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A federal judge just sidelined another one of Texas' attempts to regulate the internet, calling it unconstitutional. Judge Robert Pitman, from the Western District of Texas, issued a preliminary injunction against a state law known as the Texas App Store Accountability Act. The rule would have...

SANParks is doing its whole song and dance for the holidays, deploying helicopters and extra rangers at Table Mountain National Park because they know it’s gonna be a mess. The acting CEO, Property Mokoena, even did a two-day photo op in late December to check on this festive readiness plan...

The health department in KwaZulu-Natal is basically in disaster prep mode, expecting the usual holiday chaos of car wrecks and drownings. They are throwing more ambulances and staff at the problem, especially along the N2 highway and coastal areas like Durban, to try to cut response times. This...

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba just used his Christmas Eve sermon at Cape Town's St George's Cathedral to absolutely trash South Africa's current situation. Instead of generic holiday cheer, the Anglican leader detailed a brutal list of national failures including rampant unemployment, widespread...

Some absolute legend on Reddit basically won the component lottery because Amazon’s warehouse messed up big time. The user, u/1trollzor1, posted about ordering just two Samsung 9100 PRO 2TB NVMe drives but receiving two large boxes containing a total of twenty. These are PCIe Gen5 M.2 SSDs, some...

Dude just used his Christmas sermon to absolutely flame bad leaders and kids with saggy pants. Bishop Joseph Mlola, from the Kigoma Catholic Diocese in Tanzania, went off during a national holiday mass at Our Lady of Victories Cathedral. His main point targeted people in power, telling them to...

Zanzibar's president, Hussein Ali Mwinyi, did the obligatory speech opening some sports festival. He was at the Maisara Sports Complex, kicking off the Afed Sports Festival, which is a big deal for the global Khoja Shia Ithnashir community. His main spiel was that sports bring people together...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan did the obligatory politician Christmas post, telling everyone to be nice. She used the holiday as a prompt for Tanzanians to boost their godly devotion and care for poor people. Her message pushed standard values like love and humility as the bedrock for national...

The main Christmas shindig in Tanzania this year is going down in Kigoma at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Victory. A priest named Raustine Furaha is running the show, with the whole thing being broadcast for people stuck at home. A bunch of church heads are using the occasion to give their...

That huge dam in Tanzania is finally running at full capacity. The Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project on the Rufiji River is pushing two thousand one hundred fifteen megawatts into the grid with all nine turbines online. It effectively doubles the country's power supply, a project former energy...

Another program is trying to boost seaweed farming in Zanzibar. The Zanzibar Maisha Bora Foundation, working with the Blue Economy and Fisheries Ministry, launched this Seaweed Socio-Enterprise Programme. It is supposed to help farmers, especially women and young people, by teaching better...

The government says it's all about getting young people jobs and making cheap medical gear now. Deputy Industry Minister Patrobas Katambi was touring this place called TEMDO in Arusha, talking up their plan to find young talent under some National Development Vision 2050. He said the focus is on...

Tanzania's banks are apparently gonna keep printing money next year, according to some optimistic projections. The whole outlook hinges on everything staying chill after that election drama from late October, with President Samia Suluhu Hassan's administration keeping the peace. The central bank...

The government says it is building permanent army and police bases in Kerio Valley, even planning a major training facility there. Interior boss Kipchumba Murkomen made the announcement while doing a Christmas visit to the Todo military camp in Kolowa, Baringo. He was hanging out with top cops...

Dude just drove himself to church for the holidays. President William Ruto took the wheel to get to PEFA Ikarian Cathedral in Kilgoris, Narok County, with the First Lady, Rachel Ruto. He posted a video earlier telling Kenyans to drive safely and have a merry Christmas, mixing in some casual...

A guy turned himself in at a Machakos police station after reportedly gunning down a club bouncer. The forty-one year old victim, a known local figure, died at the scene on Wednesday night. Law enforcement has detained both the male suspect and a woman connected to the incident, with Machakos...

King Charles used his Christmas speech to basically tell everyone to chill out. He recorded the thing at Westminster Abbey's Lady Chapel, talking about how the world moves too fast now. He actually quoted some TS Eliot poetry about finding a quiet center in all the chaos. An aide clarified this...

Someone in Arkansas just hit the second biggest Powerball jackpot ever, grabbing over one point eight billion dollars on Christmas Eve. The winning numbers for that drawing were four, twenty-five, thirty-one, fifty-two, fifty-nine, and the red Powerball nineteen. This marks just the second time...

The Interior bigwig Kipchumba Murkomen did a Christmas photo-op with security forces in Baringo. He showed up at the Todo Kenya Defence Forces camp in Kolowa with deputy inspectors general like Eliud Lagat and Gilbert Masengeli. They shared a meal with officers from the multi-agency team running...

A truck driver was murdered and dumped near the border of Makueni and Machakos counties. The twenty-six-year-old victim was found in Kasyelia Village within Tawa, Mbooni Subcounty. Detectives from the DCI offices at Matuu and Tawa police stations are investigating. The driver had been hauling...