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AI and the 2024 Elections
2024-12-04T12:09:23Z

It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepfakes and artificial intelligence-generated misinformation would overwhelm the democratic processes. As 2024 draws to a close, it’s instructive to take stock of how democracy did.

In a Pew survey of Americans from earlier this fall, nearly eight times as many respondents expected AI to be used for mostly bad purposes...

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Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
2024-12-03T12:00:47Z

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more inclusive. AI avatars were used by presidential candidates in South Korea in electioneering, enabling them to provide answers to thousands of voters’ questions simultaneously. We are also starting to see AI tools aid fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts. AI techniques are starting to augment more traditional polling methods, helping campaigns get cheaper and faster data. And congressional candidates have started using AI robocallers to engage voters on issues. In 2025, these trends will continue. AI doesn’t need to be superior to human experts to augment the labor of an overworked canvasser, or to write ad copy similar to that of a junior campaign staffer or volunteer. Politics is competitive, and any technology that can bestow an advantage, or even just garner attention, will be used...

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Paraguay kicks out Chinese envoy after he urges country to cut ties with Taiwan
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:51:33 GMT

Officials declare Xu Wei persona non grata after he asks Paraguay government to choose China over longtime ally

Paraguay has expelled a Chinese envoy for allegedly interfering in its domestic affairs and urging the South American nation to break off ties with Taiwan.

In a curt statement on Thursday, Paraguay’s foreign ministry said it had revoked the visa of Xu Wei, a senior Chinese envoy to Latin America who was in Paraguay for an annual Unesco meeting, declaring him persona non grata “over interference in internal affairs”. The Chinese diplomat was given 24 hours to leave the country.

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Tamils arriving in UK after three years stranded on Diego Garcia speak of relief
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:06:23 GMT

Lawyers and campaigners hail removal of 47 people from remote Indian Ocean island as ‘a big day for justice’

Dozens of people stranded in hellish conditions for more than three years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia have arrived in the UK and told of their relief that their journey is over.

Lawyers and campaigners hailed the arrival of 47 Sri Lankan Tamils on Monday night as a “big day for justice”, with a further eight arriving on Tuesday morning from Rwanda, where they had been receiving medical treatment. Twelve children were among them.

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India-Bangladesh relations sour as tensions rise over attacks on Hindu minority
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:30:29 GMT

Allegations of violence against Hindus prompt mass protests in India and attack on Bangladeshi consulate

Growing tensions between India and Bangladesh have erupted amid accusations of attacks on Bangladesh’s Hindu minority, which have prompted mass protests and assault on a Bangladeshi consulate in India.

The relationship between the two countries has soured since August, when a popular uprising – now widely termed the “monsoon revolution” – toppled Bangladesh’s authoritarian prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

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Live updates: Trump taps former Georgia senator for ambassador to China
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:37:04 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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OnlyFans is now accessible in China
2024-12-05T22:17:08+00:00

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Space Station Trajectory Data
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:52:29 +0000
International Space Station trajectory data is now available to the public! This data, called an ephemeris, is generated by the ISS Trajectory Operations and Planning Officer (TOPO) flight controllers in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. NASA is providing this information for use by the general public.
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Just Say No: Congress Considers Neocon Lesson Plans to Keep Kids Off Communism
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:14:43 +0000

Lawmakers will soon vote on a bill directing a nonprofit to draft curriculum on atrocities carried out by communist regimes.

The post Just Say No: Congress Considers Neocon Lesson Plans to Keep Kids Off Communism appeared first on The Intercept.

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Many Americans’ cellphone data being hacked by China, official says
2024-12-05T19:31:02+00:00

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NASA Flights Map Critical Minerals from Skies Above Western US
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:31:36 +0000
Technology used to chart other worlds is revealing minerals in the American West that are critical to the country’s renewable energy future.
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China hits US with ban on critical minerals used in tech manufacturing. China bans US exports of gallium, germanium, antimony, and superhard materials.
2024-12-05T13:25:24+00:00

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Worst US hack in history: Chinese can monitor all your calls and emails. Salt Typhoon has infiltrated major telecom networks, proving backdoors to encryption are a catastrophic risk.
2024-12-05T12:29:11+00:00
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The hidden cost of Chinese loans
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:12:33 +0000
Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others
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Sake: Japan’s ‘divine gift’ given special status by Unesco
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:41:04 GMT

Rice wine enshrined as part of ‘cultural heritage of humanity’

Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It’s brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savoured in the country’s pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and served slightly chilled for special toasts.

Now, the smooth rice wine that plays a crucial role in Japan’s culinary traditions - and is a favoured tipple of celebrities such as Cate Blanchett – has been enshrined by Unesco, which has put it on its list of the “intangible cultural heritage of humanity”.

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Donna Nelson, who claims she was love scam victim, jailed for smuggling drugs into Japan
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:28:10 GMT

Donna Nelson sentenced to six years in prison after court finds her guilty of bringing methamphetamine into country

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The jailing of an Australian woman in Japan is “really distressing” for her family, the federal government has acknowledged as it committed to doing all it could to help her.

The Australian federal health minister, Mark Butler, made the promise a day after Donna Nelson was sentenced to six years for smuggling methamphetamine into Tokyo in January 2023, despite her claims she had been the victim of an online romance scam.

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Biden, in Africa, pushes to cement ties before leaving office
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:50:05 +0000
The president touted a railway project intended in part to counter China’s influence on the continent.
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Senators Warn the Pentagon: Get a Handle on China’s Telecom Hacking
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:57:21 +0000
In a letter to the Department of Defense, senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt are calling for an investigation into fallout from the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign.
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A New Benchmark for the Risks of AI
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
MLCommons provides benchmarks that test the abilities of AI systems. It wants to measure the bad side of AI next.
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The 40 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (December 2024)
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000
Interior Chinatown, What We Do in the Shadows, and La Máquina are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.
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New Zealand v England: second men’s cricket Test, day one – live
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:45:20 GMT

• Updates from the first day’s play at Wellington
• Carse’s ascent no surprise to former coach

31st over: England 158-4 (Brook 70, Pope 43) Pope jabs at Smith and edges this far short of Latham at second slip. He gets the next ball away, back cutting efficiently to the fence.

So, this medium-term No3, who should it be?

Ben Stokes Technically suited but his brain whirs far too much in the field, even when he doesn’t bowl, so he needs a rest.

Joe Root Doesn’t want to bat there, vulnerable to the new ball and especially extra bounce.

Harry Brook Still too soon, especially in Australia with the extra bounce

Ollie Pope Far better at No6

Jamie Smith Too soon even if he doesn’t keep wicket, never mind if he does.

Jacob Bethell Too soon against India and Australia, plus he’s not in the best XI at the moment.

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is pitch-perfect archaeological adventuring
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:26 +0000
Review: Amazing open-world environs round out a tight, fun-filled adventure story.
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Australia’s bowling quartet ripe for change with India on song for Adelaide Test | Geoff Lemon
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:00:04 GMT

The most successful attack in history holds few fears for the tourists but the day-night clash looms as the worst time to break up the foursome

It would be hard to make an argument that the best four bowlers in Australia are anyone but Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon. All four are in Australia’s top 10 Test wicket-takers, the first two closing on 300 scalps and the latter two comfortably past it. Collectively, their tally is 1443.

Since they first combined in the 2017-18 Ashes they have played 31 Tests together, by far an international record for any frontline quartet. Even with injuries and changed configurations in touring conditions, that makes almost half of Australia’s 64 Tests in that period, including 23 of 36 at home.

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Man makes Christmas wonderland on street for wife with dementia
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:15:31 +0000
“Every dime was well spent,” said John Reichart, who decorated his street in Indianola, Iowa for his wife, Joan.
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Oregon Prison Limits Solitary to 90 Days. This BLM Protester Has Been in the Hole for 250.
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Malik Muhammad, a disabled Army veteran with PTSD, received the harshest federal sentence for the George Floyd protests.

The post Oregon Prison Limits Solitary to 90 Days. This BLM Protester Has Been in the Hole for 250. appeared first on The Intercept.

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The Twenty-first Century’s Best Books About Native America
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:00:00 +0000
Ned Blackhawk, who won the 2023 National Book Award for his groundbreaking reappraisal of U.S. history, discusses some of the best recent books about Native America.
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She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such power.

The post She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook. appeared first on The Intercept.

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South Korean public in ‘great danger’ if president stays, says party boss
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:12:48 GMT
His comments are the first clear sign the president's own party may now vote to help impeach him.
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‘Great danger’ to South Korea unless President Yoon suspended, says ruling party leader
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:49:49 GMT

The ruling People Power party had said it was against impeachment, but that stance may be shifting

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol could put citizens in “great danger” if he is not suspended, the head of the ruling party said on Friday, increasing the likelihood that parliament will vote to impeach the president over Tuesday’s failed martial law declaration.

“[If] President Yoon continues to hold the office of the presidency, there is a significant risk that extreme actions similar to the martial law declaration could be repeated, which could put the Republic of Korea and its citizens in great danger,” the head of the People Power party, Han Dong-hoon, told an emergency party leadership meeting.

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South Korea ruling party leader says country risks ‘great danger’ unless President Yoon suspended
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:49:49 GMT

The ruling People Power party had said it was against impeachment, but that stance may be shifting

South Korea’s ruling party leader has said President Yoon Suk Yeol needs to be removed from authority for the safety of the country for trying to impose martial law, but stopped short of urging members to vote for impeachment.

Yoon shocked the nation and his own ruling People Power Party on Tuesday when he announced he was imposing martial law in order to root out “anti-state forces” and overcome obstructionist political opponents.

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South Korea ETFs struggle despite country showing ‘resiliency’ after martial law
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:57:00 GMT
It’s been a head-spinning week for ETF investors monitoring geopolitical risks to stocks in their portfolios.
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Judge rejects Boeing plea deal that was opposed by families of crash victims
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:51:36 +0000
It appears the government's "attempt to ensure compliance failed," judge writes.
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Democracy in crisis in South Korea
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:02:00 GMT
The president faces impeachment after imposing martial law.
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South Korean woman who grabbed soldier’s gun says ‘I just needed to stop them’
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:53:50 GMT

Video of party spokesperson grappling with rifle-wielding soldier has gone viral as symbol of defiance against martial law

A South Korean party spokesperson seen grappling with a rifle-wielding soldier in a video that went viral as a symbol of defiance against martial law has insisted that she was not especially brave.

President Yoon Suk Yeol was forced to abandon his declaration of martial law this week after 190 lawmakers defied a contingent of soldiers in helmets and body armour and voted unanimously to reject it.

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Protesters gather outside South Korea's national assembly – video
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:34:39 GMT

Large crowds gathered outside the South Korean national assembly building in Seoul on Thursday for a candlelit vigil calling for the resignation of the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, who attempted to declare a state of martial law on Tuesday

• South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, facing impeachment after martial law shock

• Who is Yoon Suk Yeol, the controversial South Korean president who tried and failed to impose martial law?

• Political chaos in South Korea: what is martial law and what comes next after Yoon Suk Yeol’s U-turn?

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As lawmakers move to impeach South Korean President Yoon, what happens next?
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 07:56:31 +0000
Calls are growing for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ouster after he declared then rescinded martial law. Here’s how an impeachment would work.
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South Korea police investigate President Yoon as ruling party vows to block impeachment
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:46:53 GMT

People Power party says it will vote against impeachment bill brought by opposition amid outrage over Yoon’s attempt to declare martial law

South Korea’s ruling party says it will block a move by the opposition to impeach the beleaguered president, Yoon Suk Yeol, as police said they were investigating Yoon for alleged insurrection over his botched attempt to impose martial law.

The floor leader of the People Power party vowed on Thursday that its lawmakers would “unite” to defeat the opposition-led motion to impeach the deeply unpopular leader.

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Thursday briefing: What the martial law attempt means for South Korea’s future
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:45:36 GMT

In today’s newsletter: Yoon Suk Yeol’s shock declaration – and subsequent reversal – has sent South Korea into political chaos, and left their president facing impeachment

Good morning. South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, is facing impeachment after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets with his baffling and sudden declaration of martial law on Tuesday. The move stirred memories of past dictatorships in the country, moving thousands to come out on to the streets and protest, with the military powerless, or unwilling, to do anything about it.

Opposition parties submitted an impeachment motion hours after parliament unanimously voted to cancel Yoon’s declaration, forcing him to lift martial law just six hours after it began. Impeaching Yoon requires the support of two-thirds of the national assembly and at least six of the nine constitutional court justices. The liberal opposition Democratic party holds a majority in the 300-seat parliament and has called for Yoon’s resignation. A vote on his impeachment could come as early as tomorrow. Today we’ll look at what happened and why.

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South Korea’s martial law crisis stirs memories of 1980 Gwangju massacre
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:20:48 +0000
In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a military dictator and triggered a deadly uprising.
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A Coup, Almost, in South Korea
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:21:40 +0000
President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, then backed off, in a matter of hours. He now faces impeachment and mass protests.
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Martial law came to South Korea – and my friends and I doomscrolled through the night
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:57:32 GMT

Since the separation of the Koreas in 1953, our elders have experienced the suspension of normal civil rights many times. But for the younger generation, this was a horrifying and instructive first

At 10.23pm on 3 December in Seoul, I was already in bed, alternating between reading a book and watching YouTube cooking reels. That was when Yoon Suk Yeol, the president, declared emergency martial law in South Korea for the first time since 1979.

In an unannounced televised address, Yoon said the imposition of martial law was “aimed at eradicating pro-North Korean forces and protecting the constitutional order of freedom”.

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U.S. watches warily as key Asian ally descends into political chaos
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:54:10 +0000
The president of South Korea’s declaration of martial law caught Washington by surprise.
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South Korean opposition moves to impeach president after remarkable misstep
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:48:10 +0000
Lawmakers could vote to impeach Yoon Suk Yeol as soon as Friday. Regardless of the outcome, it is clear that the president’s political future is in grave doubt.
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Four things to know about South Korean President Yoon as impeachment looms
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:47:23 +0000
Yoon Suk Yeol was a career prosecutor who made his first foray into politics when he became the People Power Party’s presidential candidate in 2021.
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South Korean president faces impeachment calls after martial law attempt
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:45:31 +0000
The country reacted in anger and shock after President Yoon Suk Yeol abruptly called for martial law Tuesday night, only to backtrack hours later.
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The leader of South Korea’s ruling People Power Party, Han Dong-hoon, has called for Defense Minister...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:34:35 +0000

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Declaration of martial law in Seoul causes chaos – in pictures
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:24:13 GMT

South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol sparked major protests by announcing martial law. He reversed his decision in the face of massive opposition

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How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
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Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:44:25 +0000
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
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Stollen-Inspired Taiwanese Snowflake Crisps
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
Similar in spirit to puffed rice cereal treats, these no-bake Taiwanese snowflake crisps inspired by stollen are a delightful fusion of East and West.
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Landmark space mission set to create artificial solar eclipses using satellites
Sat, 30 Nov 2024 06:00:18 GMT

Two satellites in Proba-3 mission expected to be launched on Wednesday in India and will work in tandem to study sun’s corona

Final preparations have begun for a landmark space mission that will use satellites flying in close formation to create artificial solar eclipses high above the Earth.

The Proba-3 mission is the European Space Agency’s first attempt at precise formation flying in orbit and calls for two spacecraft to loop around the planet in an arrangement that never deviates by more than a millimetre, about the thickness of a human fingernail.

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Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?
2024-10-24T00:00:00Z
Chinese companies have been evading US tariffs by shipping goods through Vietnam, but not to the degree that the headlines would suggest. Ebehi Iyoha and Jaya Wen dig into trade microdata to illustrate Vietnam's strategic importance and why American policymakers should take note.
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How Universities Are Trying to Stop Another Year of Anti-War Activism
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:53:20 +0000

Big public universities, historically at the forefront of catalyzing activist movements, are now using legal action, disciplinary efforts, and rule changes to chill speech and dissent.

The post How Universities Are Trying to Stop Another Year of Anti-War Activism appeared first on The Intercept.

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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China’s exports
Thu, 23 May 2024 10:13:46 +0000
To avoid an economic shock, they are pursuing a strange mix of free trade and protectionism
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Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:15:00 +0000

After 250 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

The post Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears appeared first on The Intercept.

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China's giant sinkholes are a tourist hit - but ancient forests inside are at risk
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:22:23 GMT
These caves were unexplored for thousands of years, protected by swirling mists and terrifying tales.
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Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:07:36 GMT
How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
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Meta Finally Breaks Its Silence on Pig Butchering
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:00:00 +0000
The company gave details for the first time on its approach to combating organized criminal networks behind the devastating scams.
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China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.
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Is China really a nation of slackers?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:54:55 +0000
A new survey raises the question
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
Match ID: 62 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Why China needs to fill its empty homes
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:03:24 +0000
The country’s economy is broken. A recovery requires a healthier property market
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:05:00 GMT

Match ID: 64 Score: 5.71 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 55 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:25:56 +0000
Unsold homes are contributing to a balance-sheet recession
Match ID: 65 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 56 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:22:31 +0000
“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund
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qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:19:59 +0000
But it will need more help from the government
Match ID: 67 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 72 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:33:09 +0000
Even though they are not very good at it
Match ID: 68 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 81 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:52 +0000
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system
Match ID: 69 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 84 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:53:31 +0000
Can anything perk up its economy?
Match ID: 70 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 91 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:59:36 +0000
Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission
Match ID: 71 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 98 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:19:41 +0000
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular
Match ID: 72 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 113 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:24:53 +0000
Volatility in global markets continues
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qualifiers: 5.71 japan

Why Japanese markets have plummeted
Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:21:56 +0000
The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987
Match ID: 74 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 122 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:41:12 +0000
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
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qualifiers: 5.71 japan

China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:09:53 +0000
All it takes is for the state to work with the market
Match ID: 76 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 128 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:17:13 +0000
Currency meddling will prove futile
Match ID: 77 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 140 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:49:47 +0000
Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms
Match ID: 78 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 143 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:38:25 +0000
Its share of international reserves has stalled
Match ID: 79 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 175 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:14:09 +0000
State purchases of shares are bad enough, but other measures are far more destructive
Match ID: 80 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 178 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s economic model retains a dangerous allure
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:08:43 +0000
Despite the country’s current struggles, autocrats elsewhere see a lot to admire
Match ID: 81 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 185 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Xi Jinping’s surprising new source of economic advice
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:06:54 +0000
What China’s leader may learn from a pair of reform-minded academics
Match ID: 82 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 189 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

The property firm that could break China’s back
Thu, 16 May 2024 10:04:20 +0000
If Vanke collapses, so might confidence in the state’s management of the economy
Match ID: 83 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 203 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
Match ID: 84 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 205 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:58:40 +0000
China would not be happy
Match ID: 85 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 210 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

What would get China’s consumers spending?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:49 +0000
Clues from a grocer in a fourth-tier city
Match ID: 86 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 210 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:57 +0000
Despite his protestations, the country does have an overcapacity problem
Match ID: 87 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 210 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:14 +0000
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
Match ID: 88 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 220 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
Match ID: 89 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 226 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:05:21 +0000
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
Match ID: 90 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 231 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:33:05 +0000
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
Match ID: 91 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 233 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:02:17 +0000
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
Match ID: 92 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 238 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s state is eating the private property market
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:50:47 +0000
Pity those soon to buy a home
Match ID: 93 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 238 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
Match ID: 94 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 249 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:12:05 +0000
As is becoming increasingly obvious
Match ID: 95 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 253 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:12:06 +0000
For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates
Match ID: 96 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 261 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
Match ID: 97 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 262 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:55:00 +0000
What a visit to an optimistic port reveals
Match ID: 98 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 266 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:37:33 +0000
The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9%
Match ID: 99 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 266 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
Match ID: 100 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 282 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:21:14 +0000
Will more now favour domestic stocks?
Match ID: 101 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 287 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
Match ID: 102 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 288 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:27:50 +0000

With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree.

The post Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings? appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 103 Score: 5.00 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments
2024-11-27T12:05:16Z

The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries use the spyware themselves. Now we’ve learned that that’s not true: that NSO Group employees operate the spyware on behalf of their customers.

Legal documents released in ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed for the first time that the Israeli cyberweapons maker ­ and not its government customers ­ is the party that “installs and extracts” information from mobile phones targeted by the company’s hacking software...

Match ID: 104 Score: 5.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Friday Squid Blogging: Transcriptome Analysis of the Indian Squid
2024-11-22T22:01:32Z

Lots of details that are beyond me.

Blog moderation policy.

Match ID: 105 Score: 5.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:10:13 +0000
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Abigail Reigner spent most of her childhood miles away from where her family called home, and where there was little trace of her Native American tribe and culture. Belonging to the Comanche Nation that resides in Lawton, Oklahoma, Reigner’s parents made every effort to keep her connected to her Indigenous […]
Match ID: 106 Score: 5.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 16 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:12:08 +0000
Small investors, rejoice—and beware
Match ID: 107 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Can markets reduce pollution in India?
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:55:05 +0000
An experiment in Gujarat yields impressive results
Match ID: 108 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 56 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

India’s economic policy will not make it rich
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:58:55 +0000
A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans
Match ID: 109 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 126 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:59:48 +0000
A weakened Narendra Modi is bad news for investors in government-controlled firms
Match ID: 110 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 168 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:05:08 +0000
A roaring economy is not enough to entice them
Match ID: 111 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 189 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:14:54 +0000
The country’s retail investors are doing less well
Match ID: 112 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 217 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

How fast is India’s economy really growing?
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:46 +0000
Statisticians take the country’s figures with a pinch of salt
Match ID: 113 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 238 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

How to build a global currency
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:55:08 +0000
India is the latest country to try. Painful reforms are required
Match ID: 114 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 245 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

How India could become an Asian tiger
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:11:52 +0000
The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen
Match ID: 115 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 253 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

The false promise of Indonesia’s economy
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:10:49 +0000
Presidential candidates vow to deliver 7% growth. Voters have heard it before
Match ID: 116 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 301 days
qualifiers: 4.29 indonesia

Will services make the world rich?
Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:51:25 +0000
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
Match ID: 117 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 164 days
qualifiers: 2.14 philippines

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:40:24 GMT

Min Aung Hlaing accused of crimes against humanity over deportation and persecution of Rohingya minority

The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) is seeking an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader, Min Aung Hlaing, for crimes against humanity over the deadly crackdowns against the country’s Rohingya minority that drove hundreds of thousands to flee to Bangladesh.

Karim Khan said that “after an extensive, independent and impartial investigation” his office had concluded there were reasonable grounds to believe that the Myanmar junta chief “bears criminal responsibility for the crimes against humanity of deportation and persecution of the Rohingya committed in Myanmar and in part in Bangladesh”.

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NASA Flights Map Critical Minerals from Skies Above Western US
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:31:36 +0000
Technology used to chart other worlds is revealing minerals in the American West that are critical to the country’s renewable energy future.
Match ID: 0 Score: 30.00 source: science.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change, 15.00 carbon

NASA to Test Technology for X-59’s Unique Shock Wave Measurements
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:49:29 +0000
NASA will soon test advancements made on a key tool for measuring the unique “sonic thumps” that its quiet supersonic X-59 research aircraft will make while flying. A shock-sensing probe is a cone-shaped air data probe developed with specific features to capture the unique shock waves the X-59 will produce. Researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight […]
Match ID: 1 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

NASA Invites Media to Administrator Flight in Electra Hybrid-Electric Aircraft
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:35:00 +0000
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson will fly in aircraft manufacturer Electra’s EL2 Goldfinch experimental prototype aircraft on Sunday, Dec. 8. Members of the media are invited to speak with Nelson and Electra leaders just prior to the flight at 11:45 a.m. EST at Manassas Regional Airport in Manassas, Virginia. Electra designed the experimental aircraft with the […]
Match ID: 2 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

Study: Warming has accelerated due to the Earth absorbing more sunlight
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:15:01 +0000
If it's a trend, then future warming will be at the high end of estimates.
Match ID: 3 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change

2024 NESC Technical Update
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:08:56 +0000
Annual Report of NESC Technical Activities On behalf of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC), I am pleased to provide you with the 2024 NESC Technical Update. This annual report summarizes the technical work, engineering advancements, and knowledge capture efforts we made in FY24. With support provided by members of our NASA community from across […]
Match ID: 4 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

La NASA comparte resultados del escudo térmico de Orion, actualiza las misiones Artemis
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:41:56 +0000
Read this release in English here. Mediante la campaña Artemis, la NASA llevará a los siguientes astronautas estadounidenses y al primer astronauta internacional a la región del Polo Sur de la Luna. El jueves, la NASA anunció las últimas actualizaciones de sus planes de exploración lunar. Un grupo de expertos examinó los resultados de la investigación […]
Match ID: 5 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

World’s 1st nuclear-powered diamond battery with 5700-year life unveiled
2024-12-05T14:43:08+00:00

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Match ID: 6 Score: 15.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

NASA Flips Efficient Wing Concept for Testing
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000
Upside down can be right side up. That’s what NASA researchers determined for tests of an efficient wing concept that could be part of the agency’s answer to making future aircraft sustainable. Research from NASA’s Advanced Air Transport Technology project involving a 10-foot model could help NASA engineers validate the concept of the Transonic Truss-Braced […]
Match ID: 7 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

NASA Experts Share Inspiring Stories of Perseverance to Students
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 22:53:14 +0000
In celebration of National Aviation History Month, experts from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, spoke with middle school students during a recent event hosted by NASA’s California Office of STEM Engagement. NASA Armstrong employees shared stories about the center’s role in aviation history and current research projects while also talking about their […]
Match ID: 8 Score: 12.86 source: www.nasa.gov age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 carbon

Top UN court to rule on key climate questions
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:51:29 GMT
The significant case could clarify governments' legal responsibilities in relation to climate change.
Match ID: 9 Score: 12.86 source: www.bbc.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 climate change

Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:22:16 +0000
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.
Match ID: 10 Score: 12.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 toxic

Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:24:05 +0000

Climate Justice Alliance was the only program grantee to speak out on Palestine — and the only one whose funding is delayed.

The post Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 11 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 6.43 climate change, 6.43 carbon

Dr. Misty Davies – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 2024 Fellow
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:17:26 +0000
In May 2024, Dr. Misty Davies joined the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Class of 2024 Fellows at a ceremony in Washington, DC.  The AIAA website states that, “AIAA confers Fellow upon individuals in recognition of their notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences or technology of aeronautics and astronautics.”  The first AIAA […]
Match ID: 12 Score: 4.29 source: www.nasa.gov age: 13 days
qualifiers: 2.14 climate change, 2.14 carbon

Six Ways Supercomputing Advances Our Understanding of the Universe
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:03:12 +0000
At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the universe – from our planet to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Supercomputers enable projects across diverse research, such as making discoveries about the Sun’s activity that affects technologies in space and life on Earth, building […]
Match ID: 13 Score: 4.29 source: www.nasa.gov age: 20 days
qualifiers: 2.14 climate change, 2.14 carbon

An Electronic Traffic Monitor for Airports
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:01:40 +0000
Ground traffic management program saves passengers and airlines time while cutting fuel costs
Match ID: 14 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 8 days
qualifiers: 2.14 carbon

Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:07:36 GMT
How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
Match ID: 15 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 2.14 climate change

NASA’s X-66 Sustainable Aircraft Model Sails Through First Wind Tests
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:41:34 +0000
At NASA, each project has milestones to ensure everything stays on track. The agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project recently passed through one of these markers of progress, as it completed a key phase of wind tunnel tests using a model of the X-66. The X-66 is an experimental aircraft that aims to achieve more […]
Match ID: 16 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 14 days
qualifiers: 2.14 carbon

NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:10:13 +0000
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Abigail Reigner spent most of her childhood miles away from where her family called home, and where there was little trace of her Native American tribe and culture. Belonging to the Comanche Nation that resides in Lawton, Oklahoma, Reigner’s parents made every effort to keep her connected to her Indigenous […]
Match ID: 17 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 16 days
qualifiers: 2.14 carbon

Deadliest weather made worse by climate change - scientists
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:27:46 GMT
Human-caused climate change made recent extreme weather events more intense and more likely, new analysis finds.
Match ID: 18 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.com age: 35 days
qualifiers: 2.14 climate change

World way off target in tackling climate change - UN
Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:00:46 GMT
The world is wildly off track in tackling climate change, the UN says, as CO2 in the atmosphere accumulates faster than ever
Match ID: 19 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.com age: 38 days
qualifiers: 2.14 climate change

Polar bears face higher risk of disease in a warming Arctic
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 23:05:41 GMT
Climate change and sea ice loss leaves polar bears exposed to more diseases, research suggests.
Match ID: 20 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.com age: 43 days
qualifiers: 2.14 climate change

Greener Is Getting Going
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000
We’ve reached a tipping point where we’ve got a cleaner alternative for most transport. Now we have to commit.
Match ID: 21 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 169 days
qualifiers: 2.14 climate change

Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
Thu, 30 May 2024 09:51:10 +0000
Temperature fluctuations are unpredictable. Humans are even more so
Match ID: 22 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 189 days
qualifiers: 2.14 climate change

How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:59:08 +0000
Opposition to new buildings has unfortunate consequences
Match ID: 23 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 266 days
qualifiers: 2.14 carbon

A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The climate crisis has become a mental health crisis. But eco-anxiety isn’t necessarily a pathology.
Match ID: 24 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 318 days
qualifiers: 2.14 climate change

Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
Match ID: 25 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 323 days
qualifiers: 2.14 carbon

Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:16:00 +0000

SEMrush and Ahrefs are among the most popular tools in the SEO industry. Both companies have been in business for years and have thousands of customers per month.

If you're a professional SEO or trying to do digital marketing on your own, at some point you'll likely consider using a tool to help with your efforts. Ahrefs and SEMrush are two names that will likely appear on your shortlist.

In this guide, I'm going to help you learn more about these SEO tools and how to choose the one that's best for your purposes.

What is SEMrush?

SEMrush is a popular SEO tool with a wide range of features—it's the leading competitor research service for online marketers. SEMrush's SEO Keyword Magic tool offers over 20 billion Google-approved keywords, which are constantly updated and it's the largest keyword database.

The program was developed in 2007 as SeoQuake is a small Firefox extension

Features

• Most accurate keyword data: Accurate keyword search volume data is crucial for SEO and PPC campaigns by allowing you to identify what keywords are most likely to bring in big sales from ad clicks. SEMrush constantly updates its databases and provides the most accurate data.
• Largest Keyword database: SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool now features 20-billion keywords, providing marketers and SEO professionals the largest database of keywords.


• All SEMrush users receive daily ranking data, mobile volume information, and the option to buy additional keywords by default with no additional payment or add-ons needed
• Most accurate position tracking tool: This tool provides all subscribers with basic tracking capabilities, making it suitable for SEO professionals. Plus, the Position Tracking tool provides local-level data to everyone who uses the tool.
• SEO Data Management: SEMrush makes managing your online data easy by allowing you to create visually appealing custom PDF reports, including Branded and White Label reports, report scheduling, and integration with GA, GMB, and GSC.
• Toxic link monitoring and penalty recovery: With SEMrush, you can make a detailed analysis of toxic backlinks, toxic scores, toxic markers, and outreach to those sites.
• Content Optimization and Creation Tools: SEMrush offers content optimization and creation tools that let you create SEO-friendly content. Some features include the SEO Writing Assistant, On-Page SEO Check, er/SEO Content Template, Content Audit, Post Tracking, Brand Monitoring.

Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a leading SEO platform that offers a set of tools to grow your search traffic, research your competitors, and monitor your niche. The company was founded in 2010, and it has become a popular choice among SEO tools. Ahrefs has a keyword index of over 10.3 billion keywords and offers accurate and extensive backlink data updated every 15-30 minutes and it is the world's most extensive backlink index database.

Features

• Backlink alerts data and new keywords: Get an alert when your site is linked to or discussed in blogs, forums, comments, or when new keywords are added to a blog posting about you.
• Intuitive interface: The intuitive design of the widget helps you see the overall health of your website and search engine ranking at a glance.
• Site Explorer: The Site Explorer will give you an in-depth look at your site's search traffic.
• Domain Comparison
• Reports with charts and graphs
• JavaScript rendering and a site audit can identify SEO issues.
• A question explorer that provides well-crafted topic suggestions

Direct Comparisons: Ahrefs vs SEMrush

Now that you know a little more about each tool, let's take a look at how they compare. I'll analyze each tool to see how they differ in interfaces, keyword research resources, rank tracking, and competitor analysis.

User Interface

Ahrefs and SEMrush both offer comprehensive information and quick metrics regarding your website's SEO performance. However, Ahrefs takes a bit more of a hands-on approach to getting your account fully set up, whereas SEMrush's simpler dashboard can give you access to the data you need quickly.

In this section, we provide a brief overview of the elements found on each dashboard and highlight the ease with which you can complete tasks.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs dashboard is less cluttered than that of SEMrush, and its primary menu is at the very top of the page, with a search bar designed only for entering URLs.

Additional features of the Ahrefs platform include:

• You can see analytics from the dashboard, including search engine rankings to domain ratings, referring domains, and backlink
• Jumping from one tool to another is easy. You can use the Keyword Explorer to find a keyword to target and then directly track your ranking with one click.
• The website offers a tooltip helper tool that allows you to hover your mouse over something that isn't clear and get an in-depth explanation.

SEMRUSH

When you log into the SEMrush Tool, you will find four main modules. These include information about your domains, organic keyword analysis, ad keyword, and site traffic.

You'll also find some other options like

• A search bar allows you to enter a domain, keyword, or anything else you wish to explore.
• A menu on the left side of the page provides quick links to relevant information, including marketing insights, projects, keyword analytics, and more.
• The customer support resources located directly within the dashboard can be used to communicate with the support team or to learn about other resources such as webinars and blogs.
• Detailed descriptions of every resource offered. This detail is beneficial for new marketers, who are just starting.

WHO WINS?

Both Ahrefs and SEMrush have user-friendly dashboards, but Ahrefs is less cluttered and easier to navigate. On the other hand, SEMrush offers dozens of extra tools, including access to customer support resources.

When deciding on which dashboard to use, consider what you value in the user interface, and test out both.

Rank Tracking

If you're looking to track your website's search engine ranking, rank tracking features can help. You can also use them to monitor your competitors.

Let's take a look at Ahrefs vs. SEMrush to see which tool does a better job.

Ahrefs

The Ahrefs Rank Tracker is simpler to use. Just type in the domain name and keywords you want to analyze, and it spits out a report showing you the search engine results page (SERP) ranking for each keyword you enter.

Rank Tracker looks at the ranking performance of keywords and compares them with the top rankings for those keywords. Ahrefs also offers:

You'll see metrics that help you understand your visibility, traffic, average position, and keyword difficulty.

It gives you an idea of whether a keyword would be profitable to target or not.

SEMRUSH

SEMRush offers a tool called Position Tracking. This tool is a project tool—you must set it up as a new project. Below are a few of the most popular features of the SEMrush Position Tracking tool:

All subscribers are given regular data updates and mobile search rankings upon subscribing

The platform provides opportunities to track several SERP features, including Local tracking.

Intuitive reports allow you to track statistics for the pages on your website, as well as the keywords used in those pages.

Identify pages that may be competing with each other using the Cannibalization report.

WHO WINS?

Ahrefs is a more user-friendly option. It takes seconds to enter a domain name and keywords. From there, you can quickly decide whether to proceed with that keyword or figure out how to rank better for other keywords.

SEMrush allows you to check your mobile rankings and ranking updates daily, which is something Ahrefs does not offer. SEMrush also offers social media rankings, a tool you won't find within the Ahrefs platform. Both are good which one do you like let me know in the comment.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is closely related to rank tracking, but it's used for deciding which keywords you plan on using for future content rather than those you use now.

When it comes to SEO, keyword research is the most important thing to consider when comparing the two platforms.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs Keyword Explorer provides you with thousands of keyword ideas and filters search results based on the chosen search engine.

Ahrefs supports several features, including:

• It can search multiple keywords in a single search and analyze them together. At SEMrush, you also have this feature in Keyword Overview.
• Ahrefs has a variety of keywords for different search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and other search engines.
• When you click on a keyword, you can see its search volume and keyword difficulty, but also other keywords related to it, which you didn't use.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool has over 20 billion keywords for Google. You can type in any keyword you want, and a list of suggested keywords will appear.

The Keyword Magic Tool also lets you to:

• Show performance metrics by keyword
• Search results are based on both broad and exact keyword matches.
• Show data like search volume, trends, keyword difficulty, and CPC.
• Show the first 100 Google search results for any keyword.
• Identify SERP Features and Questions related to each keyword
• SEMrush has released a new Keyword Gap Tool that uncovers potentially useful keyword opportunities for you, including both paid and organic keywords.

WHO WINS?

Both of these tools offer keyword research features and allow users to break down complicated tasks into something that can be understood by beginners and advanced users alike.

If you're interested in keyword suggestions, SEMrush appears to have more keyword suggestions than Ahrefs does. It also continues to add new features, like the Keyword Gap tool and SERP Questions recommendations.

Competitor Analysis

Both platforms offer competitor analysis tools, eliminating the need to come up with keywords off the top of your head. Each tool is useful for finding keywords that will be useful for your competition so you know they will be valuable to you.

AHREFS

Ahrefs' domain comparison tool lets you compare up to five websites (your website and four competitors) side-by-side.it also shows you how your site is ranked against others with metrics such as backlinks, domain ratings, and more.

Use the Competing Domains section to see a list of your most direct competitors, and explore how many keywords matches your competitors have.

To find more information about your competitor, you can look at the Site Explorer and Content Explorer tools and type in their URL instead of yours.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush provides a variety of insights into your competitors' marketing tactics. The platform enables you to research your competitors effectively. It also offers several resources for competitor analysis including:

Traffic Analytics helps you identify where your audience comes from, how they engage with your site, what devices visitors use to view your site, and how your audiences overlap with other websites.

SEMrush's Organic Research examines your website's major competitors and shows their organic search rankings, keywords they are ranking for, and even if they are ranking for any (SERP) features and more.

The Market Explorer search field allows you to type in a domain and lists websites or articles similar to what you entered. Market Explorer also allows users to perform in-depth data analytics on These companies and markets.

WHO WINS?

SEMrush wins here because it has more tools dedicated to competitor analysis than Ahrefs. However, Ahrefs offers a lot of functionality in this area, too. It takes a combination of both tools to gain an advantage over your competition.

Pricing

Ahrefs

• Lite Monthly: $99/month
• Standard Monthly: $179/month
• Annually Lite: $990/year
• Annually Standard: $1790/year

SEMRUSH

• Pro Plan: $119.95/month
• Guru Plan:$229.95/month
• Business Plan: $449.95/month

Which SEO tool should you choose for digital marketing?

When it comes to keyword data research, you will become confused about which one to choose.

Consider choosing Ahrefs if you

• Like friendly and clean interface
• Searching for simple keyword suggestions

• Want to get more keywords for different search engines like Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, and more

 

Consider SEMrush if you:

• Want more marketing and SEO features
• Need competitor analysis tool
• Need to keep your backlinks profile clean
• Looking for more keyword suggestions for Google

Both tools are great. Choose the one which meets your requirements and if you have any experience using either Ahrefs or SEMrush let me know in the comment section which works well for you.

 

 

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US House hearing with Secret Service descends into screaming match
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Our Country diary column is 120 years old, but still fresh as a crisp winter’s morning
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:00:28 GMT

In this week’s Down To Earth newsletter: The oldest known newspaper column in existence has run since 1904, and gives an insight into the natural world that’s a striking reflection of the times

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Obsessed with the weather? If you’re a British reader, then the answer is certainly yes. Thanks to our seasonal climate, we have always been a nation with one eye on the sky – and it’s only a short hop from there to observing how our flora and fauna respond to these ever-shifting conditions. Being in early winter now, it’s the time of year for geese and gales, starlings and mistletoe, tree rot and fungi in staggering variety. There is always, always something changing about our wildlife, day by day.

This is the foundation on which the Guardian’s Country diary column flourishes. It’s a sort of slow-motion version of the BBC programme Springwatch – one short piece each day, from a different writer in a different part of the UK, each focusing on a different aspect of nature.

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A snowy blow-in brings a blizzard of visitors

Spotted! A black squirrel outside my school kitchen

‘It signifies renewal’: recipients of Sycamore Gap saplings announced

‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property

Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods

On the Grenadian island of Carriacou, even the dead are now climate victims

‘Climate bomb’ warning over $200bn wave of new gas projects

Countries call for binding targets to cut plastic production after talks fail

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Trump’s Middle East envoy launches effort at Gaza ceasefire
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:36:01 +0000

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Here’s what happened the last time Trump moved federal jobs out of D.C.
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:17:39 +0000

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The Future of TikTok Is Being Decided This Week
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Depending on what a federal appeals court decides, TikTok’s fate might left in the hands of president-elect Donald Trump.
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Jeff Bezos is optimistic about working with a ‘calmer’ Trump
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:45:15 +0000

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GOP’s thin House majority could complicate Trump’s policy plans
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:15:03 +0000

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The Immigrants Most Vulnerable to Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Entered the Country Legally
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Biden could still pursue additional protections for many of them—so far, he appears unwilling to do so.
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Joe Biden should pardon Reality Winner for her actions as a whistleblower | Margaret Sullivan
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:00:46 GMT

The leaker went to jail for a patriotic, if illegal, act. She has a lot to offer the world if she’s allowed to move on

In late November, Reality Winner – who turned 33 this week – finished her lengthy punishment for sending a government document to a news organization.

It’s past time for her to be pardoned so that she can move on with her life and, particularly, her education. She wants to be a veterinary technician, get a good-paying job and move out of her mother’s Texas house, but having a felony in one’s background doesn’t help with any of that.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture

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Hegseth defiant as Trump considers replacing him as defense secretary pick
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:00:24 +0000

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Tracking Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and administration
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:37:56 +0000
Here are the people Donald Trump has picked or is considering to fill his Cabinet and key positions in his administration.
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How the Trump Indictments Backfired
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:14:26 +0000
“It was ill-fated from the beginning,” Jeannie Suk Gersen says, of the effort to prosecute Donald Trump.
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Trump’s Middle East envoy launches effort at Gaza ceasefire, traveling to Qatar, Israel
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:04:50 +0000

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A defiant Hegseth says he will ‘continue to fight’ for defense secretary post
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:04:50 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Trump picks Kelly Loeffler to lead Small Business Administration
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:53:59 +0000

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Trump picks former congressman Billy Long to replace IRS commissioner
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:32:08 +0000

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Jeff Bezos says he’s optimistic for Trump’s second term in the White House
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:31:01 +0000

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President-elect Donald Trump will sit for an interview set to air Sunday with NBC News’ “Meet...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:31:26 +0000

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Mexico announces seizure of fentanyl after Trump threatens tariffs
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:21:13 +0000

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Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense should alarm all of us | Moira Donegan
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:43:29 GMT

Pete Hegseth, who has been accused of drunken, irresponsible and predatory behavior, would be in charge of the world’s most powerful military

It takes a lot to get a man’s mother to declare him an “abuser of women”. Mothers, as a rule, are not known for their ungenerous assessments of their sons’ behavior. But Penelope Hegseth, the mother of the Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense, once did just that in an email to her son.

“I have no respect for a man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego,” Hegseth’s mother wrote to him. “You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains and embarrasses me to say that, but it’s the sad, sad truth.” The email – which Hegseth’s mother later disavowed – appears to have come around the time of the dissolution of Hegseth’s second marriage; during Hegseth’s first marriage, according to a new report by Vanity Fair, he confessed to no fewer than five affairs.

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Hegseth said Trump told him ‘You’re my guy’
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:40:29 +0000

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Romney pushes for more bipartisanship in farewell Senate speech
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:11:13 +0000
Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), a former GOP presidential nominee who became a foe of Donald Trump, stressed bipartisanship in his farewell Senate speech.
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Most members of the House have only known the Trump era of politics
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:48:09 +0000
Six in 10 representatives and a third of senators have only been on Capitol Hill since Trump was president. How does this affect their understanding of their role?
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Trump asks Michael Whatley to stay on as RNC chair
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:38:09 +0000

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Trump swaps out new White House counsel pick
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:03:01 +0000

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Trump picks Monica Crowley for chief of protocol
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:57:35 +0000

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Trump taps billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as next NASA administrator
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AI and the 2024 Elections
2024-12-04T12:09:23Z

It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepfakes and artificial intelligence-generated misinformation would overwhelm the democratic processes. As 2024 draws to a close, it’s instructive to take stock of how democracy did.

In a Pew survey of Americans from earlier this fall, nearly eight times as many respondents expected AI to be used for mostly bad purposes...

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FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:18:29 +0000
The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient.
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Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000
A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.
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These Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:26:10 +0000

The Intercept asked companies that store personal data if they will help Trump conduct mass deportations. Few had anything to say.

The post These Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants appeared first on The Intercept.

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R.F.K., Jr., Wants to Eliminate Fluoridated Water. He Used to Bottle and Sell It
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead H.H.S. once started a bottled-water line, Keeper Springs. What was in it?
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Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:22:16 +0000
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.
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South Korean public in ‘great danger’ if president stays, says party boss
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:12:48 GMT
His comments are the first clear sign the president's own party may now vote to help impeach him.
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‘Great danger’ to South Korea unless President Yoon suspended, says ruling party leader
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:49:49 GMT

The ruling People Power party had said it was against impeachment, but that stance may be shifting

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol could put citizens in “great danger” if he is not suspended, the head of the ruling party said on Friday, increasing the likelihood that parliament will vote to impeach the president over Tuesday’s failed martial law declaration.

“[If] President Yoon continues to hold the office of the presidency, there is a significant risk that extreme actions similar to the martial law declaration could be repeated, which could put the Republic of Korea and its citizens in great danger,” the head of the People Power party, Han Dong-hoon, told an emergency party leadership meeting.

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South Korea ruling party leader says country risks ‘great danger’ unless President Yoon suspended
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:49:49 GMT

The ruling People Power party had said it was against impeachment, but that stance may be shifting

South Korea’s ruling party leader has said President Yoon Suk Yeol needs to be removed from authority for the safety of the country for trying to impose martial law, but stopped short of urging members to vote for impeachment.

Yoon shocked the nation and his own ruling People Power Party on Tuesday when he announced he was imposing martial law in order to root out “anti-state forces” and overcome obstructionist political opponents.

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South Korea ETFs struggle despite country showing ‘resiliency’ after martial law
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:57:00 GMT
It’s been a head-spinning week for ETF investors monitoring geopolitical risks to stocks in their portfolios.
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$1 phone scanner finds seven Pegasus spyware infections
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:00:06 +0000
iVerify's detection tool was launched in May and is turning up victims.
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Democracy in crisis in South Korea
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:02:00 GMT
The president faces impeachment after imposing martial law.
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South Korean woman who grabbed soldier’s gun says ‘I just needed to stop them’
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:53:50 GMT

Video of party spokesperson grappling with rifle-wielding soldier has gone viral as symbol of defiance against martial law

A South Korean party spokesperson seen grappling with a rifle-wielding soldier in a video that went viral as a symbol of defiance against martial law has insisted that she was not especially brave.

President Yoon Suk Yeol was forced to abandon his declaration of martial law this week after 190 lawmakers defied a contingent of soldiers in helmets and body armour and voted unanimously to reject it.

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Protesters gather outside South Korea's national assembly – video
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:34:39 GMT

Large crowds gathered outside the South Korean national assembly building in Seoul on Thursday for a candlelit vigil calling for the resignation of the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, who attempted to declare a state of martial law on Tuesday

• South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, facing impeachment after martial law shock

• Who is Yoon Suk Yeol, the controversial South Korean president who tried and failed to impose martial law?

• Political chaos in South Korea: what is martial law and what comes next after Yoon Suk Yeol’s U-turn?

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As lawmakers move to impeach South Korean President Yoon, what happens next?
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 07:56:31 +0000
Calls are growing for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ouster after he declared then rescinded martial law. Here’s how an impeachment would work.
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South Korea police investigate President Yoon as ruling party vows to block impeachment
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:46:53 GMT

People Power party says it will vote against impeachment bill brought by opposition amid outrage over Yoon’s attempt to declare martial law

South Korea’s ruling party says it will block a move by the opposition to impeach the beleaguered president, Yoon Suk Yeol, as police said they were investigating Yoon for alleged insurrection over his botched attempt to impose martial law.

The floor leader of the People Power party vowed on Thursday that its lawmakers would “unite” to defeat the opposition-led motion to impeach the deeply unpopular leader.

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Thursday briefing: What the martial law attempt means for South Korea’s future
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:45:36 GMT

In today’s newsletter: Yoon Suk Yeol’s shock declaration – and subsequent reversal – has sent South Korea into political chaos, and left their president facing impeachment

Good morning. South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, is facing impeachment after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets with his baffling and sudden declaration of martial law on Tuesday. The move stirred memories of past dictatorships in the country, moving thousands to come out on to the streets and protest, with the military powerless, or unwilling, to do anything about it.

Opposition parties submitted an impeachment motion hours after parliament unanimously voted to cancel Yoon’s declaration, forcing him to lift martial law just six hours after it began. Impeaching Yoon requires the support of two-thirds of the national assembly and at least six of the nine constitutional court justices. The liberal opposition Democratic party holds a majority in the 300-seat parliament and has called for Yoon’s resignation. A vote on his impeachment could come as early as tomorrow. Today we’ll look at what happened and why.

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Syrian rebels surround strategic city of Hama after Aleppo takeover
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:44:12 GMT

Rebels within kilometres ‘on three sides’ of city, seen as crucial to Assad regime’s defence of the capital, Damascus

Syrian rebels encircled the key central city of Hama “from three sides” on Wednesday, a war monitor said, despite a counteroffensive launched by government forces to retain control of the city.

Hama is strategically located in central Syria and, for the army of Bashar al-Assad, is crucial to safeguarding the capital and seat of power, Damascus. The fighting around Hama follows a lightning offensive by Islamist-led rebels who in a matter of days wrested swathes of territory, most significantly Syria’s second city, Aleppo, from the president’s grasp.

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South Korea’s martial law crisis stirs memories of 1980 Gwangju massacre
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:20:48 +0000
In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a military dictator and triggered a deadly uprising.
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A Coup, Almost, in South Korea
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:21:40 +0000
President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, then backed off, in a matter of hours. He now faces impeachment and mass protests.
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Martial law came to South Korea – and my friends and I doomscrolled through the night
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:57:32 GMT

Since the separation of the Koreas in 1953, our elders have experienced the suspension of normal civil rights many times. But for the younger generation, this was a horrifying and instructive first

At 10.23pm on 3 December in Seoul, I was already in bed, alternating between reading a book and watching YouTube cooking reels. That was when Yoon Suk Yeol, the president, declared emergency martial law in South Korea for the first time since 1979.

In an unannounced televised address, Yoon said the imposition of martial law was “aimed at eradicating pro-North Korean forces and protecting the constitutional order of freedom”.

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She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:39:10 +0000
Western authorities say they’ve identified a network that found a new way to clean drug gangs’ dirty cash. WIRED gained exclusive access to the investigation.
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U.S. watches warily as key Asian ally descends into political chaos
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:54:10 +0000
The president of South Korea’s declaration of martial law caught Washington by surprise.
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South Korean opposition moves to impeach president after remarkable misstep
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:48:10 +0000
Lawmakers could vote to impeach Yoon Suk Yeol as soon as Friday. Regardless of the outcome, it is clear that the president’s political future is in grave doubt.
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Georgia protests gather momentum after pro-Russia party suspends E.U. bid
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:15:11 +0000
By suspending talks with the E.U., the party was decisively pivoting to Russia and away from its European aspirations — one of the few goals most Georgians agree on.
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Moscow claims ‘external forces’ seeking to escalate violence in Syria
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:08:51 GMT

Statement comes as Ukrainian intelligence says Russia will send mercenaries to support flagging troops allied to Damascus

Moscow has condemned “external forces” seeking to escalate violence in Syria, despite reports from Ukrainian military intelligence that Russia is to send mercenaries to support flagging troops allied to Damascus.

The Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova blamed outside actors for instigating a recent sweeping insurgent offensive, after Islamist militants spearheaded by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took control of the city of Aleppo at the weekend in a shock advance.

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Four things to know about South Korean President Yoon as impeachment looms
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:47:23 +0000
Yoon Suk Yeol was a career prosecutor who made his first foray into politics when he became the People Power Party’s presidential candidate in 2021.
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South Korean president faces impeachment calls after martial law attempt
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:45:31 +0000
The country reacted in anger and shock after President Yoon Suk Yeol abruptly called for martial law Tuesday night, only to backtrack hours later.
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The leader of South Korea’s ruling People Power Party, Han Dong-hoon, has called for Defense Minister...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:34:35 +0000

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Declaration of martial law in Seoul causes chaos – in pictures
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:24:13 GMT

South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol sparked major protests by announcing martial law. He reversed his decision in the face of massive opposition

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Three Teachers Tried to Give Palestinian Students a Safe Haven — and It Cost Them Their Jobs
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Philadelphia school ordered teachers to “stay neutral” on Israel’s war on Gaza, but they helped students make pro-Palestine posters.

The post Three Teachers Tried to Give Palestinian Students a Safe Haven — and It Cost Them Their Jobs appeared first on The Intercept.

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How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
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Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:24:05 +0000

Climate Justice Alliance was the only program grantee to speak out on Palestine — and the only one whose funding is delayed.

The post Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

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New drone has legs for landing gear, enabling efficient launches
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:34:21 +0000
The RAVEN walks, it flies, it hops over obstacles, and it's efficient.
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NASA Flights Map Critical Minerals from Skies Above Western US
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:31:36 +0000
Technology used to chart other worlds is revealing minerals in the American West that are critical to the country’s renewable energy future.
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Universal Plug-and-Charge for EV Charging Stations Is Set to Launch in 2025
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:20:00 +0000
Next year, you won’t need to download yet another app to use an EV charger from an unfamiliar brand. Most of the major EV makers and charging networks are on board.
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Maher 'loving' Bristol introduction - Aitchison
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:28:53 GMT
Ilona Maher has brought "so much energy" to Bristol Bears since arriving at the club, fly-half Holly Aitchison says.
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‘Climate bomb’ warning over $200bn wave of new gas projects
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:00:36 GMT

New liquefied natural gas projects could produce 10 gigatonnes of emissions by the end of the decade, close to the annual emissions of all coal plants

A $200bn wave of new gas projects could lead to a “climate bomb” equivalent to releasing the annual emissions of all the world’s operating coal power plants, according to a report.

Large banks have invested $213bn into plans to build terminals that export and import gas that is chilled and shipped on ocean tankers. But a report has warned that they could be more damaging than coal power.

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Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:44:25 +0000
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
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Stopping the Press: The Threats to the Media Posed by the Second Trump Term
Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
After spending years painting the media as the “enemy of the people,” Donald Trump is ready to intensify his battle against the journalists who cover him.
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Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:09:08 +0000
Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump
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Melbourne synagogue fire a ‘deliberate’ antisemitic attack, Anthony Albanese says
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:16:01 GMT

Police say two people were seen spreading accelerant inside Adass Israel synagogue in Ripponlea

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Anthony Albanese has condemned a suspicious fire at a Melbourne synagogue as a “deliberate, unlawful attack”, saying antisemitism has no place in Australia.

A large blaze engulfed the Adass Israel synagogue in Ripponlea in Melbourne’s south-east on Friday morning, and is being treated as a deliberately lit fire.

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Firebrands and falsettos: the fight to fill Simon Birmingham’s SA Senate spot
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:26:39 GMT

Adelaide city councillor Henry Davis, who parodied the lord mayor this week by dressing in drag, to challenge Alex Antic-installed frontrunner

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Adelaide city councillor Henry Davis, who this week dressed in drag as the Adelaide lord mayor complete with pearls and falsetto, is set to challenge the frontrunner for Simon Birmingham’s Senate spot.

He says firebrand conservative senator Alex Antic wants a “clean sweep” to power in the Liberal party, including by installing current state party president, Leah Blyth, in the casual vacancy created by Birmingham’s resignation last week.

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Workers picketing Woolworths’ Melbourne warehouse are ‘capricious’, supermarket tells Fair Work
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:18:05 GMT

Marc Felman KC says demonstration ‘should be stopped’ because it’s being used to pressure company during negotiations over pay and conditions

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Woolworths has described a picket line outside one of its key distribution centres in Melbourne as a “metaphorical gun” pointed at its head, as the supermarket giant seeks to restart warehouse operations amid an industrial dispute.

Worker strikes at five distribution centres – including the picketed regional distribution centre in Melbourne’s south – have disrupted grocery supplies at some Woolworths stores leading to bare shelves and reduced sales in the pre-Christmas trading period.

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Nuclear deterrence talks between Washington and Seoul, plus a related exercise, have been postponed, a defense...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:45:31 +0000

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I’m a former Tesla engineer who helped build the Roadster battery & now CEO of Sila. We launched the first next-gen battery material, boosting lithium-ion performance for longer range, faster charging EVs & breakthrough consumer devices. AMA about battery innovation and powering AI-enabled devices!
2024-11-30T20:57:33+00:00
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
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Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:58:45 +0000
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
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Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:24:15 +0000
Canada and Mexico look likely to suffer
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
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The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:44:16 +0000
It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war
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Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawed
Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:37:43 +0000
Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
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The Scale of Geoblocking by Nation
2024-11-22T12:06:07Z

Interesting analysis:

We introduce and explore a little-known threat to digital equality and freedom­websites geoblocking users in response to political risks from sanctions. U.S. policy prioritizes internet freedom and access to information in repressive regimes. Clarifying distinctions between free and paid websites, allowing trunk cables to repressive states, enforcing transparency in geoblocking, and removing ambiguity about sanctions compliance are concrete steps the U.S. can take to ensure it does not undermine its own aims.

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How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:56:50 +0000
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
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Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:47:39 EST
A pair of POLITICO|Morning Consult polls, one conducted in the final days of the election and the other conducted after Trump won, show how public opinion has changed.
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The “Palestine Exception”
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:30:00 +0000

On The Intercept Briefing, we discuss college crackdowns on Palestine solidarity protests and the chilling effect on free speech.

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Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:27:50 +0000

With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree.

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There’s a Ceasefire in Lebanon, but Israel Keeps Gaslighting Palestinians About Ending the Assault on Gaza
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:34:03 +0000

Palestinians from Gaza feel relief for the people of Lebanon. We are also heartbroken that we are still being slaughtered.

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The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Local police across New York state regularly work with ICE. Before Trump can start rounding up immigrants, advocates are pushing for change.

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How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:25:06 +0000
With deficits soaring, their finance ministers will have to be smart
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What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:56:21 +0000
The president-elect’s nominee for treasury secretary faces a gruelling job
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Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:07:36 GMT
How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
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What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:05:10 +0000
Forget interest rates. Rewards are the real problem
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Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:52:57 +0000
It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters
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Is nuclear power gaining new energy?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:03:04 GMT
Countries around the world are building new nuclear power stations.
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Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:49:32 +0000
Are bitcoin bros right to be so thrilled by Donald Trump’s victory?
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America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world
Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:53:02 +0000
Donald Trump’s policies could send the greenback soaring
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What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:50:03 +0000
They might have simply been lucky, or biased
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It’s still the economy: What TV ads tell us about each campaign’s closing message
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:00:00 EST
The final paid messages: Economy, culture wars and character.
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Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:16:07 +0000
The continent’s policymakers are too relaxed about the risks
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Harris is pounding Trump on fascism. Some Dems think that’s a mistake.
Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:53:07 EST
Harris has ratcheted up her warnings about the dangers of a second Trump term in recent weeks.
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Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:59:12 +0000
His zany promises would blow up the deficit
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An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:04:28 +0000
Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support
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Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:18:55 +0000
Donald Trump is just the latest to take a swing. In an interview with The Economist, the SEC chair defends his record
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Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:41:16 +0000
All come with their own drawbacks
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Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:35:08 +0000
Opposition would come from all angles
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Is America approaching peak tip?
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:05:29 +0000
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
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Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:06:55 +0000
Will they now spend big on his campaign?
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Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000
This is the first time Russia has used its so-called Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in combat. The launch also serves as a warning to the West.
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The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:36:33 +0000
The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively.
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Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000
In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
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How Russia is winning the arms race in Ukraine – video
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:44:19 GMT

Russia is engaging in a 'shadow war' with Nato states, which is reportedly part of a deliberate strategy to undermine the alliance’s ability to support Ukraine. At the same time Russia's military industrial complex is producing arms at a formidable rate, and with Nato countries struggling to keep up in term of numbers, the arms race is having a big impact on the frontline. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how Russia is using hybrid warfare alongside boosting its arms industry to outpace Nato, and what this all means for the war in Ukraine

• West’s spy chiefs alarmed at recklessness of Russian counterparts

• Russia to raise defence budget by 25% to highest level on record

• ‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners

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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:58:18 +0000
How long can the party last?
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How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:39:56 +0000
Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years
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European banks are making heady profits in Russia
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:56:28 +0000
But for how much longer?
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:21:18 +0000
The question that now confronts Western policymakers
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Six Ways Supercomputing Advances Our Understanding of the Universe
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:03:12 +0000
At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the universe – from our planet to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Supercomputers enable projects across diverse research, such as making discoveries about the Sun’s activity that affects technologies in space and life on Earth, building […]
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Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:53:05 +0000
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
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Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.
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The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:12 +0000
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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U.S. stock futures and bond yields drop on reports Putin has updated nuclear doctrine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:55:00 GMT

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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
2024-12-03T12:00:47Z

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more inclusive. AI avatars were used by presidential candidates in South Korea in electioneering, enabling them to provide answers to thousands of voters’ questions simultaneously. We are also starting to see AI tools aid fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts. AI techniques are starting to augment more traditional polling methods, helping campaigns get cheaper and faster data. And congressional candidates have started using AI robocallers to engage voters on issues. In 2025, these trends will continue. AI doesn’t need to be superior to human experts to augment the labor of an overworked canvasser, or to write ad copy similar to that of a junior campaign staffer or volunteer. Politics is competitive, and any technology that can bestow an advantage, or even just garner attention, will be used...

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Boeing plea deal tied to fatal crashes rejected
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:35:52 GMT
The deal undermines the court and involves "contradictory" diversity requirements, a judge ruled.
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Judge rejects Boeing plea deal that was opposed by families of crash victims
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:51:36 +0000
It appears the government's "attempt to ensure compliance failed," judge writes.
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2024-12-05T18:57:11+00:00

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Conor McGregor ordered to pay Nikita Hand’s €1.5m costs in civil rape case
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:42:40 GMT

Ruling comes on top of damages fighter was ordered to pay last month after a jury found he had assaulted Hand in a Dublin hotel

The Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has been ordered to pay the entire legal costs, estimated at €1.5m (£1.24m), in relation to a civil rape case brought by a woman in Dublin, a judge has ruled.

It comes on top of the near €250,000 damages he was ordered to pay last month after a jury found he had assaulted Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel after a Christmas party in 2018.

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Brianna Ghey’s killer fails in bid to have sentence reduced due to his ‘immaturity’
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:11:33 GMT

Eddie Ratcliffe, who was 15 when he and a friend murdered the schoolgirl, wanted 20-year minimum jail term to be cut

One of the two teenagers convicted of the murder of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey has failed in his attempt to reduce the length of his sentence after claiming a judge failed to take into account his “immaturity”.

Eddie Ratcliffe was detained for life with a minimum term of 20 years in February for the murder, along with Scarlett Jenkinson, who received a minimum term of 22 years.

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Oregon Prison Limits Solitary to 90 Days. This BLM Protester Has Been in the Hole for 250.
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Malik Muhammad, a disabled Army veteran with PTSD, received the harshest federal sentence for the George Floyd protests.

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To Deprive Trans Kids of Medical Care, Supreme Court Looks to Britain and Sweden
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:48:18 +0000

Supreme Court conservatives cited overseas laws to defend draconian legislation in Tennessee banning gender-affirming care.

The post To Deprive Trans Kids of Medical Care, Supreme Court Looks to Britain and Sweden appeared first on The Intercept.

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Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:33:16 +0000

George Mason University suspended its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and effectively kicked out the group’s co-president.

The post Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation appeared first on The Intercept.

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Live updates: Trump taps former Georgia senator for ambassador to China
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:37:04 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Trump rally shooting hearing descends into screaming match between Secret Service chief and Republican congressman – as it happened
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:36:36 GMT

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The acting director of the US Secret Service, Ronald Rowe, laid out a series of changes that the agency is enacting following the attempted assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a campaign rally in July.

Rowe told the House task force examining the assassination attempt that the Secret Service has created an aviation unit for drone surveillance of potential threats, expanded the use of counter-drone systems, streamlined communication at protective sites and increased security of Trump throughout the rest of the presidential campaign.

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House Republicans vote to block release of Matt Gaetz ethics report
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:15:08 GMT

Chamber votes 206-198 against publication of report into former Florida representative, who resigned last month

The House on Thursday voted 206-198 to block the release of the ethics committee’s long-awaited report investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and potential illegal activities involving former Florida Republican representative Matt Gaetz.

The report in question details allegations that Gaetz engaged in illicit drug use, misuse of campaign funds and sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old girl, and allegations of obstructing the House investigation. Gaetz has consistently denied the claims.

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House Ethics Committee still undecided on sharing Gaetz investigation
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:25:07 +0000
The House Ethics Committee members on Thursday failed to decide whether to release their report on former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida).
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Demonstrators arrested outside Speaker Johnson’s office for protesting bathroom ban
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:39:26 +0000
U.S. Capitol Police arrested approximately 15 people Thursday for protesting the prohibition, which blocks any trans individual from using a bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
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US House hearing with Secret Service descends into screaming match
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:19:27 GMT

Republican representative accuses agency’s acting director at hearing over response to Trump assassination attempts

A hearing examining the Secret Service’s response to the assassination attempts against Donald Trump went off the rails on Thursday, when a screaming match broke out between the agency’s acting director, Ronald Rowe, and a Republican representative.

The hearing, hosted by the House taskforce established shortly after the first assassination attempt against Trump in July, was meant to explore the steps that the Secret Service has taken to improve security measures of protectees, but Pat Fallon, a Republican of Texas, took the questioning of Rowe in a different direction.

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Just Say No: Congress Considers Neocon Lesson Plans to Keep Kids Off Communism
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:14:43 +0000

Lawmakers will soon vote on a bill directing a nonprofit to draft curriculum on atrocities carried out by communist regimes.

The post Just Say No: Congress Considers Neocon Lesson Plans to Keep Kids Off Communism appeared first on The Intercept.

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Texas Rep. Casar to head Congressional Progressive Caucus, replacing Rep. Jayapal
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:48:34 +0000

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As Civil War Heats Back Up, U.S. Troops Are Still Deployed in Syria — And Under Fire
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:45:00 +0000

American troops are in Syria on questionable legal grounds. They continue to get attacked, according to new Pentagon data.

The post As Civil War Heats Back Up, U.S. Troops Are Still Deployed in Syria — And Under Fire appeared first on The Intercept.

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Hill Republicans are mad that other federal workers also work remotely
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:36:21 +0000
When non-congressional employees work from home, it’s an outrage. When the House spends nearly half of weekdays out of session, that’s hardly worth mentioning.
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Secret Service director, Republican congressman engage in shouting match
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:59:41 +0000

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Congress eyes $115 billion in emergency spending after hurricanes
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:55:10 +0000

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Eminem and Debbie Mathers showed that hip-hop is the genre where men come to terms with their mothers | Thomas Hobbs
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:37 GMT

Most rappers venerate the single mothers who brought them up – but Eminem shockingly lambasted his. Yet even he couldn’t keep up the enmity for long

Hip-hop has long been a culture that honours single mothers and their many sacrifices. “She was barely even grown and became my momma!” rapped a tearful Cee-Lo Green over a wounded piano on Goodie Mob’s criminally underrated 1995 song Guess Who. “I never knew my dad, so even when the times got bad / I was glad, because I had my momma.”

On the powerful hood-gospel song, Dear Mama, 2Pac famously paid tribute to the persistence of his own family matriarch, the Black Panther political revolutionary Afeni Shakur. He rapped the empathetic line: “Even as a crack fiend, momma / You always was a Black queen.” It’s one of only a few rap songs selected for preservation at the National Recording Registry in the US Library of Congress.

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A defiant Hegseth says he will ‘continue to fight’ for defense secretary post
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:04:50 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Trump picks former congressman Billy Long to replace IRS commissioner
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:32:08 +0000

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Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-New York) was elected chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, replacing Rep....
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:34:58 +0000

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She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such power.

The post She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:04:00 +0000

Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

The post Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:00:03 GMT

Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work ban

Destitute Afghan women arrested for begging under draconian new Taliban laws have spoken of “brutal” rapes and beatings in detention.

Over the past few months, many women said they had been targeted by Taliban officials and detained under anti-begging laws passed this year. While in prison, they claim they were subjected to sexual abuse, torture and forced labour, and witnessed children being beaten and abused.

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Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House.
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Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:27:50 +0000

With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree.

The post Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings? appeared first on The Intercept.

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Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:24:05 +0000

Climate Justice Alliance was the only program grantee to speak out on Palestine — and the only one whose funding is delayed.

The post Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

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Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:15:00 +0000

After 250 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

The post Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears appeared first on The Intercept.

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The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Local police across New York state regularly work with ICE. Before Trump can start rounding up immigrants, advocates are pushing for change.

The post The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE appeared first on The Intercept.

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Gateway refuelling module gets a boost
Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:00:00 +0200

ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract amendment today at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan to extend the Lunar View refuelling module for the lunar Gateway.

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To Deprive Trans Kids of Medical Care, Supreme Court Looks to Britain and Sweden
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:48:18 +0000

Supreme Court conservatives cited overseas laws to defend draconian legislation in Tennessee banning gender-affirming care.

The post To Deprive Trans Kids of Medical Care, Supreme Court Looks to Britain and Sweden appeared first on The Intercept.

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As Civil War Heats Back Up, U.S. Troops Are Still Deployed in Syria — And Under Fire
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:45:00 +0000

American troops are in Syria on questionable legal grounds. They continue to get attacked, according to new Pentagon data.

The post As Civil War Heats Back Up, U.S. Troops Are Still Deployed in Syria — And Under Fire appeared first on The Intercept.

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Just Say No: Congress Considers Neocon Lesson Plans to Keep Kids Off Communism
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:14:43 +0000

Lawmakers will soon vote on a bill directing a nonprofit to draft curriculum on atrocities carried out by communist regimes.

The post Just Say No: Congress Considers Neocon Lesson Plans to Keep Kids Off Communism appeared first on The Intercept.

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These Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:26:10 +0000

The Intercept asked companies that store personal data if they will help Trump conduct mass deportations. Few had anything to say.

The post These Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants appeared first on The Intercept.

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Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:04:00 +0000

Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

The post Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
2024-12-03T12:00:47Z

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more inclusive. AI avatars were used by presidential candidates in South Korea in electioneering, enabling them to provide answers to thousands of voters’ questions simultaneously. We are also starting to see AI tools aid fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts. AI techniques are starting to augment more traditional polling methods, helping campaigns get cheaper and faster data. And congressional candidates have started using AI robocallers to engage voters on issues. In 2025, these trends will continue. AI doesn’t need to be superior to human experts to augment the labor of an overworked canvasser, or to write ad copy similar to that of a junior campaign staffer or volunteer. Politics is competitive, and any technology that can bestow an advantage, or even just garner attention, will be used...

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AI and the 2024 Elections
2024-12-04T12:09:23Z

It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepfakes and artificial intelligence-generated misinformation would overwhelm the democratic processes. As 2024 draws to a close, it’s instructive to take stock of how democracy did.

In a Pew survey of Americans from earlier this fall, nearly eight times as many respondents expected AI to be used for mostly bad purposes...

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House Republicans have defeated the first Democratic effort to force the release of the Ethics report...
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:17:41 +0000

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Two reasons Democrats may be overreacting to the 2024 election result
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:49:35 +0000
One is that the swing to the right often ignores a prior swing to the left. The other is that failing to engage in introspection didn’t hurt the GOP after 2020.
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House Republicans vote to block release of Matt Gaetz ethics report
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:15:08 GMT

Chamber votes 206-198 against publication of report into former Florida representative, who resigned last month

The House on Thursday voted 206-198 to block the release of the ethics committee’s long-awaited report investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and potential illegal activities involving former Florida Republican representative Matt Gaetz.

The report in question details allegations that Gaetz engaged in illicit drug use, misuse of campaign funds and sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old girl, and allegations of obstructing the House investigation. Gaetz has consistently denied the claims.

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US House hearing with Secret Service descends into screaming match
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:19:27 GMT

Republican representative accuses agency’s acting director at hearing over response to Trump assassination attempts

A hearing examining the Secret Service’s response to the assassination attempts against Donald Trump went off the rails on Thursday, when a screaming match broke out between the agency’s acting director, Ronald Rowe, and a Republican representative.

The hearing, hosted by the House taskforce established shortly after the first assassination attempt against Trump in July, was meant to explore the steps that the Secret Service has taken to improve security measures of protectees, but Pat Fallon, a Republican of Texas, took the questioning of Rowe in a different direction.

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Nadler, top Democrat on House Judiciary Committee, steps aside amid pressure
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:55:32 +0000

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Trump rally shooting hearing descends into screaming match between Secret Service chief and Republican congressman – as it happened
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:36:36 GMT

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The acting director of the US Secret Service, Ronald Rowe, laid out a series of changes that the agency is enacting following the attempted assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a campaign rally in July.

Rowe told the House task force examining the assassination attempt that the Secret Service has created an aviation unit for drone surveillance of potential threats, expanded the use of counter-drone systems, streamlined communication at protective sites and increased security of Trump throughout the rest of the presidential campaign.

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Hill Republicans are mad that other federal workers also work remotely
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:36:21 +0000
When non-congressional employees work from home, it’s an outrage. When the House spends nearly half of weekdays out of session, that’s hardly worth mentioning.
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Secret Service director, Republican congressman engage in shouting match
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:59:41 +0000

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The Future of TikTok Is Being Decided This Week
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Depending on what a federal appeals court decides, TikTok’s fate might left in the hands of president-elect Donald Trump.
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Trump picks venture capitalist David Sacks as AI and crypto ‘czar’
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:35:07 GMT

Top donor with links to Musk to offer leadership on ‘two areas critical to the future of American competitiveness’

Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he was nominating podcaster and former PayPal chief operating officer David Sacks to be his White House artificial intelligence and crypto czar, continuing a pattern of rewarding big donors with political power.

Sacks, a venture capitalist and Silicon Valley insider, hosted big spenders at his San Francisco mansion in June to support the Trump campaign, with tickets ranging up to $300,000 a head. The event reportedly raked in more than $12m.

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Trump’s defense pick Pete Hegseth treads water on Capitol Hill
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:53:14 +0000
Trump’s embattled pick to lead the Pentagon continued his outreach to GOP lawmakers Thursday, picking up words of praise, but not significant new support
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Former US officials alarmed over Tulsi Gabbard’s alleged ‘sympathy for dictators’
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:43:51 GMT

Officials blast Trump’s national intelligence director pick for lack of experience and embracing conspiracy theories

• Conspiracy theories and cosying up to dictators: why intelligence experts are spooked by Tulsi Gabbard

Nearly 100 former US diplomats and intelligence and national security officials have called for the Senate to hold closed-door briefings on Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence for her alleged “sympathy for dictators like Vladimir Putin and [Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad]” and other concerns.

In an open letter, the officials blasted Tulsi Gabbard, a former presidential candidate and representative from Hawaii, for her lack of experience in the field of intelligence, embracing conspiracy theories regarding the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and “aligning herself with Russian and Syrian officials” after an “uncoordinated” meeting with Assad in Damascus in 2017.

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Analysis: Hill Republicans are mad that other federal workers also work remotely
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:17:27 +0000

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Republicans’ House majority set to be their smallest in decades
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:04:44 +0000

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Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense should alarm all of us | Moira Donegan
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:43:29 GMT

Pete Hegseth, who has been accused of drunken, irresponsible and predatory behavior, would be in charge of the world’s most powerful military

It takes a lot to get a man’s mother to declare him an “abuser of women”. Mothers, as a rule, are not known for their ungenerous assessments of their sons’ behavior. But Penelope Hegseth, the mother of the Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense, once did just that in an email to her son.

“I have no respect for a man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego,” Hegseth’s mother wrote to him. “You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains and embarrasses me to say that, but it’s the sad, sad truth.” The email – which Hegseth’s mother later disavowed – appears to have come around the time of the dissolution of Hegseth’s second marriage; during Hegseth’s first marriage, according to a new report by Vanity Fair, he confessed to no fewer than five affairs.

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Hegseth calls on accusers to come forward in meeting with House Republicans
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:04:21 +0000

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Vast majority of voters are confident in results of 2024 election
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:23:36 +0000

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Hegseth’s history with alcohol shadows Pentagon selection
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:30:35 +0000

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Revisited: Carla Denyer and the Green party: four MPs v the climate crisis
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:36 GMT

The Green party made history in the general election, winning four seats for the first time. But how much will it be able to achieve in parliament when facing the gravity of the climate crisis? The Guardian’s John Harris sits down with Carla Denyer, the Greens’ co-leader and MP for Bristol Central, to ask her what comes next for the party.

• Because of industrial action taking place by members of the National Union of Journalists at the Guardian and Observer this week, we are re-running an episode from earlier in the year. For more information please head to theguardian.com. We’ll be back with new episodes soon.

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How the Trump Indictments Backfired
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:14:26 +0000
“It was ill-fated from the beginning,” Jeannie Suk Gersen says, of the effort to prosecute Donald Trump.
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Thursday briefing: What the martial law attempt means for South Korea’s future
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:45:36 GMT

In today’s newsletter: Yoon Suk Yeol’s shock declaration – and subsequent reversal – has sent South Korea into political chaos, and left their president facing impeachment

Good morning. South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, is facing impeachment after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets with his baffling and sudden declaration of martial law on Tuesday. The move stirred memories of past dictatorships in the country, moving thousands to come out on to the streets and protest, with the military powerless, or unwilling, to do anything about it.

Opposition parties submitted an impeachment motion hours after parliament unanimously voted to cancel Yoon’s declaration, forcing him to lift martial law just six hours after it began. Impeaching Yoon requires the support of two-thirds of the national assembly and at least six of the nine constitutional court justices. The liberal opposition Democratic party holds a majority in the 300-seat parliament and has called for Yoon’s resignation. A vote on his impeachment could come as early as tomorrow. Today we’ll look at what happened and why.

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Supreme Court seems wary of blocking Tennessee’s ban on transgender care for minors
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:37:39 +0000
The case is the first to come before the Supreme Court testing the constitutionality of laws barring transgender teens from certain gender-affirming treatments.
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Live updates: Trump taps former Georgia senator for ambassador to China
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:37:04 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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House Ethics Committee still undecided on sharing Gaetz investigation
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:25:07 +0000
The House Ethics Committee members on Thursday failed to decide whether to release their report on former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida).
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Demonstrators arrested outside Speaker Johnson’s office for protesting bathroom ban
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:39:26 +0000
U.S. Capitol Police arrested approximately 15 people Thursday for protesting the prohibition, which blocks any trans individual from using a bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
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Texas Rep. Casar to head Congressional Progressive Caucus, replacing Rep. Jayapal
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:48:34 +0000

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Elon Musk just finished meeting with incoming Senate majority leader John Thune (R-South Dakota). Meanwhile, Vivek...
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:09:46 +0000

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Congress eyes $115 billion in emergency spending after hurricanes
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:55:10 +0000

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A defiant Hegseth says he will ‘continue to fight’ for defense secretary post
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:04:50 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Trump picks former congressman Billy Long to replace IRS commissioner
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:32:08 +0000

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Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-New York) was elected chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, replacing Rep....
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:34:58 +0000

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She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such power.

The post She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Namibia elects its first female president in disputed elections
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:25:00 GMT

Vice-president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah avoids runoff vote, as win extends Swapo party’s 34-year hold on power

Namibia has elected its first female leader, with Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared the winner of last week’s presidential election in a result that will extend the ruling Swapo party’s 34-year hold on power.

Nandi-Ndaitwah, the current vice-president, won with 57% of the vote, according to official results, defying predictions that she might be forced into a runoff. Swapo has ruled the country since its independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.

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How Universities Are Trying to Stop Another Year of Anti-War Activism
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:53:20 +0000

Big public universities, historically at the forefront of catalyzing activist movements, are now using legal action, disciplinary efforts, and rule changes to chill speech and dissent.

The post How Universities Are Trying to Stop Another Year of Anti-War Activism appeared first on The Intercept.

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Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:24:05 +0000

Climate Justice Alliance was the only program grantee to speak out on Palestine — and the only one whose funding is delayed.

The post Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

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‘I’ve awakened their spirit’: can man behind the mask make a dent in Ghana elections?
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:02:28 GMT

Nana Kwame Bediako is challenging the status quo with an unorthodox run for presidency appealing to younger voters

It was a bombastic statement from the man who wants to disrupt Ghana’s two-party political scene. “I’m here to represent Africa’s greatest hope,” Nana Kwame Bediako told an audience in a Palace of Westminster committee room in central London in October, referring to younger people on the continent.

After the event, a social media post by Bediako suggested the trip had involved a presentation in parliament itself, rather than an address to a committee room.

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Australia news live: Dutton accuses Albanese of abandoning bipartisan position on Israel; fashion icon Maggie Tabberer dies at 87
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:54:37 GMT

The opposition leader says UN vote to end Palestine occupation leaves Australia ‘less safe’. Follow today’s news headlines live

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Plea for overhaul of mental healthcare

Australia’s mental healthcare system has critical workforce shortages and is increasingly difficult to navigate, the Australian Medical Association say in its position statement on mental health and wellbeing, released today.

Mental healthcare is already chronically underfunded, but severe workforce shortages and inadequate staffing, the complexity of presentations, and increasing patient loads are further contributing to a system reaching breaking point.

It is vital the key areas of the mental health workforce, including psychiatry and general practice, are adequately resourced and structured to be able to provide the best possible care for people who desperately need help.

I unequivocally condemn the attack on a Melbourne synagogue early this morning.

I have zero tolerance for anti-semitism. It has absolutely no place in Australia. This violence and intimidation and destruction at a place of worship is an outrage.

This deliberate, unlawful attack goes against everything we are as Australians and everything we have worked so hard to build as a nation.

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Trump announces his candidates to head ICE, Customs and Border Protection
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Stephen Miller, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump who is set to serve as his White...
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Trump taps David Sacks for White House A.I. and cryptocurrency czar
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) went after Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) in a House floor speech Thursday,...
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Senior Biden aide commits to giving Ukraine avalanche of military assistance
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:01:46 GMT

White House games last-minute strategy to bolster Ukraine, including $20bn in loans and sweeping sanctions on Russia

The White House has gamed out a last-minute strategy to bolster Ukraine’s war position that involves an avalanche of military assistance and sweeping new sanctions against Russia, according to a background briefing from a National Security Council spokesperson.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan met with the head of the office of the Ukrainian president Andriy Yermak for more than an hour on Thursday, committing to provide Ukraine with hundreds of thousands of additional artillery rounds, thousands of rockets and hundreds of armored vehicles by mid-January, according to the briefing shared with the Guardian.

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Bronze Stars, like those Hegseth earned, are common among military officers
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:58:33 +0000
Pete Hegseth’s supporters point to his wartime decorations in declaring him qualified to lead the military. Experts say that distorts those awards’ significance.
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Firebrands and falsettos: the fight to fill Simon Birmingham’s SA Senate spot
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:26:39 GMT

Adelaide city councillor Henry Davis, who parodied the lord mayor this week by dressing in drag, to challenge Alex Antic-installed frontrunner

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Adelaide city councillor Henry Davis, who this week dressed in drag as the Adelaide lord mayor complete with pearls and falsetto, is set to challenge the frontrunner for Simon Birmingham’s Senate spot.

He says firebrand conservative senator Alex Antic wants a “clean sweep” to power in the Liberal party, including by installing current state party president, Leah Blyth, in the casual vacancy created by Birmingham’s resignation last week.

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The Scandal of Trump’s Cabinet Picks Isn’t Just Their Personal Failings
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:25:03 +0000
The President-elect and his appointees now view their internal enemies as America’s biggest national-security threats.
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Fetterman: A pardon is appropriate for both Trump and Hunter Biden
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Michael Blake, former Obama aide, announces bid to be DNC vice chairman
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Newsom to push for finishing new port of entry as Trump threatens border crackdown
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:16:23 +0000
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s expected announcement of a project at the new entry port is part of his attempt to reframe the national conversation around the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Former national security and intelligence leaders urge Senate to scrutinize Gabbard
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Analysis: Trump’s creaking Cabinet — and how much it could hurt him
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The House Ethics Committee said Thursday that it had not reached a decision on whether to...
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White House weighs preemptive pardons for potential Trump targets
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Trump’s creaking Cabinet — and how much it could hurt him
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:33:39 +0000
It’s rare to see high-profile Cabinet picks struggle like this, and the GOP holdouts are a real problem for a president-elect who needs to bring his party to heel.
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This week, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann discuss whether Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for secretary of defense, can make it through the nomination process. Plus, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are on Capitol Hill touting their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – but how much power will they really have? Then, President Biden pardoned his son Hunter last weekend. Does that represent a final departure from the norms Biden promised to uphold? And who's really president right now? President Biden is on a foreign trip, but Capitol Hill and foreign leaders are all focused on Trump.
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Rep. Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) told reporters after the GOP conference-wide DOGE meeting that there was discussion...
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Pete Hegseth reiterated that he would continue pursuing the job of defense secretary as long as...
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Vance to tour Helene recovery efforts in North Carolina on Friday
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Trump names his own pick for IRS commissioner, breaking from tradition
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Defiant Macron vows to stay on as French president and will appoint PM within days
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:47:55 GMT

President says he will remain in power until 2027, amid political turmoil following collapse of government

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has ruled out resigning, saying he will stay in power until the end of his term in 2027 and will appoint a new prime minister in the coming days, after the government’s historic collapse plunged France into political turmoil.

“You have given me a democratic mandate of five years and I’ll carry it out fully until its term,” he said in a televised speech to the French people late on Thursday.

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Harris tells Black state lawmakers an ‘important year’ is ahead
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Approximately 15 people were arrested outside the office of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) office Thursday...
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Entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy walked right past a lectern in the Capitol Visitor Center...
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Johnson welcomes Musk and Ramaswamy to the Capitol
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Shouting match erupts as lawmakers grill acting Secret Service director
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:14:22 +0000
An otherwise substantive hearing about Secret Service shortfalls after the attempted assassination of President-elect Donald Trump devolved into a shouting match.
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Video: Key GOP senators noncommittal on Hegseth nomination
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Hegseth could chill reporting of military sexual assault, survivor advocates warn
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See which products Trump’s tariffs could make more expensive
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Sen. Tuberville say it’s ‘not our job’ to vet Donald Trump’s picks
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Fox News figures out how to loop immigrants in to the UnitedHealthcare killing
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:49:44 +0000
Fox News continues to play a role in stoking the idea that crime is largely a function of immigrants.
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M&S given green light by Angela Rayner to demolish Oxford Street store
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:48:54 GMT

Approval for Marks & Spencer to rebuild flagship London store ends three-year planning battle over art deco building

Marks & Spencer has been given the green light to demolish its flagship Oxford Street store, ending a fierce three-year planning battle over the art deco building.

The housing secretary, Angela Rayner, ruled on Thursday that the plans could go ahead.

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Can Keir Starmer’s six targets turn the tide? What the PM said – and what it all means
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:38:28 GMT

They might have sounded a tad familiar, but the prime minister is hoping these pledges will win back trust

Sir Keir Starmer’s speech on Thursday mentioned the word “milestone” eight times and “missions” 13 times. There were also three “promises” and a “pledge”.

This all added up to one big thing: the prime minister attempting to turn the tide after a difficult start in government, by setting targets it must reach by the end of this parliament.

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Sen. Rick Scott expresses support for Hegseth, who ‘put on the uniform’
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People protesting efforts by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) to ban transgender individuals from using women’s...
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Rep. Wesley Hunt: I ‘fully support’ Hegseth as next defense secretary
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The Senate DOGE caucus, recently formed to support President-elect Donald Trump’s nongovernmental “Department of Government Efficiency,”...
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Vivek Ramaswamy, whom President-elect Donald Trump tapped to co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency” with Elon...
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Sen. Ernst signals she has not decided to support Hegseth
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What Trump’s second administration could mean for environmental justice
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Trump threatens tariffs to protect dollar against threat few see as real
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Hegseth says the next defense secretary should have combat experience
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Sen. Blumenthal requests veterans’ groups provide Hegseth-related records
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If Pete Hegseth withdraws from consideration as defense secretary, he would be Donald Trump’s third prospective...
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Trump says ‘you’re welcome’ after Bitcoin price surges
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Hegseth continuing outreach to senators
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Trump plans to accept Fox award tonight
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The House Ethics Committee is scheduled to meet Thursday on whether to release its report on...
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Here’s what happened the last time Trump moved federal jobs out of D.C.
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Analysis: The day of DOGE on Capitol Hill
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Jeff Bezos is optimistic about working with a ‘calmer’ Trump
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GOP’s thin House majority could complicate Trump’s policy plans
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The Modern-Day Fight for Ancient Rome
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Films such as “Gladiator II” underscore our long-standing obsession with the Roman Empire—a fixation that’s evident in both culture and politics. Why are we so desperate to reclaim ancient history?
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The Immigrants Most Vulnerable to Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Entered the Country Legally
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Biden could still pursue additional protections for many of them—so far, he appears unwilling to do so.
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Joe Biden should pardon Reality Winner for her actions as a whistleblower | Margaret Sullivan
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:00:46 GMT

The leaker went to jail for a patriotic, if illegal, act. She has a lot to offer the world if she’s allowed to move on

In late November, Reality Winner – who turned 33 this week – finished her lengthy punishment for sending a government document to a news organization.

It’s past time for her to be pardoned so that she can move on with her life and, particularly, her education. She wants to be a veterinary technician, get a good-paying job and move out of her mother’s Texas house, but having a felony in one’s background doesn’t help with any of that.

Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture

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Hegseth defiant as Trump considers replacing him as defense secretary pick
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Chappell Roan, semaglutide and Kamala Harris: the most mispronounced words of 2024
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:00:32 GMT

Language experts rounded up the year’s winners (losers?) in the US and UK – and provided the correct pronunciations

At the Democratic national convention, Kamala Harris’s nieces explained how to pronounce Harris’s name. Chappell Roan gave fans a friendly “final warning” about the pronunciation of hers. And Zendaya settled the matter on video.

All three helped to define 2024 – and spent the year hearing people get their names wrong: each appears on lists of the year’s most mispronounced words in the US and UK, produced by the language-learning website Babbel, which reminds us that they’re pronounced COM-a-la HAR-iss, CHAP-uhl ROHN and Zen-DAY-a.

The Dutch Kooikerhondje (COY-ker-HUND-che), a breed of dog owned by the world’s best baseball player, Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ohtani’s dog won fans after “throwing” the first pitch at a game (he carried the ball from the pitcher’s mound to his crouching owner at home plate).

Shein, the fast-fashion site – it’s SHE-in, not SHEEN or SHINE.

The drug in the weight-loss medications Ozempic and Wegovy is semaglutide (sem-ah-GLOO-tide).

Phryge, the mascot of the Paris Olympics and summer Paralympics, is pronounced FREE-je. It was a nod to the Phrygian cap, an emblematic accessory of the French revolutionaries.

The flygskam (FLEEG-skam) – or flight-shame – movement is pushing people to cut down on flying to help the planet.

Also in the word of professional sports: Joško Gvardiol (YOSH-ko GVAR-dee-ol) plays soccer (FOOT-ball) for Manchester City and Croatia.

And the mispronunciation of the word espresso (es-PRESS-oh) as ex-PRESS-oh sparked outrage among some coffee fans. The word has been in the news thanks to the song by Sabrina Carpenter, who also made headlines for her relationship with Keoghan.

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Tracking Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and administration
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 01:37:56 +0000
Here are the people Donald Trump has picked or is considering to fill his Cabinet and key positions in his administration.
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Small Business Administration chief
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Trump’s Middle East envoy launches effort at Gaza ceasefire, traveling to Qatar, Israel
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‘We’re not going away’: the man who led NZ’s biggest Māori rights march vows to fight on
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:01:28 GMT

Eru Kapa-Kingi has become the most recognised face of a movement against the government’s policy direction for Māori

Māori activist Eru Kapa-Kingi may have just led a historic march on Indigenous rights in New Zealand but he is reluctant to take credit for it.

“We just opened the door, and [thousands] stepped through,” Kapa-Kingi tells the Guardian from his Auckland home, two weeks after a rally he helped mobilise became the largest protest in support of Māori rights and one of the biggest demonstrations in New Zealand’s history.

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Trump picks Kelly Loeffler to lead Small Business Administration
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Biden, in Africa, pushes to cement ties before leaving office
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:50:05 +0000
The president touted a railway project intended in part to counter China’s influence on the continent.
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Jeff Bezos says he’s optimistic for Trump’s second term in the White House
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Justices appear likely to uphold Tennessee ban on treatments for trans teens
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:56:02 +0000
In the biggest case of the term, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on certain gender transition medical treatments for transgender minors.
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President-elect Donald Trump will sit for an interview set to air Sunday with NBC News’ “Meet...
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Mexico announces seizure of fentanyl after Trump threatens tariffs
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) just asked a group of reporters for a pause in questions about...
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Mexico announces record drug seizure one week after Trump threatens tariffs
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:16:52 GMT

Soldiers and marines discover drugs in Sinaloa, while separately authorities arrest more than 5,200 migrants

Mexican security forces have impounded more than a ton of fentanyl pills in what officials have called the biggest seizure of the synthetic opioid in the country’s history.

Soldiers and marines found the fentanyl at two properties in the northern state of Sinaloa, late on Tuesday – exactly a week after Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico unless the two neighbouring countries cracked down on the flow of immigrants and drugs across their borders with the US.

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Denying allegations, Hegseth says ‘there’s no reason to back down’
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Hegseth reschedules Thursday trip to Mar-a-Lago
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Hegseth said Trump told him ‘You’re my guy’
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Romney pushes for more bipartisanship in farewell Senate speech
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:11:13 +0000
Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), a former GOP presidential nominee who became a foe of Donald Trump, stressed bipartisanship in his farewell Senate speech.
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Kash Patel threatens legal action against critic
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Most members of the House have only known the Trump era of politics
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:48:09 +0000
Six in 10 representatives and a third of senators have only been on Capitol Hill since Trump was president. How does this affect their understanding of their role?
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Trump asks Michael Whatley to stay on as RNC chair
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Hegseth says he has never had a drinking problem
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Trump swaps out new White House counsel pick
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:03:01 +0000

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Trump picks Monica Crowley for chief of protocol
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Hegseth op-ed: ‘I have never backed down from a fight’
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A defiant Pete Hegseth just spoke to reporters in the Russell Senate Office Building, giving no...
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Supreme Court seems wary of blocking Tennessee’s ban on certain medical treatments for trans minors
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Mexico says Canada wishes it had its ‘cultural riches’ amid tariffs feud
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:53:49 GMT

Leaders cast the other as ill-prepared after Trump threatens to apply 25% taxes on goods from both countries

Mexico’s president has said Canadians “could only wish they had the cultural riches” of her country as tensions mount between the two nations, caught in a feud over tariffs and trade exacerbated by Donald Trump.

The US president-elect threatened in a social media post last week to apply devastating levies of 25% on all goods and services from both countries, and to keep them in place until “such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country!”

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qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Four things to know about South Korean President Yoon as impeachment looms
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:47:23 +0000
Yoon Suk Yeol was a career prosecutor who made his first foray into politics when he became the People Power Party’s presidential candidate in 2021.
Match ID: 131 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Video: Democratic spokeswoman pushes away soldier’s gun
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:23:03 +0000

Match ID: 132 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 democrat

Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:33:16 +0000

George Mason University suspended its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and effectively kicked out the group’s co-president.

The post Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 133 Score: 30.00 source: theintercept.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 republican

FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:18:29 +0000
The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient.
Match ID: 134 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

To win again, Keir Starmer’s Labour party needs to get emotional | Letters
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:57:08 GMT

Sheila Duncan says Labour has to address the problems facing Britain with passion if it wants public support. Plus letters from David Diprose and Maureen Tilford

John Harris raises some important issues in his article (Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human, 1 December), but it’s crucial to dig deeper into the relationship between politics and emotion. Politicians like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are not more “human” than those in the centre or on the left. They just know how to manipulate dark human emotions – fear, anger and resentment – in societies where there is profound inequality, very little taxation of the rich and barely regulated privatisation of all that makes civilised life possible – health services, education, water, energy and transport.

They particularly know how to manipulate resentment – the emotion that underlies fascism – when so many people struggle for survival as they watch the smug satisfaction of those who don’t.

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Match ID: 135 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Unknown disease kills 143 people in south-west DRC, local authorities say
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:59:41 GMT

Infected people described as having flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches

An unknown disease killed 143 people in a south-west province of Democratic Republic of the Congo in November, local authorities told Reuters.

Infected people had flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches, Remy Saki, the deputy governor of Kwango province, and Apollinaire Yumba, the provincial minister of health, said on Monday.

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Match ID: 136 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 democrat

Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000
A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.
Match ID: 137 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Is Contraception Under Attack?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
You can now buy a pill over the counter, but a conservative backlash is promoting anti-contraceptive disinformation.
Match ID: 138 Score: 30.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 republican

Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House.
Match ID: 139 Score: 28.57 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 21.43 politics, 7.14 congress

Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:15:00 +0000

After 250 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

The post Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 140 Score: 28.57 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 8.57 republican, 8.57 democrat, 5.71 federal government, 2.86 house of representatives, 2.86 congress

The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Local police across New York state regularly work with ICE. Before Trump can start rounding up immigrants, advocates are pushing for change.

The post The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 141 Score: 26.43 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 3.57 election, 2.86 federal government, 2.14 legislature, 2.14 executive, 1.43 senate majority leader, 1.43 congress

Trans Americans Are Turning to TikTok to Crowdfund Their Relocations
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:01:41 +0000
With their health care before the Supreme Court and president-elect Donald Trump about to take office, trans Americans are seeking to move to states where they feel safest.
Match ID: 142 Score: 25.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Bitcoin hits $100,000
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:43:17 +0000
Trump-fueled crypto rally rages on as bitcoin hits new high.
Match ID: 143 Score: 25.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Podcast picks of the week: Julia Davis turns agony aunt, the history of Grand Theft Auto and more
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:44:49 GMT

In a Hear Here special, we round up five of the best unscripted shows, and five of the best video game podcasts

Rachel Aroesti chooses five of the best unscripted podcasts, from a long-running improv sketch show to a musical podcast with a difference

Off Book: The Improvised Musical
Improv is one of the bedrocks of popular comedy in the US – a fact reflected in the phenomenally impressive skillsets of its best practitioners. They include Jessica McKenna and Zach Reino, who joined forces in 2017 for this musical theatre podcast. Usually accompanied by an equally talented guest, each episode of Off Book sees our hosts masterfully ad-lib an entire musical from scratch. Themes include mice and Denmark, but the subject is largely irrelevant: whatever the topic, you’ll be spellbound by their ability to magic up a hilarious – yet still convincing – songbook and script on the spot.

It Can’t Just Be Me, a frank life advice show from Anna Richardson, host of couldn’t-be-franker nude dating show Naked Attraction.

We Live Here Now, in which progressive journalists Lauren Ober and Hanna Rosin meet their election-denying, January 6-linked neighbours.

HyperFixed, a new getting-to-the-bottom-of-things show from Reply All’s Alex Goldman.

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Match ID: 144 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Donna Nelson, who claims she was love scam victim, jailed for smuggling drugs into Japan
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:28:10 GMT

Donna Nelson sentenced to six years in prison after court finds her guilty of bringing methamphetamine into country

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The jailing of an Australian woman in Japan is “really distressing” for her family, the federal government has acknowledged as it committed to doing all it could to help her.

The Australian federal health minister, Mark Butler, made the promise a day after Donna Nelson was sentenced to six years for smuggling methamphetamine into Tokyo in January 2023, despite her claims she had been the victim of an online romance scam.

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Match ID: 145 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 federal government

A Kamala Harris Canvasser’s Education
Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Even on my first day, I sensed dissonance between the campaign’s celebrity-inflected exuberance and the raw divisions I saw in the streets.
Match ID: 146 Score: 17.14 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 17.14 democrat

New photos released as NYPD hunt insurance boss killer
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:44:27 GMT
Police are still working to determine a motive in the slaying of insurance executive Brian Thompson.
Match ID: 147 Score: 15.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Intel adds some much-needed help to its board, with stock on track for its worst year ever
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:34:00 GMT
Intel Corp.’s much-needed addition of two executives with semiconductor expertise to its board comes as the chip maker’s stock is on track for its worst year ever, after the ouster earlier this week of Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger.
Match ID: 148 Score: 15.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Martial law came to South Korea – and my friends and I doomscrolled through the night
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:57:32 GMT

Since the separation of the Koreas in 1953, our elders have experienced the suspension of normal civil rights many times. But for the younger generation, this was a horrifying and instructive first

At 10.23pm on 3 December in Seoul, I was already in bed, alternating between reading a book and watching YouTube cooking reels. That was when Yoon Suk Yeol, the president, declared emergency martial law in South Korea for the first time since 1979.

In an unannounced televised address, Yoon said the imposition of martial law was “aimed at eradicating pro-North Korean forces and protecting the constitutional order of freedom”.

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Match ID: 149 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 constitution

A spectacle at Wembley despite the stalemate – Women’s Football Weekly
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:41:40 GMT

Faye Carruthers is joined by Suzy Wrack, Emma Duffy, and Tom Garry to round up the latest international fixtures and more

On today’s podcast: the panel reviews the goalless draw between England and the USA at Wembley. Was Emma Hayes right to feel disappointed? Are the Lionesses lacking firepower in their forward line, and why did it take so long to notice that it didn’t hit Alex Greenwood’s arm?

Also, we look ahead to the Euro 2025 playoff second legs, along with the Lionesses' final game of 2024, as they take on Switzerland.

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Match ID: 150 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Palestinians File German Complaint on Media Giant Axel Springer’s Business in Israeli Settlements
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

“Contributing to land theft and unlawful evictions of Palestinians in the West Bank would be a direct violation of the Supply Chain Act.”

The post Palestinians File German Complaint on Media Giant Axel Springer’s Business in Israeli Settlements appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 151 Score: 15.00 source: theintercept.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 constitution

Documents Contradict Google’s Claims About Its Project Nimbus Contract With Israel
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:33:06 +0000

A previously undisclosed email and new documents show the Project Nimbus deal isn’t covered by Google’s general terms of service.

The post Documents Contradict Google’s Claims About Its Project Nimbus Contract With Israel appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 152 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 executive

Javier Milei Wages War on Argentina’s Government
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The President, a libertarian economist given to outrageous provocations, wants to remake the nation. Can it survive his shock-therapy approach?
Match ID: 153 Score: 12.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 libertarian

Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:27:50 +0000

With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree.

The post Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings? appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 154 Score: 12.14 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 3.57 election

Eminem and Debbie Mathers showed that hip-hop is the genre where men come to terms with their mothers | Thomas Hobbs
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:37 GMT

Most rappers venerate the single mothers who brought them up – but Eminem shockingly lambasted his. Yet even he couldn’t keep up the enmity for long

Hip-hop has long been a culture that honours single mothers and their many sacrifices. “She was barely even grown and became my momma!” rapped a tearful Cee-Lo Green over a wounded piano on Goodie Mob’s criminally underrated 1995 song Guess Who. “I never knew my dad, so even when the times got bad / I was glad, because I had my momma.”

On the powerful hood-gospel song, Dear Mama, 2Pac famously paid tribute to the persistence of his own family matriarch, the Black Panther political revolutionary Afeni Shakur. He rapped the empathetic line: “Even as a crack fiend, momma / You always was a Black queen.” It’s one of only a few rap songs selected for preservation at the National Recording Registry in the US Library of Congress.

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Match ID: 155 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:36:33 +0000
The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively.
Match ID: 156 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

AI-Generated Fake News Is Coming to an Election Near You
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Targeted, AI-generated political misinformation is already out there—and humans are falling for it.
Match ID: 157 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 318 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:05:20 +0000
Demographics and geopolitics will make a recovery harder
Match ID: 158 Score: 8.57 source: www.economist.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 8.57 politics

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
2024-10-28T00:00:00Z
Demographics are not destiny in politics. Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse Shapiro explain how their latest research is playing out in the final stretch of the US presidential race.
Match ID: 159 Score: 8.57 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 39 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat

There’s a Reason Harris’ Campaign Is Locked in on Quick Fixes
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:00:00 EST
The Democratic nominee isn’t campaigning much on the Biden administration’s bigger, slower-moving policies.
Match ID: 160 Score: 7.86 source: www.politico.com age: 55 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat, 3.57 election

How to trade an election
Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:10:12 +0000
It is becoming harder for investors to ignore politics
Match ID: 161 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 259 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election

Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:58:45 +0000
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
Match ID: 162 Score: 7.14 source: www.economist.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 election

Security Analysis of the MERGE Voting Protocol
2024-11-25T12:09:05Z

Interesting analysis: An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways.

Abstract: The recently published “MERGE” protocol is designed to be used in the prototype CAC-vote system. The voting kiosk and protocol transmit votes over the internet and then transmit voter-verifiable paper ballots through the mail. In the MERGE protocol, the votes transmitted over the internet are used to tabulate the results and determine the winners, but audits and recounts use the paper ballots that arrive in time. The enunciated motivation for the protocol is to allow (electronic) votes from overseas military voters to be included in preliminary results before a (paper) ballot is received from the voter. MERGE contains interesting ideas that are not inherently unsound; but to make the system trustworthy—to apply the MERGE protocol—would require major changes to the laws, practices, and technical and logistical abilities of U.S. election jurisdictions. The gap between theory and practice is large and unbridgeable for the foreseeable future. Promoters of this research project at DARPA, the agency that sponsored the research, should acknowledge that MERGE is internet voting (election results rely on votes transmitted over the internet except in the event of a full hand count) and refrain from claiming that it could be a component of trustworthy elections without sweeping changes to election law and election administration throughout the U.S...

Match ID: 163 Score: 5.71 source: www.schneier.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Economists need new indicators of economic misery
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:40:55 +0000
Existing measures of discomfort are failing to predict elections
Match ID: 164 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:55:47 +0000
Turning a profit from political news is a lot harder than it looks
Match ID: 165 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 133 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:36:12 +0000
Why, then, are they largely outlawed in America?
Match ID: 166 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 147 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

How American politics has infected investing
Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:41:46 +0000
Beware: taking a stand can be expensive
Match ID: 167 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 228 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, offer independently-minded internet users a safe haven—but it’s also a boon to those with a darker purpose.
Match ID: 168 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 316 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

Regulators Are Finally Catching Up With Big Tech
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The lawless, Wild West era of AI and technology is almost at an end, as data protection authorities use new and existing legislation to get tough.
Match ID: 169 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 328 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:10:00 +0000

 

In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools. This platform not only stands out from the multitude of existing AI tools but also brings a fresh approach to content generation. LimeWire not only empowers users to create AI content but also provides creators with creative ways to share and monetize their creations.

As we explore LimeWire, our aim is to uncover its features, benefits for creators, and the exciting possibilities it offers for AI content generation. This platform presents an opportunity for users to harness the power of AI in image creation, all while enjoying the advantages of a free and accessible service.

Let's unravel the distinctive features that set LimeWire apart in the dynamic landscape of AI-powered tools, understanding how creators can leverage its capabilities to craft unique and engaging AI-generated images.

Introduction

This revamped LimeWire invites users to register and unleash their creativity by crafting original AI content, which can then be shared and showcased on the LimeWire Studio. Notably, even acclaimed artists and musicians, such as Deadmau5, Soulja Boy, and Sean Kingston, have embraced this platform to publish their content in the form of NFT music, videos, and images.

Beyond providing a space for content creation and sharing, LimeWire introduces monetization models to empower users to earn revenue from their creations. This includes avenues such as earning ad revenue and participating in the burgeoning market of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). As we delve further, we'll explore these monetization strategies in more detail to provide a comprehensive understanding of LimeWire's innovative approach to content creation and distribution.

LimeWire Studio welcomes content creators into its fold, providing a space to craft personalized AI-focused content for sharing with fans and followers. Within this creative hub, every piece of content generated becomes not just a creation but a unique asset—ownable and tradable. Fans have the opportunity to subscribe to creators' pages, immersing themselves in the creative journey and gaining ownership of digital collectibles that hold tradeable value within the LimeWire community. Notably, creators earn a 2.5% royalty each time their content is traded, adding a rewarding element to the creative process.

The platform's flexibility is evident in its content publication options. Creators can choose to share their work freely with the public or opt for a premium subscription model, granting exclusive access to specialized content for subscribers.

LimeWire AI Studio

As of the present moment, LimeWire focuses on AI Image Generation, offering a spectrum of creative possibilities to its user base. The platform, however, has ambitious plans on the horizon, aiming to broaden its offerings by introducing AI music and video generation tools in the near future. This strategic expansion promises creators even more avenues for expression and engagement with their audience, positioning LimeWire Studio as a dynamic and evolving platform within the realm of AI-powered content creation.

AI Image Generation Tools

The LimeWire AI image generation tool presents a versatile platform for both the creation and editing of images. Supporting advanced models such as Stable Diffusion 2.1, Stable Diffusion XL, and DALL-E 2, LimeWire offers a sophisticated toolkit for users to delve into the realm of generative AI art.

Much like other tools in the generative AI landscape, LimeWire provides a range of options catering to various levels of complexity in image creation. Users can initiate the creative process with prompts as simple as a few words or opt for more intricate instructions, tailoring the output to their artistic vision.

What sets LimeWire apart is its seamless integration of different AI models and design styles. Users have the flexibility to effortlessly switch between various AI models, exploring diverse design styles such as cinematic, digital art, pixel art, anime, analog film, and more. Each style imparts a distinctive visual identity to the generated AI art, enabling users to explore a broad spectrum of creative possibilities.

The platform also offers additional features, including samplers, allowing users to fine-tune the quality and detail levels of their creations. Customization options and prompt guidance further enhance the user experience, providing a user-friendly interface for both novice and experienced creators.

Excitingly, LimeWire is actively developing its proprietary AI model, signaling ongoing innovation and enhancements to its image generation capabilities. This upcoming addition holds the promise of further expanding the creative horizons for LimeWire users, making it an evolving and dynamic platform within the landscape of AI-driven art and image creation.

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

Upon completing your creative endeavor on LimeWire, the platform allows you the option to publish your content. An intriguing feature follows this step: LimeWire automates the process of minting your creation as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), utilizing either the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. This transformative step imbues your artwork with a unique digital signature, securing its authenticity and ownership in the decentralized realm.

Creators on LimeWire hold the power to decide the accessibility of their NFT creations. By opting for a public release, the content becomes discoverable by anyone, fostering a space for engagement and interaction. Furthermore, this choice opens the avenue for enthusiasts to trade the NFTs, adding a layer of community involvement to the artistic journey.

Alternatively, LimeWire acknowledges the importance of exclusivity. Creators can choose to share their posts exclusively with their premium subscribers. In doing so, the content remains a special offering solely for dedicated fans, creating an intimate and personalized experience within the LimeWire community. This flexibility in sharing options emphasizes LimeWire's commitment to empowering creators with choices in how they connect with their audience and distribute their digital creations.

After creating your content, you can choose to publish the content. It will automatically mint your creation as an NFT on the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. You can also choose whether to make it public or subscriber-only.

If you make it public, anyone can discover your content and even trade the NFTs. If you choose to share the post only with your premium subscribers, it will be exclusive only to your fans.

Earn Revenue From Your Content

Additionally, you can earn ad revenue from your content creations as well.

When you publish content on LimeWire, you will receive 70% of all ad revenue from other users who view your images, music, and videos on the platform.

This revenue model will be much more beneficial to designers. You can experiment with the AI image and content generation tools and share your creations while earning a small income on the side.

LMWR Tokens

The revenue you earn from your creations will come in the form of LMWR tokens, LimeWire’s own cryptocurrency.

Your earnings will be paid every month in LMWR, which you can then trade on many popular crypto exchange platforms like Kraken, ByBit, and UniSwap.

You can also use your LMWR tokens to pay for prompts when using LimeWire generative AI tools.

Pricing Plans

You can sign up to LimeWire to use its AI tools for free. You will receive 10 credits to use and generate up to 20 AI images per day. You will also receive 50% of the ad revenue share. However, you will get more benefits with premium plans.

• Basic plan: 

For $9.99 per month, you will get 1,000 credits per month, up to 2 ,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 50% ad revenue share

• Advanced plan: 

For $29 per month, you will get 3750 credits per month, up to 7500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 60% ad revenue share

• Pro plan: 

For $49 per month, you will get 5,000 credits per month, up to 10,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

• Pro Plus plan: 

For $99 per month, you will get 11,250 credits per month, up to 2 2,500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

With all premium plans, you will receive a Pro profile badge, full creation history, faster image generation, and no ads.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, LimeWire emerges as a democratizing force in the creative landscape, providing an inclusive platform where anyone can unleash their artistic potential and effortlessly share their work. With the integration of AI, LimeWire eliminates traditional barriers, empowering designers, musicians, and artists to publish their creations and earn revenue with just a few clicks.

The ongoing commitment of LimeWire to innovation is evident in its plans to enhance generative AI tools with new features and models. The upcoming expansion to include music and video generation tools holds the promise of unlocking even more possibilities for creators. It sparks anticipation about the diverse and innovative ways in which artists will leverage these tools to produce and publish their own unique creations.

For those eager to explore, LimeWire's AI tools are readily accessible for free, providing an opportunity to experiment and delve into the world of generative art. As LimeWire continues to evolve, creators are encouraged to stay tuned for the launch of its forthcoming AI music and video generation tools, promising a future brimming with creative potential and endless artistic exploration

Match ID: 170 Score: 4.29 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 359 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat

Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:47:39 EST
A pair of POLITICO|Morning Consult polls, one conducted in the final days of the election and the other conducted after Trump won, show how public opinion has changed.
Match ID: 171 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

The “Palestine Exception”
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:30:00 +0000

On The Intercept Briefing, we discuss college crackdowns on Palestine solidarity protests and the chilling effect on free speech.

The post The “Palestine Exception” appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 172 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

Tell us your favourite stage show of 2024
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:23:39 GMT

Tell us about your standout stage production of the year – we’ll feature a selection of your favourites

We would like to hear about your favourite theatre shows of 2024. Which play captured your heart? Maybe a dance company moved you? Please briefly explain why (100 words max) by filling in the form below and we will feature a selection of them.

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Match ID: 173 Score: 3.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris
Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:11:58 +0000
Voters are starting to notice the good news just in time for the election
Match ID: 174 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 39 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:08:53 +0000
Following a nasty surprise, some now think they may come only after the presidential election
Match ID: 175 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 239 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
Match ID: 176 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 270 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000

Are you looking for a new graphic design tool? Would you like to read a detailed review of Canva? As it's one of the tools I love using. I am also writing my first ebook using canva and publish it soon on my site you can download it is free.  Let's start the review.

Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

Canva is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, banners, and more using professionally designed templates. You can upload your own photos from your computer or from Google Drive, and add them to Canva's templates using a simple drag-and-drop interface. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop that doesn't require Graphic designing knowledge to use. It’s best for nongraphic designers.

Who is Canva best suited for?

Canva is a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have the time and want to edit quickly.

To create sophisticated graphics, a tool such as Photoshop can is ideal. To use it, you’ll need to learn its hundreds of features, get familiar with the software, and it’s best to have a good background in design, too.

Also running the latest version of Photoshop you need a high-end computer.

So here  Canva takes place, with Canva you can do all that with drag-and-drop feature. It’s also easier to use and free. Also an even-more-affordable paid version is available for $12.95 per month.

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12.99/month per user or  $119.99/year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum 25 people).

Free plan Features

• 250,000+ free templates
• 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, and more)
• Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
• Invite members to your team
• Collaborate and comment in real-time
• 5GB of cloud storage
• Try Canva Pro for free for 30 days

Pro Plan Features 

• Everything Free, has plus:
• 100+ million premium and  stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
• 610,000+ premium and free templates with new designs daily
• Access to Background Remover and Magic Resize
•  Create a library of your brand or campaign's colors, logos, and fonts with up to 100 Brand Kits
• Remove image backgrounds instantly with background remover
• Resize designs infinitely with Magic Resize
• Save designs as templates for your team to use
• 100GB of cloud storage
• Schedule social media content to 8 platforms

Enterprise Plan Features

• Everything Pro has plus:
• Establish your brand's visual identity with logos, colors and fonts across multiple Brand Kits
• Control your team's access to apps, graphics, logos, colors and fonts with brand controls
• Built-in workflows to get approval on your designs
• Set which elements your team can edit and stay on brand with template locking
• Unlimited Storage
• Log in with single-sign on (SSO) and have access to 24/7 Enterprise-level support.

How to Use Canva?

To get started on Canva, you will need to create an account by providing your email address, Google, Facebook or Apple credentials. You will then choose your account type between student, teacher, small business, large company, non-profit, or personal. Based on your choice of account type, templates will be recommended to you.

You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to get a sense of whether it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.

Canva Sign Up

Designing with Canva

When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. Based on the type of account you set up  you'll be able to see templates categorized by the following categories: social media posts, documents, presentations, marketing, events, ads, launch your business, build your online brand, etc.

 Start by choosing a template for your post or searching for something more specific. Search by social network name to see a list of post types on each network.

Templates

Next, you can choose a template. Choose from hundreds of templates that are ready to go, with customizable photos, text, and other elements.

You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template matching your needs, or working with a blank template.

 Canva has a lot to choose from, so start with a specific search.if you want to create business card just search for it and you will see alot of templates to choose from

Elements

Inside the Canva designer, the Elements tab gives you access to lines and shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids.The search box on the Elements tab lets you search everything on Canva.

To begin with, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. To find them, be specific in your search query. You may also want to search in the following tabs to see various elements separately:

Photos

The Photos tab lets you search for and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.

You can replace the photos in our templates to create a new look. This can also make the template more suited to your industry.

You can find photos on other stock photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or simply upload your own photos.

When you choose an image, Canva’s photo editing features let you adjust the photo’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.), crop, or animate it.

 When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including the Background Remover. This feature allows you to remove the background from any stock photo in  library or any image you upload.

Text

The Text tab lets you add headings, normal text, and graphical text to your design.

When you click on  text, you'll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, format, spacing, and text effects (like shadows). 

Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts on the Brand Kit or the Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure that visual content remains on-brand, no matter how many people are working on it.

Audio

Create an animated image or video by adding audio to capture user’s attention in social news feeds.

If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the more option.

Video

Want to create your own videos? Choose from thousands of stock video clips. You’ll find videos that range upto 2 minutes

You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab. 

Once you have chosen a video, you can use the editing features in Canva to trim the video, flip it, and adjust its transparency.

Backgrounds

On the Background tab, you’ll find free stock photos to serve as backgrounds on your designs. Change out the background on a template to give it a more personal touch.

Styles

The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just a click. And if you have a Canva Pro subscription, you can upload your brand’s custom colors and fonts to ensure designs stay on brand.

Logos

If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. Here, you can upload variations of your brand logo to use throughout your designs.

With Canva, you can also create your own logos. Note that you cannot trademark a logo with stock content in it.

Publishing with Canva

With Canva, free users can download and share designs to multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack and Tumblr.

Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from one design. For example, you can start by designing an Instagram post, and Canva's Magic Resizer can resize it for other networks, Stories, Reels, and other formats.

Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content on eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.

Canva Team

Canva Pro allows you to work with your team on visual content. Designs can be created inside Canva, and then sent to your team members for approval. Everyone can make comments, edits, revisions, and keep track via the version history.

Canva Print

When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. With an extensive selection of printing options, they can turn your designs into anything from banners and wall art to mugs and t-shirts. 

Canva Print is perfect for any business seeking to make a lasting impression. Create inspiring designs people will want to wear, keep, and share. Hand out custom business cards that leave a lasting impression on customers' minds.

Canva Apps

The Canva app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Canva app has earned a 4.9 out of five star rating from over 946.3K Apple users and a 4.5 out of five star rating from over 6,996,708 Google users.

In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other Internet services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, Emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content elements.

Canva Pros and Cons

Pros:

• A user-friendly interface
• Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
• Hundreds of templates, so you'll never have to start from scratch.
• Wide variety of templates to fit multiple uses
• Branding kits to keep your team consistent with the brand colors and fonts
• Creating visual content on the go
• You can find royalty free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.

Cons:

• Some professional templates are available for Pro user only
• Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
• Some elements that fall outside of a design are tricky to retrieve.
• Features (like Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
• If you are a regular user of Adobe products, you might find Canva's features limited.
• Prefers to work with vectors. Especially logos.
• Expensive enterprise pricing

Conclusion

In general, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for projects. If you are a graphic designer with experience, you will find Canva’s platform lacking in customization and advanced features – particularly vectors. But if you have little design experience, you will find Canva easier to use than advanced graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most projects. If you have any queries let me know in the comments section.

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How having babies became so political - video
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:33:44 GMT

The pronatalist movement in the US is gathering pace once again, rekindled by Silicon Valley personalities and hard-right conservatives who are becoming increasingly vocal about whether or not women are having enough babies. But it's not just in the US, some governments in other countries have launched marketing campaigns encouraging people to have more children, while others have offered financial incentives. But while many of these policies claim to be about halting population decline, there are other factors at play. Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates efforts around the world to boost birth rates, as well as the underlying political motivations, from bodily autonomy to immigration

• Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?

• When desperate measures to persuade women to have children fail, it’s time for fresh thinking

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What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
2024-11-08T00:00:00Z
What can corporate leaders learn from executives who served their country during wartime conflicts? Drawing on a series of case studies, Robert Simons shares important lessons from the experiences of Walt Disney, Dwight Eisenhower, and Robert McNamara.
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Gateway refuelling module gets a boost
Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:00:00 +0200

ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract amendment today at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan to extend the Lunar View refuelling module for the lunar Gateway.

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Holiday cookie generator
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:15:43 +0000
Find the best holiday cookie recipes for every taste and occasion.
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10 holiday cookie recipes to bring sparkle to the season
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:00:50 +0000
Our annual collection of cookies is sure to bring a smile to your face, whether you want something chocolaty, fruity, gluten-free or vegan.
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I love Christmas, especially making edible gifts – even for the grinches in my life
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:00:30 GMT

In this week’s Feast newsletter: Everything about the holidays makes me happy, even light-up earrings. But my favourite thing is whipping up treats for loved ones

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Last Christmas, a chef I regularly work with admitted he hates homemade gifts. Needless to say, I was aghast; who doesn’t love a homemade edible gift?! Perhaps he has been scarred by endless jars of hedgerow jams and allotment veg chutney over the years (although I’m not sure I could ever get sick of homemade chutney, especially if it is one of Chetna Makan’s recipes). This chef is a dear friend, so I have done what any good friend would do and, ever since, have given him a homemade gift each time I’ve given him a present. It got me thinking about edible gifts, what constitutes a good one and why I love them so much.

I’ll start with a disclaimer: I adore Christmas. I’m talking light-up earrings, carols around the village Christmas tree and Felicity Cloake’s mulled wine on repeat – I love it all. However, I do get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that appears at this time of year. Do we need more stuff? Family and friends will ask me: “What do you want? What do you need?” There is, in fact, very little that I need, and what I actually want is the recipe for your infamous chocolate cake or your granny’s recipe for her slow-cooked ragu. (Clearly I’m not the only one, given the success of online sensation Pasta Grannies.) Or perhaps a bottle of that premixed margarita you made last time I visited your house. To be honest, you could bottle up any of these pitcher-style cocktails and I’d be thrilled. I love it all.

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5 things to know about champagne, plus 7 bottles we love
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:00:00 +0000
What to know about champagne, plus 7 of our columnists favorite bubbles to try.
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Bovine colostrum, raw milk and cortisol face: the biggest wellness trends of 2024
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:29:30 GMT

Will lowering cortisol levels help with puffiness? Do you need to take magnesium? What’s underconsumption core? We’re here to help

We all want to be well – to feel good or, at least, not feel bad. For the most part, we know how to do this: eat nutritious food, move your body, get adequate sleep, manage stress and nurture your relationships.

But eating leafy greens, going on walks and journaling aren’t terribly exciting. New trends that promise to revolutionize our health and wellbeing are more intriguing. Often, these trends are old ideas in shiny new packaging (eg detoxing). Sometimes, they are genuine advancements whose implications may not yet be fully understood (eg microbiome testing).

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Warm up your holidays with these colorful quilt block sugar cookies
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:52:22 +0000
Color, cut and piece together a simple sugar cookie dough for a stunning and customizable holiday quilt block cookie.
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Soup drips through and you stab yourself: the spork is the worst utensil
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:00:30 GMT

You can’t really stab your food with it like a real fork, and you can’t really scoop your soup

Since Auguste Comte, philosophers have assumed that progress is an inevitable feature of history. As the father of positivism, Comte argued that the human condition always improves as science and technology advance.

A single commonplace object proves Comte’s assertion absurd and fallacious: the spork.

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Thai panang curry paste punches up this pumpkin noodle soup
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:00:23 +0000
Store-bought Thai panang curry paste — or red curry paste, in a pinch — helps get this soup on the table in 30 minutes.
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6 Best Food Processors (2024), Tested and Reviewed
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Chop, grate, grind, crush, and puree to perfection, with WIRED’s favorite time saving kitchen appliances.
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Our Country diary column is 120 years old, but still fresh as a crisp winter’s morning
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:00:28 GMT

In this week’s Down To Earth newsletter: The oldest known newspaper column in existence has run since 1904, and gives an insight into the natural world that’s a striking reflection of the times

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Obsessed with the weather? If you’re a British reader, then the answer is certainly yes. Thanks to our seasonal climate, we have always been a nation with one eye on the sky – and it’s only a short hop from there to observing how our flora and fauna respond to these ever-shifting conditions. Being in early winter now, it’s the time of year for geese and gales, starlings and mistletoe, tree rot and fungi in staggering variety. There is always, always something changing about our wildlife, day by day.

This is the foundation on which the Guardian’s Country diary column flourishes. It’s a sort of slow-motion version of the BBC programme Springwatch – one short piece each day, from a different writer in a different part of the UK, each focusing on a different aspect of nature.

Fury as US argues against climate obligations at top UN court

Wake up and smell the coffee: rising food prices show destabilising impact of climate crisis | Heather Stewart

‘Straight in harm’s way’: can Trump open up Alaska’s 19m-acre refuge for drilling?

The night-time farm is alive with unseen wildlife

A snowy blow-in brings a blizzard of visitors

Spotted! A black squirrel outside my school kitchen

‘It signifies renewal’: recipients of Sycamore Gap saplings announced

‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property

Spain introduces paid climate leave after deadly floods

On the Grenadian island of Carriacou, even the dead are now climate victims

‘Climate bomb’ warning over $200bn wave of new gas projects

Countries call for binding targets to cut plastic production after talks fail

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The Best Gifts for the Beverage Enthusiast in Your Life (2024)
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:36:00 +0000
Our favorite WIRED-tested giftable gadgets for everything from water and coffee to wine and cocktails.
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Tricked by a Fake Viral Food Product? You’ve Just Been Snackfished
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
They’ve racked up millions of views on Instagram, but these products aren’t coming to a store near you.
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Gregg Wallace’s ghostwriter makes new harassment allegations
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:13:08 GMT

TV presenter denies fresh claims of incidents that Shannon Kyle alleges happened when she was working on his 2012 autobiography

The ghostwriter of Gregg Wallace’s 2012 autobiography has claimed he sexually harassed her when she was working on the book.

Shannon Kyle told BBC Newsnight that Wallace touched her thigh inappropriately while she was sitting in the passenger seat of his sports car and touched her bottom during an appearance at the Good Food Show.

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Sake: Japan’s ‘divine gift’ given special status by Unesco
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:41:04 GMT

Rice wine enshrined as part of ‘cultural heritage of humanity’

Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It’s brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savoured in the country’s pub-like izakayas, poured during weddings and served slightly chilled for special toasts.

Now, the smooth rice wine that plays a crucial role in Japan’s culinary traditions - and is a favoured tipple of celebrities such as Cate Blanchett – has been enshrined by Unesco, which has put it on its list of the “intangible cultural heritage of humanity”.

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Eating dark chocolate regularly could reduce type 2 diabetes risk, study finds
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:30:27 GMT

Researchers say risk could be reduced by 21% but connection ‘controversial’

Eating a few pieces of dark chocolate five times a week while avoiding milk chocolate has been linked to a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes.

The connection between chocolate consumption and type 2 diabetes risk is “controversial”, according to researchers, although they highlight that most previous studies did not explore the difference between types of chocolate.

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Cooking chat: Do you have to remove the green sprout from garlic?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:00:44 +0000
Every Wednesday at noon Eastern, Aaron Hutcherson and Becky Krystal answer your cooking questions.
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14 Thoughtful Gifts for Your Coworkers
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:30:00 +0000
You see them every single day (almost). Our curated guide features personalized gifts for every office personality, from the foodies to the minimalists.
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Are food recalls on the rise? Despite public concern, not really.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:20:36 +0000
The number of food recalls appears on track to slightly dip this year. Here’s why it feels like they’re happening more frequently.
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Manhattan clam chowder inspires a seafood stew worthy of company
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:18:18 +0000
This seafood stew, inspired by Manhattan clam chowder, is as easy to make as soup and impressive enough for a dinner party.
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Vitamix Ascent X2 Review: The Ferrari of Blenders
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:07:00 +0000
This smart blender is a workhorse meant for more than smoothies and baby food.
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Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:04:00 +0000

Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

The post Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms. appeared first on The Intercept.

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From biscuits to plants: 20 easy gifts so good we buy them on repeat
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:00:50 GMT

Need a generic but thoughtful gift? Here’s our inspiring list of affordable, and often useful, failsafe presents we buy time and again

We’ve all been there: royally stumped for a present for someone, be it a newly acquired father-in-law whose taste you don’t yet know, or a birthday you’d forgotten about. That’s when you reach for your fail-safes – the gifts you’ve bought time and again because, well, they’re a winner every time.

From a kids’ game and a box of iced biscuits to rejuvenating bath foam and a box of charity teabags, these presents have all been gratefully received by their recipients, over and over.

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Houston’s Thriving West African Food Scene
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
As the city has welcomed more immigrants from Nigeria and neighboring countries, the local restaurant landscape has flourished.
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Whipped Shortbread Spritz Cookies
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
These melt-in-your mouth shortbread cookies are all about texture and the rich taste of butter.
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Stollen-Inspired Taiwanese Snowflake Crisps
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
Similar in spirit to puffed rice cereal treats, these no-bake Taiwanese snowflake crisps inspired by stollen are a delightful fusion of East and West.
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Slice-and-Bake S’mores Cookies
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
Get that quintessential s’mores flavor, no campfire required, with these decadent chocolate slice-and-bake cookies, enriched with cocoa powder, chopped milk chocolate, lightly crushed meringue cookies and graham cracker pieces.
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Quilt Block Sugar Cookies
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
Cookies and crafting come together in this colorful and customizable cookie project recipe.
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Pfeffernusse
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
A classic of Old World holiday baking, these German pfeffernüsse (peppernuts) have all the ingredients of a seasonal favorite cookie, including a dough rich with spices that pair well with earthy molasses and cocoa, plus a tangy lemon icing.
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Noon Tokhmorghi (Crispy Egg Yolk and Walnut Cookies)
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
Light as air, these gluten-free, cardamom-spiced noon tokhmorghi pair perfectly with tea.
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Mango Raspberry Polvoron
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
These two-toned polvoron, or no-bake Filipino shortbread cookies, are fruity, nutty and naturally gluten-free.
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Gingersnap and Orange Cream Sandwiches
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
Gingersnaps are an enchanting winter cookie, but this recipe takes them to another level as a sandwich filled with a bright, citrusy buttercream to balance the depth and complexity of the wafers.
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Five-Spice Cranberry Thumbprint Cookies
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
Filled with tart cranberry jam and topped with a drizzle of sweet glaze, these vegan, nut-free and gluten-free thumbprint cookies are an allergy-friendly holiday treat that everyone can enjoy.
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Black and White Cookies
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 05:00:00 +0000
Black and white cookies are a classic of the Jewish American bakery, and for good reason.
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Panang Curry Pumpkin Noodle Soup
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000
Thai panang curry paste, with notes of peanut, coriander and cumin, gives this pumpkin soup its complex sweet-sour flavor.
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The best non-alcoholic prosecco, champagne and sparkling wines for 2024
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:00:08 GMT

From alcohol-free prosecco to dealcoholised wine, here are our top picks for no-booze bubbles with plenty of sparkle

Party season is around the corner, but that doesn’t have to mean overdoing the booze until we try to undo the excesses in Dry January.

If you’re avoiding alcohol, there are plenty of good alternatives to sparkling wine that still feel celebratory and make that great sound when you pop the cork. And, for once, we can toast to “our good health” and actually mean it.

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Women arrested by Taliban for begging report rape and killings in Afghan jails
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 07:00:03 GMT

Draconian new laws allow mass incarceration of women and children forced to beg because of work ban

Destitute Afghan women arrested for begging under draconian new Taliban laws have spoken of “brutal” rapes and beatings in detention.

Over the past few months, many women said they had been targeted by Taliban officials and detained under anti-begging laws passed this year. While in prison, they claim they were subjected to sexual abuse, torture and forced labour, and witnessed children being beaten and abused.

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Israel Agrees to Stop Bombing Lebanon — So It Can Keep Bombing Gaza
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What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
Mon, 18 Apr 2022 05:49:00 +0000

If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information. If you don't have a credit card, you can pay with bank transfer. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, these methods may become old.

Imagine a world in which you can do transactions and many other things without having to give your personal information. A world in which you don’t need to rely on banks or governments anymore. Sounds amazing, right? That’s exactly what blockchain technology allows us to do.

It’s like your computer’s hard drive. blockchain is a technology that lets you store data in digital blocks, which are connected together like links in a chain. 

Blockchain technology was originally invented in 1991 by two mathematicians, Stuart Haber and W. Scot Stornetta. They first proposed the system to ensure that timestamps could not be tampered with.

A few years later, in 1998, software developer Nick Szabo proposed using a similar kind of technology to secure a digital payments system he called “Bit Gold.” However, this innovation was not adopted until Satoshi Nakamoto claimed to have invented the first Blockchain and Bitcoin.

So, What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed database shared between the nodes of a computer network. It saves information in digital format. Many people first heard of blockchain technology when they started to look up information about bitcoin.

Blockchain is used in cryptocurrency systems to ensure secure, decentralized records of transactions.

Blockchain allowed people to guarantee the fidelity and security of a record of data without the need for a third party to ensure accuracy.

To understand how a blockchain works, Consider these basic steps:

• Blockchain collects information in “blocks”.
• A block has a storage capacity, and once it's used up, it can be closed and linked to a previously served block.
• Blocks form chains, which are called “Blockchains.”
• More information will be added to the block with the most content until its capacity is full. The process repeats itself.
• Each block in the chain has an exact timestamp and can't be changed.

Let’s get to know more about the blockchain.

How does blockchain work?

Blockchain records digital information and distributes it across the network without changing it. The information is distributed among many users and stored in an immutable, permanent ledger that can't be changed or destroyed. That's why blockchain is also called "Distributed Ledger Technology" or DLT.

Here’s how it works:

• Someone or a computer will transacts
• The transaction is transmitted throughout the network.
• A network of computers can confirm the transaction.
• When it is confirmed a transaction is added to a block
• The blocks are linked together to create a history.

And that’s the beauty of it! The process may seem complicated, but it’s done in minutes with modern technology. And because technology is advancing rapidly, I expect things to move even more quickly than ever.

• A new transaction is added to the system. It is then relayed to a network of computers located around the world. The computers then solve equations to ensure the authenticity of the transaction.
• Once a transaction is confirmed, it is placed in a block after the confirmation. All of the blocks are chained together to create a permanent history of every transaction.

How are Blockchains used?

Even though blockchain is integral to cryptocurrency, it has other applications. For example, blockchain can be used for storing reliable data about transactions. Many people confuse blockchain with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.

Blockchain already being adopted by some big-name companies, such as Walmart, AIG, Siemens, Pfizer, and Unilever. For example, IBM's Food Trust uses blockchain to track food's journey before reaching its final destination.

Although some of you may consider this practice excessive, food suppliers and manufacturers adhere to the policy of tracing their products because bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella have been found in packaged foods. In addition, there have been isolated cases where dangerous allergens such as peanuts have accidentally been introduced into certain products.

Tracing and identifying the sources of an outbreak is a challenging task that can take months or years. Thanks to the Blockchain, however, companies now know exactly where their food has been—so they can trace its location and prevent future outbreaks.

Blockchain technology allows systems to react much faster in the event of a hazard. It also has many other uses in the modern world.

What is Blockchain Decentralization?

Blockchain technology is safe, even if it’s public. People can access the technology using an internet connection.

Have you ever been in a situation where you had all your data stored at one place and that one secure place got compromised? Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to prevent your data from leaking out even when the security of your storage systems is compromised?

Blockchain technology provides a way of avoiding this situation by using multiple computers at different locations to store information about transactions. If one computer experiences problems with a transaction, it will not affect the other nodes.

Instead, other nodes will use the correct information to cross-reference your incorrect node. This is called “Decentralization,” meaning all the information is stored in multiple places.

Blockchain guarantees your data's authenticity—not just its accuracy, but also its irreversibility. It can also be used to store data that are difficult to register, like legal contracts, state identifications, or a company's product inventory.

Pros and Cons of Blockchain

Blockchain has many advantages and disadvantages. 

Pros

• Accuracy is increased because there is no human involvement in the verification process.
• One of the great things about decentralization is that it makes information harder to tamper with.
• Safe, private, and easy transactions
• Provides a banking alternative and safe storage of personal information

Cons

• Data storage has limits.
• The regulations are always changing, as they differ from place to place.
• It has a risk of being used for illicit activities 

Frequently Asked Questions About Blockchain

I’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about blockchain in this section.

Is Blockchain a cryptocurrency?

Blockchain is not a cryptocurrency but a technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. It's a digital ledger that records every transaction seamlessly.

Is it possible for Blockchain to be hacked?

Yes, blockchain can be theoretically hacked, but it is a complicated task to be achieved. A network of users constantly reviews it, which makes hacking the blockchain difficult.

What is the most prominent blockchain company?

Coinbase Global is currently the biggest blockchain company in the world. The company runs a commendable infrastructure, services, and technology for the digital currency economy.

Who owns Blockchain?

Blockchain is a decentralized technology. It’s a chain of distributed ledgers connected with nodes. Each node can be any electronic device. Thus, one owns blockhain.

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain technology?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which is powered by Blockchain technology while Blockchain is a distributed ledger of cryptocurrency 

What is the difference between Blockchain and a Database?

Generally a database is a collection of data which can be stored and organized using a database management system. The people who have access to the database can view or edit the information stored there. The client-server network architecture is used to implement databases. whereas a blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, stored in a distributed system. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, timestamp and transaction information. Modification of data is not allowed due to the design of the blockchain. The technology allows decentralized control and eliminates risks of data modification by other parties.

Final Saying

Blockchain has a wide spectrum of applications and, over the next 5-10 years, we will likely see it being integrated into all sorts of industries. From finance to healthcare, blockchain could revolutionize the way we store and share data. Although there is some hesitation to adopt blockchain systems right now, that won't be the case in 2022-2023 (and even less so in 2026). Once people become more comfortable with the technology and understand how it can work for them, owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs alike will be quick to leverage blockchain technology for their own gain. Hope you like this article if you have any question let me know in the comments section

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