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DES MOINES, Iowa — Republicans were retreating Tuesday from a handful of battleground U.S. House races while Democrats were racing to raise money to boost candidates who seemed like long shots earlier this year.The Congressional Leadership Fund, the leading House Republican super PAC, canceled spending in four races from the Midwest to the East Coast and increased its investment in 16 other races from Texas to Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Democrats’ House campaign committee is eyeing openings in Republican-held districts and hoping to raise millions of dollars in the next week to fuel a late round of advertising that they say could…

The intensifying war in the Middle East threatens to further strain a weary energy industry that has already endured waves of disruptions and could test a market resilience built on a series of extraordinary government and private-sector measures.Over the weekend, the Iranian-backed Houthi militia attacked an international airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, including one strike that killed at least 12 people and injured hundreds. It was the deadliest attack in a Gulf Arab country since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began in February and brought the war to the center of the Middle East’s oil industry.The attack forced the…

Legacy system reverse engineering is a prerequisite problem. Before you can modernize, migrate, or even make a confident decision about what to do with an aging system, you need to understand what’s actually in it.That sounds obvious. In practice it’s where most legacy programs underinvest. Organizations skip straight to modernization planning, make architecture decisions based on assumptions about what the system does, and then discover mid-program that the assumptions were wrong. The undocumented business rule. The dependency nobody mapped. The batch job timing that everything downstream depends on without anyone realizing it.Legacy system reverse engineering done properly eliminates those surprises…

The key evidence in the case were Davis’ own words, in which he repeatedly and publicly acknowledged being inside the white Cadillac from where the deadly shots were fired.In exchange for being shielded from criminal prosecution, he told authorities about his role in Shakur’s death during a secret 2008 police interview relating to the death of fellow rapper Notorious B.I.G., real name Christopher Wallace, who was killed in a shooting just months after Shakur. Davis elaborated further on his role in his 2019 memoir, Compton Street Legend, which led to publicity and media interviews. But the book and interviews he…

SoFi Stadium (Inglewood, California) — Los Angeles Rams long snapper Joe Cardona silently looked on from near his locker while teammate Harrison Mevis stood in front of a throng of reporters and publicly accepted blame for their team’s latest shortcoming, a 37-34 overtime loss to the Buffalo Bills, in which edge rusher Greg Rousseau blocked what would have been a game-winning kick for “The Thiccer Kicker.”Instead, the Rams, anointed a “Super Team” this offseason nationally after making blockbuster trades for Myles Garrett and Trent McDuffie, along with the return from retirement of Aaron Donald, must dig themselves out of a…

Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday barred the Trump administration from removing trees at East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C., for another two weeks after hundreds of trees were felled at the historic public course over the weekend.U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said in a brief order that the Department of the Interior and National Park Service may not cut down any further trees at East Potomac through Oct. 26. She also said that through that date, the Trump administration must provide the court and plaintiffs, the D.C. Preservation League and two local golfers, with three business days’…

He also notes at DBS forum with the bank’s CEO Tan Su Shan how firms can manage AI’s impact on jobs and operations  [SINGAPORE] For South-east Asia to continue attracting investments, the challenge lies in bringing Asean together as a single market, while encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation, said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.“We really have to harness the benefits of a single market, which we don’t have today,” he said.PM Wong was speaking at a dialogue with DBS CEO Tan Su Shan at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference held at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre on Monday (Oct…

The Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are the big new releases, but the Apple Watch SE 3 is still a great buy if you’re looking for Apple Watch features on a budget. And it’s even better value right now, with the 40mm model on sale for just $199.99. This Apple Watch normally sells for around $249, making this a $49 discount compared to the original asking price. The best savings apply to the Starlight aluminum model with a Sand Sport Band, but there are smaller savings to be had on the other configurations. No matter which…

There’s been a flood of genAI gaming projects this month. Look into a few projects and your feed will soon become inundated with vibe-coded ports, mash-ups, mods, and homebrew features. Plenty of it is fake. Much of it is busted. But it’s not all junk. Some of it actually works. It’s not clear where it’s all headed, but Microsoft is reacting faster than usual and planting its flag in an emerging scene of genAI gaming stuff. It announced a new initiative called Xbox Labs and it did so without directly mentioning artificial intelligence, or even super intelligence for that matter,…

The Milwaukee Brewers had Los Angeles Dodgers superstar right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the ropes, and Christian Yelich did the honors.Following a remarkable 12-pitch walk from Brewers first baseman Jake Bauers that loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the third inning of Game 2 of the NLCS, DH Yelich smacked a two-run single to center field, which gave Milwaukee the lead. It also resulted in Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulling Yamamoto, who had thrown 74 pitches.The Brewers went on to win the game, 7-4, taking a 2-0 series lead on the Dodgers.  “I was preparing on deck…