cloud provider, can process sensitive data without ever seeing the underlying data and produce results which they don't have access to either,” he says.The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway and involves electronic identity system BankID and one of Norwegian largest savings banks Sparebank1 Østlandet as industry partners. KU Leuven joined as an academic partner.An important objective has been to analyze whether new and enhanced privacy technologies could change what are acceptable methods for privacy protection, from a legal perspective, Taugbøl explains.“By transforming biometric data into encrypted templates could we kind of de-risk or reclassify biometric data in the legal sense from sensitive personal data to maybe personal data, and thereby enable the use of face recognition on a different legal basis?” he says.As a sub-vendor to the eID provider, Mobai tested its technology as part of a Regulatory Sandbox, designed for exploring issues where there are few legal precedents. The project started in May 2023, and the report launched in January of 2025.“This has been a long project, and the reasoning for that is that these kinds of projects are challenging,” says NDPA’s Special Advisor, Eirik Guldbransen.The project should solve a very real world problem. Banks usually require customers to come to physical offices where they take their photo which is then compared with an image in their national ID document.A similar solution is implemented in mobile banking where customers take a selfie image though their smartphone and then provide a scan of their passport, according to Dag-Arne Hoberg, senior project manager at Sparebank1 Østlandet.Mobai is arguing that performing biometric processing solely on devices such as personal computers or mobile phones presents security challenges. Many ID solutions confirm access to the device rather than actually identifying the physical person, adds Guldbransen.“Biometrics can be copied and stolen,” he says. “That is something that we need to acknowledge and we should acknowledge that we need to perhaps look at better solutions than we have today.”Given the computational demands of homomorphic encryption, Mobai believes that centralized processing is best for ensuring trustworthy face matching results. In contrast, a decentralized approach would leave service providers, like BankID, reliant on platform owners' security measures.Mobai and the NPDA have identified the next key questions that the agency will have to tackle: Assessing the legal status of facial images and protected templates in an AI-based solution for verification and the technical security measures for storing protected templates that would be used by the AI and facial images for training purposes. This month, the company won an additional US$1.2 million grant to research new methods for secure credential binding in digital wallets.More work also needs to be done in other areas, according to webinar participants.“The solution to fraud is complex, requiring information sharing, eID solutions, biometric technology, fraud detection systems and general increased understanding in society to prevent fraud attempts,” says Hoberg.Template protection requirements are built into the EU’s GDPR, and the topic has caught the interest of diverse parties from humanitarian organizations to research and innovation groups.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky heads to London Friday for a meeting of its key backers, where Britain’s prime minister has said he will call on Europe to deliver more long-range missiles. Kyiv’s Western allies have ratcheted up pressure on Moscow as the war enters its fourth winter, with the United States and European Union both [...]The post UK to press ‘coalition of willing’ for more long-range missiles for Ukraine appeared first on Digital Journal.
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The Parties Know They're Losing, That's Why They're Redrawing Districts Authored by Lura Forcum & Brett Loyd via RealClearPolitics,Partisan affiliation in the U.S. has sharply declined over the past two decades. Today, only 28% of Americans identify with either the Republican or Democratic party, down from 34% in 2004. This drop in party loyalty helps explain the rise of the independent voter, who now make up 43% of the electorate. But just as the electorate becomes less partisan, the political system is becoming more so – thanks to recent gerrymandering in Texas, California, and potentially many more states. It’s no wonder so many Americans are walking away from the parties that have spent more energy protecting their turf than earning voters’ trust.The overlooked plurality has woken up to the absurdity of a political system that no longer serves them. But outrage alone won’t fix what’s broken. It’s time to get organized.The independent movement offers a way forward: candidates and voters who believe politics should serve the public good, not the party line. It’s a movement grounded in accountability and common sense and a coalition of voters tired of being divided and ready to reclaim a system that should have belonged to them all along.But the two parties spend more time dismissing these voters as uninformed or spoilers than they do trying to court them. And their latest tactic for maintaining control is to gerrymander districts to insulate themselves from the effects of their toxic brands.Partisan mapmakers try to “pack” as many voters of the opposing parties into districts they already control, leaving fewer opposition voters in surrounding districts. They also “crack” districts by spreading opposition voters over as wide an area as possible, making it unlikely they can form a majority anywhere. This gamesmanship reveals the two-party duopoly’s weakness. The fewer true believers each side has, the more they must rely on engineered maps instead of energized bases. And aside from being cynical, gerrymandering turns up the temperature of political acrimony in multiple ways. First, gerrymandering not only influences who wins an election, but it can also determine who runs. When district lines are drawn to guarantee one party’s victory, the real contest happens in the primary, when that party’s candidate is selected. When general elections are neck and neck, candidates play to the middle, appealing to moderates and independents, resulting in a candidate that is more balanced and appealing to voters with varying political beliefs. In primary races, on the other hand, only the most partisan voters tend to show up, rewarding candidates who play to partisan extremes instead. By making general elections a foregone conclusion, gerrymandering practices remove this check on extremism. At the same time, partisan redistricting makes many people feel powerless. Gerrymandering makes it harder for voters to give feedback to their representatives, since districts are increasingly unresponsive to voter preferences. When voters are denied responsive representation, frustration builds. For decades, dissatisfaction with the two parties has manifested as political disengagement, with fewer Americans turning out to vote than in most other developed countries. But frustration can also lead to transformative change when channeled into civic action: voting, volunteering and organizing. While we’d like to see politically homeless voters supporting independent candidates, they can also have a tremendous corrective impact on the political system by split-ticket and swing voting. When independents cast split tickets or swing their support between parties, they reclaim their right to choose political leaders who best represent their values and priorities. They vote for ideas and solutions – instead of being forced to vote according to party affiliation – while reminding candidates that they need to earn voter loyalty. Consider the great movements of America’s past, like abolition, civil rights, and women’s suffrage, which turned public discontent into lasting reform. Dissatisfaction can lead to a powerful opening once people decide that enough is enough. The independent movement’s strength lies in the very people the system tries to sideline: citizens who demand that political leaders behave with decency, who still believe in their right to say no to ineffective and unresponsive elected officials, and who believe in the American experiment. If gerrymandering is the parties’ last defense, civic engagement is the people’s first.The very act of gerrymandering is a public admission that the two parties cannot win on a level playing field. It reveals their fear of a nonpartisan electorate and their complete dependence on a rigged system. The good news for independents is that these maneuvers fuel voters’ collective frustration, providing a political opening to finally end the two-party stranglehold. From local offices to Congress, independent candidates can represent a new era of politics, one where voters choose their leaders, not the other way around. Lura Forcum is president of the Independent Center, a nonprofit organization of political independents. She is a consumer psychologist and a former professor of marketing. Brett Loyd is a polling and research consultant for the Independent Center as well as the CEO of the Bullfinch Group. Tyler DurdenThu, 10/23/2025 - 22:35
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