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Confessions of a Teenage Fraudster review – why did they drag three hours of TV out of this?
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:28:57 GMT

His scams gave him a champagne lifestyle where he travelled the world first class as a teen. But this insight-free documentary really deserves no more than hour of your time, tops

Programme-bloat is a common problem on streaming platforms. They have money, no taste and a lot of hours to fill. The BBC’s rigour and shaky funding structure as a public broadcaster generally mitigates against it following suit, but occasionally mistakes are made. One such is Confessions of a Teenage Fraudster, which devotes three 45-minute episodes to the very simple story of Elliot Castro, instead of the one fun hour it should have been.

Castro was a bright lad desperately bullied and unhappy at school. His dad was Chilean and Elliot liked to take the Financial Times to school to feel grown up – either of these was enough to make him a target in 1990s Aberdeen, he says. He left school at 16 in 1998 with no qualifications. He claimed he was 18 and got a job in a call centre selling mobile phones – an early sign of the chutzpah that fitted him for the life of crime he was about to embark on. There, he found himself in the happy position of having to take down people’s confidential credit card details as part of his job, then started pretending to need extra information about their savings accounts to finish the paperwork. He used those details to order another card to be sent to his home address to fund an increasingly lavish lifestyle – in teenage terms – until each one was cancelled and he would begin again.

Confessions of a Teenage Fraudster is on BBC iPlayer and will air on BBC Three on 5 June

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Secret tunnels, a lost airport and TV’s original dummy – a guide to London’s best small museums
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:27:36 GMT

Did you know that Croydon used to attract Hollywood stars? Or that grotesque sculptures once welcomed patients to Bedlam? Such things you’ll learn visiting the capital’s more bijou exhibitions

The V&A? The Science Museum? I’m sure, during childhood visits to the capital, that my parents must have shown me some of London’s biggest attractions, but the memory that’s really stayed with me is of something much smaller. We had called in at a Georgian townhouse late one dusky afternoon – and once inside were invited to climb up on to the roof. There, as evening fell over the skyline, I found a scaled-down railway station with a miniature train, steam pouring from its chimney, that skated over a pond and occasionally plunged into a tunnel. It was the stuff of Mary Poppins. Anything is possible in London, I thought.

That rooftop train ride helped ignite my fascination with the capital and its cornucopia of museums. The London Toy and Model Museum, as I later found out it was called, was only open from 1982 to 1999. And yet it was the start of a journey that wound up with me writing for Londonist, a website that enlightens people on the best – and often more unexpected – things they can get up to in this city.

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

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

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

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How hardcore mosquito experts fight summer’s most annoying pest
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:00:17 +0000
An Everglades wildlife biologist, adventure-travel pros, entomologists and other experts share their best strategies for keeping mosquitoes away.
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The Guardian view on beach protests in the Balearics: locals need a better deal | Editorial
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:23:00 GMT

Across Europe, saturation tourism has had an environmental and social impact that needs to be addressed

In 2021, as the easing of Covid restrictions prompted a tentative recovery in Europe’s shell-shocked tourist industry, Spain’s Balearic Islands welcomed back holidaymakers with enthusiasm and relief. During the pandemic, overall numbers of visitors dropped by around 80%, laying waste to the local economy. Three years on, however, Mallorca and Ibiza are on the frontline of a different crisis – one that is less dramatic in scale, but growing in profile.

To mark the beginning of this year’s summer holiday season, an estimated 10,000 locals marched through Mallorca’s capital, Palma, last week, protesting against the saturation tourism that they say has rendered their city unliveable. Demonstrations are expected to continue through the summer.

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To Understand the Trump Verdict, Look at the Case Against Shukhratjon Mirsaidov
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:32:47 +0000

Trump fans say his conviction is an overreach. But a close look at another recent fraud trial shows his case was run-of-the-mill.

The post To Understand the Trump Verdict, Look at the Case Against Shukhratjon Mirsaidov appeared first on The Intercept.

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The 11 Best Travel Adapters (2024): Plug Adapters and Universal Adapters
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
When going abroad, the right plugs are essential to keeping your gadgets charged. These are our favorites.
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Sonos Ace Review: The Most Comfortable Headphones for Travel
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000
The king of whole-home audio is heading outside and already sits at the highest echelon of noise-canceling headphones.
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‘What am I going to do with my life?’ Mhairi Black on quitting the ‘depressing’ Commons at 29 – with no regrets
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:00:23 GMT

When she was sworn in, aged 20, she was the youngest MP to be appointed since 1832. Now the SNP’s deputy leader at Westminster, she looks back on 10 years of hard work and ‘hellish’ travel

For some MPs, the general election announcement came as a shock; for others, a starting pistol. But for Mhairi Black it was the end of “a sort of purgatory”, as she prepared to step down as MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, a position she has held for almost a decade. She will turn 30 in September. “I’m about to be exactly where I was 10 years ago, asking: ‘What am I going to do with my life?’”

The Scottish National party’s deputy leader at Westminster announced last summer that she intended to leave the Commons, a place she has variously described as “defunct”, “depressing”, “sexist”, “poisonous” and “one of the most unhealthy workplaces that you could ever be in”.

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The Inescapable Thingness
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
On the deep and universal desire for connection.
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The fake news divide: how Modi’s rule is fracturing India – video
Thu, 30 May 2024 09:31:48 GMT

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

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

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

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Privacy Implications of Tracking Wireless Access Points
2024-05-29T11:01:24Z

Brian Krebs reports on research into geolocating routers:

Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geolocate devices. Researchers from the University of Maryland say they relied on publicly available data from Apple to track the location of billions of devices globally—including non-Apple devices like Starlink systems—and found they could use this data to monitor the destruction of Gaza, as well as the movements and in many cases identities of Russian and Ukrainian troops...

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Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Lives
Sun, 26 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Is this what the “pro-life” movement wanted?

The post Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Lives appeared first on The Intercept.

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NASA’s X-59 Passes Milestone Toward Safe First Flight
Wed, 15 May 2024 18:14:56 +0000
NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of a milestone review that will allow it to progress toward flight.  A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team’s approach to safety […]
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Guardian Traveller newsletter: Sign up for our free holidays email
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:21:58 GMT

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

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

You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.

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Summary of the 2023 Precipitation Measurement Mission Science Team Meeting
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:15:26 +0000
Andrea Portier, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Science Systems and Applications, Inc., andrea.m.portier@nasa.gov Introduction The annual Precipitation Measurement Mission (PMM) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place September 18–22, 2023, in Minneapolis, MN. The PMM program supports scientific research and applications, algorithm development, and ground-based validation activities for the completed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and current […]
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U.S. and China lay out competing security visions for Asia-Pacific
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:32:03 +0000
Speeches by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese counterpart Dong Jun at the Shangri-La Dialogue heavily referenced Taiwan and underscored growing U.S.-China tensions.
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Biden says Chinese economy is ‘on the brink’ amid a shrinking workforce
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:59:00 GMT
President Joe Biden expressed confidence that the U.S. economy can prevail in any competition with its chief global rival, China, in an interview with Time magazine Tuesday.
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China’s crackdown on Tiananmen memorials shows its obsession with security – and growing paranoia | Louisa Lim
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:00:54 GMT

Under Xi Jinping, national security has swallowed up all other state policies, and Hong Kong’s activists are paying the price

Hours after attending a 4 June vigil, a Chinese student overseas is contacted by her father, bearing a message from the security services: do not participate in activities that might harm China’s reputation. In a London theatre, three British actors starring in May 35th, a play about the 1989 Tiananmen killings, keep their identities secret and use pseudonyms. They take this step after actors drop out of a previous Tiananmen-related production in Arizona due to perceived risks to family in China.

Thirty-five years have passed since the People’s Liberation Army opened fire on the Chinese people, yet Beijing seems more determined than ever to suppress acts commemorating the deaths of 4 June – even small ones far beyond China’s own borders. Such repression appears irrational: its targets are not influential political figures, their actions are limited in reach and the acts of suppression affect basic freedoms in other countries far from China. Yet it is illustrative of the sea change at the heart of Xi Jinping’s China. The man dubbed “the chairman of everything” is transforming China into a security state whose top priority is the securitisation of everything, all the way down to the individual.

Louisa Lim is the author of Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, and The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. She is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Melbourne

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Netflix released Takashi Miike’s new film without telling anyone. Please stop doing this! | Stuart Heritage
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:26:28 GMT

Lumberjack the Monster, the Japanese director’s long-awaited return to out-and-out horror, is a huge event. So why has it been noiselessly launched into oblivion?

Last weekend, something fairly momentous happened. Lumberjack the Monster, the new film by Takashi Miike, arrived on Netflix. Lumberjack the Monster is a significant release, because it represents the first out-and-out horror movie that Miike has made in a decade, having spent the intervening years dabbling in other genres. For a certain type of fan, it’s like Scorsese coming back from the wilderness of the 1980s with Goodfellas. Even if his films are too violent and perverse for you, you still have to admit that a new Takashi Miike horror movie is a big deal.

Unless you’re Netflix, of course. Because Netflix released Lumberjack the Monster with minimal – perhaps even non-existent – promotion. I only knew about it because I saw a tweet from a guy who had discovered it by accident and couldn’t understand why Netflix hadn’t made more noise about it.

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A Portrait of Japanese America, in the Shadow of the Camps
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
An essential new volume collects accounts of Japanese incarceration by patriotic idealists, righteous firebrands, and downtrodden cynics alike.
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China’s lunar probe on way back to Earth from far side of the moon
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:18:36 GMT

Uncrewed Chang’e-6 lander is carrying rock and soil samples in ‘very important achievement’ after lunar liftoff

China’s uncrewed Chang’e-6 probe is on its way back to Earth carrying the first samples from the far side of the moon, in a major achievement for Beijing’s space programme.

The probe landed on the lunar surface on Sunday, within one of the oldest craters on the moon – the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin – then spent two days gathering rock and soil samples using its drill and robotic arm.

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China's far-side Moon mission begins journey back
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:13:00 GMT
Chang'e-6 will bring home rock samples that could help scientists study how planets are formed.
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Tiananmen square anniversary: Hong Kong police detain artist who made sign in the air
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 05:33:37 GMT

Sanmu Chen appeared to write the date of massacre in the air as anniversary becomes increasingly sensitive in Hong Kong

Hong Kong police detained an artist on Monday night after he appeared to write “8964” in the air with his hand, a reference to the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre, hours before Tuesday’s 35th anniversary.

Public acknowledgment of the events of 4 June 1989, when Chinese soldiers shut down a weeks-long peaceful protest with violence, killing anything from several hundred to several thousand people – is banned in mainland China and increasingly sensitive in Hong Kong.

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China lands on the Moon again, taking another step toward human missions
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:24:17 +0000
The most dominant space storyline for the rest of this decade is the US-China race.
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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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To Understand the Trump Verdict, Look at the Case Against Shukhratjon Mirsaidov
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:32:47 +0000

Trump fans say his conviction is an overreach. But a close look at another recent fraud trial shows his case was run-of-the-mill.

The post To Understand the Trump Verdict, Look at the Case Against Shukhratjon Mirsaidov appeared first on The Intercept.

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Russia-Ukraine war: Russia announces fresh sanctions against UK figures over ‘hostile’ actions – as it happened
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:00:37 GMT

‘Establishment figures’, journalists and experts banned from entering country over what it terms ‘provocative anti-Russian rhetoric’

Here’s a bit of detail from the Financial Times’ report that the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline project has run into trouble. Spokespeople for both Beijing and Moscow issued statements in relation to reports that the project is deadlocked – so in case you’ve not read the FT’s report, this is what that’s all about.

Citing three people close to the matter, the FT reported that the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline project has stalled over demands made by Beijing on price and supply levels.

What is Beijing asking for? It concerns both prices and supply, according to the FT’s sources. The people familiar with the matter told the newspaper that China wants to pay little more than Russia’s heavily subsidised domestic prices and would only commit to buying a small proportion of the pipeline’s planned annual capacity.

What does this mean? It shows how Beijing has the upper hand in this deal – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left president Vladimir Putin increasingly dependent on China as Gazprom suffers heavy losses.

What is the Kremlin asking for? When Putin and Xi met last month in Beijing, Putin made three key requests, according to the people familiar with the matter. A deal on the pipeline; more Chinese bank activity in Russia; and for China to decline to attend a peace conference being organised by Ukraine.

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Biden’s science adviser explains the new hard line on China
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:20:35 +0000

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OMG your hair looks so cute! Young Chinese love American ‘praise culture.’
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:06:29 +0000
Even as China cools on the United States’ fashion and entertainment trends, one aspect of American life is sparking admiration: American “praise culture.”
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Is China’s E.V. Industry a Threat to the U.S.?
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Is China’s electric-vehicle industry a threat to the U.S., or something to learn from?
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China and Hong Kong reportedly detain dissidents before Tiananmen Square anniversary
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:05:18 GMT

Events marking 35 years since troops ended peaceful protest with deadly violence are banned in China and Hong Kong

Chinese and Hong Kong authorities have arrested or put under surveillance several dissidents before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre this week, according to human rights groups.

On 4 June it will be 35 years since Chinese soldiers shut down a weeks-long peaceful protest with violence, killing anything from several hundred to several thousand people.

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Zelensky comes to Asia and scolds China
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:00:05 +0000
Ukraine’s president is trying to enlist leaders in Asia into a greater project of diplomacy.
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China’s Chang’e-6 probe lands on far side of the moon
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:56:39 GMT

Spacecraft to collect samples from rarely explored area after landing heralded as ‘enormous technical achievement’

China has landed its uncrewed Chang’e-6 lunar probe on the far side of the moon, marking an important step in the country’s 53-day mission to retrieve rock and soil samples from the “dark” lunar hemisphere, in what would be a world first.

The landing elevates China’s space power status in a global rush to the moon, where countries including the US are hoping to exploit lunar minerals to sustain long-term astronaut missions and moon bases within the next decade.

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The Shadow of Tiananmen Falls on Hong Kong
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The anniversary of the massacre coincides with verdicts in the trial of the pro-democracy activists known as the Hong Kong 47.
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How AI Will Change Democracy
2024-05-31T11:04:01Z

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to predict that artificial intelligence will affect every aspect of our society. Not by doing new things. But mostly by doing things that are already being done by humans, perfectly competently.

Replacing humans with AIs isn’t necessarily interesting. But when an AI takes over a human task, the task changes.

In particular, there are potential changes over four dimensions: Speed, scale, scope and sophistication. The problem with AIs trading stocks isn’t that they’re better than humans—it’s that they’re faster. But computers are better at chess and Go because they use more sophisticated strategies than humans. We’re worried about AI-controlled social media accounts because they operate on a superhuman scale...

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India’s early election results point to rebuke for Modi and his party
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:53:01 +0000
The results appear to mark a rare setback for a politician who has never failed to secure a majority in state or national elections over a 23-year political career.
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India election results 2024 live: Vote count shows Narendra Modi’s alliance winning surprisingly narrow majority
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:38:48 GMT

Narendra Modi’s alliance heading for narrow majority as vote-counting in general election nears completion, according to projections

• Modi poised for third term but may fall short of landslide

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance, the NDA bloc, is enjoying an early lead as votes are counted, pulling ahead in 154 seats of the total 543 in the lower house of parliament.

Early trends show the opposition INDIA alliance leading in 120 seats.

The first votes counted are postal ballots, which are paper ballots, mostly cast by troops serving outside their home constituencies or officials away from home on election duty.

This year, postal votes were also offered to voters over 85 years of age and people with disabilities to allow them to vote from home.

According to some exit polls, Modi and the BJP could be headed for a two-thirds majority in parliament, giving them an even stronger victory than in the 2019 elections.

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What to know about India’s election, the world’s biggest democratic event
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:52:23 +0000
After 47 days of elections, Indians will get a new Parliament that the Bharatiya Janata Party is still expected to dominate.
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India election and a boy pulls a face: photos of the day – Tuesday
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:04:28 GMT

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

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Modi poised for third term but may fall short of landslide Indian election win
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:00:01 GMT

Early results indicate prime minister’s BJP party unlikely to win two-thirds majority predicted by exit polls

• India election results – live updates

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, looks poised to win a third term in power – but early election results indicate he has not achieved the landslide victory many had predicted.

By early Tuesday afternoon, with half of the 640m votes counted, initial results showed that Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) and its political allies had won 290 seats, enough to form a majority government to rule for the next five years.

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Modi to speak as he claims victory in closer-than-expected Indian election
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:22:04 GMT
"People have placed their faith in NDA (National Democratic Alliance) for a third consecutive time," Modi says. "This is a historical feat."
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India elections: exit polls show Narendra Modi expected to win historic third term
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 03:50:16 GMT

Modi’s ruling BJP may gain a two-thirds majority, amid allegations of intimidation of opposition candidates and Muslim voter suppression

Voting has come to a close in India’s mammoth elections, as exit polls widely predicted prime minister Narendra Modi would win a historic third term in proceedings marred by allegations of irregularities.

The election, the longest and largest in India’s history with almost a billion eligible voters, began in mid-April. As it progressed over seven phases until 1 June, a deadly heatwave gripped the country, with temperatures almost touching 50C in areas, leading to deaths of dozens of voters and polling officials.

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Modi’s alliance to win easily in India election, exit polls project
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 17:41:22 GMT

Prime minister claims victory but opposition dismisses poll results as fixed and unscientific

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP)-led alliance is projected to win a big majority in the general election that concluded on Saturday, TV exit polls said, suggesting it would do better than expected by most analysts.

Most exit polls projected the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) could win a two-thirds majority in the 543-member lower house of parliament, where 272 is needed for a simple majority. A two-thirds majority will allow the government to usher in far-reaching amendments to the constitution.

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Sensor error means New Delhi heatwave record overstated by 3C
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 11:48:51 GMT

Meteorologists found 52.9C reading to be false, though new record does appear to have been set

A record temperature registered this week for the Indian capital of 52.9C (127.22F) was too high by 3C, the Indian government has said.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) had investigated Wednesday’s reading by the weather station at Mungeshpur, a densely packed corner of New Delhi, “and found a 3C sensor error”, the earth sciences minister, Kiren Rijiju, said.

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Columbia Coincidentally Rewrites Disciplinary Rules Just in Time to Screw Over Student Protesters
Fri, 31 May 2024 17:15:57 +0000

“It’s hard to see this wildly disproportionate response as anything other than an attempt to chill speech on this issue.”

The post Columbia Coincidentally Rewrites Disciplinary Rules Just in Time to Screw Over Student Protesters appeared first on The Intercept.

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These Convictions Thwart Trump’s Plan to Pardon Himself
Thu, 30 May 2024 22:24:07 +0000

Found guilty on 34 counts by a New York jury, Trump might find himself campaigning behind bars.

The post These Convictions Thwart Trump’s Plan to Pardon Himself appeared first on The Intercept.

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Grilled aubergine with West Indian hot pepper sauce – Melissa Thompson’s barbecue recipe
Fri, 31 May 2024 10:28:52 GMT

Bring some Caribbean heat to this veggie dish that works great as a standout main or flavour-packed side

Aubergines roasted over fire, glazed with umami-rich miso and the fruity heat of Encona West Indian Original Hot Pepper Sauce – yum! Encona has done a lot of the work already – the sauce has heat and fruitiness from scotch bonnets and tang from vinegar – so you’re building flavour from a really delicious, complex base. Cook a load of these to pile high as a side for guests to feast on, or have them as a quick and tasty midweek dinner.

This recipe is veggie (and can easily be made plant based by replacing the honey with maple syrup or agave nectar), and has loads of flavour, which makes for a deeply satisfying meal.

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Match ID: 32 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 25.00 india

The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms
Fri, 31 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

All over the country, architecture firms make the case for bigger jails — then get hired to design them.

The post The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 33 Score: 25.00 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 25.00 india

My Father’s Fate, and India’s
Fri, 31 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
As Narendra Modi vies for a third straight term, an appraisal of the damage wrought by his Hindu-nationalist project—and the effort by ordinary Indians to reëmbrace the country’s founding ideals.
Match ID: 34 Score: 25.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 25.00 india

The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a Virginia shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines.
Match ID: 35 Score: 22.86 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
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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
Match ID: 36 Score: 22.86 source: www.economist.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 22.86 china

Joe Biden’s Terrible Israel Policy Is Really About Getting in Bed With Saudi Arabia
Thu, 30 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Biden's plan to cozy up to Arab dictators is right out of Donald Trump's playbook — but even worse.

The post Joe Biden’s Terrible Israel Policy Is Really About Getting in Bed With Saudi Arabia appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 37 Score: 22.86 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
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‘Largest Botnet Ever’ Tied to Billions in Stolen Covid-19 Relief Funds
Wed, 29 May 2024 21:16:13 +0000
The US says a Chinese national operated the “911 S5” botnet, which included computers worldwide and was used to file hundreds of thousands of fraudulent Covid claims and distribute CSAM, among other crimes.
Match ID: 38 Score: 22.86 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 22.86 china

Nvidia jumps ahead of itself and reveals next-gen “Rubin” AI chips in keynote tease
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:13:10 +0000
"I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to regret this," says CEO Jensen Huang at Computex 2024.
Match ID: 39 Score: 20.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 20.00 taiwan

Young men flee Myanmar in panic after struggling military starts draft
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:00:28 +0000
Tens of thousands have left for Thailand after Myanmar’s military, facing repeated battlefield losses, announced it aimed to conscript 60,000 soldiers.
Match ID: 40 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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AI hardware firm Nvidia unveils next-gen products at Taiwan tech expo
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:28:00 GMT

CEO Jensen Huang tells packed stadium in Taipei ‘next Industrial Revolution has begun’

Nvidia has unveiled new products and plans to accelerate the advance of artificial intelligence, with the AI hardware company’s chief executive telling a packed stadium in Taipei on Sunday that “the next Industrial Revolution has begun”.

Jensen Huang is in Taiwan for the island’s leading tech expo, Computex, along with the CEOs of some of the world’s biggest semiconductor companies – including AMD, Intel and Qualcomm – and their plans for a tech industry dominated by AI are top of the agenda.

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Match ID: 41 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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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: 42 Score: 20.00 source: www.economist.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 20.00 india

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

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

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

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

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Match ID: 43 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 5 days
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Philippines Kanlaon volcano erupts sending 5km ash cloud into sky
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 02:57:53 GMT

Residents living near the volcano have been ordered to evacuate as authorities warn of further eruptions

Authorities in the Philippines have ordered residents living near Kanlaon volcano in the country’s west to evacuate, after an eruption sent a 5km (three mile) plume of ash into the sky.

The six-minute explosive eruption on Monday caused a “strong earthquake” and prompted the suspension of work and schools in nearby Canlaon City, while three airlines cancelled 32 flights on Tuesday.

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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: 45 Score: 10.71 source: www.economist.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china, 5.00 india

Number of asylum seekers on Nauru jumps as Australia transfers 37 people who arrived by boat
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:09:04 GMT

Deterrence policy against asylum seeker boats is under strain, with three vessels arriving in a week in May

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The number of asylum seekers on Nauru appears to have topped 100, with a further two groups of 37 people sent to the Pacific Island.

The people, classified as “unauthorised maritime arrivals”, include 33 Bangladeshis who were found on Christmas Island on 9 May, one of who is a woman. Their boat was destroyed by bad weather.

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Match ID: 46 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Is turbulence getting worse? And where were the worst flight paths in 2023 – video
Wed, 29 May 2024 02:13:28 GMT

We know turbulence is a common part of flying – but are some routes more prone? And where is it the worst? Turbulence is the leading cause of in-flight injuries to crew and passengers and after the fatal Singapore Airlines incident and injuries to passengers above Turkey on a Qatar Airways flight, you might be wondering if flights are about to get bumpier. Incidents of severe turbulence are on the rise – increasing by 55% between 1979 and 2020 – and the climate crisis is thought to be a responsible factor

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• What causes turbulence on flights and which routes around the world are most affected?

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Match ID: 47 Score: 8.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 6 days
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The Taiwanese civilians training for a Chinese invasion – video
Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:05:28 GMT

Kuo Chiu, known as KC to his friends, teaches urban design at Tunghai University in Taiwan. He’s also one of many of the country's citizens who practises rifle skills in his spare time, in case of a Chinese invasion.

The population of Taiwan has long grown familiar with Beijing’s pledge to one day ‘unify’ what it claims is a breakaway province. But recently, there has been a significant increase in aggressive and intimidatory acts.

Taiwan’s 160,000 active military personnel are vastly outnumbered by China’s 2 million-member armed forces, leading many civilians to turn to voluntary medical and combat training to protect themselves.

The Guardian's video team spent time with KC to see how he is preparing

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Match ID: 48 Score: 8.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 146 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china, 2.86 taiwan

The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump
Sat, 25 May 2024 15:40:00 +0000

He tells the world he intends to be an authoritarian. So why won’t journalists repeat it?

The post The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 49 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

The property firm that could break China’s back
Thu, 16 May 2024 10:04:20 +0000
If Vanke collapses, so might confidence in the state’s management of the economy
Match ID: 50 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 19 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
Match ID: 51 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:58:40 +0000
China would not be happy
Match ID: 52 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 26 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

What would get China’s consumers spending?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:49 +0000
Clues from a grocer in a fourth-tier city
Match ID: 53 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 26 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:57 +0000
Despite his protestations, the country does have an overcapacity problem
Match ID: 54 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 26 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:14 +0000
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
Match ID: 55 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 35 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
Match ID: 56 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 41 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:05:21 +0000
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
Match ID: 57 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 47 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:33:05 +0000
The country’s leaders are too complacent about deflation
Match ID: 58 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 49 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:02:17 +0000
Hint: it is not a fondness for cryptocurrencies
Match ID: 59 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 54 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s state is eating the private property market
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:50:47 +0000
Pity those soon to buy a home
Match ID: 60 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 54 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
Match ID: 61 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 65 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:12:05 +0000
As is becoming increasingly obvious
Match ID: 62 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:12:06 +0000
For the first time in 17 years, officials raise interest rates
Match ID: 63 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 77 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
Match ID: 64 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 77 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:55:00 +0000
What a visit to an optimistic port reveals
Match ID: 65 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 82 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:37:33 +0000
The hunt for grains with a silica concentration of more than 99.9%
Match ID: 66 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 82 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
Match ID: 67 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 97 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china

As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:21:14 +0000
Will more now favour domestic stocks?
Match ID: 68 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 103 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan

A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come
Thu, 23 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000
Thousands of fingerprints and facial images linked to police in India have been exposed online. Researchers say it’s a warning of what will happen as the collection of biometric data increases.
Match ID: 69 Score: 5.00 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

NASA Licenses 3D-Printable Superalloy to Benefit US Economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:14:04 +0000
NASA’s investment in a breakthrough superalloy developed for the extreme temperatures and harsh conditions of air and spaceflight is on the threshold of paying commercial dividends. The agency is licensing its invention, dubbed “GRX-810,” to four American companies, a practice that benefits the United States economy as a return on investment of taxpayer dollars. GRX-810 […]
Match ID: 70 Score: 5.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 26 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Find the latest India election results here
Thu, 09 May 2024 01:57:51 GMT
Follow the results live as votes are counted in India, the world's biggest democracy.
Match ID: 71 Score: 5.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 26 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: 72 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 33 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: 73 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 54 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: 74 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 61 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

How India could become an Asian tiger
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:11:52 +0000
The world’s most selective bureaucracy is struggling to make it happen
Match ID: 75 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 69 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india

Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention
Fri, 24 May 2024 11:48:00 +0000

Khaled Al Serr, a young surgeon, vanished from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis two months ago. He hasn’t been heard from since.

The post Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 76 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 4.29 indonesia

Four kids left: The Thai school swallowed by the sea – video
Wed, 15 May 2024 10:47:18 GMT

Ban Khun Samut Chin, a coastal village in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, has been slowly swallowed by the sea over the past few decades. This has led to the relocation of the school and many homes, resulting in a dwindling population. Currently, there are only four students attending the school, often leaving just one in each classroom. The village has experienced severe coastal erosion, causing 1.1-2km (0.5-1.2 miles) of shoreline to disappear since the mid-1950s

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Match ID: 77 Score: 2.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 2.86 thailand

Meet NASA Women Behind World’s Largest Flying Laboratory
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:30:48 +0000
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft – the world’s largest flying science laboratory – began its science missions in 1987 and since then, has flown in service of the science community over places like Antarctica, Greenland, and Thailand. Aircraft like the DC-8 have enabled scientists to ask questions about life on Earth and explore them in a way […]
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To Understand the Trump Verdict, Look at the Case Against Shukhratjon Mirsaidov
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:32:47 +0000

Trump fans say his conviction is an overreach. But a close look at another recent fraud trial shows his case was run-of-the-mill.

The post To Understand the Trump Verdict, Look at the Case Against Shukhratjon Mirsaidov appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 0 Score: 40.00 source: theintercept.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 federal judge(|s), 15.00 judge

The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms
Fri, 31 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

All over the country, architecture firms make the case for bigger jails — then get hired to design them.

The post The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 1 Score: 28.57 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 17.86 federal judge(|s), 10.71 judge

Leonard Leo Built the Conservative Court. Now He’s Funneling Dark Money Into Law Schools.
Wed, 29 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The megadonor’s plan for a $25 million research center at Cornell fell apart. So he took his money to Texas A&M.

The post Leonard Leo Built the Conservative Court. Now He’s Funneling Dark Money Into Law Schools. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 2 Score: 19.29 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 8.57 new law, 6.43 judge, 4.29 congress

Michael Cohen’s family doxed in wake of testimony in Trump criminal trial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:58:11 GMT

Former Trump fixer laments ‘sad times we are living through’ as addresses and phone numbers of wife and children posted online

Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen has become the latest target of doxing efforts by supporters of the former president following Trump’s conviction of criminally falsifying business records last week.

According to Advance Democracy, the addresses and phone numbers of Cohen’s wife and children were posted on a website on Monday, days after the non-profit group warned of a high volume of social media posts containing violent rhetoric targeting the New York judge Juan Merchan and the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, each of whom played key roles in Trump’s conviction.

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Match ID: 3 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Louisiana legislature passes surgical castration law for sex offenders
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:51:04 GMT

If signed by governor, state could surgically castrate people convicted of sex crimes against children younger than 13 years old

Louisiana judges could order surgical castration for people convicted of sex crimes against young children under legislation approved on Monday – and if the Republican governor, Jeff Landry, signs it into law, the state apparently would be the first with such a punishment.

The Republican-controlled state legislature passed the bill giving judges the option to sentence someone to surgical castration after the person has been convicted of certain aggravated sex crimes – including rape, incest and molestation – against a child under 13.

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Match ID: 4 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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The judge overseeing the Hunter Biden case is nearly done with jury selection, having narrowed the...
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:49:34 +0000

Match ID: 5 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Winners Announced in Gateways to Blue Skies Aeronautics Competition
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:04:51 +0000
The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, team, with their project titled “Aero-Quake Emergency Response Network,” took first place at the third annual Gateways to Blue Skies Competition. Competing among eight finalist teams that presented their ideas for aviation-related systems for natural disasters, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona team earned the top award at the […]
Match ID: 6 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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The judge and lawyers continue to work into the early afternoon without a lunch break so...
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:36:21 +0000

Match ID: 7 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Artemis Generation Shines During NASA’s 2024 Lunabotics Challenge
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:17:47 +0000
Members of the Artemis Generation kicked up some simulated lunar dust as part of NASA’s 2024 Lunabotics Challenge, held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. When the dust settled, two teams emerged from Artemis Arena as the grand prize winners of this year’s competition.  […]
Match ID: 8 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Guantánamo Prosecutors Accused of “Outrageous” Misconduct for Trying to Use Torture Testimony
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Government prosecutors claimed they didn’t know a former detainee recanted his testimony in interviews with the government.

The post Guantánamo Prosecutors Accused of “Outrageous” Misconduct for Trying to Use Torture Testimony appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 9 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 judge

These Convictions Thwart Trump’s Plan to Pardon Himself
Thu, 30 May 2024 22:24:07 +0000

Found guilty on 34 counts by a New York jury, Trump might find himself campaigning behind bars.

The post These Convictions Thwart Trump’s Plan to Pardon Himself appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 10 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 10.71 judge

Donald Trump Is Guilty in His New York Hush-Money Trial
Thu, 30 May 2024 21:22:47 +0000
The jury has convicted the former President of thirty-four felony counts in his New York hush-money trial. Now the American people will decide to what extent they care.
Match ID: 11 Score: 10.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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Biden attacks Trump as ‘convicted felon’ after 34-count guilty verdict in hush-money trial – live
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:35:03 GMT

Joe Biden says Donald Trump ‘does not deserve to be president whether or not I’m running’ in campaign speech

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Joe Biden will deliver a speech at 2pm, the White House just announced.

Chances are it will be to announce his executive order on immigration, but his administration did not specify what Biden will talk about.

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Match ID: 12 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Congress may delay farm bill until after Election Day
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:09:16 +0000

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As a congressman defended Trump, his 6-year-old son stole the spotlight
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:06:15 +0000
Rep. John Rose’s son, Guy — who said his dad’s speech was “so boring” — made faces and played with a toy as his father railed against Donald Trump’s criminal conviction.
Match ID: 14 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:43:31 GMT

Ex-leader of US Covid response said congresswoman and Fox News sparked ‘credible death threats’ against him and his family

After Anthony Fauci appeared at a contentious US House hearing on Monday, the former top public health official who led the nation’s response to Covid-19 singled out the far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Fox News as drivers of the “credible death threats” that he described to lawmakers.

“Whether it’s … news media – you know Fox News does it a lot – or it’s somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that … the deaths of X number of people [were] because of policies or some crazy idea that I created, immediately, it’s like clockwork: the death threats go way up,” Fauci said in an interview with CNN.

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Match ID: 15 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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For Decades, Officials Knew a School Sat on a Former Dump — and Did Little to Clean Up the Toxins
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

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

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

Match ID: 16 Score: 10.00 source: theintercept.com age: 0 days
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Benjamin Netanyahu set to address joint session of US Congress for fourth time
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:39:16 GMT

The Israeli PM’s invitation comes amid deep differences with the Biden administration

Benjamin Netanyahu is set to become the first foreign leader to address a joint session of the US Congress four times, despite deep differences with the Biden administration.

The Israeli prime minister’s office said in a statement that a date for his address to Congress had yet to be set, but that it would not take place on 13 June as had been reported, due to a Jewish holiday.

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Match ID: 17 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum poised to secure supermajority after historic win
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:52:35 GMT

The leader of the Morena party could pass legislation and budgets unopposed through congress

• She is poised to become Mexico’s first female president. Can she escape Amlo’s shadow?

Claudia Sheinbaum seems poised to cement her historic victory as Mexico’s first female president with a supermajority in congress that would let her party pass legislation and budgets unopposed – and perhaps even change the constitution without need for compromise.

Sheinbaum, a 61-year-old climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with 59.5% of the vote, according to a rapid sample count by Mexico’s electoral authority.

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South Africa’s ANC faces tough decisions after losing majority
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:43:57 GMT

Party will have to pick coalition partners and then try to reform itself in response to declining support

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has lost its three-decade electoral majority in devastating fashion. As the former liberation movement faces the task of building a coalition government, it remains to be seen how it will respond to the message sent to it by voters.

The ANC’s vote share collapsed from 57.5% in 2019 to 40.2% in last week’s elections, amid chronic unemployment, degraded public services and high rates of violent crime.

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Match ID: 19 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as its first female president in landslide victory
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 08:27:43 GMT

Former Mexico City mayor’s Morena party also on track for possible two-thirds supermajority in Congress

Claudia Sheinbaum has won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose popularity among the poor helped drive her triumph.

Sheinbaum, a leftwing climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a rapid sample count by Mexico’s electoral authority.

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Final results in seismic South Africa election confirm ANC has lost majority
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 18:56:10 GMT

ANC says demands that President Cyril Ramaphosa must step down is ‘no-go area’ as rival Jacob Zuma stokes fears of violence

Final results from Wednesday’s seismic South Africa elections have confirmed that the African National Congress (ANC) party has lost its majority for the first time in 30 years of full democracy, firing the starting gun on unprecedented coalition talks.

The ANC, which led the fight to free South Africa from apartheid, won just 159 seats in the 400-member national assembly on a vote share of just over 40%. High unemployment, power cuts, violent crime and crumbling infrastructure have contributed to a haemorrhaging of support for the former liberation movement.

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South Africa to embark on new political path after ANC loses majority
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 15:15:59 GMT

After 30 years in power, the African National Congress, which took 40.2% of the vote, must engage in tricky coalition talks with rivals

The African National Congress’s (ANC) three decades of political dominance in South Africa has come to an end after it was announced that it had won just 40.2% of the vote in last week’s general election.

The ANC’s dramatic decline – the first time it has failed to win a majority of the votes since Nelson Mandela led it to victory in the first democratic election in 1994 – will lead to a chaotic round of coalition negotiations, with all of its potential partners posing difficulties.

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Which parties could South Africa’s ANC go into coalition with?
Fri, 31 May 2024 17:20:31 GMT

Collapse in support means ANC may not reach 50% vote share needed to rule alone. Which parties are contenders for coalition?

South Africa is facing the uncertain possibility of a coalition government after a collapse in support for the ruling African National Congress party in Wednesday’s election meant it probably will not reach the 50% vote share needed for it to rule on its own. Here is a guide to the three main contenders for coalition partners:

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Scarlett Johansson Isn’t Alone. The Intercept Is Getting Ripped Off by OpenAI Too.
Tue, 21 May 2024 21:46:07 +0000

The Intercept’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft shows how digital outlets are uniquely vulnerable.

The post Scarlett Johansson Isn’t Alone. The Intercept Is Getting Ripped Off by OpenAI Too. appeared first on The Intercept.

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The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump
Sat, 25 May 2024 15:40:00 +0000

He tells the world he intends to be an authoritarian. So why won’t journalists repeat it?

The post The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump appeared first on The Intercept.

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After Torturing Him, U.S. Breaks Guarantees of Safety to Former Guantánamo Detainee
Tue, 21 May 2024 14:30:00 +0000

The U.S. held Saeed Bakhouch at Guantánamo Bay for 20 years without charge, then sent him to have his rights violated in Algeria.

The post After Torturing Him, U.S. Breaks Guarantees of Safety to Former Guantánamo Detainee appeared first on The Intercept.

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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Can Appeal His Extradition to the US, British Court Says
Mon, 20 May 2024 12:57:45 +0000
Two judges in London have ruled that WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the US on freedom of speech grounds.
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This AIPAC Donor Funnels Millions to an IDF Unit Accused of Violating Human Rights
Thu, 23 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The battalion has a dedicated U.S. nonprofit to support its operations — whose president is supporting AIPAC’s political agenda.

The post This AIPAC Donor Funnels Millions to an IDF Unit Accused of Violating Human Rights appeared first on The Intercept.

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Conditioning Aid to Israel Would Boost Support for Biden in Key States, New Poll Finds
Tue, 21 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In the survey of Democrats and independents in five battleground states, 2 in 5 voters said a ceasefire and conditioning aid would make them more likely to vote for Biden.

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Russia-Ukraine war: Russia announces fresh sanctions against UK figures over ‘hostile’ actions – as it happened
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:00:37 GMT

‘Establishment figures’, journalists and experts banned from entering country over what it terms ‘provocative anti-Russian rhetoric’

Here’s a bit of detail from the Financial Times’ report that the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline project has run into trouble. Spokespeople for both Beijing and Moscow issued statements in relation to reports that the project is deadlocked – so in case you’ve not read the FT’s report, this is what that’s all about.

Citing three people close to the matter, the FT reported that the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline project has stalled over demands made by Beijing on price and supply levels.

What is Beijing asking for? It concerns both prices and supply, according to the FT’s sources. The people familiar with the matter told the newspaper that China wants to pay little more than Russia’s heavily subsidised domestic prices and would only commit to buying a small proportion of the pipeline’s planned annual capacity.

What does this mean? It shows how Beijing has the upper hand in this deal – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left president Vladimir Putin increasingly dependent on China as Gazprom suffers heavy losses.

What is the Kremlin asking for? When Putin and Xi met last month in Beijing, Putin made three key requests, according to the people familiar with the matter. A deal on the pipeline; more Chinese bank activity in Russia; and for China to decline to attend a peace conference being organised by Ukraine.

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Wong calls for Gaza ceasefire saying ‘this war must end’ – as it happened
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:37:25 GMT

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For a bit of a change of pace, you may enjoy this essay from Malcolm Turnbull in Foreign Affairs, where he outlines how he believes world leaders can deal with a second Trump presidency.

Turnbull bases a lot of his arguments on his own dealings with Donald Trump while prime minister. He runs through the infamous refugee deal phone call (the transcript of which was leaked) and the trade back-and-forths over tariffs.

The caricature of Trump as a one-dimensional, irrational monster is so entrenched that many forget that he can be, when it suits him, intelligently transactional. Like most bullies, he will bend others to his will when he can, and when he cannot, he will try to make a deal. But to get to the deal-making stage, Trump’s counterparts have to stand up to the bullying first.

I would certainly like to see the performance lifted. I would like to see better outcomes, particularly for the more vulnerable cohorts.

We also have work going on, in response to a parliamentary inquiry into the employment services system, going on in parallel to overseeing this new system.

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UK bank Standard Chartered accused of helping to fund Iran and terrorists
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:53:57 GMT

Lender denies whistleblowers’ claim transactions worth $100bn were carried out in breach of sanctions

Whistleblowers have claimed Standard Chartered allegedly carried out billions of dollars of previously undetected transactions for Iran-linked entities and terrorist organisations, according to a New York court filing.

Two whistleblowers, who include a former executive at the British bank, filed a motion last week to set aside a judgment that dismissed an earlier lawsuit they filed, in an attempt to revive their efforts.

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BDS founder hails campus protests for taking Israeli divestment mainstream
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:00:10 GMT

Omar Barghouti, who attended Columbia University in 80s, says student solidarity with Palestine has educated the world

The student-led protests demanding universities cut financial and academic ties to Israel have led to unprecedented support for the Palestinian liberation struggle, and have propelled the divestment debate into the mainstream, according to the co-founder of the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights defender who helped launch the BDS movement almost 20 years ago, said the students’ solidarity had helped educate the world about the Israeli occupation and “apartheid” while exposing the hypocrisy – and repressive tendencies – of some of the world’s most prestigious universities with investments in corporations which put “profit before people and the planet”.

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Joe Biden’s Terrible Israel Policy Is Really About Getting in Bed With Saudi Arabia
Thu, 30 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Biden's plan to cozy up to Arab dictators is right out of Donald Trump's playbook — but even worse.

The post Joe Biden’s Terrible Israel Policy Is Really About Getting in Bed With Saudi Arabia appeared first on The Intercept.

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Biden attacks Trump as ‘convicted felon’ after 34-count guilty verdict in hush-money trial – live
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:35:03 GMT

Joe Biden says Donald Trump ‘does not deserve to be president whether or not I’m running’ in campaign speech

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Joe Biden will deliver a speech at 2pm, the White House just announced.

Chances are it will be to announce his executive order on immigration, but his administration did not specify what Biden will talk about.

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Former Trump aides charged in Wisconsin over 2020 elector plot
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:33:11 +0000
Attorney Kenneth Chesebro is among three aides charged in Wisconsin. Separate cases related to Trump’s 2020 efforts have been filed in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Georgia.
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‘I will not be intimidated’: Garland rebuts contempt threats from House GOP
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:32:49 +0000
House Republicans are expected to grill the attorney general about the federal prosecutions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden.
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Elections 2024 live updates: Trump facing primary voters for first time as a felon
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:09:16 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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As a congressman defended Trump, his 6-year-old son stole the spotlight
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:06:15 +0000
Rep. John Rose’s son, Guy — who said his dad’s speech was “so boring” — made faces and played with a toy as his father railed against Donald Trump’s criminal conviction.
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Nuclear issue looms over Iranian presidential election to succeed Raisi
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:25:54 GMT

About 80 candidates put names forward for vetting against backdrop of confrontation with west

About 80 candidates have registered to stand in Iran’s presidential election on 28 June, taking place against the backdrop of a growing confrontation with the west over Tehran’s nuclear weapons programme and UN access to its nuclear sites.

The winner will replace Ebrahim Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash in May.

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Trump, Covid, the climate crisis – we’ve had a hard few years. The wounds linger | Rebecca Solnit
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:19:54 GMT

Our catastrophes have wrought psychic devastation. It’s worth acknowledging that and trying to be kind to one another

Everything is weird and everyone is wrecked. This is maybe the biggest and least acknowledged truth of life in the United States and a lot of places beyond right now. It’s the pandemic; the eight years of Trumpism; the distortions, disruptions and corruptions Silicon Valley has promulgated and other looming menaces, including climate chaos. We all know this, because we’re living it, but maybe we should talk more about the fact that our political catastrophes are inseparable from widespread psychic devastation, that the public and private, political and personal, are entangled – or rather that the former has wrought havoc on the latter.

The wisest people I know are aware that the stresses, atrocities, divisions and divergences from norms of recent years have made them (and everyone else) exhausted and brittle. The less wise but no less brittle either lash out with the sense that what’s wrong is definitely someone else or take refuge in cults and oversimplified versions in which they are at least in control of what it all means.

Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunatabua of the climate anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

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Michael Cohen’s family doxed in wake of testimony in Trump criminal trial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:58:11 GMT

Former Trump fixer laments ‘sad times we are living through’ as addresses and phone numbers of wife and children posted online

Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen has become the latest target of doxing efforts by supporters of the former president following Trump’s conviction of criminally falsifying business records last week.

According to Advance Democracy, the addresses and phone numbers of Cohen’s wife and children were posted on a website on Monday, days after the non-profit group warned of a high volume of social media posts containing violent rhetoric targeting the New York judge Juan Merchan and the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, each of whom played key roles in Trump’s conviction.

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Former president Donald Trump’s campaign has a prebuttal to President Biden’s expected signing of an executive...
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:27:43 +0000

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Analysis: Non-Trump Republicans are reminded that the party isn’t really theirs
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:55:39 +0000

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Arguments in Trump’s Georgia appeal set for October, likely delaying trial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:37:11 +0000

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Stormy Daniels has never been cowed. And now, she is vindicated | Zoe Williams
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:00:11 GMT

What she has been through would sink most people. But the woman at the white-hot centre of Donald Trump’s 34 felony convictions was always going to hold her nerve

In the opening scene of Stormy, the documentary about Stormy Daniels’ life, she says: “I have just been tormented for the last five years or so. And here I am, I’m still here.” Probably the worst of the torment has been from Donald Trump’s supporters, though they’ve never got together to explain what they’re angry about. Is it that Daniels claims she had sex with Trump, in 2006? That she accepted $130,000 to keep quiet about it? Surely, if he’s the richest and most virile man America ever produced, you’d think that was no big deal for him, and nice for her?

Instead, as she described on the stand, giving evidence against Trump, the Maga lot have made her life a misery. Death threats layered with lurid threats of sexual violence, enough that she was constantly worried for the safety of her family, have poured in since 2018, when the Wall Street Journal first broke the story.

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Taylor Swift deepfakes on X falsely depict her supporting Trump
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Republicans seek revenge for Trump conviction in hush money case
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:29:31 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Arguments in Trump’s Georgia appeal set for October, probably delaying trial
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:29:31 +0000

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Non-Trump Republicans are reminded that the party isn’t really theirs
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:21:06 +0000
You can be a Republican and not like Trump, but you are not welcome to share that opinion.
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Trump to return to Arizona for first campaign event since convictions
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:13:21 +0000

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A Former President’s Daughter Used X to Bombard South Africa With Conspiracy Theories
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:55:18 +0000
A vast majority of the election-related disinformation a South African watchdog group identified came from X, where Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla posted a fake video featuring a Donald Trump endorsement.
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Analysis: Trump’s many dog whistles about unrest and violence
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:26:44 +0000

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The last thing Trump will do is rebuild trust in institutions
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:08:04 +0000
In an interview with Fox News, Trump was asked how he would rebuild confidence in institutions. Why would he try?
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Dems weigh local ties, anti-Trump fame in primary for Spanberger seat
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:10:06 +0000

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Trump’s many dog whistles about unrest and violence
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:55:26 +0000
The former president’s post-conviction comment about a “breaking point” follows a long line of suggestive comments. The thrust is unmistakable.
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Trump falsely accuses Biden of trying to take him out ‘with deadly force’
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:50:27 +0000

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Analysis: Trump’s guilty verdict sharpens the two big questions of this election
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:25:03 +0000

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To Understand the Trump Verdict, Look at the Case Against Shukhratjon Mirsaidov
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:32:47 +0000

Trump fans say his conviction is an overreach. But a close look at another recent fraud trial shows his case was run-of-the-mill.

The post To Understand the Trump Verdict, Look at the Case Against Shukhratjon Mirsaidov appeared first on The Intercept.

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Analysis: ‘Lock him up’? Americans say Trump is guilty but lean against prison.
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:21:39 +0000

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‘Lock him up’? Americans say Trump is guilty but lean against prison.
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:18:01 +0000
Polls show that incarcerating Donald Trump could push more voters away. But they could also decide it’s overkill.
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Analysis: After the verdict, views of Trump’s N.Y. trial didn’t shift
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:01:10 +0000

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After the verdict, views of Trump’s N.Y. trial didn’t shift
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:14:15 +0000
The politics were baked in.
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Hunter Biden’s trial begins after weeks of blanket media coverage of Donald Trump’s criminal trial involving...
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:54:06 +0000

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Sheehy ad calls Trump’s conviction ‘state-sponsored political persecution’
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:18:36 +0000

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The reich stuff – what does Trump really have in common with Hitler?
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:00:31 GMT

Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists

When Donald Trump shared a video that dreamed of a “unified reich” if he wins the US presidential election, and took nearly a full day to remove it, the most shocking thing was how unshocking it was.

Trump has reportedly said before that Adolf Hitler did “some good things”, echoed the Nazi dictator by calling his political opponents “vermin” and saying immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”, and responded to a white supremacist march in Charlottesville by claiming that there were “very fine people on both sides”.

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How Donald Trump Could Weaponize US Surveillance in a Second Term
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Donald Trump has vowed to go after political enemies, undocumented immigrants, and others if he wins. Experts warn he could easily turn the surveillance state against his targets.
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A “Stunningly Decisive” End to Donald Trump’s Trial
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:03:30 +0000
The former President and Republican front-runner, a man who has rarely faced the consequences for his wrongdoing, was found guilty of thirty-four felony counts in his New York hush-money case. Will it matter?
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Outside the Trump Courthouse, Times Are Crazy and People Are Strange
Fri, 31 May 2024 18:12:03 +0000
A surreal gathering to hear the verdict included a crucifix-wielding town crier, someone yelling “Shawshank!,” and a frisson of violence.
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Everyone should be concerned about possible cooperation with Meloni, says Finnish candidate – Europe live
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:40:14 GMT

Maria Guzenina, Finnish Social Democratic party candidate, says ‘it would be a mistake’ to bring Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy into the centre

Robert Biedroń, a member of the European parliament from Poland’s New Left, said in an email that “if I should describe our goal in just one word, it would definitely be mobilisation and invitations of young voters to participate in the elections.”

“They must understand the power of change they possess,” he said.

In face of rising populism the whole EU, the European parliament campaign is taking an exceptional significance.

The choice made on 9 of June will not only shape the new European parliament but also the future of the EU.

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David Squires on … the Champions League final and Viní Jr’s coronation
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:30:24 GMT

Our cartoonist looks back at a familiar story as Real Madrid were crowned kings of Europe yet again

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Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000
YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It’s become "indispensable" to everyday people, making a ban tricky. Journalists and dissidents are taking advantage.
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Why are Green parties polling badly for the European elections?
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:18:58 GMT

There is little data to support fears of a ‘greenlash’ – instead voters may have other priorities such as inflation or the Ukraine war

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Voters may deal Green parties a blow that costs them up to one-third of their seats, if polls before this week’s European elections prove correct, in a shift that could lead to a rollback of climate policies with the effects rippling far beyond the continent.

At first glance, the projected slump in support – which follows months of protests from farmers against environmental rules – reads like a backlash against climate policies set by politicians who tried to move too far, too fast.

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Deepfake of U.S. Official Appears After Shift on Ukraine Attacks in Russia | A manufactured video fabricated comments by the State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller.
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Disinformation crisis unit on rapid alert around European elections
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:00:05 GMT

EU officials anticipate ‘narratives questioning the legitimacy of the elections’ for weeks afterwards

Debunking, prebunking and factchecking; correcting lies, fake news and race hate – battling disinformation before this week’s European elections has become a high-stakes, full-time job for hundreds of staff across the continent.

EU leaders are so concerned over foreign interference in the polls, due to take place from Thursday to Sunday, that they have put rapid alert teams on notice to swing into action in the event of a serious incident. Officials say the quantity of disinformation has reached “tsunami levels” – but political leaders have been the slowest to catch on.

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'Vote or face war': Poland PM's stark warning ahead of EU election
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 23:01:36 GMT
Donald Tusk is urging Poles to vote for his coalition, to best protect against Russian aggression.
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Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials say
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000
A Kremlin-backed media outlet — the Prague-based Voice of Europe — funneled hundreds of thousands of euros to far-right politicians, officials say.
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Zelensky comes to Asia and scolds China
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:00:05 +0000
Ukraine’s president is trying to enlist leaders in Asia into a greater project of diplomacy.
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Nice try Dortmund, but Real Madrid are kings of Europe again – Football Weekly
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 11:00:00 GMT

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Wilson, Archie Rhind-Tutt and Jonathan Fadugba for the final pod of the domestic season

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

On the podcast today; Real Madrid are outplayed for large parts of the game as Borussia Dortmund miss chance after chance in the first half but none of that matters does it? Because Real Madrid always win.

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Trump Campaign Claims $34.8 Million Windfall After Guilty Verdict
Fri, 31 May 2024 14:28:28 +0000
From small donors to rich Silicon Valley investors, Donald Trump enthusiasts signaled their support for the convicted felon by sending money to his campaign.
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The Revisionist History of the Trump Trial Has Already Begun
Fri, 31 May 2024 13:35:09 +0000
The ex-President’s war on truth has an instant new target: his guilty verdict.
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Inside Donald Trump’s hush-money trial: three key testimonies – video
Fri, 31 May 2024 02:35:05 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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When the Verdict Came In, Donald Trump’s Eyes Were Wide Open
Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:46 +0000
In the courtroom with the former President at the moment he became a convicted felon.
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These Convictions Thwart Trump’s Plan to Pardon Himself
Thu, 30 May 2024 22:24:07 +0000

Found guilty on 34 counts by a New York jury, Trump might find himself campaigning behind bars.

The post These Convictions Thwart Trump’s Plan to Pardon Himself appeared first on The Intercept.

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John Cuneo’s “A Man of Conviction”
Thu, 30 May 2024 22:06:20 +0000
The former President is found guilty on all thirty-four counts.
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Donald Trump Is Guilty in His New York Hush-Money Trial
Thu, 30 May 2024 21:22:47 +0000
The jury has convicted the former President of thirty-four felony counts in his New York hush-money trial. Now the American people will decide to what extent they care.
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 30th
Thu, 30 May 2024 15:58:53 +0000
“Why does it feel like we’re more nervous about the jury decision than Trump is?”
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Leonard Leo Built the Conservative Court. Now He’s Funneling Dark Money Into Law Schools.
Wed, 29 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The megadonor’s plan for a $25 million research center at Cornell fell apart. So he took his money to Texas A&M.

The post Leonard Leo Built the Conservative Court. Now He’s Funneling Dark Money Into Law Schools. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Reality check: the Reform UK party’s claims on the climate crisis examined
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:18:51 GMT

Richard Tice made some eye-opening statements on the climate, and the manifesto is packed with even more falsehoods

Despite 40C record heat in 2022 and the wettest 18 months on record this winter, this general election seems set to test the UK’s political consensus on climate change like never before.

Reform UK, the rightwing party that describes itself as offering “commonsense” policies on immigration and energy, has eschewed the consensus in favour of outright climate scepticism. So what exactly does the party have to say about global heating and the UK’s net zero target?

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World will miss target of tripling renewable electricity generation by 2030 – IEA
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 05:00:04 GMT

Analysis of policies of nearly 150 countries shows shortfall to hit target viewed as vital for transition from fossil fuels

The world is off track to meet the goal of tripling renewable electricity generation by 2030, a target viewed as vital to enable a swift global transition away from fossil fuels, but there are promising signs that the pace of progress may be picking up.

Countries agreed last December on a tripling of renewable power by the end of this decade. But few have yet taken concrete steps to meet this requirement and on current policies and trends global renewable generation capacity would only roughly double in developed countries, and slightly more than double globally by 2030, according to an analysis by the International Energy Agency.

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Improving energy supply in Pakistan could save 175,000 lives, says Unicef
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:00:06 GMT

As a heatwave sweeps the country increasing demand for power, a new report says a more resilient network could also contribute $300m to the economy

A study by the UN children’s agency has found that developing resilient energy systems to keep the power on in health facilities in Pakistan could prevent more than 175,000 deaths in the country by 2030.

The study comes as Pakistan is experiencing a blistering heatwave that has overstretched an already poor healthcare system. Last week, temperatures in various parts of the country reached highs of 49C (120F), causing a huge demand for power.

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Super impressive wall of wind turbines yield 2,200 kW of quiet energy
2024-06-04T02:21:46+00:00

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Summary of the 2023 Precipitation Measurement Mission Science Team Meeting
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:15:26 +0000
Andrea Portier, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Science Systems and Applications, Inc., andrea.m.portier@nasa.gov Introduction The annual Precipitation Measurement Mission (PMM) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place September 18–22, 2023, in Minneapolis, MN. The PMM program supports scientific research and applications, algorithm development, and ground-based validation activities for the completed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and current […]
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Spain turns cemeteries into solar powerhouses, aims 440,000 kW by 2030 | Put together, the cemeteries within city limits will generate 440,000 kW of electricity every year.
2024-06-03T14:46:00+00:00

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The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:49:03 +0000
Companies like Amazon and Microsoft are racing to set up new data centers in Europe, but behind the scenes there's concern about how to provide them enough power to meet AI's demands.
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‘There is nowhere to fish any more’: life in the shadow of Nigeria’s biggest industrial complex
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:00:24 GMT

The oil refinery and fertiliser plant just outside Lagos promised jobs and prosperity, but people complain of evictions, loss of livelihoods and health effects

On the outskirts of Lagos sits Africa’s largest oil refinery, and beside it, the continent’s biggest fertiliser plant. Armed men guard the gates and the perimeters are lined with floodlights and security cameras.

Owned by Dangote Industries, a multinational conglomerate founded by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s wealthiest person, the compounds are in the Lekki free trade zone, abutting the Atlantic Ocean about 30 miles outside Nigeria’s commercial capital. The zone was designated by the federal government to develop industry and jobs.

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Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought
Thu, 30 May 2024 18:51:48 +0000
Drought-stricken hydro dams have led to daily electricity cuts in Ecuador. As weather becomes less predictable due to climate change, experts say other countries need to take notice.
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Artemis Generation Shines During NASA’s 2024 Lunabotics Challenge
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:17:47 +0000
Members of the Artemis Generation kicked up some simulated lunar dust as part of NASA’s 2024 Lunabotics Challenge, held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. When the dust settled, two teams emerged from Artemis Arena as the grand prize winners of this year’s competition.  […]
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Starmer says he is prepared to use nuclear weapons
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:56:57 GMT
Sir Keir Starmer says "security will always come first" under his Labour, distancing himself from Jeremy Corbyn.
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Are We Doomed? Here’s How to Think About It
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear annihilation, biological warfare—the field of existential risk is a way to reason through the dizzying, terrifying headlines.
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Chris Mason: Why Labour are so keen to talk about defence
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 08:45:07 GMT
Labour sees defence - and its commitment to nuclear arms - as key to shifting voter perceptions of the party.
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Privacy Implications of Tracking Wireless Access Points
2024-05-29T11:01:24Z

Brian Krebs reports on research into geolocating routers:

Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geolocate devices. Researchers from the University of Maryland say they relied on publicly available data from Apple to track the location of billions of devices globally—including non-Apple devices like Starlink systems—and found they could use this data to monitor the destruction of Gaza, as well as the movements and in many cases identities of Russian and Ukrainian troops...

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The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump
Sat, 25 May 2024 15:40:00 +0000

He tells the world he intends to be an authoritarian. So why won’t journalists repeat it?

The post The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump appeared first on The Intercept.

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The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a Virginia shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines.
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On the Zero-Day Market
2024-05-24T11:07:53Z

New paper: “Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market“:

Abstract: Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that lets governments surveil their citizens and foreign adversaries alike and to do so more easily than when such work required tradecraft. The last ten years have also been marked by stark failures to control spyware and its precursors and components. This Article accounts for and critiques these failures, providing a socio-technical history since 2014, particularly focusing on the conversation about trade in zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits. Second, this Article applies lessons from these failures to guide regulatory efforts going forward. While recognizing that controlling this trade is difficult, I argue countries should focus on building and strengthening multilateral coalitions of the willing, rather than on strong-arming existing multilateral institutions into working on the problem. Individually, countries should focus on export controls and other sanctions that target specific bad actors, rather than focusing on restricting particular technologies. Last, I continue to call for transparency as a key part of oversight of domestic governments’ use of spyware and related components...

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After Pegasus Was Blacklisted, Its CEO Swore Off Spyware. Now He’s the King of Israeli AI.
Thu, 23 May 2024 19:22:45 +0000

Shalev Hulio is remaking his image but is still involved in a web of cybersecurity ventures with his old colleagues from NSO Group.

The post After Pegasus Was Blacklisted, Its CEO Swore Off Spyware. Now He’s the King of Israeli AI. appeared first on The Intercept.

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This AIPAC Donor Funnels Millions to an IDF Unit Accused of Violating Human Rights
Thu, 23 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The battalion has a dedicated U.S. nonprofit to support its operations — whose president is supporting AIPAC’s political agenda.

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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
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Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Lives
Sun, 26 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Is this what the “pro-life” movement wanted?

The post Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Lives appeared first on The Intercept.

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Conditioning Aid to Israel Would Boost Support for Biden in Key States, New Poll Finds
Tue, 21 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In the survey of Democrats and independents in five battleground states, 2 in 5 voters said a ceasefire and conditioning aid would make them more likely to vote for Biden.

The post Conditioning Aid to Israel Would Boost Support for Biden in Key States, New Poll Finds appeared first on The Intercept.

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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Trump Is Misleading You With Covid-Era Statistics. So Is Biden.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EST
Biden and Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
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This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message
Wed, 22 May 2024 17:08:47 +0000

Engineers warned Meta that nations can monitor chats; staff fear Israel is using this trick to pick assassination targets in Gaza.

The post This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message appeared first on The Intercept.

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US says Russia likely launched anti-satellite weapon
Wed, 22 May 2024 04:22:18 GMT
The Russian satellite launched last week may be capable of attacking other satellites, the Pentagon says.
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US Official Warns a Cell Network Flaw Is Being Exploited for Spying
Sat, 18 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Plus: Three arrested in North Korean IT workers fraud ring, Tesla staffers shared videos from owners’ cars, and more.
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:21:18 +0000
The question that now confronts Western policymakers
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What is happening to gas and electricity bills?
Fri, 24 May 2024 09:51:56 GMT
A new energy price cap means the cost of electricity and gas will fall from 1 July.
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Energy bills predicted to fall by 7% in July
Fri, 17 May 2024 11:47:34 GMT
If the forecast proves correct, it would mean a typical annual bill could be £500 lower than last summer.
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NASA Teammates Recall Favorite Memories Aboard Flying Laboratory
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000
After flying more than three decades and 158 science campaigns, just one flight remains. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory will make its final flight May 15 to Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, where it will be used to train future aircraft technicians by providing real-world experience in the college’s Aircraft Maintenance Technology Program. Before […]
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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‘Find people who understand you and be kind to yourself’: an expert guide to living well with neurodiversity
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:00:52 GMT

A GP, psychologist, nutritionist and fitness instructor give their advice on how to live healthily and happily with ADHD and autism

Dr Heidi Phillips, clinical advisor on neurodiversity for the Royal College of GPs

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England’s final Euro 2024 squad: who will go and who might miss out?
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:31:58 GMT

Bowen, Eze and Wharton boost their chances, Maddison and Watkins may struggle while Shaw and Maguire battle for fitness

Gareth Southgate is unlikely to drop any major surprises when he hands his final 26-man squad for Euro 2024 to Uefa after England’s game against Iceland on Friday night. Seven players will not make it past this week’s training camp but we can be sure that the casualties are not going to include the key men in attack, Harry Kane, Bukayo Saka, Phil Foden and Jude Bellingham. Further back, Jordan Pickford and Aaron Ramsdale stand above the other goalkeeping contenders, John Stones, Kyle Walker, Marc Guéhi and Kieran Trippier are prominent defensive options and there is no question over Trent Alexander-Arnold, Conor Gallagher, Kobbie Mainoo and Declan Rice in midfield. As for Cole Palmer, he has surely played himself in after a fine goalscoring display in the win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Daisy Ridley trained for months to play first woman to swim English Channel
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:10:34 +0000
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor: "There were so many different swimming elements to the role."
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Seeing Like a Data Structure
2024-06-03T11:06:54Z

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

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Y-Brush DuoBrush Sonic Toothbrush Review: U-Shaped and Sonic Brush Heads
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 12:30:00 +0000
A U-shaped toothbrush tray is good for a quick clean, but you need a regular toothbrush too. The DuoBrush has both options.
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Hot Dog Money: behind the bribery scandal that rocked college basketball
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:54:53 GMT

A new book looks back at the federal investigation that found bribery and corruption within a major industry and the informant who was at the center

On 26 September 2018, 10 prominent US college sports figures were arrested in connection with a federal investigation into fraud and corruption. Specifically, the government alleged that business managers and financial advisers had bribed basketball coaches to secure business with NBA-bound players, and that a senior executive with Adidas had further conspired with them to funnel payments to high school players and their families in exchange for their commitment to Adidas-sponsored college sports programs.

The scandal – which ensnared the top NBA draft pick Deandre Ayton, hall of fame coach Rick Pitino and Kobie Baker, the associate athletic director at Alabama, one of the country’s premier talent factories – was a black eye for the NCAA, the keystone cops who style themselves as virtuous defenders of amateurism in college sports while reaping billions off the backs of student-athletes, the majority of them Black and quite economically disadvantaged. The extent of the scheme wasn’t fully understood until one of the schemers, a middle-aged moneyman named Marty Blazer, was turned into an FBI informant. “There’s a saying in law enforcement of being ‘half a cop’,” says true crime writer Guy Lawson, “when you’re the criminal but you start to think cops are cool. Marty became a motivated cooperator. He became an inventive one.”

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‘I like the chaos’: how Sophia Laukli became a world-class athlete in two sports
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:00:07 GMT

Last year the American won the Golden Trail Championship as a runner. A few months later she was winning a cross country skiing world cup race

For most pro athletes, racing for 11 months each year in two different sports would be daunting, if not downright exhausting. For Sophia Laulki, it offers balance.

During the winter, Laukli races for the US ski team in the FIS Cross Country World Cup. During the summer she competes in the Golden Trail World Series against the best short distance trail runners on the planet. In between, she allows herself the decadent luxury of an entire week off.

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Much-derided BMI is useful for assessing fat levels in kids, study suggests
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:02:32 +0000
Kids with high BMI were 29 times more likely to have high fat mass, study finds.
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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
Fri, 31 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.
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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:36:00 +0000

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