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After a week of ICE raids, the Democrat-dominated City Council of Danbury, Connecticut, voted nearly unanimously to approve non-citizen legal residents serving as police officers. Under the new guidance, approved in an 18-2 vote, non-citizen legal residents and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients living in Danbury are allowed to serve as police officers in Danbury. One city council member, Democrat Joe Britton, remarked that the vote "sends a message to our immigrant community at large that you are welcome in Danbury." ICE operations in the area resulted in more than 60 arrests, according to local reports. The arrests prompted public outrage in the community, including from city officials such as Britton, who called the raids "frightening." BORDER CZAR TOM HOMAN FIRES BACK AFTER DEMOCRAT CHRIS MURPHY CLAIMS ICE IS ‘TERRORIZING LITTLE KIDS’ The only two council members to vote against the measure were Republicans, while the council’s 17 Democra...

Celia Ford / Transformer : OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model   —  OpenAI is hailing its new model as “the world's most intelligent and aligned”, but the details reveal an awareness of being evaluated …

Hayden Field / The Verge : OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says it is a “generational leap” and “we are now in the AGI era”   —  OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra.  The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” …

Ina Fried / Axios : Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as Spark 1.2   —  Meta on Wednesday released Muse Spark 1.3, an update it says significantly improves performance in coding and agentic tasks.

DETROIT — A propaganda newspaper that once accepted a massive grant from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation falsely described beleaguered leftist Michigan U.S. Senate candidate as a veteran, according to a copy of that paper obtained by Fox News Digital. " El-Sayed — veteran, doctor, and former health official — is Democratic Senate pick," reads a headline in the August 2026 edition of The Michigan Independent. The papers were distributed in Michigan, and photos of the headline made the rounds on social media last week. The breadth of the paper's circulation is unclear, but Fox News Digital obtained a physical copy in Michigan. LIZ PEEK: MICHIGAN CAN STOP THE SOCIALIST FEVER RAGE — OR WATCH IT SWALLOW THE SENATE The purportedly independent paper circulating in Michigan has a Washington, D.C. non-profit's name and address — The American Independent Foundation at 800 Maine Ave SW — emblazoned in the bottom left corner of the front cover. As it turns out, the papers ...

Bloomberg : Uber is shutting down services in Nigeria and Uganda from September 2 after a global review of its operations; it launched in Nigeria in 2014 and Uganda in 2016   —  US ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. is shutting down its services in Nigeria and Uganda from September 2, following a global review of its operations.

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt   —  Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million …