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Delani Moyo dropped a thousand bucks on Siyazama Primary School in Ward 14 and promised another eight grand to get roofs on two classroom blocks that have been sitting exposed since he donated cement during campaign season. The ZANU PF rep for Insiza North also handed out cash prizes to 62...

ASUS just dropped the ROG Azoth 96 HE keyboard with magnetic hall-effect switches that let you tweak actuation distance down to 0.01 mm intervals. The thing pulls 8000 Hz polling whether you plug it in or go wireless, and it connects up to five devices at once through USB-C, Bluetooth, or their...

My Arcade just rolled out a pair of officially licensed Pac-Man gadgets to celebrate 45 years of the yellow dot-muncher. The Mighty Player looks like a tiny arcade cabinet with a 3.5-inch screen and wood-style casing, while the Pocket Player Max is the handheld version for people who want their...

Amazon just dropped its first 3nm chips for AI work in AWS data centers. Trainium2 handles the heavy training stuff with better memory design and more power efficiency, while Graviton5 takes care of regular cloud tasks without needing crazy cooling upgrades. Both chips help AWS pack more compute...

Simon Cowell went from being the mean judge everyone remembers to admitting he was kind of a jerk on American Idol and X Factor after losing his parents, having a kid named Eric with his partner Lauren, and watching Liam Payne die. The music exec talked about how he regrets the harsh stuff he...

Tunisian authorities grabbed opposition lawyer Ayachi Hammami from his house near Tunis after an appeals court hit him with a five-year prison sentence for terrorism charges and plotting against the state. The conviction came from a sketchy mass trial where roughly 40 defendants got slammed with...

Somalia's prime minister basically shrugged off Trump calling Somali immigrants garbage during a cabinet meeting rant, saying it was better to just ignore the insults since America still sends them around 128 million for fighting terrorists. Some Somalis back home were pissed their government...

Algerian actress Biyouna died from lung cancer at age 73, and she became legendary for refusing to bail during the civil war when Islamist groups were murdering artists and threatening women who worked outside traditional roles. The performer got famous playing Fatma on national TV right after...

Trump dropped a pardon for Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar, who was staring down federal charges about taking 600k in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil company and a Mexican bank. The congressman and his wife, Imelda, got hit with bribery and money laundering accusations for allegedly influencing US...

Charles Booker jumped into the Kentucky Senate race to replace Mitch McConnell with a pitch about guaranteed 40k yearly minimum wages and universal childcare, even though the state has not elected a Democratic senator since the 1990s. The progressive former state lawmaker already lost two Senate...

Border Patrol agents rolled into New Orleans and started hitting up Home Depot parking lots where immigrants hang out looking for work, and the whole operation got the cringey nickname Catahoula Crunch from Homeland Security. Gregory Bovino brought his green team after doing similar sweeps in...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dropped the fog-of-war excuse when talking about a deadly Caribbean boat strike that killed 11 people back in September, claiming he bailed from the control room after the first hit and missed seeing survivors before a second strike took them out. The whole thing...

Demand Justice dropped a million bucks on TV spots going after John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, and Angus King for backing Trump's judicial picks who refuse to say Trump lost in 2020 or call January 6 an insurrection. The liberal group argues these lifetime appointees dodge straightforward...

Trump blasted his old Treasury guy, Steven Mnuchin, for recommending Jerome Powell to run the Federal Reserve, and the president basically threatened to fire his current Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, if he cannot get the Fed to slash interest rates faster. Kevin Hassett from the National...

Trump keeps saying he's about to lock down a deal with Harvard after months of pressuring them, but the whole thing keeps stalling over where the cash actually goes. The school was ready to drop 500 million on workforce training programs, but then Trump administration hardliners started...

Kenner, Louisiana, turned into a ghost town after federal agents rolled through this week for immigration raids, and the Latino community that helped rebuild post-Katrina is basically hiding indoors. The local police chief signed up with Homeland Security back in March to let his officers flag...

A street preacher from Mississippi named Gabriel Olivier got busted for yelling at concertgoers outside an amphitheater after Brandon city officials pushed protesters way back from the venue, and the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether he can sue over the ordinance even though he had...

Back when the Kansas GOP was melting down over stripping minority groups from their executive committee, two Young Republicans named William Hendrix and Alex Dwyer got roasted for backing the chair's plan and decided to take over the state's Young Republican branch. Fast forward to October, when...

A DC federal judge dropped an order blocking immigration agents from nabbing people without warrants unless they can prove the person might bounce before getting proper paperwork, and Judge Beryl Howell called out officers for potentially breaking federal law with their arrest methods. The...

The Trump administration hit pause on immigration paperwork for people from 19 nations that got slapped with travel restrictions back in June, and this freeze covers green card requests plus citizenship applications from places like Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Haiti, and Somalia. Matthew Tragesser...