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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:35:30 +0000

“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a person he thought was a right-wing activist.

The post Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio appeared first on The Intercept.

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Judge Who Went on Israel Junket Recuses Himself From Gaza Case
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:14:44 +0000

The federal judge hearing a human rights case disputed allegations he might not be impartial but recused himself out of an “abundance of caution.”

The post Judge Who Went on Israel Junket Recuses Himself From Gaza Case appeared first on The Intercept.

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Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to 45 minutes awarded Longitude prize
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:30:04 GMT

The £8m award goes to system that could herald ‘sea change’ in antibiotic use by identifying correct treatment for urinary tract infections within 45 minutes

An £8m prize for a breakthrough in the fight against superbugs has been awarded, after a decade-long search for a winner, to a test that can identify how to treat a urinary tract infection in 45 minutes.

The test could herald a “sea change” in antibiotic use, the judges said as they announced the winner of the Longitude prize on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

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The strange case of the axing of Erik ten Hag that never happened
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:25:45 GMT

Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his Manchester United advisers were minded to sack the Dutchman but in the end another trophy changed their minds

The documentary of how Manchester United’s Sir Jim Ratcliffe-led season review ended with Erik ten Hag keeping his job as manager would show a forensic, painstaking process, according to a high-ranking club executive. The non in-house version might differ as it would show Ratcliffe and his advisers being minded to sack the Dutchman before a number of factors ultimately persuaded them that Ten Hag should remain in post.

Ten Hag probably stopped contemplating clearing his United desk after Ratcliffe’s beauty parade of Thomas Tuchel, Kieran McKenna (who signed a lucrative new contract with Ipswich), Mauricio Pochettino, Roberto De Zerbi, Thomas Frank, Graham Potter, Gary O’Neil, Paulo Fonseca and Gareth Southgate as potential replacements ended with them all judged less handsome than the incumbent.

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Swiss lawmakers reject climate ruling in favour of female climate elders
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:03:43 GMT

Co-president of the KlimaSeniorinnen says declaration is betrayal of older women

Swiss politicians have rejected a landmark climate ruling from the European court of human rights, raising fears that other polluting countries may follow suit.

A panel of Strasbourg judges ruled in April that Switzerland had violated the human rights of older women through weak climate policies that leave them more vulnerable to heatwaves. Activists hailed the judgment as a breakthrough because it leaves all members of the Council of Europe exposed to legal challenges for sluggish efforts to clean up carbon-intensive economies.

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Remaining British judges urged to resign from Hong Kong’s top court
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:31:30 GMT

The three British judges still on territory’s top bench under pressure to quit after two others stepped down last week

Pressure is increasing on the last remaining British judges who sit in Hong Kong’s top court to resign, after two senior justices stepped down last week because of the “political situation” in the former British colony.

Jonathan Sumption and Lawrence Collins resigned as non-permanent overseas judges from Hong Kong’s court of final appeal on Thursday. Collins cited the “political situation in Hong Kong” in a brief statement about his departure.

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A Federal Judge Visited Israel on a Junket Designed to Sway Public Opinion. Now He’s Hearing a Gaza Case.
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:24:04 +0000

Activists suing the Biden administration over Gaza policy are demanding the judge recuse himself over the sponsored trip.

The post A Federal Judge Visited Israel on a Junket Designed to Sway Public Opinion. Now He’s Hearing a Gaza Case. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Sandy Hook survivors call for gun control as they graduate high school
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:18:31 GMT

Newtown students declare ‘time for change’ more than 11 years after one of the deadliest US school shootings

Students who survived one of the deadliest school mass shootings in US history are graduating high school on Wednesday, as many call for more action on gun control.

Emotions were running high at Newtown high school in Connecticut on Wednesday, more than 11 years after a former student entered Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012 with guns and killed small children, teachers and staff in a massacre that shook the nation.

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US House to vote on holding Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:04:17 GMT

Resolution concerns attorney general’s refusal to turn over audio of Biden interview in his classified-documents case

The House is expected Wednesday to vote on a resolution holding the attorney general, Merrick Garland, in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of Joe Biden’s interview in his classified-documents case, a move that comes just weeks after the White House blocked release of the recording to lawmakers.

The contempt action represents House Republicans’ latest and strongest rebuke of the justice department and of Garland’s leadership, playing out against the backdrop of an extraordinary conflict over the rule of law that has animated the 2024 presidential campaign. Republicans have denounced the pending criminal cases into former president Donald Trump, their presumptive nominee for the White House, while making sweeping claims about what they view as corruption in the US president’s administration.

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‘The big story of the 21st century’: is this the most shocking documentary of the year?
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:27:49 GMT

Six years in the making, jaw-dropping new film The Grab shows a secret scramble by governments and private firms to buy up global resources

In 2013, the US food conglomerate Smithfield Foods – the country’s largest pork producer and maker of the famous holiday ham – was sold to a Hong Kong-based company called WH Group in a deal worth $7.1bn. It was the largest ever Chinese acquisition of an American company; virtually overnight, WH Group, formerly called Shuanghui International, gained ownership of nearly one in four American pigs. Such a huge business deal did not go unnoticed; news coverage and an eventual congressional hearing questioned the sale with a mix of good, old-fashioned American xenophobia and reasonable concern for the nation’s food supply. But in the eyes of most people, and certainly most American consumers, the Smithfield Foods sale remained just that: a one-off business deal, if they were aware of it at all.

For Nate Halverson, a journalist with the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) out of Emeryville, California, the Smithfield deal was the first point in a much wider and concerning pattern – though the company’s CEO, Larry Pope, assured Congress that the Chinese government was not behind WH Group’s purchase, Halverson found evidence to the contrary on a reporting trip to the company’s headquarters: a secret document, marked not for distribution in the United States, detailing every dollar of the deal, and the state-run Bank of China’s “social responsibility” in backing it for “national strategy”.

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North Dakota passes measure to limit age of congressional candidates
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:45:25 +0000

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The Democratic candidate is performing better than expected in the special election for Ohio’s 6th Congressional...
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:35:14 +0000

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In South Carolina’s 3rd District, no Republican received a majority of votes in the party’s congressional...
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:26:36 +0000

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Businessman Michael B. Moore is projected to win the Democratic primary for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional...
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:20:32 +0000

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Republican Michael Rulli is projected to win the special election for Ohio’s 6th Congressional District, according...
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 01:17:24 +0000

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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is projected to win the Republican primary for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional...
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:42:20 +0000

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North Dakota ballot initiative to enact age limit for congressional candidates is likely to face legal challenges
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 23:52:08 +0000

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UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:17:35 +0000

Dan Osborn, running as an independent, has racked up endorsements in a race that could help determine Senate control in 2024.

The post UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator appeared first on The Intercept.

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Missouri’s Attorney General Is Waging War to Keep the Wrongly Convicted Locked Up
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Andrew Bailey’s office has a losing record of fighting against exonerations recommended by local prosecutors — but it’s not giving up.

The post Missouri’s Attorney General Is Waging War to Keep the Wrongly Convicted Locked Up appeared first on The Intercept.

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US citizens face charges ‘punishable by death’ in alleged coup attempt in Congo
Fri, 07 Jun 2024 17:08:21 GMT

Three US nationals on trial in Democratic Republic of Congo over events in May described as an attempted coup

More than 50 people, including three US citizens and a Belgian, have gone on trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo over what the army has described as an attempted coup.

The actions of the three Americans were “punishable by death”, Judge Freddy Ehume told the military court in the DRC capital, Kinshasa.

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What’s Behind Joe Biden’s Harsh New Executive Order on Immigration?
Sat, 08 Jun 2024 18:57:27 +0000
Neither the declining number of border arrivals nor the intransigence of congressional Republicans has improved the President’s standing on the issue.
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“Not the Career in Public Service I Signed Up For”: Federal Workers Protest War
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:16:16 +0000

Government employees are using their official badges to demonstrate against U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

The post “Not the Career in Public Service I Signed Up For”: Federal Workers Protest War appeared first on The Intercept.

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Exclusive: The Guardian interviews President Zelenskiy
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:48:04 GMT

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, revealed the tactics and traits that help him face the daily frustrations of leading a country at war for more than two years.

Within a ceremonial room inside Kyiv’s presidential compound, Zelenskiy spoke for nearly an hour with a Guardian team, including the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. The interview took place during perhaps the toughest time for Ukraine since the early days of the war. Russia is on the offensive in Kharkiv, an advance that follows months of delay in the US Congress over the passing of a major support package, limiting Ukraine’s battlefield capabilities

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One Facebook Ad Promotes a For-Profit College; Another a State School. Which Ad Do Black Users See?
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:48:24 +0000

Researchers tested for bias in Facebook’s algorithm by purchasing ads promoting for-profit colleges and studying who saw them.

The post One Facebook Ad Promotes a For-Profit College; Another a State School. Which Ad Do Black Users See? appeared first on The Intercept.

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Winners Announced in Gateways to Blue Skies Aeronautics Competition
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:04:51 +0000
The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, team, with their project titled “Aero-Quake Emergency Response Network,” took first place at the third annual Gateways to Blue Skies Competition. Competing among eight finalist teams that presented their ideas for aviation-related systems for natural disasters, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona team earned the top award at the […]
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For Decades, Officials Knew a School Sat on a Former Dump — and Did Little to Clean Up the Toxins
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In Gainesville, Florida, children are on the front lines of the hazards long ignored by local and state government officials.

The post For Decades, Officials Knew a School Sat on a Former Dump — and Did Little to Clean Up the Toxins appeared first on The Intercept.

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G7 leaders head to Italy for summit as Ukraine and Russia top the agenda
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:41:09 GMT

US wants show of strength with planned sanctions for helping Russia, but group will also discuss migration, Middle East and AI

A dramatic expansion of entities exposed to US sanctions for helping the Russian economy and an EU-led $50bn loan to ease the financial burden on Ukraine will be at the centre of discussions at a summit of the leaders of wealthy G7 nations in Puglia, Italy, starting on Thursday.

The leaders, facing unprecedented challenges from discontented electorates, will be under heightened pressure to provide concrete results as their three days of discussion range across an interlinked agenda encompassing the war in Ukraine, migration, Africa, the Middle East, the climate crisis and harnessing artificial intelligence (AI).

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Match ID: 0 Score: 75.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Trump’s potential return hangs over gathering of Western leaders
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:37:55 +0000
At a Group of Seven summit in Italy, far-right gains in European elections also loom large.
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Let’s unpack some questions about Russia’s role in North Korea’s rocket program
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:30:01 +0000
"It seems very likely that the shift in propellant type is a function of the access to Russia."
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:35:30 +0000

“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a person he thought was a right-wing activist.

The post Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 4 Score: 35.00 source: theintercept.com age: 2 days
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Russian warships arrive in Havana in visit seen as show of strength
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:21:34 GMT

Four vessels, including nuclear-powered submarine and frigate, greeted by sparse crowd upon arrival in Cuba

A fleet of Russian warships has arrived in the bay of Havana, in a visit seen as a show of strength amid tensions with the west over support for Ukraine.

Four vessels, including the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan and the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, entered Havana Bay early on Wednesday, where they offered a 21-gun salute that was reciprocated from the battlements of La Cabaña, the fortress where Che Guevara once had his office.

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Trump, seeking to show unity, to meet with GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:39:19 +0000
It will also be Trump’s first public visit to Capitol Hill since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and his first since his felony convictions.
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McConnell defends Trump support ahead of Senate GOP meeting
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:33:20 +0000

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Trump leads Biden in Arizona, new poll finds
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:12:13 +0000

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US House to vote on holding Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:04:17 GMT

Resolution concerns attorney general’s refusal to turn over audio of Biden interview in his classified-documents case

The House is expected Wednesday to vote on a resolution holding the attorney general, Merrick Garland, in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of Joe Biden’s interview in his classified-documents case, a move that comes just weeks after the White House blocked release of the recording to lawmakers.

The contempt action represents House Republicans’ latest and strongest rebuke of the justice department and of Garland’s leadership, playing out against the backdrop of an extraordinary conflict over the rule of law that has animated the 2024 presidential campaign. Republicans have denounced the pending criminal cases into former president Donald Trump, their presumptive nominee for the White House, while making sweeping claims about what they view as corruption in the US president’s administration.

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Biden campaign mocks Trump for not holding events on Wednesday
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:50:31 +0000

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On Thursday, Donald Trump will make his first public visit to Capitol Hill since the Jan....
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:29:54 +0000

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Hunter Biden conviction could boost father against Trump, experts suggest
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:51:28 GMT

Analysts say guilty verdict undermines Trump’s claim that a weaponised justice department is unfairly pursuing him

Hunter Biden’s conviction on gun-ownership charges may have handed his father, Joe, a boost in the forthcoming presidential election, analysts say, because it undermines the image of a president weaponising the US justice system to pursue Donald Trump.

Trump, the former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee, has pushed that line relentlessly to explain his conviction last month on charges related to the concealment of hush-money payments to a porn star to help him win the 2016 election.

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Valance and Wintour host rival Trump-Biden London events
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:37:53 GMT
Holly Valance is set to host a pro-Trump event, with Anna Wintour reported to be hosting a pro-Biden one.
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Global poll finds Biden more popular than Trump
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:00:34 +0000

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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 12th
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:35:00 +0000
“Team Trump is up by thirty-one in felonies, but it’s still anyone’s game.”
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Trump was hoping for a slam dunk. But Hunter Biden’s trial has only highlighted his father Joe’s dignity | Emma Brockes
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:34:30 GMT

A lie is a lie, but the president’s support of his son - and of the legal system - has been moving to see

If you didn’t know better, you might think the jury that found Hunter Biden guilty this week knew precisely what they were doing. The evidence against the president’s son – that he lied about his drug use on a firearms form six years ago – was overwhelming, but so too was the impression of a trivial, overegged charge. But, by finding him guilty, the jury in this area of solid Democratic support have potentially done more injury to his father’s political rival than if they had found him not guilty on all counts.

For those of us watching, the entire spectacle has at times been an uncomfortable exercise in flushing out biases. Like the Trump children, Hunter Biden has the demoralised air of a scion struggling to escape his father’s shadow, albeit in a different style. If the Trump boys are chinless dimwits, Hunter has about him the seedy air of a second- or third-tier Hollywood actor, clamped behind aviators and accompanied seemingly everywhere by his much younger wife.

Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist

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Poll: Biden, Trump about even in Pennsylvania
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:00:57 +0000

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How government scientists aim to limit Trump’s control over research if he wins
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:48:29 +0000

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The Trump Campaign Has Made A Deal With An Online ‘Propaganda’ Network
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Democrats’ surprisingly close Ohio special election loss, in context
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:30:11 +0000
Democrat Michael Kripchak lost by less than 10 points in a district Donald Trump carried by 29 in 2020. It’s merely the latest Democratic over-performance, but what does it mean?
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Some abortion opponents worry about Trump’s Republican platform rewrite
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:36:03 +0000

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A January 6 Rioter Is Leading an Armed National Militia From Prison
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:30:00 +0000
As the US election approaches, Edward “Jake” Lang says that the militia will focus on potential “civil unrest” around the vote and will be ready to activate at a moment’s notice.
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Trump loyalists face off for Maine 2nd nomination — a seat GOP hopes to flip in November
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 23:27:18 +0000

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Between sharks and shocks: Answering Trump’s unanswered question
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 20:56:16 +0000
The former president’s riff on sea life and electric boats confused a lot of people. Allow us to clarify.
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Election forecast: Biden, Trump ‘essentially deadlocked’
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:22:23 +0000

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UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:17:35 +0000

Dan Osborn, running as an independent, has racked up endorsements in a race that could help determine Senate control in 2024.

The post UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator appeared first on The Intercept.

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In Trump’s orbit, some muse about mandatory military service
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:07:28 +0000
Only 1 percent of the U.S. population serves in the military. Some in Donald Trump’s camp say it’s time more young adults put “some skin in the game.”
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The Trump campaign didn’t address the substance of the verdict but instead baselessly accused the Biden...
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:06:55 +0000

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Rod Blagojevich’s Tips for Prison Survival, Just in Time for Trump
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The former governor of Illinois, who served time for trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat, advises buffing up, finding a cool nickname, and watching out for crazies urinating in the oatmeal.
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U.S. will send Ukraine a second Patriot air defense battery
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:52:52 +0000
The Patriot air defense battery will be transferred to Ukraine from Poland where the U.S. has staged weapons shipments since Russia’s invasion began.
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Elections 2024 live updates: Biden heading to Italy to meet with nervous G-7 allies
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:33:20 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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‘Ram him’: How Ukraine is pushing U.S. combat gear to the extreme
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:03:20 +0000
Viral videos show how Ukraine is adapting U.S.-made Bradley Fighting Vehicles to work around shortfalls in its war with Russia.
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‘All eyes are on her’: Italy’s far-right chameleon, Giorgia Meloni, prepares to host the G7
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:02:38 GMT

The Italian leader, hardline at home and moderate abroad, is in a powerful position after the European elections

When Giorgia Meloni met Joe Biden at the White House in March, he played Ray Charles’s Georgia on My Mind as she entered the room. “We have each other’s backs,” he later told reporters, before planting a tender kiss on her forehead as the meeting wrapped up.

The cosy get-together was the clearest sign yet that the Italian prime minister, a chameleon of a communicator, had been able to cultivate warm relations with the US president, who had previously expressed concerns about her Brothers of Italy party’s neofascist history.

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Russian missile strike kills 9 in Zelensky's hometown - officials
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:20:09 GMT
Another 29 people are injured in the missile attack on the southern city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine says.
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Russian warships arrive in Cuba in show of force
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:11:08 GMT
The visit is seen as Russia's sabre-rattling, amid tensions with the West over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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D-day, Rishi Sunak and the eastern front | Letter
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:02:02 GMT

D-day commemorations have failed to mention equally important turning points in the war, says Prof Colin Green. Plus a letter from Ben Summerskill

The D-day 80th anniversary events were really moving, especially hearing from the veterans who survived. Much has been made of Rishi Sunak’s failure to attend the international event (Furious Tories turn on Rishi Sunak over D-day commemorations snub, 9 June). I was more saddened by the repeated claim in TV programmes that D-day was the turning point of the second world war, without mention of the 27 million Soviets (including Ukrainians) who lost their lives and were ignored in this commemoration.

The eastern front was crucial to defeating Hitler and the Nazi armies well before 1944. Moscow in 1941, Stalingrad in 1942, three battles for Kharkov in 1941, 1942 and 1943, the great tank battle of Kursk (1943) and the siege of Leningrad (1941 to 1944) decimated the best German troops and were, collectively, the war’s true turning points. How Erwin Rommel would have welcomed defending Normandy with just a fraction of the 152 German divisions (3 million men) that invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. I feel great sadness for all deaths, including on D-day, and wake up every morning well aware that I owe my happy life to so many courageous men and women who gave their lives or were injured.
Prof Colin Green
Harrow, London

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As Europe faces war, Germany looks to restore national service
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:52:01 +0000
The decision comes as more European countries are considering restoring some form of military or universal conscription in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:38:15 +0000

Mozilla, the maker of the popular web browser Firefox, said it received government demands to block add-ons that circumvent censorship.

The post Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request appeared first on The Intercept.

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We’re in the middle of a non-stop sporting bloom – help us bring you a pitchside view
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:08:40 GMT

This summer is something else, a three-month run crammed with colour, drama, escapism. We’ll be there for every moment

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As the gloom of June gives way to the gloom of July, August and September, it is worth taking a second to consult the schedule. Because an unusually epic summer of global sport is well under way.

This is quite a thing. From Real Madrid’s triumph in the Champions League final at Wembley this month through to the women’s cricket T20 World Cup in October, we’re in the midst of a non-stop sporting bloom.

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Sylvinho: ‘Maybe I was important as a player, but no longer. I’ve had to educate myself’
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:19:40 GMT

The livewire Albania head coach on playing down his past, his work ethic and Euro 2024’s toughest group

“I never stay calm,” Sylvinho says midway through an afternoon that, in the best way possible, bears out his point. “The players know it, the federation knows it, the president knows it. Christmas party, end of year, normally you restart work in January … but the whole time all I’m thinking is how we can go through. How can we play against Italy? How can we play against Croatia? What will we do against the Spanish?”

It is an understandable preoccupation given Albania, who Sylvinho led to an outstanding qualification for Euro 2024 last year, must face all three over the next fortnight in the tournament’s toughest group. They could not have been dealt a more fiendish hand and it will cause shock waves if they progress. “You have to find a way to reduce the distance between them and us,” he says. “How? You have to work.”

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First BTS member finishes military service, pledges hugs for 1,000 fans
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:15:34 +0000
Jin, the oldest member of BTS, completed his mandatory national service in South Korea and promised free hugs for his fans, also known as the “Army.”
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Using AI for Political Polling
2024-06-12T11:02:27Z

Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the successes and the flaws of public polling. There are two main reasons polling fails.

First, nonresponse has skyrocketed. It’s radically harder to reach people than it used to be. Few people fill out surveys that come in the mail anymore. Few people answer their phone when a stranger calls. Pew Research reported that 36% of the people they called in 1997 would talk to them, but only 6% by 2018. Pollsters worldwide have faced similar challenges...

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Pat Nevin: ‘I didn’t want to be a player at first but in the end I loved it’
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:00:21 GMT

Former Scotland winger on being an ‘accidental footballer’, Russian culture and his country’s chances at Euro 2024

An afternoon with Pat Nevin unfolds like a travelogue. The former Scotland international waits for me inside Berwick-upon-Tweed station and, in a moment of peak Nevin purity, he is reading a memoir written by Simon Raymonde, the bass player of his favourite band, the Cocteau Twins. The book is great, apparently, and sparks a stream of amusing anecdotes about a time when Nevin was considered a “weirdo” as a Chelsea and Everton footballer interested in music, books, film and politics.

We drive out of England, and into Scotland, while the 60-year-old Nevin talks about his love of travel and his relish for another European Championship, where he will work as an analyst for BBC Radio 5 Live in Germany. The tournament begins on Friday and Nevin will be there as Germany face Scotland in the opening match in Munich.

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From the archive: How globalisation has transformed the fight for LGBTQ+ rights – podcast
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 04:00:14 GMT

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.

This week, from 2021: Much progress has been made in attitudes towards sexual equality and gender identity – but in many places a dramatic backlash by conservative forces has followed.

By Mark Gevisser

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Jin from BTS wraps up military service to the strains of K-pop hit Dynamite
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 03:25:02 GMT

Jin has finished his stint in South Korea’s military but group won’t be able to reform until RM, Jimin, Jungkook, J-hope and V are discharged in 2025

Jin, the oldest member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, has completed his military service in South Korea, although their legions of fans around the world will still have to wait at least a year until all seven artists are reunited.

The star, who in December 2022 became the first member of the group to begin 18 months of military service, emerged on Wednesday from the 5th Army Infantry Division’s base in northern Yeoncheon province, 60km north of Seoul, to be greeted by fellow bandmates J-hope, RM, V, Jungkook and Jimin.

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Poll: Many Ukrainians see war as stalemate but most back fight vs. Russia
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:10:18 +0000
A survey of Ukrainian public opinion found strong support for the war effort but potentially unrealistic expectations about liberating all territory now occupied by Russia.
Match ID: 46 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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U.N. Security Council adopts resolution on permanent Gaza cease-fire
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:17:40 +0000
Russia abstained in the vote, which is designed to push both Hamas and Israel toward an immediate cease-fire and release of hostages.
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Study: Three skulls of medieval Viking women were deliberately elongated
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:53:54 +0000
There is also evidence of deliberately filed teeth on some 130 male Viking skulls.
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Who’s Afraid of ‘Skibidi Toilet’?
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The bizarre animated YouTube series is so huge that it’s caught the attention of concerned parents and the Russian government. But it’s still a mystery to almost anyone over 30—except Stephen Colbert.
Match ID: 49 Score: 20.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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A G.O.P. Strategist on the Republican Voters Who Could Abandon Trump
Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Donald Trump’s grip on his supporters remains firm despite his felony conviction. What can the latest polling and focus-group data tell us about what Republican voters are thinking?
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Restaurant Review: A Pitch-Perfect Ode to Korean “Drivers’ Restaurants”
Sun, 09 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Kisa is a brand-new spot on the Lower East Side that does an astonishingly good job of seeming like it’s been there forever.
Match ID: 51 Score: 17.14 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
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Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:00:26 +0000

The draconian restrictions on asylum-seekers owe a lot to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, but the path was paved by Democrats.

The post Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too appeared first on The Intercept.

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Australia news live: school’s AI images scandal intensifies calls for social media crackdown; rental assistance struggles to keep up
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 20:45:33 GMT

An AI expert says tech companies should be held to great account for content. Follow the day’s news live

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Deepfake apps with the ability to impose women’s heads on naked bodies are being pushed on social media as experts warn more advanced software could be on the horizon, Australian Associated Press reports.

Monash University associate professor Asher Flynn, who specialises in technology-facilitated violence, said tech giants should be responsible for hosting promotion of the apps.

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NASA’s Roman Mission Gets Cosmic ‘Sneak Peek’ From Supercomputers
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Researchers are diving into a synthetic universe to help us better understand the real one. Using supercomputers at the U.S. DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, scientists have created nearly 4 million simulated images depicting the cosmos as NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded […]
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Ugandan oil pipeline protester allegedly beaten as part of ‘alarming crackdown’
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:02:50 GMT

Stephen Kwikiriza is one of 11 campaigners against EACOP targeted by authorities in past two weeks, rights group says

A man campaigning against the controversial $5bn (£4bn) east African crude oil pipeline (EACOP) is recovering in hospital after an alleged beating by the Ugandan armed forces in the latest incident in what has been called an “alarming crackdown” on the country’s environmentalists.

Stephen Kwikiriza, who works for Uganda’s Environment Governance Institute (EGI), a non-profit organisation, was abducted in Kampala on 4 June, according to his employer. He was beaten, questioned and then abandoned hundreds of miles from the capital on Sunday evening.

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From ‘hug a husky’ to ‘max out the oil’: the Tory environmental journey
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 05:00:16 GMT

We look back through 14 years of Conservative manifestos at policies on net zero, energy, transport and more

It’s been a long journey on environmental issues for the Tories – but somehow it feels as if it has been in the wrong direction. Eighteen years on from David Cameron’s “hug a husky” campaign of 2006, where the climate and nature crises were largely viewed with cross-party consensus, we look back through the (many) Tory manifestos since 2010 to see how the Conservatives’ environmental message has evolved.

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NASA Selects 2024 Small Business, Research Teams for Tech Development
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:08:21 +0000
NASA will award funding to nearly 250 small business teams to develop new technologies to address agency priorities, such as carbon neutrality and energy storage for various applications in space and on Earth. The new awards from NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program invest in a diverse portfolio […]
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Polarized light yields fresh insight into mysterious fast radio bursts
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:11:05 +0000
Scientists looked at how polarization changed direction to learn more about origins.
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Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:00:29 +0000
They hold the keys to new physics. If only we could understand them.
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Apple Is Coming for Your Password Manager
Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A media executive is charged in an alleged money-laundering scheme, a ransomware attack disrupts care at London hospitals, and Google’s former CEO has a secretive drone project up his sleeve.
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Senator Raphael Warnock on America’s “Moral and Spiritual Battle”
Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:00:00 +0000
The Democratic senator and Baptist pastor, who preaches from the same pulpit in Atlanta as Martin Luther King, Jr., did, says that Trumpism has exacerbated a “spiritual crisis.”
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What Is Matter? We Explain the New Smart Home Standard (2024)
Sun, 09 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000
This open source protocol ensures your devices play nicely. Matter 1.3 potentially adds more device support and energy management to smart homes.
Match ID: 62 Score: 12.86 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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After Training African Coup Leaders, Pentagon Blames Russia for African Coups
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:03:42 +0000

The U.S. has trained 15 coup leaders in recent decades — and U.S. counterterrorism policies in the region have failed.

The post After Training African Coup Leaders, Pentagon Blames Russia for African Coups  appeared first on The Intercept.

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European banks are making heady profits in Russia
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:56:28 +0000
But for how much longer?
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A Federal Judge Visited Israel on a Junket Designed to Sway Public Opinion. Now He’s Hearing a Gaza Case.
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:24:04 +0000

Activists suing the Biden administration over Gaza policy are demanding the judge recuse himself over the sponsored trip.

The post A Federal Judge Visited Israel on a Junket Designed to Sway Public Opinion. Now He’s Hearing a Gaza Case. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Online Privacy and Overfishing
2024-06-05T11:00:58Z

Microsoft recently caught state-backed hackers using its generative AI tools to help with their attacks. In the security community, the immediate questions weren’t about how hackers were using the tools (that was utterly predictable), but about how Microsoft figured it out. The natural conclusion was that Microsoft was spying on its AI users, looking for harmful hackers at work.

Some pushed back at characterizing Microsoft’s actions as “spying.” Of course cloud service providers monitor what users are doing. And because we expect Microsoft to be doing something like this, it’s not fair to call it spying...

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Exclusive: The Guardian interviews President Zelenskiy
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:48:04 GMT

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, revealed the tactics and traits that help him face the daily frustrations of leading a country at war for more than two years.

Within a ceremonial room inside Kyiv’s presidential compound, Zelenskiy spoke for nearly an hour with a Guardian team, including the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. The interview took place during perhaps the toughest time for Ukraine since the early days of the war. Russia is on the offensive in Kharkiv, an advance that follows months of delay in the US Congress over the passing of a major support package, limiting Ukraine’s battlefield capabilities

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A US Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:30:00 +0000
Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure.
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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
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Missouri’s Attorney General Is Waging War to Keep the Wrongly Convicted Locked Up
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Andrew Bailey’s office has a losing record of fighting against exonerations recommended by local prosecutors — but it’s not giving up.

The post Missouri’s Attorney General Is Waging War to Keep the Wrongly Convicted Locked Up appeared first on The Intercept.

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How Donald Trump Could Weaponize US Surveillance in a Second Term
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Donald Trump has vowed to go after political enemies, undocumented immigrants, and others if he wins. Experts warn he could easily turn the surveillance state against his targets.
Match ID: 71 Score: 3.57 source: www.wired.com age: 9 days
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From ‘devastating’ to ‘reassured’: Lawmakers split over Trump verdict
Fri, 31 May 2024 13:28:24 EST

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Inside Donald Trump’s hush-money trial: three key testimonies – video
Fri, 31 May 2024 02:35:05 GMT

Twelve jurors in New York have presented their fellow Americans with a simple question: are you willing to elect a convicted criminal to the White House?

On Thursday, Donald Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. The verdict makes him the first president, current or former, to be found guilty of felony crimes in the US's near 250-year history. Regardless, the conviction does not disqualify Trump as a presidential candidate or bar him from again sitting in the Oval Office.

Trump, who opted not to take the stand during the trial, has denied wrongdoing, railed against the proceedings and ahead of the verdict compared himself to a saint: “Mother Teresa could not beat these charges. The charges are rigged,” he said on Wednesday. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is expected to appeal the verdict.

The Guardian’s Sam Levine has been in court over the last several weeks covering all the developments – here are three testimonies he found most memorable. 

• Could Trump go to prison? Here’s what happens next after the guilty verdict

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Guilty verdict fuels Trump’s campaign: ‘Our whole country is being rigged’
Thu, 30 May 2024 17:30:16 EST
Depending on his sentence, a conviction may change little about Trump’s campaign strategy.
Match ID: 74 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 12 days
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Trump Is Misleading You With Covid-Era Statistics. So Is Biden.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EST
Biden and Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.
Match ID: 77 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 54 days
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
Match ID: 78 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 56 days
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
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Imran Khan Remains Imprisoned Over His Wife’s Menstrual Cycles. State Department Says That’s “Something For the Pakistani Courts to Decide.”
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:34:13 +0000

The charge of an illegitimate marriage is all that’s left after a court acquitted Khan over his handling of a classified cypher.

The post Imran Khan Remains Imprisoned Over His Wife’s Menstrual Cycles. State Department Says That’s “Something For the Pakistani Courts to Decide.” appeared first on The Intercept.

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Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000
YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It’s become "indispensable" to everyday people, making a ban tricky. Journalists and dissidents are taking advantage.
Match ID: 82 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
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US says Russia likely launched anti-satellite weapon
Wed, 22 May 2024 04:22:18 GMT
The Russian satellite launched last week may be capable of attacking other satellites, the Pentagon says.
Match ID: 83 Score: 2.86 source: www.bbc.com age: 21 days
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
Match ID: 85 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 55 days
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
Match ID: 86 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 62 days
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
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Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought
Thu, 30 May 2024 18:51:48 +0000
Drought-stricken hydro dams have led to daily electricity cuts in Ecuador. As weather becomes less predictable due to climate change, experts say other countries need to take notice.
Match ID: 89 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
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NASA Teammates Recall Favorite Memories Aboard Flying Laboratory
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000
After flying more than three decades and 158 science campaigns, just one flight remains. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory will make its final flight May 15 to Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, where it will be used to train future aircraft technicians by providing real-world experience in the college’s Aircraft Maintenance Technology Program. Before […]
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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10 Best Smartwatches, Editor Tested and Reviewed (2024): Apple Watch, Wear OS, Hybrid Watches, Kids' Watches
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000
These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.
Match ID: 0 Score: 35.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
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The Top New Features in WatchOS 11 (2024)
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the Apple Watch, Apple is adding new health features like pregnancy tracking and a fitness training algorithm to watchOS 11.
Match ID: 1 Score: 35.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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Fitbit Ace LTE Review: The Best Kid's Smartwatch
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Fitbit’s kids’ smartwatch is a location tracker as well as a gaming and communication device. It should keep my kids off phones for another few years.
Match ID: 2 Score: 35.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light
Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000
New research has found that blue light from your smartphone screen won’t keep you up at night. But you still shouldn’t doomscroll in bed—here’s why.
Match ID: 3 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:00:30 GMT

• Athlete said rules were ‘invalid and unlawful’
• World Aquatics: ‘Major step to protect women’s sport’

The US swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence after becoming the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title in March 2022, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport – and with it any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics.

The 25-year-old also remains barred from swimming in the female category after failing to overturn rules introduced by swimming’s governing body in the summer of 2022, which prohibit anyone who has undergone “any part of male puberty” from the female category.

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Seeing Like a Data Structure
2024-06-03T11:06:54Z

Technology was once simply a tool—and a small one at that—used to amplify human intent and capacity. That was the story of the industrial revolution: we could control nature and build large, complex human societies, and the more we employed and mastered technology, the better things got. We don’t live in that world anymore. Not only has technology become entangled with the structure of society, but we also can no longer see the world around us without it. The separation is gone, and the control we thought we once had has revealed itself as a mirage. We’re in a transitional period of history right now...

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A Solitary Sight
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:14:49 +0000
ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen snapped a photo of the waning gibbous moon from the International Space Station as it soared 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean near the northeast coast of South America on Sept. 30, 2023. Waning gibbous is one of eight moon phases, occurring after the full moon. The Sun […]
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Hard stares ready: first trailer released for Paddington 3
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:16:13 GMT

Paddington in Peru, which sees Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas and Emily Mortimer join the cast, sees the beloved bear travel to Peru to visit Aunt Lucy

Break out the marmalade sandwiches: the first trailer for the third Paddington movie has been released.

Paddington in Peru, due for release in November, sees the duffel-coated bear travel to South America to pay a visit to Aunt Lucy along with the Brown family. But on arrival he’s told by a guitar-playing nun who runs the home for retired bears that Lucy is missing in action on a scientific mission.

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Peter Dutton took $23k private jet to Tamworth where he spoke on cost-of-living crisis
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:00:03 GMT

Exclusive: Figures reveal that opposition leader traveled at taxpayer’s expense to event sponsored by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting

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Opposition leader Peter Dutton used a taxpayer-funded private jet to travel to a News Corp event in Tamworth, claiming $23,000 in travel expenses to speak at the summit where he criticised the government’s response to the cost-of-living crisis.

Despite multiple flight connections daily between Canberra and Tamworth, it’s understood Dutton had a pre-existing commitment, meaning no commercial flight could get him to the Daily Telegraph’s annual “bush summit” in August 2023 in time.

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Major Birmingham redevelopment plans fail residents on green space, campaigners say
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:00:02 GMT

Plans for the £1.9bn Smithfield scheme include a park that is smaller than a football pitch, falling short of the council’s own guidelines

Campaigners are warning that a major development project that will be approved by Birmingham city council falls far short of the city’s own guidelines for open green space.

The £1.9bn Smithfield scheme will bring 3,500 new homes as well as restaurants and offices to 17 hectares (42 acres) of fenced brownfield land in the centre of the city. But the new park – Smithfield Park – will be only 0.8 hectares, smaller than a football pitch.

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Pat Nevin: ‘I didn’t want to be a player at first but in the end I loved it’
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:00:21 GMT

Former Scotland winger on being an ‘accidental footballer’, Russian culture and his country’s chances at Euro 2024

An afternoon with Pat Nevin unfolds like a travelogue. The former Scotland international waits for me inside Berwick-upon-Tweed station and, in a moment of peak Nevin purity, he is reading a memoir written by Simon Raymonde, the bass player of his favourite band, the Cocteau Twins. The book is great, apparently, and sparks a stream of amusing anecdotes about a time when Nevin was considered a “weirdo” as a Chelsea and Everton footballer interested in music, books, film and politics.

We drive out of England, and into Scotland, while the 60-year-old Nevin talks about his love of travel and his relish for another European Championship, where he will work as an analyst for BBC Radio 5 Live in Germany. The tournament begins on Friday and Nevin will be there as Germany face Scotland in the opening match in Munich.

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Can Labour clean up England’s dangerously dirty water?
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:43:05 GMT

Party has vowed to end sewage scandal if it wins power, but experts say it will have to act quickly and ambitiously

Since the UK’s general election was called, the Labour party has been seeking to capitalise on voters’ fury over the sewage filling England’s rivers and seas.

The debt-ridden, leaking, polluting water industry, owned largely by foreign investment firms, private equity and pension funds, has overseen decades of underinvestment and the large-scale dumping of raw sewage into rivers. It has become one of the touchstone issues of this election, with voters across the political spectrum angry at the polluting of waterways treasured by local communities. Groups have sprung up to look after rivers and lakes; protests pop up most weekends along the coast.

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Tell us: are you making a change to your summer holidays?
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:42:07 GMT

Whether it’s holidaying domestically or heading to a destination with a cooler climate, we’d like to hear about anything you’re doing differently this year

As the northern hemisphere enters the summer, we want to hear from people who are planning to have a different type of summer holiday this year.

Are you visiting a cooler climate than usual? Or holidaying domestically when you go abroad most summers, or vice versa?

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There is no recovery for the Conservative party until it purges itself of Reform-lite ideas | Justine Greening
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 07:35:02 GMT

This cheap politics of envy distracts from the country’s most pressing issue: inequality. To survive, Tories must face reality

Rishi Sunak looked relieved as he took the final press question from a local reporter after the launch of his Conservative manifesto yesterday. It came after a torrid previous week, which saw the prime minister accused of lying about Labour tax plans and having to apologise for unforgivably missing crucial D-day commemoration services. You might have thought the manifesto would include some surprising, eye-catching policies. But in many respects, it was a more traditional Conservative party manifesto than some had expected – it contained tax cuts, promises to pensioners and the customary pro-business language.

Yet one of the challenges that Sunak’s Conservative party faces is that for the first time in decades, it now finds itself with no clear political territory of its own. For the past several years it has travelled down a political cul-de-sac and is now at a political dead end. In pandering to Ukip, then the Brexit party, and now Reform, it has ceded the political centre ground to the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, alienating millions of voters turned off by the constant culture warring.

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President Biden is altering his schedule Tuesday, and now plans to travel from Washington to Delaware,...
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:40:26 +0000

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Malawi’s vice president dies in plane crash with nine others
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:11:42 +0000
Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine others were traveling on a Malawi Defense Force aircraft from the capital, Lilongwe, to Mzuzu amid bad weather.
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Study: Three skulls of medieval Viking women were deliberately elongated
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:53:54 +0000
There is also evidence of deliberately filed teeth on some 130 male Viking skulls.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:35:30 +0000

“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a person he thought was a right-wing activist.

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Silk Road leads from Uzbekistan to London for landmark exhibition
Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:00:11 GMT

British Museum will host treasures from Samarkand in a bid to dispel cliches of camels, spices and bazaars

A monumental six-metre-long wall painting created in the 7th century, and 8th-century ivory figures carved for one of the world’s oldest surviving chess sets, are among treasures set to be seen in Britain for the first time.

The items will travel from the ancient city of Samarkand to the UK for an exhibition opening in September, as part of the first-ever loan from museums in Uzbekistan to the British Museum.

Silk Roads will be at the British Museum from September 26 2024 to February 23 2025. Tickets go on sale on Monday.

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Breaking a Password Manager
2024-06-04T11:08:16Z

Interesting story of breaking the security of the RoboForm password manager in order to recover a cryptocurrency wallet password.

Grand and Bruno spent months reverse engineering the version of the RoboForm program that they thought Michael had used in 2013 and found that the pseudo-random number generator used to generate passwords in that version—­and subsequent versions until 2015­—did indeed have a significant flaw that made the random number generator not so random. The RoboForm program unwisely tied the random passwords it generated to the date and time on the user’s computer­—it determined the computer’s date and time, and then generated passwords that were predictable. If you knew the date and time and other parameters, you could compute any password that would have been generated on a certain date and time in the past...

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The fake news divide: how Modi’s rule is fracturing India – video
Thu, 30 May 2024 09:31:48 GMT

Ahead of the election in India, the Guardian’s video team travelled through the country to explore how fake news and censorship might shape the outcome.

Almost one billion people are registered to vote. The country's prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been in power for more than 10 years, and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is seeking a third term.

But critics of Modi and the BJP say his government has become increasingly authoritarian, fracturing the country along religious lines and threatening India’s secular democracy. At the same time, the space for freedom of speech has been shrinking while disinformation and hate speech has exploded on social media.

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NASA’s X-59 Passes Milestone Toward Safe First Flight
Wed, 15 May 2024 18:14:56 +0000
NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of a milestone review that will allow it to progress toward flight.  A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team’s approach to safety […]
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Guardian Traveller newsletter: Sign up for our free holidays email
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.

You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.

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