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The U.S. relationship with Colombia was fraying.Just five months ago, President Trump threatened military action against the country. He called its leftist president “a sick man,” accusing him of “running cocaine factories.” And the decades-old alliance with Latin America’s third most populous country — a pivotal player in the U.S. antidrug war — briefly seemed on the verge of unraveling.Then came Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia.With the apparent victory of Abelardo De La Espriella, a Trump-endorsed, right-wing outsider who has vowed to destroy narcotraffickers with military might, Colombia is poised to vault solidly back into Mr. Trump’s good graces.Mr. De…

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Startup Odyssey has secured a Series B funding round of $310 million. The Palo Alto-based AI lab is one of a growing number of companies developing world models, which are trained to learn how the physical world works.The round valued the company at 1.45 billion and was led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, the CIA-associated IQT fund and GV (Google Ventures). Other investors included Jeff Dean; Google’s chief scientist, Qasar Younis, founder of autonomous vehicle company Applied Intuition; and Kyle Vogt, who headed up General Motors’ robotaxi subsidiary, Cruise.Many see world models as the next step in…

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Besides medications and medical procedures, you can lessen your pain with physical therapy and other noninvasive treatments.[8] “Using physical therapy and encouraging activity is extremely important to assist and improve joint pain or instability around joints due to weakened muscles as well as prevent or improve pain from immobility,” says Hurst.Physical and Occupational TherapyPhysical therapy can help you prevent muscle weakness and stiffness, which can cause even more pain.[11] Occupational and physical therapists also offer desensitization therapy, which retrains how your brain manages pain messages.[12]During this treatment, your therapist may place a warm or cold pack on the painful area and gradually…

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Trees planted along farmland to shield crops from strong winds are often viewed as a simple way to support biodiversity. But new research suggests the picture is more complicated, especially in agricultural wetlands where many bird species depend on open landscapes. A team of researchers studying farmland wetlands on the western coast of central Japan found that shelterbelts, rows of trees planted as windbreaks, do not benefit all birds equally. While they provide habitat for some species, they can also reduce the abundance and diversity of birds that rely on open grassland and wetland environments. The findings were published in…

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Ricky Gervais‘ spirit animal is undoubtedly a cat. He’s used that to conjure up new Netflix adult animated comedy series Alley Cats. Alley Cats follows “a group of feral British cats from all walks of society, who seek companionship while ruminating on everyday life,” its synopsis reads. “From the funny to the absurd, the series is packed with Gervais’ signature style of heart and social commentary that audiences have come to expect.” The standout piece of Alley Cats thus far is its tagline: “Nine lives, zero fucks.” You simply can’t do better. Each of the six Alley Cats episodes are…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! CHICAGO – A man who has lived on Chicago’s South Side for 18 years and now lives in the shadow of the newly opened Barack Obama Presidential Center described to Fox News Digital the havoc he says the years-long construction project wreaked on his housing complex.Akoma Amanze is a local cab driver who lives in Jackson Park Terrace, a low-income housing community directly across the street from the 19.3 acre campus dedicated to the 44th president.Over the weekend, while thousands of people from across the country — celebrities and ordinary folks alike —…

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President Donald Trump slammed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni again on Sunday, accusing her of refusing to support the U.S. military after he unilaterally waged war against Iran.In a Truth Social post that did not mention her by name but by her job title, Trump wrote: “After spending Trillions of Dollars on NATO, Italy, and its Prime Minister, wouldn’t even think of becoming involved with the Islamic Republic of Iran and their very serious Nuclear Threat. For decades, we defend them but, when tested, they are not there to defend us, and the rest of the World. Not good!”A spat…

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The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit group chartered by Congress, has a new leader.Brent Leggs, 53, who has risen in the ranks during more than two decades at the organization, becomes president and chief executive on Monday, its board of trustees has announced. In taking the reins from Carol Quillen, who is leaving for family reasons, Leggs becomes the 11th leader of the trust since it was formed in 1949 to help safeguard historically and culturally significant U.S. sites, buildings and objects.The trust has been in the news recently for the lawsuit it filed in federal court, seeking…

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This article is an on-site version of our Trade Secrets newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Monday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersThere were two important (well, big) meetings last week, the G7 summit in France and an EU member states summit in Brussels. Neither showed much consensus. The first revealed a lack of confidence (wisely, in my view) in a US proposal to manage critical minerals supply, emanating from a president who tried to annex Greenland for its rare earths. The other, as I predicted last…

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