📌 The Debate, Cyber-Attacks, More

Presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are deep in preparations for Tuesday's debate in Philadelphia.

Polls show a tightening race with no clear leader, and the debate could be critical in turning the contest the first time the two will face off onstage.

Trump said at a Wisconsin rally that the country is run by "stupid people" and that we “found that out at the debate with Joe (Biden).” The former president predicted that pundits would say he lost the debate, even "if I destroy her."

Hawkish former Vice President Dick Cheney has taken the unusual step of endorsing Harris, calling Trump a "historic threat to our republic.” Cheney is also the father of former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., whom Trump shunned when she would not support him.

Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned that Russian military intelligence is behind a series of cyber-attacks.

The Bundesverfassungsschutz (BfV) said the attacks were carried out by Russian military intelligence's (GRU) Unit 29155. The warning comes amid increased fears of suspected Russian hackers and spies since Russia's war on Ukraine.

The BfV said in a social media post on Monday that the attacks involved espionage, sabotage, defacing websites and publishing stolen data.

In its advisory, the agency said targets included critical infrastructure as well as government agencies and companies in the financial, transport, energy and health sectors.

BfV said the primary intention of this group appeared to be to look for and disrupt aid deliveries to Ukraine. It added it was issuing the warning alongside the FBI, the US cyber-security agency (CISA) and other international partners.

A Miami police officer was placed on administrative duties after detaining Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill on Sunday.

Hill was due to open his team's NFL season against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Videos posted on social media showed him face down on the ground as four officers placed his hands behind his back and appeared to put handcuffs on him beside a vehicle.

Hill was reportedly detained for an alleged traffic violation while entering Hard Rock Stadium. He was released shortly after and still played in his team's game.

Hill's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, said: ”There's no reason why Tyreek should have been treated that way," said Rosenhaus. "This shouldn't happen to a player entering his own stadium."

AI lobbyists are trying to persuade Washington the fears around AI are overblown.

Lobbyists are hosting events across the capital and focusing on educating members of Congress, casting themselves as a resource for information on the changing industry.

Varun Krovi, a technology lobbyist, said the educational campaign is effective. “[We] are actually taking a step back and saying we are here to answer any technical questions you may have, and here is why you should listen to us. It is incredibly powerful.”

Academia and nonprofits that provide nonpartisan research and analysis on issues from AI deployment to the threat it represents to society cannot keep up with technological developments.

Max Tegmark, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, said it’s difficult for academia to keep up with the lobbying. “You feel a little bit like you are trying to explain something to someone else in the front row of a heavy metal concert.”

The uncrewed Boeing Starliner landed in New Mexico late Friday after departing six hours earlier from the International Space Station.

The capsule left behind two astronauts — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — who must now remain in the station until February for a return home on a SpaceX capsule.

NASA decided problems with Starliner's thrusters and leaking helium made it too risky to return with humans. Three parachutes and thrusters slowed the craft, and airbags were deployed.

Ground crews welcomed the capsule with plans to return it to Florida, where it launched on June 6. Starliner is the first US-made capsule to land on the ground instead of splashing in the ocean.

The Paralympic Games ended with a spectacular light show and dance party, capping a final day that saw two world records fall.

Morocco’s Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi smashed the world record in the women’s marathon for visually impaired runners. El Idrissi finished in 2 hours, 48 minutes and 36 seconds, beating the previous record by nearly six minutes.

Nigeria’s Folashade Oluwafemiayo broke her own world record in women’s para powerlifting. China topped the Paralympics medal table with 94 golds, the UK was second with 49, and the US third with 36. China has finished top of the medal table at every Paralympics since Athens in 2004.

More than 4,400 athletes from 168 Paralympic delegations partied to the best of French electronic dance music during Sunday's closing ceremony despite the rain.

A Colombian court says hippo numbers must drop, introduced into the country in the 1980s by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

After Escobar's death in 1993, hippos from his private zoo escaped into nature in an area of abundant vegetation where there were no predators, and they were able to reproduce, creating what is today their largest population outside Africa.

Starting from just four hippos Escobar smuggled in, there are now some 166 of the two-tonne beasts wandering freely, with authorities remaining unsuccessful in curbing their numbers over the past two decades.

Attacks on fishermen have been reported on the Magdalena River, and experts argue manatee populations could be threatened.

The Administrative Court of Cundinamarca set a three-month deadline for the Ministry of Environment to issue a regulation that could include "controlled hunting and sterilization.”