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KARACHI: Skipper Fatima Sana delivered a match-winning all-round performance as Conquerors defeated Strikers by 31 runs in the National Women’s T20 Tournament at the National Bank Stadium on Monday. Fatima starred with an unbeaten 41 off 22 balls and later claimed 3-23 to help restrict Strikers to 110-9 in pursuit of a 142-run target. The win pushed Conquerors to the top of the table with five wins from seven matches. They face second-placed Stars in a crucial final round-robin match on Tuesday. Strikers suffered an early setback in the chase when captain Gull Feroza was dismissed in the third over.…

DETROIT (AP) — As a fan, Shaun Horne is all about Detroit’s professional sports teams. But when it comes to playing, the high school junior has his eyes on one game.“I only play golf,” Horne said after taking his turn on a simulator inside a gym on Detroit’s westside.Embracing golf makes the 16-year-old a rarity among his Detroit peers — particularly Black high schoolers.Coaches and community groups in the city are taking ambitious steps to spread the game’s popularity among students — noting that only about 50 of more than 14,000 high school students in Detroit’s school district play golf…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s governor plans to visit the Seneca Nation on Tuesday to formally apologize for the state’s role in running an upstate boarding school that separated Native American students from their families with the goal of assimilating them into American society.Gov. Kathy Hochul is also expected to meet with survivors of the Thomas Indian School, which operated from 1875 to 1957 in western New York near Lake Erie.Seneca President J. Conrad Seneca, whose father attended the school, said the apology is overdue. He said his family and countless others have quietly borne their pain for generations.“The…

US Supreme Court lets Trump terminate Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of people from Venezuela.Washington, DC – The United States Supreme Court has enabled the administration of President Donald Trump to revoke the protected immigration status of about 350,000 Venezuelans. The top court’s justices issued a brief order on Monday, granting the administration’s request for lifting the suspension that had been placed by a lower court in March. In February, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem terminated a 2023 Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Venezuelans that had been issued by the administration of former President Joe Biden.…

Google announced on Monday that it has officially released the NotebookLM apps for Android and iOS, a day before Google I/O 2025 and a day before the company said it would roll out. Since its launch in 2023, the AI-based note-taking and research assistant has only been accessible via desktop. Google has now made the service available on the go. NotebookLM is designed to help people better understand complex information through features like smart summaries and the ability to ask questions about documents and other materials. Image Credits:Google The app gives access to Audio Overviews, which are NotebookLM’s AI-generated podcasts based…

President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act on Monday, a bipartisan law that enacts stricter penalties for distributing nonconsensual explicit images, including deepfakes and revenge porn.  The bill criminalizes the publication of such images, whether they’re authentic or AI-generated. Whoever publishes the photos or videos can face criminal penalties, including fines, imprisonment, and restitution.  Under the new law, social media companies and online platforms must remove such material within 48 hours of notice from the victim. The platforms also have to take steps to delete duplicate content.  Many states have already banned sexually explicit deepfakes and revenge porn,…

BreachRx, a San Francisco startup in the incident response space, has nabbed $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Ballistic Ventures. The company, which is working on technology to revamp corporate incident response reporting systems, said the new financing included expanded equity positions for SYN Ventures and Overline. The capital infusion, which lifts BreachRx’s total funding to about $23 million, puts former Mandiant chief executive Kevin Mandia on the board as the company pushes its incident-response software deeper into Fortune-grade accounts.   The funding lands thirteen months after BreachRx’s $6.5 million seed round with promises to “operational resilience…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers on Monday passed a plan sponsored by Uvalde’s former mayor to fix police failures laid bare by the hesitant law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in 2022, sending the bill to the governor days ahead of the third anniversary of the massacre.Nineteen students and two teachers were killed and 18 people were injured in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. Saturday is the anniversary of the attack.The measure given final approval by the state Senate and sent to Gov. Greg Abbott is dubbed the “The Uvalde Strong Act”…

Semiconductor giant AMD followed through with its plan to spin out ZT Systems’ server-manufacturing business. AMD announced on Monday that it was selling ZT Systems’ server-manufacturing business to electronic manufacturing services company Sanmina. The $3 billion deal is a mix of cash and stock: $2.25 billion in cash; a $300 million premium, including 50% cash and 50% equity; and a $450 million contingent payment based on financial performance over the next three years, according to Reuters. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2025, subject to regulatory approval. After this divestiture, AMD will maintain control of ZT…

Washington, DC – A measure known as the “nonprofit killer” has been removed from an enormous tax bill being advanced in the United States Congress, according to the bill posted online by the House of Representatives. The provision, which no longer appeared on the President Donald Trump-backed “One Big, Beautiful Bill” on Monday, would have given the executive branch the authority to strip the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that it deems supportive of “terrorism”. Advocates have warned that the legislative effort – which failed to pass as a stand-alone bill last year – could be abused to crack down on…