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St Pancras and Channel tunnel plan rail routes to Germany and Switzerland
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:34:43 GMT

Partnership comes as London station looks at ways to almost triple passenger numbers

London’s St Pancras railway station and the Channel tunnel operator have agreed to work together to open up more trains from Britain to France, and routes to Germany and Switzerland.

The agreement is the latest sign of growing momentum for new passenger rail links from England across the Channel, after the UK’s only international station announced plans to triple the number of passengers who can travel through every hour.

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Andrew Tate’s alliance with Trump has been in the making for a long time
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:37 GMT

Trump’s attempts to intervene in Tate’s rape and human trafficking cases in Romania might seem strange, but their worlds are intimately linked

Ever since I began reporting on Andrew Tate four years ago (during which time my colleague Jamie Tahsin and I made two documentaries, wrote a book on him and interviewed his alleged rape victims), I’ve been sounding the alarm on the far-right disinformation network that connects him to Trump’s inner circle.

Earlier this month, US special envoy Richard Grenell, a vocal supporter of Andrew Tate pressured the Romanian government to remove judicial control restrictions on the Tate brothers, demanding that the alleged human traffickers be allowed to travel freely, according to sources who spoke to the Financial Times. The Romanian government has since confirmed this was a request but denied there was political “pressure”.

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Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis review – witty debut about Islamic State brides
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:30:30 GMT

A young academic travels to Iraq to help a British Asian who joined IS at 15, in this rollicking account of a UN deradicalisation programme

Questions around our individual and collective beliefs, and the consequences of holding them close to our hearts, form the basis of Nussaibah Younis’s stinging and entertaining debut novel. Nadia is a lecturer in criminology at UCL whose latest academic article on Islamic State brides has garnered global attention. Now the UN has its eyes on her. Her research, which asks questions such as, “What’s the appropriate punishment for IS brides who didn’t commit any violent crimes?”, “Can we detain people just because of their beliefs?” and “Should we try to change their beliefs?”, takes her to Iraq, where she’s tasked with leading a UN deradicalisation organisation: UNDO. But, she discovers, “half the UN doesn’t believe in deradicalisation”.

Escaping a “juvenile heartbreak” and a strenuous relationship with her mother, Nadia arrives in Baghdad with high hopes of “women helping women”. Before long, her bubble bursts, and she comes face to face with the opacity and sanctimony for which foreign aid bodies are notorious. “Since a bombing in 2003, the [UN] compound had crouched in defensive posture. The UN mission, meant to be temporary, was now 16 years old and larger than ever. Instead of becoming a beacon of democracy, Iraq had lunged from one civil war to another, and the UN had twisted around the carcass like knotweed.” How can one person possibly make a difference after decades of systemic failure? Over 300 pages, the novel teases out the ethical, political, emotional and social ramifications of putting her theory into practice.

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‘Breathing in the fragrances of the Atlas cedar trees’: readers’ favourite places in Morocco
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:00:30 GMT

From unexpected city charms in Rabat to the dunes of the Sahara and a festival celebrating nomadic life, our tipsters share their best discoveries

The calm city of Khenifra is well worth a detour from the main tourist routes of Morocco. It enjoys a lovely location on the banks of the Oum Er-Rbia river and is surrounded by the Atlas mountains, which keep the air fresh, clean and invigorating for strolling around. It’s also just a short bus ride away from the Khenifra national park. I spent two days hiking there enjoying beautiful lakeside walks breathing in the fragrances of the Atlas cedar trees. Don’t miss the source of the Oum Er-Rbia and its gentle waterfall, tumbling down the reddish rocks.
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Wong says she expressed ‘importance of Oscar Jenkins’ condition’ to Russian foreign minister – as it happened
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:55:12 GMT

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Victoria to offer contactless public transport tickets from next year

Victorians will be able to use their phones, bank cards or smartwatches to pay for public transport travel from “early next year in a staged approach”, according to reports.

Following a successful start of a ticketless bus trial in Wangaratta, the Allan Labor Government will begin switching on tap-and-go technology across Victoria’s public transport network from early next year in a staged approach – meaning some passengers will soon be able to use their bank cards, phones and smart watches to travel on full fare tickets.

The new ticketing system will continue to be underpinned by extensive technical testing and will be carefully rolled out starting with rail from the beginning early next year – allowing full fare passengers more ways to pay for their travel.

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How safe is it to fly in bad weather?
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:18:27 GMT
Despite recent aircraft incidents, flying is still the safest method of travel. But how do pilots cope with bad weather?
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From Phil Mitchell’s time-travelling murder to audience-dictated love: EastEnders Live capped a wild 40th
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:42:27 GMT

The Albert Square soap’s 40th anniversary has been absolutely wild, and now it’s released its best live episode ever – even if the viewer vote on the outcome of a romantic plot wasn’t that thrilling

The 40th anniversary of EastEnders couldn’t have come at a better time. Ratings are in freefall; once the most watched thing on TV, these days the soap is lucky if it cracks the top 20. But an anniversary like this gives EastEnders an opportunity to not only celebrate itself, but to reaffirm its own mission statement. And it has gone about this by going on an absolute tear.

With little else to lose, EastEnders has spent the last few weeks wildly swinging for the fences. Don’t mistake this for hyperbole, either. Just look at last Thursday’s episode where – and I promise I’m not making any of this up – Phil Mitchell embarked on a long monologue about all the different things he’s survived (alcoholism, drug addiction, illness, heart attacks, an actual shooting), then travelled back in time and murdered a younger version of himself, before the ghost of his dead mother arrived and urged him to kill himself. It was utterly bizarre, but it was also incredible. Had a big budget streaming show attempted something this daring, it would be lauded to the heavens. But this is old workday EastEnders, and so the whole thing passed without comment.

EastEnders Live aired on BBC One and is available on iPlayer.

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SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:12:56 +0000
Hiring comes under policy creating “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.”
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55 Years Ago: Preps for Apollo 13 and 14, Apollo 12 Crew on World Tour
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:06:38 +0000
With two months to go before flight, the Apollo 13 prime crew of James Lovell, Thomas Mattingly, Fred Haise, and backups John Young, John Swigert, and Charles Duke continued to train for the 10-day mission planned to land in the Fra Mauro highlands region of the Moon. Engineers continued to prepare the Saturn V rocket […]
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Trump rescinds DOT approval for NYC congestion toll, condemns city to pollution
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:25:13 +0000
NYC voters overwhelmingly wanted less traffic and air pollution; Trump says tough.
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Watching my toddler fall in love with art is a peak joy of parenting
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000
Through the eyes of a 2-year-old, the New York exhibition of “Luna Luna” is pure magic.
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Before Going to Tokyo, I Tried Learning Japanese With ChatGPT
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000
WIRED tests the benefits and limitations of using generative AI, specifically ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, as a language tutor for travelers.
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Share a tip on a spring break in Europe
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:52:07 GMT

Whether it was a city break or wildflower-strewn hiking trip, tell us about your favourite spring break – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays break

As Europe starts to shake off the dark days of winter, it’s time to start planning a spring break. We’d love to hear about your favourite European trip (excluding the UK) – perhaps you discovered a less-known city that’s warming up nicely in spring, or a landscape that’s at its most magical between winter and summer. Tell us why you loved it for a chance to win a £200 holiday voucher.

If you have a relevant photo, do send it in – but it’s your words that will be judged for the competition.

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‘There has been an awakening’: ancient sects on the rise in Modi’s India
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:00:05 GMT

Some 400 million devotees will attend this year’s Kumbh Mela festival. Pilgrims and politicians explain why it’s bigger than ever

They sat quietly together on the banks of the Ganges river, heads bowed in sombre prayer. Some men were naked, their bodies smeared grey with ash. Others had a simple saffron cloth tied around their waist. Nearby, barbers balanced on their haunches, shaving the head of each man clean with a flick of their knives, save for a small strand at the back.

This sacred ceremony, committing to a renunciation of earthly pleasures , has been taking place at the Kumbh Mela festival for centuries. The meditation, followed by immersion in the river, is a mandatory initiation ritual for sadhus – Hindu holy men who live an austere life of strict spiritual discipline. Among the most sacred events in the Hindu calendar, the festival occurs every 12 years across four sacred locations in India where it is believed the Hindu god Vishnu once spilled drops of the nectar of immortality.

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At least 18 people die in crowd crush at Delhi railway station
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:11:44 GMT

Rush broke out as travellers scrambled to board trains in India’s capital to go to world’s largest religious gathering

At least 18 people have died in a crush at a railway station in India’s capital when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the world’s largest religious gathering, officials have said.

The Kumbh Mela attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful every 12 years to the northern city of Prayagraj, and has a history of crowd-related disasters – including one last month, when at least 30 people died in another crush at the holy confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers.

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Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:31:52 +0000

In a tweet announcing his attack on the Climate Justice Alliance, EPA head Lee Zeldin linked it to the group’s protected speech about Palestine.

The post Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

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“You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:20:00 +0000

Palestinians from Gaza responded with outrage to Trump’s proposal to expel them from their homes.

The post “You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild appeared first on The Intercept.

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60 days in bed for science
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:30:00 +0100
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A group of volunteers is spending two months lying in bed—with their feet up and one shoulder always touching the mattress—even while eating, showering, and using the toilet. But why? This extreme bedrest study is helping scientists understand how space travel affects the human body and how to keep astronauts healthy on long missions.

Microgravity causes muscle and bone loss, fluid shifts, and other physiological changes similar to those experienced by bedridden patients on Earth. By studying volunteers here on Earth, researchers can develop better countermeasures for astronauts and even improve treatments for medical conditions like osteoporosis.

In this study, participants are divided into three groups: one stays in bed with no exercise, another cycles in bed to mimic astronaut workouts, and a third cycles while being spun in a centrifuge to simulate artificial gravity. Scientists hope artificial gravity could become a key tool in protecting astronauts during deep-space missions.

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Endangered frog dads travel 7,000 miles to 'give birth'
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:51:00 GMT
Male frogs carrying tadpoles made an incredible journey to the UK by boat, plane, and car.
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Future of space travel: Could robots really replace human astronauts?
Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:46:51 GMT
Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
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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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Work Has Given Me Tech Neck. This Device Is Helping Undo the Damage
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:45:00 +0000
Hours of screen time lead to stiffness, pain, and brain fog. I tested the Chirp Wheel to see if it could help—and the results were surprising.
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9 Best Smartwatches (2025): Apple, Wear OS, Hybrid & Kids' Watches
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:33:00 +0000
These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.
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Best Workout Headphones We Tested and Sweated In (2025)
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:32:00 +0000
Rock your inner jock with a pair of sturdy, sweatproof, and tangle-proof headphones. Here are our favorites.
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Best Fitness Trackers of 2025 for Peak Performance
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:30:00 +0000
Whether you’re skiing in the backcountry or trampolining in the backyard, we have an activity tracker for you.
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Your Earbuds Are Gross. Here’s How to Clean Them Properly
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000
Filthy buds look bad, impact sound quality, and even risk infection. WIRED asked the experts how to correctly banish that ear gunk.
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'Every woman has fear' - why risks facing female athletes remain
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:49:36 GMT
Emma Raducanu's ordeal with a male fan in Dubai provided a stark reminder of the dangers faced by female athletes on a regular basis.
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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
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EU planning to send Ukraine ‘very strong message’ with new aid package – Europe live
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:14:24 GMT

Defence commissioner Andrius Kubilius says the EU’s position is ‘very clear’ as the bloc is committed to peace through strength’

European Commissioner for defence Andrius Kubilius gets asked about the EU’s plans to support Ukraine.

He says that the EU’s position is “very clear,” as the bloc is committed to “peace through strength”.

We are informed on that and we know that investigations are going on [by] the authorities, and we will get more information later about this.

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What are we to make of Trump’s Ukraine policy? | Matt Duss
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:38 GMT

In Trump’s jungle, the powerful make decisions the weak must simply accept – international law and human rights be damned

It’s been quite a week for US foreign policy. Following a phone call last week between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, US and Russian delegates met in Saudi Arabia to smooth relations between the two countries and discuss possible paths to ending the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine was not invited to the talks. Quite reasonably, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his country would not be bound by decisions taken without their participation. Trump responded to this by falsely claiming that Ukraine had started the war, and sought to undermine Zelenskyy’s legitimacy by claiming in a Truth Social post that he “refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls … A Dictator without Elections.”

Matt Duss is executive vice-president at the Center for International Policy and former foreign policy adviser to the senator Bernie Sanders

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Trump is tearing up the transatlantic alliance. Can Starmer’s US visit change the weather?
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:05 GMT

As the US president turns on allies and embraces Russia, can the UK prime minister persuade Trump to listen to Europe’s concerns

• Europe live – latest updates

In November 1940, Winston Churchill sent a telegram to Franklin Roosevelt expressing relief both at the US president’s re-election and the victory of his anti-appeasement policy. “Things are afoot which will be remembered as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe, and in expressing the comfort I feel that the people of the United States have once again cast these great burdens upon you, I must now avow my sure faith that the lights by which we steer will bring us safely to anchor,” he wrote.

As Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron prepare to meet a very different US president, things are once again afoot that will live long in the memory – but this time the lights seem to be going out on a ship adrift in a sea of chaos.

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Three years after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine has to battle Trump
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000
As the war in Ukraine enters its fourth year, it appears to be reaching a tipping point.
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Donald Trump’s Putinization of America
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:35:02 +0000
It’s not just in foreign policy that the President is turning Russia’s way.
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Trump ‘very frustrated’ with Zelenskyy for allegedly failing to ‘take opportunity’ of US-brokered peace – as it happened
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:51:04 GMT

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• Stop criticising Trump and sign $500bn mineral deal, US official advises Kyiv

Former US state secretary John Kerry said “the basic playing field for making peace in Ukraine is there,” as he rejected Donald Trump’s suggestions that Ukraine was responsible for starting the war with Russia and dismissed Russian president Vladimir Putin’s logic for invasion as “lies.”

Speaking at a London conference organised by the consultancy Brand Finance, Kerry, who served as the US state secretary in Barack Obama’s Democratic administration, said this:

Putin individually decided, contrary to what Donald Trump said yesterday or day before, to invade Ukraine. He wants it back. …

He said different motives expressed at different times, that it was Nazis taking over the country, and he had to go in to root out the Nazis. Well, come on, folks. I mean, that lie has been proved. There’s so many lies.

And why do I say that? Because I think all of the parties need to end the war. And the question is, can you be clever enough, dexterous enough to put together the ingredients, which should be done quietly and privately, not with daily releases on who’s asking for what and doing what?

That’s not the way to affect really good peace diplomacy, because you do have to have a compromise, and you’ve got to have the capacity for that compromise.

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Stop criticising Trump and sign $500bn mineral deal, US official advises Kyiv
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:58 GMT

National security adviser says Ukraine is wrong to push back against Trump’s approach to peace talks with Russia

White House officials have told Ukraine to stop badmouthing Donald Trump and to sign a deal handing over half of the country’s mineral wealth to the US, saying a failure to do so would be unacceptable.

The US national security adviser, Mike Waltz, told Fox News that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, should “tone down” his criticism of the US and take a “hard look” at the deal. It proposes giving Washington $500bn worth of natural resources, including oil and gas.

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Amid war of words, Trump envoy meets Ukraine’s Zelensky
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:03:44 +0000
President Donald Trump’s promotion of Russia’s narrative has caused worry in Europe that the United States is redrawing its long-standing alliances.
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Factchecking Donald Trump’s claims about the war in Ukraine – video explainer
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:56:36 GMT

From claiming Ukraine was responsible for the war to incorrect numbers about aid received from the US and Europe, Donald Trump made a number of inaccurate statements while praising the progress made in US-Russia talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Guardian has had a look at his claims

• Factchecking Donald Trump’s claims about the war in Ukraine

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Trump brings Russia in from the cold, but at what cost to Ukraine? – podcast
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:59 GMT

In a matter of days, Donald Trump completed the most radical shift in US foreign policy in decades, bringing Putin back into the fold while sidelining Europe. He claims to have brought the end of the war in Ukraine in sight, but with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the rest of Europe excluded from the US-Russia talks, are we really any closer to peace? And, at what price?

Jonathan Freedland speaks to veteran US diplomat Kurt Volker, who served as Trump’s special representative for Ukraine during his first term, and the Guardian’s US live news editor Chris Michael

Send your questions and feedback to politicsweeklyamerica@theguardian.com

Help support the Guardian by going to theguardian.com/politcspodus

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Trump’s savage attack on Zelenskyy shaped by pro-Russian coterie
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:52:17 GMT

‘Kremlin whisperers’ have the president’s ear and dissenters are few – but a thin skin and self-interest are also at play

Donald Trump’s tarring of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator” who is to blame for the war with Russia, plunging Ukraine into a Darwinian struggle for its very existence, landed like a bombshell on the diplomatic landscape. But it did not come out of nowhere.

The US president has left the already badly frayed western alliance in disarray with a devastating social media attack on his Ukrainian counterpart, just hours after he had already implicitly blamed Kyiv for Russia’s invasion.

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We need a debate on defence spending as Nato unravels, putting Europe at risk | Letters
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:44:19 GMT

David Blunkett calls for a national debate on the kind of defence spending Britain wants, Ian Davis, Richard Reeve and Paul Rogers say increased military budgets are not the answer, and Ian Henderson and Ruth Blunt respond to Donald Trump calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy a dictator

With current and past leaders of the armed services joining the Americans in calling for ever greater percentages of national income to be devoted to defence, some hardheaded thinking is going to be needed (Starmer will go in ‘bin of history’ if he fails to raise defence budget, says ex-army chief, 15 February).

Unless defence spending contributes to growth, we could have the absurd situation of increasing the proportion of GDP spent on defence without any material increase in the actual amount available; 2.5% of substantial growth is better than 3% of an economy flatlining.

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Why hasn’t Ukraine held elections since the war began?
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:00:32 GMT

Donald Trump has increased his attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling the Ukrainian president ‘a dictator’ – but why have elections been postponed?

If Russia had not invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Volodymyr Zelenskyy would have faced a re-election campaign in spring 2024. But after Vladimir Putin sent his troops across the border, the country quickly entered a state of martial law. That meant that both presidential and parliamentary elections were postponed. Donald Trump has escalated his attacks on Zelenskyy, calling the Ukrainian president “a dictator” in light of postponed elections.

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Trump’s attack on Zelensky stirs fear of major U.S. shift on Russia
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:31 +0000

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Trump’s flood of false claims about Ukraine
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
In remarks and social media posts, the president echoed Russian talking points.
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In the global clash between democracy and oligarchy, the US is switching sides | Robert Reich
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:36 GMT

As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world

Since the end of the second world war, liberal democracies have stuck together – led by the US. On the opposite side have been authoritarian states, led mainly by the Soviet Union, followed, after the demise of the Soviet Union, by Russia and China.

But all this is rapidly changing. Russia and China have morphed into oligarchies, run by small groups of extraordinarily wealthy people.

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‘When has Russia ever kept its promises?’: Ukrainians furious over Trump’s plan to end war
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:00:33 GMT

People living abroad or who fled conflict fear that US president’s actions will further destabilise their country

• Trump calls Zelenskyy a dictator amid fears of irreconcilable rift

They have wrestled with grief, anxiety at starting a new life and survivors’ guilt – and now Ukrainian exiles must balance feelings of shock and betrayal with an “existential” defiance that their homeland must keep fighting for a just peace.

“Ukrainians do not have the luxury of falling into despair,” Olga Onuch said, when asked about the mood of expats watching the future of their war-torn country being decided from afar.

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Ukraine or Russia: Whose Side Is Trump On?
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 06:00:00 GMT
Nick asks former UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Trump Doesn’t Care About Ukraine or Russia — Just Money
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:21:06 +0000

Trump is leaving Ukraine with impossible choices: fight a losing war without U.S. support, or submit to economic vassalage.

The post Trump Doesn’t Care About Ukraine or Russia — Just Money appeared first on The Intercept.

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Echoing Kremlin, Trump calls Zelensky a dictator, angering Ukrainians
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:24:38 +0000
Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has low approval ratings and that elections are needed, statements also made in the past week by the Kremlin.
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Trump Jr. hunting party investigated over killing of protected duck in Italy
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:22:42 +0000
Activists said video showed Trump Jr. with a dead ruddy shelduck, a protected species, near the Venice Lagoon. His spokesman said the group had the necessary permits.
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Ukrainians: share your views on the US-Russia peace talks about the war in Ukraine
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:27:19 GMT

We’re keen to hear how Ukrainians feel about the Trump administration-led peace negotiations with Russia, as well as the prospect of elections in Ukraine

US and Russian officials have agreed to explore the “economic and investment opportunities” that could arise for their countries from an end to the war in Ukraine after talks in Saudi Arabia that amounted to a tectonic shift in the United States’ approach to Moscow.

US president Donald Trump pushed back against president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s objections to being excluded from talks between the US and Russia in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending the war. He also seemed to suggest that Ukraine was to blame for a war that began only after Russia invaded.

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FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:20:25 +0000
"Tech firms should not be bullying their users," Chairman Andrew Ferguson says.
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‘Not what I expected’: Russian soldiers sent to North Korea for medical care
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:42:58 GMT

Wonsan resorts offer troops time off to recover, but some wonder if move is a pretence for military training

After two years fighting for Russia on the frontlines in Ukraine, Aleksei returned to his home town of Vladivostok last summer to recover from a shrapnel wound to his leg.

Looking to speed up his recovery and take a break from the city, he asked his military unit in Russia’s far east to see if he could secure a state-sponsored stay at a sanatorium – a health resort offering a mix of medical treatment and rest.

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'Why should we invite them?': Lavrov ridicules European presence at Ukraine peace talks – video
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:03:29 GMT

Russia's foreign minister has dismissed the prospect of a place for Europe at talks between the US and Russia to end the fighting in Ukraine. Speaking at a press conference alongside his Serbian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov said: 'If they are going to weasel out some cunning ideas about freezing the conflict, while actually intending – as is their custom, nature and habit – to continue the war, then why should we invite them at all?'

European leaders have been unnerved by the willingness of Donald Trump, the US president, to engage the Kremlin directly over Ukraine and have been attempting to find a place for themselves in the talks

• Europe live – latest updates

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The ‘west’ is over. In the Trumpian era, Europe is on its own | Alexander Hurst
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:00:31 GMT

Trump and JD Vance are clear: the US is no longer an ally, but an antagonist to democratic values

In 1966, after years of friction with the US over whether France should have its own independent nuclear deterrent, the French president, Charles de Gaulle, withdrew his country from Nato’s integrated command (not, however, from the alliance itself – a common misconception) and asked all US forces stationed in France to leave. In response, the US secretary of state, Dean Rusk, asked de Gaulle: “Does that include the dead Americans in military cemeteries as well?”

In a single weekend, JD Vance’s direct attacks on European democracy at the Munich Security Conference and his meeting with far-right, anti-European political forces in Germany, have given de Gaulle his historic vindication.

Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist

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One Month Under Trump: Are You Keeping Up?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:30:00 +0000

This week on The Intercept Briefing, politics reporters Jessica Washington and Akela Lacy assess the full scope of Trump's first month in office.

The post One Month Under Trump: Are You Keeping Up? appeared first on The Intercept.

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Trump deports hundreds to third countries, leaving them in legal limbo
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:54:26 +0000

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Live updates: Trump to address nation’s governors, sign more executive orders
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:54:26 +0000
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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Several of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members and advisers are set to speak Friday at the...
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:45:00 +0000

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Keir Starmer urged to ramp up defence spending – UK politics live
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:40:52 GMT

This is ‘probably one of the most alarming times for Britain’s defence since the second world war’, says Lib Dem leader Ed Davey as he calls for more spending

A record 30 English local authorities have been granted effective “bailouts” enabling them to borrow money to avoid bankruptcy, as ministers advised them against selling off prized local assets such as historic buildings, parks and allotments.

The councils, all of whom were experiencing “unmanageable” financial pressures, were given the green light by ministers to collectively borrow £1.5bn to plug significant budget gaps caused by underfunding and soaring demand for social care and other services.

It is a very difficult visit there’s no doubt about that, but I do think you have to speak to your friends honestly and openly.

The threat that Donald Trump poses to our economy and security is as serious as I can ever remember.

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Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:30:17 +0000

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DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
The US government has increased the use of monitoring tools over the past decade. But President Donald Trump’s employee purges are making workers worry about how their data could be abused.
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Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:15:55 +0000

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International aid groups axe thousands of jobs in wake of Trump funding freeze
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:06:43 GMT

Fears that cuts will ‘decimate’ ability to react to crises as sector loses expertise and skills at every level, report finds

Some of the world’s largest aid organisations are axing thousands of jobs as a result of US president Donald Trump’s freeze on overseas aid, potentially “decimating” the sector’s ability to react to future crises.

Those that have already announced job cuts include the International Rescue Committee, Danish Refugee Council, Norwegian Refugee Council and war zone-focused Norwegian People’s Aid.

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We asked the people of Gaza how they saw their future – this is what we found | Nils Mallock
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:36 GMT

Support for Hamas is declining – no obvious alternative has emerged, but our poll shows there are reasons to be hopeful

• Nils Mallock is research fellow at the XCEPT research group at King’s College London

After coming the closest yet to falling apart, the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is back on its fragile track. Just days ago, an escalating dispute threatened the deal after both sides expressed frustration about the other’s fulfilment of their respective obligations. Donald Trump’s recent proposal to resettle Gaza’s population of two million Palestinians also rattled the truce.

The turbulences of the month-old ceasefire expose a deeper political uncertainty: after 15 months of fighting, no clear vision exists for what comes next. Who should govern and rebuild Gaza? What will its future relationship with Israel be?

Nils Mallock is research fellow at the XCEPT research group at King’s College London, a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, and regularly briefs the UK Foreign Office on policy-related issues

This article was co-authored by Jeremy Ginges, professor in behavioural science at the London School of Economics and author of various studies on intergroup conflict and conflict resolution

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Trump vs. Biden on plane crashes is a fool’s game
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:58 +0000
A Democratic lawmaker and the transportation secretary misleadingly making contradictory claims.
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Month One of Donald Trump’s “Golden Age”
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Pennies, plane crashes, and constitutional crises as Washington enters its Dark MAGA era.
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How do we defend free speech – without falling prey to extremism? | Kenneth Roth
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:37 GMT

JD Vance says Europe should not shun far-right parties. He seems to have forgotten 1933, but hits a key conundrum

In his speech last week at the Munich Security Conference, JD Vance pressed European leaders to stop excluding extremist parties from government. Alluding in particular to Germany’s neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany, or AfD, he accused European leaders of “running in fear of your own voters”. The US vice-president underscored the point by then meeting with the AfD candidate for chancellor.

In his view, these extremist parties should be welcomed into the mainstream because they reflect voters’ concern about migration. He evidently was not troubled that the AfD also has a history of using Nazi rhetoric, making racist and antisemitic comments and plotting to overthrow the German government.

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‘I feel like I’ve opened a hornet’s nest’: My mother-in-law lists my husband as beneficiary on her $1 million IRA. But her will says otherwise. Who wins?
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:15:00 GMT
“All of this is causing a lot of turmoil in the family. Does her will trump the IRA beneficiary?”
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Trump administration’s mass firings could leave federal government with ‘monumental’ bill, say experts
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:36 GMT

Lawyer says ‘astounding’ purge will cost government, after workers with positive reviews cut due to ‘poor performance’

Donald Trump’s administration could wrack up a “monumental” bill and is breaking the law by firing government workers on spurious grounds, according to a top labor lawyer.

Officials have cited “poor performance” when terminating thousands of federal workers. In many cases it’s not true, according to employees embroiled in the blitz, many of whom are now seeking legal advice.

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Andrew Tate’s alliance with Trump has been in the making for a long time
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:37 GMT

Trump’s attempts to intervene in Tate’s rape and human trafficking cases in Romania might seem strange, but their worlds are intimately linked

Ever since I began reporting on Andrew Tate four years ago (during which time my colleague Jamie Tahsin and I made two documentaries, wrote a book on him and interviewed his alleged rape victims), I’ve been sounding the alarm on the far-right disinformation network that connects him to Trump’s inner circle.

Earlier this month, US special envoy Richard Grenell, a vocal supporter of Andrew Tate pressured the Romanian government to remove judicial control restrictions on the Tate brothers, demanding that the alleged human traffickers be allowed to travel freely, according to sources who spoke to the Financial Times. The Romanian government has since confirmed this was a request but denied there was political “pressure”.

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Mexico eyes constitutional reform after U.S. terrorism designations
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:45:28 +0000
President Claudia Sheinbaum said the U.S. labeling of drug cartels as foreign terrorist groups “cannot be an opportunity for the United States to invade our sovereignty.”
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Mohammed bin Salman wants an alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan – but one that most benefits Saudi Arabia | Madawi al-Rasheed
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:00:31 GMT

The crown prince sees Hamas as a regional threat, and may propose a deal that risks sidelining Palestinians

Saudi Arabia has suddenly experienced a diplomatic awakening after lukewarm engagement with the conflict in Gaza. Today, leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will gather in Riyadh to discuss Donald Trump’s proposal for a US takeover of Gaza. (Keen to be viewed as a global deal maker, Saudi Arabia will also be hosting negotiations over Ukraine this week.)

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was alarmed by Trump’s outrageous “Riviera plan” to reconstruct Gaza following eviction of its people to neighbouring countries. Alongside Arab leaders, he hopes to propose an alternative plan with the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem its capital at its core. The crown prince has insisted that there will be no normalisation of Israel without a Palestinian state.

Madawi al-Rasheed is a fellow of the British Academy and a visiting professor at the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics. She is the author of The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia

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Trump’s foreign aid pause imperils education programs for Afghan women
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:00:41 +0000
U.S.-backed initiatives that allowed thousands of Afghan women to study online or abroad are in jeopardy after Trump’s suspension of foreign aid.
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‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:29 GMT

Ethiopia was the largest recipient of US aid assistance in sub-Saharan Africa before Donald Trump froze funding last month. From food and health to support for refugees and sexual abuse survivors, we examine the impact of a decision that has left aid organisations scrambling

A vast shipment of food stranded in containers risks rotting before it reaches millions of hungry people. Deliveries of life-saving medicines to remote rural clinics are paused. And thousands of HIV patients and sexual violence survivors are abruptly cut off from support.

Donald Trump’s executive order freezing USAid funding for 90 days has derailed multiple vital activities in Ethiopia. Although some life-saving programmes have received waivers, most have not, and USAid officials in the country are scrambling to secure exemptions for their work even as they are threatened with dismissal by Elon Musk’s “government efficiency” agency.

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Canada sink USA in 4 Nations Face-Off final on McDavid’s sudden-death goal
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:39:57 GMT

• ‘You can’t take our country’: Trudeau goads Trump
• Canadian anthem singer alters lyric in Trump protest
• In pictures: Canada top USA amid geopolitical tensions

When they played O Canada for the second time, there were no American fans left in the arena to boo.

Instead, the Canadian team stood at the blue line, arm in arm, player and coach, wearing their championship hats while the maple leaf flag was lowered behind the 4 Nations Face-Off trophy and the national anthem reverberated across the Americans’ home ice. The fans who remained, many of them in their red Team Canada jerseys, sang along.

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Trump hosts Black History Month event amid war on DEI
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:51:59 +0000
During the Black History Month ceremony, which preserved a long-standing and bipartisan White House tradition, Trump omitted any mention of his anti-DEI efforts.
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DHS Scraps Ban on Prohibiting Surveillance Based on Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
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Elon Musk praises Doge efforts to cut federal workforce after judge ruling – as it happened
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 02:42:53 GMT

This blog is now closed.

Donald Trump signed another round of executive orders onboard Air Force One last night, among them one aimed at ending federal benefits for people in the country illegally.

The order seeks to end “all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens”, according to the White House, although it was not clear which benefits will be targeted.

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Trump, in a ‘nice room,’ entertains governors with his recent hits
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:51:54 +0000

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Trump concludes remarks at Republican governors dinner
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:51:54 +0000
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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‘What a lie’: Danish astronaut responds to Musk claim that Biden abandoned ISS pair on purpose
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:49:33 GMT

Musk claimed without evidence that Nasa’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on the orbital outpost for ‘political reasons’

Elon Musk has got into a heated row with a Danish astronaut who criticised the tech billionaire’s claim that former president Joe Biden intentionally abandoned two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Andreas “Andy” Mogensen had on Thursday shared on X a Fox News clip featuring Musk and his boss, US President Donald Trump, in which Musk claimed Nasa’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on the orbital outpost for “political reasons” by Biden, and that the new administration was now coming to the rescue.

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Trump claimed without evidence that federal funding to improve voter turnout in India was “a kickback...
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:49:54 +0000

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Judge says Trump officials have not complied with order to restart foreign aid
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:35:38 +0000

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U-Va. board calls ‘special meeting’ over gender care after Trump, court orders
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:20:31 +0000

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Trump comes close to the red line of openly defying judges, experts say
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:57:13 +0000
Faced with judges’ orders to block certain initiatives, the Trump administration has found ways to tell courts it still has authority to act.
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President Donald Trump told the Republican Governors Association that he’s expecting a “big surprise” in the...
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:52:51 +0000

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Trump’s re-election to boost UK universities as fewer students choose US
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:01:22 GMT

During Trump’s first term, the number of international enrolments in the US declined every year

Donald Trump’s return to office may bring an unexpected boost to UK universities as fewer international students choose to study in the US, according to a British Council report.

The trend is expected to dovetail with greater restrictions in Australia and Canada on international students, making the UK appear the most welcoming English-speaking country, the report said. This would reverse years of the UK’s popularity declining relative to competitors as a result of previous governments’ hostile immigration policies.

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Justice Department delete federal police misconduct database. Trump executive order ends National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which he proposed creating in 2020.
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Trump administration removes ATF general counsel
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:55:07 +0000

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Trump loyalist Kash Patel becomes director of FBI, which he vows to remake
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:49:29 +0000
FBI director Kash Patel was confirmed 51-49. He is a staunch ally of President Donald Trump who has called for profound changes at the bureau.
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How to untangle Trump and Zelensky’s claims about U.S. aid to Ukraine
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:46:32 +0000
The leaders appeared to talk past each other, with Trump skipping over the well-documented understanding of how U.S. aid is counted and where it is spent.
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US flies 177 deportees from Guantánamo to Honduras en route to Venezuela
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:25:52 GMT

Move apparently empties military facility on Cuban base of migrant detainees and comes in wake of ACLU lawsuit

The US government has flown 177 deportees from Guantánamo Bay to Honduras, from where they are set to be transferred on to Venezuela, apparently emptying the military facility of migrant detainees.

The move on Thursday came days after human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit seeking access to dozens of people who had been held at the US naval base.

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Republicans caught between Trump and farmers pleading for frozen funds
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:11:21 +0000
Farmers complaining about Trump’s ongoing funding freeze to Agriculture Department programs are receiving mixed messages from Republicans in Congress.
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Judge rejects unions’ request to pause Trump administration firings
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:02:11 +0000

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Elon Musk said he talked with President Donald Trump about sending dividend checks to Americans from...
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Jon Ponder, who was pardoned by Trump in 2020, attended the White House’s Black History Month...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:22:41 +0000

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Trump names African Americans to be added to sculpture garden of ‘American Heroes’
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We’d Never Had a King Until This Week
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:58:27 +0000
Donald Trump tries to overturn the most basic meme of American history.
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Trump says he will name Alice Johnson, whom he pardoned, as ‘pardon czar’
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:40:25 +0000

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Trump asked the East Room crowd, “Should I run again? You tell me.” The crowd responded...
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President Donald Trump, hosting a Black History Month reception at the White House on Thursday, was...
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Trump Administration to review whether California high-speed rail is ‘worthy' of federal funds
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The Senate confirmed Kash Patel as FBI director in a 51-49 vote. Patel, a Trump loyalist...
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The huge risks facing Starmer at Trump meeting
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:05:16 GMT
When Sir Keir Starmer touches down in Washington next week, he will be treading a fine diplomatic line.
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DOGE Said It Cut $232 Million From Social Security Budget. It Was Only About Half a Million.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:54 +0000

The cut, an anti-trans attack, was the latest example of confusion sown by bold claims that wither under scrutiny.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) dismissed a suggestion that the Trump administration should send checks to...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:46:44 +0000

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Middle East envoy says Trump doesn’t have ‘an eviction plan’ for Palestinians
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:01 +0000

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Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations
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Trump ends a federal committee focused on long covid
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Vance poses immigration as ‘greatest threat’ to US and Europe in CPAC speech
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:42:25 GMT

Vice-president also reaffirmed the administration’s Ukraine stance at largest conservative voters conference

JD Vance marked one month since the Trump administration returned to power on Thursday by again claiming uncontrolled immigration was “the greatest threat” to both Europe and the United States.

The vice-president took the stage at the country’s largest conservative voters conference in National Harbor, Maryland, to double down on his criticism that stunned European leaders last week when he accused them of suppressing free speech and “running in fear” from voters’ true beliefs.

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Senate narrowly confirms Trump nominee Kash Patel for FBI director
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:54 +0000

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Experts say Trump comes close to the red line of openly defying judges
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Trump attempting ‘end-run’ around California car pollution standards, expert says
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Michael Waltz, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, sidestepped a question at a White House briefing...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:40 +0000

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The Guardian view on Gaza’s future: the ceasefire and hostage deal must not fizzle out | Editorial
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:42:29 GMT

As Donald Trump persists with a monstrous proposal to remove Palestinians, the immediate need is to prevent fresh conflict

The pain and damage wreaked in the last 16 months will reverberate through families, communities and the Middle East for decades to come. On Thursday, the bodies of two young children and their mother, and that of an 83-year-old peace activist, were returned to Israel by Hamas. They were kidnapped in the 7 October 2023 raid in which the militants killed around 1,200 Israelis and others. Around 48,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war in response.

It was always feared that the ceasefire deal, which has brought desperately needed respite for Palestinians in Gaza and the return of Israeli and foreign hostages, would be fleeting. The six-week opening stage is due to expire on 1 March. The talks on the more complicated second stage have yet to begin, more than a fortnight after they were due.

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USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:30:44 +0000
The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.
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President Donald Trump will host French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:19:41 +0000

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Senate set to vote on Trump nominee Kash Patel for FBI director
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:14:35 +0000

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President Donald Trump called the U.S. men’s national ice hockey team on Thursday morning ahead of...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:05:43 +0000

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The Trump Administration Trashes Europe and NATO
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:04:41 +0000
Speeches delivered by J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy.
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Trump hosts PGA Tour, Saudi officials at White House, hoping for a deal
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:53:00 +0000

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Here are the organizations Trump is targeting to reduce ‘unnecessary’ bureaucracy
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:37:23 +0000

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Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director, has cleared the last procedural hurdle before...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:55:59 +0000

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President Donald Trump on Thursday demanded that lawmakers attempt to balance the budget — a day...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:51:57 +0000

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Mexico will not stand US ‘invasion’ in fight against cartels, president says
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:42:05 GMT

Claudia Sheinbaum’s warning follows Washington designating Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations

Mexico will never tolerate an “invasion” of its national sovereignty by the United States, Claudia Sheinbaum has warned after Washington designated Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.

“This cannot be an opportunity for the US to invade our sovereignty,” the Mexican president said. “With Mexico, it is collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion.”

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US culture war show comes to London – and strikes a chord with European populists
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:23:20 GMT

At this year’s Arc conference, a new American export was on full display: ideological finger-wagging in Europe’s direction

On stage in a corner of east London, the US folk singer Oliver Anthony got a rapturous reception this week for a rendition of his smash hit Rich Men North of Richmond, a tune about inequality and the political elite’s disregard for the working class.

Rather than performing in one of London’s dozens of music venues, however, Anthony – who has claimed his song doesn’t take any particular partisan side – was playing to an elite gathering: the well-heeled conservative activists, donors and politicians from the US, the UK and around the world who descended on the now yearly Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc).

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Analysis: Trump’s honeymoon is over
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:26:26 +0000

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Trump rescinds DOT approval for NYC congestion toll, condemns city to pollution
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:25:13 +0000
NYC voters overwhelmingly wanted less traffic and air pollution; Trump says tough.
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Trump ends federal leadership program, cutting off key talent pipeline
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:09:08 +0000

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Trump’s honeymoon is over
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:07:00 +0000
New polling shows Trump’s approval ratings declining — and a number of major warning signs appearing.
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Tracking who Trump is appointing to fill key administration roles
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:00:21 +0000
Follow President-elect Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
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Trump's tariffs could drive up iPhone prices by about 10%
2025-02-20T14:32:58+00:00

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Appeals court denies Trump’s bid to reinstate birthright citizenship order
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:22:13 +0000

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Trump orders sweeping review of federal regulations
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:10:24 +0000

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Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:49:19 +0000

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Fact Checker: Trump’s flood of false claims about Ukraine
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:19:31 +0000

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CPAC kicks off with Vance, other Trump officials and allies set to speak
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:02:31 +0000

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In Trump’s first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:29:38 +0000

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Trump says feds should ‘take over’ governance of D.C.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 +0000

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Trump steers clear of Gaza, and other key moments from his speech at Saudi-backed event
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:47 +0000

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Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:03:53 +0000
At first glance, they are a bureaucratic nightmare. On a closer look, they are even worse
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Elon Musk’s A.I.-Driven Government Coup
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“For a long time, Silicon Valley has wanted to try to replace the government, and has thought that they would be better at governing the country than, you know, the Democrats and the Republicans alike,” the staff writer Kyle Chayka says.
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Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:00:36 GMT

As administration cuts off resources from African countries to contain outbreak, workers say ‘everybody’s lost’

As the Trump administration dismantles the US Agency for International Development (USAid) and retreats from funding global public health efforts, mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – is at greater risk of becoming a wider global emergency, according to aid workers and global health experts.

“It’s a real mistake not to be doing everything we can to control this while we’re still able to,” said Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University focusing on risk assessment of infectious diseases. “Taking huge steps backwards is only going to make everything worse.”

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Fetterman Staff Quit Amid Frustration Over “Just Working on Israel All the Time”
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:20:25 +0000

A former campaign staffer said Sen. John Fetterman’s single-minded focus came at the exclusion of the progressive positions he ran on.

The post Fetterman Staff Quit Amid Frustration Over “Just Working on Israel All the Time” appeared first on The Intercept.

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Police search for woman who escaped Panama hotel where US deportees are being held
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:03:33 GMT

Zheng Lijuan fled Panama City hotel as 170 of deported migrants were transported to dense, lawless region

Police are searching for a Chinese woman who escaped from a downtown Panama City hotel where she was being held following her deportation from the US under Donald Trump’s intensified campaign against immigrants.

Zheng Lijuan was one of 299 migrants – from China, Afghanistan, Iran and other countries with which the US lacks extradition agreements – who have been flown in shackles to Panama since last Wednesday. Panamanian authorities say they believe that Zheng was aided by locals who had been “prowling” outside the Decapolis hotel in the capital city where the deportees had been held.

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Climate advocacy groups file two lawsuits against Trump administration
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:04:43 GMT

Groups from Sierra Club to Greenpeace take aim at Trump’s drilling orders in term’s first environmental legal battles

Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday, marking the first environmental legal challenges against the president’s second administration.

Both focus on the Trump administration’s moves to open up more of US waters to oil and gas drilling, which the plaintiffs say are illegal.

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Trump administration freezes funds to Palestinian security forces
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:15:16 +0000

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Viral posts sow panic over D.C. housing market under Trump. They’re wrong.
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:56:33 +0000
A mass exodus? A sharp decline in home values? Viral social media posts claim D.C.’s housing market is collapsing amid federal job cuts, but it’s not true.
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Trump admin. fires USDA staff working on bird flu, immediately backpedals
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:10:04 +0000
On top of its pandemic potential, H5N1 is harming agriculture, raising egg prices.
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Brazilians hail strength of democracy as Bolsonaro is called to account
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:35:30 GMT

‘In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the US they get back into the White House,’ says one leading politician

Brazilian democrats have celebrated the strength of their country’s judiciary and institutions after the former president Jair Bolsonaro was left facing political oblivion and jail time for allegedly plotting a coup, in stark contrast to the US’s failure to bring Donald Trump to justice for his anti-democratic acts.

“In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the US they get back into the White House,” said Marcelo Freixo, a leading leftwing politician on Wednesday after the attorney general formally accused Bolsonaro of engineering a sprawling conspiracy to cling to power following his defeat in the 2022 election.

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This USAID Program Made Food Aid More Efficient for Decades. DOGE Gutted It Anyways
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:58:54 +0000
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network is one of USAID’s most data-driven programs, but its work has been stalled by the Trump administration.
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Trump and Musk Delight in the Sounds of Human Suffering With Sick “ASMR” Immigrant Video
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:42:41 +0000

The video might bring pleasure to their supporters, but for us it is a call to shut down their fascist deportation machine.

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Make South Africa Great Again?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:31:46 +0000
How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
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The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:45:40 +0000
The first time around, the President’s bad deeds galvanized people on social media. This time, they’re looking to “flush out their brains.”
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Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning transition-related care for minors, hospitals in blue states began cancelling appointments—forcing families in New York and beyond to consider whether even liberal cities are safe.
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:14 +0000
At least eight ongoing lawsuits related to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s alleged access to sensitive data hinge on the Watergate-inspired Privacy Act of 1974. But it’s not airtight.
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Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who's Legally Running DOGE
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:03:53 +0000
Despite all appearances, the White House insists that Elon Musk is not in charge of DOGE. US DOGE Service employees can’t get a straight answer about who is.
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American inflation looks increasingly worrying
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:25:39 +0000
Trump’s tariffs are fuelling consumer concerns, which may prove self-fulfilling
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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:28:40 +0000
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
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A Fistfight Over Donald Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
At Wheaton College, a controversy around one of its graduates, Russell Vought, a Trump Administration official, shows how deeply the past decade has fractured conservative Christians.
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Poised to Take Over TikTok, Oracle Is Accused of Clamping Down on Pro-Palestine Dissent
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Oracle, which has secret partnerships with Israel, has told employees to love the country or work elsewhere.

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This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:44:19 +0000

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

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Wong says she expressed ‘importance of Oscar Jenkins’ condition’ to Russian foreign minister – as it happened
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:55:12 GMT

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Victoria to offer contactless public transport tickets from next year

Victorians will be able to use their phones, bank cards or smartwatches to pay for public transport travel from “early next year in a staged approach”, according to reports.

Following a successful start of a ticketless bus trial in Wangaratta, the Allan Labor Government will begin switching on tap-and-go technology across Victoria’s public transport network from early next year in a staged approach – meaning some passengers will soon be able to use their bank cards, phones and smart watches to travel on full fare tickets.

The new ticketing system will continue to be underpinned by extensive technical testing and will be carefully rolled out starting with rail from the beginning early next year – allowing full fare passengers more ways to pay for their travel.

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The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay – podcast
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:28 GMT

Victor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sells millions. Has he become a Kremlin apologist? By Sophie Pinkham. Read by Olga Koch

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Martial law was Yoon Suk Yeol’s answer to ‘legislative dictatorship’, insurrection trial hears
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:57:26 GMT

Lawyers for impeached South Korean president who caused chaos argue that court has no jurisdiction to put him on trial for ‘act of governance’

Lawyers for Yoon Suk Yeol have told a court in Seoul that the impeached president declared martial law in late 2024 to prevent the country becoming a “legislative dictatorship” controlled by his political opponents.

The claim came as Yoon became the first South Korean president to stand trial in a criminal case, brought over his short-lived declaration of martial law in early December.

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British firms among companies to have exported aircraft parts that reached Russia
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:52 GMT

Data shows aircraft parts from more than 100 western companies reached Russian aviation industry via India

British firms are among more than 100 western companies, including the aerospace giant Boeing, which have exported aircraft parts to India that reached Russia, according to customs data.

Analysis suggests products worth more than $50m have passed through intermediaries in India to Russian airlines and other entities over a 21-month period up to September 2024.

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Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:21:06 +0000
Swapping QR codes in group invites and artillery targeting are latest ploys.
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Device Code Phishing
2025-02-19T15:07:50Z

This isn’t new, but it’s increasingly popular:

The technique is known as device code phishing. It exploits “device code flow,” a form of authentication formalized in the industry-wide OAuth standard. Authentication through device code flow is designed for logging printers, smart TVs, and similar devices into accounts. These devices typically don’t support browsers, making it difficult to sign in using more standard forms of authentication, such as entering user names, passwords, and two-factor mechanisms.

Rather than authenticating the user directly, the input-constrained device displays an alphabetic or alphanumeric device code along with a link associated with the user account. The user opens the link on a computer or other device that’s easier to sign in with and enters the code. The remote server then sends a token to the input-constrained device that logs it into the account...

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A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages. Signal has pushed out new safeguards.
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Elizabeth Warren Fights to Defend the Consumer Protection Agency She Helped Create
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Elon Musk’s campaign to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will end up hurting the very people Donald Trump promised to safeguard.
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How Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' pledge is affecting other countries
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:04:23 GMT
Some major carbon-emitting countries are hinting they may follow suit as the US opts to ramp up fossil fuels.
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Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump’s 'bold vision' for Gaza – video
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:22:46 GMT

Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government is working closely with the US to implement Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, which involves US ownership of the coastal strip, the removal of more than 2 million Palestinians and the redevelopment of the occupied territory as a resort. The Israeli prime minister was speaking after a meeting in Jerusalem with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who defended the Trump plan as bold and visionary

• Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump’s plan for Gaza

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The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

For some members of the WhatsApp group, speaking out for Palestine and criticizing Israel are tantamount to supporting Hamas.

The post The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters appeared first on The Intercept.

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Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:31:52 +0000

In a tweet announcing his attack on the Climate Justice Alliance, EPA head Lee Zeldin linked it to the group’s protected speech about Palestine.

The post Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

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As the UK prepares its next carbon budget, what needs to be included?
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:02:28 GMT

Expert recommendations will influence plans for energy, housing, transport industry and farming for decades

Labour will next week be confronted with stark policy choices that threaten to expose the fault lines between the Treasury and the government’s green ambitions, as advice for the UK’s next carbon budget is published.

Plans for the energy sector, housing, transport, industry and farming will all be called into question in a sweeping set of recommendations for how the UK can meet the legally binding target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Sols 4458-4460: Winter Schminter
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:58:42 +0000
Earth planning date: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 During today’s unusual-for-MSL Tuesday planning day (because of the U.S. holiday on Monday), we planned activities under new winter heating constraints. Operating Curiosity on Mars requires attention to a number of factors — power, data volume, terrain roughness, temperature — that affect rover operability and safety. Winter means […]
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Study: Cuttlefish adapt camouflage displays when hunting prey
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:00 +0000
They can take on the features of a mangrove leaf or branching coral, or run dark stripes down their bodies.
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Does Pep Guardiola have drive to rebuild broken Manchester City?
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:16 GMT

The current iteration is done and manager must decide if he has the energy for exhausting process of reconstruction

There was some talk after Manchester City’s win against Newcastle United last Saturday that City’s players had been inspired, freed from their shackles and generally reinvigorated by the club’s recent legal victory in a tribunal hearing over certain time-specific aspects of financial regulation.

Could this be true? Are we underestimating the effect of these things? Did the pitch mics at the Bernabéu pick up Nico González in the pre-match huddle saying: “Lads, we’ve all absorbed the news about the related third-party transaction rules being declared improper. I am as a consequence bang up for this.” Did the cameras detect Savinho whispering: “Guys, we are now free to seek our own definition of market value. This commercial potential is hugely energising. Hit me early over the top.”

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In Memoriam: Jeff Dozier [1944–2024]
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:55:58 +0000
Jeff Dozier, an environmental scientist, snow hydrologist, researcher, academic – and former Earth Observing System Project Scientist – died on November 17, 2024. Jeff’s research focused on snow hydrology and biogeochemistry in mountain environments and addressed the role of stored and melting snow in the hydrologic cycle as well as the economic and social impact […]
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In Memoriam: Pierre Morel [1933–2024]
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:54:30 +0000
Pierre Morel, the first director of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and founding member of WCRP’s Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Core project, died on December 10, 2024. Pierre began his research as a theoretical physicist. His doctoral thesis examined the existence and properties of a condensed superfluid state of liquid Helium 3 […]
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Europe greenwashing with north Africa’s renewable energy, report says
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:00:33 GMT

Greenpeace argues European-backed projects hamper countries’ ability to decarbonise their own economies

European countries are extracting renewable energy from Morocco and Egypt to “greenwash” their own economies, while leaving north Africans reliant on dirty imported fuels and paying the environmental costs, a Greenpeace report says.

Both Morocco and Egypt are aiming to leverage their strategic locations south of the Mediterranean, and their solar and wind power potential, to position themselves as pivotal to Europe’s quest to diversify its energy supply.

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Parents of Alexei Navalny join hundreds of mourners on the anniversary of his death – video report
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:34:14 GMT

The parents of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny joined hundreds of mourners at their son's grave on Sunday to mark the anniversary of his death. Navalny died aged 47 on 16 February last year while being held in a jail about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where he had been sentenced to 19 years under a ‘special regime’

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Match ID: 153 Score: 14.29 source: www.theguardian.com age: 4 days
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Trump Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Federal Prisons Are Purposely Inhumane
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000

And that’s how he wants to keep it, his executive orders and memos from Attorney General Pam Bondi show.

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Match ID: 154 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 14.29 trump

We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.
Match ID: 155 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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DOGE as a National Cyberattack
2025-02-13T12:03:26Z

In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national security are profound.

First, it was reported that people associated with the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed the US Treasury computer system, giving them the ability to collect data on and potentially control the department’s roughly ...

Match ID: 156 Score: 12.86 source: www.schneier.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 5.71 russia, 4.29 energy, 2.86 nuclear

It Took Trump Only Twenty-four Days to Sell Out Ukraine
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:12:05 +0000
Amid the chaos in Washington, the President’s phone call with Putin has Moscow filled with glee.
Match ID: 157 Score: 12.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 trump, 5.71 russia

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: 158 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 106 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions, 3.57 trump, 2.86 russia

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:07:33 +0000
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
Match ID: 159 Score: 10.71 source: www.wired.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 10.71 trump

The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:40:53 +0000

How exactly the IRS will use the SuperPod AI hardware is unclear. But it comes amid a push for automation in government.

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Match ID: 160 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 10.71 trump

Danielle Sassoon’s American Bravery
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:22:00 +0000
A conservative prosecutor in New York makes the first bold move against Donald Trump’s rampaging Presidency.
Match ID: 161 Score: 10.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 6 days
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AI and Civil Service Purges
2025-02-14T13:03:22Z

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to reform is upending government operations. Critical functions have been halted, tens of thousands of federal staffers are being encouraged to resign, and congressional mandates are being disregarded. The next phase: The Department of Government Efficiency reportedly wants to use AI to cut costs. According to The Washington Post, Musk’s group has started to run sensitive data from government systems through AI programs to analyze spending and determine what could be pruned. This may lead to the elimination of human jobs in favor of automation. As one government official who has been tracking Musk’s DOGE team told the...

Match ID: 162 Score: 10.71 source: www.schneier.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 10.71 trump

The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Researchers find RedNote lacks basic security measures, surveillance ramps up around the US-Mexico border, and the UK ordering Apple to create an encryption backdoor comes under fire.
Match ID: 163 Score: 8.57 source: www.wired.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 8.57 russia

Constitutional Crisis Looms
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“What he’s done is testing the limits of his power in a way we have never seen in this country,” says retired federal Judge Nancy Gertner.

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Match ID: 164 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 trump

Democrats Swear They’ll Fight Elon Musk. But What About the Cash They Took From SpaceX?
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Musk has emerged as Trump’s far-right-hand man, creating some awkwardness for the president’s Democratic foes.

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Match ID: 165 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 trump

Papa Elon or Donald, Sr.
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:39:48 +0000
Which father knows best?
Match ID: 166 Score: 7.14 source: www.newyorker.com age: 7 days
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The Strategy Behind Trump’s Defiance of the Law
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:28:47 +0000
His violations follow an old playbook—trigger lawsuits, giving the Supreme Court a chance to declare statutes unconstitutional.
Match ID: 167 Score: 7.14 source: www.newyorker.com age: 7 days
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How Many Trump Officials Have Taken Money From Qatar?
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:02:00 +0000

Oversight laws about foreign influence were already limited. Now the Trump administration is shredding them.

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Match ID: 168 Score: 6.43 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.86 russia

UK Secret Order Demands That Apple Give Access to Users’ Encrypted Data
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Benjamin Netanyahu gives Donald Trump a golden pager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise blames Russian government hackers for a breach, and more.
Match ID: 169 Score: 6.43 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.86 russia

Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career”
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:09:38 +0000

CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger could barely contain his excitement about the Laken Riley Act and Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders.

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Match ID: 170 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

White House trade chief says Trump will 'structurally shift' the economy
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:57:01 EST

Match ID: 171 Score: 5.71 source: www.politico.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

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: 172 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 73 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
Match ID: 173 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 86 days
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
Match ID: 174 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 99 days
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: 175 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 106 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
Match ID: 176 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 110 days
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
Match ID: 177 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 254 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000
Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn’t stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
Match ID: 178 Score: 5.00 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:56:50 +0000
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
Match ID: 179 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 190 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“I think the Democrats have worked themselves into a bit of a corner,” the writer Brady Brickner-Wood says. “They’re going to need to soul search in a way that’s not just performative and is consistent with their values.”
Match ID: 180 Score: 3.57 source: www.newyorker.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Pentagon Official: Hegseth’s Campaign to Scrub DEI History Is a “Dumb” Distraction
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:18:57 +0000

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is trying to eliminate all Defense Department DEI efforts. It hasn’t been entirely successful.

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Match ID: 181 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Gaza Must Be Rebuilt by Palestinians, for Palestinians
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Palestinians returning after the ceasefire confront the destruction of their homes and the horror of President Trump’s proposal to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” by committing ethnic cleansing.
Match ID: 182 Score: 3.57 source: www.newyorker.com age: 9 days
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Trump Is Bullying Jordan and Egypt to Help in Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza. It Isn’t Working.
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:14:46 +0000

Even with Jordan and Egypt refusing to take in expelled Palestinians, Trump is charging on with his real estate development plan.

The post Trump Is Bullying Jordan and Egypt to Help in Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza. It Isn’t Working. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 183 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
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ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.

The post ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 184 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:23:21 +0000
Duties on aluminium and steel will throttle American industry and fragment global markets
Match ID: 185 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 10 days
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Gaza Protester Who Interrupted Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime Show Speaks Out
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:16:22 +0000

“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”

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Match ID: 186 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

“You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:20:00 +0000

Palestinians from Gaza responded with outrage to Trump’s proposal to expel them from their homes.

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Match ID: 187 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 13 days
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Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:52:24 +0000
Lessons from a week of chaos
Match ID: 188 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 15 days
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How Trump’s tariff turbulence will cause economic pain
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:19:03 +0000
Mexico and Canada win a reprieve, but firms remain rattled
Match ID: 189 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 17 days
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Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before
Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:05:43 +0000
Canada, Mexico and China are going to be made to suffer
Match ID: 190 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 19 days
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Donald Trump’s economic warfare has a new front
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:58:33 +0000
The president has threatened to blow up the global tax system. Will allies be able to stop him?
Match ID: 191 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 22 days
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Don’t let Donald Trump see our Big Mac index
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:54:35 +0000
America’s tariff-loving president could learn the wrong lessons from international burger prices
Match ID: 192 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 22 days
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Trump's spending freeze spreads chaos across US
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:15:00 EST
Supporters of climate, infrastructure, mortgage, tech, health, veterans' and other projects expressed alarm as tens of thousands of programs appeared possibly at risk.
Match ID: 193 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 23 days
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Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster?
Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:30:21 +0000
Donald Trump’s team is about to bring digital finance into the mainstream
Match ID: 194 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 25 days
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Donald Trump issues fresh tariff threats
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:15:29 +0000
But it may be a while before he unleashes a universal levy
Match ID: 195 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 31 days
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Lael Brainard's ‘Crisis Management Agency’ — and Her Warning For Trump
Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:00:00 EST
Joe Biden's top economic adviser opens up on harrowing moments from her time in the White House, and what makes her nervous about the Trump agenda.
Match ID: 196 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 33 days
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Will Donald Trump unleash Wall Street?
Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:38:26 +0000
Bankers have plenty of reason to be hopeful
Match ID: 197 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 36 days
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Iran is vulnerable to a Trumpian all-out economic assault
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:32:36 +0000
Oil prices are already at a five-month high
Match ID: 198 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 38 days
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Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy?
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 09:49:34 +0000
He will face challenges from both America firsters and conservative mainstreamers
Match ID: 199 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 50 days
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What investors expect from President Trump
Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:25:47 +0000
Shareholders are over the moon; bondholders are readying the whip hand
Match ID: 200 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 50 days
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Trump asks Supreme Court to pause TikTok ban
Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:32:00 GMT

Match ID: 201 Score: 3.57 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 55 days
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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
Match ID: 202 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 71 days
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How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
Match ID: 203 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 81 days
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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
Match ID: 204 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 85 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
Match ID: 205 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 88 days
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What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:56:21 +0000
The president-elect’s nominee for treasury secretary faces a gruelling job
Match ID: 206 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
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What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:05:10 +0000
Forget interest rates. Rewards are the real problem
Match ID: 207 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 92 days
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Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:52:57 +0000
It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters
Match ID: 208 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 92 days
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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?
Match ID: 209 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 100 days
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America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world
Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:53:02 +0000
Donald Trump’s policies could send the greenback soaring
Match ID: 210 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 102 days
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What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:50:03 +0000
They might have simply been lucky, or biased
Match ID: 211 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 106 days
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Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:16:07 +0000
The continent’s policymakers are too relaxed about the risks
Match ID: 212 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 113 days
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Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:59:12 +0000
His zany promises would blow up the deficit
Match ID: 213 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 127 days
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An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:04:28 +0000
Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support
Match ID: 214 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 162 days
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Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:18:55 +0000
Donald Trump is just the latest to take a swing. In an interview with The Economist, the SEC chair defends his record
Match ID: 215 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 204 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: 216 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 211 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: 217 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 225 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: 218 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 246 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
Match ID: 219 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 282 days
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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
Match ID: 220 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 303 days
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Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter?
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:55:56 +0000
In a strong economy, price pressure can endure for a long time
Match ID: 221 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

A Hacker Group Within Russia’s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000
A team Microsoft calls BadPilot is acting as Sandworm's “initial access operation,” the company says. And over the last year it's trained its sights on the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia.
Match ID: 222 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:30:20 +0000
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
Match ID: 223 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 15 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

Giorgia Meloni has grand banking ambitions
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:01:06 +0000
Will Italy’s nationalist prime minister manage to concentrate financial power?
Match ID: 224 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 22 days
qualifiers: 2.86 italy

Argonaut: a first European lunar lander
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:15:00 +0100

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract with Thales Alenia Space in Italy to lead European aerospace companies in building the Argonaut Lunar Descent Element, ESA’s first lunar lander.

Match ID: 225 Score: 2.86 source: www.esa.int age: 22 days
qualifiers: 2.86 italy

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
Match ID: 226 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 64 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: 227 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 81 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: 228 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 94 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: 229 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 176 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: 230 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 193 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: 231 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 213 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/16/2024
Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:00:17 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by completing a Waste Hygiene Compartment (WHC) Filter Removal & Replacement (R&R), and completing various hydroponic flow tests with Plant Water Management 6 (PWM-6) hardware. Payloads: Lumina: The crew power-cycled the Lumina hardware, and transferred the science data to a Station …
Match ID: 232 Score: 2.86 source: www.nasa.gov age: 219 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: 233 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 260 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: 234 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 295 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

NASA Scientists, Engineers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:25:23 +0000
President Biden has named 19 researchers who contribute to NASA’s mission as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients are among nearly 400 federally funded researchers receiving the honor.   Established in 1996 by the National Science and Technology Council, the PECASE Award is the highest honor given by […]
Match ID: 235 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 34 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: 236 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 246 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: 237 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 246 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: 238 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 401 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

'Build baby build', says PM as he sets out nuclear plan
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:23:42 GMT
The government wants to make it quicker and easier to build mini nuclear power stations in England and Wales.
Match ID: 239 Score: 1.43 source: www.bbc.com age: 14 days
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U.S. stock futures and bond yields drop on reports Putin has updated nuclear doctrine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:55:00 GMT

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Britain lost 100 breweries last year, says ‘indie beer’ trade body
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:00:29 GMT

Fall in 2024 is biggest recorded as small operators struggle with rising costs, and aggressive tactics from big rivals

The number of independent breweries in Britain declined at its fastest rate in 2024, figures from the “indie beer” trade body suggest.

The UK had 1,715 breweries at the end of 2024, 100 fewer than at the start of the year, according to the data released by Siba, which represents independent brewing companies. The overall fall the previous year was just eight.

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‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:29 GMT

Ethiopia was the largest recipient of US aid assistance in sub-Saharan Africa before Donald Trump froze funding last month. From food and health to support for refugees and sexual abuse survivors, we examine the impact of a decision that has left aid organisations scrambling

A vast shipment of food stranded in containers risks rotting before it reaches millions of hungry people. Deliveries of life-saving medicines to remote rural clinics are paused. And thousands of HIV patients and sexual violence survivors are abruptly cut off from support.

Donald Trump’s executive order freezing USAid funding for 90 days has derailed multiple vital activities in Ethiopia. Although some life-saving programmes have received waivers, most have not, and USAid officials in the country are scrambling to secure exemptions for their work even as they are threatened with dismissal by Elon Musk’s “government efficiency” agency.

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Guzman y Gomez struggling to break into US market despite offering bigger burritos
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:41:50 GMT

‘US sales aren’t growing as fast as we’d like … it takes time,’ founder says, while analyst notes target market ‘not exactly short of Mexican food options’

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Mexican-themed chain Guzman y Gomez has reported bumper profits since it began trading on the Australian stock exchange but is struggling to expand in the US despite offering Americans bigger burritos.

The fast food chain has opened 16 new stores in Australia since July but a push to break into the competitive US market with five stores in Chicago has not fared as well. Guzman y Gomez reported on Friday that its US six-month sales had decreased by 12.7% to $4.9m.

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Nearly 500 cat figurines stolen from Gordon Ramsay’s London restaurant
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:59:29 GMT

By Ramsay’s own estimate, he has lost more than £2,000 during one week in stolen maneki-neko cat models

Nearly 500 cat figurines were stolen in one week from Gordon Ramsay’s new London restaurant, the TV chef has said.

The restaurateur, 58, recently launched Lucky Cat 22 Bishopsgate by Gordon Ramsay in one of London’s tallest buildings, which features the beckoning Japanese cat models called maneki-neko.

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At the center of Rasika’s union fight: Should servers be on commission?
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:56:55 +0000
Rasika’s owner says the new system will help the restaurant handle rising costs, but as they push for a union, some servers say they didn’t have a choice.
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Rachel Reeves should rewrite the rulebook on GDP growth | Letters
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:44:09 GMT

Donald Power, Dr Neil Lancastle and Andrew Risby respond to an editorial on Britain’s broken economy

Re your editorial (The Guardian view on Britain’s broken economy: ‘That’s your bloody GDP, not ours’, 13 February), we are frequently reminded of the inadequacy of GDP growth as an objective, given that it includes the money spent on dealing with pollution, sickness, crime etc. But nobody gets out of bed thinking, “I have to grow GDP today”. We’re thinking about how to earn a living and pay the rent. Nobody, that is, except the chancellor, for whom “growth is the No 1 mission” that “underpins everything else” – schools, hospitals, net zero.

Yet decades of growth since the 1960s have left us with thousands of food banks and facing an environmental abyss. The idea that only more growth will allow us to protect the planet is like saying we can only finance the fire brigade by selling petrol to arsonists.

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D.C.’s Minetta Tavern is an alluring chip off the old block in N.Y.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:00:37 +0000
Veteran restaurateur Keith McNally brings Minetta Tavern to D.C., and the restaurant feels and tastes like the New York original.
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This USAID Program Made Food Aid More Efficient for Decades. DOGE Gutted It Anyways
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:58:54 +0000
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network is one of USAID’s most data-driven programs, but its work has been stalled by the Trump administration.
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Cooking chat: How do I mix ground meat without making tough burgers?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:00:27 +0000
Every Wednesday at noon Eastern, Aaron Hutcherson and Becky Krystal answer your cooking questions.
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Dining chat: Why can’t restaurants update their menus online?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:00:36 +0000
Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema entertains your dining questions, rants and raves.
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This smoky sauce raises the bar on sheet pan fish and vegetables
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:00:59 +0000
The smoked paprika sauce is an easy way to add bold flavor to roasted cod, potatoes and broccoli.
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Aarke Coffee System Review: Shiny and Chrome
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:03:00 +0000
This shiny coffee maker and grinder arrives with an innovative autogrind feature pretty much unheard of in drip coffee.
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Restaurant Review: L&L Hawaiian Barbecue Brings New Yorkers the Plate Lunch
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
The Honolulu-based franchise specializes in simple meals that stick to the ribs.
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‘Slightly plasticky … would avoid’: the best (and worst) supermarket spinach and ricotta tortelloni
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:00:33 GMT

Whose tortelloni are pillows of pasta perfection, and whose taste like postage stamps? Our quick-cook columnist has the answers …

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Shop-bought ravioli and tortelloni are staples in my kitchen – I’ve even been known (with some chutzpah) to serve bowls of the stuff to friends, including well-known food writers, albeit improved with brown butter, crisp sage and hazelnuts, or in my signature ravioli lasagne.

In an ideal packet, I’m looking for a well-seasoned filling, nice and light from the ricotta, and not too processed or stodgy in texture. Similarly, the pasta shouldn’t taste plasticky; the closer it is to homemade, the better.

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Each week we’ll send you an exclusive newsletter from our star food writers. We’ll also send you the latest recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi, Nigel Slater, Meera Sodha and all our star cooks, stand-out food features and seasonal eating inspiration, plus restaurant reviews from Grace Dent and Jay Rayner.

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My Most Compatible Matches According to Hinge
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Viktoria & Harry, you are a perfect match. Viktoria, you put food in your mouth, chew it, and swallow. Harry also puts food in his mouth, chews it, and swallows.
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“You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:20:00 +0000

Palestinians from Gaza responded with outrage to Trump’s proposal to expel them from their homes.

The post “You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild appeared first on The Intercept.

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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/18/2024
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:00:38 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew with a few payload activities and completed Onboard Training for Backup Flight Control Proficiency. Payloads: Electro-static Levitation Furnace (ELF): The ELF cartridge holder containing the latest melted sample was removed and replaced with a new sample holder and sample. The completed …
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/17/2024
Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:00:39 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by completing the ongoing Plant Water Management 6 (PWM-6) activities. Payloads: Plant Ultraviolet-B (Plant UV-B): A laptop was connected and setup in preparation for future Plant UV-B operations. More information on this experiment can be found here. Plant Water Management 6 …
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/16/2024
Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:00:17 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by completing a Waste Hygiene Compartment (WHC) Filter Removal & Replacement (R&R), and completing various hydroponic flow tests with Plant Water Management 6 (PWM-6) hardware. Payloads: Lumina: The crew power-cycled the Lumina hardware, and transferred the science data to a Station …
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/15/2024
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:00:09 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by performing a USOS food audit and continuing to complete different payload activities. Payloads: Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR): Fuel Oxidizer Management Assembly (FOMA) Calibration was performed. The upper rack doors were opened, the bottle valves were closed, the pressure in the …
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What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
Mon, 18 Apr 2022 05:49:00 +0000

If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information. If you don't have a credit card, you can pay with bank transfer. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, these methods may become old.

Imagine a world in which you can do transactions and many other things without having to give your personal information. A world in which you don’t need to rely on banks or governments anymore. Sounds amazing, right? That’s exactly what blockchain technology allows us to do.

It’s like your computer’s hard drive. blockchain is a technology that lets you store data in digital blocks, which are connected together like links in a chain. 

Blockchain technology was originally invented in 1991 by two mathematicians, Stuart Haber and W. Scot Stornetta. They first proposed the system to ensure that timestamps could not be tampered with.

A few years later, in 1998, software developer Nick Szabo proposed using a similar kind of technology to secure a digital payments system he called “Bit Gold.” However, this innovation was not adopted until Satoshi Nakamoto claimed to have invented the first Blockchain and Bitcoin.

So, What is Blockchain?

A blockchain is a distributed database shared between the nodes of a computer network. It saves information in digital format. Many people first heard of blockchain technology when they started to look up information about bitcoin.

Blockchain is used in cryptocurrency systems to ensure secure, decentralized records of transactions.

Blockchain allowed people to guarantee the fidelity and security of a record of data without the need for a third party to ensure accuracy.

To understand how a blockchain works, Consider these basic steps:

• Blockchain collects information in “blocks”.
• A block has a storage capacity, and once it's used up, it can be closed and linked to a previously served block.
• Blocks form chains, which are called “Blockchains.”
• More information will be added to the block with the most content until its capacity is full. The process repeats itself.
• Each block in the chain has an exact timestamp and can't be changed.

Let’s get to know more about the blockchain.

How does blockchain work?

Blockchain records digital information and distributes it across the network without changing it. The information is distributed among many users and stored in an immutable, permanent ledger that can't be changed or destroyed. That's why blockchain is also called "Distributed Ledger Technology" or DLT.

Here’s how it works:

• Someone or a computer will transacts
• The transaction is transmitted throughout the network.
• A network of computers can confirm the transaction.
• When it is confirmed a transaction is added to a block
• The blocks are linked together to create a history.

And that’s the beauty of it! The process may seem complicated, but it’s done in minutes with modern technology. And because technology is advancing rapidly, I expect things to move even more quickly than ever.

• A new transaction is added to the system. It is then relayed to a network of computers located around the world. The computers then solve equations to ensure the authenticity of the transaction.
• Once a transaction is confirmed, it is placed in a block after the confirmation. All of the blocks are chained together to create a permanent history of every transaction.

How are Blockchains used?

Even though blockchain is integral to cryptocurrency, it has other applications. For example, blockchain can be used for storing reliable data about transactions. Many people confuse blockchain with cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.

Blockchain already being adopted by some big-name companies, such as Walmart, AIG, Siemens, Pfizer, and Unilever. For example, IBM's Food Trust uses blockchain to track food's journey before reaching its final destination.

Although some of you may consider this practice excessive, food suppliers and manufacturers adhere to the policy of tracing their products because bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella have been found in packaged foods. In addition, there have been isolated cases where dangerous allergens such as peanuts have accidentally been introduced into certain products.

Tracing and identifying the sources of an outbreak is a challenging task that can take months or years. Thanks to the Blockchain, however, companies now know exactly where their food has been—so they can trace its location and prevent future outbreaks.

Blockchain technology allows systems to react much faster in the event of a hazard. It also has many other uses in the modern world.

What is Blockchain Decentralization?

Blockchain technology is safe, even if it’s public. People can access the technology using an internet connection.

Have you ever been in a situation where you had all your data stored at one place and that one secure place got compromised? Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to prevent your data from leaking out even when the security of your storage systems is compromised?

Blockchain technology provides a way of avoiding this situation by using multiple computers at different locations to store information about transactions. If one computer experiences problems with a transaction, it will not affect the other nodes.

Instead, other nodes will use the correct information to cross-reference your incorrect node. This is called “Decentralization,” meaning all the information is stored in multiple places.

Blockchain guarantees your data's authenticity—not just its accuracy, but also its irreversibility. It can also be used to store data that are difficult to register, like legal contracts, state identifications, or a company's product inventory.

Pros and Cons of Blockchain

Blockchain has many advantages and disadvantages. 

Pros

• Accuracy is increased because there is no human involvement in the verification process.
• One of the great things about decentralization is that it makes information harder to tamper with.
• Safe, private, and easy transactions
• Provides a banking alternative and safe storage of personal information

Cons

• Data storage has limits.
• The regulations are always changing, as they differ from place to place.
• It has a risk of being used for illicit activities 

Frequently Asked Questions About Blockchain

I’ll answer the most frequently asked questions about blockchain in this section.

Is Blockchain a cryptocurrency?

Blockchain is not a cryptocurrency but a technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible. It's a digital ledger that records every transaction seamlessly.

Is it possible for Blockchain to be hacked?

Yes, blockchain can be theoretically hacked, but it is a complicated task to be achieved. A network of users constantly reviews it, which makes hacking the blockchain difficult.

What is the most prominent blockchain company?

Coinbase Global is currently the biggest blockchain company in the world. The company runs a commendable infrastructure, services, and technology for the digital currency economy.

Who owns Blockchain?

Blockchain is a decentralized technology. It’s a chain of distributed ledgers connected with nodes. Each node can be any electronic device. Thus, one owns blockhain.

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain technology?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, which is powered by Blockchain technology while Blockchain is a distributed ledger of cryptocurrency 

What is the difference between Blockchain and a Database?

Generally a database is a collection of data which can be stored and organized using a database management system. The people who have access to the database can view or edit the information stored there. The client-server network architecture is used to implement databases. whereas a blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, stored in a distributed system. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, timestamp and transaction information. Modification of data is not allowed due to the design of the blockchain. The technology allows decentralized control and eliminates risks of data modification by other parties.

Final Saying

Blockchain has a wide spectrum of applications and, over the next 5-10 years, we will likely see it being integrated into all sorts of industries. From finance to healthcare, blockchain could revolutionize the way we store and share data. Although there is some hesitation to adopt blockchain systems right now, that won't be the case in 2022-2023 (and even less so in 2026). Once people become more comfortable with the technology and understand how it can work for them, owners, CEOs and entrepreneurs alike will be quick to leverage blockchain technology for their own gain. Hope you like this article if you have any question let me know in the comments section

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We asked the people of Gaza how they saw their future – this is what we found | Nils Mallock
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:36 GMT

Support for Hamas is declining – no obvious alternative has emerged, but our poll shows there are reasons to be hopeful

• Nils Mallock is research fellow at the XCEPT research group at King’s College London

After coming the closest yet to falling apart, the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is back on its fragile track. Just days ago, an escalating dispute threatened the deal after both sides expressed frustration about the other’s fulfilment of their respective obligations. Donald Trump’s recent proposal to resettle Gaza’s population of two million Palestinians also rattled the truce.

The turbulences of the month-old ceasefire expose a deeper political uncertainty: after 15 months of fighting, no clear vision exists for what comes next. Who should govern and rebuild Gaza? What will its future relationship with Israel be?

Nils Mallock is research fellow at the XCEPT research group at King’s College London, a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, and regularly briefs the UK Foreign Office on policy-related issues

This article was co-authored by Jeremy Ginges, professor in behavioural science at the London School of Economics and author of various studies on intergroup conflict and conflict resolution

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NASA Selects New Round of Student-Led Aviation Research Awards
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000
NASA has selected two new university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges meant to transform the skies above our communities. The research awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides students with opportunities to contribute to NASA’s flight research goals. This round is notable for including USRC’s first-ever […]
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The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

For some members of the WhatsApp group, speaking out for Palestine and criticizing Israel are tantamount to supporting Hamas.

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This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:44:19 +0000

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

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Fetterman Staff Quit Amid Frustration Over “Just Working on Israel All the Time”
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:20:25 +0000

A former campaign staffer said Sen. John Fetterman’s single-minded focus came at the exclusion of the progressive positions he ran on.

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Trump and Musk Delight in the Sounds of Human Suffering With Sick “ASMR” Immigrant Video
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:42:41 +0000

The video might bring pleasure to their supporters, but for us it is a call to shut down their fascist deportation machine.

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The Democratic National Committee is challenging the Republican National Committee’s effort to block a law in...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:54:46 +0000

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One Month Under Trump: Are You Keeping Up?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:30:00 +0000

This week on The Intercept Briefing, politics reporters Jessica Washington and Akela Lacy assess the full scope of Trump's first month in office.

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Trump Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Federal Prisons Are Purposely Inhumane
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000

And that’s how he wants to keep it, his executive orders and memos from Attorney General Pam Bondi show.

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DOGE Said It Cut $232 Million From Social Security Budget. It Was Only About Half a Million.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:54 +0000

The cut, an anti-trans attack, was the latest example of confusion sown by bold claims that wither under scrutiny.

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US culture war show comes to London – and strikes a chord with European populists
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:23:20 GMT

At this year’s Arc conference, a new American export was on full display: ideological finger-wagging in Europe’s direction

On stage in a corner of east London, the US folk singer Oliver Anthony got a rapturous reception this week for a rendition of his smash hit Rich Men North of Richmond, a tune about inequality and the political elite’s disregard for the working class.

Rather than performing in one of London’s dozens of music venues, however, Anthony – who has claimed his song doesn’t take any particular partisan side – was playing to an elite gathering: the well-heeled conservative activists, donors and politicians from the US, the UK and around the world who descended on the now yearly Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc).

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Judiciary Democrats make last plea to GOP colleagues ahead of Kash Patel vote
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:16:37 +0000

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Not-for-profit appears to own Reform UK despite Farage’s ‘democratisation’ pledge
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:49:28 GMT

Party had brought in a new constitution declaring its 200,000 members were now in control

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Nigel Farage has declared he has handed over Reform UK to its 200,000 members, but the party now appears to be owned by a not-for-profit company controlled by its leader and chair.

Farage announced last year that he would “democratise” the party after receiving criticism for it being a private company majority controlled by the leader, not a members’ association like other parties.

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Elon Musk’s A.I.-Driven Government Coup
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“For a long time, Silicon Valley has wanted to try to replace the government, and has thought that they would be better at governing the country than, you know, the Democrats and the Republicans alike,” the staff writer Kyle Chayka says.
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How do we defend free speech – without falling prey to extremism? | Kenneth Roth
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:37 GMT

JD Vance says Europe should not shun far-right parties. He seems to have forgotten 1933, but hits a key conundrum

In his speech last week at the Munich Security Conference, JD Vance pressed European leaders to stop excluding extremist parties from government. Alluding in particular to Germany’s neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany, or AfD, he accused European leaders of “running in fear of your own voters”. The US vice-president underscored the point by then meeting with the AfD candidate for chancellor.

In his view, these extremist parties should be welcomed into the mainstream because they reflect voters’ concern about migration. He evidently was not troubled that the AfD also has a history of using Nazi rhetoric, making racist and antisemitic comments and plotting to overthrow the German government.

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Trump concludes remarks at Republican governors dinner
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:51:54 +0000
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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Republicans caught between Trump and farmers pleading for frozen funds
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:11:21 +0000
Farmers complaining about Trump’s ongoing funding freeze to Agriculture Department programs are receiving mixed messages from Republicans in Congress.
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Voters narrowly prefer a Democrat-controlled Congress, poll finds
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:06:53 +0000

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Brazilians hail strength of democracy as Bolsonaro is called to account
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:35:30 GMT

‘In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the US they get back into the White House,’ says one leading politician

Brazilian democrats have celebrated the strength of their country’s judiciary and institutions after the former president Jair Bolsonaro was left facing political oblivion and jail time for allegedly plotting a coup, in stark contrast to the US’s failure to bring Donald Trump to justice for his anti-democratic acts.

“In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the US they get back into the White House,” said Marcelo Freixo, a leading leftwing politician on Wednesday after the attorney general formally accused Bolsonaro of engineering a sprawling conspiracy to cling to power following his defeat in the 2022 election.

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Ukrainians: share your views on the US-Russia peace talks about the war in Ukraine
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:27:19 GMT

We’re keen to hear how Ukrainians feel about the Trump administration-led peace negotiations with Russia, as well as the prospect of elections in Ukraine

US and Russian officials have agreed to explore the “economic and investment opportunities” that could arise for their countries from an end to the war in Ukraine after talks in Saudi Arabia that amounted to a tectonic shift in the United States’ approach to Moscow.

US president Donald Trump pushed back against president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s objections to being excluded from talks between the US and Russia in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending the war. He also seemed to suggest that Ukraine was to blame for a war that began only after Russia invaded.

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Trump vs. Biden on plane crashes is a fool’s game
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:58 +0000
A Democratic lawmaker and the transportation secretary misleadingly making contradictory claims.
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Trump administration’s mass firings could leave federal government with ‘monumental’ bill, say experts
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:36 GMT

Lawyer says ‘astounding’ purge will cost government, after workers with positive reviews cut due to ‘poor performance’

Donald Trump’s administration could wrack up a “monumental” bill and is breaking the law by firing government workers on spurious grounds, according to a top labor lawyer.

Officials have cited “poor performance” when terminating thousands of federal workers. In many cases it’s not true, according to employees embroiled in the blitz, many of whom are now seeking legal advice.

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An exiled group within Labour is making a comeback – it could hold the key to repelling Farage | Julian Coman
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:00:34 GMT

Many of Blue Labour’s diagnoses have been proved correct. With Reform targeting Labour’s working-class support, a reappraisal is overdue

As one poll this month placed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK ahead of Labour and the Conservatives for the first time, I sought distraction on holiday in Jonathan Coe’s latest novel. Set during the brief seven-week premiership of Liz Truss, The Proof of My Innocence is a Graham Greene-style “entertainment”, rather than another Coe state-of-the-nation book like Middle England or Bournville. But it does deal with a serious political theme: the morphing of British conservatism, from the 1980s onwards, into the radical, insurgent force that culminated in Brexit, Boris Johnson and Kwasi Kwarteng’s budget.

Coe writes wonderfully well, and with empathy about very different social worlds. But his overall perspective generally stays within an embattled liberal-left comfort zone. Towards the end of the book, a twentysomething character offers her take on the disruptions that led to our present discontent: “Britain changed. What we had before: consensus more or less. What came after: libertarianism/individualism. Every man and woman for his/herself.” Earlier, the revelation of a secret plot to sell the NHS out to big pharma – involving a high-profile Brexiter – underlines a gradual eclipse of public virtue by private monied interests.

Julian Coman is a Guardian associate editor

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Let’s not leave the baby-making debate to Musk and Vance – the left has a stake in this too | Gaby Hinsliff
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:00:30 GMT

Rightwingers calling for higher birthrates may be disturbing, but having children is the ultimate gesture of confidence in the future for us all

Roses are red, violets are blue. Rightwing politicians around the world want women to have more babies, and if you find this idea the opposite of romantic – well, me too.

Pronatalism’s cause is not exactly helped by having as its best-known figureheads JD “childless cat lady” Vance and Elon Musk, seemingly on a personal mission to reverse what he calls the “underpopulation crisis”. Even Nigel Farage, a twice-divorced father of four who takes the firmly libertarian view that private lives are no business of the state, squirmed when tackled on the subject this week, before eventually venturing that the west had “kind of forgotten that what underpins everything is our Judeo-Christian culture” and that “of course, we need higher birthrates, but we’re not going to get higher birthrates in this country until we can get some sense of optimism”. But do progressives, who are after all supposed to be in the optimism business, have a stake in the baby-making debate too? A new collection of essays published this week by the cross-party Social Market Foundation (SMF) thinktank argues that they should.

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President Donald Trump told the Republican Governors Association that he’s expecting a “big surprise” in the...
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:52:51 +0000

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Kentucky Republicans quickly express interest in McConnell’s seat
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:41:25 +0000

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Most Republicans say imposing tariffs will raise prices
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:18:13 +0000

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D.C. U.S. attorney probing Democrats over alleged threats, documents show
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:28 +0000

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Live updates: Trump to address nation’s governors, sign more executive orders
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:54:26 +0000
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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What are we to make of Trump’s Ukraine policy? | Matt Duss
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:38 GMT

In Trump’s jungle, the powerful make decisions the weak must simply accept – international law and human rights be damned

It’s been quite a week for US foreign policy. Following a phone call last week between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, US and Russian delegates met in Saudi Arabia to smooth relations between the two countries and discuss possible paths to ending the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine was not invited to the talks. Quite reasonably, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his country would not be bound by decisions taken without their participation. Trump responded to this by falsely claiming that Ukraine had started the war, and sought to undermine Zelenskyy’s legitimacy by claiming in a Truth Social post that he “refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls … A Dictator without Elections.”

Matt Duss is executive vice-president at the Center for International Policy and former foreign policy adviser to the senator Bernie Sanders

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Trump is tearing up the transatlantic alliance. Can Starmer’s US visit change the weather?
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:41:05 GMT

As the US president turns on allies and embraces Russia, can the UK prime minister persuade Trump to listen to Europe’s concerns

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In November 1940, Winston Churchill sent a telegram to Franklin Roosevelt expressing relief both at the US president’s re-election and the victory of his anti-appeasement policy. “Things are afoot which will be remembered as long as the English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe, and in expressing the comfort I feel that the people of the United States have once again cast these great burdens upon you, I must now avow my sure faith that the lights by which we steer will bring us safely to anchor,” he wrote.

As Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron prepare to meet a very different US president, things are once again afoot that will live long in the memory – but this time the lights seem to be going out on a ship adrift in a sea of chaos.

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Peter Dutton claims Labor is fast-tracking citizenship so that migrants can vote. Here’s what we know
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:07:41 GMT

The opposition leader picked up on News Corp claims that Tony Burke was conducting ‘industrial-scale’ ceremonies. Labor denies it has anything to do with the election

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This week Peter Dutton has claimed Labor wants to “expressly push” new Australians through citizenship ceremonies ahead of the federal election – allegations the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, has strongly denied, accusing critics of a “whinge”.

In the same remarks, Dutton also again claimed the government wanted to “bring people in from a war zone”, referring to Gaza, and appeared to insinuate people from that region were among those being offered citizenship.

Tony Burke is spending today and the rest of this week, as I understand it, conducting as many citizenship ceremonies as you can, and literally putting thousands of people through an express citizenship process so that they can vote in the election within a few weeks, which I think is quite remarkable. And I just question whether there has been any slackening of the process, whether there has been any compromise on the security checks, and whether it’s in our country’s best interests for people to receive citizenship before the proper security checks have been undertaken, or people have had – within the home affairs department – the time to be able to conduct the searches that we would expect to be conducted.”

What would you like to happen to be assured that the processes are being followed?”

There needs to be transparency. If the government’s giving a nod and the wink to a particular part of society – they’re obsessed with the Green vote and they’re worried about losing seats, without being political about it – but let’s be frank about the motivation. Why would you bring people in from a war zone without the requisite checks, on a tourist visa, without precedent? Why would you do that and knowing that it’s territory controlled by a listed terrorist organisation? Why would you expressly push people through the process to receive citizenship in advance of an election which is pending?”

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Wong says she expressed ‘importance of Oscar Jenkins’ condition’ to Russian foreign minister – as it happened
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:55:12 GMT

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Victoria to offer contactless public transport tickets from next year

Victorians will be able to use their phones, bank cards or smartwatches to pay for public transport travel from “early next year in a staged approach”, according to reports.

Following a successful start of a ticketless bus trial in Wangaratta, the Allan Labor Government will begin switching on tap-and-go technology across Victoria’s public transport network from early next year in a staged approach – meaning some passengers will soon be able to use their bank cards, phones and smart watches to travel on full fare tickets.

The new ticketing system will continue to be underpinned by extensive technical testing and will be carefully rolled out starting with rail from the beginning early next year – allowing full fare passengers more ways to pay for their travel.

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A German election road trip with the far right on the up - podcast
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:00:25 GMT

Today in Focus presenter Helen Pidd hits the road in Germany before Sunday’s federal elections, talking to voters across the country about the rise of the far right

This Sunday, millions of Germans will head to the polls to vote in the country’s federal elections – historic not only because they will determine who will be the next chancellor, but because they come at a time when the far right in Germany is polling better than in any other period since the second world war.

Regardless of the result, it is a remarkable development for a country so haunted by its Nazi past.

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McConnell won’t seek reelection, ending decades-long Senate tenure
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:13:02 +0000
McConnell, who is celebrating his 83rd birthday on Thursday, is the longest-serving Senate party leader in history.
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The Guardian view on Scottish Labour: a defining moment for Anas Sarwar | Editorial
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:41:39 GMT

After a spectacular general election win, Keir Starmer’s party is struggling to repeat its success in the approaching Holyrood contest

​Only a few months ago, Labour won the most votes and a majority of seats in Scotland for the first time since 2010. A 16-point swing from the Scottish National party yielded a harvest of 37 Westminster Labour MPs. The SNP, which had changed leaders twice in little over a year, plummeted from 48 Westminster MPs to a mere nine.

Yet if anyone assumes Labour is now in the driving seat of Scottish electoral politics again, they have not been paying attention. A poll last week showed Labour facing its worst Holyrood election result since devolution began, with only 18% of Scots planning to vote for Anas Sarwar’s party when the Scottish parliament comes up for election in 2026. The SNP, meanwhile, is on course to be the largest party at Holyrood again, potentially enabling the current first minister, John Swinney, to form the nationalists’ fifth consecutive devolved administration.

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McConnell says he won’t seek reelection next year
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:30:33 +0000

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How Elon Musk used X to amplify Germany’s far right ahead of election
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:26:28 +0000

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Trump Doesn’t Care About Ukraine or Russia — Just Money
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:21:06 +0000

Trump is leaving Ukraine with impossible choices: fight a losing war without U.S. support, or submit to economic vassalage.

The post Trump Doesn’t Care About Ukraine or Russia — Just Money appeared first on The Intercept.

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AI and Civil Service Purges
2025-02-14T13:03:22Z

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to reform is upending government operations. Critical functions have been halted, tens of thousands of federal staffers are being encouraged to resign, and congressional mandates are being disregarded. The next phase: The Department of Government Efficiency reportedly wants to use AI to cut costs. According to The Washington Post, Musk’s group has started to run sensitive data from government systems through AI programs to analyze spending and determine what could be pruned. This may lead to the elimination of human jobs in favor of automation. As one government official who has been tracking Musk’s DOGE team told the...

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DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:57:48 +0000
The restrictions are already in place at the General Services Administration along with several other agencies. Soon they’ll roll out to most of the federal government, sources say.
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Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:30:17 +0000

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Elon Musk praises Doge efforts to cut federal workforce after judge ruling – as it happened
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 02:42:53 GMT

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Donald Trump signed another round of executive orders onboard Air Force One last night, among them one aimed at ending federal benefits for people in the country illegally.

The order seeks to end “all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens”, according to the White House, although it was not clear which benefits will be targeted.

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Trump brings Russia in from the cold, but at what cost to Ukraine? – podcast
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:59 GMT

In a matter of days, Donald Trump completed the most radical shift in US foreign policy in decades, bringing Putin back into the fold while sidelining Europe. He claims to have brought the end of the war in Ukraine in sight, but with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the rest of Europe excluded from the US-Russia talks, are we really any closer to peace? And, at what price?

Jonathan Freedland speaks to veteran US diplomat Kurt Volker, who served as Trump’s special representative for Ukraine during his first term, and the Guardian’s US live news editor Chris Michael

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Where Do Trans Kids Go from Here?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
In the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order banning transition-related care for minors, hospitals in blue states began cancelling appointments—forcing families in New York and beyond to consider whether even liberal cities are safe.
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The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:40:53 +0000

How exactly the IRS will use the SuperPod AI hardware is unclear. But it comes amid a push for automation in government.

The post The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia appeared first on The Intercept.

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Democrats Swear They’ll Fight Elon Musk. But What About the Cash They Took From SpaceX?
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Musk has emerged as Trump’s far-right-hand man, creating some awkwardness for the president’s Democratic foes.

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Katya Adler: Far right looks for election breakthrough as Germany falters
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:48:10 GMT
The AfD party could become the second biggest in the German parliament after elections on Sunday.
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‘DOGE dividend’ idea could be part of Congress budget talks, Miller suggests
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:56:47 +0000

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Study of TikTok, X ‘For You’ feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections
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Why hasn’t Ukraine held elections since the war began?
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:00:32 GMT

Donald Trump has increased his attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling the Ukrainian president ‘a dictator’ – but why have elections been postponed?

If Russia had not invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Volodymyr Zelenskyy would have faced a re-election campaign in spring 2024. But after Vladimir Putin sent his troops across the border, the country quickly entered a state of martial law. That meant that both presidential and parliamentary elections were postponed. Donald Trump has escalated his attacks on Zelenskyy, calling the Ukrainian president “a dictator” in light of postponed elections.

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Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections
2025-02-20T14:16:46+00:00

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Echoing Kremlin, Trump calls Zelensky a dictator, angering Ukrainians
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:24:38 +0000
Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has low approval ratings and that elections are needed, statements also made in the past week by the Kremlin.
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Constitutional Crisis Looms
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“What he’s done is testing the limits of his power in a way we have never seen in this country,” says retired federal Judge Nancy Gertner.

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Poised to Take Over TikTok, Oracle Is Accused of Clamping Down on Pro-Palestine Dissent
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Oracle, which has secret partnerships with Israel, has told employees to love the country or work elsewhere.

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60 Years Ago: Ranger 8 Moon Photos Aid in Apollo Site Selection
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:59:33 +0000
Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the Moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists believed the Moon had a solid surface that would support astronauts and their landing craft, a few believed a deep layer of dust covered it that would swallow any visitors. Until 1964, no closeup photographs of the […]
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We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.
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Trump deports hundreds to third countries, leaving them in legal limbo
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:54:26 +0000

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Several of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members and advisers are set to speak Friday at the...
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:45:00 +0000

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Keir Starmer urged to ramp up defence spending – UK politics live
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:40:52 GMT

This is ‘probably one of the most alarming times for Britain’s defence since the second world war’, says Lib Dem leader Ed Davey as he calls for more spending

A record 30 English local authorities have been granted effective “bailouts” enabling them to borrow money to avoid bankruptcy, as ministers advised them against selling off prized local assets such as historic buildings, parks and allotments.

The councils, all of whom were experiencing “unmanageable” financial pressures, were given the green light by ministers to collectively borrow £1.5bn to plug significant budget gaps caused by underfunding and soaring demand for social care and other services.

It is a very difficult visit there’s no doubt about that, but I do think you have to speak to your friends honestly and openly.

The threat that Donald Trump poses to our economy and security is as serious as I can ever remember.

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DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
The US government has increased the use of monitoring tools over the past decade. But President Donald Trump’s employee purges are making workers worry about how their data could be abused.
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Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:15:55 +0000

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As the UK prepares its next carbon budget, what needs to be included?
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:02:28 GMT

Expert recommendations will influence plans for energy, housing, transport industry and farming for decades

Labour will next week be confronted with stark policy choices that threaten to expose the fault lines between the Treasury and the government’s green ambitions, as advice for the UK’s next carbon budget is published.

Plans for the energy sector, housing, transport, industry and farming will all be called into question in a sweeping set of recommendations for how the UK can meet the legally binding target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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Vaccine safety panel long criticized by RFK Jr. told to postpone meeting
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:58 +0000

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Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party says it will begin process of disbanding
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:32 GMT

Democratic party chair Lo Kin-hei would not comment on whether Beijing put pressure on members

Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party, which became an influential voice of opposition before Beijing cracked down on dissent, will start preparations to shut down, its leader has said.

Lo Kin-hei, the chair of Hong Kong’s Democratic party, said on Thursday: “We are going to proceed and study on the process and procedure that is needed for the disbanding.”

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Eleventh-hour high court bid to stop Australia’s secretive deal to resettle NZYQ cohort in Nauru
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:47:55 GMT

Proceedings filed Friday for man scheduled to be deported Monday as Human Rights Law Centre makes case for ‘dangerous precedent’

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Australia’s secretive deal to deport people among the NZYQ cohort to Nauru has been challenged in the high court in a move that could block the first removal from the country.

Legal proceedings filed Friday for a man scheduled to be deported to Nauru on Monday argued that the decision to cancel the man’s protection visa was unlawful and that he should be allowed to stay in Australia while a review of his visa continued.

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Rachel Reeves given smaller than expected £15bn tax boost to UK finances
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:16:26 GMT

January surplus is still highest on record but below the £20bn City economists had forecast

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A rise in self-assessment and capital gains tax receipts gave the UK’s public finances a smaller than expected £15.4bn lift in January.

The surplus is still the highest since records began in 1993 and is a reversal of December’s slump, when the public finances slid to a £17.8bn deficit.

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The ‘west’ is over. In the Trumpian era, Europe is on its own | Alexander Hurst
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:00:31 GMT

Trump and JD Vance are clear: the US is no longer an ally, but an antagonist to democratic values

In 1966, after years of friction with the US over whether France should have its own independent nuclear deterrent, the French president, Charles de Gaulle, withdrew his country from Nato’s integrated command (not, however, from the alliance itself – a common misconception) and asked all US forces stationed in France to leave. In response, the US secretary of state, Dean Rusk, asked de Gaulle: “Does that include the dead Americans in military cemeteries as well?”

In a single weekend, JD Vance’s direct attacks on European democracy at the Munich Security Conference and his meeting with far-right, anti-European political forces in Germany, have given de Gaulle his historic vindication.

Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist

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‘We are part of Syria’: Kurdish-led SDF fights for place in post-Assad future
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:30 GMT

Militia keeping IS in check pressured by new regime in Damascus, emboldened Turkey and US unpredictability

Thirty metres under the city of Kobani, north-east Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) kept a watchful eye on the Turkish border. A plasma screen TV displayed 16 surveillance feeds to officers in a room in one of the Kurdish-led militia’s tunnels, where Kalashnikovs and SDF flags adorned the walls.

The soldiers dare not emerge from the tunnels, fearful of being picked off by the Turkish drones buzzing overhead. They move between facilities in the subterranean network on foot, emerging from entrances hidden in nondescript buildings.

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Trump hosts Black History Month event amid war on DEI
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:51:59 +0000
During the Black History Month ceremony, which preserved a long-standing and bipartisan White House tradition, Trump omitted any mention of his anti-DEI efforts.
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Trump, in a ‘nice room,’ entertains governors with his recent hits
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:51:54 +0000

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Trump claimed without evidence that federal funding to improve voter turnout in India was “a kickback...
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:49:54 +0000

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Judge says Trump officials have not complied with order to restart foreign aid
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:35:38 +0000

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U-Va. board calls ‘special meeting’ over gender care after Trump, court orders
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:20:31 +0000

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Trump comes close to the red line of openly defying judges, experts say
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:57:13 +0000
Faced with judges’ orders to block certain initiatives, the Trump administration has found ways to tell courts it still has authority to act.
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Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:44:17 +0000

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News outlets urge White House to reverse ban on Associated Press
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:22:19 +0000

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David Boren, a force for Oklahoma as governor and senator, dies at 83
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:12:14 +0000
He served three terms in the Senate before stepping down to become president of OU. His public image was later tarnished by sexual harassment allegations.
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Pilot of domestic abuse experts helping in 999 call rooms begins in England
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:01:23 GMT

Jess Phillips says ‘Raneem’s law’ scheme will support ‘force-wide cultural change’ as initial phase is rolled out

Domestic abuse specialists embedded in control rooms receiving 999 emergency calls will help “create force-wide cultural change”, said Jess Phillips as the first phase of “Raneem’s law” was rolled out across England.

The new law is named in memory of Raneem Oudeh, who was killed alongside her mother, Khaola Saleem, in Solihull by Oudeh’s ex-husband, whom she had reported to the police at least seven times, as well as making four 999 calls on the night she was murdered.

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Trump administration removes ATF general counsel
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:55:07 +0000

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Trump loyalist Kash Patel becomes director of FBI, which he vows to remake
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:49:29 +0000
FBI director Kash Patel was confirmed 51-49. He is a staunch ally of President Donald Trump who has called for profound changes at the bureau.
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Treasury agrees to block DOGE’s access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:19:30 +0000

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Judge rejects unions’ request to pause Trump administration firings
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:02:11 +0000

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Elon Musk reiterated his false claim that Social Security Administration is paying millions of people over...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:37:17 +0000

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Elon Musk said he talked with President Donald Trump about sending dividend checks to Americans from...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:31:26 +0000

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Jon Ponder, who was pardoned by Trump in 2020, attended the White House’s Black History Month...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:22:41 +0000

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Elon Musk came out onstage to the CPAC audience’s loudest standing ovation of the day, joined...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:21:54 +0000

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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-California), who is at the center of interim D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin’s...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:18:14 +0000

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Attorney General Pam Bondi called the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams “the...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:08:42 +0000

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Trump names African Americans to be added to sculpture garden of ‘American Heroes’
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:06:00 +0000

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Asked if she will prosecute former president Joe Biden, Attorney General Pam Bondi argued that Biden...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:02:25 +0000

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We’d Never Had a King Until This Week
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:58:27 +0000
Donald Trump tries to overturn the most basic meme of American history.
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Trump says he will name Alice Johnson, whom he pardoned, as ‘pardon czar’
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:40:25 +0000

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Trump asked the East Room crowd, “Should I run again? You tell me.” The crowd responded...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:38:17 +0000

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Shortly into this event, it seems the “Black History Month” portion of his speech has paused...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:37:42 +0000

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President Donald Trump, hosting a Black History Month reception at the White House on Thursday, was...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:36:52 +0000

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The Senate confirmed Kash Patel as FBI director in a 51-49 vote. Patel, a Trump loyalist...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:07:51 +0000

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The rise of the conservative wellness influencer
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:23 +0000
The story behind wellness influencer Alex Clark and the conservative wellness movement gaining a powerful voice in politics.
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Trump ‘very frustrated’ with Zelenskyy for allegedly failing to ‘take opportunity’ of US-brokered peace – as it happened
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:51:04 GMT

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• Stop criticising Trump and sign $500bn mineral deal, US official advises Kyiv

Former US state secretary John Kerry said “the basic playing field for making peace in Ukraine is there,” as he rejected Donald Trump’s suggestions that Ukraine was responsible for starting the war with Russia and dismissed Russian president Vladimir Putin’s logic for invasion as “lies.”

Speaking at a London conference organised by the consultancy Brand Finance, Kerry, who served as the US state secretary in Barack Obama’s Democratic administration, said this:

Putin individually decided, contrary to what Donald Trump said yesterday or day before, to invade Ukraine. He wants it back. …

He said different motives expressed at different times, that it was Nazis taking over the country, and he had to go in to root out the Nazis. Well, come on, folks. I mean, that lie has been proved. There’s so many lies.

And why do I say that? Because I think all of the parties need to end the war. And the question is, can you be clever enough, dexterous enough to put together the ingredients, which should be done quietly and privately, not with daily releases on who’s asking for what and doing what?

That’s not the way to affect really good peace diplomacy, because you do have to have a compromise, and you’ve got to have the capacity for that compromise.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) dismissed a suggestion that the Trump administration should send checks to...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:46:44 +0000

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Middle East envoy says Trump doesn’t have ‘an eviction plan’ for Palestinians
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:44:01 +0000

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Stop criticising Trump and sign $500bn mineral deal, US official advises Kyiv
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:58 GMT

National security adviser says Ukraine is wrong to push back against Trump’s approach to peace talks with Russia

White House officials have told Ukraine to stop badmouthing Donald Trump and to sign a deal handing over half of the country’s mineral wealth to the US, saying a failure to do so would be unacceptable.

The US national security adviser, Mike Waltz, told Fox News that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, should “tone down” his criticism of the US and take a “hard look” at the deal. It proposes giving Washington $500bn worth of natural resources, including oil and gas.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will not remove Mayor Adams
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:40:45 +0000

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How every senator voted on Kash Patel for FBI director
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:20:12 +0000
The Senate confirmed Kash Patel as FBI director in a vote on Thursday. See how your senators voted.
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Trump ends a federal committee focused on long covid
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:16:31 +0000

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Vance poses immigration as ‘greatest threat’ to US and Europe in CPAC speech
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:42:25 GMT

Vice-president also reaffirmed the administration’s Ukraine stance at largest conservative voters conference

JD Vance marked one month since the Trump administration returned to power on Thursday by again claiming uncontrolled immigration was “the greatest threat” to both Europe and the United States.

The vice-president took the stage at the country’s largest conservative voters conference in National Harbor, Maryland, to double down on his criticism that stunned European leaders last week when he accused them of suppressing free speech and “running in fear” from voters’ true beliefs.

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Senate narrowly confirms Trump nominee Kash Patel for FBI director
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:33:54 +0000

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Thirty English councils granted exceptional financial support packages
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:53 GMT

Local authorities can collectively borrow £1.5bn to plug budget gaps caused by underfunding

A record 30 English local authorities have been granted effective “bailouts” enabling them to borrow money to avoid bankruptcy, as ministers advised them against selling off prized local assets such as historic buildings, parks and allotments.

The councils, all of whom were experiencing “unmanageable” financial pressures, were given the green light by ministers to collectively borrow £1.5bn to plug significant budget gaps caused by underfunding and soaring demand for social care and other services.

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Experts say Trump comes close to the red line of openly defying judges
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:30 +0000

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IRS starts employee layoffs amid federal workforce purge
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:06:33 +0000

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When I was an undergraduate, student life was on campus. A lot is being lost in the shift to online learning | Judith Brett
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:00:15 GMT

A talking head on a screen is not the same as a flesh and blood person standing in front of you

When I contemplate life in today’s universities I have two comparisons to draw on: my undergraduate days in the late 1960s at the University of Melbourne, and my more than 20 years teaching Australian politics at La Trobe. Of the many changes the one that stands out to me is the loss of the face-to-face in student life and of teaching.

When I was an undergraduate, student life was on campus – in the clubs, the caf, the union, the library and in the tutorials where a dozen or so young people and a rare mature-age student would be led in discussion by a tutor, sometimes a new graduate, sometimes one of the tenured staff. Coming from a suburban high school, I knew no one when I started and made my first friends in tutorials as we continued our arguments outside, in the caf or walking downtown to catch our trains home, and gossiped about our fellow students.

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Michael Waltz, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, sidestepped a question at a White House briefing...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:40 +0000

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John Stoll, the head of news at Elon Musk’s social network X, was in the new...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:38:39 +0000

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USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:30:44 +0000
The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.
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Americans are skeptical of Musk’s efforts to cut federal spending, poll finds
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:30:04 +0000

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President Donald Trump will host French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:19:41 +0000

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Musk calls for beginning process to deorbit International Space Station
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:18:15 +0000

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Senate set to vote on Trump nominee Kash Patel for FBI director
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:14:35 +0000

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President Donald Trump called the U.S. men’s national ice hockey team on Thursday morning ahead of...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:05:43 +0000

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Trump hosts PGA Tour, Saudi officials at White House, hoping for a deal
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:53:00 +0000

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Trump’s savage attack on Zelenskyy shaped by pro-Russian coterie
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:52:17 GMT

‘Kremlin whisperers’ have the president’s ear and dissenters are few – but a thin skin and self-interest are also at play

Donald Trump’s tarring of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator” who is to blame for the war with Russia, plunging Ukraine into a Darwinian struggle for its very existence, landed like a bombshell on the diplomatic landscape. But it did not come out of nowhere.

The US president has left the already badly frayed western alliance in disarray with a devastating social media attack on his Ukrainian counterpart, just hours after he had already implicitly blamed Kyiv for Russia’s invasion.

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We need a debate on defence spending as Nato unravels, putting Europe at risk | Letters
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:44:19 GMT

David Blunkett calls for a national debate on the kind of defence spending Britain wants, Ian Davis, Richard Reeve and Paul Rogers say increased military budgets are not the answer, and Ian Henderson and Ruth Blunt respond to Donald Trump calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy a dictator

With current and past leaders of the armed services joining the Americans in calling for ever greater percentages of national income to be devoted to defence, some hardheaded thinking is going to be needed (Starmer will go in ‘bin of history’ if he fails to raise defence budget, says ex-army chief, 15 February).

Unless defence spending contributes to growth, we could have the absurd situation of increasing the proportion of GDP spent on defence without any material increase in the actual amount available; 2.5% of substantial growth is better than 3% of an economy flatlining.

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Rachel Reeves should rewrite the rulebook on GDP growth | Letters
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:44:09 GMT

Donald Power, Dr Neil Lancastle and Andrew Risby respond to an editorial on Britain’s broken economy

Re your editorial (The Guardian view on Britain’s broken economy: ‘That’s your bloody GDP, not ours’, 13 February), we are frequently reminded of the inadequacy of GDP growth as an objective, given that it includes the money spent on dealing with pollution, sickness, crime etc. But nobody gets out of bed thinking, “I have to grow GDP today”. We’re thinking about how to earn a living and pay the rent. Nobody, that is, except the chancellor, for whom “growth is the No 1 mission” that “underpins everything else” – schools, hospitals, net zero.

Yet decades of growth since the 1960s have left us with thousands of food banks and facing an environmental abyss. The idea that only more growth will allow us to protect the planet is like saying we can only finance the fire brigade by selling petrol to arsonists.

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Here are the organizations Trump is targeting to reduce ‘unnecessary’ bureaucracy
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:37:23 +0000

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Rep. James Comer plugs codifying DOGE spending cuts
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:10:21 +0000

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The Watergate-Inspired Law That’s Being Used to Fight DOGE
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:01:54 +0000
Here's how the 1974 Privacy Act is being used in legal battles against DOGE—and how you can protect yourself from government surveillance.
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Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director, has cleared the last procedural hurdle before...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:55:59 +0000

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President Donald Trump on Thursday demanded that lawmakers attempt to balance the budget — a day...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:51:57 +0000

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Mexico will not stand US ‘invasion’ in fight against cartels, president says
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:42:05 GMT

Claudia Sheinbaum’s warning follows Washington designating Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations

Mexico will never tolerate an “invasion” of its national sovereignty by the United States, Claudia Sheinbaum has warned after Washington designated Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.

“This cannot be an opportunity for the US to invade our sovereignty,” the Mexican president said. “With Mexico, it is collaboration and coordination, never subordination or interventionism, and even less invasion.”

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Vice President JD Vance, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, made an appeal...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:02:25 +0000

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Children’s Hospital in Washington resuming some trans care after judge’s order
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:54:26 +0000

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The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland erupted into applause when moderator Mercedes...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:52:03 +0000

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During his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, Vice President JD Vance defended...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:46:27 +0000

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House GOP lawmakers warn Johnson about budget cuts hurting Latinos
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:43:36 +0000

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Senate panel advances McMahon’s nomination for education secretary
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:36:38 +0000

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Vice President JD Vance, speaking Thursday with moderator Mercedes Schlapp at the Conservative Political Action Conference...
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:32:32 +0000

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Analysis: Trump’s honeymoon is over
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:26:26 +0000

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Trump ends federal leadership program, cutting off key talent pipeline
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:09:08 +0000

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Trump’s honeymoon is over
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:07:00 +0000
New polling shows Trump’s approval ratings declining — and a number of major warning signs appearing.
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Tracking who Trump is appointing to fill key administration roles
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:00:21 +0000
Follow President-elect Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.
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Analysis: Inside a town hall in a battleground district
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:40:01 +0000

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Appeals court denies Trump’s bid to reinstate birthright citizenship order
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:22:13 +0000

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Trump orders sweeping review of federal regulations
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:10:24 +0000

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Many of Trump’s early actions are unpopular, Post-Ipsos poll finds
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:49:19 +0000

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Warren: Musk should have the courage to defend gutting of consumer agency
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:01 +0000

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Fact Checker: Trump’s flood of false claims about Ukraine
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:19:31 +0000

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CPAC kicks off with Vance, other Trump officials and allies set to speak
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:02:31 +0000

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Kash Patel’s confirmation vote to lead FBI is set for today
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:48:44 +0000

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In Trump’s first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:29:38 +0000

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As tech’s clout grows, a respected antitrust enforcer heads to the DOJ
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:15:48 +0000

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The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000
A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get.
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Trump says feds should ‘take over’ governance of D.C.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:45:42 +0000

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Trump’s attack on Zelensky stirs fear of major U.S. shift on Russia
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:31 +0000

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Trump steers clear of Gaza, and other key moments from his speech at Saudi-backed event
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:15:47 +0000

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Trump’s flood of false claims about Ukraine
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
In remarks and social media posts, the president echoed Russian talking points.
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In the global clash between democracy and oligarchy, the US is switching sides | Robert Reich
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:36 GMT

As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world

Since the end of the second world war, liberal democracies have stuck together – led by the US. On the opposite side have been authoritarian states, led mainly by the Soviet Union, followed, after the demise of the Soviet Union, by Russia and China.

But all this is rapidly changing. Russia and China have morphed into oligarchies, run by small groups of extraordinarily wealthy people.

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Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:00:36 GMT

As administration cuts off resources from African countries to contain outbreak, workers say ‘everybody’s lost’

As the Trump administration dismantles the US Agency for International Development (USAid) and retreats from funding global public health efforts, mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – is at greater risk of becoming a wider global emergency, according to aid workers and global health experts.

“It’s a real mistake not to be doing everything we can to control this while we’re still able to,” said Stephen Morse, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University focusing on risk assessment of infectious diseases. “Taking huge steps backwards is only going to make everything worse.”

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USDS Engineering Director Resigns: ‘This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve’
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:51:38 +0000
“I do not believe that DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS, based on their actions so far,” wrote Anne Marshall in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday.
Match ID: 154 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Police search for woman who escaped Panama hotel where US deportees are being held
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:03:33 GMT

Zheng Lijuan fled Panama City hotel as 170 of deported migrants were transported to dense, lawless region

Police are searching for a Chinese woman who escaped from a downtown Panama City hotel where she was being held following her deportation from the US under Donald Trump’s intensified campaign against immigrants.

Zheng Lijuan was one of 299 migrants – from China, Afghanistan, Iran and other countries with which the US lacks extradition agreements – who have been flown in shackles to Panama since last Wednesday. Panamanian authorities say they believe that Zheng was aided by locals who had been “prowling” outside the Decapolis hotel in the capital city where the deportees had been held.

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Match ID: 155 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Climate advocacy groups file two lawsuits against Trump administration
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:04:43 GMT

Groups from Sierra Club to Greenpeace take aim at Trump’s drilling orders in term’s first environmental legal battles

Green advocacy groups filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration on Wednesday, marking the first environmental legal challenges against the president’s second administration.

Both focus on the Trump administration’s moves to open up more of US waters to oil and gas drilling, which the plaintiffs say are illegal.

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Match ID: 156 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

These Are the SpaceX Engineers Already Working Inside the FAA
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:50:14 +0000
SpaceX engineers were said to be simply touring the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday. In fact, some were already being onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.”
Match ID: 157 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Make South Africa Great Again?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:31:46 +0000
How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Match ID: 158 Score: 30.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:45:40 +0000
The first time around, the President’s bad deeds galvanized people on social media. This time, they’re looking to “flush out their brains.”
Match ID: 159 Score: 30.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:14 +0000
At least eight ongoing lawsuits related to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s alleged access to sensitive data hinge on the Watergate-inspired Privacy Act of 1974. But it’s not airtight.
Match ID: 160 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who's Legally Running DOGE
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:03:53 +0000
Despite all appearances, the White House insists that Elon Musk is not in charge of DOGE. US DOGE Service employees can’t get a straight answer about who is.
Match ID: 161 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Kabul evacuation whistleblower wins case against UK government
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:42:04 GMT

Civil servant Josie Stewart found to have been unlawfully dismissed in 2022 after she told BBC about failures

• ‘Pursue this urgently’: whistleblower case reveals Whitehall focus on Kabul animal airlift

A civil servant who blew the whistle about the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and Boris Johnson’s involvement in a decision to evacuate a pet charity from Kabul has won her case for unfair dismissal against the government in a legal first.

An employment panel of three judges unanimously found the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) unfairly dismissed Josie Stewart in 2021 after she leaked information in the public interest.

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Match ID: 162 Score: 30.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:28:40 +0000
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
Match ID: 163 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Memecoin Scandal Threatens Argentine President Javier Milei
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:55:38 +0000
Argentinian president Javier Milei is facing calls for impeachment and a possible criminal investigation for his role in the rise and fast collapse of a memecoin.
Match ID: 164 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:07:33 +0000
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
Match ID: 165 Score: 30.00 source: www.wired.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 12.86 politics, 10.71 election, 6.43 elections

Stephen A. Smith for President
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
If the Democratic Party has a problem drawing young men who believe that the excesses of wokeness have left them behind, could there be a more appealing figure than the guy they’ve been watching argue about sports for the past decade?
Match ID: 166 Score: 28.57 source: www.newyorker.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 8.57 politics, 8.57 democrat, 7.14 election, 4.29 elections

‘Fix poverty, fix health’: A day in the life of a ‘failing’ NHS
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:36:16 GMT

A GP surgery in one of the most deprived areas in the north-east of England is struggling to provide care for its patients as the health system crumbles around them. In the depths of the winter flu season, the Guardian video producers Maeve Shearlaw and Adam Sich went to Bridges medical practice to shadow the lead GP, Paul Evans, as he worked all hours keep his surgery afloat. Juggling technical challenges, long waiting lists and the profound impact austerity has had on the health of the population, Evans says: 'We are seeing the system fail' 

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Match ID: 167 Score: 25.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 25.71 politics

Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:31:52 +0000

In a tweet announcing his attack on the Climate Justice Alliance, EPA head Lee Zeldin linked it to the group’s protected speech about Palestine.

The post Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 168 Score: 25.71 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 12.86 republican, 12.86 politics

‘We’ve had enough’: anger threatens Zambian football after election controversy
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:33:41 GMT

The Zambian FA’s president Andrew Kamanga was re-elected unopposed after eight nominees were disqualified

Zambia’s victory at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon remains one of football’s most compelling stories. Returning to the country where most of the Chipolopolo squad had been killed in a plane crash almost two decades earlier en route to a World Cup qualifier in Senegal, Zambia defeated the heavy favourites Ivory Coast in the final on penalties to become African champions for the first time. But you won’t find any trace of that famous triumph at the Football Association of Zambia’s headquarters in Lusaka.

“If you walk into Football House today, you will never find a single picture of what is our greatest achievement,” says Godfrey Chikumbi, a journalist and the vice-president of Mansa Wanderers in Zambia’s northern Luapula province. That, he says, is down to Andrew Kamanga, who in 2016 succeeded Kalusha Bwalya, one of the few surviving members of the 1993 squad, as president of the FA (Faz).

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Match ID: 169 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Commercial flights diverted as Chinese warships undertake apparent live-fire drill in sea between Australia and New Zealand
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:07:39 GMT

Three Chinese vessels currently in international waters notified Australia’s defence department before the drill

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Chinese warships have undertaken an apparent live-fire drill in the seas between Australia and New Zealand, diverting commercial flights in the skies above.

The Chinese navy notified the Australian defence department shortly before the drill on Friday.

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Match ID: 170 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

National Gallery of Australia says it covered Palestinian flags on tapestry after security assessment
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:39:54 GMT

Critics say NGA decision ‘is nothing less than a disgraceful act of censorship’ that is ‘rooted in political cowardice’

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The National Gallery of Australia claims it covered Palestinian flags in a major exhibition after undertaking a security threat assessment, but critics say the decision was “rooted in political cowardice”.

The Guardian this week revealed two Palestinian flags on a large tapestry hanging in an exhibition currently showing in Canberra have been covered with white fabric.

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Match ID: 171 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

‘Misleading’: Gina Rinehart’s mining firm breached environmental code with ‘clean gas’ job ad, panel rules
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:13:54 GMT

Ad Standards Community Panel upholds complaint over Hancock Prospecting’s promotion in the Weekend Australian

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The advertising regulator has found that Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting misled consumers with an unsubstantiated claim that gas was clean, in an online advertisement in The Australian last year.

Ads for Hancock Prospecting’s recruitment webpage futureaustralianjobs.com ran in the digital edition of the Weekend Australian in October 2024.

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Match ID: 172 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

‘Our neighbours are daring to choose fascism again’: Germany’s election leaves many fearing what lies ahead
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:30 GMT

A high-stakes campaign defined by anti-migration rhetoric has stoked fear instead of discussion of pressing structural problems

Flanked by market stalls selling everything from Turkish borëk pastries to bedazzled iPhone cases, Lina, 53, confessed that she was racked with worry about what may lie ahead for her three children once Sunday night’s election is over.

She has lived in Germany for decades, carving out a life for herself and her family after moving from Lebanon. Now – after a frenzied election campaign in which most politicians have scrambled to ward off the rise of the far right with tough talk on migrants – she wondered what the consequences would be for the lives they had painstakingly built.

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Match ID: 173 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Guzman y Gomez struggling to break into US market despite offering bigger burritos
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 04:41:50 GMT

‘US sales aren’t growing as fast as we’d like … it takes time,’ founder says, while analyst notes target market ‘not exactly short of Mexican food options’

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Mexican-themed chain Guzman y Gomez has reported bumper profits since it began trading on the Australian stock exchange but is struggling to expand in the US despite offering Americans bigger burritos.

The fast food chain has opened 16 new stores in Australia since July but a push to break into the competitive US market with five stores in Chicago has not fared as well. Guzman y Gomez reported on Friday that its US six-month sales had decreased by 12.7% to $4.9m.

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Match ID: 174 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Trump’s re-election to boost UK universities as fewer students choose US
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:01:22 GMT

During Trump’s first term, the number of international enrolments in the US declined every year

Donald Trump’s return to office may bring an unexpected boost to UK universities as fewer international students choose to study in the US, according to a British Council report.

The trend is expected to dovetail with greater restrictions in Australia and Canada on international students, making the UK appear the most welcoming English-speaking country, the report said. This would reverse years of the UK’s popularity declining relative to competitors as a result of previous governments’ hostile immigration policies.

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Match ID: 175 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations
2025-02-20T20:34:08+00:00

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Match ID: 176 Score: 25.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

For some members of the WhatsApp group, speaking out for Palestine and criticizing Israel are tantamount to supporting Hamas.

The post The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 177 Score: 19.29 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 8.57 federal government, 6.43 executive, 4.29 congress

Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career”
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:09:38 +0000

CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger could barely contain his excitement about the Laken Riley Act and Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders.

The post Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career” appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 178 Score: 16.43 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress

Month One of Donald Trump’s “Golden Age”
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Pennies, plane crashes, and constitutional crises as Washington enters its Dark MAGA era.
Match ID: 179 Score: 15.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 constitution

Mexico eyes constitutional reform after U.S. terrorism designations
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:45:28 +0000
President Claudia Sheinbaum said the U.S. labeling of drug cartels as foreign terrorist groups “cannot be an opportunity for the United States to invade our sovereignty.”
Match ID: 180 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 constitution

‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:29 GMT

Ethiopia was the largest recipient of US aid assistance in sub-Saharan Africa before Donald Trump froze funding last month. From food and health to support for refugees and sexual abuse survivors, we examine the impact of a decision that has left aid organisations scrambling

A vast shipment of food stranded in containers risks rotting before it reaches millions of hungry people. Deliveries of life-saving medicines to remote rural clinics are paused. And thousands of HIV patients and sexual violence survivors are abruptly cut off from support.

Donald Trump’s executive order freezing USAid funding for 90 days has derailed multiple vital activities in Ethiopia. Although some life-saving programmes have received waivers, most have not, and USAid officials in the country are scrambling to secure exemptions for their work even as they are threatened with dismissal by Elon Musk’s “government efficiency” agency.

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Match ID: 181 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay – podcast
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:28 GMT

Victor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship and fled the country, he still sells millions. Has he become a Kremlin apologist? By Sophie Pinkham. Read by Olga Koch

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Match ID: 182 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Meta approves plan for bigger executives bonuses following 5% layoffs
2025-02-21T00:04:25+00:00

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Match ID: 183 Score: 15.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Justice Department delete federal police misconduct database. Trump executive order ends National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, which he proposed creating in 2020.
2025-02-20T23:57:38+00:00

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Match ID: 184 Score: 15.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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In Memoriam: Berrien Moore III [1941–2024]
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:54:46 +0000
Berrien Moore III, Dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma (OU), director of the National Weather Center in Norman, OK, and Vice President for Weather and Climate Programs, died on December 17, 2024. Berrien earned an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina in 1963 and a doctorate […]
Match ID: 185 Score: 15.00 source: science.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Mbappé sparkles as Manchester City fail the Real Madrid test – Football Weekly
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:17:34 GMT

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini and Mark Langdon look back on Manchester City’s limp Champions League exit in Madrid and the rest of the playoffs

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On the podcast today: Kylian Mbappé hat-trick ripped apart an abject Manchester City and left Pep Guardiola reflecting on an early Champions League exit. His side went into the second leg against Real Madrid knowing that an early goal would level the tie – but instead Mbappé’s fourth-minute strike all but killed them off.

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Match ID: 186 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Anglo American writes down value of diamond firm De Beers by $2.9bn
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:39:48 GMT

Sale of the miner, which is now valued at $4bn, may be delayed following ‘really, really difficult’ market

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The world’s biggest diamond miner, De Beers, cost its parent company almost $3bn last year as the growth in lab-grown stones continues to take the shine off the industry.

Anglo American was forced to write down the value of the renowned gem producer for a second consecutive year as its chief executive admitted the diamond markets had proved “really, really difficult for the company”.

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Match ID: 187 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Singing mice, constipated kids and nurture beats nature: science stories of the week – podcast
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:00:32 GMT

Science editor Ian Sample joins co-host Madeleine Finlay to discuss some of the most intriguing science stories of the week. From a concerning rise in hospital diagnoses of constipation in children, to research suggesting that the environment is far more important for ageing and longevity than our genes, and how squeaks from genetically engineered mice are providing insight into how human language may have emerged

Primary-age child constipation rates up 60% in England

Environment more crucial than genes in risk of early death, study suggests

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Match ID: 188 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Nigeria sues crypto giant Binance for $81.5bn in economic losses and back tax
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:19:52 GMT

Authorities blame crypto exchange, already facing four counts of tax evasion in the country, for currency woes

Nigeria has filed a lawsuit seeking to compel Binance to pay $79.5bn for economic losses the country’s government says were caused by the cryptocurrency exchange’s operations there and $2bn in back taxes, court documents showed on Wednesday.

Authorities blame Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, for Nigeria’s currency woes and detained two of its executives in 2024 after crypto websites emerged as platforms of choice for trading the local naira currency.

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Match ID: 189 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

How Many Trump Officials Have Taken Money From Qatar?
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:02:00 +0000

Oversight laws about foreign influence were already limited. Now the Trump administration is shredding them.

The post How Many Trump Officials Have Taken Money From Qatar? appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 190 Score: 15.00 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 2.14 political parties, 2.14 judiciary, 2.14 executive

DOGE as a National Cyberattack
2025-02-13T12:03:26Z

In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national security are profound.

First, it was reported that people associated with the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed the US Treasury computer system, giving them the ability to collect data on and potentially control the department’s roughly ...

Match ID: 191 Score: 14.29 source: www.schneier.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 8.57 politics, 5.71 federal government

Pentagon Official: Hegseth’s Campaign to Scrub DEI History Is a “Dumb” Distraction
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:18:57 +0000

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is trying to eliminate all Defense Department DEI efforts. It hasn’t been entirely successful.

The post Pentagon Official: Hegseth’s Campaign to Scrub DEI History Is a “Dumb” Distraction appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 192 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.86 federal government, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress

A Fistfight Over Donald Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
At Wheaton College, a controversy around one of its graduates, Russell Vought, a Trump Administration official, shows how deeply the past decade has fractured conservative Christians.
Match ID: 193 Score: 12.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 conservatives

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: 194 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 396 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

The Strategy Behind Trump’s Defiance of the Law
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:28:47 +0000
His violations follow an old playbook—trigger lawsuits, giving the Supreme Court a chance to declare statutes unconstitutional.
Match ID: 195 Score: 8.57 source: www.newyorker.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 4.29 executive, 4.29 constitution

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: 196 Score: 8.57 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 116 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat

What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“I think the Democrats have worked themselves into a bit of a corner,” the writer Brady Brickner-Wood says. “They’re going to need to soul search in a way that’s not just performative and is consistent with their values.”
Match ID: 197 Score: 6.43 source: www.newyorker.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat, 2.14 executive

Trump Is Bullying Jordan and Egypt to Help in Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza. It Isn’t Working.
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:14:46 +0000

Even with Jordan and Egypt refusing to take in expelled Palestinians, Trump is charging on with his real estate development plan.

The post Trump Is Bullying Jordan and Egypt to Help in Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza. It Isn’t Working. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 198 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 1.43 congress

ACLU Warns DOGE’s ‘Unchecked’ Access Could Violate Federal Law
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:43:33 +0000
The ACLU says it stands ready to sue for access to government records that detail DOGE’s access to sensitive personnel data.
Match ID: 199 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 1.43 congress

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: 200 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 99 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: 201 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 211 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.

The post ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 202 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 2.14 executive, 2.14 constitution

Gaza Protester Who Interrupted Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime Show Speaks Out
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:16:22 +0000

“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”

The post Gaza Protester Who Interrupted Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime Show Speaks Out appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 203 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

US Funding Cuts Are Helping Criminals Get Away With Child Abuse and Human Trafficking
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:47:24 +0000
Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts—and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED.
Match ID: 204 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

“You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:20:00 +0000

Palestinians from Gaza responded with outrage to Trump’s proposal to expel them from their homes.

The post “You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 205 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:30:20 +0000
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
Match ID: 206 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 15 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

The Collapse of USAID Is Already Fueling Human Trafficking and Slavery at Scammer Compounds
Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:33:53 +0000
The dismantling of USAID by Elon Musk's DOGE and a State Department funding freeze have severely disrupted efforts to help people escape forced labor camps run by criminal scammers.
Match ID: 207 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 15 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: 208 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 85 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: 209 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 225 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: 210 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 394 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: 211 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 406 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

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

 

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

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

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

Introduction

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

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

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

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

LimeWire AI Studio

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

AI Image Generation Tools

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

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

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

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

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

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

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

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

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

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

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

Earn Revenue From Your Content

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

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

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

LMWR Tokens

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

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

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

Pricing Plans

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

• Basic plan: 

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

• Advanced plan: 

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

• Pro plan: 

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

• Pro Plus plan: 

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

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

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Conclusion

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

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

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

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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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