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CULIACÁN, Mexico—In this steamy city that is home to the world’s largest fentanyl smuggling organization, the stunning capture of Sinaloa cartel patriarch Ismael “El Mayo" Zambada risks sparking a bloodbath that is likely to reverberate on the streets of the U.S. The once powerful Zambada said he was betrayed by the son of his longtime associate Joaquín “El Chapo" Guzmán. Now, many fear an open war between the two first families of the Sinaloa cartel.

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Trump reportedly has used a slur often targeted at women to describe Vice President Kamala Harris during at least two private conversations. His campaign denies it. The New York Times cited two people who, on different occasions, heard Trump call Harris a «b--.» The people were granted anonymity to describe private discussions. In response, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said, «That is not language President Trump has used to describe Kamala and it's not how the campaign would characterize her.» Trump, a Republican, has a history of making derogatory statements about women and his political opponents. He has called Harris, the Democrats' presidential candidate, and other women, including 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, «nasty,» and he bragged about grabbing women's genitalia in the infamous «Access Hollywood» tape.

Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has said that he was ambushed and kidnapped when he thought he was going to meet the governor of the northern state of Sinaloa

A small brand safety initiative is ceasing operations — days after being targeted by social media platform X in a lawsuit alleging the group helped coordinate a “massive advertiser boycott” after billionaire Elon Musk bought the company in 2022

The union that represents train engineers says Union Pacific is holding back on its promises to make their schedules more predictable

Micron, Dell and HP, finding that the decisions could stand even though the attorney who represented the tech companies later became the office's director. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the companies' adversary in the USPTO case, patent owner Unification Technologies, had not shown that Kathi Vidal's previous participation in the case influenced the administrative judges who invalidated its patents. Unification's lead attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision. Micron, Dell and HP's attorney Linda Coberly of Winston & Strawn and a USPTO spokesperson declined to comment. Unification sued Micron, Dell and HP for infringing the patents, which relate to managing and deleting data in memory chips, in Texas federal court in 2020. The HP and Dell cases have since been dismissed, while the Micron case is ongoing. The tech companies — represented by Vidal, then a partner at Winston & Strawn — asked the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to invalidate the patents later that year. President Joe Biden nominated Vidal to head the office in 2021 and she was confirmed in 2022, after which she recused herself from the case.

Mass Deportation Now!" declared the signs at the Republican National Convention, giving a full embrace to Donald Trump's pledge to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in American history. Some Republicans aren't quite ready for that. Lauren B. Pena, a Republican activist from Texas, said that hearing Trump's calls for mass deportations, as well as terms like «illegals» and «invasion» thrown around at the convention, made her feel uncomfortable. Like some Republicans in Congress who have advanced balanced approaches to immigration, she hopes Trump is just blustering.

Chevron Chairman & CEO Mike Wirth sits down with FOX Business Maria Bartiromo to discuss Americas energy agenda, the demand for data centers and the regulatory environment.

Oil prices edged higher on Thursday for the third straight session after government data showed a steep draw in U.S. crude stockpiles, rebounding from multi-month lows touched this week. Brent crude futures rose 23 cents, or 0.3%, at $78.56 a barrel by 0017 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude gained 29 cents, or 0.4%, to $75.52.

Federal safety authorities say they are seeking information on a crash and fire involving a Tesla Cybertruck that killed a driver of the futuristic new pickup

Day passes to resorts and hotels really took off during the pandemic and have remained popular

A «massive advertiser boycott» allegedly deprived X of billions of dollars.

“We are getting leaner,” sales executives Bill Scannell and John Byrne wrote Monday in a memo to Dell employees. “We’re streamlining layers of management and reprioritizing where we invest.” In addition to the AI-focused team, the executives said the company will change how data center sales are approached. Also read: Return of pink slips? Intel, Microsoft, Tinder parent Match hit by layoffs

A Texas family of four is still missing after their boat capsized and sank off the coast of Alaska on Saturday while they were on a family vacation. The U.S. Coast Guard searched throughout the weekend for the family but suspended its search mission on Sunday evening after finding no sign of the missing four.

Chicago Med" adds Sarah Ramos and Darren Barnet as series regulars for Season 10. They join the cast as Dr. Caitlin Lenox and Dr. John Frost, respectively.

Carson Group is on the move again as it adds a Texas-headquartered planning firm to its network of partnerships.

Briefing occurred Tuesday in Renton, Washington, detailing «defect» from supplier.

The slump in private equity returns has increasingly pushed US pensions and endowments to lean on an old and familiar investment: Stocks.

Johnson Space Center, a Houston-area church takes a moment during Wednesday Bible studies and Sunday evening services to pray for two members who cannot be there. In fact, there's no way on Earth for NASA astronauts Barry «Butch» Wilmore and Tracy Dyson to show up at Providence Baptist Church. They're in space, orbiting the planet. More specifically, these two members are working on the International Space Station together. Like many astronauts before them, they brought along their faith when they launched into space. «God uses all of us in pretty neat ways, and I think I get the most joy from what I do thinking about it in those terms,» said Dyson, discussing her job on the «Bible Project» podcast ahead of her March launch on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.