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Nebraska motel assault; Royal Navy’s laser‑mannered shadowing in the Dover Strait; Europe side‑eyes U.S. peace push; Rhys stuns in Cardiff; Mozilla’s polite TABS intern
Nebraska: Motel assault leaves two hospitalized, suspect arrested
Deputies in York County say a 49-year-old man allegedly attacked a 53-year-old outside the Sun Motel in Henderson late on Nov. 14, striking him multiple times with a hammer until it broke, then continuing with a fire extinguisher. A 78-year-old man was also injured. Both victims were hospitalized. Investigators recovered a broken hammer and a fire extinguisher from a pickup. The suspect was arrested on charges including second-degree assault and terroristic threats, is held on 200,000 dollars bond, and has a court date Wednesday. No motive has been disclosed.
Royal Navy shadows Russian ships through the Dover Strait, with a side of laser etiquette
HMS Severn escorted the corvette Stoikiy and tanker Yelnya through the Dover Strait before handing them off to a NATO partner near Brittany, part of a reported 30 percent rise in Russian naval snooping near UK waters over two years. Meanwhile, the Russian research ship Yantar, known for mapping undersea cables, reportedly used a laser device against a British P-8 crew. No injuries or damage, just Moscow’s idea of charm school. Yantar is currently north of Scotland and under watch by HMS Somerset and RAF P-8s. London’s message is simple: enjoy the scenery, do not touch the cables.
Europe raises eyebrows at U.S. Russia-Ukraine peace push, Washington stays upbeat
European leaders are questioning the U.S. approach to talks on a Russia-Ukraine settlement, while Senator Marco Rubio called recent discussions in Switzerland the most productive and meaningful so far. Translation: the U.S. supplied the adjectives, Europe supplied the skepticism. Optimism and caution continue to share a conference table, and for once the coffee is neutral.
Stage: Matthew Rhys in Playing Burton delivers a sober stunner in Cardiff
Returning to the stage after 16 years, Matthew Rhys gives a blistering one-man performance as Richard Burton in Mark Jenkins’ 1994 play at the Reardon Smith, directed with elegant restraint by Bartlett Sher. With little more than a table, a chair, a phone, and a battered Shakespeare, Rhys channels a gallery of voices and a lifetime of bravado lacquered over self-doubt. It doubles as a fundraiser for the budding Welsh National Theatre, which Rhys and Michael Sheen champion. Verdict: mesmerizing, one Welsh titan saluting another, and for once the hype does the drinking while the performance stays sober.
Mozilla debuts TABS API, a polite robot intern for your browser
Mozilla launched a web automation toolkit that lets AI agents click, scroll, search, and submit forms with real-time feedback and adaptive behavior. Bring your own model, since it ships without a Mozilla LLM. Early access includes a free tier of 1,000 requests per month, with tentative pricing of about 5 dollars per additional 1,000 and paid tiers promising lower latency and, in a delicious twist of irony, CAPTCHA solving so bots can prove they are not bots. Mozilla is late to a party hosted by Google and OpenAI, but is betting on privacy, touting data minimization and ephemeral handling of scraped content, plus integration with its AI browsing mode groundwork in Firefox 145.
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