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As we recognize those who serve our nation during Military Appreciation Month, we must also focus on a longstanding issue demanding urgent action: the scourge of veteran homelessness ...

1. CNN's Jake Tapper, who called Trump's presidency a 'nightmare,' tapped to moderate presidential debate  Fox News
2. Jen Psaki thinks Biden-Trump debate could collapse: 'I'm still a skeptic'  Fox News
3. ‘I’m just shocked’: CNN anchor on Trump’s agreement to debate Biden  CNN

Joshua Douglas’s sterling new book examines the most important Supreme Court cases on voting rights in the last 50 years and suggests ways we can correct this “hard turn toward anti-democracy.”

When we set out to rebuild the engine at the heart of our managed Apache Kafka service, we knew we needed to address several unique requirements that characterize successful cloud-native platforms. These systems must be multi-tenant from the ground up, scale easily to serve thousands of customers, and be managed largely by data-driven software rather than human operators. They should also provide strong isolation and security across customers with unpredictable workloads, in an environment in which engineers can continue to innovate rapidly.

In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on SEQUEL, a structured query language that could be used to manage and sort data. After a change in title due to another company’s copyright on the word SEQUEL, Structured Query Language (SQL) was taken up by database companies like Oracle alongside their new-fangled relational database products later in the 1970s. The rest, as they say, is history.

Some time ago I wrote about the work Microsoft was doing to improve the Azure APIs. That project delivered a set of automatically generated API definitions and SDKs, making it easier to link your applications to the cloud and to manage Azure services using code.

Java's equals() and hashcode() are two methods that work together to verify if two objects have the same value. You can use them to make object comparisons easy and efficient in your Java programs.

The Met Gala's display of modern "beauty" raises questions about what it means to be beautiful.

Monique Billings will lead the Los Angeles Sparks (0-1) into a road matchup with Chelsea Gray and the Las Vegas Aces (1-0) at Michelob (...)

Tottenham Hotspur take on Sheffield United in their final game of the 2023/24 season on Sunday and Ange Postecoglou will want to end his first...

Earlier this month, Donald Trump refused to commit to accepting the outcome of the 2024 election, shamelessly declaring he’d only do so “if everything’s honest.” Translation: He’ll only treat the outcome as valid if he wins. Infuriatingly, Trump has crucial backing for this project: Fox News and other MAGA propaganda outlets are already laying the groundwork to treat the outcome as illegitimate, should he lose. We talked to Matt Gertz of Media Matters, author of a new piece detailing how these... Читать дальше...

Alexander Puutio maintains that performance management relies on the belief that employee performance can be accurately and effectively measured. The problem is that it goes deeper than that.

Tools like Lex and WordTune can help with everything from copy editing to condensing down your text.

Tara Donovan’s new exhibition, ‘Stratagems,’ gives new use to a forgotten medium.

Emboldened by Crocs, every shoe brand seems to have an EVA sandal now. Can the industry ever break up with its favorite plastic?

Former President Barack Obama will headline a fundraiser next month to benefit Democratic Senate candidates as the party gears up to defend its slim majority.

“The Blue Wall is the path of least resistance to 270” electoral votes, one Democrat says.

EXCLUSIVE: Valentina is the self-crowned 'Brighton Findom Queen' – and it looks like she's certainly living up to her title with her heavy wallet thanks to cash-waving locals

The sooner you open a high-yield savings account, the longer you can enjoy high APYs.

VIRGIN Media O2 has reached a major milestone in its efforts to bring better 4G signal to patchy rural spots across the UK.

The Biden administration is ending a key exemption that allowed solar panel imports to evade tariffs. The administration is announcing on Thursday that it's ending an exemption to import tariffs for solar panels that are double-sided, noting that since the exception was implemented, nearly all solar panel imports have been two sided.  The move comes...