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Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claims
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:03:10 +0000
A UK judge has ruled that Craig Wright violated a court order preventing him from bringing lawsuits based on his spurious claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.
Match ID: 0 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 20.00 cryptocurrenc(y|ies), 10.00 bitcoin(|s)

Health Insurance Execs Should Live in Fear of Prison, Not Murder
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The U.S. political system is owned by corporations despised by the American people. Luigi Mangione is the result.

The post Health Insurance Execs Should Live in Fear of Prison, Not Murder appeared first on The Intercept.

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qualifiers: 20.00 cryptocurrenc(y|ies)

Stop Calling Online Scams ‘Pig Butchering,’ Interpol Warns
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Experts say the catchall term for online fraud furthers harm against victims and could dissuade people from reporting attempts to bilk them out of their money.
Match ID: 2 Score: 14.29 source: www.wired.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 14.29 cryptocurrenc(y|ies)

Man who claims he invented bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1 trillion suit
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:46:14 +0000
UK judge issues 1-year suspended prison sentence as Wright hides in Asia.
Match ID: 3 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 10.00 bitcoin(|s)

Bitcoin’s price is surging. What happens next?
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:05:13 +0000
The cryptocurrency is up by 63% this year
Match ID: 4 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 290 days
qualifiers: 2.86 cryptocurrenc(y|ies), 1.43 bitcoin(|s)

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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qualifiers: 2.86 cryptocurrenc(y|ies), 1.43 bitcoin(|s)

Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000

 

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the most popular digital assets today, capturing the attention of cryptocurrency investors, whales and people from around the world. People find it amazing that some users spend thousands or millions of dollars on a single NFT-based image of a monkey or other token, but you can simply take a screenshot for free. So here we share some freuently asked question about NFTs.

1) What is an NFT?

NFT stands for non-fungible  token, which is a cryptographic token on a blockchain with unique identification codes that distinguish it from other tokens. NFTs are unique and not interchangeable, which means no two NFTs are the same. NFTs can be a unique artwork, GIF, Images, videos, Audio album. in-game items, collectibles etc.

2) What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger that allows for the secure storage of data. By recording any kind of information—such as bank account transactions, the ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), or Decentralized Finance (DeFi) smart contracts—in one place, and distributing it to many different computers, blockchains ensure that data can’t be manipulated without everyone in the system being aware.

3) What makes an NFT valuable?

The value of an NFT comes from its ability to be traded freely and securely on the blockchain, which is not possible with other current digital ownership solutionsThe NFT points to its location on the blockchain, but doesn’t necessarily contain the digital property. For example, if you replace one bitcoin with another, you will still have the same thing. If you buy a non-fungible item, such as a movie ticket, it is impossible to replace it with any other movie ticket because each ticket is unique to a specific time and place.

4) How do NFTs work?

One of the unique characteristics of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is that they can be tokenised to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought, sold and traded on the blockchain. 

As with crypto-currency, records of who owns what are stored on a ledger that is maintained by thousands of computers around the world. These records can’t be forged because the whole system operates on an open-source network. 

NFTs also contain smart contracts—small computer programs that run on the blockchain—that give the artist, for example, a cut of any future sale of the token.

5) What’s the connection between NFTs and cryptocurrency?

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren't cryptocurrencies, but they do use blockchain technology. Many NFTs are based on Ethereum, where the blockchain serves as a ledger for all the transactions related to said NFT and the properties it represents.5) How to make an NFT?

Anyone can create an NFT. All you need is a digital wallet, some ethereum tokens and a connection to an NFT marketplace where you’ll be able to upload and sell your creations

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

When you purchase a stock in NFT, that purchase is recorded on the blockchain—the bitcoin ledger of transactions—and that entry acts as your proof of ownership.

7) How is an NFT valued? What are the most expensive NFTs?

The value of an NFT varies a lot based on the digital asset up for grabs. People use NFTs to trade and sell digital art, so when creating an NFT, you should consider the popularity of your digital artwork along with historical statistics.

In the year 2021, a digital artist called Pak created an artwork called The Merge. It was sold on the Nifty Gateway NFT market for $91.8 million.

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

Non-fungible tokens can be used in investment opportunities. One can purchase an NFT and resell it at a profit. Certain NFT marketplaces let sellers of NFTs keep a percentage of the profits from sales of the assets they create.

9) Will NFTs be the future of art and collectibles?

Many people want to buy NFTs because it lets them support the arts and own something cool from their favorite musicians, brands, and celebrities. NFTs also give artists an opportunity to program in continual royalties if someone buys their work. Galleries see this as a way to reach new buyers interested in art.

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

There are many places to buy digital assets, like opensea and their policies vary. On top shot, for instance, you sign up for a waitlist that can be thousands of people long. When a digital asset goes on sale, you are occasionally chosen to purchase it.

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

To mint an NFT token, you must pay some amount of gas fee to process the transaction on the Etherum blockchain, but you can mint your NFT on a different blockchain called Polygon to avoid paying gas fees. This option is available on OpenSea and this simply denotes that your NFT will only be able to trade using Polygon's blockchain and not Etherum's blockchain. Mintable allows you to mint NFTs for free without paying any gas fees.

12) Do i own an NFT if i screenshot it?

The answer is no. Non-Fungible Tokens are minted on the blockchain using cryptocurrencies such as Etherum, Solana, Polygon, and so on. Once a Non-Fungible Token is minted, the transaction is recorded on the blockchain and the contract or license is awarded to whoever has that Non-Fungible Token in their wallet.

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?

 Non-fungible tokens have gained the hearts of people around the world, and they have given digital creators the recognition they deserve. One of the remarkable things about non-fungible tokens is that you can take a screenshot of one, but you don’t own it. This is because when a non-fungible token is created, then the transaction is stored on the blockchain, and the license or contract to hold such a token is awarded to the person owning the token in their digital wallet.

You can sell your work and creations by attaching a license to it on the blockchain, where its ownership can be transferred. This lets you get exposure without losing full ownership of your work. Some of the most successful projects include Cryptopunks, Bored Ape Yatch Club NFTs, SandBox, World of Women and so on. These NFT projects have gained popularity globally and are owned by celebrities and other successful entrepreneurs. Owning one of these NFTs gives you an automatic ticket to exclusive business meetings and life-changing connections.

Final Saying

That’s a wrap. Hope you guys found this article enlightening. I just answer some question with my limited knowledge about NFTs. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comment section below. Also I have a question for you, Is bitcoin an NFTs? let me know in The comment section below

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qualifiers: 2.86 cryptocurrenc(y|ies), 1.43 bitcoin(|s)

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
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qualifiers: 2.86 cryptocurrenc(y|ies)

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

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qualifiers: 2.86 cryptocurrenc(y|ies)

Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rally
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:34:47 +0000
The link between digital assets and mainstream finance is strengthening
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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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Let China build electric cars in UK, Tory ex-chancellor tells Rachel Reeves ahead of trade trip
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:00:40 GMT

Despite ‘spy’ scandal, Philip Hammond says Britain should now adopt a ‘pragmatic approach to Beijing’

China should be encouraged to build electric cars and renewable energy technology in the UK as part of a new pragmatic trading relationship that would benefit both countries, a former Tory chancellor has said ahead of a landmark visit by Rachel Reeves to Beijing early in the new year.

Philip Hammond, who was chancellor from 2016 to 2019, and the last UK minister to take part in formal economic discussions with China before the process was abruptly ended, told the Observer that while Reeves should never “compromise security for trade”, there were vital economic sectors where deals could be struck.

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Will Japan’s close ties with US survive the caprice and quirks of Donald Trump?
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:00:08 GMT

Japan’s complex defence alliances built up over years as protection against China could be put at risk in a Trump-launched trade war

Arguably, no country in Asia has better reason to be in a state of anxiety over the return of Donald Trump to the White House than Japan, since the US has been the linchpin of Japanese foreign and security policy since the second world war.

Back in 2017, well before he became prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba described Trump’s method as one of “placing his counterpart in a state of anxiety and tension, creating psychological instability and then initiating a deal”.

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Trump-Putin relations enter a new chapter, and the world is at stake
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:00:19 +0000
Vladimir Putin wants a sit-down with Donald Trump as equals in which they divide the world into spheres of influence.
Match ID: 2 Score: 45.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 25.00 trump, 20.00 russia

Trump is attacking the wrong deficit if he hopes to right the economy
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:53:00 GMT
The federal budget deficit is a more dangerous threat to Americans’ wealth than the trade deficit.
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qualifiers: 25.00 trump, 15.00 trump

EPA Staffers Demand Biden Release Climate Funds Withheld Over Gaza
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:16:12 +0000

“The funds to CJA are critical for building community resilience against climate change threats.”

The post EPA Staffers Demand Biden Release Climate Funds Withheld Over Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

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qualifiers: 25.00 trump, 15.00 energy

Menaced by foreign foes, facing mutiny at home: how long before Iran goes nuclear? | Simon Tisdall
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:00:39 GMT

After Syria, Israel and the US fear Tehran will build an atomic bomb. Their threats may produce that very outcome

Choices, choices. In life, there’s always a choice, or so that complacent saying goes. It didn’t really hold true for the people of Syria, bound and gagged by tyranny for half a century. Yet finally, after infinite pain, they chose freedom. Now the Middle East spotlight shifts to other victims of state oppression. Who’s next for revolution? Step forward, Iran.

A sudden collapse of the hardline theocratic regime in power since the Shah’s overthrow in 1979 is unlikely. True or false? Surprises happen, as all Syria knows. How Iran navigates the changing post-Assad landscape is fiercely debated in Tehran. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and senior mullahs face fateful decisions about the country’s path.

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Trump said to see Elon Musk as useful activist after spending deal showdown
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:00:21 GMT

Musk’s role in government shutdown drama could be a preview of role he plays for incoming president next year

Donald Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk is showing no signs of fraying, even after at times he appeared to eclipse the president-elect’s influence as he bullied House Republicans into paring down their bipartisan spending deal to avert a government shutdown with just hours to spare.

The move by Musk to detonate the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb – by demanding that Republicans sink the deal or face a primary challenge – was viewed as a test run of the kind of role Musk might play to pressure Congress once Trump takes office, people familiar with the matter said.

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Republicans Said the FTC Was Too Politicized. Now Trump’s FTC Pick Says It Should be Politicized — by Trump.
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:30:00 +0000

“When you imagine what the FTC is willing and able to do in the service of an authoritarian Trump administration, that takes you to some really terrifying places.”

The post Republicans Said the FTC Was Too Politicized. Now Trump’s FTC Pick Says It Should be Politicized — by Trump. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Starmer backs minister accused of embezzling billions in Bangladesh
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:07:31 GMT

Tulip Siddiq denies claims that she brokered corrupt deal with Russia to build nuclear power plant

Keir Starmer has given his full support to Tulip Siddiq, the Treasury minister, after Bangladesh’s anti-corruption commission accused her and family members of embezzling billions as part of a deal for a nuclear power plant.

Siddiq’s role as economic secretary to the Treasury includes responsibility for tackling financial corruption. She has denied any involvement in the claims.

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The Real Danger of ABC News Settling Its Lawsuit With Donald Trump
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The big news outlets used to say settlements would encourage more lawsuits. Trump is already targeting smaller newspapers.

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Faced with Trump and Farage, Britain’s natural ally is Europe | William Keegan
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:00:40 GMT

The Labour party’s determination to stick to Brexit simply condemns the UK to fight a lone hand against the far-right forces ranged against it

The sight of other world leaders toadying up to the US president-elect – the criminal Donald Trump – and his henchman Elon Musk is distasteful enough, but in the world of realpolitik they probably feel they have no option.

The great American journalist HL Mencken did not live to see the fulfilment of his 1920 prophecy that “one day the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron” but he is no doubt turning in his grave.

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Lara Trump withdraws bid to replace outgoing Florida senator Marco Rubio
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:06:39 GMT

Trump, who is married to Donald Trump’s son Eric, co-chaired Republican National Committee in 2024 election

Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, said on Saturday she had removed her name from consideration to replace the outgoing US senator Marco Rubio.

Rubio has been tapped by Trump to serve as secretary of state. The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, will pick a replacement for Rubio, who is expected to resign as senator when Trump takes office on 20 January.

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Lara Trump drops out of contention for U.S. Senate seat for Florida
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:37 +0000
President-elect Donald Trump had indicated to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that he wanted his daughter-in-law to be appointed.
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How Trump and Musk set off the shutdown crisis — but got little in return
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:58:15 +0000
The past week provides a preview of what spending battles could be like in a closely divided Congress and with warring GOP factions.
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Trump picks Apprentice producer Mark Burnett as UK envoy
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:52:18 GMT
The London-born TV mogul says he is "truly honored" to serve as Trump's special envoy to the UK.
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Trump names ‘Apprentice’ creator Mark Burnett as special U.K. envoy
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:48:35 +0000
The scope of Burnett’s diplomatic role was not immediately clear. Such posts are usually set up for countries where there are conflicts or the U.S. has no diplomatic presence.
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Trump appoints The Apprentice producer as US special envoy to UK
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:26:48 GMT

Mark Burnett, who also created Survivor, Shark Tank and The Voice, lacks diplomatic and foreign policy experience

Donald Trump has appointed Mark Burnett, a British television producer who helped produce Trump’s show The Apprentice, as the US’s special envoy to the UK.

In an announcement on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump hailed 64-year-old Burnett, saying: “With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark brings a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition to this important role.”

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The G.O.P.’s Elon Musk Problem
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:48:57 +0000
The tech billionaire derailed a government-funding deal and made a shutdown more likely. His intervention signals the growing sway of wealth in politics, and its risks.
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Biden signs stopgap funding bill, but congressional fight to continue
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:48:28 +0000
The incoming Congress, which will be controlled by Republicans, is still expected to face bruising battles over government funding in Trump’s second term.
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China loves Elon Musk and his hustle — but Trump could complicate that
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:38:30 +0000
Tesla is deeply reliant on China, both for manufacturing and sales. But now that its CEO has an official role in the Trump administration, things could get tricky.
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Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:35:11 GMT

Government fears moves to curb any potential cash from the tech titan could backfire and play into Reform UK’s hands

Ministers are resisting demands to rush through measures to block Elon Musk from handing millions to Nigel Farage, amid a growing clamour for an overhaul of Britain’s political donation laws.

The government is facing mounting calls this weekend for an urgent clampdown that would limit the amount a foreign national can donate via their UK-based companies.

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Diplomats defend Mandelson after US aide’s ‘absolute moron’ jibe
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:28:13 GMT

Confirmation of role as ambassador to Washington drew attack by Trump campaign adviser on X

Senior diplomats have dismissed insults aimed at Peter Mandelson by allies of Donald Trump, saying he has more than enough experience in the hard world of diplomacy to succeed as ambassador to Washington.

Foreign Office sources rallied to Lord Mandelson’s defence on Saturday after confirmation of his appointment, which prompted a Trump campaign adviser to call him “an absolute moron”.

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Chris Riddell on how Peter Mandelson’s meeting with Donald ‘Jabba the Hut’ Trump might go – cartoon
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:00:23 GMT

The Labour peer, who has been appointed Britain’s US ambassador, greets Trump as Elon Musk and Nigel Farage look on

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Biden signs funding measure to keep US government running
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:31:37 GMT

Measure averting government shutdown did not include demand by Trump to raise debt ceiling

The US Senate has approved a stop-gap funding measure to avert a government shutdown shortly after a midnight deadline with a bill that defied Donald Trump’s demand for a debt-limit suspension. The legislation was signed by Joe Biden on Saturday morning, the White House confirmed.

The Senate passed the bill in an 85-11 vote, hours after an overwhelmingly bipartisan 366-34 vote in the House. It was passed 38 minutes after the deadline but the government did not invoke shutdown procedures in the interim.

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But his emails? Team Trump’s private emails spark concerns – Eight years after targeting Hillary Clinton's email protocols, Trump's transition team is relying on private servers instead of secure government accounts.
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Trump’s ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:00:16 GMT

Trump is hardly the first US president to introduce miscast nominees, but he has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memory

They seem an unlikely, almost motley, crew of emissaries.

For the Bahamas, there is Herschel Walker, a former NFL star whose fledgling Senate campaign was undone by a string of personal embarrassments but who now is named to be the next US ambassador to the small island nation.

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Trump’s claims of a mandate run into reality of narrow majorities
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:57:45 +0000
Donald Trump’s last-minute demands for a congressional funding package were rejected by Republicans, foreshadowing the challenges he could face next year.
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Senate passes spending bill to avert government shutdown, sending to Biden
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 06:01:25 +0000
Congress has limited time to avert a government shutdown by passing a continuing resolution after the latest Trump-backed bill failed Thursday.
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Senate confirms 2 Biden judicial nominees, boosting total over Trump
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:54:34 +0000
President Joe Biden’s diverse cohort of judges includes more women, people of color and LGBTQ individuals than those tapped by any other U.S. president.
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8 policies stripped from GOP bill after Trump-Musk rebellion
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:26:46 +0000

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Trump made one big demand. And the GOP is quickly ignoring it.
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:40:44 +0000
Trump’s team was assured that he, not Elon Musk, is in charge --- right before congressional Republicans disregarded him.
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Trump picks political ally, and papal critic, for ambassadorship to Holy See
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:46:57 +0000
Brian Burch is a co-founder of Catholic Vote, a lay advocacy group that supported Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024.
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Trudeau running out of road even as he announces cabinet reshuffle
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:05:28 GMT

Canada’s PM races to infuse fresh blood into cabinet while New Democratic party announces withdrawal of support

Justin Trudeau has carried out a major reshuffle of his cabinet, changing a third of his senior team – even as a series of blows seemed to guarantee the end of his term as prime minister and a spring election for Canada.

The move on Friday came at the end of a disastrous week that saw the shock resignation of his deputy, calls for his resignation from within his own party and public mockery from Donald Trump.

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’Tis the season (for the government to try to pay for itself)
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:24:31 +0000
Federal fiscal year 2025 began on Oct. 1. Congress is only now trying to figure out how the year will be paid for — but this is hardly abnormal.
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Trump picks head of CatholicVote for ambassador to Holy See
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:55:40 +0000

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GOP’s latest plan: Two spending bills, no debt limit vote despite Trump’s demand
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:01:50 +0000

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Johnson scrambles to produce a deal backed by GOP, Trump
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:27:23 +0000

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Just the incoming president, hawking Bibles in an ad on Fox News
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:23:13 +0000
Donald Trump’s myriad side deals were odd when he was a candidate. They are downright bizarre — and disconcerting — when he’s the incoming president.
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8 policies stripped from GOP bill after Trump, Musk rebellion
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:09:39 +0000

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5 food-related policy ideas for the incoming administration
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:00:24 +0000
Policy changes are important, even if they don’t affect how people eat.
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Power of the Pardon
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:10:00 +0000

Biden is running out of time to stop another Trump execution spree.

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Is Washington admitting that the debt limit serves only as a cudgel?
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:10:55 +0000
President-elect Donald Trump is ready to do away with it, not that he was at any risk of having it used against him.
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Trump voters have faith he will help economy and their finances, poll finds
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:00:00 +0000
One-third of swing-state voters who voted for Trump replied in an open-ended question that they voted for him because of the economy.
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Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally, sources allege
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:00:52 GMT

Exclusive: Experts believe the alleged ‘shuttle support’ program used by Uline – a company owned by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – is likely illegal and exploitative of workers

A company owned by two of Donald Trump’s top mega-donors has routinely brought dozens of its workers from Mexico to staff its warehouses in Wisconsin and other locations even though they do not appear to have permission to work in the US, according to a Guardian investigation.

Uline – a giant Wisconsin-based office and shipping supply company controlled by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – shuttles in its own workers from Mexico, who are using tourist visas and visas meant for employees who are entering the US temporarily to receive professional training, known as B1 visas. But instead of being part of a dedicated training program, the Mexican employees stay for one to six months and – sources with direct knowledge of the matter allege – perform normal work in Uline’s US warehouses.

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House GOP leadership considers next steps after failure of Trump-backed bill
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:57:38 +0000

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President-elect Donald Trump wrote on Friday that if there is going to be a shutdown of...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:08:36 +0000

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Why some Republicans bucked Trump
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:37:23 +0000

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In an early-morning tweet, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his call for lawmakers to suspend the debt...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:52:14 +0000

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‘Co-president’ Elon Musk? Trump ally tests influence in spending fight
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:34:40 +0000

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Trump’s foes fear his retribution has already begun
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Donald Trump has waffled on his vows to punish enemies from the White House. But many of his critics — and targets — fear the retribution is already underway.
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Trump’s Cabinet Picks Go to Washington
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
What does parading nominees around Capitol Hill before their confirmation hearings actually accomplish?
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Leaders of federal managers reject Trump’s plans to politicize workforce
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:00:53 +0000
Federal agencies face four years under a president who promised “to remove rogue bureaucrats … very aggressively.”
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Who does Trump want in his cabinet, and why? – podcast
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:00:04 GMT

As Donald Trump’s nominees woo Senate Republicans to secure their confirmation, Joan E Greve and Hugo Lowell look at who could be in charge of the major government departments and what they’ll have to do to keep the president happy for the next four years

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GOP Lawmakers Want Elon Musk to Be Speaker of the House
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:02:57 +0000
There is no requirement that the Speaker of the House be an elected member of Congress. After Elon Musk all but killed a bill to fund the government, lawmakers now propose to cut out the middleman.
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Health Insurance Execs Should Live in Fear of Prison, Not Murder
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The U.S. political system is owned by corporations despised by the American people. Luigi Mangione is the result.

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What Internet Fandoms and Communities Can Tell Us About 2025
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Fashion, stan, and other online spaces offer clues to what will dominate next year in politics—for better or, in some cases, much worse.
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We Have Some Questions for Isaac Chotiner About 2024
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:32:13 +0000
“Joe Biden set out not just to defeat Donald Trump but to defeat Trumpism,” Chotiner says. “And he failed at that.”
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Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:31:00 +0000
The National Defense Authorization Act passed today, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.
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Top Senator Warns Sweeping New Surveillance Powers Will “Inevitably Be Misused” by Trump
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Everyone from janitors to the Geek Squad could be forced to help the NSA spy — and Democrats barely put up a fight.

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Federal Labor Unions Steel Themselves for Trump and DOGE’s Mass Firings
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Trump wants a bloodbath for the federal employees, but government workers aren’t the only ones who will suffer.

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'A stroke left me with an Italian accent'
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:49:15 GMT
Althia Bryden says she has never even been to Italy but has now gained a distinct accent.
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Rudolph’s never going to get a very shiny new role in Santa’s family firm | Torsten Bell
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:30:39 GMT

Workers in family-run businesses earn less on average and have fewer opportunities to progress into senior jobs

Santa has a great reputation. Generous, jolly, snazzily dressed. But he’s obviously a terrible employer. The elves are entirely unpaid for their gruelling manual labour. Their fixed smiles and constant singing are evidence of a culture of fear. Does anyone believe he’s keeping the Lapland workplace temperature above the Health and Safety Executive’s 16C minimum? And the reindeer’s 24-hour shift this week will be a clear breach of the working time directive.

The complete lack of progression (not to mention a highly segregated workforce) is another warning sign. Everyone has been doing the same job for centuries – which works for Santa at the top, but means few opportunities for others to move on up.

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Five months on, Ukraine clings to Kursk amid doubts over operation
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:00:40 +0000
Outnumbered Ukrainian troops are clinging to a section of Russian territory in hopes of using it as a bargaining chip in any future negotiations.
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‘She should have a bit of me’: the Dutch mothers fighting for their children to carry their surname
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 05:00:37 GMT

Women are challenging the law that prevents them giving their kids both family names without father’s consent

When 43-year-old Rebecca Lee took her birth mother’s Korean surname, it was a revelation. “I was adopted and got a Dutch name but I never felt completely Dutch,” she says. “When, a few years ago, I first went to Korea, things fell into place. You don’t just go ‘one, two, three’ and change your name, but now I feel more whole.”

The entrepreneur from Groningen split from her husband and wants to give her five-year-old daughter “Lee” as part of a double-barrelled surname – but she cannot, under a Dutch law that some women, a leftwing MP and legal experts believe is unfair.

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We didn’t make it to the Paralympics, but we still have hope: the Gazan paracyclist
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 05:00:38 GMT

As part of the Guardian’s Gaza Voices series this year, Hazem Suleiman told of how the roads he trained on had been destroyed. Now, he’s raising money for other amputees

Hazem Suleiman is a member of the Gaza Sunbirds, a paracycling team based in Gaza. A former footballer, he lost a leg as a result of being shot in protests at the Rafah border in 2018. We first spoke to him five months ago as part of our Gaza Voices series on everyday Palestinian life. At that time, Suleiman, who also photographs and documents life in Gaza, was dealing with the toll of displacement from his home in Rafah to the town of Khan Younis.

He and the other Sunbirds had been training hard, hoping to represent Palestine in the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, but after the Israeli assault on Gaza following Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023, they were unable to realise this dream. They did at least achieve their goal – to compete in an international competition for the first time – in May this year: the Para-Cycling Road World Cup, in Belgium and Italy.

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Russia is executing more and more Ukrainian prisoners of war
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:03:10 GMT
Ukrainian prosecutors say Russians have executed at least 147 PoWs, 127 of them this year alone.
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Princess Beatrice to spend Christmas at Sandringham after Italy trip shelved
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 23:35:03 GMT

Plan for pregnant royal go overseas for festive period scrapped after doctors advise against travel

Princess Beatrice will be joining the royal family at Sandringham this Christmas after changing her travel plans due to medical advice, it is understood.

Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, are expecting their second child in early spring and were planning on spending the festive period overseas with his parents.

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Yulia Navalnaya urges Google to fight YouTube shutdown in Russia
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The week around the world in 20 pictures
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:41:56 GMT

Russian missiles hit Kyiv, the aftermath of the fall of Assad, Cyclone Chido in Mayotte and the Maasai Olympics: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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2024: NASA Armstrong Prepares for Future Innovative Research Efforts
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:01:00 +0000
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is preparing today for tomorrow’s mission. Supersonic flight, next generation aircraft, advanced air mobility, climate changes, human exploration of space, and the next innovation are just some of the topics our researchers, engineers, and mission support teams focused on in 2024. NASA Armstrong began 2024 with the […]
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Russia launches missile strike on Kyiv following Putin’s ‘duel’ threat
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:22:49 +0000
The Russian leader had mockingly challenged Ukraine’s Western allies to a missile “duel,” testing their air defenses, during his annual year-end news conference.
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In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Arizona senator's prodigious campaign spending in global wine hotspots can’t possibly be related to the campaign she’s not running, says an ethics complaint.

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This VPN Lets Anyone Use Your Internet Connection. What Could Go Wrong?
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
A free VPN app called Big Mama is selling access to people’s home internet networks. Kids are using it to cheat in a VR game while researchers warn of bigger security risks.
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America Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: Drone Terror
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

For more than two decades, the U.S. has flown drones over the heads of millions of people — watching, recording, and even killing some of them.

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Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:51:43 +0000
Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, men and money
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Sydney commuters warned of more than 350 cancelled trains due to industrial action across network
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:59:55 GMT

NSW minister renews calls for action to end as people are urged to avoid non-essential travel days out from Christmas

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The New South Wales transport minister is calling on rail unions to end industrial action amid hundreds of cancellations across the train network on Saturday, saying “no level of disturbance or disruption” over the new year period is “tolerable”.

But the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) said it had given “ample” notice periods of their actions to allow the trains operators to “make alternative arrangements”.

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NASA Welcomes Liechtenstein as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:53:32 +0000
Liechtenstein signed the Artemis Accords Friday during a ceremony hosted by NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, becoming the 52nd nation to commit to the responsible exploration of space for all humanity. “Today, as Liechtenstein signs the Artemis Accords, we take another step forward together, united by the promise of […]
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NASA’s Terra Satellite Captures 2015 Eclipse Shadow
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:33:09 +0000
During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse was visible from parts of Europe, and a partial solar eclipse from northern Africa and northern Asia. NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Arctic Ocean on March 20 at 10:45 UTC (6:45 a.m. EDT) and captured the eclipse’s shadow over the clouds in the […]
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The Best Cookbooks of 2024: Big Dip Energy, Ottolenghi Comfort, and More
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:00:00 +0000
This year’s best cookbooks provide inventive, well-tested instructions for dips, barbecue, beans, and pasta. There’s even a book that tells you what the heck to do with celery root.
Match ID: 78 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 energy

The Top Cybersecurity Agency in the US Is Bracing for Donald Trump
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they fear the new administration will cut programs that keep the US safe—and “persecution.”
Match ID: 79 Score: 14.29 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 14.29 trump

Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:09:08 +0000
Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump
Match ID: 80 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 44 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions, 3.57 trump, 2.86 russia

Charles Hall Insisted He Wanted the Death Penalty. Now He’s Asking Biden for Mercy.
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The jurors that sent Hall to death row never heard critical evidence that could have convinced them to spare his life. Some of them now support his bid for clemency.

The post Charles Hall Insisted He Wanted the Death Penalty. Now He’s Asking Biden for Mercy. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 81 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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Keeping Sanctions in Force Would “Pull the Rug Out From Under Syria”
Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:46:24 +0000

Hours before Assad fell, Congress moved to extend sanctions. Despite presidential waivers, Syria won’t open up until they’re off the books.

The post Keeping Sanctions in Force Would “Pull the Rug Out From Under Syria” appeared first on The Intercept.

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qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions, 2.14 energy

Microsoft’s AI Recall Tool Is Still Sucking Up Credit Card and Social Security Numbers
Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: The US indicts North Koreans in fake IT worker scheme, file-sharing firm Cleo warns customers to patch a vulnerability amid live attacks, and more.
Match ID: 83 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 5.71 korea

How much oil can Trump pump?
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:44:21 +0000
The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron
Match ID: 84 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 energy

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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qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

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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qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

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
Match ID: 87 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 45 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

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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qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

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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qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

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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qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

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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qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:12:20 +0000
Time for Jerome Powell to enter the octagon
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How to Protect Yourself From the Salt Typhoon Hack, No Matter What the FBI Says
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:54:57 +0000

The FBI is still touting the debunked idea that its agents could access communications without opening a door to foreign hackers.

The post How to Protect Yourself From the Salt Typhoon Hack, No Matter What the FBI Says appeared first on The Intercept.

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Judge Reverses Decision to Release Alleged CIA Leaker Ahead of Trial
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:21:38 +0000

Seeking to lock up Asif Rahman during his Espionage Act trial, prosecutors alleged the CIA analyst had an ideological motive to leak.

The post Judge Reverses Decision to Release Alleged CIA Leaker Ahead of Trial appeared first on The Intercept.

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Biden: Trump’s tax and tariffs plans are a ‘major mistake’
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:20:21 EST
Five weeks after the election, the president took his sharpest swing at Trump’s policy plans.
Match ID: 95 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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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qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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 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: 98 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 24 days
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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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qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 100 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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: 101 Score: 3.57 source: www.bbc.com age: 29 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 102 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 30 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 103 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 30 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Is nuclear power gaining new energy?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:03:04 GMT
Countries around the world are building new nuclear power stations.
Match ID: 104 Score: 3.57 source: www.bbc.com age: 31 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy, 1.43 nuclear

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?
Match ID: 105 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 39 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 106 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 41 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 107 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 44 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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.
Match ID: 108 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 46 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 109 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 52 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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.
Match ID: 110 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 54 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 111 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 65 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 112 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 100 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 113 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 142 days
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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
Match ID: 114 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 149 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:35:08 +0000
Opposition would come from all angles
Match ID: 115 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 163 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 116 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 184 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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: 117 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 221 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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: 118 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 242 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 119 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 248 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
Match ID: 120 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 270 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 121 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 289 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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: 122 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 298 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
Match ID: 123 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 303 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Syria: What Comes Next?
Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

On The Intercept Briefing, Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah discusses the fall of the Assad family’s decadeslong brutal regime.

The post Syria: What Comes Next? appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 124 Score: 2.86 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

As the Mastermind of Far-Right ‘Active Clubs’ Goes to Prison, His Violent Movement Goes Global
Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The white supremacist Robert Rundo faces years in prison. But the “Active Club” network he helped create has proliferated in countries around the world, from Eastern Europe to South America.
Match ID: 125 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

US Officials Recommend Encryption Apps Amid Chinese Telecom Hacking
Sat, 07 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Russian spies keep hijacking other hackers’ infrastructure, Hydra dark web market admin gets life sentence in Russia, and more of the week’s top security news.
Match ID: 126 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 14 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 127 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 128 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 33 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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?
Match ID: 129 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 115 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:58:18 +0000
How long can the party last?
Match ID: 130 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 132 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 131 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 152 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

European banks are making heady profits in Russia
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:56:28 +0000
But for how much longer?
Match ID: 132 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 198 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 133 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 233 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 134 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 247 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 135 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 254 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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: 136 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 278 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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: 137 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 286 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 138 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 297 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

NASA Accelerates Space Exploration, Earth Science for All in 2024
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:54:15 +0000
With a look back at 2024, NASA is celebrating its many innovative and inspiring accomplishments this year including for the first time, landing new science and technology on the Moon with an American company, pushing the boundaries of exploration by launching a new mission to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa; maintaining 24 years of continuous […]
Match ID: 139 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 15 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

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
Match ID: 140 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 184 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

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.
Match ID: 141 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 185 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

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: 142 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 339 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

U.S. stock futures and bond yields drop on reports Putin has updated nuclear doctrine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:55:00 GMT

Match ID: 143 Score: 1.43 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 33 days
qualifiers: 1.43 nuclear

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: 144 Score: 1.43 source: www.economist.com age: 265 days
qualifiers: 1.43 nuclear

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‘I won that fight’: Tyson Fury rejects defeat as judges’ ‘Christmas gift’ to Oleksandr Usyk
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:05:42 GMT

Despite a unanimous decision against him by all three judges, Fury refuses to accept the Ukrainian fighter has now beaten him in back-to-back title bouts

Tyson Fury described Oleksandr Usyk’s victory over him as a “Christmas gift” from the three judges who all scored the fight 116-112 in favour of the champion. The verdict was justifiably much more clear-cut than the split-decision ruling which had also given Usyk victory in May.

But Fury offered his contrasting belief at the post-fight press conference: “I thought I won that fight. I thought I won both fights but I’m going home with two losses on my record. There’s not much I can do about it. I can just fight my heart out.

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'Judges gave Usyk Christmas gift' - Fury reacts to loss
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:38:02 GMT
Tyson Fury refuses to accept he lost his rematch against unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and claims the judges gave him a "Christmas gift".
Match ID: 2 Score: 15.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 judge

‘She won’t disappear’: Gisèle Pelicot’s lawyers on what she will do next
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:32:32 GMT

The 72-year-old is relieved but takes ‘no satisfaction’ in seeing other families broken up, lawyer says

It took just over four years, and 67 days in court, but Gisèle Pelicot is said to feel “relieved and appeased” about the judges’ decision to convict all the men accused of raping or sexually assaulting her while she was drugged and unconscious.

After a final declaration that she “respected” the sentences handed down in Avignon, her lawyers said she was now “absolutely exhausted” and glad the marathon trial was over.

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Senate confirms 2 Biden judicial nominees, boosting total over Trump
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:54:34 +0000
President Joe Biden’s diverse cohort of judges includes more women, people of color and LGBTQ individuals than those tapped by any other U.S. president.
Match ID: 4 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Man who claims he invented bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1 trillion suit
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:46:14 +0000
UK judge issues 1-year suspended prison sentence as Wright hides in Asia.
Match ID: 5 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
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Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claims
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:03:10 +0000
A UK judge has ruled that Craig Wright violated a court order preventing him from bringing lawsuits based on his spurious claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.
Match ID: 6 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 judge

Health Insurance Execs Should Live in Fear of Prison, Not Murder
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The U.S. political system is owned by corporations despised by the American people. Luigi Mangione is the result.

The post Health Insurance Execs Should Live in Fear of Prison, Not Murder appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 7 Score: 15.00 source: theintercept.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 judge

The Real Danger of ABC News Settling Its Lawsuit With Donald Trump
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The big news outlets used to say settlements would encourage more lawsuits. Trump is already targeting smaller newspapers.

The post The Real Danger of ABC News Settling Its Lawsuit With Donald Trump appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 8 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 8.57 judge, 5.71 congress

Charles Hall Insisted He Wanted the Death Penalty. Now He’s Asking Biden for Mercy.
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The jurors that sent Hall to death row never heard critical evidence that could have convinced them to spare his life. Some of them now support his bid for clemency.

The post Charles Hall Insisted He Wanted the Death Penalty. Now He’s Asking Biden for Mercy. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 9 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 6.43 judge, 4.29 congress

Congress also approved boosts to Social Security payments and disaster aid
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:09:43 +0000
The federal government avoided a shutdown. Here are some notable takeaways from legislation that cleared the House and Senate this week.
Match ID: 10 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

How Trump and Musk set off the shutdown crisis — but got little in return
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:58:15 +0000
The past week provides a preview of what spending battles could be like in a closely divided Congress and with warring GOP factions.
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The G.O.P.’s Elon Musk Problem
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:48:57 +0000
The tech billionaire derailed a government-funding deal and made a shutdown more likely. His intervention signals the growing sway of wealth in politics, and its risks.
Match ID: 12 Score: 10.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days
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Biden signs stopgap funding bill, but congressional fight to continue
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:48:28 +0000
The incoming Congress, which will be controlled by Republicans, is still expected to face bruising battles over government funding in Trump’s second term.
Match ID: 13 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Mike Johnson concludes the 118th Congress as it began — in chaos
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:57:16 +0000
A historically unproductive Congress ends with a House speaker battling to keep his job amid an ungovernable majority. Will the 119th Congress fare better?
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Congress averts government shutdown as Senate passes funding bill
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:34:51 +0000
After a week of political turmoil, lawmakers approved bipartisan legislation.
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Biden signs funding measure to keep US government running
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:31:37 GMT

Measure averting government shutdown did not include demand by Trump to raise debt ceiling

The US Senate has approved a stop-gap funding measure to avert a government shutdown shortly after a midnight deadline with a bill that defied Donald Trump’s demand for a debt-limit suspension. The legislation was signed by Joe Biden on Saturday morning, the White House confirmed.

The Senate passed the bill in an 85-11 vote, hours after an overwhelmingly bipartisan 366-34 vote in the House. It was passed 38 minutes after the deadline but the government did not invoke shutdown procedures in the interim.

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Trump said to see Elon Musk as useful activist after spending deal showdown
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:00:21 GMT

Musk’s role in government shutdown drama could be a preview of role he plays for incoming president next year

Donald Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk is showing no signs of fraying, even after at times he appeared to eclipse the president-elect’s influence as he bullied House Republicans into paring down their bipartisan spending deal to avert a government shutdown with just hours to spare.

The move by Musk to detonate the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb – by demanding that Republicans sink the deal or face a primary challenge – was viewed as a test run of the kind of role Musk might play to pressure Congress once Trump takes office, people familiar with the matter said.

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Trump’s claims of a mandate run into reality of narrow majorities
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:57:45 +0000
Donald Trump’s last-minute demands for a congressional funding package were rejected by Republicans, foreshadowing the challenges he could face next year.
Match ID: 18 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Senate passes spending bill to avert government shutdown, sending to Biden
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 06:01:25 +0000
Congress has limited time to avert a government shutdown by passing a continuing resolution after the latest Trump-backed bill failed Thursday.
Match ID: 19 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

Biden keeps quiet amid angry battle over government spending bill
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:53:36 +0000
As the government neared a shutdown, the president appeared content to let Republicans battle it out.
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Trump made one big demand. And the GOP is quickly ignoring it.
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:40:44 +0000
Trump’s team was assured that he, not Elon Musk, is in charge --- right before congressional Republicans disregarded him.
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The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a budget-focused think tank, is calling on Congress to avert a...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:47:48 +0000

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’Tis the season (for the government to try to pay for itself)
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:24:31 +0000
Federal fiscal year 2025 began on Oct. 1. Congress is only now trying to figure out how the year will be paid for — but this is hardly abnormal.
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In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Arizona senator's prodigious campaign spending in global wine hotspots can’t possibly be related to the campaign she’s not running, says an ethics complaint.

The post In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle appeared first on The Intercept.

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Who does Trump want in his cabinet, and why? – podcast
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:00:04 GMT

As Donald Trump’s nominees woo Senate Republicans to secure their confirmation, Joan E Greve and Hugo Lowell look at who could be in charge of the major government departments and what they’ll have to do to keep the president happy for the next four years

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GOP Lawmakers Want Elon Musk to Be Speaker of the House
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:02:57 +0000
There is no requirement that the Speaker of the House be an elected member of Congress. After Elon Musk all but killed a bill to fund the government, lawmakers now propose to cut out the middleman.
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EPA Staffers Demand Biden Release Climate Funds Withheld Over Gaza
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:16:12 +0000

“The funds to CJA are critical for building community resilience against climate change threats.”

The post EPA Staffers Demand Biden Release Climate Funds Withheld Over Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

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Senate Approves Defense Bill Blocking Health Care for Thousands of Trans Youth
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:28:04 +0000

Biden appears ready to sign the NDAA, despite objections from advocates and some Democrats about an insidious anti-trans rider.

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Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:31:00 +0000
The National Defense Authorization Act passed today, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.
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Top Senator Warns Sweeping New Surveillance Powers Will “Inevitably Be Misused” by Trump
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Everyone from janitors to the Geek Squad could be forced to help the NSA spy — and Democrats barely put up a fight.

The post Top Senator Warns Sweeping New Surveillance Powers Will “Inevitably Be Misused” by Trump appeared first on The Intercept.

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Federal Labor Unions Steel Themselves for Trump and DOGE’s Mass Firings
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Trump wants a bloodbath for the federal employees, but government workers aren’t the only ones who will suffer.

The post Federal Labor Unions Steel Themselves for Trump and DOGE’s Mass Firings appeared first on The Intercept.

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Republicans Said the FTC Was Too Politicized. Now Trump’s FTC Pick Says It Should be Politicized — by Trump.
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:30:00 +0000

“When you imagine what the FTC is willing and able to do in the service of an authoritarian Trump administration, that takes you to some really terrifying places.”

The post Republicans Said the FTC Was Too Politicized. Now Trump’s FTC Pick Says It Should be Politicized — by Trump. appeared first on The Intercept.

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America Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: Drone Terror
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

For more than two decades, the U.S. has flown drones over the heads of millions of people — watching, recording, and even killing some of them.

The post America Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: Drone Terror appeared first on The Intercept.

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Judge Reverses Decision to Release Alleged CIA Leaker Ahead of Trial
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:21:38 +0000

Seeking to lock up Asif Rahman during his Espionage Act trial, prosecutors alleged the CIA analyst had an ideological motive to leak.

The post Judge Reverses Decision to Release Alleged CIA Leaker Ahead of Trial appeared first on The Intercept.

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Keeping Sanctions in Force Would “Pull the Rug Out From Under Syria”
Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:46:24 +0000

Hours before Assad fell, Congress moved to extend sanctions. Despite presidential waivers, Syria won’t open up until they’re off the books.

The post Keeping Sanctions in Force Would “Pull the Rug Out From Under Syria” appeared first on The Intercept.

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Congress Keeps Trying to Hide the True Gaza Death Toll
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:34:24 +0000

A little-noticed provision in the annual defense bill would bar the Pentagon from citing the Gaza Health Ministry as an authoritative source.

The post Congress Keeps Trying to Hide the True Gaza Death Toll appeared first on The Intercept.

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How to Protect Yourself From the Salt Typhoon Hack, No Matter What the FBI Says
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:54:57 +0000

The FBI is still touting the debunked idea that its agents could access communications without opening a door to foreign hackers.

The post How to Protect Yourself From the Salt Typhoon Hack, No Matter What the FBI Says appeared first on The Intercept.

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NASA Accelerates Space Exploration, Earth Science for All in 2024
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:54:15 +0000
With a look back at 2024, NASA is celebrating its many innovative and inspiring accomplishments this year including for the first time, landing new science and technology on the Moon with an American company, pushing the boundaries of exploration by launching a new mission to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa; maintaining 24 years of continuous […]
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Best albums of 2024: Charli XCX, Beyonce, The Cure and more
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:39 GMT
After dominating culture this summer, Brat tops a "poll of polls" to be named the year's best record.
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The 50 best albums of 2024
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:00:02 GMT

Topped with Charli xcx’s swaggering yet vulnerable Brat, here are the year’s finest LPs as decided by 26 Guardian music writers
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Health Insurance Execs Should Live in Fear of Prison, Not Murder
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The U.S. political system is owned by corporations despised by the American people. Luigi Mangione is the result.

The post Health Insurance Execs Should Live in Fear of Prison, Not Murder appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 0 Score: 175.00 source: theintercept.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 republican, 30.00 politics, 30.00 democrat, 25.00 election, 15.00 progressives, 15.00 executive, 15.00 elections, 15.00 conservatives

Republicans Said the FTC Was Too Politicized. Now Trump’s FTC Pick Says It Should be Politicized — by Trump.
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:30:00 +0000

“When you imagine what the FTC is willing and able to do in the service of an authoritarian Trump administration, that takes you to some really terrifying places.”

The post Republicans Said the FTC Was Too Politicized. Now Trump’s FTC Pick Says It Should be Politicized — by Trump. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 1 Score: 154.29 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 25.71 republican, 25.71 politics, 25.71 democrat, 21.43 election, 12.86 progressives, 12.86 executive, 12.86 conservatives, 8.57 senate majority leader, 8.57 congress

In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Arizona senator's prodigious campaign spending in global wine hotspots can’t possibly be related to the campaign she’s not running, says an ethics complaint.

The post In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle appeared first on The Intercept.

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qualifiers: 30.00 politics, 30.00 democrat, 25.00 election, 10.00 senate majority leader, 10.00 congress

Federal Labor Unions Steel Themselves for Trump and DOGE’s Mass Firings
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Trump wants a bloodbath for the federal employees, but government workers aren’t the only ones who will suffer.

The post Federal Labor Unions Steel Themselves for Trump and DOGE’s Mass Firings appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 3 Score: 102.86 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 25.71 republican, 25.71 politics, 17.14 federal government, 12.86 progressives, 12.86 executive, 8.57 congress

Top Senator Warns Sweeping New Surveillance Powers Will “Inevitably Be Misused” by Trump
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Everyone from janitors to the Geek Squad could be forced to help the NSA spy — and Democrats barely put up a fight.

The post Top Senator Warns Sweeping New Surveillance Powers Will “Inevitably Be Misused” by Trump appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 4 Score: 98.57 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 25.71 republican, 25.71 politics, 25.71 democrat, 12.86 constitution, 8.57 congress

House Democrats may not have the votes to help Republicans pass latest proposal
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:32:57 +0000

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Why Republicans will probably be blamed for a shutdown
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:54:54 +0000
The GOP has set about trying to blame Democrats, but it’s clear which side is driving the harder bargain — and Americans don’t like that.
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Rep. John James (R-Michigan) acknowledged the reality Friday that Republicans need Democratic votes to pass a...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:59:28 +0000

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Senate Approves Defense Bill Blocking Health Care for Thousands of Trans Youth
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:28:04 +0000

Biden appears ready to sign the NDAA, despite objections from advocates and some Democrats about an insidious anti-trans rider.

The post Senate Approves Defense Bill Blocking Health Care for Thousands of Trans Youth  appeared first on The Intercept.

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qualifiers: 25.71 republican, 25.71 politics, 25.71 democrat, 8.57 congress

Lara Trump withdraws bid to replace outgoing Florida senator Marco Rubio
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:06:39 GMT

Trump, who is married to Donald Trump’s son Eric, co-chaired Republican National Committee in 2024 election

Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of Donald Trump, said on Saturday she had removed her name from consideration to replace the outgoing US senator Marco Rubio.

Rubio has been tapped by Trump to serve as secretary of state. The Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, will pick a replacement for Rubio, who is expected to resign as senator when Trump takes office on 20 January.

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qualifiers: 30.00 republican, 30.00 politics, 25.00 election

What Killed Daniel Prude? The Cops and New York AG Said a Diagnosis That’s Since Been Debunked.
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

A newly obtained document sheds light on how the disavowed “excited delirium” diagnosis infiltrated the Rochester Police Department before Prude’s death.

The post What Killed Daniel Prude? The Cops and New York AG Said a Diagnosis That’s Since Been Debunked. appeared first on The Intercept.

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qualifiers: 30.00 politics, 30.00 democrat, 25.00 election

Trump’s claims of a mandate run into reality of narrow majorities
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:57:45 +0000
Donald Trump’s last-minute demands for a congressional funding package were rejected by Republicans, foreshadowing the challenges he could face next year.
Match ID: 11 Score: 85.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 republican, 30.00 politics, 15.00 legislature, 10.00 congress

Who does Trump want in his cabinet, and why? – podcast
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:00:04 GMT

As Donald Trump’s nominees woo Senate Republicans to secure their confirmation, Joan E Greve and Hugo Lowell look at who could be in charge of the major government departments and what they’ll have to do to keep the president happy for the next four years

Archive: CNN, Face the Nation, MSNBC, BBC, CBS News, ABC, Fox 11 Los Angeles, Fox News

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Match ID: 12 Score: 85.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 republican, 30.00 politics, 15.00 executive, 10.00 congress

Biden signs funding measure to keep US government running
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:31:37 GMT

Measure averting government shutdown did not include demand by Trump to raise debt ceiling

The US Senate has approved a stop-gap funding measure to avert a government shutdown shortly after a midnight deadline with a bill that defied Donald Trump’s demand for a debt-limit suspension. The legislation was signed by Joe Biden on Saturday morning, the White House confirmed.

The Senate passed the bill in an 85-11 vote, hours after an overwhelmingly bipartisan 366-34 vote in the House. It was passed 38 minutes after the deadline but the government did not invoke shutdown procedures in the interim.

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qualifiers: 30.00 republican, 30.00 politics, 10.00 house of representatives, 10.00 congress

Senate Democrats find many ethical lapses by Supreme Court justices
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:39:28 +0000
A 20-month investigation by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee found that Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report jet and yacht trips.
Match ID: 14 Score: 75.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics, 30.00 democrat, 15.00 judiciary

The G.O.P.’s Elon Musk Problem
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:48:57 +0000
The tech billionaire derailed a government-funding deal and made a shutdown more likely. His intervention signals the growing sway of wealth in politics, and its risks.
Match ID: 15 Score: 70.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days
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Biden signs stopgap funding bill, but congressional fight to continue
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:48:28 +0000
The incoming Congress, which will be controlled by Republicans, is still expected to face bruising battles over government funding in Trump’s second term.
Match ID: 16 Score: 70.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:35:11 GMT

Government fears moves to curb any potential cash from the tech titan could backfire and play into Reform UK’s hands

Ministers are resisting demands to rush through measures to block Elon Musk from handing millions to Nigel Farage, amid a growing clamour for an overhaul of Britain’s political donation laws.

The government is facing mounting calls this weekend for an urgent clampdown that would limit the amount a foreign national can donate via their UK-based companies.

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qualifiers: 30.00 politics, 25.00 election, 15.00 elections

Trump said to see Elon Musk as useful activist after spending deal showdown
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 15:00:21 GMT

Musk’s role in government shutdown drama could be a preview of role he plays for incoming president next year

Donald Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk is showing no signs of fraying, even after at times he appeared to eclipse the president-elect’s influence as he bullied House Republicans into paring down their bipartisan spending deal to avert a government shutdown with just hours to spare.

The move by Musk to detonate the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb – by demanding that Republicans sink the deal or face a primary challenge – was viewed as a test run of the kind of role Musk might play to pressure Congress once Trump takes office, people familiar with the matter said.

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‘Even diehard Conservatives would not vote for her’: how Liz Truss tried to remake herself after her spectacular election defeat
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:00:11 GMT

Booted out of her Norfolk constituency in July’s general election, the former PM is still wildly ambitious. Will she make a comeback?

By 5am on 5 July, it was clear to the hundreds of candidates, officials, activists and journalists gathered in the Lynnsport leisure centre in King’s Lynn for election night that the former prime minister Liz Truss had lost her parliamentary seat.

But from then until 6.45am, Truss was nowhere to be seen. Even when the other candidates were told to make their way on stage for the official announcement that Labour’s Terry Jermy had spectacularly overturned Truss’s previous majority of 26,000 to win the seat of South West Norfolk, the former prime minister was still not there.

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Match ID: 19 Score: 70.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics, 25.00 election, 15.00 conservatives

Biden keeps quiet amid angry battle over government spending bill
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:53:36 +0000
As the government neared a shutdown, the president appeared content to let Republicans battle it out.
Match ID: 20 Score: 70.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 republican, 30.00 politics, 10.00 congress

Trump made one big demand. And the GOP is quickly ignoring it.
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:40:44 +0000
Trump’s team was assured that he, not Elon Musk, is in charge --- right before congressional Republicans disregarded him.
Match ID: 21 Score: 70.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 republican, 30.00 politics, 10.00 congress

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) called on Republicans to return to the original...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:28:21 +0000

Match ID: 22 Score: 70.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Congress also approved boosts to Social Security payments and disaster aid
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:09:43 +0000
The federal government avoided a shutdown. Here are some notable takeaways from legislation that cleared the House and Senate this week.
Match ID: 23 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics, 20.00 federal government, 10.00 congress

Diplomats defend Mandelson after US aide’s ‘absolute moron’ jibe
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:28:13 GMT

Confirmation of role as ambassador to Washington drew attack by Trump campaign adviser on X

Senior diplomats have dismissed insults aimed at Peter Mandelson by allies of Donald Trump, saying he has more than enough experience in the hard world of diplomacy to succeed as ambassador to Washington.

Foreign Office sources rallied to Lord Mandelson’s defence on Saturday after confirmation of his appointment, which prompted a Trump campaign adviser to call him “an absolute moron”.

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Match ID: 24 Score: 60.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 30.00 republican, 30.00 politics

Children executed and women raped in front of their families as M23 militia unleashes fresh terror on DRC
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:07:30 GMT

First-hand accounts from victims of unthinkable violence paint a gruesome picture of the brutality sweeping the central African country. How long is the West prepared to look away?

They were looking for new ways to kill, ways to send fresh terror across North Kivu.

It was early afternoon when the M23 militia raided the Congolese town of Rubaya. In a marketplace, gunmen found a giant wooden pestle and mortar for crushing grain. They began rounding up children, wedging them tight in the mortar. Isabel, 32, watched the rebels stove in their skulls. The mortar turned red, overflowing with blood.

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qualifiers: 30.00 politics, 30.00 democrat

Rep. Adam Smith (Washington), the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, walked onto the...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:48:27 +0000

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Republicans must have a good feeling about this bill. Once they’ve voted, they are bolting from...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:40:27 +0000

Match ID: 27 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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House Democrats are cheering inside their caucus meeting, a change of tone from Thursday night when...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:33:47 +0000

Match ID: 28 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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House Republicans have landed on a new plan, two lawmakers say: They’ll try to pass the...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:44:28 +0000

Match ID: 29 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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House Republicans still discussing next steps to avert shutdown
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:23:39 +0000

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Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-South Dakota) says that, at the rate House Republicans are going, they are...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:28:00 +0000

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Analysis: Why Republicans will likely be blamed for a shutdown
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:00:20 +0000

Match ID: 32 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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House Republicans consider voting on separate policy bills to fund government
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:19:18 +0000

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Is Washington admitting that the debt limit serves only as a cudgel?
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:10:55 +0000
President-elect Donald Trump is ready to do away with it, not that he was at any risk of having it used against him.
Match ID: 34 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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As the picture on funding remains unclear in the House, at least one Senate Republican warned...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:25:52 +0000

Match ID: 35 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Top Democrat says she won’t allow Elon Musk to ‘run the government’
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:40:24 +0000

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) wrote in a social media post Friday that Republicans...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:27:58 +0000

Match ID: 37 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Why some Republicans bucked Trump
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:37:23 +0000

Match ID: 38 Score: 60.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Mozambique on edge before ruling on disputed election results
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 08:00:40 GMT

Final outcome expected after rigging allegations, weeks of protests and crackdown in which dozens have been killed

Mozambique is on edge ahead of a ruling expected on Monday to determine the final results of October’s disputed elections, after allegations of rigging triggered weeks of protests in which security forces have killed dozens of people.

The opposition presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane has threatened “chaos” if the constitutional council confirms the initial election results, which gave the ruling party candidate, Daniel Chapo, 70.7% of the vote and Mondlane 20.3%.

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UK to ban bee-killing pesticides but highly toxic type could still be allowed
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 06:00:11 GMT

Ministers set out plans for outlawing neonicotinoids but considering application by farmers to use Cruiser SB

Bee-killing pesticides are to be banned by the UK government, as ministers set out plans to outlaw the use of neonicotinoids.

However, the highly toxic neonicotinoid Cruiser SB could be allowed for use next year, as ministers are considering applications from the National Farmers’ Union and British Sugar.

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Match ID: 40 Score: 55.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Trudeau running out of road even as he announces cabinet reshuffle
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:05:28 GMT

Canada’s PM races to infuse fresh blood into cabinet while New Democratic party announces withdrawal of support

Justin Trudeau has carried out a major reshuffle of his cabinet, changing a third of his senior team – even as a series of blows seemed to guarantee the end of his term as prime minister and a spring election for Canada.

The move on Friday came at the end of a disastrous week that saw the shock resignation of his deputy, calls for his resignation from within his own party and public mockery from Donald Trump.

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Match ID: 41 Score: 55.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 democrat, 25.00 election

EPA Staffers Demand Biden Release Climate Funds Withheld Over Gaza
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:16:12 +0000

“The funds to CJA are critical for building community resilience against climate change threats.”

The post EPA Staffers Demand Biden Release Climate Funds Withheld Over Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

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qualifiers: 30.00 politics, 15.00 progressives, 10.00 congress

Critics at Large Live: The Year of the Flop
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Across culture and politics, 2024 was a year of great expectations followed by disastrous misses. What space might these upsets open up in their wake?
Match ID: 43 Score: 55.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
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GOP Lawmakers Want Elon Musk to Be Speaker of the House
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:02:57 +0000
There is no requirement that the Speaker of the House be an elected member of Congress. After Elon Musk all but killed a bill to fund the government, lawmakers now propose to cut out the middleman.
Match ID: 44 Score: 50.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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We Have Some Questions for Isaac Chotiner About 2024
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:32:13 +0000
“Joe Biden set out not just to defeat Donald Trump but to defeat Trumpism,” Chotiner says. “And he failed at that.”
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The Real Danger of ABC News Settling Its Lawsuit With Donald Trump
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The big news outlets used to say settlements would encourage more lawsuits. Trump is already targeting smaller newspapers.

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Just 10 of 4,000 tainted blood victims have had compensation, campaigners say
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:00:41 GMT

Survivors claim to have been ‘disengaged’ by Labour government after ‘token gesture’ meetings

Furious victims of the infected blood scandal have said that just 10 out of 4,000 people have received compensation under a new scheme, despite pledges from the Conservatives and Labour to sort out payments this year.

Campaigners say they have been “disengaged” by the Labour government and that, by this month, just 17 people out of the thousands eligible had been invited to register for compensation.

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Prince William to end feudal restrictions on his Duchy of Cornwall estate
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:00:17 GMT

The royal has bowed to pressure over residents’ right to buy freeholds on parts of his hereditary land

Prince William has agreed to end the last feudal restrictions on land ownership in parts of his hereditary Duchy of Cornwall estate after decades of complaints from residents.

The Prince of Wales will allow tenants in two of the most environmentally sensitive areas of his 55,000-hectare (135,000 acres) estate the right to buy the freehold to their homes for the first time.

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Sydney commuters warned of more than 350 cancelled trains due to industrial action across network
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:59:55 GMT

NSW minister renews calls for action to end as people are urged to avoid non-essential travel days out from Christmas

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The New South Wales transport minister is calling on rail unions to end industrial action amid hundreds of cancellations across the train network on Saturday, saying “no level of disturbance or disruption” over the new year period is “tolerable”.

But the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) said it had given “ample” notice periods of their actions to allow the trains operators to “make alternative arrangements”.

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How Trump and Musk set off the shutdown crisis — but got little in return
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:58:15 +0000
The past week provides a preview of what spending battles could be like in a closely divided Congress and with warring GOP factions.
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Mike Johnson concludes the 118th Congress as it began — in chaos
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:57:16 +0000
A historically unproductive Congress ends with a House speaker battling to keep his job amid an ungovernable majority. Will the 119th Congress fare better?
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Congress averts government shutdown as Senate passes funding bill
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:34:51 +0000
After a week of political turmoil, lawmakers approved bipartisan legislation.
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Elections tracker 2024: every vote and why it mattered
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:47:39 GMT

More than 80 countries – more than half the world’s population – voted this year in elections that could be pivotal for democracy

More than 80 countries headed to the polls in 2024, including some of the wealthiest and most powerful, the most populous, the most authoritarian and the most fragile. Many votes tested the limits of democracy, while others were exercises in rubber-stamping. Some were boycotted by the opposition or undermined by government crackdowns on press and dissenters. We kept track of all the results with our election tracker:

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Senate passes spending bill to avert government shutdown, sending to Biden
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 06:01:25 +0000
Congress has limited time to avert a government shutdown by passing a continuing resolution after the latest Trump-backed bill failed Thursday.
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Good vibes are in the House of Representatives after the bill’s passage. “The House will be...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:11:21 +0000

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The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a budget-focused think tank, is calling on Congress to avert a...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:47:48 +0000

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’Tis the season (for the government to try to pay for itself)
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:24:31 +0000
Federal fiscal year 2025 began on Oct. 1. Congress is only now trying to figure out how the year will be paid for — but this is hardly abnormal.
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The Top Cybersecurity Agency in the US Is Bracing for Donald Trump
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they fear the new administration will cut programs that keep the US safe—and “persecution.”
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Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:31:00 +0000
The National Defense Authorization Act passed today, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.
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Our rarely apologise, never resign bishops don’t deserve comfortable lives in the Lords | Catherine Bennett
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 08:30:40 GMT

Denying that sexually abusive priests are their responsibility makes them ripe for removal

At its current rate, the Church of England can probably fit in another pre-Christmas safeguarding catastrophe, and embark on the familiar ritual.

Independent report/BBC reporter: You have betrayed victims of abuse and sinfully allowed their abusers to remain within the church.
Bishop: I am truly penitent, but it wasn’t my fault.
All: Resign.
Bishop: Blessed are they that commission an independent review of lessons learned, for they shall have rest.
All: Resign.
Bishop: What good would that do? Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
All bishops except the bishop of Newcastle: Amen.

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UK to open its first safe drug consumption room amid soaring deaths
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:00:41 GMT

The Thistle in Glasgow aims to save lives by providing a supervised environment in ‘Europe’s drug deaths capital’

The UK’s first official facility for consuming illegal drugs opens in Glasgow within a month, a move that experts and campaigners hope will bring major changes to drug policy.

The pioneering “safer drug consumption facility”, named the Thistle, was due to open on Hunter Street, in the city’s east end, earlier this year but was delayed by building tests.

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Faced with Trump and Farage, Britain’s natural ally is Europe | William Keegan
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:00:40 GMT

The Labour party’s determination to stick to Brexit simply condemns the UK to fight a lone hand against the far-right forces ranged against it

The sight of other world leaders toadying up to the US president-elect – the criminal Donald Trump – and his henchman Elon Musk is distasteful enough, but in the world of realpolitik they probably feel they have no option.

The great American journalist HL Mencken did not live to see the fulfilment of his 1920 prophecy that “one day the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron” but he is no doubt turning in his grave.

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Let China build electric cars in UK, Tory ex-chancellor tells Rachel Reeves ahead of trade trip
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:00:40 GMT

Despite ‘spy’ scandal, Philip Hammond says Britain should now adopt a ‘pragmatic approach to Beijing’

China should be encouraged to build electric cars and renewable energy technology in the UK as part of a new pragmatic trading relationship that would benefit both countries, a former Tory chancellor has said ahead of a landmark visit by Rachel Reeves to Beijing early in the new year.

Philip Hammond, who was chancellor from 2016 to 2019, and the last UK minister to take part in formal economic discussions with China before the process was abruptly ended, told the Observer that while Reeves should never “compromise security for trade”, there were vital economic sectors where deals could be struck.

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From Charli to Jilly to Moo Deng the hippo: the faces we won’t forget from 2024
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:00:39 GMT

Some made a splash in politics, social media, sport or the arts. Others took a brave personal stand. Observer writers and critics pick the names on everyone’s lips this year

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John Pesutto calls fresh vote to readmit Moira Deeming to Victorian Liberal party room in extraordinary backflip
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:53:29 GMT

Opposition leader says there is now a ‘definite absolute majority’ of MPs who want Deeming to be welcomed back

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Victorian Liberal MPs will vote again on whether to readmit Moira Deeming to the party room after an extraordinary backflip by state leader John Pesutto.

In a statement on Sunday, Pesutto announced that he had called a special Liberal party room meeting for 15 January, to vote on a motion moved by him to readmit the ousted MP who successfully sued him for defamation in the federal court.

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Ferry capsizes in Congo killing 38 and leaving 100 more missing
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 02:52:50 GMT

The sinking comes less than four days after another boat capsized in the country’s north-east, leaving 25 people dead

A ferry overloaded with people returning home for Christmas capsized on the Busira River in north-eastern Congo, leaving 38 people confirmed dead and more than 100 others missing, officials and eyewitnesses said on Saturday.

Twenty people have been rescued so far.

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Lara Trump drops out of contention for U.S. Senate seat for Florida
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:37 +0000
President-elect Donald Trump had indicated to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that he wanted his daughter-in-law to be appointed.
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Trump names ‘Apprentice’ creator Mark Burnett as special U.K. envoy
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:48:35 +0000
The scope of Burnett’s diplomatic role was not immediately clear. Such posts are usually set up for countries where there are conflicts or the U.S. has no diplomatic presence.
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Trump appoints The Apprentice producer as US special envoy to UK
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:26:48 GMT

Mark Burnett, who also created Survivor, Shark Tank and The Voice, lacks diplomatic and foreign policy experience

Donald Trump has appointed Mark Burnett, a British television producer who helped produce Trump’s show The Apprentice, as the US’s special envoy to the UK.

In an announcement on Truth Social on Saturday, Trump hailed 64-year-old Burnett, saying: “With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark brings a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition to this important role.”

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Nadhim Zahawi lawyer fined for attempt to ‘silence’ campaigner on tax affairs
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:30:35 GMT

Ashley Hurst ordered to pay £310,000 over email sent while acting for ex-chancellor

A lawyer acting for Nadhim Zahawi during investigations into the former chancellor’s tax affairs has been ordered to pay £310,000 after a campaigner complained of an attempt to silence him over the controversy.

Ashley Hurst, from the legal firm Osborne Clarke, was alleged to have improperly tried to restrict Dan Neidle, campaigner and founder of the thinktank Tax Policy Associates, from discussing an email from Hurst, in which he offered Neidle an “opportunity” to retract an allegation against Zahawi and implicitly threatened a defamation claim. Hurst warned that Neidle was “not entitled” to publish or refer to the communication, except to seek legal advice.

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The Observer view on Labour’s plans to reform education | Observer editorial
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:00:28 GMT

The government needs to go further on pay and workload if it is to retain high-quality teachers in schools

Great teaching is the most powerful lever schools have to improve children’s education, according to the Education Endowment Foundation. So, how the education system recruits, trains, retains and supports teachers is one of the most important questions for politicians and policymakers – far more so than the structural reforms Westminster and Whitehall too often obsess over.

Yet schools in England have been facing a worsening teacher recruitment and retention crisis for over a decade, and pupil to teacher ratios have risen, particularly in secondary schools. Last year, the teaching workforce grew by fewer than 300 teachers. Too few teachers makes it harder for those in the profession to do their jobs well – further adding to workload and behaviour management pressures, and undermining retention even more. More than a million pupils are now in classes of more than 30. Shortages of teachers in several important specialist subjects at secondary school, including physics, computing and foreign languages mean that teachers without a relevant qualification are having to teach them, and some schools are having to limit subject provision.

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Revealed: property developers behind ‘breakfast club’ that donated £130,000 to Labour
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:37:11 GMT

Funding from property firms raises questions over loopholes in political finance rules

A secretive group that donated £130,000 to Labour and claimed to be “merely a platform for people” is in fact funded by property developers, the Observer can reveal.

The firm behind a £200m project to build a skyscraper in Birmingham and three other developers are behind the West Midlands Breakfast Club, which gave money to Labour in February.

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Chris Riddell on how Peter Mandelson’s meeting with Donald ‘Jabba the Hut’ Trump might go – cartoon
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:00:23 GMT

The Labour peer, who has been appointed Britain’s US ambassador, greets Trump as Elon Musk and Nigel Farage look on

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Just 2% of some key trains on London to Manchester line run on time
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:47:38 GMT

Failing passenger service is a ‘national embarrassment,’ says Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham

Just 2% or fewer of trains on some of the busiest Avanti West Coast services between London and Manchester are leaving and arriving on time, analysis of National Rail figures reveals.

The operator of West Coast Main Line services remains the worst rail company in the UK for delays despite its pledge of a “laser focus” on improving performance.

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UK teachers should be allowed to work from home, education secretary says
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:29:01 GMT

Bridget Phillipson insists move to marking and class preparation out of school would help stem retention crisis

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All state school teachers should given the right to work away from the classroom on lesson preparation, marking and pupil assessment to stem a growing retention crisis in the profession, the education secretary says today.

Bridget Phillipson told the Observer it was vital more schools offered teachers some flexible working away from the classroom as is already the case in many academy schools, without reducing contact time with pupils.

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Trump’s ‘stunningly unqualified’ diplomatic team shapes up at breakneck speed
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:00:16 GMT

Trump is hardly the first US president to introduce miscast nominees, but he has nominated ambassadors at a rate not recalled in recent memory

They seem an unlikely, almost motley, crew of emissaries.

For the Bahamas, there is Herschel Walker, a former NFL star whose fledgling Senate campaign was undone by a string of personal embarrassments but who now is named to be the next US ambassador to the small island nation.

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Sentenced to death under a Biden law — and now hoping for Biden’s mercy
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Biden wrote a 1994 bill that designated dozens of new capital offenses. Inmates sentenced under that law hope he will commute their sentences.
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Senate passes funding bill, averting government shutdown
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 05:40:34 +0000

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Senate passes bill to expand Social Security benefits for pension recipients
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 05:16:32 +0000

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Greece’s former royal family seeks to regain citizenship 50 years after end of monarchy
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:40:05 GMT

Ministry says ‘historically pending matter’ is being resolved as late king’s relatives acknowledge government – but choice of surname ruffles feathers

Members of Greece’s former royal family have applied for Greek citizenship and formally acknowledged the country’s republican system of government, in a landmark move 50 years after the monarchy was abolished, officials have confirmed.

The late king Constantine II and his family members were stripped of Greek citizenship in 1994 in a dispute with the government over formerly royal property and claims that he refused to renounce any right to the Greek throne for his descendants.

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What’s remaining for the Senate tonight
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 03:49:49 +0000

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The Senate has reached an agreement to cut short debate and begin voting on the continuing...
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 03:33:40 +0000

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Freedom Caucus chair is ‘undecided’ on Johnson remaining speaker
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 03:15:14 +0000

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The Senate just passed legislation by a simple voice vote to fund pediatric cancer research, a...
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:10:25 +0000

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Biden keeps a low profile amid raging battle over spending
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 01:27:00 +0000

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RFK stadium out, full Baltimore bridge funding preserved in deal to avert shutdown
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:55:50 +0000

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Senate confirms 2 Biden judicial nominees, boosting total over Trump
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:54:34 +0000
President Joe Biden’s diverse cohort of judges includes more women, people of color and LGBTQ individuals than those tapped by any other U.S. president.
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Senate has some business first before taking up funding bill
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:38:34 +0000

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How every House member voted on the bill to avoid a shutdown
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:18:33 +0000
See how your lawmaker voted to extend funding until mid-March and avoid a government shutdown.
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Oath Keepers leader who pleaded to seditious conspiracy gets probation
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:14:53 +0000
Joshua James, who helped recruit members of the Oath Keepers to the Capitol on Jan. 6 and then led them inside, received probation after cooperating with prosecutors.
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8 policies stripped from GOP bill after Trump-Musk rebellion
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:26:46 +0000

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It’s unclear when the Senate will take up the spending bill the House just passed, but...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:14:35 +0000

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House passes bill to avert government shutdown
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:02:17 +0000

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Elon Musk now appears to be in favor of the latest measure after being skeptical earlier...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:01:15 +0000

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A two-thirds majority needed to pass the legislation would be more than 288 votes. With five...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:59:32 +0000

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The White House said President Joe Biden backs the newest bill put forth by the House....
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:58:06 +0000

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The House is voting now on a bill that would avert a government shutdown that’s otherwise...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:34:10 +0000

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The last paycheck federal employees are scheduled to receive this year should not be delayed by...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:27:01 +0000

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The Gov't Is Shutting Down Because Musk Has Factories In China
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Musk voices skepticism on Johnson’s latest plan
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:02:49 +0000

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Presidential inauguration to continue even if a shutdown happens
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:01:12 +0000

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The House will be back in session in 15 minutes ahead of an expected 5 p.m....
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:36:26 +0000

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McConnell reminds House colleagues of harms of shutdown
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:57:17 +0000

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Trump picks political ally, and papal critic, for ambassadorship to Holy See
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:46:57 +0000
Brian Burch is a co-founder of Catholic Vote, a lay advocacy group that supported Donald Trump in 2020 and 2024.
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Elon Musk praises far-right German AfD party
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:37:55 +0000
The far-right Alternative for Germany party is classified by German intelligence as a suspected extremist organization.
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2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:10:35 +0000
From layoffs to the return of Gamergate, video games—and the people who make and play them—had a rough year.
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Senators are processing the news that the House is likely to vote on a funding bill...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:58:20 +0000

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Johnson says a vote on a funding deal will happen soon
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:40:53 +0000

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Trump picks head of CatholicVote for ambassador to Holy See
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:55:40 +0000

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Jeff Bezos agrees with Elon Musk on privatizing government
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:24:26 +0000

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With hours to go before a government shutdown strikes, keep in mind the cost of closing...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:23:18 +0000

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GOP’s latest plan: Two spending bills, no debt limit vote despite Trump’s demand
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:01:50 +0000

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House believes there is still time to...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:51:14 +0000

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is responsible for creating...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:44:19 +0000

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Johnson scrambles to produce a deal backed by GOP, Trump
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:27:23 +0000

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Just the incoming president, hawking Bibles in an ad on Fox News
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:23:13 +0000
Donald Trump’s myriad side deals were odd when he was a candidate. They are downright bizarre — and disconcerting — when he’s the incoming president.
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8 policies stripped from GOP bill after Trump, Musk rebellion
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:09:39 +0000

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Power of the Pardon
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:10:00 +0000

Biden is running out of time to stop another Trump execution spree.

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Trump voters have faith he will help economy and their finances, poll finds
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:00:00 +0000
One-third of swing-state voters who voted for Trump replied in an open-ended question that they voted for him because of the economy.
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Here’s who works and who is furloughed during a government shutdown
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:46:55 +0000

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Elon Musk wrote Friday on X : “Either the government should pass sensible bills that actually...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:41:09 +0000

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EPA Administrator Michael Regan to step down this month
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:30:58 +0000

Match ID: 122 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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White House alerts federal agencies to prep for shutdown
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:25:02 +0000

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Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nevada) says the new bill would extend federal funding into January, which tallies...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:53:40 +0000

Match ID: 124 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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How a government shutdown could affect your travel plans
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:28:54 +0000

Match ID: 125 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Major Trump donors who complained of immigrant ‘invasion’ used Mexican workers illegally, sources allege
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:00:52 GMT

Exclusive: Experts believe the alleged ‘shuttle support’ program used by Uline – a company owned by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – is likely illegal and exploitative of workers

A company owned by two of Donald Trump’s top mega-donors has routinely brought dozens of its workers from Mexico to staff its warehouses in Wisconsin and other locations even though they do not appear to have permission to work in the US, according to a Guardian investigation.

Uline – a giant Wisconsin-based office and shipping supply company controlled by billionaires Liz and Dick Uihlein – shuttles in its own workers from Mexico, who are using tourist visas and visas meant for employees who are entering the US temporarily to receive professional training, known as B1 visas. But instead of being part of a dedicated training program, the Mexican employees stay for one to six months and – sources with direct knowledge of the matter allege – perform normal work in Uline’s US warehouses.

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House GOP leadership considers next steps after failure of Trump-backed bill
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:57:38 +0000

Match ID: 127 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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President-elect Donald Trump wrote on Friday that if there is going to be a shutdown of...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:08:36 +0000

Match ID: 128 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them? | Jeremy Corbyn
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:00:48 GMT

Labour seems gripped by a form of denialism. The danger is real and incremental change won’t avert it

• Jeremy Corbyn is independent MP for Islington North and was leader of the Labour party from 2015 to 2020

There is no need to overcomplicate things: a rise in global temperatures of 3.1C is not compatible with human survival. That is where we are heading, unless we act now. On our current path, the world will exceed 1.5C of warming, and could reach a rise of 2.6-3.1C by the end of the century.

For you, today, that might make the difference between wearing a jumper or a jacket. For humanity, it is the difference between survival and extinction. Paris and Berlin will bake under heatwaves. New York will be hit by frequent storm-surges. Coastal towns will be submerged; 800 million people are living on land that will be underwater.

Jeremy Corbyn is independent MP for Islington North and was leader of the Labour party from 2015 to 2020

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The U.S. government could shut down this weekend. Here’s what to know.
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:56:12 +0000

Match ID: 130 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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In an early-morning tweet, President-elect Donald Trump renewed his call for lawmakers to suspend the debt...
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:52:14 +0000

Match ID: 131 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Biden to meet with Pope Francis next month in final foreign trip of his presidency
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:39:00 +0000

Match ID: 132 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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How every House member voted on the funding bill
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:35:20 +0000

Match ID: 133 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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‘Co-president’ Elon Musk? Trump ally tests influence in spending fight
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:34:40 +0000

Match ID: 134 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Trump’s foes fear his retribution has already begun
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Donald Trump has waffled on his vows to punish enemies from the White House. But many of his critics — and targets — fear the retribution is already underway.
Match ID: 135 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Leaders of federal managers reject Trump’s plans to politicize workforce
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:00:53 +0000
Federal agencies face four years under a president who promised “to remove rogue bureaucrats … very aggressively.”
Match ID: 136 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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The Remarkable Collapse of Iran’s Powerful Alliances
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:19:03 +0000
The Islamic Republic is weaker—on multiple fronts—than it’s been in nearly half a century.
Match ID: 137 Score: 30.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Minister issues warning after British Sikhs report harassment by India
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:00:48 GMT

Exclusive: Dan Jarvis has written to the Sikh Federation after allegations of people being stopped at UK airports

The UK will not tolerate attempts by foreign countries to harass or intimidate British citizens, the security minister has warned, after a number of Sikhs complained they were being targeted either by or on behalf of the Indian government.

Dan Jarvis has written to the Sikh Federation after reports of harassment involving British Sikhs, including people being stopped at UK airports and asked about their views on the Indian state.

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Match ID: 138 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Starmer backs minister accused of embezzling billions in Bangladesh
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:07:31 GMT

Tulip Siddiq denies claims that she brokered corrupt deal with Russia to build nuclear power plant

Keir Starmer has given his full support to Tulip Siddiq, the Treasury minister, after Bangladesh’s anti-corruption commission accused her and family members of embezzling billions as part of a deal for a nuclear power plant.

Siddiq’s role as economic secretary to the Treasury includes responsibility for tackling financial corruption. She has denied any involvement in the claims.

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Match ID: 139 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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What Internet Fandoms and Communities Can Tell Us About 2025
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Fashion, stan, and other online spaces offer clues to what will dominate next year in politics—for better or, in some cases, much worse.
Match ID: 140 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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America Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: Drone Terror
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

For more than two decades, the U.S. has flown drones over the heads of millions of people — watching, recording, and even killing some of them.

The post America Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: Drone Terror appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 141 Score: 28.57 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 21.43 democrat, 7.14 congress

Will Japan’s close ties with US survive the caprice and quirks of Donald Trump?
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:00:08 GMT

Japan’s complex defence alliances built up over years as protection against China could be put at risk in a Trump-launched trade war

Arguably, no country in Asia has better reason to be in a state of anxiety over the return of Donald Trump to the White House than Japan, since the US has been the linchpin of Japanese foreign and security policy since the second world war.

Back in 2017, well before he became prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba described Trump’s method as one of “placing his counterpart in a state of anxiety and tension, creating psychological instability and then initiating a deal”.

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Match ID: 142 Score: 25.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
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Our favorite illustrations of 2024
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:00:33 +0000
A selection of our favorite illustrations commissioned in 2024, showcasing work from artists around the world on a wide range of topics.
Match ID: 143 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 25.00 election

eBay Coupon Codes and Deals: Up to 60% Off Select Items
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 07:00:00 +0000
Save up to 60% on a selection of items at eBay, including electronics, home products, card games, and more.
Match ID: 144 Score: 25.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Vanuatu hit by another earthquake as hundreds of Australians return home
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 02:52:09 GMT

Magnitude 6.1 quake shakes country’s main island as RAAF flights carrying 144 passengers land in Brisbane and Sydney

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Vanuatu has been hit by another earthquake after hundreds of Australians landed on home soil from the islands and the federal government announced a new round of financial assistance.

The latest magnitude 6.1 quake shook buildings on the country’s main island at 2.30am on Sunday after it struck 30km west of the capital, Port Vila.

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

The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2024
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:00:00 +0000
Readers spent the most time this year on articles involving fraudulent identities, Kanye West, the turbulent U.S. election and its aftermath, and other memorable topics.
Match ID: 146 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 17.86 election

Charles Hall Insisted He Wanted the Death Penalty. Now He’s Asking Biden for Mercy.
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The jurors that sent Hall to death row never heard critical evidence that could have convinced them to spare his life. Some of them now support his bid for clemency.

The post Charles Hall Insisted He Wanted the Death Penalty. Now He’s Asking Biden for Mercy. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 147 Score: 17.14 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 12.86 democrat, 4.29 congress

Congress Keeps Trying to Hide the True Gaza Death Toll
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:34:24 +0000

A little-noticed provision in the annual defense bill would bar the Pentagon from citing the Gaza Health Ministry as an authoritative source.

The post Congress Keeps Trying to Hide the True Gaza Death Toll appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 148 Score: 15.71 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 1.43 house of representatives, 1.43 congress

Rudolph’s never going to get a very shiny new role in Santa’s family firm | Torsten Bell
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:30:39 GMT

Workers in family-run businesses earn less on average and have fewer opportunities to progress into senior jobs

Santa has a great reputation. Generous, jolly, snazzily dressed. But he’s obviously a terrible employer. The elves are entirely unpaid for their gruelling manual labour. Their fixed smiles and constant singing are evidence of a culture of fear. Does anyone believe he’s keeping the Lapland workplace temperature above the Health and Safety Executive’s 16C minimum? And the reindeer’s 24-hour shift this week will be a clear breach of the working time directive.

The complete lack of progression (not to mention a highly segregated workforce) is another warning sign. Everyone has been doing the same job for centuries – which works for Santa at the top, but means few opportunities for others to move on up.

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Match ID: 149 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Bros’s Matt Goss on love and loss; ‘my father, the serial killer’; Marina Hyde on Prince Andrew and the spy; and Philippa Perry on finding purpose at 80 – podcast
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 05:00:08 GMT

The Duke of York is a royal problem, says Marina Hyde: it’s time they owned it. Matt Goss discusses mega-fame, political correctness and loneliness with Simon Hattenstone. After April Balascio’s foster brother was killed, she started piecing together evidence that revealed her father was a serial killer. And Philippa advises an 80-year-old reader how to face the existential void that is overwhelming them.

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Match ID: 150 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Americans Stuck in Gaza Sue the U.S. for Leaving Them “Trapped in a War Zone”
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:04:16 +0000

“I have a fundamental right to be protected by my government, especially in times of war. My children and I deserve to return to the safety of the U.S.”

The post Americans Stuck in Gaza Sue the U.S. for Leaving Them “Trapped in a War Zone” appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 151 Score: 15.00 source: theintercept.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 constitution

Rocket Report: ULA has a wild idea; Starliner crew will stay in orbit even longer
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:40:02 +0000
ULA's Vulcan rocket is at least several months away from flying again, and Stoke names its engine.
Match ID: 152 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Best of 2024: ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s – podcast
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 05:00:05 GMT

Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2024, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.

From August: By the time my wife got a diagnosis, her long and harrowing deterioration had already begun. By the end, I was in awe of her. By Michael Aylwin

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Match ID: 153 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Yasser’s story: the Syrian refugee who lived with me - podcast
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 03:00:00 GMT

Helen Pidd speaks to her former lodger, Yasser, a Syrian refugee contemplating moving back home

In 2015, Syrian refugee Yasser moved into Today in Focus presenter Helen Pidd’s home. He had travelled for 37 days across land and sea to escape the horrors of the war in Syria. Since then, Yasser has lived in Manchester, but has always longed to return to Syria.

“Sunday morning, 8 December 2024. That was the best morning of my life,” Yasser tells Helen.

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Match ID: 154 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Carabao Cup quarter-finals and what’s next for Rashford: Football Weekly Extra - podcast
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:39:31 GMT

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Liew and Sam Dalling as Arsenal, Newcastle and Liverpool progress to the League Cup semis

Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email.

On the podcast today: the League Cup semi-finals are shaping up to be quite interesting, with four teams who’ll definitely feel a trophy will help their cause this season guaranteed to feature.

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Match ID: 155 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

How to Protect Yourself From the Salt Typhoon Hack, No Matter What the FBI Says
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:54:57 +0000

The FBI is still touting the debunked idea that its agents could access communications without opening a door to foreign hackers.

The post How to Protect Yourself From the Salt Typhoon Hack, No Matter What the FBI Says appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 156 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 2.86 federal government, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress

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: 334 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Syrian Activists Feared Assad’s Retaliation. His Fall Frees Them to Speak Openly.
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:54:24 +0000

The Syrian regime’s ouster unleashed a collective unmasking across the country and its vast diaspora.

The post Syrian Activists Feared Assad’s Retaliation. His Fall Frees Them to Speak Openly. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 158 Score: 8.57 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat

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: 55 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat

Keeping Sanctions in Force Would “Pull the Rug Out From Under Syria”
Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:46:24 +0000

Hours before Assad fell, Congress moved to extend sanctions. Despite presidential waivers, Syria won’t open up until they’re off the books.

The post Keeping Sanctions in Force Would “Pull the Rug Out From Under Syria” appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 160 Score: 7.86 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress

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: 275 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election

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: 162 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 37 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: 163 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 149 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

As the Mastermind of Far-Right ‘Active Clubs’ Goes to Prison, His Violent Movement Goes Global
Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The white supremacist Robert Rundo faces years in prison. But the “Active Club” network he helped create has proliferated in countries around the world, from Eastern Europe to South America.
Match ID: 164 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

Judge Reverses Decision to Release Alleged CIA Leaker Ahead of Trial
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:21:38 +0000

Seeking to lock up Asif Rahman during his Espionage Act trial, prosecutors alleged the CIA analyst had an ideological motive to leak.

The post Judge Reverses Decision to Release Alleged CIA Leaker Ahead of Trial appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 165 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

The 'war' on disabled people and my fight for an independent life – video
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:31:41 GMT

Disability services in the UK have been consistently cut after 14 years of Tory rule and austerity, but with the promise of change from a new Labour government, musician and activist John Kelly is concerned that politicians are still not listening to disabled voices and what they want. Kelly chained himself to London buses in the 1990s to protest over a lack of access to transport, but has watched the right to an independent life be steadily eroded. He worries that yet more cuts to services are on their way

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Match ID: 166 Score: 4.29 source: www.theguardian.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

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: 167 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 23 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

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: 168 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 163 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: 169 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 244 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: 170 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 332 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: 171 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 344 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.

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Biden: Trump’s tax and tariffs plans are a ‘major mistake’
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:20:21 EST
Five weeks after the election, the president took his sharpest swing at Trump’s policy plans.
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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 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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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
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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
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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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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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The ‘Ghost Gun’ Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows Just How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 02:13:54 +0000
The design of the gun police say they found on the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer—the FMDA or “Free Men Don’t Ask”—was released by a libertarian group.
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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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NASA Accelerates Space Exploration, Earth Science for All in 2024
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:54:15 +0000
With a look back at 2024, NASA is celebrating its many innovative and inspiring accomplishments this year including for the first time, landing new science and technology on the Moon with an American company, pushing the boundaries of exploration by launching a new mission to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa; maintaining 24 years of continuous […]
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Strong winds disrupt Christmas getaway travel
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 08:05:55 GMT
Roads, ferries, rail and air travel face disruption on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.
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My voyage of good cheer around Finland – the world’s happiest country
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 07:00:40 GMT

With clean air, vast green spaces and more saunas than cars, Finns have plenty of reasons to be cheerful

According to the World Happiness Report, the cheeriest country in the world is one nature-loving Nordic nation – Finland. On paper, it’s not hard to see why. It’s one of the world’s least corrupt countries, built on a democracy and quick to give women the vote. Education, from daycare to university, is free. Crime is low, the water is clean, the air fresh and there are more saunas than cars. But is it noticeably a nice place to be? And can the Finns teach me (and the rest of the UK, which ranks 20th in the Happiness Report) anything about wellbeing in the land of forests and freedom?

I start in Helsinki. With a population of just 630,000, this is a pocket-sized, but delightful capital city, buzzing with a Nordic foodie scene, a clutch of tech startups and its own design aesthetic, all bathed in up to 19 hours a day of sunlight in the summer. Over coffee at Nolita, his zero-waste restaurant and bakery, Serbian-born chef Luca Basic tells me that he came to Helsinki aged 19 and immediately decided to stay. So, what’s happiness in the city? He doesn’t hesitate. “It’s trust in the state. It goes beyond things like buses being on time, or my staff being able to afford to live in the middle of their city.”

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The Don, London: ‘The expectation was for something warmer’ – restaurant review
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:00:39 GMT

The menu here was overseen by Rowley Leigh, but his generous touch in the kitchen is missing

The Don, 20 St Swithin’s Lane, London EC4N 8AD. Starters £14.50–£19.50, mains £22.50–£47.50, desserts £11.50–£12.50, wines from £35

The Don in London’s Square Mile is a chilly restaurant. It’s not simply that on this grey November lunchtime, the vent to our left is pumping frigid air into the room, as if they failed to notice the clocks went back weeks ago. It’s also the hard-lined space with the slab-like picture windows looking out on to St Swithin’s Lane. It’s the parquet and the bright lights, the hefty chairs upholstered in a frosty shade of cadet blue, and the desperate attempt to soften everything with a large fern imprint on a taupe wall. The tables are set just far enough apart so diners can plot against their rivals and mutter “your shout or mine” at each other without being overheard. It feels like an overworked TV production designer’s idea of a City restaurant, from which at any moment every stick of furniture could be removed, along with the bar. Then it could become another much-needed commercial property sales office, as if nature were healing.

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Australia declines to follow EU in forcing airlines to pay passengers for delayed and cancelled flights
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:14:31 GMT

Albanese government bows to pressure from Qantas and other airlines and omits compensation scheme from aviation customer rights charter

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The Albanese government has bowed to pressure from Qantas and other airlines advocating against laws that would force them to pay cash compensation to passengers whose flights are delayed or cancelled.

The omission of a compensation scheme in the government’s draft aviation customer rights charter follows claims from airlines such as Qantas that compensation rules – which exist in the European Union – would force them to preempt costs and increase air fares. The charter was released on Sunday.

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Princess Beatrice to spend Christmas at Sandringham after Italy trip shelved
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 23:35:03 GMT

Plan for pregnant royal go overseas for festive period scrapped after doctors advise against travel

Princess Beatrice will be joining the royal family at Sandringham this Christmas after changing her travel plans due to medical advice, it is understood.

Beatrice and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, are expecting their second child in early spring and were planning on spending the festive period overseas with his parents.

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UK flights and ferries cancelled owing to high winds as Christmas getaway begins
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:29:42 GMT

Travellers urged to allow more time for journeys amid ‘perfect storm’ of festive season and bad weather

Some flights and ferries were cancelled on Saturday amid a “perfect storm” of the Christmas getaway and bad weather.

The disruption has been caused by strong gusts after the Met Office announced yellow warnings for parts of the country.

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Gabriels bring tidings of joy to Arsenal in thrashing of sorry Crystal Palace
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:39:58 GMT

This was almost the perfect way for Mikel Arteta to celebrate five years as Arsenal manager. Another two goals for Gabriel Jesus – his first in the Premier League since January – followed up his match-winning performance against the same opponents a few days ago as Kai Havertz, Gabriel Martinelli and the substitute Declan Rice with his first league goal of the season rounded off another ­victory over Crystal Palace.

Only the sight of Bukayo Saka limping off during the first half with a suspected hamstring injury could dampen the enthusiasm of the travelling fans, whose side have scored five or more goals in six away games in all competitions in 2024 – the most ever by an English top-flight club in a calendar year. More importantly, they are now only three points behind the leaders, Liverpool – albeit having played two games more. But with Manchester City six points behind Arsenal and almost a speck of dust in their rear-view mirror, Arteta will know they have never had a better chance to go all the way after clinically ­dispatching Oliver Glasner’s side.

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Lawmakers sound alarm over TSA facial recognition technology
2024-12-21T11:03:33+00:00
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Sydney commuters warned of more than 350 cancelled trains due to industrial action across network
Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:59:55 GMT

NSW minister renews calls for action to end as people are urged to avoid non-essential travel days out from Christmas

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The New South Wales transport minister is calling on rail unions to end industrial action amid hundreds of cancellations across the train network on Saturday, saying “no level of disturbance or disruption” over the new year period is “tolerable”.

But the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) said it had given “ample” notice periods of their actions to allow the trains operators to “make alternative arrangements”.

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This Tropical Virus Is Spreading Out of the Amazon to the US and Europe
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:05:48 +0000
Oropouche virus has posed little threat outside South America in the past, but land-use change, the climate crisis, and international travel all appear to be spreading this insect-borne disease to new places.
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The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:44:05 +0000
Potentially groundbreaking AI releases have been coming in fast, sending experts' heads spinning.
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How a government shutdown could affect your travel plans
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 14:28:54 +0000

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In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Arizona senator's prodigious campaign spending in global wine hotspots can’t possibly be related to the campaign she’s not running, says an ethics complaint.

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Yasser’s story: the Syrian refugee who lived with me - podcast
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 03:00:00 GMT

Helen Pidd speaks to her former lodger, Yasser, a Syrian refugee contemplating moving back home

In 2015, Syrian refugee Yasser moved into Today in Focus presenter Helen Pidd’s home. He had travelled for 37 days across land and sea to escape the horrors of the war in Syria. Since then, Yasser has lived in Manchester, but has always longed to return to Syria.

“Sunday morning, 8 December 2024. That was the best morning of my life,” Yasser tells Helen.

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Tokyo’s Best Video Game Arcades in Akihabara: Where to Go, What to Do
Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:30:00 +0000
I visited several Japanese arcades, aka game centers, in Tokyo’s Akihabara ward. Here’s some advice about how to get the most out of your visit to gamer’s paradise—and which arcade you shouldn’t miss.
Match ID: 14 Score: 35.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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America Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: Drone Terror
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000

For more than two decades, the U.S. has flown drones over the heads of millions of people — watching, recording, and even killing some of them.

The post America Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: Drone Terror appeared first on The Intercept.

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U.S. Defied Spanish Embargo on Arms Bound for Israel by Making Enforcement More Difficult
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

As the diplomatic row over the embargo escalates, the U.S. sent Israel millions of pounds of ammunition through Spanish territory.

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'The Syrian regime hit us with chemical weapons: only now can we speak out' – video
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 16:52:17 GMT

Syrian airforce helicopters dropped two cylinders of chlorine gas onto the town of Douma on 7 April 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. For six years, afraid of reprisals, the town has grieved in silence for loved ones lost to chemical attacks and countless others killed by conventional weapons.

But after an astonishing and rapid offensive by rebel forces led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), more than 50 years of Assad family rule collapsed last week, and the residents of Douma are finally free to tell their stories. The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan travelled to the town to listen to them

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Charles Hall Insisted He Wanted the Death Penalty. Now He’s Asking Biden for Mercy.
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The jurors that sent Hall to death row never heard critical evidence that could have convinced them to spare his life. Some of them now support his bid for clemency.

The post Charles Hall Insisted He Wanted the Death Penalty. Now He’s Asking Biden for Mercy. appeared first on The Intercept.

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NASA Accelerates Space Exploration, Earth Science for All in 2024
Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:54:15 +0000
With a look back at 2024, NASA is celebrating its many innovative and inspiring accomplishments this year including for the first time, landing new science and technology on the Moon with an American company, pushing the boundaries of exploration by launching a new mission to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa; maintaining 24 years of continuous […]
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NASA to Test Technology for X-59’s Unique Shock Wave Measurements
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:49:29 +0000
Lee esta historia en Español aquí. 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. […]
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Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:21:58 GMT

From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.

From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors.

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