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Light Phone Is Making Its Dumb Phone More Useful With Third-Party ‘Tools’
Wired

A new developer program for LightOS allows anyone to create tools for the Light Phone, whether that’s a local public transit app for your city or a way to read ebooks.

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Escaped tiger shot by German police after attacking man
BBC News

The tiger escaped a facility owned by local trainer Carmen Zander, also known as Germany's "Tiger Queen", according to local media reports.

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Minnesota Becomes First State to Ban Prediction Markets, Feds Immediately Sue
Gizmodo.com

The CFTC has sued several states that have tried to regulate prediction markets at the local level.

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Two women die trying to cross Channel in small boat
BBC News

The boat, carrying 82 people, ran aground on a beach in northern France, says local official.

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Wildfire tears through hundreds of acres in Arizona
BBC News

Firefighters were tackling the blaze that local officials estimated to stretch 558 acres (2.3 sq km).

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How the winner-takes-all voting system has turned on Labour and the Tories
BBC News

The first-past-the-post system favoured Reform in this English local elections

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Palestinians in West Bank and some in Gaza vote in local elections
BBC News

Local elections are held in the occupied West Bank and in one Gazan city, though Hamas and other groups are not taking part.

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Zack Polanski did not vote in local elections, Green Party says
BBC News

The Green Party leader previously told Hackney mayoral candidate Zoë Garbett "you have my vote".

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Georgia Data Center Secretly Guzzled 30 Million Gallons of Water Before Paying a Dime
Gizmodo.com

Local residents complained of low water pressure. When the county utility investigated, it realized a data center had been draining the water system for months without paying.

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Newscast
BBC News

Reform UK gains and Labour losses in the early English local election results.