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UK universities face ‘irreversible decline’, global league table suggests
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:00:02 GMT

British institutions face possible closure as 52 out of 90 are given lower positions this year in Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings

UK universities will have their international reputations dented and face possible closure because of continuing funding pressures, according to an authoritative league table that named Imperial College London as second in the world.

Imperial overtook Oxford and Harvard universities and was behind only the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the annual Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world university rankings.

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Australian universities rise in world rankings but experts warn international student cap could hurt ‘cutting-edge’ status
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:00:03 GMT

University of Melbourne reaches new high of 13th while University of Sydney and University of NSW also in top 20 of QS rankings

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Australian universities have improved their global rankings despite warnings that a proposed international student cap on the horizon could dissuade thousands from applying at the country’s institutions.

The CEO of Universities Australia, Luke Sheehy, is due to say in a speech on Wednesday that Australian universities face a collective shortfall of more than $500m this year as a result of already existing visa rule changes and “policy chaos” – and this could claim up to 4,500 jobs.

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

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

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Ted Michalek: Engineering from Apollo to Artemis
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:58:32 +0000
From the first lunar footsteps of Apollo to the threshold of humanity’s return aboard the Artemis missions, Ted Michalek has been part of the fabric of Goddard for 55 years — and counting! Name: Theodore “Ted” MichalekTitle: Chief technical engineer (retired), now consultantFormal Job Classification: Thermal engineerOrganization: Thermal Engineering Branch (Code 545), Mechanical Division (Code […]
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One Facebook Ad Promotes a For-Profit College; Another a State School. Which Ad Do Black Users See?
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:48:24 +0000

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

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

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NASA Awards University Research Projects to Support Agency Missions
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:43:53 +0000
NASA announced the recipients of the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) grants, which will support scientific and technical research projects for more than 20 universities and organizations across the United States. “NASA’s EPSCoR awards are a tool to strengthen research capacity in areas across our nation that have historically been underrepresented in government […]
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Aerospace Trailblazer: Shirley Holland-Hunt’s Visionary Leadership Transforms Space Exploration
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:38:22 +0000
From pioneering space initiatives to championing diversity and innovation, Shirley Holland-Hunt’s multifaceted leadership at NASA exemplifies the future of aerospace exploration. Her efforts have driven technological advancements and advocated for the inclusion of women and minorities in STEM fields.  Holland-Hunt currently serves as the associate division chief for Houston’s Johnson Space Center Aeroscience and Flight […]
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Not Just Coastal Elites: Here’s How Three Rust Belt Colleges Protested Israel’s War in Gaza
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The narrative that took hold ignored inland campuses, like in the Rust Belt and into Appalachia, where students formed their own encampments.

The post Not Just Coastal Elites: Here’s How Three Rust Belt Colleges Protested Israel’s War in Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

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

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

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

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

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

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‘Find people who understand you and be kind to yourself’: an expert guide to living well with neurodiversity
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:00:52 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Y-Brush DuoBrush Sonic Toothbrush Review: U-Shaped and Sonic Brush Heads
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 12:30:00 +0000
A U-shaped toothbrush tray is good for a quick clean, but you need a regular toothbrush too. The DuoBrush has both options.
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‘I like the chaos’: how Sophia Laukli became a world-class athlete in two sports
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:00:07 GMT

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

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

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

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Much-derided BMI is useful for assessing fat levels in kids, study suggests
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:02:32 +0000
Kids with high BMI were 29 times more likely to have high fat mass, study finds.
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The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936
Fri, 31 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
A track star’s gender transition in the nineteen-thirties, and the response of Olympic officials, foreshadowed today’s culture-war battles over gender and sports.
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A cliche purge, a show of empathy and a ‘dead cat’: here’s how Starmer or Sunak can win tonight’s debate | Giles Kenningham
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:47:26 GMT

There has been no defining message so far. As a political strategist, I see the event as a huge opportunity for both men

Giles Kenningham was director of communications for the Conservatives’ 2015 election campaign

In the wall of general election noise and multiple news cycles a day, TV debates provide the moment of maximum jeopardy. For many of the public, this first head-to-head may be the moment they start paying attention. For the leaders, it will be the culmination of hours locked in preparation, gaming out every scenario. Keir Starmer has everything to lose. Rishi Sunak has nothing to lose.

The debates have the potential to electrify the campaign. In US political history they have provided some defining moments. Ronald Reagan, the oldest sitting US president at the time, stole the show and shut down questions about his age during the 1984 presidential debate with his Democratic opponent, Walter Mondale, delivering the line: “I want you to know I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” In 2010 Nick Clegg hit David Cameron and Gordon Brown with the zinger: “The more they attack each other the more they sound like one another.” And Cleggmania was born.

Giles Kenningham was director of communications for the Conservative party’s general election campaign in 2015. He is founder of the consultancy Trafalgar Strategy

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Benjamin Netanyahu set to address joint session of US Congress for fourth time
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:39:16 GMT

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

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

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

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General election ITV debate: Starmer says Sunak’s claim he would raise people’s taxes by £2,000 is ‘nonsense’ as leaders clash – live
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:40:41 GMT

Prime minister and Labour leader challenge each other over NHS and taxes in first ITV debate of campaign

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The Guardian’s visuals team has produced an interactive boundary map for the UK general election which shows you if your constituency has been altered because of boundary changes. You can check it out here:

Ed Davey has been speaking about his party’s plan to provide free personal care for adults. The Liberal Democrats leader said he wants carers to have a special, higher minimum wage.

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The Guardian view on Mexico’s new president: a stunning victory for pro-poor politics | Editorial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:25:00 GMT

Claudia Sheinbaum aims to continue the pursuit of social justice – her predecessor’s most outstanding quality – without his charisma

Claudia Sheinbaum made history this week by winning a landslide election to become Mexico’s first female president. A leftwing climate scientist, Ms Sheinbaum appears a technocrat with progressive views, everything her presidential predecessor, the folksy populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as Amlo, was not.

Yet the differences may be more about style than substance. Ms Sheinbaum has been by Mr López Obrador’s side for two decades, and has a deserved reputation for hard work, fidelity to her mentor and a thirst for social justice. One of the big questions for the new president is whether her win will translate into more political rights and protections for women, 11 of whom are murdered a day.

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Republicans seek revenge for Trump conviction in hush money case
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:29:31 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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To Understand the Trump Verdict, Look at the Case Against Shukhratjon Mirsaidov
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:32:47 +0000

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

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

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Politics Weekly Westminster: Ahead of the TV debates - podcast
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:54:27 GMT

The Guardian’s Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss how Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak will be preparing for the first big leaders’ debate on Tuesday. Plus can Keir Starmer recover from the internal politics plaguing his last week of campaigning?

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Merrick Garland hits back at Trump and Republicans: ‘I will not be intimidated’
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:42:13 GMT

Attorney general defends stewardship of justice department and accuses Republican lawmakers of peddling conspiracy theories

US attorney general Merrick Garland has defended his stewardship of the justice department in a combative display on Capitol Hill that saw him accusing Republicans of attacking the rule of law while telling them he “will not be intimidated.”

Testifying before the House judiciary committee, Garland accused GOP congressmen of engaging in conspiracy theories and peddling false narratives.

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How AI Will Change Democracy
2024-05-31T11:04:01Z

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

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

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

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‘Vile’ … ‘Charismatic’: Clacton voters react to Nigel Farage and his button-pushing rhetoric
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:16:36 GMT

Campaign launch for Essex seat reveals people there are as divided about him as anywhere else

Less than 24 hours after appointing himself his party’s leader and declaring his intention to stand for parliament, Nigel Farage rolled into his chosen seat of Clacton on Tuesday, promising to “stand up for the little guy” and “be a bloody nuisance” to those in Westminster.

But an event that started with the inevitable on-brand pint in the local Wetherspoon’s concluded with a milkshake to the face, after a woman flung the contents of a takeaway cup at Farage as he made his exit a couple of hours later. It summed up the mood of the day in the Essex resort, as well as the character of the man himself – at times genial, at times disturbingly divisive.

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Election Extra: Sunak and Starmer debate preview – podcast
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:59:12 GMT

Rishi Sunak will go head-to-head with Keir Starmer tonight in their first televised leaders’ debate of the campaign. Archie Bland reports

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UK faces £33bn hole in finances or return to austerity, thinktank says
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:00:57 GMT

Labour and the Conservatives want to reduce national debt, but Resolution Foundation says promises ‘detached from reality’

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Britain’s next government will need to fill a shortfall of up to £33bn in the public finances unless it is prepared to push through a fresh round of severe austerity measures, a thinktank has warned.

The Resolution Foundation said the debate between Labour and the Conservatives over the funding of specific pledges was “detached from reality”, with election promises based on cuts that would be hard to deliver.

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Nigel Farage announces he will stand for Reform UK in general election – video
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:34:14 GMT

Nigel Farage has announced that he will stand in Clacton for the Reform UK party in the general election, his eighth attempt to become an MP after seven previous failures as a Ukip candidate. Farage, who recently said he would not stand in the election, told a press conference that he had a ‘terrible sense of guilt’ for not putting himself forward after speaking to people during the campaign, saying he felt he was ‘letting them down’

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The Guardian view on social care: the Lib Dems have a plan. It should be welcomed | Editorial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:57:40 GMT

After years of broken Tory promises, Sir Ed Davey’s policy of free home visits is a step forward

Good for the Liberal Democrats. Sir Ed Davey’s campaign pledge that his party would, if elected, fund free social care at home is the most significant policy announcement so far in a crucial area. The past 14 years have not been short of social policy failures. But the Conservatives’ lack of action on care is one of the most egregious. This is an issue they should have taken a lead on. Instead they have made promises, only to break them.

Sir Ed has a lifetime of caring behind him: for his mother, who died of cancer when he was a teenager, and later his grandmother and disabled son. His proposal is to raise £2.7bn by reversing a tax cut to banks. This, the party says, would be enough to pay for free personal care, including washing and medication, for everyone in England who is living at home and needs it (social care is devolved, and the Lib Dem proposals resemble the Scottish system). Care workers would also benefit from a new minimum wage £2 higher than the national minimum wage. The costs of residential care would not be covered.

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‘I will not be intimidated’: Garland rebuts contempt threats from House GOP
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:48:33 +0000
House Republicans grilled the attorney general about the federal prosecutions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden.
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What the US asylum process is really like, in applicants’ own words: ‘I’ve waited 10 years’
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:08:29 GMT

As Biden launches the strictest border crackdown of his presidency, five asylum seekers share their battles to secure protection in the US

On Tuesday, Joe Biden unveiled the most restrictive immigration policy of his presidency with an executive order enabling the mass rejection of asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border when crossings reach certain levels.

The order would allow the US government to temporarily shut down the border when the number of people seeking entry exceeds a daily threshold, empowering authorities to automatically block migrants from presenting their asylum cases. The policy, which would significantly erode the rights of asylum seekers, appears to be one of the harshest immigration crackdowns pushed by any modern Democrat and mirrors the Trump administration’s efforts to broadly limit entries en masse.

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Labor fights for the right to shred documents if it loses office
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:00:56 GMT

Attorney general Mark Dreyfus is appealing an FOI court ruling that said the practice could be criminal and must stop

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The federal government is fighting for the right to destroy documents when it loses office, after a judge warned the practice of shredding paperwork to keep it from incoming opponents is possibly criminal and must stop.

The attorney general Mark Dreyfus is appealing a federal court ruling in a freedom of information case that a minister must preserve a predecessor’s documents if an FOI access application remains unresolved when the minister leaves office. It found this applies whether the job changes hands through an internal ministerial reshuffle or an election.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Elections 2024 live updates: Trump facing primary voters for first time as a felon
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:24:36 +0000
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Woman throws milkshake over Nigel Farage on first day of campaigning
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:52:36 GMT

Police arrest 25-year-old after Reform UK leader, whose entry into election race has alarmed Tories, drenched in Clacton

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The Reform UK party’s new leader, Nigel Farage, had a milkshake thrown over him on his first day of campaigning in Clacton, the Essex constituency where he is making his eighth attempt to become an MP.

After announcing on Monday that he would take over the party, and also stand as a candidate after initially saying he would not run, he made his way to the seaside town on Tuesday to begin seeking support.

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Biden calls Trump ‘reckless and dangerous’ over claims trial was rigged
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:42:52 GMT

President also likens his predecessor’s rejection of the court verdict against him to his refusal to accept he lost 2020 election

Joe Biden has called Donald Trump “reckless and dangerous” over the former president’s claim that the trial leading to last week’s felony conviction in a Manhattan court was rigged.

In his sharpest criticism yet of his predecessor’s drive to undermine the legal integrity of the prosecution against him, the president also said a second Trump presidency would be a much greater threat to American democracy than his first. He likened Trump’s rejection of the court verdict against him to his refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 presidential election.

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Martin Rowson on politics as an end-of-the-pier show in Clacton – cartoon
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:56:24 GMT
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Elon Musk is cosying up to Donald Trump. Haven’t we suffered enough? | Arwa Mahdawi
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:23:41 GMT

While their huge egos have rubbed each other the wrong way in the past, they may have found common ground

What happens when two of the most influential and insufferable people in the universe join forces? Looks like we’re about to find out. Rumour has it that Elon Musk is cosying up to convicted felon, adjudicated fraudster and presidential hopeful Donald Trump, in the hopes of securing a job in the White House.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the pair speak on the phone several times a month, and have discussed a possible advisory role for Musk if Trump is elected president again. It’s not clear what political pies Musk wants to stick his little fingers in: “The role hasn’t been fully hammered out,” the WSJ said. But, according to “people familiar with the talks”, Musk might get a position advising on border security and the economy.

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Everyone should be concerned about possible cooperation with Meloni, says Finnish candidate – as it happened
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:40:14 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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What to know about India’s election, the world’s biggest democratic event
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:52:23 +0000
After 47 days of elections, Indians will get a new Parliament that the Bharatiya Janata Party is still expected to dominate.
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Nigel Farage thinks leave-voting Clacton will welcome his return. He may be in for a surprise | Tim Burrows
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:00:51 GMT

In the Essex seaside town synonymous with Brexit, locals tell me their focus is reversing decline, not protest against the EU

• Tim Burrows is a writer and author of The Invention of Essex

So once more unto the breach, Nigel. Where else but Clacton, a place that has, like Essex itself, become a byword for the leave vote. The seaside town that last year BBC Question Time visited to mark the seventh anniversary of the 2016 EU referendum. Clacton didn’t top the table – Boston in Lincolnshire had the highest leave vote – but it has become synonymous with the project after Ukip’s most successful MP, Douglas Carswell, proclaimed Clacton was the “deliverer of Brexit”.

Brexit is often offered up as a kind of direct and potent message from something politicians like to call “the people”, a guttural demand from the id of the body politic. But, over years of talking to people in Essex, I have less often heard people speak about it in those terms than got the reply: “I’m not really that into politics.” In a sense, Brexit was proof of the apathy of British democracy, but also voters’ innate knowledge that something was wrong in the UK.

In Essex, I think, it is possible to see the roots of such apathy in the geography itself. Just get on a bus from affluent suburbia, passing souped-up cars on lit-up driveways in front of houses perfected by a thousand improvements, into a decaying urban centre, with empty lots affected by the high rents demanded by absentee landlords. The downside of the Thatcher boom is that its effects seemed to prove her maxim that there was no such thing as society. Brexit then fed off the disappointment many people have felt in their material surroundings ever since.

The hypercapitalist defenders of the politics that foreshadowed this period of creeping inertia found easy targets of blame, from immigrants to the EU. Essex has always been a blank canvas to project new political ideas on to, from the formation of the new towns to the rise of right to buy. The architects of Brexit, such as Farage, utilised the apathy of post-millenium politics to project promises and conjure fears in a fit of political carnivalesque. Brexit got people pumped up in a way they didn’t so much during first-past-the-post elections. This was win or lose, all or nothing. Fight night, but with consequences.

Tim Burrows is a writer and author of The Invention of Essex

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

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

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

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

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Clacton voters: tell us which issues will decide this election
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:32:54 GMT

The Guardian is reporting from the constituency of Clacton to find out what issues people there care about most – and we want your help

The Guardian will be reporting from Clacton ahead of the general election, where Nigel Farage said he would stand as an MP and take over as leader of Reform UK, after changing his mind while spending time on the campaign trail.

This will be part of a series of pieces from across the country focused on finding out what matters most to the people who live there.

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Why are Green parties polling badly for the European elections?
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:18:58 GMT

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

• Europe live – latest updates

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

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

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Has there been a purge of the left wing of the Labour party? - podcast
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 02:00:12 GMT

Keir Starmer once promised to lead a ‘broad church’ Labour party. After a week in which Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen have complained about their treatment, does that still hold true? Aletha Adu and Aditya Chakrabortty report

It’s been a torrid week for Labour. Back in April 2023, Diane Abbott, the first black woman to be elected to the UK parliament, was suspended from the party in a row over antisemitism. In the last few days a furore over whether she would or wouldn’t be reinstated, and would or wouldn’t be allowed to stand for re-election, reached boiling point.

At the same time, Faiza Shaheen, who had already started campaigning in Chingford and Woodford Green, was told she had been deselected. She said she had apologised for liking a tweet that played into an antisemitic trope, and believed she had done it mistakenly, but had been told her candidacy was being blocked. Helen Pidd hears how the pair are far from the only left-leaning MPs worried about their political future.

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A Former President’s Daughter Used X to Bombard South Africa With Conspiracy Theories
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:55:18 +0000
A vast majority of the election-related disinformation a South African watchdog group identified came from X, where Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla posted a fake video featuring a Donald Trump endorsement.
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How Donald Trump Could Weaponize US Surveillance in a Second Term
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Donald Trump has vowed to go after political enemies, undocumented immigrants, and others if he wins. Experts warn he could easily turn the surveillance state against his targets.
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Congress may delay farm bill until after Election Day
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:09:16 +0000

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Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum poised to secure supermajority after historic win
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:52:35 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Democrat-aligned groups launch major Spanish-language ad buy for Gallego
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:03:23 +0000

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Biden’s risky asylum crackdown gambit
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:02:45 +0000
The president is going big on the border after Republicans declined to do it with him. Americans would seem to be on board, but the devil is in the details.
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Analysis: Non-Trump Republicans are reminded that the party isn’t really theirs
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:55:39 +0000

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Non-Trump Republicans are reminded that the party isn’t really theirs
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:21:06 +0000
You can be a Republican and not like Trump, but you are not welcome to share that opinion.
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South Africa to embark on new political path after ANC loses majority
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 15:15:59 GMT

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

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

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

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Election poll tracker: How do the parties compare?
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:26:19 GMT
How do people say they will vote in the UK general election? Our poll tracker measures the trends.
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Modi expected to lose parliamentary majority in Indian election
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:55:07 GMT

Latest results reveal unexpected blow to PM, forcing negotiation with coalition partners to regain power

Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party looks likely to lose its parliamentary majority, dealing an unexpected blow to the prime minister and forcing him to negotiate with coalition partners in order to return to power.

Although not all votes had been counted, by Tuesday evening it was clear that the landslide for the BJP predicted in polls would not materialise and instead there had been a pushback against the strongman prime minister and his Hindu nationalist politics in swathes of the country.

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Analysis: As election looms, lawmakers look ahead to next AI hurdles
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:55:34 +0000

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55 Years Ago: Star Trek Final Episode Airs, Relationship with NASA Endures
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:15:23 +0000
The voyages of the Starship Enterprise came to a sudden and premature end on June 3, 1969, with the airing of the final episode of the Star Trek original television series. Ironically, the show’s cancellation came just six weeks before humanity embarked on its first voyage to land on another celestial body. Although the show […]
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Albanese leaves new defence committee seat open to crossbench as potential post-election bargaining chip
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:00:55 GMT

The new defence body would be one of just a handful of committees with special interrogatory powers

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Anthony Albanese has left room to appoint an independent to a powerful new defence committee otherwise restricted to Labor and Liberal members, in a move aimed at ensuring he has leverage in future crossbench negotiations, including regarding minority government.

Parliament is debating legislation to establish the committee, which will scrutinise defence strategy, funding, procurement and operations. It is modelled on the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security (PJCIS) that oversees the intelligence community and has access to classified information.

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In Hunter Biden’s trial, jury selection highlights U.S. drug epidemic
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:15:00 +0000

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A simple guide to the 4 July general election
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:43:19 GMT
The next UK general election will take place on 4 July.
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Menendez files to run for reelection as independent amid federal corruption trial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:30:46 +0000

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

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

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

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

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Sunak and Starmer clash over NHS, tax and immigration in election debate
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:14:36 GMT
The Conservative and Labour leaders are both told to lower their voices as audience questions provoke fiery moments in the first big set-piece of the election.
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Labour pledges to investigate treatment of migrant workers in care sector
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:00:08 GMT

Exclusive: Yvette Cooper says a Labour government would instruct new enforcement body to act over alleged exploitation of workers

Labour will launch an investigation into the treatment of migrant workers in the British social care sector if it wins the election, the party has announced, after dozens of cases of alleged exploitation were uncovered.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, called the allegations revealed by the Guardian “a disgrace”, accusing the government of turning a blind eye to the problem.

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Jury chosen for Hunter Biden trial, opening statements expected Tuesday
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:12:55 +0000
Hunter Biden faces three felony charges related to a gun he purchased in 2018.
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The judge overseeing the Hunter Biden case is nearly done with jury selection, having narrowed the...
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:49:34 +0000

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Biden family, friends in courtroom for jury selection
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:41:13 +0000

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

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How Mexico, bastion of machismo, got a female president before the U.S.
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:24:53 +0000
The election of Claudia Sheinbaum caps a decades-long campaign for gender parity in politics, a key element of the country’s transition to democracy.
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Jury selection has taken a break until 2:30 p.m. for lunch.
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:48:35 +0000

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Claudia Sheinbaum elected Mexico’s first female president
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 08:11:18 +0000
The historic vote underscored the nation’s progress on gender equity, but the Morena victory highlighted concerns about the weakening of its democratic institutions.
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‘What am I going to do with my life?’ Mhairi Black on quitting the ‘depressing’ Commons at 29 – with no regrets
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:00:23 GMT

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

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

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

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It's the AI Election Year
Fri, 31 May 2024 18:16:10 +0000
With over 60 countries holding elections in 2024, deepfakes and robocalls are being used to manipulate voters across the world. WIRED is tracking every instance of AI interference during this critical election year.
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South Africa’s ANC faces tough decisions after losing majority
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:43:57 GMT

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

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

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

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Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as its first female president in landslide victory
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 08:27:43 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda admission sparks legal action from detained asylum seekers
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:00:34 GMT

Migrants seek redress for ‘immense distress’ from deportations now thrown into chaos by election announcement

Asylum seekers detained by the Home Office and threatened with deportation to Rwanda are set to take legal action against the government after Rishi Sunak admitted that no flights will take place before the general election.

The Home Office started raiding accommodation and detaining people who arrived at routine immigration-reporting appointments on 29 April in a nationwide push codenamed Operation Vector.

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A “Stunningly Decisive” End to Donald Trump’s Trial
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:03:30 +0000
The former President and Republican front-runner, a man who has rarely faced the consequences for his wrongdoing, was found guilty of thirty-four felony counts in his New York hush-money case. Will it matter?
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Which parties could South Africa’s ANC go into coalition with?
Fri, 31 May 2024 17:20:31 GMT

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

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

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Scandinavia ‘way ahead’ of UK in telecoms infrastructure, says BT boss
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:55:56 GMT

Allison Kirkby points to regulatory and planning environment as well as digital skills and services

The Nordic countries are “way ahead” of the UK in telecoms infrastructure and the government should look again at planning laws to help improve poor connectivity, the boss of BT has said.

Allison Kirkby, the chief executive of BT, told the Deloitte and Enders media and telecoms conference in London: “What I would say is Scandinavia is way ahead of the UK. Part of that is very much driven by the regulatory environment, the planning environment and the general adoption of digital skills and digital services.”

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How Wes Streeting could clear the NHS waiting list backlog and save money too | Letters
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:14:46 GMT

David Hinchliffe on how the party must learn from mistakes in the past to bring down waiting lists. Plus letters from Norman Edwards and Fawzi Ibrahim

While welcoming Labour’s pledge to clear the NHS waiting list backlog within five years (Report, 28 May), I wish the shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, would be a little more explicit regarding the proposed use of the private sector in this task. The last Labour government – which did make use of private provision – was able to reduce waiting lists, but the longer-term consequence has been the greater institutionalisation of private practice by NHS staff. The deliberate running down of the NHS under the Conservatives has meant that going private is now the norm far more often, even for patients who can barely afford it.

The next Labour government must learn from the mistakes of the Blair/Brown era, when patients on lengthy waiting lists found themselves, in some instances, seen in the private sector by the same consultants who hadn’t the time to see them in the NHS. The NHS rewards doctors who moonlight in the private sector by awarding contracts to the companies they work for, to treat its patients. And they are paid at a significantly higher rate. The result is that we have a system that divests the NHS of key staff while at the same time costing considerably more for treatment. We are effectively incentivising these doctors to build up their NHS waiting lists.

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Analysis: Biden’s border executive order targets independent voters’ support
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:06:55 +0000

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

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Libertarian chair backs party’s nominee ‘as the best way to beat’ Biden
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:15:50 +0000

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Mexico fought for democracy. Could it slide back to a one-party state?
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:36:01 +0000
The election of Claudia Sheinbaum gives the ruling Morena party the opportunity to take greater control of the federal government.
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Seeing Like a Data Structure
2024-06-03T11:06:54Z

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

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Greens furious over 'outrageous' STV debate exclusion
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:54:35 GMT
The programme will only feature the SNP, Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats.
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India election results 2024: Narendra Modi claims third term but projections show party unlikely to win outright majority – as it happened
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:04:29 GMT

Narendra Modi says India has placed its faith in the ruling coalition ‘for a third consecutive time’, as figures show his BJP party unlikely to secure an overall majority

• This live blog is now closed. Read more about the Indian election result here

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

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

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

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

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

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Narendra Modi loses aura of invincibility as predicted landslide fails to materialise
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:52:31 GMT

Exit polls had projected overwhelming victory for the BJP and an even stronger mandate for India’s strongman

India’s elections may return Narendra Modi to power for a third term but Tuesday’s results did not have the flavour of victory for the strongman prime minister.

Indeed, as the early counts of the votes began to roll in, it was clear this was going to be one of the most humbling moments for Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) in over a decade.

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Imran Khan Remains Imprisoned Over His Wife’s Menstrual Cycles. State Department Says That’s “Something For the Pakistani Courts to Decide.”
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:34:13 +0000

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

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

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Elon Musk does not grasp EU fears about disinformation on X, official says
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:05:27 GMT

EU commissioner Vera Jourová says tech firms must hire staff versed in legal and historical context of free speech in Europe

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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, lacks understanding of European concerns over the hatred and division that can result from the spread of disinformation, a senior EU commissioner has said.

Speaking just days before the European parliamentary elections, in which disinformation, particularly Russian-backed propaganda, has been a key issue, Věra Jourová criticised what she said was a clear deterioration in content moderation on X since Musk bought the platform in 2022.

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As a congressman defended Trump, his 6-year-old son stole the spotlight
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:06:15 +0000
Rep. John Rose’s son, Guy — who said his dad’s speech was “so boring” — made faces and played with a toy as his father railed against Donald Trump’s criminal conviction.
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Disinformation crisis unit on rapid alert around European elections
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:00:05 GMT

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

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

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

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India elections: exit polls show Narendra Modi expected to win historic third term
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 03:50:16 GMT

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

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

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

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Guantánamo Prosecutors Accused of “Outrageous” Misconduct for Trying to Use Torture Testimony
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

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

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

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Hunter Biden’s drug use recounted during testimony in his gun trial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:56:35 +0000
Hunter Biden faces three felony charges related to a gun he purchased in 2018.
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GOP’s Biden-Manhattan conspiracy theory suffers a double blow
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:47:20 +0000
A former Trump lawyer debunked it over the weekend. And as the GOP strained to revive it Tuesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland offered firm denials.
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Australia politics live: Universities rue policy ‘chaos’ on international students; Marles clarifies ADF recruitment plan
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:43:48 GMT

Universities Australia chief to say government’s international student cap will hinder economic growth. Follow the day’s news live

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‘Short-sighted’ international student crackdown risks jobs, uni spokesperson says

The tertiary sector could lose 4,500 jobs as a result of an ongoing crackdown on international education, the CEO for Universities Australia will warn.

Framed as measures to shore up the sector’s integrity, we now have every reason to believe these changes were a cap by stealth on international students. And it has only gotten worse ... seldom has another major export industry been treated as a political plaything in the way international education is right now. This bipartisan attack on international students is short-sighted and politically expedient.

Inevitably, this will lead to cuts. Cuts to infrastructure ... cuts to research and development funding ... a funding shortfall of $500m could claim as many as 4,500 jobs across the sector.

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The Hunter Biden trial has ended for the day.
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:38:10 +0000

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GOP lawmaker: ‘Unfair’ justice system convicted Trump
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:24:36 +0000

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Attorney cross-examines first witness, Erika Jensen
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:23:04 +0000

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Norton’s nonvoting role in House has taken on greater visibility as lawmakers target D.C.
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:02:42 +0000

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Analysis: What Biden’s new border limits mean in practice
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:42:46 +0000

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How a fight over immunity unraveled a plea deal, setting this trial in motion
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:37:09 +0000

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Montana holds primaries for governor, House and Senate
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:15:32 +0000
Sen. Jon Tester (D) and ex-Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy (R) are each heavily favored to win their respective primaries on Tuesday, paving the way for an expected face-off in November.
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‘Doing nothing is not an option’: Biden formally announces new asylum cap
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:13:20 +0000

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FBI agent says cloud data, laptop held evidence of using, buying drugs
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:02:44 +0000

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Video: Threats against public officials have ‘spiked significantly,’ attorney general says
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:37:44 +0000

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Prosecutors show jury the Hunter Biden laptop at center of furor
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:37:55 +0000

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Analysis: Biden’s risky asylum crackdown gambit
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:22:11 +0000

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Gun counts Hunter Biden faces are rarely stand-alone charges
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:21:21 +0000

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Foreign platforms including Netflix, Spotify must contribute about $200-million a year for Canadian content
2024-06-04T18:10:17+00:00

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What Biden’s new border limits mean in practice
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:54:20 +0000
Border closures would have been triggered during several days under the administration of George W. Bush — and Donald Trump.
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Map: Key locations in Wilmington related to the trial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:54:37 +0000

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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) praised President Biden’s new asylum cap Tuesday as “a very good step...
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:37:49 +0000

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Former Trump aides charged in Wisconsin over 2020 elector plot
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:31:45 +0000
Attorney Kenneth Chesebro is among three aides charged in Wisconsin. Separate cases related to Trump’s 2020 efforts have been filed in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Georgia.
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Owner of UK national lottery operator to sever ties with Gazprom
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:25:30 GMT

Allwyn parent company says deal to buy 3% stake in Czech gas facility will cut final link with Kremlin-controlled energy firm

The billionaire owner of Allwyn, the company that runs the national lottery, will sever his last remaining ties with Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom by the end of June, more than two years after winning the UK’s largest public sector contract.

The Czech tycoon Karel Komárek, who owns Allwyn via his Switzerland-based holding company KKCG, has faced scrutiny over his links to Russia since wresting control of the 10-year licence to operate the lottery from Camelot in 2022.

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Will Labour or the SNP serve Scots and their families better? | Letters
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:14:21 GMT

The SNP’s child payment policy covers all children, whereas Labour can’t even commit to abolishing the two-child benefit cap, writes Sue Hawthorne. However, Alex Gallagher and Mark Openshaw are less enthused about the SNP’s record

Dani Garavelli says the Scottish National party has not eradicated child poverty in Scotland (The SNP’s woes are a boost for Starmer. But he’s not promising the change Scotland wants, 27 May). Maybe not, but it has made great strides in this direction, within the budgetary constraints imposed by Westminster. The Scottish child payment is the policy of the SNP-led Holyrood government and is paid to all families on benefits in Scotland at £26.70 per week per child. And all children in primary 1 to 5, at schools run by their local council or funded by the Scottish government, can get free school lunches in term-time. Moreover, money has been invested into this to ensure that the meals are of good quality.

As Garavelli goes on to say, Keir Starmer will not even commit to abolishing the two-child benefit cap. Child poverty is a scandal in a rich country like the UK, but it is less of a scandal in Scotland than elsewhere. No one in Scotland who cares about this should vote Labour.
Sue Hawthorne
Haddington, East Lothian

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Lawmakers expensed millions in 2023 under new program that doesn’t require receipts
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:13:04 +0000

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Family members get emotional over passages on drug use from memoir
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:09:26 +0000

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The trial just broke for lunch.
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:58:15 +0000

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For Hunter Biden, a dramatic day with his brother’s widow led to charges
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:52:04 +0000

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FBI agent is first witness called to testify against Biden
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:17:44 +0000

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Lawyer said Biden went to rehab 2 months before gun purchase
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:01:16 +0000

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Defense lawyer: ‘There’s no such thing as a high-functioning crackhead’
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:54:13 +0000

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Women from Hunter Biden’s past will be key witnesses against him
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:50:57 +0000

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Defense lawyer: Hunter Biden was not abusing drugs when he owned a gun for 11 days
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:45:39 +0000

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‘Addiction is not a choice, but buying a gun is,’ prosecutor says
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:41:45 +0000

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Prosecutors highlight Hunter Biden’s own book as evidence against him
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:37:06 +0000

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Hunter Biden’s family listen to opening statements
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:33:14 +0000

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‘No one is above the law,’ prosecutor tells Hunter Biden jury
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:30:20 +0000

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Netanyahu is prolonging war in Gaza, Biden suggests in Time interview
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:19:28 +0000

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Here’s who could be called to testify in Hunter Biden’s trial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:16:38 +0000

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Bowman’s primary challenger gets support from a former Bowman colleague
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:00:14 +0000

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Hunter Biden now lives in Los Angeles, but the gun case was filed in Delaware, where...
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:41:39 +0000

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How long will the trial last? Unclear, but it’s already ahead of schedule.
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:07:59 +0000

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Analysis: A timeline of the tangled life, career and legal woes of Hunter Biden
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:33:58 +0000

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

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

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

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

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

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Hunter Biden’s trial unfolds in a city deeply tied to his family
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:18:24 +0000

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This is the second day in a row that President Biden has no public appearances scheduled...
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:04:50 +0000

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How Hunter Biden bought the gun that led to this trial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:57:27 +0000

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Garland to rebut contempt threats from House GOP
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:47:01 +0000

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Hunter Biden’s sister Ashely Biden just arrived at the courthouse and walked in with Kevin Morris,...
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:39:35 +0000

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Hunter Biden just arrived at the courthouse and walked in holding hands with his wife, Melissa...
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:36:52 +0000

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Opening statements expected in Hunter Biden gun trial
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:23:21 +0000

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The jury: 6 men, 6 women, wide age range, multiple gun owners
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:00:12 +0000

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President Biden’s team has been bracing for son’s criminal trials
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:58:41 +0000

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Why this trial isn’t being televised
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:56:10 +0000

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In a first, noncitizens are voting in D.C. Here’s what it means to them.
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:45:17 +0000

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Biden expected to announce new asylum restrictions at border
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:08:08 +0000

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

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Why the Supreme Court’s abortion pill ruling might not end legal fight
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:00:27 +0000
If the Supreme Court rules the anti-abortion doctors challenging mifepristone don’t have legal standing, three states could try to quickly revive the challenge.
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Number of asylum seekers on Nauru jumps as Australia transfers 37 people who arrived by boat
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:09:04 GMT

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

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

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

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Will Labour rebalance the country in favour of working people? I don’t think so | Sharon Graham
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:00:09 GMT

I have watched as corporate lobbyists push to water down Labour’s pro-worker policies. We, the labour movement, must push back

• Sharon Graham is the general secretary of Unite

Unite may be Labour’s biggest affiliate, but our job first and foremost is to defend workers. I make no apology for holding Labour’s feet to the fire on workers’ rights – no matter how uncomfortable it might make some or what criticism is laid at my door.

Of course I want a Labour government, but that doesn’t mean I will sit on the sidelines and applaud while it caves in to the business lobby and rows back on its commitments. The Labour leadership’s penchant for reneging on promises has been a theme of its time in opposition.

Sharon Graham is the general secretary of Unite

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Deepfake of U.S. Official Appears After Shift on Ukraine Attacks in Russia | A manufactured video fabricated comments by the State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller.
2024-06-04T05:57:48+00:00

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Arguments in Trump’s Georgia appeal set for October, probably delaying trial
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:29:31 +0000

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Kennedy campaign sues for Nevada ballot access
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:03:36 +0000

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Trump to return to Arizona for first campaign event since convictions
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:13:21 +0000

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President Biden just departed from his home in Wilmington, Del., where he spent the day out...
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:12:55 +0000

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Government lawyers said that their first witness would be FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen. Their trial...
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:11:30 +0000

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Court has adjourned for the day. Opening arguments will begin around 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:06:42 +0000

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After the choosing of the jury, Hunter Biden again kissed and hugged first lady Jill Biden....
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:05:22 +0000

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The Hunter Biden jury consists of six men and six women.
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:41:40 +0000

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Analysis: Trump’s many dog whistles about unrest and violence
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:26:44 +0000

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A jury has been picked in Hunter Biden’s federal gun charge case. Opening statements are expected...
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:23:36 +0000

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The last thing Trump will do is rebuild trust in institutions
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:08:04 +0000
In an interview with Fox News, Trump was asked how he would rebuild confidence in institutions. Why would he try?
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Dozens of prospective jurors screened for Hunter Biden gun trial
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:48:37 +0000

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Dems weigh local ties, anti-Trump fame in primary for Spanberger seat
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:10:06 +0000

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Trump’s many dog whistles about unrest and violence
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:55:26 +0000
The former president’s post-conviction comment about a “breaking point” follows a long line of suggestive comments. The thrust is unmistakable.
Match ID: 158 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Trump falsely accuses Biden of trying to take him out ‘with deadly force’
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:50:27 +0000

Match ID: 159 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Hunter Biden also faces felony tax-related charges in California
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:13:30 +0000

Match ID: 160 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Manchin: No plans to run for office as independent
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:05:43 +0000

Match ID: 161 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Analysis: Two years later, obvious misinformation is finally taken down
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:38:44 +0000

Match ID: 162 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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The judge and lawyers continue to work into the early afternoon without a lunch break so...
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:36:21 +0000

Match ID: 163 Score: 30.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 30.00 politics

Lib Dems photobomb the PM in campaign boat
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:47:55 GMT
The Liberal Democrat's deputy leader Daisy Cooper sailed behind Rishi Sunak as he spoke to people in Henley-on-Thames.
Match ID: 164 Score: 30.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 1 day
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The Revisionist History of the Trump Trial Has Already Begun
Fri, 31 May 2024 13:35:09 +0000
The ex-President’s war on truth has an instant new target: his guilty verdict.
Match ID: 165 Score: 28.57 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 21.43 republican, 7.14 house of representatives

He Made a PowerPoint on Mothers Starving in Gaza. Then He Lost His Government Job.
Fri, 31 May 2024 23:28:44 +0000

A senior USAID adviser said he was pressured to resign days after the agency censored his presentation.

The post He Made a PowerPoint on Mothers Starving in Gaza. Then He Lost His Government Job. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 166 Score: 25.71 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 25.71 politics

The No. 1 issue for young Americans this election? Not student loans, abortion or guns — it’s housing.
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:39:00 GMT
Americans across demographics shared the issues they care about the most in a Redfin survey.
Match ID: 167 Score: 25.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Indian election delivers stunning setback to Modi and his party
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:00:01 +0000
The BJP is still poised to form a government in coalition with allies. But this is the first time Modi has failed to win a majority over a 23-year political career.
Match ID: 168 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Ames Science Directorate’s Stars of the Month, June 2024
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:39:46 +0000
The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Amy Gresser, Mary Beth Wilhelm, Taylor Bell, and Liane Guild. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the talent, camaraderie, and vision needed to explore this world and beyond. Space Biosciences Star: Amy Gresser Dr. Amy Gresser is the Space Biology […]
Match ID: 169 Score: 25.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Who is Modi and what happened in the Indian election?
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:49:32 +0000
Election results in India have not given Prime Minister Narendra Modi a predicted landslide majority. Here’s what to know about Modi and the election results so far.
Match ID: 170 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Watch: What worked for India's Modi - and what didn’t?
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:32:32 GMT
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party have won the most seats in this year's election.
Match ID: 171 Score: 25.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Nuclear issue looms over Iranian presidential election to succeed Raisi
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:25:54 GMT

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

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

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

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

How to watch Tuesday's TV election debate
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:44:47 GMT
The prime minister and the Labour leader go head-to-head in the first TV debate of the campaign.
Match ID: 173 Score: 25.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

‘Avoid dad jokes, be natural’: How to win a TV debate
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:22:43 GMT
The pitfalls of live televised election debates - and why some party leaders might want to dodge them.
Match ID: 174 Score: 25.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

India election and a boy pulls a face: photos of the day – Tuesday
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:04:28 GMT

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

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

Electioncast: Sunak v Starmer (how do you win a TV debate?)
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:06:00 GMT
The Newscast guide to the first debate of the election campaign
Match ID: 176 Score: 25.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Farage enters election race as Reform UK candidate
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:25:10 GMT
The ex-Brexit Party leader says he has changed his mind and does not want to let his supporters down.
Match ID: 177 Score: 25.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 election

Abbott says she intends to run and win for Labour
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:35:14 GMT
The veteran politician says she intends to run for Labour at the election after a bitter selection row.
Match ID: 178 Score: 25.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 25.00 election

What election issues really matter to you? Let us know
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 02:19:21 GMT
At BBC News, we need your help to ensure we’re getting our election coverage right.
Match ID: 179 Score: 25.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 25.00 election

BBC announces dates for election TV debates
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 21:00:55 GMT
A seven-party debate is to be held on Friday, before a Question Time special and head-to-head event.
Match ID: 180 Score: 25.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 25.00 election

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

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

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

Match ID: 181 Score: 24.29 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 3.57 election, 2.14 progressives, 2.14 executive, 2.14 elections, 1.43 congress

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

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

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

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

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Match ID: 182 Score: 22.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 14.29 election, 8.57 elections

My Father’s Fate, and India’s
Fri, 31 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
As Narendra Modi vies for a third straight term, an appraisal of the damage wrought by his Hindu-nationalist project—and the effort by ordinary Indians to reëmbrace the country’s founding ideals.
Match ID: 183 Score: 21.43 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 21.43 politics

Will Mexico Decide the U.S. Election?
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Top officials from the two countries are wrangling over immigration policy. What they resolve will have huge implications on both sides of the border.
Match ID: 184 Score: 21.43 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 21.43 election

Burnley voters: tell us which issues will decide this election
Tue, 28 May 2024 14:40:36 GMT

The Guardian is reporting from the constituency of Burnley to find out what issues people there care about most – and we want your help

The Guardian will be reporting from Burnley ahead of the general election. This will be part of a series of pieces from across the country focused on finding out what matters most to the people who live there.

In 2019, the Lancashire town elected its first Conservative MP in more than a century. If you live in the constituency of Burnley, can you tell us what will decide your vote? We’d like to understand the big issues facing you and your family and which policies matter to you. How happy are you with the state of housing, work, community relations, policing and health services? What local issues should we be looking at?

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Match ID: 185 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 8.57 politics, 7.14 election, 4.29 elections

John Cuneo’s “A Man of Conviction”
Thu, 30 May 2024 22:06:20 +0000
The former President is found guilty on all thirty-four counts.
Match ID: 186 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 17.86 election

Donald Trump Is Guilty in His New York Hush-Money Trial
Thu, 30 May 2024 21:22:47 +0000
The jury has convicted the former President of thirty-four felony counts in his New York hush-money trial. Now the American people will decide to what extent they care.
Match ID: 187 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 17.86 election

The woman feeding Liverpool from an ice-cream van – video
Tue, 28 May 2024 09:47:52 GMT

Michelle Roach bought a used ice-cream van in order to bring cheap, affordable food to Liverpool's struggling communities. She wanted a vehicle with freezers built in for frozen food, and also something cheerful that was able to break down stigmas around food poverty. Using a '10 items for £5' model, Michelle sources discount food from supermarket surplus and donations.

The Guardian's Christopher Cherry follows Michelle and the van on its rounds, with the service struggling to meet overwhelming demand as the cost of living crisis deepens, and the UK's general election fast approaches.

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Match ID: 188 Score: 15.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 8.57 politics, 7.14 election

Biden issues order limiting asylum seekers from crossing US-Mexico border
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:12:09 GMT

President’s move comes amid voter dissatisfaction over migrant numbers as leftwing and Latino lawmakers express alarm

Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order that will temporarily shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum seekers attempting to cross outside of lawful ports of entry, when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded.

The order will take effect immediately, senior administration officials said on a press call. Those seeking asylum will be held to a much more rigorous standard for establishing credible fear of returning to their home country, although certain groups – including trafficking victims and unaccompanied children – would be excluded from the ban.

This article was amended on 4 June 2024 to show that Biden’s executive order will limit the number of asylum seekers crossing the border, not to prevent all of them from crossing it.

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Match ID: 189 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Biden announces executive action to curb migrant crossings
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:19:46 GMT
Under the new actions, officials can remove migrants who enter illegally without processing their asylum requests.
Match ID: 190 Score: 15.00 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

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

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

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

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

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Match ID: 191 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Tribunal cases to rise as UK firms push back on remote working, experts say
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:00:04 GMT

Some employers emboldened by ruling against FCA manager’s claim over working at home full-time

Lawyers and HR experts expect an increase in employment tribunal cases as companies increasingly clamp down on working from home and staff become resentful that the flexibility they have enjoyed since the Covid crisis is being slowly rolled back.

A number of companies are now advocating a full five-day return to the office, with others enforcing a minimum number of days in the workplace. Administrative staff at Boots, who previously worked in the office three days a week, will return to the office five days a week from September. Many US banks, such as Goldman Sachs, also expect senior staff to come in for the full week, and its chief executive, David Solomon, labelled remote working an “aberration”.

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Match ID: 192 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer: ‘The clock is ticking but the world will teach us what we need to do’ – podcast
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:00:04 GMT

For a long time, western science and Indigenous knowledge have been seen as distinct ways of learning about the world. But as we plunge the planet deeper into environmental crises, it is becoming clear that it is time to pay attention to both. Bridging that gap has been the driving force behind the career of the botanist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer. She tells Madeleine Finlay what we can learn from the most ancient plants on Earth, why we need to cultivate gratitude for the natural world and what western science can learn from Indigenous knowledge

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Match ID: 193 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

Can State Supreme Courts Preserve—or Expand—Rights?
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
With a lopsided conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, progressive activists are seeking legal opportunities in state constitutions.
Match ID: 194 Score: 15.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 15.00 constitution

Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy? – podcast
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:00:23 GMT

In the past 10 years the idea that trees communicate with and look after each other has gained widespread currency. But have these claims outstripped the evidence? By Daniel Immerwahr

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Match ID: 195 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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How to live to 100 | podcast
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 02:00:19 GMT

We know more about extending our lifespans than ever before. After
decades spent drinking, eating and laughing at people with exercise regimes, what will it take for Phil Daoust to join the ranks of centenarians?

When he got to 60, Phil Daoust, the deputy editor of the Guardian’s G2 section, made a decision. He was happy, healthy and wanted to remain that way for as long as possible. As a young man he had been unconcerned with diet and exercise regimes, preferring long boozy lunches, pies and walking to the pub. Later, after a bout of depression, he began to get healthier, but he wanted more.

He realised he no longer feared old age and decided to try to live to be 100. He took inspiration from people nearing that age, such as John Starbuck, a 93-year-old who regularly spends his days at the gym and is a keen water polo player. With a strong community around him, he illustrates the importance of social connections in living longer.

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Match ID: 196 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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AI hardware firm Nvidia unveils next-gen products at Taiwan tech expo
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 16:28:00 GMT

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

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

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

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Match ID: 197 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Nice try Dortmund, but Real Madrid are kings of Europe again – Football Weekly
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 11:00:00 GMT

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

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

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

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Match ID: 198 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive

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

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

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

Match ID: 199 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 14.29 federal government

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

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

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

Match ID: 200 Score: 12.14 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 executive, 2.14 elections

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

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

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

Match ID: 201 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 politics, 2.14 constitution

ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:40:09 +0000
Fate of net neutrality may hinge on Supreme Court's "major questions" doctrine.
Match ID: 202 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

For Decades, Officials Knew a School Sat on a Former Dump — and Did Little to Clean Up the Toxins
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

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

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

Match ID: 203 Score: 10.00 source: theintercept.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress

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: 204 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 134 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Young people in the UK: what are the most important general election issues for you?
Fri, 24 May 2024 11:48:48 GMT

We’d like to hear from people under 30 in the UK about the things that will matter to them most when they go to the polls this July

We’re interested to hear from young people in the UK what matters to them the most when they think about voting in the 2024 general election.

If you are under 30 and live in the UK, tell us which issues are most important to you regarding the election, and whether you’re planning to vote on 4 July.

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Match ID: 205 Score: 7.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
2024-05-21T00:00:00Z
With voters taking to the polls in dozens of countries this year, could election outcomes lean conservative? Paula Rettl says a lack of social mobility and a sense of economic insecurity are some of the factors fueling far-right movements around the world.
Match ID: 206 Score: 7.86 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 14 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election

How to trade an election
Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:10:12 +0000
It is becoming harder for investors to ignore politics
Match ID: 207 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 75 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election

Bonus Daily Cartoon: Constitutional Wishes
Wed, 29 May 2024 20:35:37 +0000
“Add ‘the right to a speedy trial.’ I hate waiting for a verdict.”
Match ID: 208 Score: 6.43 source: www.newyorker.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 6.43 constitution

‘Cringeworthy’: what people in Dover think of Labour and Keir Starmer – video
Fri, 10 May 2024 17:39:27 GMT

Keir Starmer appeared in Dover and Deal alongside the Labour party’s newest MP, the former Tory Natalie Elphicke, to announce the scrapping of the Rwanda deportation scheme if Labour is elected. The Guardian spoke to people in Dover to get their reaction

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Match ID: 209 Score: 4.29 source: www.theguardian.com age: 25 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

How American politics has infected investing
Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:41:46 +0000
Beware: taking a stand can be expensive
Match ID: 210 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 44 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: 211 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 132 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: 212 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 144 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

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

 

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

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

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

Introduction

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

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

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

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

LimeWire AI Studio

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

AI Image Generation Tools

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

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

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

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

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

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

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

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

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

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

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

Earn Revenue From Your Content

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

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

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

LMWR Tokens

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

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

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

Pricing Plans

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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.

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

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

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

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Find the latest India election results here
Thu, 09 May 2024 01:57:51 GMT
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When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:08:53 +0000
Following a nasty surprise, some now think they may come only after the presidential election
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
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Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000

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

Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

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

Who is Canva best suited for?

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

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

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

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

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

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

Free plan Features

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

Pro Plan Features 

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

Enterprise Plan Features

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

How to Use Canva?

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

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

Canva Sign Up

Designing with Canva

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

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

Templates

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

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

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

Elements

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

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

Photos

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

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

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

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

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

Text

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

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

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

Audio

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

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

Video

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

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

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

Backgrounds

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

Styles

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

Logos

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

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

Publishing with Canva

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

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

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

Canva Team

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

Canva Print

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

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

Canva Apps

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

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

Canva Pros and Cons

Pros:

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

Cons:

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

Conclusion

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

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

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

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

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qualifiers: 25.00 federal judge(|s), 15.00 judge

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

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

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

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ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:40:09 +0000
Fate of net neutrality may hinge on Supreme Court's "major questions" doctrine.
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Leonard Leo Built the Conservative Court. Now He’s Funneling Dark Money Into Law Schools.
Wed, 29 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

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

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

Match ID: 3 Score: 19.29 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 8.57 new law, 6.43 judge, 4.29 congress

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

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

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

Match ID: 4 Score: 15.00 source: theintercept.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 judge

Labor fights for the right to shred documents if it loses office
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:00:56 GMT

Attorney general Mark Dreyfus is appealing an FOI court ruling that said the practice could be criminal and must stop

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The federal government is fighting for the right to destroy documents when it loses office, after a judge warned the practice of shredding paperwork to keep it from incoming opponents is possibly criminal and must stop.

The attorney general Mark Dreyfus is appealing a federal court ruling in a freedom of information case that a minister must preserve a predecessor’s documents if an FOI access application remains unresolved when the minister leaves office. It found this applies whether the job changes hands through an internal ministerial reshuffle or an election.

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The judge overseeing the Hunter Biden case is nearly done with jury selection, having narrowed the...
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:49:34 +0000

Match ID: 6 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Winners Announced in Gateways to Blue Skies Aeronautics Competition
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:04:51 +0000
The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, team, with their project titled “Aero-Quake Emergency Response Network,” took first place at the third annual Gateways to Blue Skies Competition. Competing among eight finalist teams that presented their ideas for aviation-related systems for natural disasters, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona team earned the top award at the […]
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The judge and lawyers continue to work into the early afternoon without a lunch break so...
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:36:21 +0000

Match ID: 8 Score: 15.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Guantánamo Prosecutors Accused of “Outrageous” Misconduct for Trying to Use Torture Testimony
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000

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

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

Match ID: 9 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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These Convictions Thwart Trump’s Plan to Pardon Himself
Thu, 30 May 2024 22:24:07 +0000

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

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

Match ID: 10 Score: 10.71 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
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Donald Trump Is Guilty in His New York Hush-Money Trial
Thu, 30 May 2024 21:22:47 +0000
The jury has convicted the former President of thirty-four felony counts in his New York hush-money trial. Now the American people will decide to what extent they care.
Match ID: 11 Score: 10.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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Merrick Garland hits back at Trump and Republicans: ‘I will not be intimidated’
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:42:13 GMT

Attorney general defends stewardship of justice department and accuses Republican lawmakers of peddling conspiracy theories

US attorney general Merrick Garland has defended his stewardship of the justice department in a combative display on Capitol Hill that saw him accusing Republicans of attacking the rule of law while telling them he “will not be intimidated.”

Testifying before the House judiciary committee, Garland accused GOP congressmen of engaging in conspiracy theories and peddling false narratives.

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Congress may delay farm bill until after Election Day
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:09:16 +0000

Match ID: 13 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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As a congressman defended Trump, his 6-year-old son stole the spotlight
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:06:15 +0000
Rep. John Rose’s son, Guy — who said his dad’s speech was “so boring” — made faces and played with a toy as his father railed against Donald Trump’s criminal conviction.
Match ID: 14 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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For Decades, Officials Knew a School Sat on a Former Dump — and Did Little to Clean Up the Toxins
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

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

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

Match ID: 15 Score: 10.00 source: theintercept.com age: 0 days
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Benjamin Netanyahu set to address joint session of US Congress for fourth time
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 22:39:16 GMT

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

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

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

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Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum poised to secure supermajority after historic win
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:52:35 GMT

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

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

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

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

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Match ID: 17 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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South Africa’s ANC faces tough decisions after losing majority
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:43:57 GMT

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

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

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

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Match ID: 18 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as its first female president in landslide victory
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 08:27:43 GMT

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

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

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

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Match ID: 19 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Final results in seismic South Africa election confirm ANC has lost majority
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 18:56:10 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Owner of UK national lottery operator to sever ties with Gazprom
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:25:30 GMT

Allwyn parent company says deal to buy 3% stake in Czech gas facility will cut final link with Kremlin-controlled energy firm

The billionaire owner of Allwyn, the company that runs the national lottery, will sever his last remaining ties with Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom by the end of June, more than two years after winning the UK’s largest public sector contract.

The Czech tycoon Karel Komárek, who owns Allwyn via his Switzerland-based holding company KKCG, has faced scrutiny over his links to Russia since wresting control of the 10-year licence to operate the lottery from Camelot in 2022.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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GOP’s Biden-Manhattan conspiracy theory suffers a double blow
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:47:20 +0000
A former Trump lawyer debunked it over the weekend. And as the GOP strained to revive it Tuesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland offered firm denials.
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Merrick Garland hits back at Trump and Republicans: ‘I will not be intimidated’
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:42:13 GMT

Attorney general defends stewardship of justice department and accuses Republican lawmakers of peddling conspiracy theories

US attorney general Merrick Garland has defended his stewardship of the justice department in a combative display on Capitol Hill that saw him accusing Republicans of attacking the rule of law while telling them he “will not be intimidated.”

Testifying before the House judiciary committee, Garland accused GOP congressmen of engaging in conspiracy theories and peddling false narratives.

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GOP lawmaker: ‘Unfair’ justice system convicted Trump
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:24:36 +0000

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Elections 2024 live updates: Trump facing primary voters for first time as a felon
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:24:36 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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‘I will not be intimidated’: Garland rebuts contempt threats from House GOP
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 18:48:33 +0000
House Republicans grilled the attorney general about the federal prosecutions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden.
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What Biden’s new border limits mean in practice
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:54:20 +0000
Border closures would have been triggered during several days under the administration of George W. Bush — and Donald Trump.
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Former Trump aides charged in Wisconsin over 2020 elector plot
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:31:45 +0000
Attorney Kenneth Chesebro is among three aides charged in Wisconsin. Separate cases related to Trump’s 2020 efforts have been filed in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Georgia.
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What the US asylum process is really like, in applicants’ own words: ‘I’ve waited 10 years’
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:08:29 GMT

As Biden launches the strictest border crackdown of his presidency, five asylum seekers share their battles to secure protection in the US

On Tuesday, Joe Biden unveiled the most restrictive immigration policy of his presidency with an executive order enabling the mass rejection of asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border when crossings reach certain levels.

The order would allow the US government to temporarily shut down the border when the number of people seeking entry exceeds a daily threshold, empowering authorities to automatically block migrants from presenting their asylum cases. The policy, which would significantly erode the rights of asylum seekers, appears to be one of the harshest immigration crackdowns pushed by any modern Democrat and mirrors the Trump administration’s efforts to broadly limit entries en masse.

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Biden calls Trump ‘reckless and dangerous’ over claims trial was rigged
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:42:52 GMT

President also likens his predecessor’s rejection of the court verdict against him to his refusal to accept he lost 2020 election

Joe Biden has called Donald Trump “reckless and dangerous” over the former president’s claim that the trial leading to last week’s felony conviction in a Manhattan court was rigged.

In his sharpest criticism yet of his predecessor’s drive to undermine the legal integrity of the prosecution against him, the president also said a second Trump presidency would be a much greater threat to American democracy than his first. He likened Trump’s rejection of the court verdict against him to his refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 presidential election.

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Elon Musk is cosying up to Donald Trump. Haven’t we suffered enough? | Arwa Mahdawi
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:23:41 GMT

While their huge egos have rubbed each other the wrong way in the past, they may have found common ground

What happens when two of the most influential and insufferable people in the universe join forces? Looks like we’re about to find out. Rumour has it that Elon Musk is cosying up to convicted felon, adjudicated fraudster and presidential hopeful Donald Trump, in the hopes of securing a job in the White House.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the pair speak on the phone several times a month, and have discussed a possible advisory role for Musk if Trump is elected president again. It’s not clear what political pies Musk wants to stick his little fingers in: “The role hasn’t been fully hammered out,” the WSJ said. But, according to “people familiar with the talks”, Musk might get a position advising on border security and the economy.

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The Day After Tomorrow at 20: a strangely prescient ecological warning
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:00:57 GMT

The disaster flick is riddled with inaccuracies, cliches, and gusts of machismo. But with its global climate catastrophe, it feels more relevant than ever

In the winter of 2013, a breakdown in the polar vortex allowed freezing cold air to escape southwards towards the North American continent. As ice storms, tornadoes and blizzards swept across the US, Donald Trump tweeted. “I’m in Los Angeles and it’s freezing,” he wrote. “Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!”

It was all a little too reminiscent of Roland Emmerich’s disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow – which opens with US leaders dismissing scientific concerns about the loss of a huge chunk of the Antarctic ice shelf. The researchers are soon vindicated: within days, the melting ice sets off a chain of freak weather events, culminating in a global superstorm that plunges the entire northern hemisphere into a new ice age.

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As a congressman defended Trump, his 6-year-old son stole the spotlight
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:06:15 +0000
Rep. John Rose’s son, Guy — who said his dad’s speech was “so boring” — made faces and played with a toy as his father railed against Donald Trump’s criminal conviction.
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Nuclear issue looms over Iranian presidential election to succeed Raisi
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:25:54 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Taylor Swift deepfakes on X falsely depict her supporting Trump
2024-06-04T02:34:59+00:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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How Donald Trump Could Weaponize US Surveillance in a Second Term
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Donald Trump has vowed to go after political enemies, undocumented immigrants, and others if he wins. Experts warn he could easily turn the surveillance state against his targets.
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A “Stunningly Decisive” End to Donald Trump’s Trial
Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:03:30 +0000
The former President and Republican front-runner, a man who has rarely faced the consequences for his wrongdoing, was found guilty of thirty-four felony counts in his New York hush-money case. Will it matter?
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55 Years Ago: Star Trek Final Episode Airs, Relationship with NASA Endures
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:15:23 +0000
The voyages of the Starship Enterprise came to a sudden and premature end on June 3, 1969, with the airing of the final episode of the Star Trek original television series. Ironically, the show’s cancellation came just six weeks before humanity embarked on its first voyage to land on another celestial body. Although the show […]
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Imran Khan Remains Imprisoned Over His Wife’s Menstrual Cycles. State Department Says That’s “Something For the Pakistani Courts to Decide.”
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:34:13 +0000

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

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

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Elon Musk does not grasp EU fears about disinformation on X, official says
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:05:27 GMT

EU commissioner Vera Jourová says tech firms must hire staff versed in legal and historical context of free speech in Europe

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Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, lacks understanding of European concerns over the hatred and division that can result from the spread of disinformation, a senior EU commissioner has said.

Speaking just days before the European parliamentary elections, in which disinformation, particularly Russian-backed propaganda, has been a key issue, Věra Jourová criticised what she said was a clear deterioration in content moderation on X since Musk bought the platform in 2022.

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Everyone should be concerned about possible cooperation with Meloni, says Finnish candidate – as it happened
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:40:14 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Europe live – latest updates

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

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

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Deepfake of U.S. Official Appears After Shift on Ukraine Attacks in Russia | A manufactured video fabricated comments by the State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller.
2024-06-04T05:57:48+00:00

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Disinformation crisis unit on rapid alert around European elections
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:00:05 GMT

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

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

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

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Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials say
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000
A Kremlin-backed media outlet — the Prague-based Voice of Europe — funneled hundreds of thousands of euros to far-right politicians, officials say.
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Zelensky comes to Asia and scolds China
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 04:00:05 +0000
Ukraine’s president is trying to enlist leaders in Asia into a greater project of diplomacy.
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Nice try Dortmund, but Real Madrid are kings of Europe again – Football Weekly
Sun, 02 Jun 2024 11:00:00 GMT

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

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

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

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Outside the Trump Courthouse, Times Are Crazy and People Are Strange
Fri, 31 May 2024 18:12:03 +0000
A surreal gathering to hear the verdict included a crucifix-wielding town crier, someone yelling “Shawshank!,” and a frisson of violence.
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The Revisionist History of the Trump Trial Has Already Begun
Fri, 31 May 2024 13:35:09 +0000
The ex-President’s war on truth has an instant new target: his guilty verdict.
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Inside Donald Trump’s hush-money trial: three key testimonies – video
Fri, 31 May 2024 02:35:05 GMT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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New Energy Source Powers Subsea Robots Indefinitely
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:00:46 +0000
Power modules driven by ocean temperatures save money, reduce pollution
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China opens world’s biggest solar farm with 6.09 billion kWh annual capacity | The plant has a total capacity of 6.09 billion kWh, which is enough to a small country for an entire year.
2024-06-04T15:15:13+00:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:49:03 +0000
Companies like Amazon and Microsoft are racing to set up new data centers in Europe, but behind the scenes there's concern about how to provide them enough power to meet AI's demands.
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Daily Cartoon: Thursday, May 30th
Thu, 30 May 2024 15:58:53 +0000
“Why does it feel like we’re more nervous about the jury decision than Trump is?”
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Solid State Quantum Magnetometers—Seeking out water worlds from the quantum world
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:09:25 +0000
“Follow the water!”  The solar system is full of water in different states, from the Sun’s water vapor to the ice of Pluto and beyond. Water is not only linked to the possibility to sustain life, it is also interesting for its own geological properties and potential uses. For example, ice on the Moon and Mars could support human exploration. Comets that hit Earth may have deposited water on our planet. The icy comets and rings of Saturn reveal how solar systems change over time.
Match ID: 64 Score: 10.00 source: science.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 nuclear

Starmer says he is prepared to use nuclear weapons
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:56:57 GMT
Sir Keir Starmer says "security will always come first" under his Labour, distancing himself from Jeremy Corbyn.
Match ID: 65 Score: 10.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 10.00 nuclear

Are We Doomed? Here’s How to Think About It
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Climate change, artificial intelligence, nuclear annihilation, biological warfare—the field of existential risk is a way to reason through the dizzying, terrifying headlines.
Match ID: 66 Score: 10.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 10.00 nuclear

Chris Mason: Why Labour are so keen to talk about defence
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 08:45:07 GMT
Labour sees defence - and its commitment to nuclear arms - as key to shifting voter perceptions of the party.
Match ID: 67 Score: 10.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 10.00 nuclear

Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought
Thu, 30 May 2024 18:51:48 +0000
Drought-stricken hydro dams have led to daily electricity cuts in Ecuador. As weather becomes less predictable due to climate change, experts say other countries need to take notice.
Match ID: 68 Score: 8.57 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 8.57 energy

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

Brian Krebs reports on research into geolocating routers:

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

Match ID: 69 Score: 8.57 source: www.schneier.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 8.57 russia

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

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

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

Match ID: 70 Score: 6.43 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.86 italy

The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a Virginia shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines.
Match ID: 71 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 5.71 nuclear

On the Zero-Day Market
2024-05-24T11:07:53Z

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

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

Match ID: 72 Score: 5.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

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

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

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

Match ID: 73 Score: 5.00 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

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

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

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

Match ID: 74 Score: 5.00 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
Match ID: 75 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 55 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

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

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

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

Match ID: 76 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
Match ID: 77 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
Match ID: 78 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 42 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Trump Is Misleading You With Covid-Era Statistics. So Is Biden.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EST
Biden and Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.
Match ID: 79 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 46 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
Match ID: 80 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 48 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
Match ID: 81 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 70 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
Match ID: 82 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 89 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
Match ID: 83 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 98 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
Match ID: 84 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 103 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message
Wed, 22 May 2024 17:08:47 +0000

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

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

Match ID: 85 Score: 2.86 source: theintercept.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

US says Russia likely launched anti-satellite weapon
Wed, 22 May 2024 04:22:18 GMT
The Russian satellite launched last week may be capable of attacking other satellites, the Pentagon says.
Match ID: 86 Score: 2.86 source: www.bbc.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
Match ID: 87 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 33 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
Match ID: 88 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 47 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
Match ID: 89 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 54 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
Match ID: 90 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 78 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
Match ID: 91 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 86 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:21:18 +0000
The question that now confronts Western policymakers
Match ID: 92 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 96 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

What is happening to gas and electricity bills?
Fri, 24 May 2024 09:51:56 GMT
A new energy price cap means the cost of electricity and gas will fall from 1 July.
Match ID: 93 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 11 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

Energy bills predicted to fall by 7% in July
Fri, 17 May 2024 11:47:34 GMT
If the forecast proves correct, it would mean a typical annual bill could be £500 lower than last summer.
Match ID: 94 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.com age: 18 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

NASA Teammates Recall Favorite Memories Aboard Flying Laboratory
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000
After flying more than three decades and 158 science campaigns, just one flight remains. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory will make its final flight May 15 to Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, where it will be used to train future aircraft technicians by providing real-world experience in the college’s Aircraft Maintenance Technology Program. Before […]
Match ID: 95 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 21 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
Match ID: 96 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 139 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
Match ID: 97 Score: 1.43 source: www.economist.com age: 65 days
qualifiers: 1.43 nuclear

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