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Ready to hunt some enormous snakes? The Florida Python Challenge returns.

Ready to hunt some enormous snakes? The Florida Python Challenge returns.

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Florida’s war against the Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is still going strong, but you can do your part to battle one of the state’s most destructive invasive species. Earlier this week, Everglades National Park announced it is once again teaming up with local organizations for this year’s Florida Python Challenge. The task is straightforward enough: From July 10–19, participants are encouraged to trap and humanely dispatch as many snakes as possible. The pythons must then be deposited at one of the competition’s designated check stations within 24 hours, at which point they’re measured and added to the hunter’s overall tally. At the end of the 10 days, prizes are awarded to the participants who caught the most snakes and whoever bagged the longest serpents.  “Protecting Everglades National Park, one of the world’s most globally significant ecosystems, requires ongoing partnerships and community stewardship,” Everglades National Park superintendent Pedro Ramos said in a statement. “By engaging the public in science-based invasive …

Election Officials Are Getting Ready for ICE to Show Up at the Polls

Election Officials Are Getting Ready for ICE to Show Up at the Polls

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A week later, during the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting, now acting attorney general Todd Blanche endorsed the idea of ICE at the polls and repeated the conspiracy theory about noncitizens voting as an excuse to deploy ICE. “Why is there objection to sending ICE officers to polling places?” he asked. “Illegals can’t vote. It doesn’t make any sense.” When asked for comment regarding ICE being deployed to the polls, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said, “President Trump has been clear: Securing our elections and ensuring only American citizens vote in American elections is a top priority.” Similarly, a DHS spokesperson referred WIRED to Mullin’s comments, adding, “Elections exist for the American people, not illegal aliens, to choose their leaders.” Elections have, as specified by the US Constitution, always been run by the states, and despite Trump and his allies calling for elections to be “nationalized,” that will remain the case for the 2026 midterms. Deploying ICE, the National Guard, or any other armed federal agents to polling locations is illegal under US law. Political …

This Rugged P.F. Flyers Collab Is Ready for Summertime Adventure

This Rugged P.F. Flyers Collab Is Ready for Summertime Adventure

Published by Jenni Sidey

Saeed Ferguson knows what it means to start over. Last year, the visual artist and designer shuttered All Caps Studio, the art-meets-fashion project that helped turn him from a local shop kid into one of Philadelphia’s rising creative forces. And just as Ferguson’s reset was taking shape, he began having conversations with the legendary sneakermakers at P.F. Flyers. “For a designer, having a footwear project is a pivotal moment,” he says. “The shoe as a medium is sacred in a way.” Rather than ease into things, Ferguson decided to introduce his new label, Projeck Frog, and his first-ever sneaker collaboration all in one shot. The shoe is set to drop this weekend. Ferguson came up through Philly’s retail scene, spending nearly a decade at P’s & Q’s, the influential shop that became the city’s streetwear clubhouse. He began on the sales floor before eventually becoming the store’s manager and buyer. Meanwhile, he was photographing, filming, blogging, and slowly building All Caps Studio into a full-time creative practice. “Really, I’m a storyteller,” Ferguson says. What started …

Linux is incredible, but these 4 things will frustrate you if you’re not ready

Linux is incredible, but these 4 things will frustrate you if you’re not ready

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Switching from Windows to Linux is one of the best things I’ve done in 2026. I’ve genuinely loved the experience so far, with no ads, no random background junk, and far more control over privacy. But I have to be honest: telling someone to “just switch to Linux” is not enough advice to actually get started. There are a few things I feel everyone should know before making the switch. It’s not that these things would’ve stopped me from switching, but being aware of them beforehand would’ve made the transition way less frustrating. Related 5 programs you need to know about as a Linux user Linux is more than a backup OS, and these programs prove it. Not every Windows app has a proper Linux replacement Some workflows are harder to replace than others Screenshot by Raghav – NAR When people talk about switching to Linux, they love saying, “There’s an open-source alternative for everything.” Technically, that’s true, but it doesn’t always work. For instance, apps like Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Paint.NET, and ShareX …

Cannes 2026: Park Chan-wook and Demi Moore ready to judge festival contenders – arts24

Cannes 2026: Park Chan-wook and Demi Moore ready to judge festival contenders – arts24

Published by Sam Flores

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again arts24 © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 13/05/2026 – 17:36Modified: 13/05/2026 – 17:36 13:20 min From the show Reading time 1 min It’s Day 1 of the annual cinematic marathon for the Cannes  jury weighing up the features in competition for the Palme d’Or, with 22 films to consider. Critic Emma Jones tells us more about the members of director Park Chan-wook’s jury, and we discuss the first two competition screenings: “Nagi Notes” and “A Woman’s Life”, as well as the hotly anticipated features from Asghar Farhadi, Pedro Almodovar and Cristian Mungiu. Source link

Tribune MPs Ready To Fight For Burnham Inclusion If Streeting Runs

Tribune MPs Ready To Fight For Burnham Inclusion If Streeting Runs

Published by Sam Flores

31 March 2026 Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester outside Downing Street, London (Alamy) 4 min read2 hr Labour’s ‘soft left’ including senior members of the influential Tribune group of MPs will push the party’s ruling body to allow for Andy Burnham’s inclusion in a leadership race if one is triggered imminently, PoliticsHome understands. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has reportedly told allies that he is preparing to resign from government and announce his leadership challenge on Thursday. As a mayor and not an MP, Burnham would not be eligible to participate in a leadership race held so quickly. But PoliticsHome understands that senior soft left figures would nonetheless stick with their priority of allowing Burnham to run, instead of turning to Angela Rayner as their candidate. For it to unfold in this way, a sitting Labour MP would have to stand down, triggering a by-election, then Labour’s national executive committee (NEC) would have to allow Burnham to seek selection as the parliamentary candidate, and he would have to win the seat – all before …

Trump Ready To Raise “Core Of China’s Core Interests” In Xi Summit: Daily Schedule & What To Expect

Trump Ready To Raise “Core Of China’s Core Interests” In Xi Summit: Daily Schedule & What To Expect

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Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to raise the issue of increasingly costly US arms transfers to Taiwan during their bilateral summit at the end of this week, spanning Thursday through Friday. Taiwan of course remains the “core of China’s core interests” – as Beijing has in the recent past characterized the issue. While Trump officials have previewed that it will be focused on trade and investment, the White House too is reportedly placing Taiwan and regional geopolitical hot button issues on the agenda. “I’m going to have that discussion with President Xi,” Trump told reporters at the White House, specifically on the question of weapons sales. “President Xi would like us not to, and I’ll have that discussion. That’s one of the many things I’ll be talking about.” via Reuters Also there’s the looming question of the future of the Iran war and blockaded Strait of Hormuz. Currently there’s a stalemated situation and supposed ceasefire which is barely holding. By many accounts, Trump was hopeful that the Iran ‘excursion’ would be wrapped up by …

Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

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How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal looks at the rising popularity of dictation apps like Wispr, especially now that they can be connected to vibe coding tools, and what that might mean for office etiquette. One VC said that visiting startup offices now feels like stepping into a high-end call center. And Gusto co-founder Edward Kim is apparently telling his team that in the future, offices will sound “more like a sales floor.” (As someone still scarred from the time his desk was briefly relocated to a sales floor, let me say: Oh no.) Kim claimed that he only types now when he absolutely has to. But he admitted that constantly dictating in the office can be “just a little awkward.” Similarly, AI entrepreneur Mollie Amkraut Mueller said her husband became annoyed with her new habit of whispering to her computer, so their late-night work sessions now involve sitting apart, or “one of us will stay in …