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The Canadian owner of a 2024 Lucid Air Pure has prevailed in a lemon law arbitration case that compelled Lucid to cancel his lease and reclaim the vehicle approximately 18 months into a four-year agreement. Among many issues with the EV, the company told him he can’t park an EV outside in the wintertime and expect it to function properly. AutoBlog reports that the owner, who shared his experience on the Lucid Owners forum, secured a victory that is generating significant attention in part because of the manner in which Lucid’s legal representatives reportedly handled the proceedings. According to his…

Iran is demanding the release of $24 billion in frozen assets as a condition for advancing a potential agreement with Washington, while U.S. forces intercepted Iranian missiles and drones targeting Kuwait, Bahrain, and maritime traffic near the Strait of Hormuz and President Donald Trump’s top envoys quietly convened nuclear experts to prepare for the possible implementation of a deal. The developments underscored the fragile state of negotiations between Washington and Tehran, with diplomacy advancing alongside fresh military exchanges in and around the Persian Gulf, continuing disputes over Iran’s uranium stockpile, demands for sanctions relief and frozen assets, and competing claims…

DNA testing has confirmed Lyhanna’s identity, but forensic experts have yet to determine the cause of death, prosecutors have said DNA testing has confirmed that a body found in southwestern France is that of Lyhanna, an 11-year-old girl who disappeared last week, prosecutors said. The case sparked a nationwide search and a growing political row over failures in the justice system.The confirmation came a day after search teams discovered the body in an abandoned grain silo near Fleurance in the Gers region, where Lyhanna was last seen on May 29. Police were led to the site by a tip that…

A large group of protesters brandishing cardboard flamingoes marched through the Albanian capital of Tirana for several nights this week, demonstrating against plans for a luxury resort by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. The “Flamingo Revolution” took its name and mascot from the birds whose breeding ground could be threatened by the hotel project. Kushner, his wife Ivanka Trump, and his private equity firm Affinity Partners announced plans to build the coastal resort in 2024. The firm invested $1.4 billion into the 111-acre project, which would cover much of the undeveloped Sazan Island. Sazan Island was not exactly pristine…

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Kosovo will hold its third parliamentary election in 18 months this weekend as frustration grows over a continued political impasse in the small Balkan country that is aspiring to move closer to the European Union and NATO. The early parliamentary vote on Sunday was scheduled after Kosovo’s main political parties failed to agree by a March deadline on who should replace former President Vjosa Osmani. Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s center-left Vetevendosje party has held a clear parliamentary majority since the early election in December. But the president in Kosovo is appointed by at least 80 lawmakers…

The rise of AI agents has pushed automated requests past human activity, according to the internet infrastructure firm Bots and AI agents now generate more web traffic than humans, according to data from internet infrastructure company Cloudflare. CEO Matthew Prince has described the development as a major turning point in the history of the web.Recent Cloudflare Radar data shows that automated bot requests account for roughly 57% of traffic to ordinary webpages across a selection of websites using the company’s services, compared with about 43% generated by humans. “Welp, that happened faster than I predicted,” Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew…

On sale this week: Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.It wasn’t so long ago that the real rate on these bonds was negative. People lent money to the federal government and were assured of getting back, with interest included, less than they started with.Now the yield on the TIPS due in 2056 is 2.7%, close to as high as it has ever been. That bond will beat the standard-issue unprotected Treasury of 2056, recently paying 5%, if inflation averages at least 2.3% over the next 30 years.Do you think inflation will average more than 2.3%? It’s a reasonable supposition. The last Consumer Price…

Singer and longtime Internet troll Doja Cat called billionaire Elon Musk a “barrel chested Ewok” when complaining about features on his social media platform X. The Grammy winner issued her attack against Musk while demanding his platform reinstate the “audio post” feature, before calling him a “frog build looking bitch.” “Hey Elon if u see this please put the audio post feature back on here,” she wrote. “Thanks, u frog build looking bitch. Barrel chested ewok u look like u eat sand.” As noted by Variety, Doja Cat is most likely referring to “voice notes, or the audio post feature, which seemed…

A Ukrainian sea attack drone “self detonated” in the Romanian port of Constanta on Friday morning, prompting a major evacuation of Black Sea beaches as three other bomb boats were out of control and unaccounted for. A group of Ukrainian suicide attack boat drones — the kind used to great effect against Russian warships in the Black Sea in the course of the Ukraine War — were apparently sent off course by electronic warfare and ended up at the port city of Constanta, Romania, on Friday morning. Romanian authorities were initially aware of one of the bomb boats which they…

Demonstrators claim Peter Magyar secretly agreed to Brussels’ asylum framework in exchange for the release of frozen funds Protesters marched through central Budapest on Friday, chanting “traitor” as they denounced Prime Minister Peter Magyar over the EU Migration Pact.When Magyar appeared on a balcony of his Tisza party’s headquarters waving a Hungarian flag, the crowd booed and chanted “Dirty Tisza,” demanding his resignation, local media have reported. Magyar later estimated the crowd at about 1,000 people.Demonstrators claim the Prime Minister, who assumed office last month, secretly agreed to implement the pact in exchange for billions in EU funds, speculation that…