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Facebook Tweet Email Link As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has been in decades, experts and survivors are warning. At the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Wednesday morning, dignitaries and the dwindling number of survivors were set to commemorate the moment a US B-29 bomber dropped the atomic weapon known as “Little Boy” on August 6, 1945. Three days later the nearby city of Nagasaki was destroyed…

Diane Petras, CTIE, an industry veteran of almost 40 years, will retire from her position as president of The Travel Institute at the end this year.“I’m able to let go and leave because things are truly the best they’ve ever been for The Travel Institute,” Petras said, adding that she viewed her role beyond that of a job but rather as “passion and a calling.” Petras joined The Travel Institute in the 1990s as a volunteer, with responsibilities that included managing its annual training conferences and serving on the organization’s national advisory board. In 2010, she was appointed chief operating…

Linda Yaccarino’s next role after departing X as CEO will be another chief executive role at eMed Population Health, an AI startup building a tech platform for patients using GLP-1s. Yaccarino was a longtime advertising executive at NBCUniversal but left to join X as CEO for two years, where she managed to have a positive impact on the social network’s troubled ad revenue model, despite her and Elon Musk’s shared approach to minimizing content moderation. Though Yaccarino does not have experience in health tech, eMed said in a press release that they sought her out for her “undeniable ability to…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Hong Kong  —  Zane Li was nine years old when he got a baby sister – and her arrival plunged the family in a small city in eastern China into crippling debt. Under China’s stringent one-child policy at the time, Li’s parents were fined 100,000 yuan (about $13,900) for having a second child – nearly three times their annual income from selling fish at the local market. “We were barely able to survive,” Li recalled. The then third grader was forced to grow up overnight, taking on most of the housework and spending school holidays helping…

LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Dozens of people gathered Tuesday evening at a funeral service for famed wrestler Hulk Hogan, who died last month at 71.The private service was held at the same church where Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea, was baptized in 2023. He died after suffering a heart attack July 24 at his home in Clearwater, according to the Pinellas County medical examiner.Hogan previously had leukemia and atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm, the examiner’s report said. His death was declared to be natural.The service was heavily patrolled by church security and Largo police officers, including K-9…

A Spirit Airlines pilot was recently arrested at New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport (MSY) on stalking charges in Kansas, according to reports.Authorities arrested 40-year-old Dominic A. Cipolla of Kansas City, Missouri, on July 17 at the New Orleans airport in connection with charges for allegedly stalking two people who, according to court documents, are minors, The Guardian reports. The charges were filed at the Johnson County Courthouse in Olathe, Kansas.Cipolla was held in local jail as a fugitive, according to The Guardian, before being transferred to Johnson County jail, where he posted a $12,500 bond and was released. Spirit…

Sam Altman’s blowtorch to his competitors is so hot, it even includes a new partnership with Amazon Web Services. As OpenAI announced two open-weight reasoning models with capabilities on par with its o-series, Amazon announced that the new models would become available on AWS on Tuesday. This is the first time that OpenAI models will be offered by AWS, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. They will be available as a model choice with Amazon AI services Bedrock and SageMaker AI. While anyone can download the models via Hugging Face, Amazon is offering these models with OpenAI’s full knowledge and approval,…

Facebook Tweet Email Link AP  —  Nigerian customs said they seized more than 1,600 parrots and canaries that were being transported from Lagos international airport to Kuwait without a permit, in one the biggest wildlife trafficking seizures in years. The seizure is a sign of positive change in the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking, as Nigeria is a major hub in the global trade in protected species, Mark Ofua, West Africa spokesperson for the international non-governmental organization Wild Africa, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Customs agents seized ring-necked parakeets and green and yellow fronted canaries, two protected species, at…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman charged with selling Matthew Perry the dose of ketamine that killed him is headed for a September trial.Jasveen Sangha’s trial — the only one forthcoming in the death of the “Friends” star after four other defendants reached plea agreements with prosecutors — is now set to begin Sept. 23 after an order Tuesday from a federal judge in Los Angeles.The 42-year-old Sangha, who prosecutors say was known to her customers as “The Ketamine Queen,” is charged with five counts of ketamine distribution, including one count of distribution resulting in death. She has pleaded not…

ALG Vacations has announced its highly anticipated “Save Now, Travel Anytime” promotion, running from August 1 through September 11, 2025. The comprehensive sale offers travel advisors significant savings opportunities to present to clients seeking future vacation bookings through 2026.Using the PAYINFULL12 promo code provides up to $550 off air and hotel packaged bookings when clients pay in full with a credit card. This substantial discount applies to travel through June 30, 2026, giving clients nearly two years of flexibility for their vacation planning. The sale encompasses an extensive range of destinations, including the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii, United States, Africa, Europe,…