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A former U.S. Marine reservist and seven others were sentenced Tuesday to decades in prison over a shooting last year that wounded a police officer during a demonstration at a Texas immigration detention center.
Prosecutors called the crime an act of terrorism and said the eight were linked to a leftist militant group, antifa.
The defendants’ attorneys denied any antifa ties and family members expressed shock and anger over the stiff sentences.
Benjamin Song, the Marine reser…

8 convicted in Prairieland shooting and protest are sentenced to decades in federal prison
Eight protesters accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa have been sentenced to decades in federal prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center. A police officer was wounded in the July 4 shooting outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas. A former U.S. Marine Corps reservist convicted of attempted murder in the shooting was sentenced Tuesday to 100 years in prison, which is the maximum punishment. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, one of …

It's true.
We get the news in Manchester too!
Andy Burnham 'acutely conscious' that UK has had seven PMs over past 10 years | ITV News
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-07-19/andy-b

The Colorado River, a critical water lifeline for seven states, has shrunk dramatically.
And the nation’s largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, have dropped to their lowest levels on record.
In an effort to prevent the reservoirs from reaching critically low levels,
the Trump administration has released a plan that orders substantial water cutbacks in California, Arizona and Nevada over the next two years
and outlines possible larger cuts if deemed necessary…

As Colorado River shrinks, the Trump administration orders water cuts
The Trump administration has released a detailed water-saving plan for the Colorado River, where reservoirs have been dropping dramatically.

"Kazakhstan releases first tiger into the wild in 70 years"
#Kazakhstan #Tiger #Animals

Kazakhstan releases first tiger into the wild in 70 years
Kazakhstan has released its first tiger into the wild more than seven decades since the last confirmed sighting of the big cat in the country. On July 31, 2026, an adult female Amur tiger called Umit, which means “hope” in Kazakh, leapt from her cage on the back of a pickup truck, as she was […]

from my link log —
The maturing of QUIC.
https://www.fastly.com/blog/maturing-of-quic
saved 2019-11-14 https://dotat.at/:/CW74X.htm…

The Maturing of QUIC | Fastly
QUIC, the new internet transport protocol set to replace TCP, was comprehensively built by tech industry leaders over nearly seven years. Go behind the scenes to see how QUIC evolved from a lofty experiment to a standard set to modernize the internet.

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/234c9aeb-33aa-469e-844d-f721e81296cf

O.J. Brigance, Ravens senior adviser to player development, dies after long battle with ALS https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7508592/2026/08/17/oj-brigance-dies-als-ravens/

National parks are deteriorating. There’s a fix Congress isn’t making.
The national park system faces a maintenance backlog of $24 billion in crumbling roads, aging water systems, washed-out trails and dilapidated visitor facilities.
That is more than seven times the National Park Service’s annual budget.

Last month, committees in both the House and Senate advanced bipartisan bills to dedicate roughly $1.3 billion annually for park maintenance over the next five years. …

America’s national parks are falling apart. Congress can fix them.
Legislators should fund routine maintenance to prevent bigger problems.

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/234c9aeb-33aa-469e-844d-f721e81296cf

jeeze, it's been over seven years since i've visited chicago - too long. really happy to be back! :)

Memo: NBC News Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend is leaving NBCUniversal after seven years and will be replaced by Technology EVP Kyri Sarantakos on July 3 (JD Knapp/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/nbc-news-c…

NBC News Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend Exits After 7 Years
NBC News' Chief Digital Officer Chris Berend is exiting NBCUniversal after seven years with the company, TheWrap has learned.

NFL Insider Suggests Jerry Jones, Cowboys Could Pick Controversial Texas-born QB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brendan-sorsby-jerry-jones-cowboys/

Exterior of the Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, 2026. The design is remade yearly, using corn cobs of different colors, cut in half and attached to the façade, along with native grasses. 1/2

Source: Nvidia is marketing its first corporate bond sale since 2021, seeking to raise $20B across seven tranches with maturities ranging from two to 30 years (Brian W Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

#NowPlaying And now it’s time for seven hours of Fluxus celebrating 30 years from 1962 – 1992. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ry5eHu29pM

The Economist says President Luke Bradley-Jones will become group CEO on August 1, as Lara Boro steps down after seven years; he became president in 2024 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news…

Economist president Luke Bradley-Jones to become group CEO
The Economist president Luke Bradley-Jones will become group CEO as Lara Boro steps down after seven years.

AI made it easy to start work.
It did not make it easy to finish it.
Daily Pull Request contexts per developer are up 67.4%.
Work restarts, tasks that return to in-progress after moving to another stage, are up 13.8%.
26% more in-progress tasks show no activity for seven or more days:
i.e. work was started, claimed capacity, and then stalled.
The developer productivity picture that AI tools present at the individual level is one of acceleration.
The w…

The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways
What two years of telemetry data from 22,000 developers reveals about AI's real impact on developer productivity, code quality, and business risk in 2026.

As Eagles trade A.J. Brown to Patriots, a lingering question: Why couldn't this work out? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6988689/2026/06/01/eagles-aj-brown-trade-analysis/

The modern legal landscape of gun legislation begins with
District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008,
when the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense
— overturning nearly two centuries of jurisprudence that had centered the right on the organized militia.
Fourteen years later,
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen raised the stakes further,
instructing courts to ev…

Twenty-Seven Words, 400,000,000 Guns
Inside the legal crossfire over the Second Amendment

Innolight, China's leading maker of optical transceivers, closes 2% below its Hong Kong IPO price after raising ~$6.8B, the city's biggest listing since 2019 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/inn…

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Turns Heads With Bold Wardrobe Choice https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-super-bowl-t-shirt/

Alabama on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections
-- despite a lower court’s rulingthat the redistricting plan intentionally discriminates against Black people.
The state’s Republican leadership filed an emergency appeal with the justices a day after a three-judge court refused to let the state use a map it adopted three years ago that has a majority Black population in just one of its seven congressio…

Alabama asks Supreme Court to allow use of congressional map helping GOP
Alabama is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections, despite a lower court's ruling the map intentionally discriminates against Black people. The state filed an emergency appeal with the justices Wednesday, a day after a three-judge court blocked a map with a Black majority in just one of Alabama's seven congressional districts. The judges ordered Alabama to use a court-ordered map with two districts with large Black populat…

Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkhattyhzl

Former Meta AR/VR executives raise $21 million to build sensors for the AI era
Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world. 

Will Grier to join Cowboys coaching staff as offensive assistant https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/will-grier-to-join-cowboys-coaching-staff-as-offensive-assistant

Will Grier to join Cowboys coaching staff as offensive assistant https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/will-grier-to-join-cowboys-coaching-staff-as-offensive-assistant