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Beekeeping has always been a family affair for David Bradshaw. Bradshaw, 70, is the second-generation owner of Bradshaw Honey Farms in Visalia, California. His father, Howard Bradshaw, established a farm in their backyard in 1958.David Bradshaw remembers playing outside as a child and “learning not to get too close” to beehives. He has been stung “thousands of times” since then, but that hasn’t deterred him from continuing with his business.He also involves the next generation. Bradshaw’s daughter works full time on the farm and manages the honey bottling operation, with her son also helping out as needed. And, he says,…

U.S. Senate Democratic candidate Troy Jackson speaks during a demonstration outside a federal immigration detention center after a man was shot and killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Scarborough, Maine, on July 14, 2026. The victim was identified as João Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old man from Colombia.Ryan Murphy | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMaine Democrats on Saturday will select a new Senate candidate to take on longtime Republican Susan Collins in the race for control of the Senate after Graham Platner withdrew from the race following sexual assault allegations.Support is centered around former state Senate…

On a sunny October day in Woolwich, Maine, photographer Sarah Silbiger was yelling directions from the back of her van to her partner, Jason Bernert. Forward. Looking backwards. forward. Looking backwards. The 20-foot-tall Winnebago EKKO moves awkwardly, changing direction every few seconds as Barnato carefully maneuvers it into position. It’s fall foliage season in New England, and the parking lot of a small restaurant is filled with tourists looking for a bite to eat. The hustle and bustle makes it even more difficult to reposition. In the end, after asking Bernert to “realign the van a million times,” she got…

This week, power lines went down in a Washington, D.C., suburb. Typically, the grid only takes a few seconds to recover from such an event. But the process took more than 10 minutes, as more than 3 gigawatts of data centers lost power at about the same time. The event caused voltage spikes on the PJM power grid from Northern Virginia to Chicago, according to data collected by Ting Labs, a startup that operates IoT sensor networks from people’s electrical outlets. The incident did not cause a power outage, but it did cause lights to flicker throughout the area. This…

On July 20, 2026, fighters supporting Yemen’s internationally recognized government based in Aden gather at a vigil on the Red Sea coast in Kawka, Yemen’s western Hodeidah province, calling for a resumption of fighting against the Houthis, who currently control the capital Sanaa. (Photo by Khaled ZIAD/AFP via Getty Images)Khaled Ziad | AFP | Getty ImagesSaudi Arabia said on Saturday that coalition forces had attacked Houthi militias in Yemen after Iranian-backed groups claimed they attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea earlier this week.Saudi air defense forces reportedly intercepted two ballistic missiles from Yemen.The recent volleys appear to…

Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google LLC, spoke at the Google AI event on Tuesday, January 28, 2020, in San Francisco, California, USA.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesEarlier this year, Google AI head Jeff Dean went on a podcast to discuss distillation, a concept that at the time was little talked about outside of the volatile tech world. Speaking about the development of Google’s AI models, Dean said he and his colleagues discovered the art of distilling artificial intelligence as Google sought to improve the performance of its systems without relying on one large image recognition…

Demonstrators march in a protest against artificial intelligence (AI) on Saturday, July 11, 2026, in San Francisco, California, United States. Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAn emerging coalition of religious leaders, labor unions and local activists concerned about artificial intelligence and the widespread economic havoc it portends poses political problems for those on the wrong side of the issue. And the person most at risk is President Donald Trump.AI is right in the political blind spot. The industry and its rapidly evolving technology threaten to overwhelm Mr. Trump’s often uncanny ability to sense shifting political winds, potentially damaging the…

mexico city — For decades, drug lords with names like “El Chapo” and “El Mencho” were the poster boys for the United States’ fight against drug trafficking in Mexico. The Trump administration has now set new targets on wealthy politicians who allegedly receive dirty money to help criminals. The U.S. Treasury Department recently accused cartels of “increasingly using illicit profits to pay cash to political campaigns in Mexico.” Their goal is to elect candidates “willing to protect the cartels and their interests,” the statement said. It is no secret that organized crime groups in Mexico pour money into election campaigns,…

India’s education minister announced on Saturday that he had resigned in a landslide victory for youth demonstrators, but the escalation of youth protests is causing headaches for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Protesters are demanding accountability after an entrance exam for a prestigious medical school was allegedly leaked and sold, with the unrest led by a youth campaign known as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). Dharmendra Pradhan bowed to mounting pressure and announced his resignation on Saturday after tens of thousands of students and supporters took to the streets demanding his ouster and sweeping reforms to India’s exam system. Prime…

Ships in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Musandam, Oman, July 12, 2026. Stringer | ReutersKarsi market odds on when maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz will return to normal were below 50% as of Friday afternoon.The probability that traffic in the strait will return to normal by July 2027 has plummeted from nearly 70% to 47% in the past two days. The decline comes as the United States launched its 13th consecutive night of strikes against Iranian targets, with President Trump hinting at another “massive strike” against Iran in an interview with Axios on Thursday.There is a…