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It turns out that even San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who once declared that the city should be a testbed for emerging tech, has his limits. Especially when that emerging tech creates a massive hours-long traffic jam that leaves thousands at a standstill. Mayor Lurie has asked state regulators to bolster rules for autonomous vehicles nearly two weeks after Waymo robotaxis became immobile in heavy July 4 traffic, ran out of power, and blocked key streets, further compounding the gridlock. The traffic jam, which trapped municipal shuttles, became a citywide problem that affected thousands of people. In his letter to…

The Mexican Navy’s training ship Cuauhtémoc set sail from Acapulco on Wednesday, returning to the seas for the first time since last year’s tragic accident in Brooklyn, New York, that claimed the lives lof two young cadets. The Cuauhtémoc Sailing Training Ship began a three-month “North Pacific” cruise, bound for various ports in the United States and Canada. As Navy Minister Admiral Raymundo Pedro Morales reminded the cadets on board the Cuauhtémoc, the new voyage will “finish forging your mettle, audacity and leadership as officers.”(Secretaría de Marina) Among the ports the Cuauhtémoc — a Class A sail training vessel, also…

Adam W posted two flag emojis and a hashtag on Instagram, and the football world responded with close to one million likes. The caption couldn’t be more stripped down. An England flag, an Argentine flag, and the hashtag #WorldCup. No prediction, no take, and no image. But that was enough. These two nations at a World Cup need no introduction. England vs Argentina is one of the most superhero-rivalry-coded matchups in sport. This one has genuine lore. Heroes and villains switch based entirely on which jersey you’re wearing. The grudge runs deep. The big moments get retold for generations. That’s…

The Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee unanimously on Wednesday, a move that many healthcare advocates are applauding. Reps. Ami Bera (D-California), Mike Kelly (R-Pennsylvania), Suzan DelBene (D-Washington) and John Joyce (R-Pennsylvania) introduced the bill. Senators Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Mark Warner (D-Virginia) introduced a companion bill in the Senate, though it has not yet advanced out of committee. The Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act affects prior authorization in Medicare Advantage by requiring standard requests to be completed in seven days and urgent requests to be completed within…

Time-lapse video has captured the growth and smoky conditions of the wildfire burning near Pemberton, B.C. The fire has placed the Village of Pemberton on evacuation alert and is 38 hectares in size as of Thursday afternoon. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story. It is also producing heavy smoke visible from the highway and the village.The time-lapse footage was taken on July 16 and captures the white billowing smoke and shows how close the fire is to the village. The evacuation alert was issued…

Connor McDavid (Brian Murphy, All-Pro Reels/Wikimedia Commons) For the fourth time in his career, Edmonton Oilers centre Connor McDavid of Richmond Hill, Ontario has won the ESPY Award for the best National Hockey League player. McDavid previously won the award in 2022, 2023 and 2024. McDavid has now won the second most ESPY Awards for the best National Hockey League player. He is only behind Canadian Olympic gold medalist Sidney Crosby of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. Crosby, who won a gold medal for Team Canada in men’s hockey at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2014 Olympic…

A freight train accident occurred on the Interoceanic Railroad in southern Mexico on Tuesday night less than seven months after a passenger train derailment on the same line in which 14 people were killed. No one was injured in the latest accident, according to the Ministry of the Navy (Semar) and the government agency directly responsible for the railroad that connects Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, on Mexico’s Pacific coast to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, on the Gulf coast. The accident — widely reported as a derailment — occurred on Line Z, as the railroad is called, in the municipality of Asunción Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca.…

The staff member allegedly made over $100,000 on Kalshi. John Moore/Getty Images Gabriel Perez, President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator, has been placed on administrative leave after it was discovered he bet on dozens of the President’s speeches on Kalshi, ABC News reports. Officials from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the body that currently oversees betting platforms like Kalshi, are reportedly willing to settle with Perez if he returns his winnings. Perez allegedly made more than $100,000 betting on the length of President Trump’s speeches, including the State of the Union address, a speech at the World…

SpaceX abruptly aborted the second attempted launch of its upgraded Starship rocket system on Thursday, just moments after the booster ignited at the company’s complex in South Texas. CEO Elon Musk said on his social media platform X that “[s]ome of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort” and that the company will replace two of them. SpaceX won’t try to launch Starship again until next week, he wrote. SpaceX was hoping to launch its first third-generation Starlink satellites into space — although they are supposed to burn up around 20 minutes after deployment, as Starship has not…

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