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A fast-spreading wildfire in California’s wine country prompted mandatory evacuation orders as firefighters continued to battle the blaze from the ground and air into Monday.The Pickett Fire in Northern California’s Napa County has burned some 6,803 acres since it broke out Thursday, according to the latest update from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.As of midnight Sunday local time, the fire was 11% contained with some 615 structures at threat, CalFire said.Residents reacts as they look at smoke rising from the Pickett Fire in Napa County, California, U.S., August 22, 2025.Carlos Barria/ReutersThe fire broke out around 3 p.m.…

In a world increasingly driven by data, organizations must rely on robust, scalable, and secure platforms that underpin analytics, AI, and operational intelligence. Developing such platforms requires deep expertise in data engineering, modern cloud architectures, integration, API design, and domain-specific compliance. As a result, many businesses partner with specialized data platform development firms to build resilient infrastructures and accelerate time-to-insight. This article spotlights the best data platform development firms. We then explore four other leading firms across different markets and geographies, each offering unique strengths in data platform implementations. 1. Edenlab Edenlab, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, shines as a premier…

MINNEAPOLIS — MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ken Martin is in the fight of his life.The low-profile political operative from Minnesota, just six months on the job as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is charged with leading his party’s formal resistance to President Donald Trump and fixing the Democratic brand.“I think the greatest divide right now in our party, frankly, is not ideological,” Martin told The Associated Press. “The greatest divide is those people who are standing up and fighting and those who are sitting on the sidelines.”“We’re using every single lever of power we have to take the fight to…

BALTIMORE — BALTIMORE (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was expected Monday to report to U.S. immigration officials in Maryland as the Trump administration says it intends to deport the El Salvadoran national whose arrest and fight to stay in the country have become a flashpoint in the president’s immigration crackdown.The scheduled check-in at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Baltimore comes just days after the 30-year-old immigrant was released from a jail in Tennessee, where he had been detained since June after being brought back to the U.S. following his mistaken deportation to El Salvador.Immigration officials have said they…

Buenos Aires/Chicago: A case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite has been identified in a person in Maryland who had traveled to the United States from Guatemala, according to four sources familiar with the situation.The person, who received treatment in Maryland, is the first confirmed case in the U.S. of New World screwworm, a parasite that eats cattle and other warm-blooded animals alive, since an outbreak began to escalate and move northward from Central America and southern Mexico late last year. Beth Thompson, South Dakota’s state veterinarian, told Reuters on Sunday that she was notified of the case within the last…

Lucknow: The state govt’s vaccination campaigns have cut neonatal deaths over eight years, focusing on reaching all children, especially those who haven’t received any doses.Parth Sarathi Sen Sharma, principal secretary of health and family welfare, said that following the CM’s vision, steady decline in zero-dose children shows the combined efforts of the state health system, partner organizations, and the community.”Our goal is to ensure that no child is deprived of vaccination. From remote villages to urban settlements, vaccination services are being expanded to reach every family. Vaccines are the most powerful tool to secure a child’s life and future. The…

WASHINGTON — France has summoned the American ambassador to Paris after the diplomat, Charles Kushner, wrote a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron alleging the country did not do enough to combat antisemitism.France’s foreign ministry issued a statement Sunday announcing it had summoned Kushner to appear Monday at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and that his allegations “are unacceptable.”The White House and U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. The summoning of the ambassador is a formal and public notice of displeasure. Kushner, a real-estate developer, is the father of President Donald Trump’s…

A man was killed and four other people were injured when gunfire broke out on Saturday night at a New York City park where a large crowd had gathered for a basketball tournament, according to police.The gunfire erupted around 7:27 p.m. as multiple shooters opened fire inside Haffen Park in the Bronx, prompting the crowd on hand to scatter and seek cover, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).Officers responded to the park in the Baychester neighborhood of the Bronx after 911 callers reported multiple people had been shot, according to a statement from the NYPD.New York City police…

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is a purpose-built infrastructure for optimizing foundation model (FM) training and inference at scale. SageMaker HyperPod removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting involved in building and optimizing machine learning (ML) infrastructure for training FMs, reducing training time by up to 40%. SageMaker HyperPod offers persistent clusters with built-in resiliency, while also offering deep infrastructure control by allowing users to SSH into the underlying Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. It helps efficiently scale model development and deployment tasks such as training, fine-tuning, or inference across a cluster of hundreds or thousands of AI accelerators, while reducing the…

Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that Russia has made “significant concessions” in talks to end its war with Ukraine but didn’t rule out imposing more sanctions to pressure the Kremlin toward peace.In an interview aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Vance was asked if Russia is stringing President Donald Trump along, Vance said no and said the Russians have been “flexible” on some of its demands.”I think the Russians have made significant concessions to President Trump for the first time in 3 1/2 years of this conflict. They’ve actually been willing to be flexible on some of their…