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Apple has appealed a €500 million ($580 million) fine imposed by the European Union, labeling the penalty as “unprecedented” and the required changes to its App Store as “unlawful.” Bloomberg reports that tech giant Apple has filed an appeal against the €500 million ($580 million) fine levied by the European Union. The company strongly opposes the penalty, deeming it “unprecedented” and the mandated changes to its App Store policies as “unlawful.” The fine, announced by the European Commission in April under the Digital Markets Act, was a result of Apple allegedly violating rules related to allowing developers to direct users…

Authorities in the border state of Chihuahua are working to identify the bodies of 338 individuals who were piled up inside a crematorium in the border city of Juarez. The bodies were meant to be incinerated, but for unknown reasons, they were just bagged and placed on top of each other. At the same time, relatives got urns with cement or other materials that funeral officials passed off as ashes. The bizarre case began on June 26, when authorities in Juarez responded to calls from concerned citizens about overpowering foul odors emanating from a crematorium on the outskirts of Juarez, Chihuahua, as…

Shares of Elon Musk’s dropped by more than seven percent on Monday morning following CEO Elon Musk’s announcement of his intention to form a new political party dubbed the “America Party.” CNBC reports that Elon Musk’s announcement of his plans to establish a new political party named the “America Party” has resulted in a seven percent drop in Tesla’s stock price on Monday, as investors grappled with the potential implications of Musk’s latest venture into politics. According to Musk, the America Party would focus on securing “just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts,” which he…

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said that after the deadly flood of the Guadalupe River in central Texas, the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service should be investigated. Host Dana Bash said, “Talking about the the federal government and even the local government to Texas National Weather service offices involved in forecasting and warning about flooding on the Guadalupe river are missing some key staff members, a director of the NWS union told CNN that the Austin San Antonio office is missing a warning coordination meteorologist due to the Trump administration’s buyouts. Do…

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is quietly exploring a comeback in Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District after more than a decade out of office — including a two-year prison term. Jackson — the son of civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. and the brother of Rep. Jonathan Jackson — was a Democratic rising star who served in Congress 17 years before stepping down in 2012 due to health reasons. A federal conviction for campaign finance violations and prison time followed for him and his then-wife, Sandi, a former Chicago alderman. After working as a Chicago radio commentator, Jackson is now…

Bloc members, especially Brazil, have replaced the EU as Moscow’s top buyers, according to the fertilizer producers’ union Russian fertilizer exports to BRICS nations have surged over 60% in the past three years and the country is ready to further expand production to meet growing demand across the bloc, Andrey Guryev, President of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Producers (RAFP), told the BRICS Business Forum in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday.Until 2022, the European Union was Russia’s top fertilizer buyer, accounting for about 28% of its exports. But following the escalation in Ukraine and the resulting wave of EU and…

The country produces three times as much ammunition in three months as the bloc does in a year, the secretary-general has said Russia’s military production is dwarfing that of NATO, Secretary-General Mark Rutte has warned, urging Western nations to ramp up defense spending.In an interview with the New York Times on Saturday, Rutte sounded the alarm about Russia’s military capabilities, noting that the country is “reconstituting itself at a pace and a speed which is unparalleled in recent history.”He said Moscow is “producing three times as much ammunition in three months as the whole of NATO is doing in a…

Texas Man Killed After Ambushing Border Patrol Agents with Rifle and Tactical Gear (photos via Bill Melugin on X) A man was shot and killed this morning after he ambushed Border Patrol agents, armed with a rifle and tactical gear, outside of a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas. This comes after a Texas police officer was shot and wounded in the neck late Friday night in an apparent ambush attack by an armed group outside the ICE Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, located just south of Dallas-Fort Worth. Texas Police Officer Shot and Wounded in Apparent Ambush Attack by Armed…

Poland has activated border controls at dozens of crossing points with Germany and Lithuania, apparently after being embarrassed by citizen vigilantes taking on border defence roles themselves where they said the government had failed. Polish border guard teams, reinforced by local police and soldiers, stood post at 52 crossing points along the German border and a further 13 with Lithuania in the early hours of Monday morning amid the enactment of temporary border controls. The controls are due to last 30 days, but the Polish government hasn’t ruled out extending them. The checks come amid a growing disagreement between Berlin…

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said Saturday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” that President Donald Trump was implementing mass deportation in an attempt to “bleach America.” Wasserman Schultz said, “Again, more Trump lies, more people being thrown into a dire situation where many of them will ultimately die when they’re deported back to countries like Venezuela and Haiti, which clearly don’t have conditions in which it is safe or a place that has the environment to take people back. In Haiti, that is a country that is overrun by gangs and essentially is a failed state, and in Venezuela, you have…