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10,000 Excess Deaths During June European Heatwave, Official Data Show Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times, More than 10,000 excess deaths were reported across Europe during the recent heatwave that baked the west of the continent in late June, official data showed on June 13. A man cools himself during a heatwave in Chamonix, France, on June 25, 2026. Reuters/Pierre Albouy More than 9,000 of those who passed away were aged 65 and above, according to European Monitoring of Excess Mortality for Public Health Action (EuroMOMO), a continent-wide mortality monitoring network...

US To Resume Mexican Cattle Imports After Yearlong Screwworm Ban Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The United States said on Friday it will end a ban on imports of Mexican cattle implemented more than a year ago to combat the New World screwworm (NWS), a flesh-eating livestock pest that has already made it into Texas and New Mexico. Cattle are herded in a stable in Hamilton, Texas, on June 5, 2026. Brandon Bell/Getty Images In its announcement, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it would coordinate a phased reopening...

China's DeepSeek Debuts Flagship AI Model As Compute Race Intensifies Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has launched a preview version of its long-awaited V4 model, ending months of silence from one of China's most closely watched AI labs and arriving a year after its R1 release sparked U.S. market turmoil and concerns across Silicon Valley AI firms. The rollout signals that DeepSeek is full steam ahead in the frontier-model race: DeepSeek-V4 Preview is officially live & open-sourced! Welcome to the era of cost-effective 1M context length. DeepSeek-V4-Pro: 1.6T total / 49B active params. Performance...