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Wales may introduce visitor levy for people staying overnight
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:30:38 GMT

Proposal would give councils option to charge 75p-£1.25 a night to help alleviate pressure on local services

People who stay in Wales overnight, including children, are set to be charged a visitor levy under a scheme that could raise up to £33m a year to be ploughed back into tourism and culture.

All visitors would be charged 75p a night to stay in campsites and hostels and £1.25 for all other accommodation including hotels, B&Bs and holiday lets.

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Storm Bert: roads and trainlines blocked with reports of lack of warning for communities – live updates
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:14:24 GMT

Natural Resources Wales to investigate whether sufficient warnings of Storm Bert and the flooding it caused were given to people in advance

• Have you been affected by flooding in the UK? Get in touch

Northamptonshire Police have warned people in the area “while the flooding remains ongoing, please avoid all unnecessary travel and do not drive through floodwater of any depth – it is not worth the risk.”

In Yate in the west of England, BBC Bristol reports that about 100 properties were flooded overnight, and residents had to be evacuated.

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Storm Bert: forecasterse and politicians criticised after devastating floods
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:28:04 GMT

Critics claim warnings and defences were inadequate but Met Office says storm was ‘well forecast’

• Storm Bert – live updates

Weather forecasters and politicians have come in for strong criticism after hundreds of homes and businesses across the UK suffered devastating flooding in Storm Bert but the Met Office has said it issued sufficient warning.

There were growing complaints in south Wales, one of the areas most heavily hit, that the Met Office issued only a yellow warning, rather than an amber or red, and that not enough new defences had been put in place by the Welsh government since storms last wreaked havoc in the area four years ago.

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Tractor drives through flooded town, causing waves to hit shop windows
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:08:14 GMT
A tractor driver comes under fire for travelling through deep floods in the centre of Tenbury Wells, in Worcestershire.
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Dead cool and wolverine: from animal tracking to ski touring in Sweden
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:00:37 GMT

A prototype electric snowmobile and old-school wooden skis open up Sweden’s backcountry as our writer goes on the hunt for local wildlife

On the slopes up to the ridge, the snow is deep and fresh. Long frozen arms of it hug the trees. Behind us the tracks of our skis gleam with a strange blue light, and in front, delicately drawn into the snow, is the perfect feathery imprint of a bird – like a pale icy fossil. My guide, Jens Sarlin, from Next Step Nature, stops. “Capercaillie,” he says. “It was feeding on pine needles up top and has landed here, then dug a burrow in the snow. It may still be there.”

We edge forwards. A trail of bird footprints lead to a hole, but it’s empty except for some droppings. “They dig down and then sideways to fool the foxes,” says Jens. We move forwards again, silent on our hunters’ skis, antique wooden heirlooms that slip easily over deep soft snow. What we are hunting, with cameras only, is something rarely seen – the wolverine – and Jens knows the best places to find them.

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Carnival cruise line emitted more CO2 in 2023 than Scotland’s biggest city – report
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 05:00:31 GMT

World’s largest cruise line named Europe’s most climate-polluting, despite investing millions in cleaner technologies

The world’s largest cruise line company is responsible for producing more carbon dioxide in Europe than the city of Glasgow, a report has found.

Analysis by the Transport and Environment (T&E) campaign group, provided to the Guardian, found Carnival to be the most climate-polluting cruise company sailing in Europe in 2023.

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A mystery in Finnish Lapland, and what it means for the climate crisis – podcast
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 03:00:28 GMT

Biodiversity and environment reporter Patrick Greenfield travels to Finnish Lapland to investigate the disappearance of its carbon sink, and its implications for the fight against global heating

Finland has one of the most ambitious carbon-neutral goals in the world: to reach net zero by 2035. If this feels like a bold pledge, there’s good reason for it: two-thirds of the country is covered in forests, that have for decades absorbed more carbon dioxide than they have put out.

But recently, something has changed: Finland’s carbon sink is no longer working. In fact, in barely over a decade, its forests and peatlands have become a net emitter of carbon dioxide … with devastating consequences for the country’s climate goals.

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More rain and snow in US could affect Thanksgiving travel, forecasters warn
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:07:02 GMT

One person found dead in submerged vehicle in California as storm warning issued for Sierra Nevada through Tuesday

Forecasters through the US issued warnings that another round of winter weather could complicate travel leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, while California and Washington state continue to recover from storm damage and power outages.

In California, where a person was found dead in a vehicle submerged in floodwaters on Saturday, authorities braced for more precipitation while grappling with flooding and small landslides from a previous storm.

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13 Best Toiletry Bags, Tested and Reviewed (2024)
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:02:00 +0000
Our team evaluated a ton of toiletry bags to find the best storage, organization, and design options for all your essentials.
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The 6 Best Apps to Find Bars and Restaurants While Traveling
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Finding the perfect place to eat can make your trip. Here’s how to locate all the best spots.
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The John Prescott I knew: Blair’s ‘beautiful people’ tried to erase him – he had other plans
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 06:00:06 GMT

Once frozen out by the New Labour elite, John Prescott fought his way in from the cold to become a loyal deputy leader. Toby Helm recalls a bruising political career

It was normally Friday evening when he would ring. There was never a “hello, how are you?” or any pleasantry like that. He just dived straight in. “What you up to for Sunday?” he would ask, meaning he had a story for me. Normally the call would come from his car phone on the A1 while he was driving to his Hull constituency. He tended to travel alone, so business could be transacted in total secrecy.

Once – it must have been 1994, after John Smith had died and Tony Blair had become leader – I remember he suddenly broke off and roared some expletives mid-conversation which made me almost drop the phone. “What the hell was that about, I asked?” “Ohhh … Just some fucking moderniser overtaking on the inside lane,” he replied. “Bloody Mendelson [he would always deliberately mispronounce the name Mandelson, sometimes calling him Meddlesome] or someone.”

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You’re Packing Your Carry-On All Wrong. Here’s How to Do It Right
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:30:00 +0000
What you shove into your suitcase determines how you’re going to live for the next little while. Assemble your payload correctly.
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‘The rising smoke and setting sun made a magical backdrop’: Jurica Galić’s best phone shot
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:00:39 GMT

On assignment in South Sudan, the Croatian photographer used a natural framing device for this award-winning image

Before he arrived for his three-day stay, Jurica Galić knew that the South Sudanese Mundari people set fire to dried cow dung before sunset to repel mosquitoes. What the Croatian photographer and travel journalist didn’t know was the depth of harmony between the tribe and their cattle, nor how he would capture it.

“Ankole are breeds of domestic cattle originating from east and central Africa, characterised by their huge horns,” Galić says. “My goal was to capture the relationship between man and nature, and while staying in the camp I came up with the idea of taking some photos through the horns of one of the animals. They became the frame, leading the viewer to the scene. Meanwhile, the smoke rising, in combination with the setting sun and the remaining rays, created the most magical backdrop.”

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SARP East 2024 Atmospheric Science Group
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:33:26 +0000
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Guanyu Huang, Stony Brook University Graduate Mentor: Ryan Schmedding, McGill University Ryan Schmedding, Graduate Mentor Danielle Jones Remote sensing of poor air quality in mountains: A case study in Kathmandu, Nepal Danielle Jones, University of Wyoming Urban activity produces particulate matter in the atmosphere known as aerosol particles. These aerosols can negatively […]
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NASA Leadership to Visit, Strengthen Cooperation with Mexico
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:39:11 +0000
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, will travel to Mexico City on Sunday, Nov. 24, for a multi-day trip to build on previous engagements and advance scientific and technological collaboration between the United States and Mexico. This visit will focus on fostering partnerships in astronomy and […]
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Air fryers, heated throws and the world’s best jeans: Black Friday deals on the products we love
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:07:53 GMT

We recommended them in the Filter; now we’ve sifted through all the offers to find the genuinely good discounts on our favourite products

Black Friday is still a few days away on 29 November, but stores are already dropping prices to compete for our attention and cash – and they’re offering some delectable discounts on products we’ve recommended in the Filter.

We cautioned against getting carried away too early in our guide to not getting ripped off in the sales, because many prices continue to fall until Cyber Monday (2 December). However, some of the most popular items can sell out even before Black Friday comes around. So, if there’s something here you’ve had your eye on, this may be your best chance to grab it for significantly less than you’d normally pay.

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9 Best Sleeping Bags (2024): Ultralight, for Car Campers, Warm Weather, for Kids
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:30:00 +0000
Whether you’re climbing peaks or taking the family to the local park, we’ve found the best sleeping bags for every temperature, budget, and camping expedition.
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War Crimes Have Never Stopped the U.S. Before
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:34:22 +0000

The U.S. has a long tradition of shielding Israel (and itself) from war crime allegations — and threatening The Hague.

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NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:10:13 +0000
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Abigail Reigner spent most of her childhood miles away from where her family called home, and where there was little trace of her Native American tribe and culture. Belonging to the Comanche Nation that resides in Lawton, Oklahoma, Reigner’s parents made every effort to keep her connected to her Indigenous […]
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San Francisco’s Biggest Hospital System: Don’t Talk About Palestine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Nine health care workers at UCSF report censorship or punishment for speaking out about human rights for Palestinians — or simply wearing a pin.

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NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000
Picture yourself at an airport a few decades from now. What does your airliner look like? It’s more efficient, with lower emissions than today’s aircraft – what kinds of designs or technology make that possible? NASA is working to answer those questions by commissioning five new design studies looking to push the boundaries of possibility […]
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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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The UN has failed us on Gaza. We need to decolonize and radically reform it | Omar Barghouti
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:01:35 GMT

By decolonizing, I mean a transformative process that embeds the views of marginalized and most affected communities

Well before US president-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated in January 2025, the UN has been atrophying in power, credibility, and even relevance. The international organization has faced many challenges since its establishment in 1945 in the shadow of the most horrific chapter in modern human history. Yet few chapters of the UN have been darker than its meek looking on as Israel livestreams the genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza with “total impunity”.

The fact that Israel’s ongoing genocide is armed, funded and shielded from accountability by powerful western states, led by the US, has made this impunity more blatant than ever. Western hypocrisy in slapping Russia with the most severe regime of sanctions ever following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, while fully enabling Israel’s genocide and underlying, decades-old system of settler-colonialism, apartheid and illegal military occupation has also reached unprecedented levels, making a mockery of the west’s claim of even caring about universal human rights. Indonesia’s foreign minister at a recent UN debate on Gaza called on states to not “bury the Principles of the UN Charter and international law under the rubble of double standards, trust deficit and zero-sum game”.

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Who is really escalating the war in Ukraine? It certainly isn’t the west | James Nixey
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:00:35 GMT

The policy of the US and Europe remains the same: drip-feeding resources while never giving Ukraine the chance to push Russia out

• James Nixey leads the Russia-Eurasia programme at Chatham House

Even for a country that has been at war for more than 1,000 days, the past month has been rough for Ukraine: its nemesis, Russia, has acquired 11,000 troops from North Korea and mercenaries from Yemen to assist in its project to delete Ukraine. Russia has also pulverised Ukraine’s energy grid with renewed ferocity as temperatures fall below freezing and fired off experimental intermediate-range weaponry, and it continues to make gains in the east. As if that weren’t enough, Russia’s preferred candidate has been elected as the American president, promising to end the war in “24 hours” – and not in Ukraine’s favour.

And yet after all this, the question I have been asked continuously over the past week is: “Is the west escalating the war?” The question refers to the rescinding of some of the limitations imposed on Ukraine which forbade it from using western missiles to strike inside Russian territory. Far from being escalatory, western policy on the war is in fact best described as incrementalism – a drip-feed release of weaponry, which keeps Ukraine on a lifeline but certainly doesn’t allow it the possibility of pushing Russia out. The reason it has not been given this opportunity is twofold.

James Nixey leads the Russia-Eurasia programme at Chatham House

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Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:40 GMT

Among sweeping rightwing electoral victories across the globe, the ‘big loser of the elections has been climate’

An unprecedented year of elections around the world has underscored a sobering trend – in many countries the commitment to act on the climate crisis has either stalled or is eroding, even as disasters and record temperatures continue to mount.

So far 2024, called the “biggest election year in human history” by the United Nations with around half the world’s population heading to the polls, there have been major wins for Donald Trump, the US president-elect who calls the climate crisis “a big hoax”; the climate-skeptic right in European Union elections; and Vladimir Putin, who won another term and has endured sanctions to maintain Russia’s robust oil and gas exports.

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War Crimes Have Never Stopped the U.S. Before
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:34:22 +0000

The U.S. has a long tradition of shielding Israel (and itself) from war crime allegations — and threatening The Hague.

The post War Crimes Have Never Stopped the U.S. Before appeared first on The Intercept.

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The House Just Blessed Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook by Passing Nonprofit-Killer Bill
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:12:31 +0000

Democratic support for the bill dwindled as critics warned it would let Donald Trump crack down on political foes.

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Multilateralism faces a toxic brew of debt, climate crisis and war. It’s time for a reboot | Mo Ibrahim
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:00:34 GMT

The stakes are high for donors at next month’s IDA summit in Seoul, but not investing in development means more instability globally

Multilateralism is under attack. A toxic brew of multiplying conflicts, worsening climate impact, new pandemics and spiralling debt has brought the system to its knees, appearing almost incapable of properly addressing these converging crises. Adding the unknowns of a Trump administration into the mix will do little to allay concerns.

My own critiques of the current multilateral system are well documented, but I do not subscribe to the view that it has no future. What’s needed is a total reboot.

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Possible Europe-US trade war could push euro into parity with the dollar
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 06:00:34 GMT

If Donald Trump imposes tariffs on EU imports the eurozone is likely to take a hit, causing euro to slide further

The euro risks falling to parity with the US dollar for the first time since late 2022 if a new transatlantic trade war weakens the already struggling eurozone economy, analysts have warned.

The euro sank below $1.04 against the dollar, the weakest level since November 2022, last Friday after a survey of European purchasing managers showed eurozone private sector output has fallen this month.

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The Guardian view on Europe’s duty to Ukraine: solidarity must not waver in the age of Trump | Editorial
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:45:50 GMT

Kyiv must be given the military and financial means to resist any attempt to force an unjust peace

In the aftermath of 9/11, the neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan published an influential book titled Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. The gist of the argument was that though peace-loving Europeans prided themselves on upholding the values of a rules-based international system, they largely relied on US military might to deal with the rogue states intent on undermining it.

As the catastrophic consequences of George W Bush’s illegal war in Iraq subsequently illustrated, the thesis was flawed. Costing hundreds of thousands of lives, the US “war on terror” delivered only bloody mayhem in the Middle East. But Mr Kagan’s analysis captured something true about a de facto hard power/soft power division of responsibilities in the west. Two decades on, the future of Ukraine may depend on how a reconfiguration of that relationship plays out in a new “new world order”.

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The Rise of 4B in the Wake of Donald Trump’s Reëlection
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Why the South Korean feminist movement, which calls for a boycott of men, is gaining traction among American women.
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Microsoft president asks Trump to “push harder” against Russian hacks
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:17:19 +0000
Brad Smith wants US to take a tougher approach to state-sponsored cyberattacks.
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San Francisco’s Biggest Hospital System: Don’t Talk About Palestine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Nine health care workers at UCSF report censorship or punishment for speaking out about human rights for Palestinians — or simply wearing a pin.

The post San Francisco’s Biggest Hospital System: Don’t Talk About Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

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China unnerved by Russia’s growing ties with North Korea, claims US official
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:04:46 GMT

Comments part of debate over whether Beijing backs Kim Jong-un’s decision to send troops to fight in Ukraine

China is increasingly uncomfortable about North Korea’s engagement with Russia and finds the growing cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow unnerving, Kurt Campbell, the US deputy secretary of state has said.

He was leaning into a growing debate among the US’s security partners in Asia on whether China supports the decision of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to send 10,000 troops to fight for Russia against Ukraine. It is said the North Korean troops are now inside Russia.

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How Trump Could Actually Increase Fossil Fuel Production
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Donald Trump will have key levers he can use, but he faces limitations too.
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Pam Bondi, Trump's New AG Pick, Lobbied for Private Prisons and Amazon
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:05:33 +0000

Pam Bondi has replaced Matt Gaetz in Trump’s attorney general slot. Her lobbying clients include the GEO Group, among many others.

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Nicaragua: Ortega and wife to assume absolute power after changes approved
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:51:32 GMT

Loyalist lawmakers give green light to constitutional amendment as authoritarian president, 79, tightens grip

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife are set to assume absolute power after loyalist lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment elevating her to the position of “co-president” and boosting the pair’s joint control over the state.

Under sanctions for human rights abuses, Ortega himself had proposed the change, which also increases the president’s control over the media and extends the presidential term from five to six years.

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The Scale of Geoblocking by Nation
2024-11-22T12:06:07Z

Interesting analysis:

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

The paper: “...

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Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine portends new era of warfare
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:02:11 +0000
This is the first time an IRBM, once restricted by a Cold War arms treaty, has been used in combat.
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Live updates: Trump’s administration comes into fuller view following flurry of picks
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:53:33 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Sexual misconduct allegations didn’t stop Trump picking these candidates
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:50:23 +0000

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Trump taps Brooke Rollins for agriculture secretary, rounding out Cabinet picks
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:46:25 +0000

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First Premier League weekend on Bluesky was nice and soft but X hard-edges remain | John Brewin
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:17:33 GMT

Discourse on social media platform lacked toxicity of the old place but there were signs it will eventually go that way

Hello, I’m new here, though you might know me from the other place. The sun is shining in the sky, there ain’t a cloud in sight, I’m here for good humour and polite social media intercourse. Thanks for the starter pack. Welcome, then, to Bluesky, where the algorithm isn’t jammed hard-right, the self-policing not too strong-arm, though there was that strange chap who listed the schools everyone attended.

After the Twitterectomy (to use Nick Cave’s indelicate term for this liberal migration) to a promised land where Elon Musk doesn’t quote-tweet articles on the Great Replacement Theory as being “interesting”. Now, how would this new Xanadu shape up when placed into the hottest kiln of public debate known to humankind? Forget geopolitics and burning social issues, forget even Donald Trump, the truest test is a Premier League weekend.

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Why Trump’s Pick for Treasury Secretary May Be His Most Important
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
In the second MAGA Administration, the hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent will have the job of acting as a voice of reason.
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Trump Pentagon pick attacks UN and Nato and urges US to ignore Geneva conventions
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:00:41 GMT

Revealed: Pete Hegseth writes scathingly of key institutions and says ‘If you love America, you should love Israel’

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, has attacked several key US alliances such as Nato, allied countries such as Turkey and international institutions such as the United Nations in two recent books, as well as saying US troops should not be bound by the Geneva conventions.

At the same time, the man who would head America’s gigantic military has tied US foreign policy almost entirely to the priority of Israel, a country of which he says: “If you love America, you should love Israel.”

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RFK Jr will cut prescription drugs and increase weed and psychedelics access
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:00:41 GMT

Trump’s health department pick has expressed distrust of pharmaceuticals and attacked ‘suppression of psychedelics’

Public health experts are concerned that, if confirmed, Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – Robert F Kennedy Jr – could upend access to pharmaceutical drugs in favor of more experimental treatments.

Kennedy, who the president-elect picked earlier this month, has repeatedly expressed distrust for pharmaceuticals, and criticized the FDA for its “aggressive suppression of psychedelics”. On his podcast, he called the US “the sickest country in the world”, blaming its healthcare system for devoting billions to “the pills and the potions and the powders rather than on actually getting people healthy, building their immune systems”.

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Inflation was only the ‘breaking point’ that led to Trump’s win. Here’s what voters were really mad about, economist says.
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:00:00 GMT
In a TikTok video, one labor economist argues that price increases only amplified a decades-long problem. Here’s the real reason Americans are so mad about the economy, she says.
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Treasury yields drop after Bessent picked for Treasury
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:34:00 GMT
Bond yields dropped on Monday on hopes that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Scott Bessent to be Treasury secretary will help lower budget deficits while slowing the implementation of tariffs.
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Disillusioned with Trump win, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have already left the U.S.
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:05:00 GMT
The couple have reportedly moved to the U.K. in the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, and plan to sell their home in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 06:00:33 GMT

Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change

The day that wokeness died. That has been one of the primary analyses of Donald Trump’s resounding election victory: that it was a resounding rejection of the “woke” left and the casting off of the shackles of political correctness. According to sections of the media and political establishment, people are tired of being harangued and scolded for not using the right language, annoyed by a constant focus on race and identity, and alarmed by a new orthodoxy of radical politics eager to please individual groups at the expense of common sense. “The era,” summarised one British journalist, “of Black Lives Matter, Latinx, critical race theory, pronouns and defunding the police is over.” It’s a neat conclusion – it’s hard not to see this result as a rejection of something. But was that something “woke” values in particular?

As a starting point, it is worth looking at Kamala Harris’s campaign rather than the assumptions about it. In reality, she seemed to avoid any focus on identity and “wokeness”. She didn’t make much of her race, or even her gender, choosing instead to ground her identity in her background as a middle-class person raised in a rental household by a hardworking mother. Her position on race softened from when she was running in 2019: she previously backed “some form” of reparations but did not stake out a position as part of her bid. Trump wanted Harris “to say something to turn off white voters. She was wise not to take the bait,” wrote the author Keith Boykin. She was hardline on immigration, keen to show that she is a gun owner (memorably telling Oprah Winfrey: “If someone breaks into my house they’re getting shot”). And she was evasive on gender-affirming care for transgender Americans.

Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist

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Republican senator: ‘We’ll have lots of questions’ for Trump’s controversial picks
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:15:13 GMT

James Lankford of Oklahoma predicts lawmakers will have tough questions for president-elect’s nominees

A prominent Republican US senator pledged on Sunday that Congress would not give blanket approval to Donald Trump’s controversial cabinet picks ahead of the congressional confirmation process, as a leading Democrat challenged the qualifications of some of them to serve.

Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma predicted lawmakers in the upper chamber will have tough questions in particular for the former Democratic congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard, who was chosen by the president-elect as director of national security for his second administration.

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How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:25:06 +0000
With deficits soaring, their finance ministers will have to be smart
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Theatrics, hatred and Linda McMahon: how pro wrestling explains Donald Trump
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:00:15 GMT

The ex-WWE CEO and likely incoming education secretary doesn’t seem like a threat. That’s what makes her one

Despite her background in professional wrestling, Linda McMahon is not known for bombast. Indeed, she’s terrible at it: in the many years during which the former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO would make occasional appearances in her company’s programming as a version of herself, she was always derided by fans for her lack of charisma and wobbly speaking voice.

The most notable thing she did in any of the storylines was pretend to be comatose in a wheelchair while her husband, the vastly more explosive Vince McMahon, sexually harassed one of his female wrestlers in a skit. Linda won’t be winning an Emmy anytime soon.

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Trump’s White House is filling with alleged sexual abusers ... led by him
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:00:13 GMT

As the far right celebrates a win for their gender, a raft of people accused of misconduct is named for the cabinet

Donald Trump was found civilly liable last year for the defamation and sexual abuse of the writer E Jean Carroll - just one of the more than 27 women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. In January 2025, he will again be president of the United States – the first to take office with a court-adjudicated history of sex crimes.

And it seems he’s eager to pack the White House with people just like him.

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Cop29 climate finance deal likely to be followed by equally bitter battles
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:46:00 GMT

Rich countries still need convincing that giving money to poorer nations is very much in their interests too

It was only on the last scheduled day of two weeks of negotiations at the UN Cop29 climate summit that developed countries put a financial commitment on the table for the first time.

In reality, this offer took not just two weeks of talks to prepare, but nine years – since article 9 of the Paris agreement in 2015 made it clear that the rich industrialised world would be obliged to supply cash to developing countries to help them tackle the climate crisis.

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Biden must Trump-proof US democracy, activists say: ‘There is a sense of urgency’
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:00:11 GMT

President can secure civil liberties, accelerate spending on climate and healthcare, and spare death row prisoners

The skies above the White House were cold and grey. Joe Biden greeted the championship winning Boston Celtics basketball team, quipping about his Irish ancestry and tossing a basketball into the crowd. But the US president could not resist drawing a wider lesson.

“When we get knocked down, we get back up,” he said. “As my dad would say, ‘Just get up, Joe. Get up.’ Character to keep going and keep the faith, that’s the Celtic way of life. That’s sports. And that’s America.”

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Trump is coming for the executive branch. Does he know what he’s doing?
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The president-elect has signaled he will be destructive, but he seems motivated by retribution rather than saving money.
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Sharp elbows and raised voices: Inside Trump’s bumpy transition
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:48:25 +0000
His freewheeling team has returned to the patterns of his first term in office — with shouting matches, expulsions from meetings and name-calling.
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Tracking Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:53:03 +0000
Here are the people Donald Trump has picked or is considering to fill his Cabinet and key positions in his administration.
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Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war-crimes case
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:50:04 +0000
Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick was not involved in the murder of detainees, but the formative experience influenced his advocacy for troops accused of war crimes.
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Elizabeth Warren calls for crackdown on Internet “monopoly” you’ve never heard of
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:00:10 +0000
Senator wants to investigate whether VeriSign is ripping off customers and violating antitrust laws.
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Pam Bondi, Trump’s AG pick, said ‘prosecutors will be prosecuted’
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 14:07:23 +0000
Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, is a former elected state attorney general who stood by him through scandal and investigation.
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Islamic State is primed to be thorn in the side of incoming Trump administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:00:44 GMT

The terrorist group has been looking to be active this holiday season, with online chatter about attacks increasing

Amid a presidential campaign with foreign policy discussions more focused on the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, the Islamic State stayed under the radar while calling on supporters and operatives to attack Americans on election day.

The FBI thwarted a serious plot in Oklahoma City only weeks before the vote, prompting a similar public reaction to news involving the terror group that has become customary of late: is the Islamic State a renewed threat?

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How to Prepare for Trump 2.0
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The Washington Roundtable speaks with David Cole, a former legal director of the A.C.L.U., about the civil and legal guardrails that could contain a second Trump Administration.
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Conner O’Malley Is the Bard of the Manosphere
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The comedian’s absurd, poignant work captures the lives of the kind of frustrated young men who helped Donald Trump win the election.
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What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:56:21 +0000
The president-elect’s nominee for treasury secretary faces a gruelling job
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Jacob Rees-Mogg on abortion, religion and reality TV; Marina Hyde on Musk vs Trump Jr; inheritance inequity; and teenage love – podcast
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 05:00:33 GMT

Marina Hyde asks us to spare a sob for Don Jr, replaced in Daddy’s affections by Elon Musk. The Bank of Mum and Dad – the unspoken dynamic behind society’s growing inequality of ‘inheritocracy’. ‘I’ve been called worse than a Nazi’: Simon Hattenstone meets Jacob Rees-Mogg. And psychologist Lucy Foulkes on why we should take teenage love more seriously

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Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:31:12 +0000
Cruz claims grant program is "boondoggle," urges Biden admin to halt activities.
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Donald and Elon Pull Strings
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:41:51 +0000
But who’s playing whom?
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Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:07:36 GMT
How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
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Atacms: what are the missiles Ukraine has fired into Russia for the first time?
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:44:49 GMT

American and Ukrainian officials have confirmed Kyiv employed US-made Atacms missiles to strike targets within Russia. The Kremlin stated that six missiles were launched at the town of Karachev, with fragments from one reportedly causing a significant explosion.

In response, Russia has announced it is adjusting its nuclear doctrine. The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said Moscow would interpret any attack against it carried out by a non-nuclear state using weapons supplied by a nuclear state as a joint assault. But what exactly are Atacms, and why has their deployment unsettled Russia so deeply?

• Atacms: what are the missiles Ukraine has fired into Russia for first time?

• Russia-Ukraine war live

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The EV Buyer’s Guide to an Uncertain Future
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
The Trump administration is likely to make big changes to US federal electric vehicle incentive programs. Buy or lease now, probably.
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Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
A second Trump Administration could give impunity to American soldiers who commit atrocities.
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The Pain Creating a New Coalition for Trump
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Despair permeates white, Black, and Latino working-class life. Democrats will have to find a new way to speak to it.
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Rep. Summer Lee on the Fight of Our Lives
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., discusses Biden’s lame-duck session and erecting barriers to Trump’s agenda on The Intercept Briefing podcast.

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Donald Trump’s Administration Hopefuls Descend on Mar-a-Lago
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Since Election Day, the Florida club has played host to a rotating cast of characters from MAGA world, all vying for positions of power.
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The Explosion of Matt Gaetz and Other Early Lessons in Trump 2.0
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:03:14 +0000
There are many more manic Thursdays to come.
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We’re closer to re-creating the sounds of Parasaurolophus
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:30:19 +0000
Preliminary model suggests the dinosaur bellowed like a large trumpet or saxophone, or perhaps a clarinet.
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US moves to list giraffes under Endangered Species Act for first time
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:38:45 GMT

Climate crisis, habitat loss and poaching have reduced its numbers – but will Trump put the kibosh on protections?

They are the tallest animal to roam the Earth and have become an icon of children’s books, toys and awed wildlife documentaries. But giraffes are in decline, which has prompted the US government to list them as endangered for the first time.

Giraffes will be listed under the US Endangered Species Act, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed in a move that will cover five subspecies of the animal. The agency hopes the listing will crack down on the poaching of giraffes, as the US is a leading destination of rugs, pillowcases, boots, furniture and even Bible covers made from giraffe body parts.

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Congress Could Protect Journalists From Surveillance. Trump Is Lobbying to Stop Them.
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:32:15 +0000

The PRESS Act, a federal reporter shield bill, already passed the House unanimously. Trump wants it dead.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: more than 20 injured in Russian attack on Kharkiv
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:42:47 GMT

Casualties include 14 people who have been sent to hospital

Russia launched a missile attack against the central part of Odesa this morning, governor Oleh Kiper said.

The Kyiv Independent reports:

“As of now, we recorded six injured. Five are in a condition of moderate severity, their lives are not in danger. One person is in serious condition,” said Oleksandr Kharlov, Kiper’s deputy, in a comment for the media.

“Civilian infrastructure was damaged, namely residential buildings,” Kiper said. Officials later said that the damage was caused by fallen missile debris.

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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for polenta with buttery garlic mushrooms | A kitchen in Rome
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:00:37 GMT

You can’t beat polenta with buttery mushrooms: it’s a hug in a bowl

Polenta is occasionally known as pulenda. It’s a reminder that both the name and the cooking method has its roots in antiquity and in the Latin word puls, a blanket term for a universal method: long-cooked, semi-liquid dishes, or “mushes”, based on cereals or legumes. Which leads us to another nice word-link: puls is also the root of the word pulses. But back to antiquity, where the nature of the mushes depended on where in the world they were made, and what was available.

In Italy, that was farro, spelt, barley, broad beans, millet, chestnuts; puls or polenta were made from them all. Then, in the middle of the 16th century, mais (maize) arrived in the north of Italy from Mesoamerica (the earliest examples of the genius of Mesoamerican agriculture were found in Oaxaca, and tiny cobs of domesticated maize dated from about 4,300BC). By the 18th century, maize was acclimatised and established in many areas of Italy, as was a polenta made with its deep gold flour, which went on to become a vital staple food. It was also a problematic food until Italians learned what the Maya and Aztecs had discovered centuries earlier: that to be fully nutritious, as well as delicious, maize needs to be cleverly transformed, either by nixtamalization – that is, being ground to a finer flour and slow cooked – or balanced with other foods (beans especially).

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Forbidden Sips of the Ukrainian Dom Pérignon
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
In the Cold War, Stalin ordered that a winery be set up in an old gypsum mine in Bakhmut; now Russian soldiers are using the prized cuvée to flush toilets.
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Shock as pro-Russia independent wins first round of Romanian election
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:32:13 GMT

Călin Georgescu, a critic of Nato, says people have ‘cried out for peace’ after he heads into runoff with 22.9% of vote

An ultranationalist, Moscow-friendly Nato critic is set to face a centre-right candidate in the runoff of Romania’s presidential elections after a shock first-round result that has upended the country’s politics and could jeopardise its support for Ukraine.

With 99.98% of votes counted, Călin Georgescu, an independent who has praised Vladimir Putin as “a man who loves his country”, was on 22.9%, with the reformist Elena Lasconi, of the Save Romania Union (USR), second on 19.17%.

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Angela Merkel defends ties with Russia and blocking Ukraine from Nato
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:20:08 GMT
The former German chancellor, who quit politics three years ago, speaks to the BBC in a rare interview.
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In Sweden, we’ve been told to prepare for war. But will 21st-century citizens still rally for the common good? | Martin Gelin
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:00:33 GMT

For decades, Swedish politics has promoted individual success. Now an official booklet urges us to unite ‘in case of crisis or war’

Swedes are generally not known to panic or overreact. But many of us are feeling a little shaken after a booklet with a soldier in camouflage holding a machine gun, with a fighter jet tearing through the sky in the background, landed on our door mats recently.

The government booklet, titled “In case of crisis or war”, was sent to every Swedish household as the threat of attack from Russia escalates. It signals the beginning of a new era in our country, with a bleak message about threats from war, natural disasters and pandemics.

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Lord Byron museum to open in Italian building where poet had intense affair
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 06:06:25 GMT

Visitors will be able to explore Palazzo Guiccioli in Ravenna, where Byron romanced its aristocrat owner’s wife

A museum dedicated to the flamboyant British poet and satirist Lord Byron is due to open in the northern Italian city of Ravenna, housed in the same building where he pursued an intense affair with the wife of an aristocrat and completed some of his most famous works.

Byron unabashedly moved in 1819 into Palazzo Guiccioli, owned by the husband of Countess Teresa Guiccioli, whom he met at a party in Venice.

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After Russian ship docks to space station, astronauts report a foul smell
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:12:36 +0000
Cosmonauts aboard the Russian segment of the station donned protective equipment.
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Briton reportedly captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:41:35 GMT

Man in video identifies himself as James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, and says he joined the International Legion

A British national has reportedly been captured by Russia’s forces in the Kursk region while fighting for Ukraine.

In a video posted on pro-war Russian Telegram channels on Sunday, a man wearing combat fatigues identifies himself as 22-year-old James Scott Rhys Anderson from the UK.

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The big picture: earthbound reality at the International Space Station landing site in Kazakhstan
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 07:00:04 GMT

Andrew McConnell’s shot of a young scrap collector at the remote spot where astronauts return from space captures a curious juxtaposition

The photographer Andrew McConnell first went to Kazakhstan in 2015, to witness what the Earth’s primary space portal looked like on the ground. A particular corner of the remote steppe-land, near a village called Kenjebai-Samai, was where, every three months, astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station fell to earth, having been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome 400 miles to the south. McConnell had spent much of the previous years working in war zones and was keen to focus on something more life-affirming.

He discovered a curious landscape that was both on the frontier of human exploration and unchanged for centuries. Over a dozen visits in the subsequent years, McConnell became used to the rhythm of the landings. He would sleep out on the steppe in a tent with the ground crew of the Russian space agency; on hearing the explosion that heralded the capsule separating in the sky above, they would drive out over the wasteland to meet it as it landed – a vehicle no bigger than a family car.

Some Worlds Have Two Suns by Andrew McConnell is published by Gost (£60)

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Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000
This is the first time Russia has used its so-called Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in combat. The launch also serves as a warning to the West.
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Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:03:27 +0000
“Nearest Neighbor Attack” finally lets Russia’s Fancy Bear into target’s Wi-Fi network.
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SARP East 2024 Atmospheric Science Group
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:33:26 +0000
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Guanyu Huang, Stony Brook University Graduate Mentor: Ryan Schmedding, McGill University Ryan Schmedding, Graduate Mentor Danielle Jones Remote sensing of poor air quality in mountains: A case study in Kathmandu, Nepal Danielle Jones, University of Wyoming Urban activity produces particulate matter in the atmosphere known as aerosol particles. These aerosols can negatively […]
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The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:36:33 +0000
The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively.
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Hungary invites Netanyahu to visit as world leaders split over ICC arrest warrant
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:54:28 GMT

Viktor Orbán says he will not enforce ICC decision that requires court members to detain Israeli PM if he enters their country

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Hungary’s illiberal prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said he will invite his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, to visit in defiance of an international criminal court arrest warrant, as world leaders split over the ICC’s momentous decision.

The world’s highest criminal court issued warrants on Thursday for Netanyahu, his former defence minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas commander Ibrahim al-Masri, commonly known as Mohammed Deif, who is believed to be dead, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000
In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.
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What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:05:10 +0000
Forget interest rates. Rewards are the real problem
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Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:52:57 +0000
It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters
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What Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Planning for America?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:03:11 +0000
Matt Gaetz has “gone to Washington to burn it down,” says the staff writer Dexter Filkins. “And he’s been remarkably successful.”
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Is nuclear power gaining new energy?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:03:04 GMT
Countries around the world are building new nuclear power stations.
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Senators Have a Chance to Halt Weapons Sales to Israel. Will They Take It?
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:58:28 +0000

A joint resolution from Sen. Bernie Sanders would block arms sales to Israel. The challenge is convincing Democrats to act.

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Malian singer Rokia Traoré to be extradited from Italy to Belgium
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:29:12 GMT

Italy’s highest court rejects musician’s appeal after she was arrested in Rome in June over child custody dispute

Malian musician Rokia Traoré, who was arrested in Rome last June over an international child custody dispute, will be handed over to Belgium in the coming days after Italy’s highest court rejected her appeal, her lawyer said on Wednesday.

Traoré, 50, a former goodwill ambassador for the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR, was arrested on 20 June at Rome’s Fiumicino airport under a European arrest warrant.

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Further chilling tales of nightmare utility companies to make you scream
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:30:34 GMT

A horror story in three acts as more readers do battle with their energy providers …

As temperatures drop, it’s time for some gas-lighting. My ongoing drama series on utilities companies guarantees phantoms, impostors, and chilling suspense. Even death can’t save victims from the tentacles of the energy giants. Read, if you dare, the latest instalment in three acts.

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Anglo American to sell steelmaking coal business for up to $3.775 billion to Peabody Energy
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:39:00 GMT

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‘If you get it wrong, people get badly hurt’: the cut-throat world of theatre fight directors
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:00:37 GMT

When a scene calls for violence, it’s combat choreographers who prevent actors coming a cropper during the action. They explain the rules of stage conflict

Philip d’Orléans points the sword to my sternum. “The blade may be blunt,” he cautions, “but this could still take your eye out.” I cut his sword away with a dizzying metallic swish. Palm down, wrist loose. “Cast the energy to the wall,” he nods. “It needs to go past your partner, not into them.” I ready the dagger in my other hand to defend against his next attack.

As a fight director, D’Orléans has created complex choreography for companies around the world, teaching hundreds of actors how to tell stories with fist and steel. This Christmas, he’s reviving the spirit of the golden age of Hollywood swashbucklers for an action-packed production of The Three Musketeers at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic theatre. This new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ 1844 classic takes sword fighting seriously: no actors were considered until they had passed D’Orléans’ tough trial of balance-shifting battle moves. “A lot of people can blag the ability to fight,” he shrugs, throwing his waist-length hair over one shoulder. “But once you turn up the heat on the choreography, you can quickly weed out the rocky skill-sets.”

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The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver | Editorial
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:42:52 GMT

A rushed final text in Baku strains trust between nations, as inadequate climate finance commitments leave vulnerable countries calling for justice

The hasty imposition of a deal at the UN climate conference, Cop29, in Azerbaijan, over the objections of poorer nations has fractured global trust and undermined recent progress. This was supposed to be the “finance Cop” when two dozen industrialised countries – including the US, Europe and Canada – promised to pay developing nations for the damage caused by their rise. Instead, developing nations – led by a group including India, Nigeria and Bolivia – say this weekend’s agreement for $300bn a year in 2035 is too little, too late. Worse, rich-world governments will be able to escape their obligations by being able to rely on cash from private companies and international lenders.

Independent experts say the developing world, excluding China, would need $1.3tn a year by 2035 to fund its green transition and keep temperature rises in line with the Paris agreement. The climate finance target, pushed through by the Azerbaijani chair, is described by poor nations as a death sentence for those already drowning under rising seas and facing devastating costs.

Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.

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How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000
The WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit in Berlin was bursting with innovative ideas for reaching net zero and on working together at an ever-greater scale.
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SARP East 2024 Hydroecology Group
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:33:08 +0000
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Dom Ciruzzi, College of William & Mary Graduate Mentor: Marley Majetic, Pennsylvania State University Marley Majetic, Graduate Mentor Jordan DiPrima How are different land cover types affected by land subsidence on the U.S. Atlantic Coast? Jordan DiPrima, University of New Hampshire Land subsidence is a frequently overlooked geologic hazard that is caused […]
Match ID: 85 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 2 days
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Our Universe is not fine-tuned for life, but it’s still kind of OK
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:30:38 +0000
Inspired by the Drake equation, researchers optimize a model universe for life.
Match ID: 86 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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The World’s Biggest EV Maker Has the Industry’s Worst Human Rights Appraisal
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:30:00 +0000
Amnesty International has issued a report charting the supply chains and human rights due diligence policies of 13 major EV manufacturers. The results are a world away from the clean, safe future that electric vehicles promise.
Match ID: 87 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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From Campus to the Courts, the “Palestine Exception” Rules University Crackdowns
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:04:56 +0000

The fights over Gaza protests are playing out online, in campus quads, internal disciplinary proceedings, and in the courts.

The post From Campus to the Courts, the “Palestine Exception” Rules University Crackdowns appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 88 Score: 15.00 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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Bernie Sanders Lost Vote to Block Arms for Israel, Says U.S. Is “Funding the Starvation of Children in Gaza”
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:02:51 +0000

Sanders’s resolutions to block arms sales to Israel gained momentum, but ran headlong into White House opposition.

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Match ID: 89 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
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White House Staffers to Biden: “You Are Running Out of Time” on Gaza
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:26:32 +0000

The letter urges President Joe Biden to follow through on an ultimatum his administration issued to Israel over humanitarian aid.

The post White House Staffers to Biden: “You Are Running Out of Time” on Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 90 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
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“Absolutely Insane”: Pentagon Officials on Trump’s Military Deportation Plan
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:23:32 +0000

Trump campaigned on mass deportations. Now he’s threatening to use the U.S. military to carry them out.

The post “Absolutely Insane”: Pentagon Officials on Trump’s Military Deportation Plan appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 91 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
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Vice’s Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:34:32 +0000

In new videos, Vice editor-in-chief Shane Smith treats immigrants as a problem and apologizes to Elon Musk for past coverage.

The post Vice’s Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 92 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
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Why Italy Sells So Much Spyware
2024-11-19T12:05:31Z

Interesting analysis:

Although much attention is given to sophisticated, zero-click spyware developed by companies like Israel’s NSO Group, the Italian spyware marketplace has been able to operate relatively under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools. According to an Italian Ministry of Justice document, as of December 2022 law enforcement in the country could rent spyware for €150 a day, regardless of which vendor they used, and without the large acquisition costs which would normally be prohibitive.

As a result, thousands of spyware operations have been carried out by Italian authorities in recent years, according to a ...

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Take Out the Trash: A Proposal to Clean Up the Democratic Party
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Democrats are in disarray. It’s time to name our enemies and assert our demands to build a party that can win.

The post Take Out the Trash: A Proposal to Clean Up the Democratic Party appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 94 Score: 11.43 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
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Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:09:08 +0000
Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump
Match ID: 95 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 18 days
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Billionaire Gautam Adani charged in US over alleged $250m bribery plot
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:57:04 GMT

Indian chair of Adani Group, worth about $85bn, accused of agreeing to pay bribes to obtain solar energy contracts

Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest men, has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar scheme to pay $250m in bribes and conceal it from US investors.

Prosecutors charged the chair of the Indian conglomerate Adani Group and two other executives of a renewable energy company with securities fraud and conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud.

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Match ID: 96 Score: 10.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 4 days
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Pensioners in England and Wales: how has losing the winter fuel allowance affected you?
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:08:04 GMT

We would like to hear from people who no longer receive the winter fuel payment and what it means for them

With the loss of the winter fuel allowance potentially forcing 100,000 pensioners in England and Wales into relative fuel poverty, we would like to find out more about how losing the payment has affected people.

What impact has it had on you and what changes have you made to make up for no longer receiving the winter fuel payment?

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Match ID: 97 Score: 10.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 4 days
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Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Built to combat terrorism, fusion centers give US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a way to gain access to data that’s meant to be protected under city laws limiting local police cooperation with ICE.
Match ID: 98 Score: 10.71 source: www.wired.com age: 6 days
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Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”
Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Silicon Valley has successfully rebranded military contracting as a proud national duty for the industry.

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More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump’s Return Means for US Cybersecurity
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Experts expect Donald Trump’s next administration to relax cybersecurity rules on businesses, abandon concerns around human rights, and take an aggressive stance against the cyber armies of US adversaries.
Match ID: 100 Score: 9.29 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
Match ID: 101 Score: 8.57 source: www.economist.com age: 6 days
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
Match ID: 102 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 277 days
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Russia Is Going All Out on Election Day Interference
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:04:35 +0000
Along with other foreign influence operations—including from Iran—Kremlin-backed campaigns to stoke division and fear have gone into overdrive.
Match ID: 103 Score: 6.43 source: www.wired.com age: 19 days
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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:00:00 +0000
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
Match ID: 104 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
Match ID: 105 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 11 days
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The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:44:16 +0000
It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war
Match ID: 106 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 18 days
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Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawed
Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:37:43 +0000
Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead
Match ID: 107 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 22 days
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
Match ID: 108 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 166 days
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How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:56:50 +0000
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
Match ID: 109 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 102 days
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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
Match ID: 110 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 228 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

Match ID: 111 Score: 4.29 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 6 days
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How serious are Putin's nuclear threats?
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:01:00 GMT
Three Ukrainians on how their lives have changed and their hopes for peace
Match ID: 112 Score: 4.29 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 6 days
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Elon Musk Quietly Tried to Oust a Reform DA. Here’s Why He Failed.
Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Reports of the criminal justice reform movement’s death are greatly exaggerated.

The post Elon Musk Quietly Tried to Oust a Reform DA. Here’s Why He Failed. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 113 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
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Matt Gaetz Is Barely a Lawyer
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:13:10 +0000

Trump’s pick for attorney general shows that loyalty is the only qualification that matters.

The post Matt Gaetz Is Barely a Lawyer appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 114 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
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House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:14:34 +0000

Dozens of Democrats still support the bill — giving the Republican-controlled House plenty of breathing room to pass it next week.

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Match ID: 115 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
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ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won
Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement put out a fresh call for contracts for surveillance technologies before an anticipated surge in the number of people it monitors ahead of deportation hearings.
Match ID: 116 Score: 3.57 source: www.wired.com age: 12 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: 117 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 12 days
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
Match ID: 118 Score: 3.57 source: www.wired.com age: 13 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: 119 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 14 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
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It’s still the economy: What TV ads tell us about each campaign’s closing message
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:00:00 EST
The final paid messages: Economy, culture wars and character.
Match ID: 121 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 19 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: 122 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 25 days
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Harris is pounding Trump on fascism. Some Dems think that’s a mistake.
Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:53:07 EST
Harris has ratcheted up her warnings about the dangers of a second Trump term in recent weeks.
Match ID: 123 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 27 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: 124 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 39 days
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Harris dismisses Trump as ‘not serious’ on the economy in MSNBC interview
Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:08:24 EST
It was her first solo interview with a national network as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Match ID: 125 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 60 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: 126 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 74 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: 127 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 116 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: 128 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 123 days
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Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:35:08 +0000
Opposition would come from all angles
Match ID: 129 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 137 days
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Is America approaching peak tip?
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:05:29 +0000
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way
Match ID: 130 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 158 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: 131 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 194 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: 132 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 215 days
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
Match ID: 133 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 221 days
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
Match ID: 134 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 243 days
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
Match ID: 135 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 263 days
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
Match ID: 136 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 271 days
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
Match ID: 137 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 277 days
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Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:06:55 +0000
Will they now spend big on his campaign?
Match ID: 138 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 291 days
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What Donald Trump can learn from the Big Mac index
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:01:35 +0000
Should the presidential candidate go on another crusade against the yuan?
Match ID: 139 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 305 days
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Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
Sat, 16 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: An “AI granny” is wasting scammers’ time, a lawsuit goes after spyware-maker NSO Group’s executives, and North Korea–linked hackers take a crack at macOS malware.
Match ID: 140 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 9 days
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Auto-Rebooting iPhones Are Causing Chaos for Cops
Sat, 09 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Hot Topic confirms a customer data breach, Germany arrests a US citizen for allegedly passing military secrets to Chinese intelligence, and more.
Match ID: 141 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 16 days
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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
Match ID: 142 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 88 days
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Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:58:18 +0000
How long can the party last?
Match ID: 143 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 105 days
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How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:39:56 +0000
Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years
Match ID: 144 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 125 days
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European banks are making heady profits in Russia
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:56:28 +0000
But for how much longer?
Match ID: 145 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 172 days
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
Match ID: 146 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 207 days
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
Match ID: 147 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 221 days
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
Match ID: 148 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 228 days
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
Match ID: 149 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 251 days
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
Match ID: 150 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 259 days
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:21:18 +0000
The question that now confronts Western policymakers
Match ID: 151 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 270 days
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Six Ways Supercomputing Advances Our Understanding of the Universe
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:03:12 +0000
At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the universe – from our planet to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Supercomputers enable projects across diverse research, such as making discoveries about the Sun’s activity that affects technologies in space and life on Earth, building […]
Match ID: 152 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 9 days
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NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000
Picture yourself at an airport a few decades from now. What does your airliner look like? It’s more efficient, with lower emissions than today’s aircraft – what kinds of designs or technology make that possible? NASA is working to answer those questions by commissioning five new design studies looking to push the boundaries of possibility […]
Match ID: 153 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 12 days
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Burning rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power
Tue, 15 Oct 2024 04:45:35 GMT
Nearly half of waste is now burned for energy, but BBC analysis finds it is as dirty as coal.
Match ID: 154 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.com age: 41 days
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Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:53:05 +0000
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
Match ID: 155 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 158 days
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Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.
Match ID: 156 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 158 days
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The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:12 +0000
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies
Match ID: 157 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 284 days
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
Match ID: 158 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 313 days
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Which rural area will take the UK’s nuclear waste?
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:20:51 GMT
The UK's nuclear waste needs a permanent home - but finding a community willing to take it is tricky.
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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NASA Awards Safety, Health, Medical, Mission Assurance Contract
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:17:15 +0000
NASA has awarded Bastion Technologies Inc., of Houston, the Center Occupational Safety, Health, Medical, System Safety and Mission Assurance Contract (COSMC) at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The COSMC contract is a hybrid cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract, with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity component and maximum potential value of $53 million. The contract phase-in […]
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Best Natural Sleep Aids (2024), Tested and Reviewed
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:35:00 +0000
I tested an array of alternative sleep aids, from CBD capsules to mushroom chocolate to bath bombs, to see if they would help my chronic insomnia.
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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
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How American states squeeze athletes (and remote workers)
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:05:59 +0000
The public loves jock taxes; baseball players do not
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‘Activates my lizard brain’: why Alita: Battle Angel is my feelgood movie
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:00:37 GMT

In a new series of writers revealing their go-to comfort film, an unlikely action flop gets a stirring recommendation

When I’m in a truly bad mood, about the state of the world or just the state of myself, traditionally uplifting movies (or music, or TV) don’t cut it for me. It’s not the movies’ fault, necessarily; it’s the act of pressing play on even a feel-great movie like His Girl Friday or Toy Story 2 that nags at me as overly self-conscious. It’s hard for the movie to have its desired effect when I’m giving it such a personal, specific mandate to make me feel better – a truly impossible form of video on demand. Instead, I need something that activates my lizard brain, something that goes straight to the pleasure center of my imagination, rather than engaging directly with my emotions. In recent years, that movie is Alita: Battle Angel.

Part of it is probably a form of penance for slightly underrating Alita when it came out. I gave this Robert Rodriguez-directed, James Cameron-produced (and co-written!) manga adaptation a measuredly positive review back in early 2019, clearly still processing my surprise, even confusion, that it was so much better than most were expecting. Another half-dozen viewings later, many on sick days, have worn away my initial resistance to the movie’s slightly distended shape, corny dialogue and jostled-together plot. The movie follows the reawakening of Alita (a digitally augmented Rosa Salazar), a cyborg whose body has been trashed and whose memory has been erased. Partially repaired by the kindly but overprotective Dr Ido (Christoph Waltz), Alita eventually explores the dystopian Iron City, takes up a violent cyborg sport called Motorball, becomes a well-paid bounty hunter, falls in love with a human who yearns to escape for a better life, and rediscovers her past as a powerful warrior.

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The 24 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (November 2024)
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000
No Time to Die, My Old Ass, and American Fiction are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.
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Daniel Craig’s Masculine Constructs
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The actor discusses making the new movie “Queer” and breaking out of his Bondian image.
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Shuang Xuetao on Memory as a Movie
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The author discusses his story “Paris Friend.”
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‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:00:07 GMT

One of Britain’s most prolific actors, Stephen Graham is the face of countless hard-to-forget TV and film characters, a regular Scorsese collaborator and good mates with Leo DiCaprio. He talks about living it up in Leicestershire – and why he’s in the shape of his life

Stephen Graham likes to quote that very famous saying in acting, “There are no small parts, only small actors” – though it has nothing to do with the fact that the 51-year-old stands a power-packed 5ft five-and-a-half inches. When in 2020 he set up his own production company, Matriarch Productions, after a storied career as one of our great character performers, he made it one of the company’s founding principles.

Graham established Matriarch with his wife, the actor Hannah Walters. Their first project was the 2021 film Boiling Point, which created history as the first British single-take movie. Graham won a Bafta nomination for his portrayal of head chef Andy Jones, whose life unravels in real time during one frenzied service in the kitchen. But he was determined that Boiling Point would be just as radical behind the camera, too. Typically on TV and film productions, each actor is assigned a cast number, which functions as an unspoken hierarchy of their importance on the set. Graham decided he didn’t want that.

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We’re closer to re-creating the sounds of Parasaurolophus
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:30:19 +0000
Preliminary model suggests the dinosaur bellowed like a large trumpet or saxophone, or perhaps a clarinet.
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“Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Offer Nostalgic, Half-Satisfying Showdowns
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:33:37 +0000
With a musical return to Oz and a bloody epic of ancient Rome, Hollywood studios double down on blockbuster spectacle.
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Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000

 

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

1) What is an NFT?

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

2) What is Blockchain?

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

3) What makes an NFT valuable?

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

4) How do NFTs work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

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

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

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

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

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

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

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

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

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

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

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

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

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

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

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?

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

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

Final Saying

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

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The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver | Editorial
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:42:52 GMT

A rushed final text in Baku strains trust between nations, as inadequate climate finance commitments leave vulnerable countries calling for justice

The hasty imposition of a deal at the UN climate conference, Cop29, in Azerbaijan, over the objections of poorer nations has fractured global trust and undermined recent progress. This was supposed to be the “finance Cop” when two dozen industrialised countries – including the US, Europe and Canada – promised to pay developing nations for the damage caused by their rise. Instead, developing nations – led by a group including India, Nigeria and Bolivia – say this weekend’s agreement for $300bn a year in 2035 is too little, too late. Worse, rich-world governments will be able to escape their obligations by being able to rely on cash from private companies and international lenders.

Independent experts say the developing world, excluding China, would need $1.3tn a year by 2035 to fund its green transition and keep temperature rises in line with the Paris agreement. The climate finance target, pushed through by the Azerbaijani chair, is described by poor nations as a death sentence for those already drowning under rising seas and facing devastating costs.

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SARP East 2024 Ocean Remote Sensing Group
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:33:44 +0000
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Tom Bell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Dr. Kelsey Bisson, NASA Headquarters Science Mission Directorate Graduate Mentor: Kelby Kramer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kelby Kramer, Graduate Mentor Lucas DiSilvestro Shallow Water Benthic Cover Type Classification using Hyperspectral Imagery in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii Lucas DiSilvestro, Dartmouth College Quantifying the changing structure and extent […]
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SARP East 2024 Atmospheric Science Group
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:33:26 +0000
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Guanyu Huang, Stony Brook University Graduate Mentor: Ryan Schmedding, McGill University Ryan Schmedding, Graduate Mentor Danielle Jones Remote sensing of poor air quality in mountains: A case study in Kathmandu, Nepal Danielle Jones, University of Wyoming Urban activity produces particulate matter in the atmosphere known as aerosol particles. These aerosols can negatively […]
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Former Taiwan leader was due to visit UK for two days in October, leak shows
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:26:45 GMT

Exclusive: letter reveals dates for visit that was planned by Tsai Ing-wen before Foreign Office intervened

Taiwan’s former president Tsai Ing-wen had been due to visit the UK between 16 and 18 October before the Foreign Office intervened, the Guardian can disclose.

Tsai was scheduled to visit London for two days as part of her first international tour since leaving office and was in discussions about addressing the UK parliament, according to a leaked letter.

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Survivors mark 20th anniversary of deadly 2004 tsunami
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:33:17 +0000
NatGeo's documentary, Tsunami: Race Against Time, revisits the devastating disaster that killed nearly 230,000 people.
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Parallel Parking Is Stressful. Most Drivers Still Won’t Let the Robots Take Over
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
In the Western world, some automated driving features seem to have fallen out of favor. Not true in China—and the reasons why offer a preview of auto industry changes to come.
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The nut of the future! 17 delicious ways with pistachios, from cakes to salads to cocktails
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:00:36 GMT

Pistachio farmers are having a bumper year – and looking forward to many more. These recipes will help you make the most of the glut

Pistachios are booming. In California, which has overtaken Iran as the top exporter in recent decades, growers are expected to harvest 1bn lb (about 450m kg) of them this year, a figure that is projected to double by 2031.

At a time when all forms of agriculture face stark choices because of climate breakdown, pistachio orchards are expanding: the trees are more drought-tolerant than many crops, including other nuts such as almonds. But if pistachios end up becoming the nut of the future, how will we cope with record-breaking harvests? For now, here are 17 delicious ways to use up your personal allotment of this year’s yield.

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England claim hollow victory in game Steve Borthwick could not win | Michael Aylwin
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:00:35 GMT

Beating an inexperienced Japan side is small consolation for head coach after a disappointing autumn of near misses

What is the best England could have expected from their final Test of the year? Probably something like this. But, really, this was the proverbial game they could not win.

It has been tempting, as it always is with England, to cry crisis at every opportunity, especially this autumn as that losing run stretched out like a man on a rack. But it is hardly stretching a point, either, to observe that only the slightest adjustment to what actually happened might have conjured a far healthier picture. That hit post at the end of the All Blacks game, that late drama against Australia – tweak those and this campaign might even have been considered a success.

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Beijing orders investigations into local disputes after spate of deadly attacks
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:35:08 GMT

Mass stabbings and car rammings have prompted soul-searching about the state of society

Beijing is ramping up scrutiny of “common” disputes such as those involving marriages and property, the justice ministry said, as the public reels from a recent string of deadly attacks.

China has witnessed a spate of violent incidents in recent months – from mass stabbings to car rammings – a rare development for a country with a proud reputation for public security.

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China unnerved by Russia’s growing ties with North Korea, claims US official
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:04:46 GMT

Comments part of debate over whether Beijing backs Kim Jong-un’s decision to send troops to fight in Ukraine

China is increasingly uncomfortable about North Korea’s engagement with Russia and finds the growing cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow unnerving, Kurt Campbell, the US deputy secretary of state has said.

He was leaning into a growing debate among the US’s security partners in Asia on whether China supports the decision of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to send 10,000 troops to fight for Russia against Ukraine. It is said the North Korean troops are now inside Russia.

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Meta-Powered Military Chatbot Advertised Giving “Worthless” Advice on Airstrikes
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:23:02 +0000

The marketing of a new military tech tool powered by Meta’s artificial intelligence is “irresponsible” and “clumsy,” experts said.

The post Meta-Powered Military Chatbot Advertised Giving “Worthless” Advice on Airstrikes appeared first on The Intercept.

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The Guardian view on Europe’s duty to Ukraine: solidarity must not waver in the age of Trump | Editorial
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:45:50 GMT

Kyiv must be given the military and financial means to resist any attempt to force an unjust peace

In the aftermath of 9/11, the neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan published an influential book titled Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. The gist of the argument was that though peace-loving Europeans prided themselves on upholding the values of a rules-based international system, they largely relied on US military might to deal with the rogue states intent on undermining it.

As the catastrophic consequences of George W Bush’s illegal war in Iraq subsequently illustrated, the thesis was flawed. Costing hundreds of thousands of lives, the US “war on terror” delivered only bloody mayhem in the Middle East. But Mr Kagan’s analysis captured something true about a de facto hard power/soft power division of responsibilities in the west. Two decades on, the future of Ukraine may depend on how a reconfiguration of that relationship plays out in a new “new world order”.

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The truth about salt: how to avoid one of the world’s biggest hidden killers
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:00:13 GMT

Most of us consume far too much, which can lead to high blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes. But there are some simple ways to retrain your palate and reduce your intake

Last Tuesday, I bought lunch on the go. I fancied something hot, tasty but healthy, so I chose a vegan ramen from the Japanese-inspired chain Wasabi. The soup was packed with turmeric noodles, vegetable gyozas, mushrooms, bean sprouts, pak choi, pickled ginger and sesame seeds, in a soy and miso broth. It was delicious. In fact, it was so delicious, I was suspicious. I checked out its nutritional information online. Only 342 calories, low in saturated fat … Aha! Salt: 5.07g a portion.

The World Health Organization recommends that adults eat less than 5g of salt a day. One noodle soup had exceeded my entire daily intake. (The UK limit is a little more generous at 6g, but even that wasn’t far off.)

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Shuang Xuetao on Memory as a Movie
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The author discusses his story “Paris Friend.”
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China's giant sinkholes are a tourist hit - but ancient forests inside are at risk
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:22:23 GMT
These caves were unexplored for thousands of years, protected by swirling mists and terrifying tales.
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Microsoft president asks Trump to “push harder” against Russian hacks
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:17:19 +0000
Brad Smith wants US to take a tougher approach to state-sponsored cyberattacks.
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Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:07:36 GMT
How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
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The play that changed my life: Janet Suzman on staging Othello in apartheid South Africa
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:35:26 GMT

Putting on Shakespeare’s tragedy at Johannesburg’s Market theatre was a risky endeavour and caused an astonishing reaction

It was 1987, three years before Nelson Mandela walked free. None of us knew that secret talks were going on with Mandela in prison. We saw apartheid lasting till the crack of doom. It seemed impregnable. The law had once banned “miscegenation”. And here I was directing Othello, a play about miscegenation, at Johannesburg’s Market theatre.

I used to go back there from England regularly. I was closely involved with Barney Simon and Mannie Manim, who co-founded the theatre in the mid-70s on the site of the old Indian fruit market. It was very close to my heart: a place where freedom of thought and freedom of speech could reign.

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Superb India thrash Australia to win first Test
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:48:17 GMT
India complete a stunning 295-run win over Australia in the first Test in Perth to continue their extraordinary run in the country.
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India seal massive first Test win over Australia
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:12:38 GMT
India take the last remaining seven Australia wickets to seal a 295-run win on day four of the first Test of their five-match series in Perth.
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Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:40 GMT

Among sweeping rightwing electoral victories across the globe, the ‘big loser of the elections has been climate’

An unprecedented year of elections around the world has underscored a sobering trend – in many countries the commitment to act on the climate crisis has either stalled or is eroding, even as disasters and record temperatures continue to mount.

So far 2024, called the “biggest election year in human history” by the United Nations with around half the world’s population heading to the polls, there have been major wins for Donald Trump, the US president-elect who calls the climate crisis “a big hoax”; the climate-skeptic right in European Union elections; and Vladimir Putin, who won another term and has endured sanctions to maintain Russia’s robust oil and gas exports.

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

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Smugglers convicted after Indian family froze to death on US-Canada border
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:45:16 GMT

Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Shand were part of operation bringing increasing numbers of Indians into US

A jury has convicted two men of human smuggling charges after an Indian family froze to death attempting to cross the Canada-US border.

After a brief deliberation on Friday, a jury in Fergus Falls, Minnesota delivered the verdict in the case against Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, an Indian national who used the alias “Dirty Harry”, and Steve Shand, 50, an American from Florida. Prosecutors say the pair were part of a broader criminal enterprise that helped migrants cross from Canada into the United States.

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Meta Finally Breaks Its Silence on Pig Butchering
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:00:00 +0000
The company gave details for the first time on its approach to combating organized criminal networks behind the devastating scams.
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The UN has failed us on Gaza. We need to decolonize and radically reform it | Omar Barghouti
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:01:35 GMT

By decolonizing, I mean a transformative process that embeds the views of marginalized and most affected communities

Well before US president-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated in January 2025, the UN has been atrophying in power, credibility, and even relevance. The international organization has faced many challenges since its establishment in 1945 in the shadow of the most horrific chapter in modern human history. Yet few chapters of the UN have been darker than its meek looking on as Israel livestreams the genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza with “total impunity”.

The fact that Israel’s ongoing genocide is armed, funded and shielded from accountability by powerful western states, led by the US, has made this impunity more blatant than ever. Western hypocrisy in slapping Russia with the most severe regime of sanctions ever following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, while fully enabling Israel’s genocide and underlying, decades-old system of settler-colonialism, apartheid and illegal military occupation has also reached unprecedented levels, making a mockery of the west’s claim of even caring about universal human rights. Indonesia’s foreign minister at a recent UN debate on Gaza called on states to not “bury the Principles of the UN Charter and international law under the rubble of double standards, trust deficit and zero-sum game”.

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Multilateralism faces a toxic brew of debt, climate crisis and war. It’s time for a reboot | Mo Ibrahim
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:00:34 GMT

The stakes are high for donors at next month’s IDA summit in Seoul, but not investing in development means more instability globally

Multilateralism is under attack. A toxic brew of multiplying conflicts, worsening climate impact, new pandemics and spiralling debt has brought the system to its knees, appearing almost incapable of properly addressing these converging crises. Adding the unknowns of a Trump administration into the mix will do little to allay concerns.

My own critiques of the current multilateral system are well documented, but I do not subscribe to the view that it has no future. What’s needed is a total reboot.

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The Rise of 4B in the Wake of Donald Trump’s Reëlection
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Why the South Korean feminist movement, which calls for a boycott of men, is gaining traction among American women.
Match ID: 26 Score: 30.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
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China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.
Match ID: 27 Score: 28.57 source: www.wired.com age: 4 days
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Is China really a nation of slackers?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:54:55 +0000
A new survey raises the question
Match ID: 28 Score: 28.57 source: www.economist.com age: 4 days
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Bernie Sanders Lost Vote to Block Arms for Israel, Says U.S. Is “Funding the Starvation of Children in Gaza”
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:02:51 +0000

Sanders’s resolutions to block arms sales to Israel gained momentum, but ran headlong into White House opposition.

The post Bernie Sanders Lost Vote to Block Arms for Israel, Says U.S. Is “Funding the Starvation of Children in Gaza” appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 29 Score: 28.57 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
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Billionaire Gautam Adani charged in US over alleged $250m bribery plot
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:57:04 GMT

Indian chair of Adani Group, worth about $85bn, accused of agreeing to pay bribes to obtain solar energy contracts

Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest men, has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar scheme to pay $250m in bribes and conceal it from US investors.

Prosecutors charged the chair of the Indian conglomerate Adani Group and two other executives of a renewable energy company with securities fraud and conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud.

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Match ID: 30 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 4 days
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Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju: World Chess Championship 2024 Game 1 – live updates
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:45:57 GMT

• Ding and Gukesh face off for $2.5m in Singapore
• Explainer: all your pre-match questions, answered
• Bluesky Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him

Our Leonard Barden has filed his final dispatch ahead of today’s opening game. Barden, who’s written the Guardian’s chess column every week since September 1955, doesn’t divert from the general consensus in his assessment of the match.

The preliminaries are nearly over: who will win? I expect Gukesh to be cautious in the first few games, then to probe and push hard in the middle of the match. Ding’s 2024 form has been so wretched that it is difficult to see how he can keep his title. A 7.5-4.5 margin for Gukesh looks about right.

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Match ID: 31 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Family of woman found dead in car in London accuses police of failing to protect her
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:23:45 GMT

Exclusive: Sister says Harshita Brella reported abuse but ‘police processes made her feel more scared and alone’

The family of a woman found dead in a car boot in east London have accused police of not doing enough to protect her, saying she had filed a complaint alleging domestic abuse by her husband weeks before.

The body of Harshita Brella, a 24-year-old Indian citizen who was living in Northamptonshire, was discovered last Thursday in a car in Ilford. Police have named her husband, Pankaj Lamba, as the main suspect for the killing. Officers believe he has fled the country.

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Match ID: 32 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 5 days
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NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:10:13 +0000
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Abigail Reigner spent most of her childhood miles away from where her family called home, and where there was little trace of her Native American tribe and culture. Belonging to the Comanche Nation that resides in Lawton, Oklahoma, Reigner’s parents made every effort to keep her connected to her Indigenous […]
Match ID: 33 Score: 20.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 5 days
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
Match ID: 34 Score: 17.14 source: www.economist.com age: 6 days
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Australian police offer to help Laos investigation into suspected methanol deaths as Melbourne teenagers mourned
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 07:01:29 GMT

Prime minister pays tribute to Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles while families vow to turn tragedy into ‘mission for change’

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Australian federal police have offered to help the Laos investigation into multiple deaths linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning event.

Melburnians Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, both 19, were among six foreign tourists to die.

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Match ID: 35 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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'Don't drink the spirits': Laos backpackers avoid shots after suspected poisonings
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:58:55 GMT
The deaths of six tourists sent shock waves through the backpacker scene in Vang Vieng.
Match ID: 36 Score: 15.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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Laos government ‘profoundly saddened’ by deaths of tourists in Vang Vieng
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 15:59:45 GMT

Six foreign visitors died earlier this month after suspected methanol poisoning during night out in backpacker hotspot

• What went wrong in Laos?

The Lao government has said it is “profoundly saddened” by the deaths of foreign tourists in Vang Vieng and has promised justice, as tributes were paid to victims of a suspected mass methanol poisoning which has claimed six lives.

Two Danish citizens, two Australians, an American, and a Briton died after becoming ill following a night out in the small riverside town, a popular destination for backpackers.

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Match ID: 37 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s deputy vows to have him assassinated if she is killed
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 06:59:11 GMT

Vice-president Sara Duterte tells press conference she has given an assassin the instructions, prompting referral from Marcos’s office over ‘active threat’

The Philippines’ vice-president, Sara Duterte, said on Saturday she would have someone assassinate the president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, if she herself were killed, leading Marcos’s office to vow “immediate proper action”.

In a dramatic sign of a widening rift between the country’s two most powerful political families, Duterte told a press conference that she had spoken to an assassin and instructed him to kill Marcos, his wife and the speaker of the Philippine house of representatives if she were to be killed.

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Match ID: 38 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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SARP East 2024 Hydroecology Group
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:33:08 +0000
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Dom Ciruzzi, College of William & Mary Graduate Mentor: Marley Majetic, Pennsylvania State University Marley Majetic, Graduate Mentor Jordan DiPrima How are different land cover types affected by land subsidence on the U.S. Atlantic Coast? Jordan DiPrima, University of New Hampshire Land subsidence is a frequently overlooked geologic hazard that is caused […]
Match ID: 39 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 2 days
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Tributes paid to ‘kind and loving’ British tourist who died in Laos
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:00:07 GMT

Simone White was one of six people to die in suspected methanol poisoning incident in Vang Vieng

Tributes have been paid to the “beautiful, kind and loving” British tourist Simone White, one of six people to die in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos.

The six died after allegedly being served drinks laced with methanol in Vang Vieng, a town popular with backpackers. These include the Australian teenagers Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, both 19, an American man and two Danish women aged 19 and 20.

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Match ID: 40 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?
2024-10-24T00:00:00Z
Chinese companies have been evading US tariffs by shipping goods through Vietnam, but not to the degree that the headlines would suggest. Ebehi Iyoha and Jaya Wen dig into trade microdata to illustrate Vietnam's strategic importance and why American policymakers should take note.
Match ID: 41 Score: 15.00 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 32 days
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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
Match ID: 42 Score: 10.71 source: www.economist.com age: 88 days
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Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China’s exports
Thu, 23 May 2024 10:13:46 +0000
To avoid an economic shock, they are pursuing a strange mix of free trade and protectionism
Match ID: 43 Score: 10.71 source: www.economist.com age: 186 days
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Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”
Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Silicon Valley has successfully rebranded military contracting as a proud national duty for the industry.

The post Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class” appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 44 Score: 7.86 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china, 2.14 vietnam

NASA’s C-130 Aircraft En Route to India in Support of NISAR Mission
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:11:53 +0000
NASA’s globetrotting C-130 Hercules team is carrying out a cargo transport mission to Bengaluru, India, in support of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The C-130 departed from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Tuesday, Oct. 15, to embark on the multi-leg, multi-day journey. The flight path will take the aircraft coast to coast […]
Match ID: 45 Score: 7.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 38 days
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
Match ID: 46 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 11 days
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More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump’s Return Means for US Cybersecurity
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Experts expect Donald Trump’s next administration to relax cybersecurity rules on businesses, abandon concerns around human rights, and take an aggressive stance against the cyber armies of US adversaries.
Match ID: 47 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
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The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here
Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000
The Pentagon is pursuing every available option to keep US troops safe from the rising tide of adversary drones, including a robotic twist on its standard-issue small arms.
Match ID: 48 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 14 days
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Why China needs to fill its empty homes
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:03:24 +0000
The country’s economy is broken. A recovery requires a healthier property market
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:05:00 GMT

Match ID: 50 Score: 5.71 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 45 days
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China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:25:56 +0000
Unsold homes are contributing to a balance-sheet recession
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At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:22:31 +0000
“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund
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China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:19:59 +0000
But it will need more help from the government
Match ID: 53 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 61 days
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How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:33:09 +0000
Even though they are not very good at it
Match ID: 54 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 70 days
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China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:52 +0000
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system
Match ID: 55 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 74 days
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China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:53:31 +0000
Can anything perk up its economy?
Match ID: 56 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 81 days
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Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:59:36 +0000
Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission
Match ID: 57 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 88 days
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What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:19:41 +0000
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular
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Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:24:53 +0000
Volatility in global markets continues
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Why Japanese markets have plummeted
Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:21:56 +0000
The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987
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Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:41:12 +0000
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
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China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:09:53 +0000
All it takes is for the state to work with the market
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Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:17:13 +0000
Currency meddling will prove futile
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China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:49:47 +0000
Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms
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China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:38:25 +0000
Its share of international reserves has stalled
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China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:14:09 +0000
State purchases of shares are bad enough, but other measures are far more destructive
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China’s economic model retains a dangerous allure
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:08:43 +0000
Despite the country’s current struggles, autocrats elsewhere see a lot to admire
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Xi Jinping’s surprising new source of economic advice
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:06:54 +0000
What China’s leader may learn from a pair of reform-minded academics
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The property firm that could break China’s back
Thu, 16 May 2024 10:04:20 +0000
If Vanke collapses, so might confidence in the state’s management of the economy
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:58:40 +0000
China would not be happy
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What would get China’s consumers spending?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:49 +0000
Clues from a grocer in a fourth-tier city
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What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:57 +0000
Despite his protestations, the country does have an overcapacity problem
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Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:14 +0000
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
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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: 75 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 215 days
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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:05:21 +0000
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
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China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:33:05 +0000
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
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What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:02:17 +0000
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
Match ID: 78 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 228 days
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China’s state is eating the private property market
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:50:47 +0000
Pity those soon to buy a home
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:12:05 +0000
As is becoming increasingly obvious
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Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:12:06 +0000
For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:55:00 +0000
What a visit to an optimistic port reveals
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China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:37:33 +0000
The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9%
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
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As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:21:14 +0000
Will more now favour domestic stocks?
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
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China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over
Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:35:54 +0000
The situation ought to worry Xi Jinping
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China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:10:43 +0000
The government is not used to being bullied
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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
Match ID: 91 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 300 days
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The false promise of friendshoring
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:14:50 +0000
America, China and Europe appear to be trading less with their geopolitical rivals
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These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids
Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:07:15 +0000
Three technologists in India used a homemade Faraday cage and a microwave oven to get around Apple’s location blocks.
Match ID: 93 Score: 5.00 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
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India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:12:08 +0000
Small investors, rejoice—and beware
Match ID: 94 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 18 days
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Can markets reduce pollution in India?
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:55:05 +0000
An experiment in Gujarat yields impressive results
Match ID: 95 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 46 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

India’s economic policy will not make it rich
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:58:55 +0000
A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans
Match ID: 96 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 115 days
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Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:59:48 +0000
A weakened Narendra Modi is bad news for investors in government-controlled firms
Match ID: 97 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 158 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:05:08 +0000
A roaring economy is not enough to entice them
Match ID: 98 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 179 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:14:54 +0000
The country’s retail investors are doing less well
Match ID: 99 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 207 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

How fast is India’s economy really growing?
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:46 +0000
Statisticians take the country’s figures with a pinch of salt
Match ID: 100 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 228 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

How to build a global currency
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:55:08 +0000
India is the latest country to try. Painful reforms are required
Match ID: 101 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 235 days
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How India could become an Asian tiger
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:11:52 +0000
The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen
Match ID: 102 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 242 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Take Out the Trash: A Proposal to Clean Up the Democratic Party
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Democrats are in disarray. It’s time to name our enemies and assert our demands to build a party that can win.

The post Take Out the Trash: A Proposal to Clean Up the Democratic Party appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 103 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
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The false promise of Indonesia’s economy
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:10:49 +0000
Presidential candidates vow to deliver 7% growth. Voters have heard it before
Match ID: 104 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 291 days
qualifiers: 4.29 indonesia

Will services make the world rich?
Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:51:25 +0000
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
Match ID: 105 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 153 days
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