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DOGE’s Lawyer Once Warned That Ignoring Court Orders Would Destroy the Country
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:33:18 +0000

With DOGE initiatives getting hung up in court, Elon Musk and Donald Trump attacked judges and flirted with defying their rulings.

The post DOGE’s Lawyer Once Warned That Ignoring Court Orders Would Destroy the Country appeared first on The Intercept.


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How Trump Twisted DEI to Only Benefit White Christians
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Trump’s crusade against “wokeness” is co-opting the language of the civil rights movement to undo its legacy.

The post How Trump Twisted DEI to Only Benefit White Christians appeared first on The Intercept.


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Mitch McConnell is retiring from US politics. Good riddance | Moira Donegan
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:53 GMT

Whenever you see a horror of anti-democratic rule, remember Mitch McConnell. You have him to thank

You would think that this is exactly what Mitch McConnell wanted. McConnell, the 83-year-old Kentucky senator – who announced last week that he will retire in 2026 and not seek an eighth term – is one of the most influential Republicans in the history of the party. But he has in recent weeks expressed dissent and discontent with the direction of the Republican party. He voted against some of Donald Trump’s cabinet appointees, refusing, for example, to cast a vote for the confirmation of the anti-diversity campaigner and alleged rapist and drunk Pete Hegseth.

He has also voiced some tepid and belated opposition to Republicans’ extremist agenda, citing his own experience as a survivor of childhood polio as a reason for his opposition to Republican attacks on vaccines. But the Republican party that McConnell is now shaking his head at is the one that he created. He has no one but himself to blame.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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Congress ignores looming shutdown to focus on tax cuts, agency layoffs
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 18:24:47 +0000
Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal government as a March 14 deadline looms.
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Fetterman Staff Quit Amid Frustration Over “Just Working on Israel All the Time”
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:20:25 +0000

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

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


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UK defence firm Chemring ‘targeted’ by private equity firm Bain Capital– business live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:45:02 GMT

One of the world’s largest private equity investors has made an approach to buy Chemring, the FTSE 250 defence group, Sky News reports

Shares in some European weapons makers are rising in early trading too.

German tank maker Rheinmetall jumped 3% at the start of trading, while in London BAE Systems are up 1.7%.

‘’A dose of more certainty has been injected into European politics, with the Germany’s Conservatives winning the elections. It comes at a crucial time for the continent. Three years on from the invasion of Ukraine, high stakes deal making between the US and Russia continues, Ukraine is out in the cold and the outcome will have huge implications for security in Europe.

There is a dawning realisation that European nations will have to pull together and present a more united deterrent force, and Friedrich Merz, the CDU leader, is reading from that script. He has pledged to relax fiscal rules, to increase defence spending and inject the economy with much needed investment. But while Merz seems determined to ease off the so-called debt brake, which limits annual borrowing to 0.35% of GDP, it won’t be straightforward, because he will need a two-third majority in parliament.

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Brisbane bus drivers push back strike action – as it happened
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:44:23 GMT

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How will the bulk-billing increase be paid for?

There’s been criticism of the opposition that its support of the $8.5bn package hasn’t come with a plan to pay for it.

We’ve been very clear about the things that we don’t think that the federal government should be investing in. I mean, we’ve done things like, you know, we don’t believe [in] the federal government’s rewiring the nation, as an example, the national reconstruction fund, all of these things we’ve voted against, you know, we believe that public servants in Canberra are not what we need. We actually need frontline services, service workers, like doctors, like nurses, which this policy addresses.

We are going to have to expect, unfortunately, a scare campaign. I mean, yesterday, at the launch, the prime minister and [Mark] Butler spent more time talking about Peter Dutton and the Liberal party than they did about themselves. So I think we can expect a scare campaign. But the facts don’t lie. The truth of all of this is quite clear in the statistics – under their watch, the health system in Australia has been significantly diminished.

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There is a clear Trump doctrine. Those who can’t see it won't have a say in reshaping the world | Nesrine Malik
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:00:06 GMT

The sooner the US’s former friends realise the old global order is over, the sooner they can organise to regain power and agency – the only language Trump understands

A resonant phrase during Donald Trump’s first administration was the advice to take him “seriously, but not literally”. It was a singularly detrimental expression, widely quoted by politicians and the media. Its adoption fit with the position many felt most comfortable taking: Trump was bad, but he wasn’t smart. He wasn’t intentional. He wasn’t calculated and deliberate. He sounded off, but rarely followed up with action. He was in essence a misfiring weapon that could do serious damage, but mostly by accident.

The residue of that approach still persists, even in analysis that describes Trump’s first executive orders as a campaign of “shock and awe”, as if it were just a matter of signalling rather than executing. Or that his plan for Gaza is to be taken – you guessed it – seriously, not literally. When that was suggested to Democratic senator Andy Kim, he lost it. “I understand people are bending over backwards to try to mitigate some of the fallout from these statements that are made,” he told Politico. But Trump is “the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in the world … if I can’t take the words of the president of the United States to actually mean something, rather than needing some type of oracle to be able to explain, I just don’t know what to think about when it comes to our national security.”

Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist

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

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

The post DOGE Said It Cut $232 Million From Social Security Budget. It Was Only About Half a Million. appeared first on The Intercept.


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

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

The post Trump and Musk Delight in the Sounds of Human Suffering With Sick “ASMR” Immigrant Video appeared first on The Intercept.


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UK delays plans to regulate AI as ministers seek to align with Trump administration
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:21:29 GMT

Exclusive: Government reluctant to take action that could weaken UK’s attractiveness to AI firms, says Labour source

Ministers have delayed plans to regulate artificial intelligence as the UK government seeks to align itself with Donald Trump’s administration on the technology, the Guardian has learned.

A long-awaited AI bill, which ministers had originally intended to publish before Christmas, is not expected to appear in parliament before the summer, according to three Labour sources briefed on the plans.

Ministers had intended to publish a short bill within months of entering office that would have required companies to hand over large AI models such as ChatGPT for testing by the UK’s AI Security Institute.

The bill was intended to be the government’s answer to concerns that AI models could become so advanced that they pose a risk to humanity, and were different from separate proposals to clarify how AI companies can use copyrighted material.

Trump’s election has led to a rethink, however. A senior Labour source said the bill was “properly in the background” and that there were still “no hard proposals in terms of what the legislation looks like”. “They said let’s try and get it done before Christmas – now it’s summer,” the source added.

Another Labour source briefed on the legislation said an iteration of the bill had been prepared months ago but was now up in the air because of Trump, with ministers reluctant to take action that could weaken the UK’s attractiveness to AI companies.

Trump has torpedoed plans by his predecessor Joe Biden for regulating AI and revoked an executive order on making the technology safe and trustworthy. The future of the US AI Safety Institute, founded by Biden, is uncertain after its director resigned this month. At an AI summit hosted in Paris, JD Vance, the US vice-president, railed against Europe’s planned regulation of the technology.

The UK government chose to side with the US by refusing to sign the Paris declaration endorsed by 66 other countries at the summit. Peter Mandelson, the UK’s ambassador to Washington, has reportedly drafted proposals to make the UK the main hub for US AI investment.

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Can Moldova – population 2.4m – show the world how to stand up to Putin?
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 05:00:26 GMT

The tiny former Soviet republic’s determination not to be cowed by the Kremlin could provide a template for the west on how to hold back the tide of subversion and corruption

How can a democracy defend itself from an attacker who does not respect any democratic rules?

When your assailant uses corruption, blackmail, economic war, cyber attacks, covert campaigns and street violence – while all you have are inefficient courts and even slower international institutions. Can you lose your sovereignty by being too soft? If you respond with censorship or even cancelling elections, don’t you lose your values?

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US congresswoman ‘rooting’ for Canada and Mexico against Trump’s threats
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

Democrat Jasmine Crockett calls it ‘really wild’ that it is foreign leaders who are speaking truth to power

The congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has revealed she is “rooting” for Canada and Mexico over Donald Trump in their attempts to stand up to him, saying it is “really wild” to find herself in that position given he is the president of the US.

“They are really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now,” the Democratic representative from Texas said on Friday on the popular Breakfast Club podcast, alluding to the political feuds Trump has engaged in with the US’s two North American neighbors during the first month of his second presidency. “They can see what it is and they were like, ‘We are not messing with this crazy regime.’”

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

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

The post This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk appeared first on The Intercept.


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

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

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


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More than 150,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Parliamentary petition launched due to billionaire’s link to Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to conquer Canada

More than 150,000 people from Canada have signed a parliamentary petition calling for their country to strip Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship because of the tech billionaire’s alliance with Donald Trump, who has spent his second US presidency repeatedly threatening to conquer its independent neighbor to the north and turn it into its 51st state.

British Columbia author Qualia Reed launched the petition in Canada’s House of Commons, where it was sponsored by New Democrat parliamentary member and avowed Musk critic Charlie Angus, as the Canadian Press first reported over the weekend.

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John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000
The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup” to bail it out. But Democrats have to work with Trump.
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First Thing: Zelenskyy hails ‘three years of resistance’ on anniversary of Russian invasion
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:34:08 GMT

It follows Russia’s biggest ever aerial attack on Ukraine. Plus, far-right AfD doubles support in German election

Good morning.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, hailed “three years of resistance … three years of absolute heroism of Ukrainians,” as foreign leaders arrived in Kyiv to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

What’s the latest war news? Russia launched its biggest ever drone attack on Ukraine, using 267 drones and killing at least four people.

What did Zelenskyy say about US demands? He claimed the Trump administration was asking Ukraine to pay back $2 for every $1 of military aid the US provides going forward.

What do we know about the death toll after three years of war? Zelenskyy said in December that 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed, with 370,000 injured. US officials estimated last October that 600,000 Russian troops had been killed or wounded. In November, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights verified 12,162 civilians killed, including 659 children, though the total is likely much higher.

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German election 2025: results in full
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:19:17 GMT

With all seats assigned, Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU conservatives will be the biggest party in the Bundestag, but the far-right AfD have come second. Find full results from every constituency

In elections to the Bundestag, or federal parliament, German voters cast two votes. The “first vote” is to elect a “direct” representative for their local constituency, much like in a British election: the candidate with the most votes wins the seat, except in some rare cases.

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It would take 100 years to resolve claims of 7,000 asylum seekers stuck on bridging visas, Greens claim
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:50:03 GMT

Labor promised prior to 2022 election to allow the cohort to apply for permanent Resolution of Status visas

It would take 100 years for the government to resolve the cases of the 7,000 asylum seekers living in Australia on bridging visas, Greens senator David Shoebridge estimates.

The group of 7,000 arrived in Australia by boat before 2013, when the Rudd government determined that no asylum seekers arriving by sea would be permanently resettled in Australia.

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TV tonight: Norma Percy’s series on what led to the 7 October attacks
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:20:05 GMT

World politicians give context to the current crisis in the Middle East. Plus: The White Lotus heats up. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, BBC Two
Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Tony Blair, Ehud Olmert and Salam Fayyad are some of the highest-level political figures to speak in Norma Percy’s all-encompassing series about the roots of the crisis that led to the attacks on 7 October 2023. It starts 20 years earlier, when Israeli settlers and armed forces were pulled out of the Gaza Strip, before Hamas won a shock election. The episode also features an interview with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, weeks before he was killed in July 2024. Hollie Richardson

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Trump names conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 04:38:29 GMT

Selection of former Secret Service agent and author means two staunch Trump allies lead the principal federal law enforcement agency

Dan Bongino, a former US Secret Service agent who has written bestselling books, run unsuccessfully for office and gained fame as a conservative pundit with TV shows and a popular podcast, has been chosen to serve as the FBI’s deputy director.

President Donald Trump announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”. He called the announcement “great news for law enforcement and American justice”.

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Christian Democrats claim victory in German election; far right surges
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:55:09 +0000
The Christian Democratic Union has won a plurality in the Bundestag, preliminary exit polls suggested Sunday, while the far-right AfD has come in second.
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UK ministers head to India in search of trade deal they hope will boost economy
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 22:30:47 GMT

Business secretary says negotiations – now in their 15th round – are a ‘top priority’ for Labour government

Ministers are relaunching negotiations with India this week in an attempt to clinch a multibillion-pound free trade agreement that they hope will boost the UK’s flatlining economy.

Jonathan Reynolds, the business and trade secretary, flew to Delhi on Sunday to meet his Indian counterpart, Piyush Goyal, for the first time since Labour won the election.

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Trump’s lawsuit barred by the First Amendment, pollster’s team argues
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:57:33 +0000
Lawyers for Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer, who was sued after the election, call Donald Trump’s claims frivolous and liken it to suing a meteorologist for a wrong weather forecast.
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Elon Musk’s A.I.-Driven Government Coup
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“For a long time, Silicon Valley has wanted to try to replace the government, and has thought that they would be better at governing the country than, you know, the Democrats and the Republicans alike,” the staff writer Kyle Chayka says.
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Elon Musk Threatens FBI Agents and Air Traffic Controllers With Forced Resignation if They Don't Respond to an Email
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:51:32 +0000
Employees throughout the federal government have until 11:59 pm ET Monday to detail five things they accomplished in the last week.
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A German election road trip with the far right on the up - podcast
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:00:25 GMT

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

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

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

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Starmer announces ‘UK’s largest packet of sanctions’ against Russia since early days of war with Ukraine - UK politics live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:46:23 GMT

​PM says Trump has ‘changed global conversation on Ukraine’ as he pledges more military aid and sanctions

Keir Starmer called for support for Ukraine to be boosed in three ways in his virtual speech to the conference in Kyiv.

First, military support should increase, he said.

The UK is doing that, providing £4.5bn pounds in military aid this year, more than ever before. We’re doing more than ever to train Ukrainian troops helping Ukraine to mobilise even further. And we are proud to have taken on the leadership of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

So today, we’re announcing the UK’s largest packet of sanctions since the early days of the war, going after Russia’s shadow fleet and going after companies in China and elsewhere who are sending military component.

Later day, I will be discussing further steps with the G7. But I am clear that the G7 should be ready to take on more risk, including the oil price cap, sanctioning Russia’s oil giants and going off the banks that are enabling the evasion of sanctions.

President Trump has changed the global conversation over the last few weeks, and it has created an opportunity.

Now we must get the fundamentals right if we want peace to endure. Ukraine must have a seat at the table, and any settlement must be based on a sovereign Ukraine backed up with strong security guarantees.

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Home Office says it will tighten rules to keep ‘Kremlin-linked elites’ out of UK as Starmer speaks to European leaders – UK politics live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:45:02 GMT

Keir Starmer to join European leaders on call to Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss Ukraine war

Keir Starmer called for support for Ukraine to be boosed in three ways in his virtual speech to the conference in Kyiv.

First, military support should increase, he said.

The UK is doing that, providing £4.5bn pounds in military aid this year, more than ever before. We’re doing more than ever to train Ukrainian troops helping Ukraine to mobilise even further. And we are proud to have taken on the leadership of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

So today, we’re announcing the UK’s largest packet of sanctions since the early days of the war, going after Russia’s shadow fleet and going after companies in China and elsewhere who are sending military component.

Later day, I will be discussing further steps with the G7. But I am clear that the G7 should be ready to take on more risk, including the oil price cap, sanctioning Russia’s oil giants and going off the banks that are enabling the evasion of sanctions.

President Trump has changed the global conversation over the last few weeks, and it has created an opportunity.

Now we must get the fundamentals right if we want peace to endure. Ukraine must have a seat at the table, and any settlement must be based on a sovereign Ukraine backed up with strong security guarantees.

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Maine governor tells Trump ‘see you in court’ amid faceoff over trans athletes
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:31:57 +0000
Trump threatened to withhold federal education funding if Maine does not comply with his executive order and bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports.
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DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:57:48 +0000
The restrictions are already in place at the General Services Administration along with several other agencies. Soon they’ll roll out to most of the federal government, sources say.
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Live udpates: Trump to meet Macron as Europeans look to firm up ties
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:57:30 +0000
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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Germany elections live: AfD’s Weidel says she received congratulations from Elon Musk after significant far-right gains
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:31:27 GMT

Conservative opposition wins most votes in Germany election amid dramatic surge by far-right Alternative für Deutschland

Guten Morgen aus Berlin,

In November 2019, Freidrich Merz joined a conference of German students at Harvard.

From our point of view it can get going very, very quickly. We should hold the first talks this week already, in the coming days.

My impression is that there are many people in the SPD who also see that we can and should do something together, and then we will find compromises.

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UN ‘gravely concerned by rising violence’ in West Bank; Gaza ceasefire in doubt as first phase nears end – Middle East crisis live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:25:30 GMT

Israeli tanks in West Bank for first time in more than two decades amid tensions over ceasefire agreement with Hamas

Friedrich Merz, the Conservative leader who looks set to be the next German chancellor after his CDU/CSU came first in the German elections yesterday, has had a “warm” phone conversation with Israel’s prime minister, according to Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.

Netanyahu’s office said:

Chancellor-designate Merz thanked the prime minister for the conversation and said that he would invite him to make an official visit to Germany, in overt defiance of the scandalous International Criminal Court decision to label the prime minister a war criminal.

In Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, where the suffering has been unbearable, I repeat my call for an independent investigation into grave violations of international law, committed by Israel in the course of its attacks across Gaza, and by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups.

Any sustainable solution must be based on accountability, justice, the right to self-determination, and the human rights and dignity of both Israelis and Palestinians.

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Monday briefing: Merz will be Germany’s chancellor – but extremists are waiting in the wings
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:10:15 GMT

In today’s newsletter: The far-right AfD may have come second, but at 20% they have been held off by the performance of mainstream parties, with the CDU leader Friedrich Merz on course to be the new chancellor

Good morning. Germany’s elections always matter far beyond the country’s borders – but yesterday’s vote could be the most important in a generation.

After decades as the stable linchpin of European liberal democracy, Germany has found itself sucked into the same crises that are erupting all over the continent – over its economy, attitudes to immigration and the war in Ukraine. And after the shocking interventions of JD Vance and Elon Musk in favour of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, the election became a symbol of a wider struggle for ideological supremacy – and posed a serious question over whether the centre can hold across the continent.

Ukraine | Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is not willing to cave in to intense pressure from the Trump administration to sign a $500bn minerals deal – adding that that he was ready to quit as president if it meant “peace for Ukraine” or membership of Nato.

Catholicism | Pope Francis, who is battling pneumonia and a complex lung infection, remains in a critical condition, the Vatican has said. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, a senior Vatican official, told participants at a mass in St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday morning they should make their prayers for Francis “stronger and more intense”.

Afghanistan | The Taliban have arrested a British couple in their 70s for “teaching mothers parenting with children”. Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife, Barbie, 75, have been running projects in schools in Afghanistan for 18 years.

Farming | Hospitals, schools and prisons are to be urged to buy more British food, as part of a government push to heal a rift with farmers over changes to inheritance tax. The environment secretary, Steve Reed, will set a target of sourcing at least half of public sector food from farms with the highest welfare standards, which should benefit British producers.

Green economy | The net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy, analysis has found, providing high-wage jobs across the country while cutting climate-heating emissions and increasing energy security. 22,000 net zero businesses generated £83bn in gross value added last year.

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Germany at a crossroads: the reprise of the far right – photo essay
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:32:49 GMT

Germany is experiencing a political shift that is alarming many citizens. The photographer Fabian Ritter has spent years documenting the rise of the far-right AfD party and more extreme groups. Recent events illustrate the growing tension

In the run-up to Sunday’s election in Germany the political climate has become more heated. There have been attacks on politicians and campaign workers, and election posters have been destroyed. Many felt unsettled or even threatened after Friedrich Merz, the leader of the centre-right CDU, proposed a bill to tighten immigration control that had the backing of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland.

Björn Höcke, the AfD’s leader in Thuringia and head of its nationalist wing, speaks at the Domplatz in Erfurt during the party’s final campaign event before state elections, 31 August 2024.

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

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

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In first month, Trump upends century-old approach to the world
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:57:30 +0000

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Confusion at US agencies over whether to comply with Elon Musk email demanding workers justify their jobs – US politics live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:40:46 GMT

Government agencies give conflicting advice after email from Elon Musk demanding employees list accomplishments from past week

Hello and welcome to our US politics rolling coverage.

Elon Musk’s email demanding all 2.3 million government workers justify their work has caused confusion with several administration officials telling workers not to reply to the missive.

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Donald Trump in Washington on Monday, saying he will present “proposals for action” to counter the “Russian threat” in Europe and ensure peace in Ukraine.

Conservative podcaster Dan Bongino has been appointed as FBI deputy director. Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and NYPD officer turned conservative radio host, puts a second Trump ally at the top of the agency. Trump announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”.

The Trump administration on Sunday said it was placing all but a handful of USAid personnel around the world on paid administrative leave and eliminating about 2,000 of those positions in the US, according to a notice sent to agency workers and posted online.

More than 150,000 people from Canada have signed a parliamentary petition calling for their country to strip Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship because of the tech billionaire’s alliance with Donald Trump, who has spent his second US presidency repeatedly threatening to conquer its independent neighbor to the north and turn it into its 51st state.

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Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:53 GMT

Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right

An international neo-Nazi terrorist group with origins in the US appears to be quickly rebuilding its global and stateside ranks, according to information obtained by the Guardian from its digital accounts.

Founded in 2018, the Base has been the intense focus of a years-long FBI counter-terrorism investigation that has resulted in more than a dozen of its members arrested. It has plotted an assassination, mass shootings and other actions in Europe, which made it a proscribed terrorist organization in several countries.

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Trump, schmoozing Saudis, plays two roles: President and mogul
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:00:40 +0000
In back-to-back events last week, President Donald Trump held court with Saudi government officials and investors who do business with his family’s firms.
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The inside story of how President Trump came to name the ‘Gulf of America’
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:00:30 +0000
Weeks before retaking office, Trump decided to add the measure to his Day 1 agenda, elevating a liberal joke that had become a conservative meme into an action that has come to symbolize the tenor of his term.
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Friedrich Merz: Risk-taker who flirted with far right
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:44:22 GMT
The leader of the Christian Democratic Union is now in pole position to become Germany's next chancellor.
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Tax changes will force us to cut staff, say UK hospitality companies
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:00:03 GMT

Two-thirds of businesses surveyed by trade bodies say jobs will go as they urge government to delay changes

More than two-thirds of hospitality businesses will reduce staffing as a result of tax changes taking effect in April, according to research by industry bodiescalling on the government to delay the changes.

The survey of pubs, bars, restaurants and hotels found that 70% expected to cut back on employment levels because of the higher costs and reduction in rates relief announced in last autumn’s budget.

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Trump announces conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:47:32 +0000
The appointment of Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and NYPD officer turned conservative radio host, puts a second Trump ally at the top of the agency.
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Missing fisher believed to have become entangled while retrieving shark, NSW police say
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:18:29 GMT

Search for man dragged overboard near Newcastle during fishing competition hampered by fast-moving currents

Police say the “very experienced” fisher who went missing overboard during a fishing competition on Sunday afternoon is believed to have become entangled in fishing gear before he was dragged off the boat.

A multi-agency search is under way for the game fisher Paul Barning, after he fell overboard while fishing at about 1pm on Sunday, 55km off the coast of Newcastle.

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Bold or a ‘capitulation’? Victoria’s premier claims Labor’s reworked building goals are still on target
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:09:53 GMT

The final state housing targets have seen a reduction in numbers, but the overall goal of refocusing growth to Melbourne’s inner core remains

Reading the headlines, you’d be forgiven for thinking the Victorian government has capitulated again – this time on its bold housing targets.

But for the well-heeled residents of Brighton and Boorondara – some of whom who had sought to quash any changes amid cries of “shame, premier, shame” – it’s full steam ahead, at least in their suburbs.

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Dutton says Coalition will pay to match Labor’s $8.5bn Medicare boost by cutting thousands of public service jobs
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:14:49 GMT

Opposition leader claims plan to reduce workforce by nearly all jobs added under Labor would save $6bn annually

Peter Dutton claims the Coalition would pay for a $8.5bn boost to Medicare by cutting thousands of public servant jobs, providing yet another different answer on the Coalition’s as-yet-undefined plans for the public service.

After weeks of contradictory statements from senior shadow ministers about how many positions the Coalition would cull if it wins government, Dutton has now stipulated his plan could save $6bn annually – potentially representing nearly all of the new positions created under Labor.

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‘Extremely capable’ weapons on Chinese warships off Australia’s east coast, NZ government says
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:09:48 GMT

New Zealand defence minister Judith Collins says department has ‘never seen a task group of this capability undertaking this sort of work’

New Zealand’s defence minister has warned that Chinese warships located off the east coast of Australia are armed with “extremely capable” weapons that could reach Australia.

The three vessels, known as Taskgroup 107, undertook two live-fire exercises in the seas between Australia and New Zealand last week, causing commercial flights to be diverted in the skies above.

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Starmer’s meeting with Trump will be PM’s biggest diplomatic test to date
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:00:07 GMT

Aides say prime minister will try to balance the UK and Europe’s interests while retaining good relations with unpredictable US president

The first time Keir Starmer met Donald Trump, the prime minister had a convivial two-hour dinner with the then presidential candidate in his luxury New York apartment, before Trump dimmed the lights to show off the Manhattan skyline.

The stakes at the two leaders’ second meeting at the White House this Thursday will be much higher. It will take place days after the third anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, amid tensions at the United Nations and during a turbulent period in transatlantic relations.

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Trump to eliminate 1,600 USAID jobs, place most of workforce on leave
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:15:16 +0000
The announcement comes two days after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration may move forward with an effort to slash project funding and staff.
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Waspi campaigners threaten government with legal action over compensation
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:01:49 GMT

Government ruled out giving £10bn to women born in 1950s whose pensionable age was raised to be equal with men

Campaigners have threatened the government with legal action unless it reconsiders its decision to rule out spending £10bn compensating “Waspi” (Women Against State Pension Inequality) women hit by the change in the state pension age.

Last March, the parliamentary and health service ombudsman recommended compensation should be paid to women born in the 1950s whose pensionable age was gradually raised to be equal with men, arguing the changes had not been properly communicated to them.

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Starmer and Macron agree to show ‘united leadership in support of Ukraine’
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:44 GMT

UK prime minister and French president will separately meet Donald Trump this week

Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have agreed to show “united leadership in support of Ukraine” when they separately meet Donald Trump this week.

The UK prime minister and the French president spoke on Sunday afternoon to reiterate the importance of Ukraine being at the centre of any negotiations to end the war, Downing Street said.

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The Guardian view on Labour arts policy: time to make history again | Editorial
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:30:42 GMT

Sixty years ago this week, Jennie Lee launched Britain’s first culture white paper. Lisa Nandy must pick up the baton

The date is not in many history books. But it should be. It is 60 years on Tuesday since Britain’s first minister for the arts, Jennie Lee, published the first UK government white paper on the arts. The white paper, which crammed more into 18 pages than many government documents do at 10 times that length, was a landmark, an attempt to set out “a more coherent, generous and imaginative approach” to the arts policy this country lacked.

The current culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has yet to publish such a white paper herself. She ought to do so. Nevertheless, last week she did the next best thing, travelling to Stratford-upon-Avon, the most iconic location on these islands in which to reflect on arts policy, to deliver an anniversary lecture in Buzz Goodbody’s experimental Other Place theatre.

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Climate researchers should play the Trump card | Brief letters
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:41:38 GMT

Studying the climate crisis | Dangerous dogs | A teacher’s scorn | Learning reluctantly | Whatevs, Megs

The obvious solution to American researchers having grants withdrawn for projects containing the word “climate” (Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’, 21 February) is to rename climate heating “Trump”. We could be amazed that “Trump makes seas rise”, “Trump makes Greenland a green land again” and “Trump makes summer warmer and longer”. Who would oppose that?
Mark Davis
Frome, Somerset

• My friend always said that you should never leave a small child and a dog of any size together as it is equivalent to leaving two toddlers together and giving one of them a pair of sharp scissors (The rise of the cane corso: should this popular status dog be banned in the UK?, 19 February).
Vanessa Rickett
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire

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The New Trump-Family Megaphone
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:04:56 +0000
Lara Trump, the President’s daughter-in-law, now has a prime-time show on Fox. Is this the latest spin of the revolving door between media and politics, or something else?
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In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:20:57 +0000
Senate Republicans flagged thousands of grants as “woke DEI” research. What does that really mean?
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Trump’s targeting of Pentagon hits a nerve in POW/MIA recovery office
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
As Trump and Musk move to dismantle the federal workforce and cut spending, those tasked with repatriating missing Americans fear their mission is in jeopardy.
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In auto-centric Michigan, Trump’s proposed tariffs polarize a community
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:00:04 +0000
If Trump’s tariff threats materialize, this region of the country, dominated by the domestic auto industry, stands to take as big a hit as anywhere.
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Fit for a king? Trump moves challenge world order and U.S. bureaucracy.
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Trump has always wanted to be king of the hill. His first month of his second term shows desire to have more control.
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DOGE Email Throws Federal Agencies Into Chaos and Confusion
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:31:35 +0000
Across the US government, workers failed to get clear guidance on whether or how to respond to an email asking what they did this week, despite Elon Musk’s claim that their jobs are at risk.
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With Pentagon purge, Trump thrusts military into uncharted territory
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:55:14 +0000
The removal of Gen. C.Q. Brown and other top officers has deepened concern among Trump’s critics who fear he intends to impose his politics on the institution.
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Trump praises foreign leaders, slams Biden and other takeaways from CPAC
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:25:34 +0000
Five takeaways from President Donald Trump’s speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
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U.S. pressures Kyiv to replace U.N. resolution condemning Russia
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:20:08 +0000
The Trump administration wants Ukraine’s resolution withdrawn and replaced with a toned-down version that officials feel is overly sympathetic to Russia.
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The Trump team ups the trolling to 11
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:21 +0000
Provocative messages have become central to the Trump team’s political efforts, inviting everyone to guess what’s a joke and what’s not.
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New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:39 +0000
Data analyst Leland Dudek was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with the U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner.
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What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Why Federal Retirement Is Still Managed out of a Limestone Mine
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The massive underground facility, which has been used to store archives since the 1960s, remains a crucial but convoluted hub for US government records.
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China conducts second live-fire drill near New Zealand
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:13:51 GMT

Report from New Zealand navy personnel comes a day after similar drill forced multiple airlines to change flight paths between Australia and New Zealand

China’s navy has reportedly conducted a second live-fire exercise in international waters, a day after a similar drill forced multiple airlines to change flight paths between Australia and New Zealand.

New Zealand navy personnel advised live rounds were fired from a Chinese warship in international waters near the island nation on Saturday.

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What Could Happen if the U.S. Abandons Europe
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:48:17 +0000
Donald Trump’s disdain for NATO will reshape the domestic politics—and military posture—of some of America’s closest allies.
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DOGE Put Him in the Treasury Department. His Company Has Federal Contracts Worth Millions
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:01:19 +0000
Experts say the conflicts posed by Tom Krause’s dual roles are unprecedented in the modern era.
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DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
The US government has increased the use of monitoring tools over the past decade. But President Donald Trump’s employee purges are making workers worry about how their data could be abused.
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Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party says it will begin process of disbanding
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:52:32 GMT

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

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

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

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We’d Never Had a King Until This Week
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:58:27 +0000
Donald Trump tries to overturn the most basic meme of American history.
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USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:30:44 +0000
The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.
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The Watergate-Inspired Law That’s Being Used to Fight DOGE
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:01:54 +0000
Here's how the 1974 Privacy Act is being used in legal battles against DOGE—and how you can protect yourself from government surveillance.
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‘We are very worried’: Conclave cast express concern for Pope Francis in health crisis
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:21:36 GMT

Italian actors Isabella Rossellini and Sergio Castellitto lead well-wishers at the Sag awards hoping the ailing pontiff makes a quick recovery

The cast of papal election drama Conclave have expressed their concerns for Pope Francis, as reports continue of his critical condition.

Actors Isabella Rossellini and Sergio Castellitto, who respectively play papal housekeeper Sister Agnes and conservative cleric Cardinal Tedesco in Conclave, were speaking as the film was given the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture by the Screen Actors Guild (Sag), an outcome that would appear to significantly boost its chances in the Oscar race.

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Germany has swung to the right. What does that mean for the country – and Europe? Our panel responds
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:38:48 GMT

Friedrich Merz’s CDU/CSU may have won the German election, but all eyes are on the far-right AfD after its huge gains

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Who is Friedrich Merz, the German election winner warning Europe about Trump?
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:03:22 +0000
Merz expressed concern over changing relations with Washington under the Trump administration, emphasizing the need for gradual independence from the U.S.
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Just Eat Takeaway.com bought by South Africa’s Prosus in €4bn deal
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:33:18 GMT

Food delivery group’s board approves takeover by investor in German rival Delivery Hero

The food delivery business Just Eat Takeaway.com has been snapped up by an investor in its German rival Delivery Hero for €4.1bn (£3.4bn), two months after it left the London Stock Exchange.

Just Eat’s board has unanimously approved the takeover by the South African-owned internet investor Prosus, in an all-cash deal six years after Prosusmade its first effort to buy the British part of the business.

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Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:00:05 GMT

Gunners lose their heads while Mohamed Salah outperforms Kevin De Bruyne in Liverpool’s triumph

Kevin De Bruyne and Mohamed Salah have mirrored each other as leading men in the Premier League. They even share the status of being discarded by Chelsea, but Sunday’s match may be where their paths finally diverge. Salah delivered a goal and an assist while De Bruyne was a shock selection, unused by Manchester City in Madrid. On Friday Pep Guardiola hinted the Belgian’s time at the club was done. If Sunday was a last hurrah, De Bruyne misfiring passes and chasing shadows was a brutal reminder of how time catches up with even the very best. Where the Belgian exhibits physical decline from sheer miles on the clock, Salah, just a year younger, played to his peak, often buzz-sawing into midfield areas De Bruyne once commanded. The Egyptian king’s contract situation remains at an impasse, the sense being he awaits the right offer from Liverpool. De Bruyne may now be reduced to mere cameos as Guardiola rebuilds, a sad coda. John Brewin

Match report: Manchester City 0-2 Liverpool

Match report: Arsenal 0-1 West Ham

Match report: Everton 2-2 Manchester United

Match report: Aston Villa 2-1 Chelsea

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Moore and Chalamet are winners in last big awards show before Oscars
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 04:37:47 GMT
Pope selection drama Conclave took the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.
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Germany’s far-right AfD still faces limits, despite election success
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:28:10 +0000
The success of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, is a sign of the times. Across Europe, far-right parties once on the fringe have gone mainstream.
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‘Now is the time of monsters’: young Berliners despair at far-right surge
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 22:28:16 GMT

Alternative für Deutschland projected to finish second in federal election with about 20% of the vote

For more than 150 years, the symbolism of the Siegessäule, or Victory Column, in Berlin’s Tiergarten, has shifted alongside German identity: from emblem of the empire to strategic relocation by the Nazis and, finally, its adoption as an icon of Berlin’s legendary love parade.

On Sunday, as throngs of people gathered in its shadow, the golden statue bore witness to yet another shift – an election that had yielded an emboldened far right in a result that was unprecedented in Germany’s postwar history.

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How Elon Musk used X to amplify Germany’s far right ahead of election
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:59:01 +0000
Musk won AfD a massive new audience, and JD Vance added support. That brought the party outsized attention, but the impact in Germany was limited, data shows.
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NASA Marks Artemis Progress With Gateway Lunar Space Station
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:43:55 +0000
NASA and its international partners are making progress on Gateway – the lunar space station that will orbit the Moon as a centerpiece of the agency’s Moon to Mars architecture.
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Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:00:36 GMT

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

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

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

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Make South Africa Great Again?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:31:46 +0000
How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
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Commercial flights diverted as Chinese warships undertake apparent live-fire drill between Australia and New Zealand
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:07:39 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NASA Awards Delivery Order for NOAA’s Space Weather Program
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:32:33 +0000
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has awarded a delivery order to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, to build spacecraft for the Lagrange 1 Series project as a part of NOAA’s Space Weather Next program. The award made under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contract, […]
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Constitutional Crisis Looms
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

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Match ID: 92 Score: 20.00 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 democrat, 3.57 election, 2.14 executive, 2.14 elections, 2.14 constitution, 1.43 congress

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

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

The post Poised to Take Over TikTok, Oracle Is Accused of Clamping Down on Pro-Palestine Dissent appeared first on The Intercept.


Match ID: 93 Score: 19.29 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 12.86 republican, 6.43 executive

Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:14 +0000
At least eight ongoing lawsuits related to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s alleged access to sensitive data hinge on the Watergate-inspired Privacy Act of 1974. But it’s not airtight.
Match ID: 94 Score: 17.14 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 17.14 politics

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

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

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

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

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Match ID: 95 Score: 17.14 source: www.theguardian.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 17.14 politics

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

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


Match ID: 96 Score: 17.14 source: www.schneier.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 2.86 federal government, 2.14 legislature, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress

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

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

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


Match ID: 97 Score: 16.43 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress

Barry Blitt’s “You’re Fired!”
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
The artist puts a historical slant on the current constitutional crisis.
Match ID: 98 Score: 15.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 constitution

Innit innit boys and Super Eagles: how Nigerian Londoners found their identity through football – podcast
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:00:06 GMT

For the children of the Nigerian diaspora, displaced by war and split between two worlds, footballers from John Fashanu to Jay-Jay Okocha were a first glimpse of themselves in Britain’s mainstream. Written and read by Aniefiok Ekpoudom

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Match ID: 99 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam – podcast
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 03:00:01 GMT

How did Imam Muhsin change the lives of queer Muslims? Jamie Fullerton reports

As a Muslim, you always question: ‘Have I pleased God, or have I angered him or her?’”

Imam Muhsin Hendricks of Cape Town, South Africa, was the world’s first openly gay imam. In early February, he was shot and killed and the identities and motives of those responsible are still unknown.

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Match ID: 100 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

What Stops Democracy from Backsliding?
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“The earlier the intervention, the earlier the mobilization, the earlier the forthright exercise of countervailing power, the better the prospect of saving democracy,” the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond says.
Match ID: 101 Score: 15.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

‘I forgive them for what they’ve done’: Esther Ghey on life after the murder of daughter Brianna – podcast
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:00:07 GMT

Two years ago, transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death by two 15-year-olds. The killers had been radicalised on the dark web, while the victim was trapped in an online world of her own. Now her mother has become friends with the parent of one of the murderers. On the second anniversary of Brianna’s death, Esther sits down with Simon Hattenstone to discuss her daughter’s murder and her own extraordinary response.


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Match ID: 102 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Under new bill, Bigfoot could become California’s “official cryptid”
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:01:35 +0000
California has a lot of official symbols. But none are cryptids.
Match ID: 103 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 legislature

NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:17 +0000
Earth is immersed in material streaming from the Sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet, causing breathtaking auroras, impacting satellites and astronauts in space, and even affecting ground-based infrastructure.  NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission will be the first to image the Sun’s corona, or outer […]
Match ID: 104 Score: 15.00 source: science.nasa.gov age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

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

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

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


Match ID: 105 Score: 15.00 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 2.14 political parties, 2.14 judiciary, 2.14 executive

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

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

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


Match ID: 106 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 executive

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

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

The post Pentagon Official: Hegseth’s Campaign to Scrub DEI History Is a “Dumb” Distraction appeared first on The Intercept.


Match ID: 107 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.86 federal government, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress

Month One of Donald Trump’s “Golden Age”
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Pennies, plane crashes, and constitutional crises as Washington enters its Dark MAGA era.
Match ID: 108 Score: 12.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 constitution

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

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

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Match ID: 109 Score: 12.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 executive

Anglo American writes down value of diamond firm De Beers by $2.9bn
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:39:48 GMT

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

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

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

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Match ID: 110 Score: 12.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 executive

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

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

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Match ID: 111 Score: 12.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 12.86 politics

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

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

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

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

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Match ID: 112 Score: 10.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 10.71 executive

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:07:33 +0000
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
Match ID: 113 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

AI-Generated Fake News Is Coming to an Election Near You
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Targeted, AI-generated political misinformation is already out there—and humans are falling for it.
Match ID: 114 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 399 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

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

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

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


Match ID: 115 Score: 8.57 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 politics

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
2024-10-28T00:00:00Z
Demographics are not destiny in politics. Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse Shapiro explain how their latest research is playing out in the final stretch of the US presidential race.
Match ID: 116 Score: 8.57 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 119 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat

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

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

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


Match ID: 117 Score: 7.14 source: www.schneier.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 2.86 federal government

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

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

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


Match ID: 118 Score: 6.43 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 2.86 federal government, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress

Trump Is Bullying Jordan and Egypt to Help in Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza. It Isn’t Working.
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:14:46 +0000

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

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


Match ID: 119 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 1.43 congress

ACLU Warns DOGE’s ‘Unchecked’ Access Could Violate Federal Law
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:43:33 +0000
The ACLU says it stands ready to sue for access to government records that detail DOGE’s access to sensitive personnel data.
Match ID: 120 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 1.43 congress

Economists need new indicators of economic misery
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:40:55 +0000
Existing measures of discomfort are failing to predict elections
Match ID: 121 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 102 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:55:47 +0000
Turning a profit from political news is a lot harder than it looks
Match ID: 122 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 214 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000

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

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


Match ID: 123 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 2.14 executive, 2.14 constitution

US Funding Cuts Are Helping Criminals Get Away With Child Abuse and Human Trafficking
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:47:24 +0000
Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts—and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED.
Match ID: 124 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:30:20 +0000
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
Match ID: 125 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 18 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

Tell us: have you been threatened with ‘eviction’ from a specialist care home?
Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:46:05 GMT

We’d like to hear from people or anyone in their family who has been ‘evicted’ from a care home providing specialist care for vulnerable adults due to funding cuts

Residential homes providing specialist care to thousands of vulnerable adults with learning disabilities and severe autism have warned they are having to “evict” residents to avoid insolvency because of tax and wage rises and local authority funding cuts.

The annual Sector Pulse Check survey of more than 200 social care providers, both private and charitable, says many are on the brink as they struggle to remain viable in the face of cash-strapped councils’ refusal or inability to meet the rising cost of services.

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Match ID: 126 Score: 4.29 source: www.theguardian.com age: 27 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:05:20 +0000
Demographics and geopolitics will make a recovery harder
Match ID: 127 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 88 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:36:12 +0000
Why, then, are they largely outlawed in America?
Match ID: 128 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 228 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, offer independently-minded internet users a safe haven—but it’s also a boon to those with a darker purpose.
Match ID: 129 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 397 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

Regulators Are Finally Catching Up With Big Tech
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The lawless, Wild West era of AI and technology is almost at an end, as data protection authorities use new and existing legislation to get tough.
Match ID: 130 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 409 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:10:00 +0000

 

In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools. This platform not only stands out from the multitude of existing AI tools but also brings a fresh approach to content generation. LimeWire not only empowers users to create AI content but also provides creators with creative ways to share and monetize their creations.


As we explore LimeWire, our aim is to uncover its features, benefits for creators, and the exciting possibilities it offers for AI content generation. This platform presents an opportunity for users to harness the power of AI in image creation, all while enjoying the advantages of a free and accessible service.


Let's unravel the distinctive features that set LimeWire apart in the dynamic landscape of AI-powered tools, understanding how creators can leverage its capabilities to craft unique and engaging AI-generated images.


Introduction

limewire

LimeWire, a name once associated with the notorious file-sharing tool from the 2000s, has undergone a significant transformation. The LimeWire we discuss today is not the file-sharing application of the past but has re-emerged as an entirely new entity—a cutting-edge AI content publishing platform.

This revamped LimeWire invites users to register and unleash their creativity by crafting original AI content, which can then be shared and showcased on the LimeWire Studio. Notably, even acclaimed artists and musicians, such as Deadmau5, Soulja Boy, and Sean Kingston, have embraced this platform to publish their content in the form of NFT music, videos, and images.


Beyond providing a space for content creation and sharing, LimeWire introduces monetization models to empower users to earn revenue from their creations. This includes avenues such as earning ad revenue and participating in the burgeoning market of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). As we delve further, we'll explore these monetization strategies in more detail to provide a comprehensive understanding of LimeWire's innovative approach to content creation and distribution.


LimeWire Studio welcomes content creators into its fold, providing a space to craft personalized AI-focused content for sharing with fans and followers. Within this creative hub, every piece of content generated becomes not just a creation but a unique asset—ownable and tradable. Fans have the opportunity to subscribe to creators' pages, immersing themselves in the creative journey and gaining ownership of digital collectibles that hold tradeable value within the LimeWire community. Notably, creators earn a 2.5% royalty each time their content is traded, adding a rewarding element to the creative process.


The platform's flexibility is evident in its content publication options. Creators can choose to share their work freely with the public or opt for a premium subscription model, granting exclusive access to specialized content for subscribers.


LimeWire AI Studio

As of the present moment, LimeWire focuses on AI Image Generation, offering a spectrum of creative possibilities to its user base. The platform, however, has ambitious plans on the horizon, aiming to broaden its offerings by introducing AI music and video generation tools in the near future. This strategic expansion promises creators even more avenues for expression and engagement with their audience, positioning LimeWire Studio as a dynamic and evolving platform within the realm of AI-powered content creation.


AI Image Generation Tools

limewire AI Studio


The LimeWire AI image generation tool presents a versatile platform for both the creation and editing of images. Supporting advanced models such as Stable Diffusion 2.1, Stable Diffusion XL, and DALL-E 2, LimeWire offers a sophisticated toolkit for users to delve into the realm of generative AI art.


Much like other tools in the generative AI landscape, LimeWire provides a range of options catering to various levels of complexity in image creation. Users can initiate the creative process with prompts as simple as a few words or opt for more intricate instructions, tailoring the output to their artistic vision.


What sets LimeWire apart is its seamless integration of different AI models and design styles. Users have the flexibility to effortlessly switch between various AI models, exploring diverse design styles such as cinematic, digital art, pixel art, anime, analog film, and more. Each style imparts a distinctive visual identity to the generated AI art, enabling users to explore a broad spectrum of creative possibilities.


The platform also offers additional features, including samplers, allowing users to fine-tune the quality and detail levels of their creations. Customization options and prompt guidance further enhance the user experience, providing a user-friendly interface for both novice and experienced creators.


Excitingly, LimeWire is actively developing its proprietary AI model, signaling ongoing innovation and enhancements to its image generation capabilities. This upcoming addition holds the promise of further expanding the creative horizons for LimeWire users, making it an evolving and dynamic platform within the landscape of AI-driven art and image creation.

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

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Upon completing your creative endeavor on LimeWire, the platform allows you the option to publish your content. An intriguing feature follows this step: LimeWire automates the process of minting your creation as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), utilizing either the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. This transformative step imbues your artwork with a unique digital signature, securing its authenticity and ownership in the decentralized realm.


Creators on LimeWire hold the power to decide the accessibility of their NFT creations. By opting for a public release, the content becomes discoverable by anyone, fostering a space for engagement and interaction. Furthermore, this choice opens the avenue for enthusiasts to trade the NFTs, adding a layer of community involvement to the artistic journey.


Alternatively, LimeWire acknowledges the importance of exclusivity. Creators can choose to share their posts exclusively with their premium subscribers. In doing so, the content remains a special offering solely for dedicated fans, creating an intimate and personalized experience within the LimeWire community. This flexibility in sharing options emphasizes LimeWire's commitment to empowering creators with choices in how they connect with their audience and distribute their digital creations.


After creating your content, you can choose to publish the content. It will automatically mint your creation as an NFT on the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. You can also choose whether to make it public or subscriber-only.


If you make it public, anyone can discover your content and even trade the NFTs. If you choose to share the post only with your premium subscribers, it will be exclusive only to your fans.


Earn Revenue From Your Content

Additionally, you can earn ad revenue from your content creations as well.

When you publish content on LimeWire, you will receive 70% of all ad revenue from other users who view your images, music, and videos on the platform.


This revenue model will be much more beneficial to designers. You can experiment with the AI image and content generation tools and share your creations while earning a small income on the side.


LMWR Tokens

The revenue you earn from your creations will come in the form of LMWR tokens, LimeWire’s own cryptocurrency.

Your earnings will be paid every month in LMWR, which you can then trade on many popular crypto exchange platforms like Kraken, ByBit, and UniSwap.

You can also use your LMWR tokens to pay for prompts when using LimeWire generative AI tools.

Pricing Plans

You can sign up to LimeWire to use its AI tools for free. You will receive 10 credits to use and generate up to 20 AI images per day. You will also receive 50% of the ad revenue share. However, you will get more benefits with premium plans.

  • Basic plan: 

For $9.99 per month, you will get 1,000 credits per month, up to 2 ,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 50% ad revenue share

  • Advanced plan: 

For $29 per month, you will get 3750 credits per month, up to 7500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 60% ad revenue share

  • Pro plan: 

For $49 per month, you will get 5,000 credits per month, up to 10,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

  • Pro Plus plan: 

For $99 per month, you will get 11,250 credits per month, up to 2 2,500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

With all premium plans, you will receive a Pro profile badge, full creation history, faster image generation, and no ads.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, LimeWire emerges as a democratizing force in the creative landscape, providing an inclusive platform where anyone can unleash their artistic potential and effortlessly share their work. With the integration of AI, LimeWire eliminates traditional barriers, empowering designers, musicians, and artists to publish their creations and earn revenue with just a few clicks.


The ongoing commitment of LimeWire to innovation is evident in its plans to enhance generative AI tools with new features and models. The upcoming expansion to include music and video generation tools holds the promise of unlocking even more possibilities for creators. It sparks anticipation about the diverse and innovative ways in which artists will leverage these tools to produce and publish their own unique creations.


For those eager to explore, LimeWire's AI tools are readily accessible for free, providing an opportunity to experiment and delve into the world of generative art. As LimeWire continues to evolve, creators are encouraged to stay tuned for the launch of its forthcoming AI music and video generation tools, promising a future brimming with creative potential and endless artistic exploration


Match ID: 131 Score: 4.29 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 439 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat

Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:58:45 +0000
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
Match ID: 132 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 88 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris
Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:11:58 +0000
Voters are starting to notice the good news just in time for the election
Match ID: 133 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 119 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000


Are you looking for a new graphic design tool? Would you like to read a detailed review of Canva? As it's one of the tools I love using. I am also writing my first ebook using canva and publish it soon on my site you can download it is free.  Let's start the review.

Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

Canva is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, banners, and more using professionally designed templates. You can upload your own photos from your computer or from Google Drive, and add them to Canva's templates using a simple drag-and-drop interface. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop that doesn't require Graphic designing knowledge to use. It’s best for nongraphic designers.

Who is Canva best suited for?

Canva is a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have the time and want to edit quickly.

To create sophisticated graphics, a tool such as Photoshop can is ideal. To use it, you’ll need to learn its hundreds of features, get familiar with the software, and it’s best to have a good background in design, too.

Also running the latest version of Photoshop you need a high-end computer.

So here  Canva takes place, with Canva you can do all that with drag-and-drop feature. It’s also easier to use and free. Also an even-more-affordable paid version is available for $12.95 per month.

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12.99/month per user or  $119.99/year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum 25 people).

Free plan Features

  • 250,000+ free templates
  • 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, and more)
  • Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
  • Invite members to your team
  • Collaborate and comment in real-time
  • 5GB of cloud storage
  • Try Canva Pro for free for 30 days

Pro Plan Features 

  • Everything Free, has plus:
  • 100+ million premium and  stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
  • 610,000+ premium and free templates with new designs daily
  • Access to Background Remover and Magic Resize
  •  Create a library of your brand or campaign's colors, logos, and fonts with up to 100 Brand Kits
  • Remove image backgrounds instantly with background remover
  • Resize designs infinitely with Magic Resize
  • Save designs as templates for your team to use
  • 100GB of cloud storage
  • Schedule social media content to 8 platforms

Enterprise Plan Features

  • Everything Pro has plus:
  • Establish your brand's visual identity with logos, colors and fonts across multiple Brand Kits
  • Control your team's access to apps, graphics, logos, colors and fonts with brand controls
  • Built-in workflows to get approval on your designs
  • Set which elements your team can edit and stay on brand with template locking
  • Unlimited Storage
  • Log in with single-sign on (SSO) and have access to 24/7 Enterprise-level support.

How to Use Canva?

To get started on Canva, you will need to create an account by providing your email address, Google, Facebook or Apple credentials. You will then choose your account type between student, teacher, small business, large company, non-profit, or personal. Based on your choice of account type, templates will be recommended to you.

You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to get a sense of whether it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.

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Designing with Canva

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When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. Based on the type of account you set up  you'll be able to see templates categorized by the following categories: social media posts, documents, presentations, marketing, events, ads, launch your business, build your online brand, etc.

 Start by choosing a template for your post or searching for something more specific. Search by social network name to see a list of post types on each network.

Templates

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Next, you can choose a template. Choose from hundreds of templates that are ready to go, with customizable photos, text, and other elements.

You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template matching your needs, or working with a blank template.


 Canva has a lot to choose from, so start with a specific search.if you want to create business card just search for it and you will see alot of templates to choose from

Elements

Inside the Canva designer, the Elements tab gives you access to lines and shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids.The search box on the Elements tab lets you search everything on Canva.

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To begin with, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. To find them, be specific in your search query. You may also want to search in the following tabs to see various elements separately:

Photos

The Photos tab lets you search for and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.

You can replace the photos in our templates to create a new look. This can also make the template more suited to your industry.

You can find photos on other stock photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or simply upload your own photos.

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When you choose an image, Canva’s photo editing features let you adjust the photo’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.), crop, or animate it.

 When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including the Background Remover. This feature allows you to remove the background from any stock photo in  library or any image you upload.

Text

The Text tab lets you add headings, normal text, and graphical text to your design.

When you click on  text, you'll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, format, spacing, and text effects (like shadows). 

Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts on the Brand Kit or the Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure that visual content remains on-brand, no matter how many people are working on it.

Audio

Create an animated image or video by adding audio to capture user’s attention in social news feeds.

If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the more option.

Video

Want to create your own videos? Choose from thousands of stock video clips. You’ll find videos that range upto 2 minutes

You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab. 

Once you have chosen a video, you can use the editing features in Canva to trim the video, flip it, and adjust its transparency.

Backgrounds

On the Background tab, you’ll find free stock photos to serve as backgrounds on your designs. Change out the background on a template to give it a more personal touch.

Styles


The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just a click. And if you have a Canva Pro subscription, you can upload your brand’s custom colors and fonts to ensure designs stay on brand.

Logos

If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. Here, you can upload variations of your brand logo to use throughout your designs.

With Canva, you can also create your own logos. Note that you cannot trademark a logo with stock content in it.

Publishing with Canva

With Canva, free users can download and share designs to multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack and Tumblr.

Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from one design. For example, you can start by designing an Instagram post, and Canva's Magic Resizer can resize it for other networks, Stories, Reels, and other formats.

Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content on eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.

Canva Team

Canva Pro allows you to work with your team on visual content. Designs can be created inside Canva, and then sent to your team members for approval. Everyone can make comments, edits, revisions, and keep track via the version history.

Canva Print

When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. With an extensive selection of printing options, they can turn your designs into anything from banners and wall art to mugs and t-shirts. 

Canva Print is perfect for any business seeking to make a lasting impression. Create inspiring designs people will want to wear, keep, and share. Hand out custom business cards that leave a lasting impression on customers' minds.

Canva Apps

The Canva app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Canva app has earned a 4.9 out of five star rating from over 946.3K Apple users and a 4.5 out of five star rating from over 6,996,708 Google users.

In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other Internet services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, Emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content elements.

Canva Pros and Cons

Pros:

  • A user-friendly interface
  • Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
  • Hundreds of templates, so you'll never have to start from scratch.
  • Wide variety of templates to fit multiple uses
  • Branding kits to keep your team consistent with the brand colors and fonts
  • Creating visual content on the go
  • You can find royalty free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.

Cons:

  • Some professional templates are available for Pro user only
  • Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
  • Some elements that fall outside of a design are tricky to retrieve.
  • Features (like Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
  • If you are a regular user of Adobe products, you might find Canva's features limited.
  • Prefers to work with vectors. Especially logos.
  • Expensive enterprise pricing

Conclusion

In general, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for projects. If you are a graphic designer with experience, you will find Canva’s platform lacking in customization and advanced features – particularly vectors. But if you have little design experience, you will find Canva easier to use than advanced graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most projects. If you have any queries let me know in the comments section.






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What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
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What can corporate leaders learn from executives who served their country during wartime conflicts? Drawing on a series of case studies, Robert Simons shares important lessons from the experiences of Walt Disney, Dwight Eisenhower, and Robert McNamara.
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World leaders reiterate support on third anniversary of war as Zelenskyy hails ‘absolute heroism of Ukrainians’ – live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:40:31 GMT

Ukraine president hails ‘three years of resistance’ as world leaders commemorate anniversary in Kyiv

The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas earlier said that she would be travelling to the US tomorrow to meet with US secretary of state Marco Rubio, adding that what she called the “Russian narrative” is “strongly represented” in comments being made by the second Donald Trump administration.

She told reporters “I think it’s good that we have as many interactions with the new administration in US as possible. I’m also travelling tomorrow to the US to meet Marco Rubio and others there to discuss these issues, because it’s extremely important.”

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Heavy rain causes flooding and travel disruption in parts of Wales
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:38:57 GMT
An amber weather warning for rain was in place across Wales until 06:00 GMT on Monday.
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I got lost in Morocco’s maze of medinas – and loved every minute
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:00:01 GMT

The medinas of Fez and Tétouan offer a welcome chance to ditch the GPS – and a return to random encounters

Somewhere between the coppersmiths and the woodcarvers, I achieve my goal. Mustapha, my guide, has stepped aside to buy some sweet pastries from a stall. (“You’ve got to try the kaab el ghazal, the ‘gazelle’s horns’. They’re really special.”) But there are some Gnawa musicians, with long black tassels on their hats rotating in time to their drums, and then I cannot resist looking at large copper pots, and the handmade kettles that lead on to brass antiques. I turn. What’s up here? A doorway and the clacking of a hand loom. As-salamu alaykum! Maybe I should head back? A man with a laden donkey bellows, “Balak!” Gangway! I take another turn. Hang on, I don’t recognise any of this.

At that moment, all the colours, tastes, sounds and sights are sprinkled with a magical leavening of adrenaline and the whole lot rises up like some delicious cake in the oven. I glance at the phone in my hand and make sure that location services have failed. It tells me nothing except that I am in Fez, a city of more than a million. The labyrinth has worked. I am lost.

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My 'incel' attackers keep an online tally of their victims
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:01:57 GMT
Solo traveller Annie Makeeva fought off two attackers while hiking in Vietnam.
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Trump’s Mideast envoy will travel to region to try to salvage ceasefire
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:33:14 +0000

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The Guardian view on Labour arts policy: time to make history again | Editorial
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:30:42 GMT

Sixty years ago this week, Jennie Lee launched Britain’s first culture white paper. Lisa Nandy must pick up the baton

The date is not in many history books. But it should be. It is 60 years on Tuesday since Britain’s first minister for the arts, Jennie Lee, published the first UK government white paper on the arts. The white paper, which crammed more into 18 pages than many government documents do at 10 times that length, was a landmark, an attempt to set out “a more coherent, generous and imaginative approach” to the arts policy this country lacked.

The current culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has yet to publish such a white paper herself. She ought to do so. Nevertheless, last week she did the next best thing, travelling to Stratford-upon-Avon, the most iconic location on these islands in which to reflect on arts policy, to deliver an anniversary lecture in Buzz Goodbody’s experimental Other Place theatre.

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NASA Marks Artemis Progress With Gateway Lunar Space Station
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:43:55 +0000
NASA and its international partners are making progress on Gateway – the lunar space station that will orbit the Moon as a centerpiece of the agency’s Moon to Mars architecture.
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NASA’s PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:23:17 +0000
Earth is immersed in material streaming from the Sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet, causing breathtaking auroras, impacting satellites and astronauts in space, and even affecting ground-based infrastructure.  NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission will be the first to image the Sun’s corona, or outer […]
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6 Best Travel Mugs of 2025, Tested and Reviewed by WIRED Staffers
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:32:00 +0000
These top picks are built to last, keeping your coffee (or tea) at the perfect temp and your mornings smooth—no leaks, no lukewarm lattes, no stress.
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Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:31:52 +0000

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

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


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

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

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


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Endangered frog dads travel 7,000 miles to 'give birth'
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:51:00 GMT
Male frogs carrying tadpoles made an incredible journey to the UK by boat, plane, and car.
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Future of space travel: Could robots really replace human astronauts?
Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:46:51 GMT
Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
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$1.4 Billion Stolen From ByBit in Biggest Crypto Theft Ever
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Apple turns off end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups in the UK after pressure to install a backdoor, and two spyware apps expose victim data—and the identities of people who installed the apps.
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DOGE’s Lawyer Once Warned That Ignoring Court Orders Would Destroy the Country
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:33:18 +0000

With DOGE initiatives getting hung up in court, Elon Musk and Donald Trump attacked judges and flirted with defying their rulings.

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

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

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

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

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What is Blockchain: Everything You Need to Know (2022)
Mon, 18 Apr 2022 05:49:00 +0000
What is Blockchain

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

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

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

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

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

So, What is Blockchain?

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

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

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

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

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

Let’s get to know more about the blockchain.

How does blockchain work?

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

Here’s how it works:

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

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

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

How are Blockchains used?

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

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

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

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

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

What is Blockchain Decentralization?

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

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

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

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

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

Pros and Cons of Blockchain

Blockchain has many advantages and disadvantages. 

Pros

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

Cons

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

Frequently Asked Questions About Blockchain

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

Is Blockchain a cryptocurrency?

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

Is it possible for Blockchain to be hacked?

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

What is the most prominent blockchain company?

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

Who owns Blockchain?

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

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain technology?

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

What is the difference between Blockchain and a Database?

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

Final Saying

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

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

 

NFTs

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

1) What is an NFT?

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

2) What is Blockchain?

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

3) What makes an NFT valuable?


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

4) How do NFTs work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

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

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

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

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

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

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

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

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

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

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

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

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

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

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

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?


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

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

Final Saying

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






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LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:10:00 +0000

 

In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools. This platform not only stands out from the multitude of existing AI tools but also brings a fresh approach to content generation. LimeWire not only empowers users to create AI content but also provides creators with creative ways to share and monetize their creations.


As we explore LimeWire, our aim is to uncover its features, benefits for creators, and the exciting possibilities it offers for AI content generation. This platform presents an opportunity for users to harness the power of AI in image creation, all while enjoying the advantages of a free and accessible service.


Let's unravel the distinctive features that set LimeWire apart in the dynamic landscape of AI-powered tools, understanding how creators can leverage its capabilities to craft unique and engaging AI-generated images.


Introduction

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LimeWire, a name once associated with the notorious file-sharing tool from the 2000s, has undergone a significant transformation. The LimeWire we discuss today is not the file-sharing application of the past but has re-emerged as an entirely new entity—a cutting-edge AI content publishing platform.

This revamped LimeWire invites users to register and unleash their creativity by crafting original AI content, which can then be shared and showcased on the LimeWire Studio. Notably, even acclaimed artists and musicians, such as Deadmau5, Soulja Boy, and Sean Kingston, have embraced this platform to publish their content in the form of NFT music, videos, and images.


Beyond providing a space for content creation and sharing, LimeWire introduces monetization models to empower users to earn revenue from their creations. This includes avenues such as earning ad revenue and participating in the burgeoning market of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). As we delve further, we'll explore these monetization strategies in more detail to provide a comprehensive understanding of LimeWire's innovative approach to content creation and distribution.


LimeWire Studio welcomes content creators into its fold, providing a space to craft personalized AI-focused content for sharing with fans and followers. Within this creative hub, every piece of content generated becomes not just a creation but a unique asset—ownable and tradable. Fans have the opportunity to subscribe to creators' pages, immersing themselves in the creative journey and gaining ownership of digital collectibles that hold tradeable value within the LimeWire community. Notably, creators earn a 2.5% royalty each time their content is traded, adding a rewarding element to the creative process.


The platform's flexibility is evident in its content publication options. Creators can choose to share their work freely with the public or opt for a premium subscription model, granting exclusive access to specialized content for subscribers.


LimeWire AI Studio

As of the present moment, LimeWire focuses on AI Image Generation, offering a spectrum of creative possibilities to its user base. The platform, however, has ambitious plans on the horizon, aiming to broaden its offerings by introducing AI music and video generation tools in the near future. This strategic expansion promises creators even more avenues for expression and engagement with their audience, positioning LimeWire Studio as a dynamic and evolving platform within the realm of AI-powered content creation.


AI Image Generation Tools

limewire AI Studio


The LimeWire AI image generation tool presents a versatile platform for both the creation and editing of images. Supporting advanced models such as Stable Diffusion 2.1, Stable Diffusion XL, and DALL-E 2, LimeWire offers a sophisticated toolkit for users to delve into the realm of generative AI art.


Much like other tools in the generative AI landscape, LimeWire provides a range of options catering to various levels of complexity in image creation. Users can initiate the creative process with prompts as simple as a few words or opt for more intricate instructions, tailoring the output to their artistic vision.


What sets LimeWire apart is its seamless integration of different AI models and design styles. Users have the flexibility to effortlessly switch between various AI models, exploring diverse design styles such as cinematic, digital art, pixel art, anime, analog film, and more. Each style imparts a distinctive visual identity to the generated AI art, enabling users to explore a broad spectrum of creative possibilities.


The platform also offers additional features, including samplers, allowing users to fine-tune the quality and detail levels of their creations. Customization options and prompt guidance further enhance the user experience, providing a user-friendly interface for both novice and experienced creators.


Excitingly, LimeWire is actively developing its proprietary AI model, signaling ongoing innovation and enhancements to its image generation capabilities. This upcoming addition holds the promise of further expanding the creative horizons for LimeWire users, making it an evolving and dynamic platform within the landscape of AI-driven art and image creation.

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

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Upon completing your creative endeavor on LimeWire, the platform allows you the option to publish your content. An intriguing feature follows this step: LimeWire automates the process of minting your creation as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), utilizing either the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. This transformative step imbues your artwork with a unique digital signature, securing its authenticity and ownership in the decentralized realm.


Creators on LimeWire hold the power to decide the accessibility of their NFT creations. By opting for a public release, the content becomes discoverable by anyone, fostering a space for engagement and interaction. Furthermore, this choice opens the avenue for enthusiasts to trade the NFTs, adding a layer of community involvement to the artistic journey.


Alternatively, LimeWire acknowledges the importance of exclusivity. Creators can choose to share their posts exclusively with their premium subscribers. In doing so, the content remains a special offering solely for dedicated fans, creating an intimate and personalized experience within the LimeWire community. This flexibility in sharing options emphasizes LimeWire's commitment to empowering creators with choices in how they connect with their audience and distribute their digital creations.


After creating your content, you can choose to publish the content. It will automatically mint your creation as an NFT on the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. You can also choose whether to make it public or subscriber-only.


If you make it public, anyone can discover your content and even trade the NFTs. If you choose to share the post only with your premium subscribers, it will be exclusive only to your fans.


Earn Revenue From Your Content

Additionally, you can earn ad revenue from your content creations as well.

When you publish content on LimeWire, you will receive 70% of all ad revenue from other users who view your images, music, and videos on the platform.


This revenue model will be much more beneficial to designers. You can experiment with the AI image and content generation tools and share your creations while earning a small income on the side.


LMWR Tokens

The revenue you earn from your creations will come in the form of LMWR tokens, LimeWire’s own cryptocurrency.

Your earnings will be paid every month in LMWR, which you can then trade on many popular crypto exchange platforms like Kraken, ByBit, and UniSwap.

You can also use your LMWR tokens to pay for prompts when using LimeWire generative AI tools.

Pricing Plans

You can sign up to LimeWire to use its AI tools for free. You will receive 10 credits to use and generate up to 20 AI images per day. You will also receive 50% of the ad revenue share. However, you will get more benefits with premium plans.

  • Basic plan: 

For $9.99 per month, you will get 1,000 credits per month, up to 2 ,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 50% ad revenue share

  • Advanced plan: 

For $29 per month, you will get 3750 credits per month, up to 7500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 60% ad revenue share

  • Pro plan: 

For $49 per month, you will get 5,000 credits per month, up to 10,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

  • Pro Plus plan: 

For $99 per month, you will get 11,250 credits per month, up to 2 2,500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share

With all premium plans, you will receive a Pro profile badge, full creation history, faster image generation, and no ads.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, LimeWire emerges as a democratizing force in the creative landscape, providing an inclusive platform where anyone can unleash their artistic potential and effortlessly share their work. With the integration of AI, LimeWire eliminates traditional barriers, empowering designers, musicians, and artists to publish their creations and earn revenue with just a few clicks.


The ongoing commitment of LimeWire to innovation is evident in its plans to enhance generative AI tools with new features and models. The upcoming expansion to include music and video generation tools holds the promise of unlocking even more possibilities for creators. It sparks anticipation about the diverse and innovative ways in which artists will leverage these tools to produce and publish their own unique creations.


For those eager to explore, LimeWire's AI tools are readily accessible for free, providing an opportunity to experiment and delve into the world of generative art. As LimeWire continues to evolve, creators are encouraged to stay tuned for the launch of its forthcoming AI music and video generation tools, promising a future brimming with creative potential and endless artistic exploration


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Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rally
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:34:47 +0000
The link between digital assets and mainstream finance is strengthening
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Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:49:32 +0000
Are bitcoin bros right to be so thrilled by Donald Trump’s victory?
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Starmer announces ‘UK’s largest packet of sanctions’ against Russia since early days of war with Ukraine - UK politics live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:46:23 GMT

​PM says Trump has ‘changed global conversation on Ukraine’ as he pledges more military aid and sanctions

Keir Starmer called for support for Ukraine to be boosed in three ways in his virtual speech to the conference in Kyiv.

First, military support should increase, he said.

The UK is doing that, providing £4.5bn pounds in military aid this year, more than ever before. We’re doing more than ever to train Ukrainian troops helping Ukraine to mobilise even further. And we are proud to have taken on the leadership of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

So today, we’re announcing the UK’s largest packet of sanctions since the early days of the war, going after Russia’s shadow fleet and going after companies in China and elsewhere who are sending military component.

Later day, I will be discussing further steps with the G7. But I am clear that the G7 should be ready to take on more risk, including the oil price cap, sanctioning Russia’s oil giants and going off the banks that are enabling the evasion of sanctions.

President Trump has changed the global conversation over the last few weeks, and it has created an opportunity.

Now we must get the fundamentals right if we want peace to endure. Ukraine must have a seat at the table, and any settlement must be based on a sovereign Ukraine backed up with strong security guarantees.

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Home Office says it will tighten rules to keep ‘Kremlin-linked elites’ out of UK as Starmer speaks to European leaders – UK politics live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:45:02 GMT

Keir Starmer to join European leaders on call to Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss Ukraine war

Keir Starmer called for support for Ukraine to be boosed in three ways in his virtual speech to the conference in Kyiv.

First, military support should increase, he said.

The UK is doing that, providing £4.5bn pounds in military aid this year, more than ever before. We’re doing more than ever to train Ukrainian troops helping Ukraine to mobilise even further. And we are proud to have taken on the leadership of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

So today, we’re announcing the UK’s largest packet of sanctions since the early days of the war, going after Russia’s shadow fleet and going after companies in China and elsewhere who are sending military component.

Later day, I will be discussing further steps with the G7. But I am clear that the G7 should be ready to take on more risk, including the oil price cap, sanctioning Russia’s oil giants and going off the banks that are enabling the evasion of sanctions.

President Trump has changed the global conversation over the last few weeks, and it has created an opportunity.

Now we must get the fundamentals right if we want peace to endure. Ukraine must have a seat at the table, and any settlement must be based on a sovereign Ukraine backed up with strong security guarantees.

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Monday briefing: Merz will be Germany’s chancellor – but extremists are waiting in the wings
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:10:15 GMT

In today’s newsletter: The far-right AfD may have come second, but at 20% they have been held off by the performance of mainstream parties, with the CDU leader Friedrich Merz on course to be the new chancellor

Good morning. Germany’s elections always matter far beyond the country’s borders – but yesterday’s vote could be the most important in a generation.

After decades as the stable linchpin of European liberal democracy, Germany has found itself sucked into the same crises that are erupting all over the continent – over its economy, attitudes to immigration and the war in Ukraine. And after the shocking interventions of JD Vance and Elon Musk in favour of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, the election became a symbol of a wider struggle for ideological supremacy – and posed a serious question over whether the centre can hold across the continent.

Ukraine | Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is not willing to cave in to intense pressure from the Trump administration to sign a $500bn minerals deal – adding that that he was ready to quit as president if it meant “peace for Ukraine” or membership of Nato.

Catholicism | Pope Francis, who is battling pneumonia and a complex lung infection, remains in a critical condition, the Vatican has said. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, a senior Vatican official, told participants at a mass in St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday morning they should make their prayers for Francis “stronger and more intense”.

Afghanistan | The Taliban have arrested a British couple in their 70s for “teaching mothers parenting with children”. Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife, Barbie, 75, have been running projects in schools in Afghanistan for 18 years.

Farming | Hospitals, schools and prisons are to be urged to buy more British food, as part of a government push to heal a rift with farmers over changes to inheritance tax. The environment secretary, Steve Reed, will set a target of sourcing at least half of public sector food from farms with the highest welfare standards, which should benefit British producers.

Green economy | The net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy, analysis has found, providing high-wage jobs across the country while cutting climate-heating emissions and increasing energy security. 22,000 net zero businesses generated £83bn in gross value added last year.

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World leaders reiterate support on third anniversary of war as Zelenskyy hails ‘absolute heroism of Ukrainians’ – live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:40:31 GMT

Ukraine president hails ‘three years of resistance’ as world leaders commemorate anniversary in Kyiv

The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas earlier said that she would be travelling to the US tomorrow to meet with US secretary of state Marco Rubio, adding that what she called the “Russian narrative” is “strongly represented” in comments being made by the second Donald Trump administration.

She told reporters “I think it’s good that we have as many interactions with the new administration in US as possible. I’m also travelling tomorrow to the US to meet Marco Rubio and others there to discuss these issues, because it’s extremely important.”

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Confusion at US agencies over whether to comply with Elon Musk email demanding workers justify their jobs – US politics live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:40:46 GMT

Government agencies give conflicting advice after email from Elon Musk demanding employees list accomplishments from past week

Hello and welcome to our US politics rolling coverage.

Elon Musk’s email demanding all 2.3 million government workers justify their work has caused confusion with several administration officials telling workers not to reply to the missive.

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Donald Trump in Washington on Monday, saying he will present “proposals for action” to counter the “Russian threat” in Europe and ensure peace in Ukraine.

Conservative podcaster Dan Bongino has been appointed as FBI deputy director. Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and NYPD officer turned conservative radio host, puts a second Trump ally at the top of the agency. Trump announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”.

The Trump administration on Sunday said it was placing all but a handful of USAid personnel around the world on paid administrative leave and eliminating about 2,000 of those positions in the US, according to a notice sent to agency workers and posted online.

More than 150,000 people from Canada have signed a parliamentary petition calling for their country to strip Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship because of the tech billionaire’s alliance with Donald Trump, who has spent his second US presidency repeatedly threatening to conquer its independent neighbor to the north and turn it into its 51st state.

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First Thing: Zelenskyy hails ‘three years of resistance’ on anniversary of Russian invasion
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:34:08 GMT

It follows Russia’s biggest ever aerial attack on Ukraine. Plus, far-right AfD doubles support in German election

Good morning.

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, hailed “three years of resistance … three years of absolute heroism of Ukrainians,” as foreign leaders arrived in Kyiv to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

What’s the latest war news? Russia launched its biggest ever drone attack on Ukraine, using 267 drones and killing at least four people.

What did Zelenskyy say about US demands? He claimed the Trump administration was asking Ukraine to pay back $2 for every $1 of military aid the US provides going forward.

What do we know about the death toll after three years of war? Zelenskyy said in December that 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed, with 370,000 injured. US officials estimated last October that 600,000 Russian troops had been killed or wounded. In November, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights verified 12,162 civilians killed, including 659 children, though the total is likely much higher.

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The staggering cost of Russia’s war in Ukraine, by the numbers
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:37:43 +0000
Nearly $300 billion spent, more than 150,000 lives lost and over 10 million displaced. Here’s what three years of war in Ukraine adds up to.
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Putin plays the long game. He has punished Ukraine – and he won’t stop there | Yaroslav Hrytsak
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:00:04 GMT

Like a judo master, the Russian aggressor wears down his opponents until they break. Then he comes back for more

I have a friend, an American author, who writes about war. Over the past decades, he has been to South Sudan, Rwanda, Congo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza and other conflict zones. In the case of Ukraine, he said one thing stood out: here it was obvious who was the aggressor and who was the victim. Alongside Bosnia, Ukraine’s resistance to Russia remains, in his opinion, one of two truly just wars.

After three years of fighting a just war against Putin’s aggression, we are now facing, with Donald Trump, an unjust peace. Ukraine will lose lands and will not receive compensation for its losses. War crimes will go unpunished and Ukrainians will not be provided with the security guarantees needed to protect them from future Russian attack.

Yaroslav Hrytsak is a historian and professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv

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Starmer’s meeting with Trump will be PM’s biggest diplomatic test to date
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:00:07 GMT

Aides say prime minister will try to balance the UK and Europe’s interests while retaining good relations with unpredictable US president

The first time Keir Starmer met Donald Trump, the prime minister had a convivial two-hour dinner with the then presidential candidate in his luxury New York apartment, before Trump dimmed the lights to show off the Manhattan skyline.

The stakes at the two leaders’ second meeting at the White House this Thursday will be much higher. It will take place days after the third anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, amid tensions at the United Nations and during a turbulent period in transatlantic relations.

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Jeremy Bowen: Three years on, Ukraine's extinction nightmare has returned
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:24:59 GMT
Three years on from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the return of Donald Trump has changed everything
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Starmer and Macron agree to show ‘united leadership in support of Ukraine’
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:44 GMT

UK prime minister and French president will separately meet Donald Trump this week

Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have agreed to show “united leadership in support of Ukraine” when they separately meet Donald Trump this week.

The UK prime minister and the French president spoke on Sunday afternoon to reiterate the importance of Ukraine being at the centre of any negotiations to end the war, Downing Street said.

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U.S. pressures Kyiv to replace U.N. resolution condemning Russia
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:20:08 +0000
The Trump administration wants Ukraine’s resolution withdrawn and replaced with a toned-down version that officials feel is overly sympathetic to Russia.
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The White House Is Gaslighting Americans About Donald Trump’s Tariffs
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
The Administration insists that its aggressive trade policies won’t hurt U.S. consumers, but data from Trump’s first term suggest otherwise.
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In auto-centric Michigan, Trump’s proposed tariffs polarize a community
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:00:04 +0000
If Trump’s tariff threats materialize, this region of the country, dominated by the domestic auto industry, stands to take as big a hit as anywhere.
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Donald Trump’s Putinization of America
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:35:02 +0000
It’s not just in foreign policy that the President is turning Russia’s way.
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Factchecking Donald Trump’s claims about the war in Ukraine – video explainer
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:56:36 GMT

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

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Why Anora should win the best picture Oscar
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:21:22 GMT

Mikey Madison’s open-spirited performance as a lapdancer who falls for a feckless young client ignites a film brimful of heart, and we ought to return the love

When future historians look back at this year’s crop of Oscar nominees and ask what the world was like in 2024, what will they learn? Maybe that we’d had enough of reality, thanks. It’s telling that nine out of the 10 nominees are essentially set in the past, or in isolated or fantasy realms, from 1960s America (A Complete Unknown, Nickel Boys) to “Mexico” (Emilia Pérez, filmed in France), from Wicked’s Oz to Dune: Part Two’s Arrakis. Only one entry is set in genuine, here-and-now, modern-day society. What’s more, Anora goes to places mainstream cinema rarely does: the grubby streets, the strip clubs, the all-night cafes, off-season Brighton Beach in Brooklyn and the Russian and Armenian communities who live there. Anora also gives us the opposite: gated mansions, deluxe hotel suites, private jets. That’s the kind of film it is; that’s the kind of world we live in.

But the main reason Anora should win is that it’s simply an adorable film – full of heart and passion and energy and just life. It’s impossible not to be swept along with its hero, Ani – a gutsy but tragically naive lapdancer who falls for a Russian oligarch’s spoilt son, and spontaneously marries him. Mikey Madison’s beautifully open and spirited performance means we’re rooting for her every step of the way. Some have likened Anora to a Cinderella-like fairytale – minus the happy ever after. Pretty Woman it ain’t – but there’s far more going on here. As a snapshot of the degraded American Dream, a quarter of the way into the 21st century, for my money there’s been nothing better.

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Gazprom, once a mighty tool of Russia, stumbles toward more modest future
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 07:00:36 +0000
The Russian gas giant could once bring countries to their knees by cutting off energy supplies, until Europe stopped buying its product.
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Trump Doesn’t Care About Ukraine or Russia — Just Money
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:21:06 +0000

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

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


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Live udpates: Trump to meet Macron as Europeans look to firm up ties
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:57:30 +0000
The latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.
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In first month, Trump upends century-old approach to the world
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:57:30 +0000

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‘I’ve opened a hornet’s nest’: My mother-in-law lists my husband as beneficiary on her $1 million IRA. But her will says otherwise. Which wins?
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:44:00 GMT
“All of this is causing a lot of turmoil in the family. Does her will trump the IRA beneficiary?”
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Apple, Under Threat from Trump Tariffs, Will Add 20,000 US Jobs
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UK delays plans to regulate AI as ministers seek to align with Trump administration
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:21:29 GMT

Exclusive: Government reluctant to take action that could weaken UK’s attractiveness to AI firms, says Labour source

Ministers have delayed plans to regulate artificial intelligence as the UK government seeks to align itself with Donald Trump’s administration on the technology, the Guardian has learned.

A long-awaited AI bill, which ministers had originally intended to publish before Christmas, is not expected to appear in parliament before the summer, according to three Labour sources briefed on the plans.

Ministers had intended to publish a short bill within months of entering office that would have required companies to hand over large AI models such as ChatGPT for testing by the UK’s AI Security Institute.

The bill was intended to be the government’s answer to concerns that AI models could become so advanced that they pose a risk to humanity, and were different from separate proposals to clarify how AI companies can use copyrighted material.

Trump’s election has led to a rethink, however. A senior Labour source said the bill was “properly in the background” and that there were still “no hard proposals in terms of what the legislation looks like”. “They said let’s try and get it done before Christmas – now it’s summer,” the source added.

Another Labour source briefed on the legislation said an iteration of the bill had been prepared months ago but was now up in the air because of Trump, with ministers reluctant to take action that could weaken the UK’s attractiveness to AI companies.

Trump has torpedoed plans by his predecessor Joe Biden for regulating AI and revoked an executive order on making the technology safe and trustworthy. The future of the US AI Safety Institute, founded by Biden, is uncertain after its director resigned this month. At an AI summit hosted in Paris, JD Vance, the US vice-president, railed against Europe’s planned regulation of the technology.

The UK government chose to side with the US by refusing to sign the Paris declaration endorsed by 66 other countries at the summit. Peter Mandelson, the UK’s ambassador to Washington, has reportedly drafted proposals to make the UK the main hub for US AI investment.

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Trump names right-wing commentator as deputy FBI director
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:02:43 GMT
The former New York City police officer will supervise daily operations and serve under new FBI director Kash Patel.
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Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:53 GMT

Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right

An international neo-Nazi terrorist group with origins in the US appears to be quickly rebuilding its global and stateside ranks, according to information obtained by the Guardian from its digital accounts.

Founded in 2018, the Base has been the intense focus of a years-long FBI counter-terrorism investigation that has resulted in more than a dozen of its members arrested. It has plotted an assassination, mass shootings and other actions in Europe, which made it a proscribed terrorist organization in several countries.

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Mitch McConnell is retiring from US politics. Good riddance | Moira Donegan
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:53 GMT

Whenever you see a horror of anti-democratic rule, remember Mitch McConnell. You have him to thank

You would think that this is exactly what Mitch McConnell wanted. McConnell, the 83-year-old Kentucky senator – who announced last week that he will retire in 2026 and not seek an eighth term – is one of the most influential Republicans in the history of the party. But he has in recent weeks expressed dissent and discontent with the direction of the Republican party. He voted against some of Donald Trump’s cabinet appointees, refusing, for example, to cast a vote for the confirmation of the anti-diversity campaigner and alleged rapist and drunk Pete Hegseth.

He has also voiced some tepid and belated opposition to Republicans’ extremist agenda, citing his own experience as a survivor of childhood polio as a reason for his opposition to Republican attacks on vaccines. But the Republican party that McConnell is now shaking his head at is the one that he created. He has no one but himself to blame.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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Barry Blitt’s “You’re Fired!”
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
The artist puts a historical slant on the current constitutional crisis.
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Trump, schmoozing Saudis, plays two roles: President and mogul
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:00:40 +0000
In back-to-back events last week, President Donald Trump held court with Saudi government officials and investors who do business with his family’s firms.
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The inside story of how President Trump came to name the ‘Gulf of America’
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:00:30 +0000
Weeks before retaking office, Trump decided to add the measure to his Day 1 agenda, elevating a liberal joke that had become a conservative meme into an action that has come to symbolize the tenor of his term.
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Who is Friedrich Merz, the German election winner warning Europe about Trump?
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:03:22 +0000
Merz expressed concern over changing relations with Washington under the Trump administration, emphasizing the need for gradual independence from the U.S.
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More than 150,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:00:00 GMT

Parliamentary petition launched due to billionaire’s link to Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to conquer Canada

More than 150,000 people from Canada have signed a parliamentary petition calling for their country to strip Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship because of the tech billionaire’s alliance with Donald Trump, who has spent his second US presidency repeatedly threatening to conquer its independent neighbor to the north and turn it into its 51st state.

British Columbia author Qualia Reed launched the petition in Canada’s House of Commons, where it was sponsored by New Democrat parliamentary member and avowed Musk critic Charlie Angus, as the Canadian Press first reported over the weekend.

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Trump announces conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:47:32 +0000
The appointment of Bongino, a former Secret Service agent and NYPD officer turned conservative radio host, puts a second Trump ally at the top of the agency.
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There is a clear Trump doctrine. Those who can’t see it won't have a say in reshaping the world | Nesrine Malik
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:00:06 GMT

The sooner the US’s former friends realise the old global order is over, the sooner they can organise to regain power and agency – the only language Trump understands

A resonant phrase during Donald Trump’s first administration was the advice to take him “seriously, but not literally”. It was a singularly detrimental expression, widely quoted by politicians and the media. Its adoption fit with the position many felt most comfortable taking: Trump was bad, but he wasn’t smart. He wasn’t intentional. He wasn’t calculated and deliberate. He sounded off, but rarely followed up with action. He was in essence a misfiring weapon that could do serious damage, but mostly by accident.

The residue of that approach still persists, even in analysis that describes Trump’s first executive orders as a campaign of “shock and awe”, as if it were just a matter of signalling rather than executing. Or that his plan for Gaza is to be taken – you guessed it – seriously, not literally. When that was suggested to Democratic senator Andy Kim, he lost it. “I understand people are bending over backwards to try to mitigate some of the fallout from these statements that are made,” he told Politico. But Trump is “the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in the world … if I can’t take the words of the president of the United States to actually mean something, rather than needing some type of oracle to be able to explain, I just don’t know what to think about when it comes to our national security.”

Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist

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Patricia Arquette on Trump, communes, art and ageing: ‘When I was growing up the whole world was pretty creepy’
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:00:03 GMT

She won hearts with True Romance – and an Oscar for Boyhood. The actor reflects on her TV show Severance, political chaos in the US and why human beings are a disaster

If escaping the world by running for the hills looks increasingly attractive to many of us – perhaps living on a commune – Patricia Arquette feels like that too. Head to the mountains, she says. “Plant seeds and farm.” But maybe not the commune part – she lived in one as a child and it wasn’t always utopian. If our conversation is more dystopian than usual, it’s probably because we’re talking about Severance, the hit Apple TV+ show now in its second season. In the first series, we were introduced to Lumon Industries, where some workers, tasked with doing something unknown but probably malevolent with data, were willingly “severed”; their work selves detached from their outside selves, with no memory between the two. If the drama started as an off-kilter take on work-life balance, it soon morphed into something much darker.

Arquette plays Harmony Cobel, an icy and (mostly) controlled senior manager at Lumon before she was fired, then rehired. In the outside world, she is Mrs Selvig, neighbour of Mark, another Lumon employee (he is severed, she isn’t, and he doesn’t know she is his boss). Arquette wouldn’t say she likes Cobel as a character. “I feel sorry for her, in a way,” she says. “To be so indoctrinated by a thought system or organisation, whether it’s a religion, or a corporation or a military. Obviously, she’s done some things that are reprehensible, but like all people who do bad things, they always have reasons, excuses, for why they needed to do that thing.”

A forthcoming episode, which Arquette can’t talk about, explains a lot about why Cobel is as she is. It’s intense – the flashes of almost violent emotion we’ve already seen come out in a deluge – and Arquette is typically brilliant. It reinforced her sympathy for the characters. “I kind of feel sorry for everyone. There’s a lot of self-deception, a lot of wanting to belong, of wilful ignorance – and then just a lot of trickery and deception. That is never good.”

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Trump names conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 04:38:29 GMT

Selection of former Secret Service agent and author means two staunch Trump allies lead the principal federal law enforcement agency

Dan Bongino, a former US Secret Service agent who has written bestselling books, run unsuccessfully for office and gained fame as a conservative pundit with TV shows and a popular podcast, has been chosen to serve as the FBI’s deputy director.

President Donald Trump announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”. He called the announcement “great news for law enforcement and American justice”.

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Trump to eliminate 1,600 USAID jobs, place most of workforce on leave
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:15:16 +0000
The announcement comes two days after a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration may move forward with an effort to slash project funding and staff.
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Canadian software could be in Donald Trump’s sights for tariffs, technology lawyers warn
2025-02-24T00:06:02+00:00
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Grok blocked results saying Musk and Trump “spread misinformation”
2025-02-23T23:56:03+00:00
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‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 22:00:46 GMT

Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cuts

Each month Su Myat secretly crosses the border from Thailand into Myanmar to report on her conflict-ridden homeland, covering military airstrikes and illegal scam compounds that have become a haven for organised, transnational crime.

The editor of the online news outlet ThanLwinKhet News, Su is part of a community of exiled journalists from Myanmar whose organisations are facing an existential crisis due to US president Donald Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid.

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Zelensky seeks Trump meeting, questions terms of U.S. mineral deal
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:13:20 +0000
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said he would step down if it would bring peace or get his country into NATO, but those scenarios remain unlikely.
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Trump’s Mideast envoy will travel to region to try to salvage ceasefire
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:33:14 +0000

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Climate researchers should play the Trump card | Brief letters
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:41:38 GMT

Studying the climate crisis | Dangerous dogs | A teacher’s scorn | Learning reluctantly | Whatevs, Megs

The obvious solution to American researchers having grants withdrawn for projects containing the word “climate” (Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’, 21 February) is to rename climate heating “Trump”. We could be amazed that “Trump makes seas rise”, “Trump makes Greenland a green land again” and “Trump makes summer warmer and longer”. Who would oppose that?
Mark Davis
Frome, Somerset

• My friend always said that you should never leave a small child and a dog of any size together as it is equivalent to leaving two toddlers together and giving one of them a pair of sharp scissors (The rise of the cane corso: should this popular status dog be banned in the UK?, 19 February).
Vanessa Rickett
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire

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The New Trump-Family Megaphone
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:04:56 +0000
Lara Trump, the President’s daughter-in-law, now has a prime-time show on Fox. Is this the latest spin of the revolving door between media and politics, or something else?
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Trump envoy says US expects second phase of Israel-Hamas deal to proceed – as it happened
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:10:46 GMT

Comments come after Israel suspended release of 600 Palestinian detainees. This live blog is now closed

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said the group would keep following the path of slain chief Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday during a televised speech broadcast at his massive funeral on the outskirts of Beirut.

“We will uphold trust and walk on this path, we will uphold your will,” Qassem said referring to Nasrallah, adding: “you are still with us: your... path and struggle live within us” and “I am loyal to the legacy Nasrallah”.

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Backyard chickens: Floridians start raising hens to combat rising egg prices
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:00:40 GMT

Despite conflicting laws, a wave of amateur homesteaders have started keeping fowl in the spirit of self-sufficiency

Katie Whalen’s backyard in the Florida city of Port St Lucie is testament to her journey towards a life of self-sufficiency. She grows mangoes, avocados, starfruit, jackfruit and coconuts. She is cultivating a tropical tree spinach known as chaya.

What she really wants, however, is a chicken coop and hens to provide eggs that are becoming increasingly unaffordable in stores. As bird flu worsens across the US and commercial suppliers struggle to keep up with demand, the keeping of fowl and production of eggs in home environments, has surged in popularity, and Whalen is keen to join the revolution.

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Trump compared to mobster Tony Soprano by former envoy to Panama
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:00:37 GMT

John Feeley launches stinging critique of US president’s bully-boy approach to Latin America

The former US ambassador to Panama has launched a stinging critique of Donald Trump’s approach towards Latin America, comparing his conduct to that of the ruthless and egotistical fictional mob boss Tony Soprano.

In the first month of his presidency, the US president has shocked some observers with his aggressive focus on a region many expected him to largely ignore. Early steps have included threatening to “take back” the Panama Canal, accusing Mexico’s government of being in cahoots with narco-traffickers, sending an envoy to meet the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and clashing with Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, over deportation flights.

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In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:20:57 +0000
Senate Republicans flagged thousands of grants as “woke DEI” research. What does that really mean?
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Trump’s targeting of Pentagon hits a nerve in POW/MIA recovery office
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
As Trump and Musk move to dismantle the federal workforce and cut spending, those tasked with repatriating missing Americans fear their mission is in jeopardy.
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The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of planning.
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Fit for a king? Trump moves challenge world order and U.S. bureaucracy.
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Trump has always wanted to be king of the hill. His first month of his second term shows desire to have more control.
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‘Trump and Musk are gaslighting’: anti-apartheid artist on how US president and his billionaire ally are attacking South Africa
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 07:00:31 GMT

Ahead of a career retrospective, Sue Williamson tells how the US pair are dragging her country ‘through the mud’

For more than 50 years, Sue Williamson’s art has been shining a light on South Africa’s problems – first to campaign against the apartheid state, and then to question how far the country has progressed in reconciliation and remembrance.

But as she prepares for her first retrospective exhibition, the 84-year-old artist has a new pair of targets in sight: US president Donald Trump and his billionaire, South African-born adviser, Elon Musk.

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DOGE Email Throws Federal Agencies Into Chaos and Confusion
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:31:35 +0000
Across the US government, workers failed to get clear guidance on whether or how to respond to an email asking what they did this week, despite Elon Musk’s claim that their jobs are at risk.
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With Pentagon purge, Trump thrusts military into uncharted territory
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:55:14 +0000
The removal of Gen. C.Q. Brown and other top officers has deepened concern among Trump’s critics who fear he intends to impose his politics on the institution.
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Trump praises foreign leaders, slams Biden and other takeaways from CPAC
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:25:34 +0000
Five takeaways from President Donald Trump’s speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
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Elon Musk Threatens FBI Agents and Air Traffic Controllers With Forced Resignation if They Don't Respond to an Email
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:51:32 +0000
Employees throughout the federal government have until 11:59 pm ET Monday to detail five things they accomplished in the last week.
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Trump’s lawsuit barred by the First Amendment, pollster’s team argues
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:57:33 +0000
Lawyers for Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer, who was sued after the election, call Donald Trump’s claims frivolous and liken it to suing a meteorologist for a wrong weather forecast.
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Brazilian judge suspends Rumble, host of Trump’s Truth Social platform
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 18:40:34 +0000
The order is the latest salvo in a conflict between Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes and the American right wing, including prominent Trump supporters.
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Congress ignores looming shutdown to focus on tax cuts, agency layoffs
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 18:24:47 +0000
Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal government as a March 14 deadline looms.
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Maine governor tells Trump ‘see you in court’ amid faceoff over trans athletes
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:31:57 +0000
Trump threatened to withhold federal education funding if Maine does not comply with his executive order and bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports.
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The Trump team ups the trolling to 11
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:00:21 +0000
Provocative messages have become central to the Trump team’s political efforts, inviting everyone to guess what’s a joke and what’s not.
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New Social Security chief was being investigated when Musk team tapped him
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:52:39 +0000
Data analyst Leland Dudek was suspected of sharing unauthorized access to information with the U.S. DOGE Service. Now he’s the acting Social Security commissioner.
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‘We’re clearly heading towards collapse’: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:50:16 GMT

An explosive succession trial and an astonishing interview with one of Rupert’s sons have exposed the paranoia and hatred at the heart of global media’s most powerful family. This could get messy…

When some of the mind games and manoeuvres that turned a Murdoch family “retreat” into an ordeal appeared in Succession, the TV drama about squabbling family members of a right-wing media company, members of the real-life family started to suspect each other of leaking details to the writers. The truth was more straightforward. Succession’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, said that his team hadn’t needed inside sources – they had simply read press reports.

Future screenwriters have been gifted a whole load of new Murdoch material in the past few days, after two astonishing stories in the New York Times and the Atlantic lifted the lid on the dysfunction, paranoia and despair at the heart of the most powerful family in global media.

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US congresswoman ‘rooting’ for Canada and Mexico against Trump’s threats
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:05 GMT

Democrat Jasmine Crockett calls it ‘really wild’ that it is foreign leaders who are speaking truth to power

The congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has revealed she is “rooting” for Canada and Mexico over Donald Trump in their attempts to stand up to him, saying it is “really wild” to find herself in that position given he is the president of the US.

“They are really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now,” the Democratic representative from Texas said on Friday on the popular Breakfast Club podcast, alluding to the political feuds Trump has engaged in with the US’s two North American neighbors during the first month of his second presidency. “They can see what it is and they were like, ‘We are not messing with this crazy regime.’”

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What Stops Democracy from Backsliding?
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“The earlier the intervention, the earlier the mobilization, the earlier the forthright exercise of countervailing power, the better the prospect of saving democracy,” the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond says.
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What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Why Federal Retirement Is Still Managed out of a Limestone Mine
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The massive underground facility, which has been used to store archives since the 1960s, remains a crucial but convoluted hub for US government records.
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How Trump Twisted DEI to Only Benefit White Christians
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Trump’s crusade against “wokeness” is co-opting the language of the civil rights movement to undo its legacy.

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What Could Happen if the U.S. Abandons Europe
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:48:17 +0000
Donald Trump’s disdain for NATO will reshape the domestic politics—and military posture—of some of America’s closest allies.
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DOGE Put Him in the Treasury Department. His Company Has Federal Contracts Worth Millions
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:01:19 +0000
Experts say the conflicts posed by Tom Krause’s dual roles are unprecedented in the modern era.
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Elon Musk to “fix” Community Notes after they contradict Trump
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:22:01 +0000
X owner backpedals on claim that Community Notes can’t be manipulated.
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John Fetterman on Trump’s “Raw Sewage,” and What the Democrats Get Wrong
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000
The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup” to bail it out. But Democrats have to work with Trump.
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DOGE’s Lawyer Once Warned That Ignoring Court Orders Would Destroy the Country
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:33:18 +0000

With DOGE initiatives getting hung up in court, Elon Musk and Donald Trump attacked judges and flirted with defying their rulings.

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Game Developers Fear Anti-Trans Measures Could Hit Their Industry Next
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 12:30:00 +0000
As companies like Meta, Google, and Amazon follow President Trump’s moves to roll back diversity initiatives, trans and genderqueer devs worry their already struggling industry could follow suit.
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One Month Under Trump: Are You Keeping Up?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:30:00 +0000

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

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DOGE Sparks Surveillance Fear Across the US Government
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
The US government has increased the use of monitoring tools over the past decade. But President Donald Trump’s employee purges are making workers worry about how their data could be abused.
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Month One of Donald Trump’s “Golden Age”
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Pennies, plane crashes, and constitutional crises as Washington enters its Dark MAGA era.
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We’d Never Had a King Until This Week
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:58:27 +0000
Donald Trump tries to overturn the most basic meme of American history.
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DOGE Said It Cut $232 Million From Social Security Budget. It Was Only About Half a Million.
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:54 +0000

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

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USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:30:44 +0000
The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos.
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The Trump Administration Trashes Europe and NATO
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:04:41 +0000
Speeches delivered by J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy.
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UK defence firm Chemring ‘targeted’ by private equity firm Bain Capital– business live
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:45:02 GMT

One of the world’s largest private equity investors has made an approach to buy Chemring, the FTSE 250 defence group, Sky News reports

Shares in some European weapons makers are rising in early trading too.

German tank maker Rheinmetall jumped 3% at the start of trading, while in London BAE Systems are up 1.7%.

‘’A dose of more certainty has been injected into European politics, with the Germany’s Conservatives winning the elections. It comes at a crucial time for the continent. Three years on from the invasion of Ukraine, high stakes deal making between the US and Russia continues, Ukraine is out in the cold and the outcome will have huge implications for security in Europe.

There is a dawning realisation that European nations will have to pull together and present a more united deterrent force, and Friedrich Merz, the CDU leader, is reading from that script. He has pledged to relax fiscal rules, to increase defence spending and inject the economy with much needed investment. But while Merz seems determined to ease off the so-called debt brake, which limits annual borrowing to 0.35% of GDP, it won’t be straightforward, because he will need a two-third majority in parliament.

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Pope Francis battling mild kidney failure but eating and resting well, say doctors
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:50:39 GMT

Pontiff, 88, was awake and in good humour, say Vatican sources, after being admitted to hospital with pneumonia

Pope Francis, who is battling pneumonia and “mild” kidney failure, had a good night, slept and is resting, the Vatican said in a brief statement on Monday morning.

Vatican sources said later on Monday that the pope was awake and continuing with the therapy, and was eating normally and in good humour.

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Incendiary device explodes outside Russian consulate in Marseille
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:57:47 GMT

No injuries reported after incident on Monday, which marks third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

An incendiary device exploded outside the Russian consulate in Marseille early on Monday, authorities said, on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. No injuries were reported.

A second device was thrown but did not explode, and a bomb disposal expert was called to the scene.

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Lucca keeps Italy’s spot-kick spat burning with latest penalty drama | Nicky Bandini
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:02:32 GMT

After Ademola Lookman’s miss in midweek, Lorenzo Lucca invited further criticism in ignoring his Udinese teammates

This was the week of the undesignated penalty taker in Italian football. On Tuesday, Ademola Lookman missed a spot-kick against Club Brugge and then listened to his manager, Gian Piero Gasperini, tear him to shreds for having the audacity to step up when teammates encouraged him to. The responsibility was supposed to fall to Charles De Ketelaere, but Lookman claimed the Belgian had told him to go for it.

Gasperini used his post-game press conference to roast Lookman, calling him “one of the worst penalty takers I’ve ever seen,” and adding that: “even in training he has a very low conversion rate. He shoots them really badly.” Four days later, Gasperini claimed surprise that his words had caused the striker to feel disrespected.

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‘It’s important we saved our sport’: Ukraine’s footballers play on in conflict’s shadow
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:00:02 GMT

Three years after Russia’s invasion, UPL teams dream of a seat at Uefa’s top table to avoid an uncertain financial future

Last Friday, Kolos Kovalivka opened the second half of this Ukrainian Premier League season with a home match against a struggling Chornomorets Odesa. The match was kicked off by Dmytro Orel, a soldier who has fought for his country on the frontlines in the war-ravaged east. Orel took in the appreciation of a sparse crowd and saw Kolos score within two minutes. The cheers ended there: a fightback from the visitors brought a 2-1 win and dragged Kolos towards the relegation fight.

The previous day, an infinitely worse piece of news had broken. It was reported that Mykyta Kalin, a former Kolos youth-team player, had been killed during a combat mission in the Kharkiv region. Three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, life must continue where possible and football is back on its feet. But its proximity to unimaginable violence, grief and destruction has not really shifted: the effects continue to be felt severely.

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UK universities educate the most national leaders globally, analysis shows
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:00:04 GMT

Research reveals UK institutions educated 50 world leaders in post in 2022, despite job cuts, course closures and a fall in foreign students

Universities in the UK, many of which are in the grip of a financial crisis, “educate more national leaders than any other country in the world”, according to analysis.

Research by Jisc, the UK’s higher education digital, data and technology agency, found UK institutions had educated 50 world leaders who were in post in 2022, with the US in second place with 41, followed by the Russian Federation (14) and France (six).

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Kidnapped, tortured and jailed: one woman’s quest to bring her son home from Russia
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:00:05 GMT

Ivan and Maryna’s story is just one of hundreds of thousands of family tragedies that have afflicted Ukrainians after three years of Russian invasion

Ivan Zabavskyi was looking for his mother when he disappeared.

It was September 2022, and he had grown increasingly nervous as he read reports of intense fighting in the area where Maryna lived. Eventually, he decided to cycle across the frontline to rescue her.

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It would take 100 years to resolve claims of 7,000 asylum seekers stuck on bridging visas, Greens claim
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:50:03 GMT

Labor promised prior to 2022 election to allow the cohort to apply for permanent Resolution of Status visas

It would take 100 years for the government to resolve the cases of the 7,000 asylum seekers living in Australia on bridging visas, Greens senator David Shoebridge estimates.

The group of 7,000 arrived in Australia by boat before 2013, when the Rudd government determined that no asylum seekers arriving by sea would be permanently resettled in Australia.

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Brisbane bus drivers push back strike action – as it happened
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:44:23 GMT

This blog is now closed

How will the bulk-billing increase be paid for?

There’s been criticism of the opposition that its support of the $8.5bn package hasn’t come with a plan to pay for it.

We’ve been very clear about the things that we don’t think that the federal government should be investing in. I mean, we’ve done things like, you know, we don’t believe [in] the federal government’s rewiring the nation, as an example, the national reconstruction fund, all of these things we’ve voted against, you know, we believe that public servants in Canberra are not what we need. We actually need frontline services, service workers, like doctors, like nurses, which this policy addresses.

We are going to have to expect, unfortunately, a scare campaign. I mean, yesterday, at the launch, the prime minister and [Mark] Butler spent more time talking about Peter Dutton and the Liberal party than they did about themselves. So I think we can expect a scare campaign. But the facts don’t lie. The truth of all of this is quite clear in the statistics – under their watch, the health system in Australia has been significantly diminished.

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'Monster' kicks, singing & plenty of tries - best moments from Six Nations round three
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:26:09 GMT
Watch the best moments from round three of the Six Nations, including a rousing choir in Cardiff, Fin Smith's "monster" kick for England and France's multiple tries against Italy.
Match ID: 89 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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Missing fisher believed to have become entangled while retrieving shark, NSW police say
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:18:29 GMT

Search for man dragged overboard near Newcastle during fishing competition hampered by fast-moving currents

Police say the “very experienced” fisher who went missing overboard during a fishing competition on Sunday afternoon is believed to have become entangled in fishing gear before he was dragged off the boat.

A multi-agency search is under way for the game fisher Paul Barning, after he fell overboard while fishing at about 1pm on Sunday, 55km off the coast of Newcastle.

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Dutton says Coalition will pay to match Labor’s $8.5bn Medicare boost by cutting thousands of public service jobs
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:14:49 GMT

Opposition leader claims plan to reduce workforce by nearly all jobs added under Labor would save $6bn annually

Peter Dutton claims the Coalition would pay for a $8.5bn boost to Medicare by cutting thousands of public servant jobs, providing yet another different answer on the Coalition’s as-yet-undefined plans for the public service.

After weeks of contradictory statements from senior shadow ministers about how many positions the Coalition would cull if it wins government, Dutton has now stipulated his plan could save $6bn annually – potentially representing nearly all of the new positions created under Labor.

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‘Extremely capable’ weapons on Chinese warships off Australia’s east coast, NZ government says
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:09:48 GMT

New Zealand defence minister Judith Collins says department has ‘never seen a task group of this capability undertaking this sort of work’

New Zealand’s defence minister has warned that Chinese warships located off the east coast of Australia are armed with “extremely capable” weapons that could reach Australia.

The three vessels, known as Taskgroup 107, undertook two live-fire exercises in the seas between Australia and New Zealand last week, causing commercial flights to be diverted in the skies above.

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More than half of countries are ignoring biodiversity pledges – analysis
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:00:05 GMT

Many of the nations gathering in Rome for Cop16 have offered no plans to honour their agreement to protect 30% of land and sea for nature

More than half the world’s countries have no plans to protect 30% of land and sea for nature, despite committing to a global agreement to do so less than three years ago, new analysis shows.

In late 2022, nearly every country signed a once-in-a-decade UN deal to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems. It included a headline target to protect nearly a third of the planet for biodiversity by the end of the decade – a goal known as “30 by 30”.

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Match ID: 93 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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How Far Will The UK Go To Protect Ukraine?
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:00:00 GMT
And is the government’s stance on Russia shifting?
Match ID: 94 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days
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Restaurant Review: Sunn’s and Ha’s Snack Bar Lay Down Roots
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Two beloved pop-ups have opened brick-and-mortar spots on the Lower East Side, one from Sunny Lee, of Banchan by Sunny, the other from the team behind Ha’s Đặc Biệt.
Match ID: 95 Score: 20.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
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Can Moldova – population 2.4m – show the world how to stand up to Putin?
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 05:00:26 GMT

The tiny former Soviet republic’s determination not to be cowed by the Kremlin could provide a template for the west on how to hold back the tide of subversion and corruption

How can a democracy defend itself from an attacker who does not respect any democratic rules?

When your assailant uses corruption, blackmail, economic war, cyber attacks, covert campaigns and street violence – while all you have are inefficient courts and even slower international institutions. Can you lose your sovereignty by being too soft? If you respond with censorship or even cancelling elections, don’t you lose your values?

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Match ID: 96 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Leaked chat logs expose inner workings of secretive ransomware group
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:47:32 +0000
Researchers are poring over the data and feeding it into ChatGPT.
Match ID: 97 Score: 20.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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NASA Marks Artemis Progress With Gateway Lunar Space Station
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:43:55 +0000
NASA and its international partners are making progress on Gateway – the lunar space station that will orbit the Moon as a centerpiece of the agency’s Moon to Mars architecture.
Match ID: 98 Score: 20.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 2 days
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'Why should we invite them?': Lavrov ridicules European presence at Ukraine peace talks – video
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:03:29 GMT

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

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

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Match ID: 99 Score: 19.29 source: www.theguardian.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 10.71 trump, 8.57 russia

Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:03:53 +0000
At first glance, they are a bureaucratic nightmare. On a closer look, they are even worse
Match ID: 100 Score: 17.86 source: www.economist.com age: 4 days
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Elon Musk’s A.I.-Driven Government Coup
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“For a long time, Silicon Valley has wanted to try to replace the government, and has thought that they would be better at governing the country than, you know, the Democrats and the Republicans alike,” the staff writer Kyle Chayka says.
Match ID: 101 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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Trump’s dismantling of USAid raises risk of mpox global emergency, experts warn
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:00:36 GMT

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

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

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

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Match ID: 102 Score: 17.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 4 days
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Fetterman Staff Quit Amid Frustration Over “Just Working on Israel All the Time”
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:20:25 +0000

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

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Match ID: 103 Score: 17.86 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
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Trump and Musk Delight in the Sounds of Human Suffering With Sick “ASMR” Immigrant Video
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:42:41 +0000

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

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Match ID: 104 Score: 17.86 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
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Make South Africa Great Again?
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:31:46 +0000
How the country’s post-apartheid politics may inform the world view of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Match ID: 105 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay – podcast
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:00:28 GMT

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

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Match ID: 106 Score: 17.14 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
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British Gas is named worst energy supplier for customer service
Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:00:07 GMT

Company says energy sector survey findings are at odds with satisfaction data from other bodies

British Gas has again emerged as Britain’s worst energy supplier for customer service after a slide in satisfaction over the last six months, figures from a leading consumer group reveal.

A Which? report shared with the Guardian found that the service offered by British Gas has worsened across all its satisfaction measures since its last analysis of the energy sector last year.

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The big picture: the jubilation of clubbing in 90s London
Sun, 23 Feb 2025 07:00:29 GMT

Photographer Ewen Spencer captures the energy of a garage music night for working-class kids

Ewen Spencer took this picture at a Sunday club night called Twice As Nice at The End in London’s West Central Street in 1999. He’d been a regular there back in the days when it was held at the Colosseum in Vauxhall, south of the river. The move to the West End signalled that its garage music was becoming more a mainstream part of culture. Spencer, who grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, had been documenting underground party nights for a decade by then for magazines such as the Face and i-D. He was a soul boy at heart, and saw in garage culture similar attractions: “It was working-class kids dressing up for a big night out,” he recalls, “quite different from acid house, for example.”

Spencer’s picture is included in a new Hayward Gallery touring exhibition After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024. Spencer was influenced by north-east based photographers such as Chris Killip and Graham Smith; he wanted to make authentic pictures that captured “some of the moves and female-heavy love and jubilation of those nights”, he says.

After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024 is at Stills, Edinburgh, 21 March to 28 June

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The seemingly indestructible fists of the mantis shrimp can take a punch
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:32 +0000
Specialized structures in the animal's claws can seemingly absorb impact.
Match ID: 109 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
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British firms among companies to have exported aircraft parts that reached Russia
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:58:52 GMT

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

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

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

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Match ID: 110 Score: 14.29 source: www.theguardian.com age: 4 days
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Device Code Phishing
2025-02-19T15:07:50Z

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

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

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


Match ID: 111 Score: 14.29 source: www.schneier.com age: 4 days
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:50:14 +0000
At least eight ongoing lawsuits related to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s alleged access to sensitive data hinge on the Watergate-inspired Privacy Act of 1974. But it’s not airtight.
Match ID: 112 Score: 14.29 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
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American inflation looks increasingly worrying
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:25:39 +0000
Trump’s tariffs are fuelling consumer concerns, which may prove self-fulfilling
Match ID: 113 Score: 14.29 source: www.economist.com age: 5 days
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Sols 4458-4460: Winter Schminter
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:58:42 +0000
Earth planning date: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 During today’s unusual-for-MSL Tuesday planning day (because of the U.S. holiday on Monday), we planned activities under new winter heating constraints. Operating Curiosity on Mars requires attention to a number of factors — power, data volume, terrain roughness, temperature — that affect rover operability and safety. Winter means […]
Match ID: 114 Score: 12.86 source: science.nasa.gov age: 3 days
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A Signal Update Fends Off a Phishing Technique Used in Russian Espionage
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages. Signal has pushed out new safeguards.
Match ID: 115 Score: 11.43 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 11.43 russia

Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:09:08 +0000
Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump
Match ID: 116 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 109 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions, 3.57 trump, 2.86 russia

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

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

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Match ID: 117 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:44:19 +0000

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

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Match ID: 118 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
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£3,000 rents cause housing fears near nuclear plant
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:45:44 GMT
Residents living near a nuclear power plant have seen rents double to £3,000 a month.
Match ID: 119 Score: 10.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 2 days
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How Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' pledge is affecting other countries
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:04:23 GMT
Some major carbon-emitting countries are hinting they may follow suit as the US opts to ramp up fossil fuels.
Match ID: 120 Score: 7.14 source: www.bbc.com age: 7 days
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Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump’s 'bold vision' for Gaza – video
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:22:46 GMT

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

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

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

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


Match ID: 122 Score: 6.43 source: www.schneier.com age: 10 days
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How Many Trump Officials Have Taken Money From Qatar?
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:02:00 +0000

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

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Match ID: 123 Score: 6.43 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
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UK Secret Order Demands That Apple Give Access to Users’ Encrypted Data
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Benjamin Netanyahu gives Donald Trump a golden pager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise blames Russian government hackers for a breach, and more.
Match ID: 124 Score: 6.43 source: www.wired.com age: 16 days
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Parents of Alexei Navalny join hundreds of mourners on the anniversary of his death – video report
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:34:14 GMT

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

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

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

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Match ID: 126 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 energy

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

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

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Match ID: 127 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 energy

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

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

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Match ID: 128 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

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

Match ID: 129 Score: 5.71 source: www.politico.com age: 19 days
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How much oil can Trump pump?
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:44:21 +0000
The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron
Match ID: 130 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 76 days
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Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:24:15 +0000
Canada and Mexico look likely to suffer
Match ID: 131 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 89 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
Match ID: 132 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 102 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:44:16 +0000
It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war
Match ID: 133 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 109 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawed
Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:37:43 +0000
Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead
Match ID: 134 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 113 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
Match ID: 135 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 257 days
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China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000
Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn’t stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
Match ID: 136 Score: 5.00 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:56:50 +0000
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
Match ID: 137 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 193 days
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Trump Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Federal Prisons Are Purposely Inhumane
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The post The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia appeared first on The Intercept.


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


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

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


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DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
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Argonaut: a first European lunar lander
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Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
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Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000

 

NFTs

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

1) What is an NFT?

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

2) What is Blockchain?

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

3) What makes an NFT valuable?


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

4) How do NFTs work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

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

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

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

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

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

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

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

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

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

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

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

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

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

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

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?


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

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

Final Saying

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






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