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BILLINGS — William Grandhauser wears many hats: business owner, husband, father and world champion. Grundhauser has traveled across the United States competing and winning mixed martial arts and jiu-jitsu competitions, his most recent achievement being his victory at the prestigious Abu Dhabi Combat Club World Championships in Las Vegas last weekend. “I’ve probably won 120 MMA titles and national and world titles with my team,” Grundhauser said. “We are literally one of the best teams in the world.” MTN News He won his weight and age division, taking home the gold medal and adding to his winning tally. “I just…

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russia is continuing its offensive against Pokrovsk, carrying out around 60 strikes in the Pokrovsky district today.”Ukrainian defenders are doing everything in their power to hold their defense lines and positions,” it said.Here we look at why Russia considers the city of Pokrovsk a top priority target.CityPokrovsk was a road and railway hub with a pre-war population of 60,000.The town is on a main road used by Ukrainian forces to supply other fighting strongholds they hold, such as Khashiv Yar and Kostyantynivka in Donetsk Oblast.To the west of it are Ukraine’s largest coking coal…

It’s more of a domestic airport. A travel influencer has gone viral after sharing her experience flying through one of the world’s smallest airports. Rosie Palma, known online as @travelercolombia, posted a TikTok video documenting her day traveling through Colombia’s Hacaritama Airport. Rosie Palma, known online as @travelercolombia, posted a TikTok video of a day traveling at Colombia’s Jacarita Airport, where travelers can buy seats and snacks under a tree. TikTok/travelercolombia She told the Post that she made the video “to show the beauty in simplicity.” The tour begins with Palma approaching a tree providing shade for rows of chairs…

Actor, author and Christian activist Kirk Cameron announced that his second annual “Meet at the Library” event on Saturday drew a world record-breaking turnout.”In June, a drag queen story hour set a new world record, becoming the Guinness [World Records] “We recorded it with 260 people. We had 30,000 people watching 350 hours of storytelling and waving American flags, so it was just amazing,” Cameron told “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Pete Hegseth.”Guinness didn’t come, but yesterday we had the world’s largest story hour, ‘Meet Me in the Library,'” Cameron continued.Launched last year by Cameron and conservative publisher Brave Books,…

Ambitious artificial intelligence computing startup Cerebras Systems Inc. is upping the ante in its battle with Nvidia Corp., launching what it calls the world’s fastest AI inference service, now available in the cloud. AI inference refers to the process of running live data through a trained AI model to make a prediction or solve a task. Inference services are a mainstay of the AI ​​industry and, according to Cerebras, are also the fastest growing segment, currently accounting for approximately 40% of all AI workloads in the cloud. But existing AI inference services don’t seem to meet all customers’ needs. “There’s…

Former President Donald Trump, speaking at the National Guard Association’s annual conference in Detroit on Monday, told National Guard officers that the world faces unprecedented dangers and positioned himself as uniquely capable of thwarting the threats facing the United States.”I don’t think we’ve ever been closer to World War III than we are right now,” Trump said. He told the audience that serving as commander in chief had been the honor of his lifetime and called Harris an advocate of “endless wars” on the same day that her Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, supported President Joe Biden’s decision to…

LONDON (AP) — The rise in smallpox outbreaks in Africa that prompted the World Health Organization to declare a global emergency is largely due to decades of neglect and the international community’s failure to stop sporadic outbreaks among people with little immunity to a related disease, leading African scientists said Tuesday.According to Dr Dimier Ogoyena, chair of the WHO’s MPOX Emergency Committee, carelessness has allowed new, more contagious strains of the virus to emerge in countries with few resources to stop it spreading. Mpox, also known as monkeypox, spread largely undetected in Nigeria and elsewhere for years before becoming an…

Russia has said Western countries are playing with fire by considering allowing Ukraine to attack Russian soil with Western missiles and has warned the United States that World War III will not be limited to Europe.Ukraine attacked Russia’s western Kursk region on August 6, seizing swaths of territory in the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War II. President Vladimir Putin said Russia would respond accordingly.Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who served as foreign minister under Putin for more than two decades, said Western countries were seeking to escalate the war in Ukraine and were “asking for trouble” by considering…

Off-Broadway News: Full cast announced for world premiere of Jordan E. Cooper’s “Oh Happy Day!” The Baltimore Center Stage production is a co-production with Off-Broadway’s Public Theater. Jordan E. Cooper Tricia Baron Baltimore Center Stage has announced the full cast of its upcoming world premiere of Jordan E. Cooper’s “Oh Happy Day!” (a co-production with Off-Broadway’s Public Theater). BCS Artistic Director Stevie Walker Webb will helm the production, reteaming Cooper with her previous work on “Ain’t No Mo'” both Off-Broadway and at the Main Stem. Performances run from September 19 through October 13, with opening night on September 27. As…

British rock band OASIS have ended years of feverish speculation by confirming the UK and Ireland dates for the long-awaited domestic leg of their “Oasis Live ’25” world tour. OASIS will play Cardiff, Manchester, London, Edinburgh and Dublin in the summer of 2025. The show, which will be the band’s only European show next year, is shaping up to be one of their biggest and most sought-after live events of the decade.”The guns have fallen silent, the stars have aligned, and the long wait is over. Come see us! It won’t be televised,” OASIS said in a statement.Oasis Live ’25…