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She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such power.

The post She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook. appeared first on The Intercept.

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NATO chief urged Trump to see Ukraine aid as ‘a good deal’ for U.S.
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:48:01 +0000
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says he told Donald Trump that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea all also have a stake in the Ukraine war’s outcome.
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What’s at stake with a second Trump presidency – in charts and maps
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:00:51 GMT

Conflicts around the globe and domestic policies on immigration and vaccinations are likely to face upheaval

The second Donald Trump administration is expected to have a vast impact both domestically and around the world, potentially reshaping everything from the very private – such as abortion access in the US – right through to something as public as the health of the planet itself.

While Trump’s policies and their effects will take time to emerge, we can tell a lot about where things are heading by comparing the status quo to current data trends in six key areas, from migration and war through to climate and vaccine uptake.

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How the Syrian Opposition Shocked the Assad Regime
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:53:44 +0000
A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel groups to overrun the Syrian Army.
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Trump names Peter Navarro, jailed for contempt of Congress, trade adviser
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:30:47 GMT

President-elect says Navarro, his former White House trade adviser, will focus on tariffs

Donald Trump said he would name former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.

Navarro made headlines earlier this year when, in March, he was jailed for contempt of Congress.

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Mexico announces record drug seizure one week after Trump threatens tariffs
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:16:52 GMT

Soldiers and marines discover drugs in Sinaloa, while separately authorities arrest more than 5,200 migrants

Mexican security forces have impounded more than a ton of fentanyl pills in what officials have called the biggest seizure of the synthetic opioid in the country’s history.

Soldiers and marines found the fentanyl at two properties in the northern state of Sinaloa, late on Tuesday – exactly a week after Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico unless the two neighbouring countries cracked down on the flow of immigrants and drugs across their borders with the US.

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Mexico says Canada wishes it had its ‘cultural riches’ amid tariffs feud
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:53:49 GMT

Leaders cast the other as ill-prepared after Trump threatens to apply 25% taxes on goods from both countries

Mexico’s president has said Canadians “could only wish they had the cultural riches” of her country as tensions mount between the two nations, caught in a feud over tariffs and trade exacerbated by Donald Trump.

The US president-elect threatened in a social media post last week to apply devastating levies of 25% on all goods and services from both countries, and to keep them in place until “such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country!”

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Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:04:00 +0000

Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

The post Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Russia’s Embassy in South Korea told its citizens to remain calm, follow directions from local authorities...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:53:03 +0000

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Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
2024-12-03T12:00:47Z

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more inclusive. AI avatars were used by presidential candidates in South Korea in electioneering, enabling them to provide answers to thousands of voters’ questions simultaneously. We are also starting to see AI tools aid fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts. AI techniques are starting to augment more traditional polling methods, helping campaigns get cheaper and faster data. And congressional candidates have started using AI robocallers to engage voters on issues. In 2025, these trends will continue. AI doesn’t need to be superior to human experts to augment the labor of an overworked canvasser, or to write ad copy similar to that of a junior campaign staffer or volunteer. Politics is competitive, and any technology that can bestow an advantage, or even just garner attention, will be used...

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England’s Ben Stokes demands answers from ICC after latest over-rate sanctions
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:41:29 GMT

• Governing body has yet to address captain’s concerns
• ‘I’ve not signed an over-rate sheet since the Ashes’

Ben Stokes has revealed a personal stand-off with the International Cricket Council about over-rate penalties, including his refusal as England captain to sign the relevant post-match paperwork as a protest against the system.

Speaking before the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington, and naming an unchanged England XI as they target an unassailable 2-0 lead, Stokes laid bare his frustrations at the sides being docked three World Test Championship points and 15% of their match fees for the sluggish, albeit four-day, series opener in Christchurch.

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South Korea president’s aides offer to resign en masse – as it happened
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:57:13 GMT

This blog is closed – you can follow live coverage on our new liveblog

The White House has said it is “closely” monitoring the situation in South Korea.

“The administration is in contact with the ROK government and is monitoring the situation closely,” a spokesperson for the national security council said, using the official acronym for the Republic of Korea, where thousands of US troops are based as parts of efforts to deter nuclear-armed North Korea.

All political activities are banned in South Korea following the imposition of martial law on Tuesday and all media will be subject to government monitoring.

All political activities, including those of the national assembly, local councils, political parties, and political associations, as well as assemblies and demonstrations, are strictly prohibited.

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Trump picks Kelly Loeffler to lead Small Business Administration
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:53:59 +0000

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Live updates: A defiant Hegseth says he will ‘continue to fight’ for defense secretary post
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:53:59 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Trump picks former congressman Billy Long to replace IRS commissioner
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:32:08 +0000

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Jeff Bezos says he’s optimistic for Trump’s second term in the White House
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:31:01 +0000

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Hegseth vows to stay sober if confirmed as defense secretary; Trump signals pro-crypto stance with SEC pick Paul Atkins – live
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:04:25 GMT

Former Fox host tries to charm Republican senators amid growing questions over suitability; Atkins named amid flurry of appointments

• Trump taps billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead Nasa
• Hegseth says he will ‘never back down’ amid rumors he’ll be replaced by DeSantis

Conservative justice Brett Kavanaugh brought up the possibility that minors who receive gender-affirming care could later regret doing so.

“You say there are benefits from allowing these treatments, but there are also harms, right, from allowing these treatments, at least the state says so, including lost fertility, the physical and psychological effects on those who later change their mind and want to detransition, which I don’t think we can ignore,” Kavanaugh said.

The record evidence demonstrates that the rates of regret are very low for the population that has access to this treatment. So these are adolescents who have marked and sustained gender dysphoria that has worsened with the onset of puberty. They are very likely to persist in their gender identity. But if you’re thinking about this from the standpoint of, there’s no harm in just making them wait until they’re adults, I think you have to recognize that the effect of denying this care is to produce irreversible physical effects that are consistent with their birth sex, because they have to go through puberty before they turn 18.

So, essentially, what this law is doing is saying we’re going to make all adolescents in the state develop the physical secondary sex characteristics consistent with their gender or with their sex assigned at birth, even though that might significantly worsen gender dysphoria, increase the risk of suicide, and, I think, critically, make it much harder to live and be accepted in their gender identity as an adult. Because if you’re requiring someone to undergo a male puberty, and they develop an Adam’s apple, that’s going to be hard to reverse, and they’re more likely to be identified as transgender and subject to discrimination and harassment as adults.

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Crypto prices soar as Trump’s SEC pick stokes hope for more ETFs
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:01:00 GMT
President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Paul Atkins to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission could usher in a new era of crypto-friendly financial regulation in Washington.
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President-elect Donald Trump will sit for an interview set to air Sunday with NBC News’ “Meet...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:31:26 +0000

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Mexico announces seizure of fentanyl after Trump threatens tariffs
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:21:13 +0000

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Trump requests dismissal of charges in Georgia election interference case
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:04:06 GMT

Lawyers argue that sitting president is ‘immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal’

Donald Trump’s attorney in Georgia has asked the state’s appellate court to dismiss election interference charges against the president-elect, arguing that a sitting president “is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal”.

The filing by attorney Steve Sadow before the Georgia court of appeals asks the court to dismiss Trump’s appeal of a lower-court decision to allow Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis to remain as prosecutor on the case, because the Fulton county superior court no longer has jurisdiction, given Trump’s electoral victory.

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Tracking Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and administration
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:51:56 +0000
Here are the people Donald Trump has picked or is considering to fill his Cabinet and key positions in his administration.
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Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense should alarm all of us | Moira Donegan
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:43:29 GMT

Pete Hegseth, who has been accused of drunken, irresponsible and predatory behavior, would be in charge of the world’s most powerful military

It takes a lot to get a man’s mother to declare him an “abuser of women”. Mothers, as a rule, are not known for their ungenerous assessments of their sons’ behavior. But Penelope Hegseth, the mother of the Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense, once did just that in an email to her son.

“I have no respect for a man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego,” Hegseth’s mother wrote to him. “You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains and embarrasses me to say that, but it’s the sad, sad truth.” The email – which Hegseth’s mother later disavowed – appears to have come around the time of the dissolution of Hegseth’s second marriage; during Hegseth’s first marriage, according to a new report by Vanity Fair, he confessed to no fewer than five affairs.

Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist

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Hegseth said Trump told him ‘You’re my guy’
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:40:29 +0000

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I am Artemis: Mike Lauer
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:38:37 +0000
Mike Lauer, an engineer who works for the Aerojet Rocketdyne segment of L3Harris Technologies, found his career inspiration in science fiction, but for the perspective it takes to execute complex space programs, he draws on real-world experience. Growing up, Lauer spent many cold winter nights in the basement of his Sioux Falls, South Dakota, home, […]
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Romney denounces politicians who ‘tear at our unity’ in farewell Senate speech
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:11:13 +0000
Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), a former GOP presidential nominee who became a foe of Donald Trump, stressed bipartisanship in his farewell Senate speech.
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Most members of the House have only known the Trump era of politics
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:48:09 +0000
Six in 10 representatives and a third of senators have only been on Capitol Hill since Trump was president. How does this affect their understanding of their role?
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Trump asks Michael Whatley to stay on as RNC chair
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:38:09 +0000

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Trump swaps out new White House counsel pick
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:03:01 +0000

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Trump picks Monica Crowley for chief of protocol
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:57:35 +0000

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Trump nominates Jared Isaacman to become the next NASA administrator
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:41:43 +0000
"We will never again lose our ability to journey to the stars and never settle for second place."
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Trump taps billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as next NASA administrator
2024-12-04T18:26:06+00:00

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy meets with Trump and Vance
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:26:32 +0000

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Hegseth defiant as Trump considers replacing him as defense secretary pick
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:18:33 +0000
The president-elect discussed the role with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Trump picks Vance aide to serve as DOJ antitrust chief
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:10:41 +0000

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Trump taps finance professor Michael Faulkender as deputy treasury secretary
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:08:30 +0000

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Trump taps Paul Atkins to lead SEC, signaling shift on crypto regulation
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:06:28 +0000

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Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick, emerged from a meeting with incoming Senate majority leader...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:51:45 +0000

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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, canceled a meeting with Sen. Josh Hawley...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:34:48 +0000

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Trump said he pulled Chad Chronister out of consideration for his head of the DEA
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:03:32 +0000

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‘This is not time for retreat or apathy’: Black women dissect Harris loss
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:00:20 GMT

Activists among 92% of Black women who voted for Harris discuss how intersection of racism and sexism led to defeat

Misogynoir, the intersection of racism and sexism, was the main reason behind Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 general election, a panel of Black female experts argued, noting how post-election coverage has failed to contend with how white supremacy undergirded the election results.

In a conversation titled “Views from the 92%: Black Women Reflect on 2024 Election and Road Ahead”, several academics dissected how and why the vice-president lost, particularly given Trump’s problematic history.

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Trump names Adam Boehler as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:52:03 +0000

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Trump picks a former U.S. soldier turned investor as Army secretary
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:42:50 +0000

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Trump names businessman and private astronaut Jared Isaacman as head of NASA
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:37:44 +0000

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Trump and the GOP will have a historically tiny House majority. What that means.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:32:41 +0000
A look at the numbers, and how fraught and riven the next two years could be for President-elect Trump and the GOP.
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Peter Navarro, imprisoned for contempt of Congress, to return as Trump adviser
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:23:16 +0000

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Former Trump defense official emerges as possible Hegseth replacement
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:08:12 +0000

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Pete Hegseth’s strongest ally isn’t Trump. It’s Fox News.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:41:16 +0000
The potential defense secretary’s candidacy has been boosted far more robustly by his former employer than by his possible future one.
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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, will cross over to the...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:19:35 +0000

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Trump advisers renew push for pardon of Edward Snowden
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:10:52 +0000

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‘Straight in harm’s way’: can Trump open up Alaska’s 19m-acre refuge for drilling?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:00:18 GMT

Native leaders ready for a fight as Trump calls ANWR, one of the last truly wild places on Earth, the US’s ‘biggest oil farm’

The Arctic national wildlife refuge (ANWR) is one of the earth’s last intact ecosystems. Vast and little-known, this 19m-acre expanse along Alaska’s north slope is home to some of the region’s last remaining polar bears, as well as musk oxen, wolves and wolverines. Millions of birds from around the world migrate to or through the region each year, and it serves as the calving grounds for the porcupine caribou.

Donald Trump has called the refuge the US’s “biggest oil farm”.

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Hegseth says Trump told him to ‘keep fighting’ in tough confirmation process
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:50:48 +0000

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Trump’s union-friendly choice for labor secretary sparks GOP anxiety
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:43:29 +0000

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Pete Hegseth says Trump told him to ‘keep fighting’ amid rumors he’ll be replaced by DeSantis
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:37:26 GMT

Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense vows not to back down despite multiple controversies emerging since he was named

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for secretary of defense, shared an impassioned post saying he will “never back down” amid a flurry of rumors that the president-elect is contemplating replacing him with Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis.

“I’m doing this for the warfighters, not the warmongers. The Left is afraid of disrupters and change agents. They are afraid of [Donald Trump] – and me. So they smear w/ fake, anonymous sources & BS stories. They don’t want truth. Our warriors never back down, & neither will I,” Hegseth wrote on X on Wednesday morning.

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GB News overtakes rival Sky in latest live viewing figures, data shows
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:57:27 GMT

Rightwing broadcaster’s ratings surge in month featuring farmers’ protest in London and Trump re-election in US

It may be the bane of many liberals, and its provocative broadcasts have certainly kept Ofcom busy since its launch.

But despite all the controversy, the audience for GB News keeps rising, and November appeared to be another significant month.

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AI and the 2024 Elections
2024-12-04T12:09:23Z

It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepfakes and artificial intelligence-generated misinformation would overwhelm the democratic processes. As 2024 draws to a close, it’s instructive to take stock of how democracy did.

In a Pew survey of Americans from earlier this fall, nearly eight times as many respondents expected AI to be used for mostly bad purposes...

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The happiest place to live in the UK? It’s not London …
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:22:05 GMT

With high scores for friendly neighbours and access to services, Woodbridge in Suffolk has topped Rightmove’s annual list for the first time

It may not have the bright lights of London or Edinburgh, or even the celebrity or notoriety of some of the Great Britain’s better known villages and towns.

But in one respect, Woodbridge in Suffolk seems to trump them all: it is the happiest place to live in Britain. At least that is the conclusion of a survey by the property website Rightmove.

Woodbridge, East of England, £441,569, £1,478

Richmond upon Thames, London, £939,329, £3,131

Hexham, North East, £313,147, £840

Monmouth, Wales, £320,974, £1,335

Harrogate, Yorkshire and the Humber, £394,312, £1,439

Skipton, Yorkshire and the Humber, £263,479, £1,030

Sevenoaks, South East, £881,061, £2,924

Leigh on Sea, East of England, £465,542, £1,796

Cirencester, South West, £384,013, £1,495

Wokingham, South East, £590,949, £2,120

Winchester, South East, £578,760, £2,069

Stirling, Scotland, £214,441, £1,227

Stratford-upon-Avon, West Midlands, £413,115, £1,604

Horsham, South East, £458,641, £1,983

Kendal, North West, £285,645, £966

Kensington and Chelsea, London, £1,667,573, £5,345

Chorley, North West, £197,199, £883

Hove, South East, £555,193, £1,993

Wandsworth, London, £865,205, £3,159

Hitchin, East of England, £510,612, £1,730

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Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the threat to press freedom
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:07:14 GMT

A second term for Trump has chilling implications for critical independent journalism and the media the industry

Donald Trump’s second term promises to deliver historic threats to US press freedom – directly from the Oval Office.

The president-elect made it clear during the campaign that he had the media in his sights. He told a rally on the eve of the election that he “wouldn’t mind” if an assassin shot the journalists standing in front of him.

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Biden could do so much good with pardons. Instead he bailed out his son | Tayo Bero
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:00:05 GMT

Hunter Biden cut the line while thousands of people who deserve similar considerations of mercy languish in prison

When Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he would be pardoning his son Hunter – who was facing sentencing in two federal criminal cases – he helped cement Donald Trump’s much-repeated argument that the American judicial system is rotten, politicized and in need of an overhaul.

It’s a stupid refrain, but there are some heavy issues with Biden’s choice to do this now. What are we to make of the hypocrisy of a president who promised he’d “never interfere in the dealings of the justice department”, and swore even up until six weeks ago that he would not pardon his son? Or the fact that he just delivered Trump and the Republican party the kind of ammunition they need to justify pardoning, say, the orchestrators of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol? More morally troubling is that there’s a million other worthy causes that Biden could be using his pardon powers for.

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‘I am acutely frightened’: artists talk of fears over a second Trump term
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:04:02 GMT

Figures in the art world including Amy Sherald and Marilyn Minter share their concerns ahead of Trump’s return

The Iraqi artist Vian Sora has seen the absolute worst that politics has to offer – she spent most of her first 30 years living under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq, then endured the destruction of her country following the US invasion in 2003. Years later, she surfaced in the United States as a refugee. Her art, which mixes bright, neon colors with motifs from the ancient history of her homeland, is a testament to the history that has scarred her and her resilience as a survivor.

Settled now in Louisville, Kentucky, along with the family that she worked tirelessly to bring over from Iraq, she is a part of an art community grappling with what their vocation will mean now that Donald Trump has been elected president. The stakes for Sora are not just creative; her family itself may be threatened by Trump’s presidency. “I am acutely frightened by the prospects of refugees and immigrants becoming persona non grata,” she said, “as my sister has an asylum case that remains in jeopardy.”

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Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead FBI, hit with Iranian cyberattack, sources say
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Trump's tariffs would 'spell disaster' for GM, Ford — and the rest of the auto industry
2024-12-03T21:24:41+00:00

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FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:18:29 +0000
The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient.
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Farmer styles need an illustrative update | Brief letters
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:56:46 GMT

Archaic depictions of farmers | The ‘wondrous’ US constitution | Statues of limitations | Who’s the mug? | Inflated ego

The illustration published with John Harris’s column (1 December) showed a “typical” farmer hoping for a break in the (economic) clouds. Did he have to be from 1960s central casting? Flat cap, neckerchief, green wellies and chewing on straw? Leaning on a spade in an obviously ploughed field? Surely the Guardian doesn’t share the government’s archaic view of farmers.
Ian Stewart
Brackley, Northamptonshire

• Simon Jenkins lauds that “thing of wonder”, the US constitution, which has “held the union together … for two and a half centuries” (Biden pardons his son, Trump will absolve his criminal allies. America shouldn’t stand for this, 2 December). Has the small matter of the civil war – southern secession, four years of armed conflict, over 600,000 dead and a divisive legacy – slipped his mind?
Alan Knight
Emeritus professor of history, Oxford University

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Trudeau meets rivals as he seeks united front in face of Trump tariff threat
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:51:08 GMT

Canadian government scrambles to ward off tariffs as prime minister briefs politicians on meeting with Trump

Canada’s federal government has redoubled its efforts to ward off potentially disastrous tariffs from its closest ally, but provincial leaders have hinted at divergent strategies in response to the protectionist threat from president-elect Donald Trump.

Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, convened a rare, in-person meeting with his political rivals on Tuesday to brief them on a surprise meeting with Trump at his Florida resort over the weekend.

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Ireland Rejected the Far Right. The Election Conspiracy Theories Have Already Begun
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:27:21 +0000
Ireland’s far-right candidates expected to succeed on a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric, but the people rejected them wholesale.
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US plan to protect consumers from data brokers faces dim future under Trump
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:56:28 +0000
Wyden: "Unfortunately, it will be up to Trump's CFPB to finalize this proposed rule."
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After Trump threats, Hamas blames Israel for lack of hostage deal
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:46:17 +0000

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Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000
A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.
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Tori Amos on trauma, Trump and Neil Gaiman: ‘It’s a heartbreaking grief’
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:44 GMT

The musician is back with a live album and as passionate as ever. She discusses fans, failure, muses, misogyny – and why she won’t tolerate bad behaviour

By the third UK lockdown, Tori Amos was wondering if she would ever play live again. At her remote house in Cornwall, where we meet, she began mourning the loss of connection with her audience. When the US singer and songwriter is on tour, giving her famously passionate performances, hundreds of letters pour in every day, requesting songs. “I try to read as many as I can, and we change the show every night, except the bookends. Anything else is up for grabs.”

Her relationship with her fans has always been collaborative. They tell her things. They trust her. In person, she has an open-book quality that immediately draws you in. When I arrive at her place – a detached but unassuming house upfront, and a warren of more recently built workshops at the back, filled with beautiful pianos, a massive mixing desk and the harpsichord she played on her album Boys for Pele – we have lunch with her husband and sound engineer, Mark Hawley. The conversation roams through football, raving, legal training (their 24-year-old daughter Tash is studying law in Washington DC) and how good the pumpkin soup is.

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These Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:26:10 +0000

The Intercept asked companies that store personal data if they will help Trump conduct mass deportations. Few had anything to say.

The post These Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants appeared first on The Intercept.

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R.F.K., Jr., Wants to Eliminate Fluoridated Water. He Used to Bottle and Sell It
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead H.H.S. once started a bottled-water line, Keeper Springs. What was in it?
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Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:22:16 +0000
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.
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Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:24:05 +0000

Climate Justice Alliance was the only program grantee to speak out on Palestine — and the only one whose funding is delayed.

The post Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

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How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
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Major war could destroy army in six months, minister warns
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:40:40 GMT
The defence minister said Russia was suffering 1,500 casualties a day in its conflict with Ukraine.
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UK uncovers vast crypto laundering scheme for gangsters and Russian spies
2024-12-04T21:23:06+00:00

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South Korea’s martial law crisis stirs memories of 1980 Gwangju massacre
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:20:48 +0000
In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a military dictator and triggered a deadly uprising.
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South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, facing impeachment after martial law shock
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:56:15 GMT

Opposition parties submit motion to impeach Yoon after his shock bid to put South Korea under martial law for first time in over four decades

• South Korea crisis: live updates
• Explainer: what happened and what comes next?

South Korean opposition parties have formally submitted a motion to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, over his short-lived declaration of martial law.

Early on Thursday, lawmakers presented to parliament an impeachment motion alleging that Yoon “gravely and extensively violated the constitution and the law” and accuses him of imposing martial law “with the unconstitutional and illegal intent to evade imminent investigations... into alleged illegal acts involving himself and his family”.

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British army could be wiped out within six months of Ukraine-scale war, minister warns
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:40:08 GMT

Alistair Carns says a casualty rate similar to Russia’s invasion could lead to the army being ‘expended’ within six to 12 months

The British army would be wiped out in as little as six months if it was forced to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict, a defence minister has warned.

Alistair Carns said a rate of casualties similar to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would lead to the army being “expended” within six to 12 months.

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The South Korean coup is a perfect coda to the Biden presidency | Alex Bronzini-Vender
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:22:33 GMT

Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific policy of pursuing detente against China at all costs meant embracing Yoon, whose anti-democratic attitude has always been clear

Jean Baudrillard’s 1986 travel diary of his time in Reagan’s America – “the only remaining primitive society on earth”, in his words – describes a paradox about the nature of late-century American hegemony. “American power does not seem inspired by any spirit or genius of its own,” wrote Baudrillard, “but it is, in a sense, uncontested and incontestable.” American “genius” appeared to suffer “from the weakening of all the forces that previously opposed it” – the incoherence of American strategic thinking, to Baudrillard, was thus a measure of its success.

Today, there are American adversaries everywhere – not least in what is now called the Indo-Pacific. But no such “spirit or genius” seemed to underpin the Biden administration’s response to the Tuesday coup in South Korea, much less South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempted overthrow of democratic rule. The Biden administration’s response has been, to say the least, limp. At the time of writing, the state department has said little beyond an assurance that its alliance with South Korea is “ironclad” and that the United States will “stand by Korea in its time of uncertainty”.

Alex Bronzini-Vender is a writer living in New York

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A Coup, Almost, in South Korea
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:21:40 +0000
President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, then backed off, in a matter of hours. He now faces impeachment and mass protests.
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Martial law came to South Korea – and my friends and I doomscrolled through the night
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:57:32 GMT

Since the separation of the Koreas in 1953, our elders have experienced the suspension of normal civil rights many times. But for the younger generation, this was a horrifying and instructive first

At 10.23pm on 3 December in Seoul, I was already in bed, alternating between reading a book and watching YouTube cooking reels. That was when Yoon Suk Yeol, the president, declared emergency martial law in South Korea for the first time since 1979.

In an unannounced televised address, Yoon said the imposition of martial law was “aimed at eradicating pro-North Korean forces and protecting the constitutional order of freedom”.

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She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:39:10 +0000
Western authorities say they’ve identified a network that found a new way to clean drug gangs’ dirty cash. WIRED gained exclusive access to the investigation.
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Russian criminals helped UK drug gangs launder lockdown cash
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:33:10 GMT
UK drug gangs paid Russian criminals to swap their dirty street cash for untraceable cryptocurrency, police say.
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Global investigation exposes alleged billion-dollar Russian money-laundering network
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:30:18 GMT

UK and foreign law enforcement agencies say networks laundered cash and cryptocurrencies for organised crime gangs across the west

Operatives said to be behind a billion-dollar Russian money-laundering network – used by drug dealers, financial criminals and foreign spies – have been sanctioned and arrested in a coordinated international investigation led by the National Crime Agency.

The UK law enforcement body, which tackles serious and organised crime, said the actions constituted the “most significant money laundering operation” it had undertaken in the past few years. The operation involved America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, France’s Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire and Ireland’s Garda.

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U.S. watches warily as key Asian ally descends into political chaos
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:54:10 +0000
The president of South Korea’s declaration of martial law caught Washington by surprise.
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South Korean opposition moves to impeach president after remarkable misstep
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:48:10 +0000
Lawmakers could vote to impeach Yoon Suk Yeol as soon as Friday. Regardless of the outcome, it is clear that the president’s political future is in grave doubt.
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Georgia protests gather momentum after pro-Russia party suspends E.U. bid
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:15:11 +0000
By suspending talks with the E.U., the party was decisively pivoting to Russia and away from its European aspirations — one of the few goals most Georgians agree on.
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Moscow claims ‘external forces’ seeking to escalate violence in Syria
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:08:51 GMT

Statement comes as Ukrainian intelligence says Russia will send mercenaries to support flagging troops allied to Damascus

Moscow has condemned “external forces” seeking to escalate violence in Syria, despite reports from Ukrainian military intelligence that Russia is to send mercenaries to support flagging troops allied to Damascus.

The Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova blamed outside actors for instigating a recent sweeping insurgent offensive, after Islamist militants spearheaded by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took control of the city of Aleppo at the weekend in a shock advance.

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Russian court sentences kingpin of Hydra drug marketplace to life in prison
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:15:10 +0000
The underground marketplace distributed more than a metric ton of narcotics.
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Bronze snakes and perfectly intact eggs among treasures found at ancient Italian thermal spa
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:07:45 GMT

Trove had been preserved by warm waters and mud at the Tuscan springs near Siena

Bronze snakes, statues, two gold crowns, jewellery, thousands of coins and perfectly intact eggs are among the latest remarkable discoveries to emerge from the site of an ancient thermal spa in a small town in Tuscany.

The trove had been preserved by the warm waters and mud at the springs, believed to have been built by the Etruscans in the second century BC, in San Casciano dei Bagni, a hilltop town close to Siena.

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Fear, fury and triumph: Six hours that shook South Korea
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:09:49 GMT
A recap of a dramatic night that saw South Koreans rush to overturn the president's shock martial law order.
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Up to 100 ‘suspicious incidents’ in Europe can be attributed to Russia, Czech minister says
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:12:11 GMT

Czech foreign minister says Europe ‘needs to send a strong signal to Moscow that this won’t be tolerated’

A senior European diplomat said that up to 100 “suspicious incidents” in Europe this year could be attributed to Russia, as western officials grapple with how to respond to suspected Russian sabotage attempts.

Speaking ahead of a meeting with Nato counterparts in Brussels, the Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, stressed that Europe “needs to send a strong signal to Moscow that this won’t be tolerated”.

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South Korea crisis: motion to impeach President Yoon submitted, say opposition parties – as it happened
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:51:12 GMT

Opposition Democratic party lawmakers have called on Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or they would seek his impeachment

• Yoon Suk Yeol faces calls to resign after martial law shock
• Explainer: what happened and what comes next?

South Korea’s finance ministry has said it stood ready to deploy “unlimited” liquidity into financial markets after President Yoon Suk Yeol lifted a martial law declaration he imposed overnight that pushed the won to multi-year lows, Reuters reports.

The announcement came after finance minister Choi Sang-mok and Bank of Korea governor Rhee Chang-yong held emergency talks overnight, and as the central bank board abruptly met to approve rescue measures for the local credit market.

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Four things to know about South Korean President Yoon as impeachment looms
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:47:23 +0000
Yoon Suk Yeol was a career prosecutor who made his first foray into politics when he became the People Power Party’s presidential candidate in 2021.
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Could South Korean President Yoon be impeached over martial law decree?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:42:53 +0000
Calls are growing for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s ouster after he declared then rescinded martial law. Here’s how an impeachment would work.
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How Ukraine has faced its worst month on the battlefield in two years – visualised
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:00:00 GMT

November was Ukraine’s worst month since September 2022 for territory lost to Russian forces. These charts and maps show the latest developments in the war

Ukraine lost an area equivalent to the size of New York City to Russian forces in November – the worst monthly figure for Ukrainian defenders since September 2022.

After the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russia gained ground quickly before being pushed back in a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Last year, with the conflict mostly at a stalemate, Institute for the Study of War (ISW) data shows that Russian forces took 2,233 sq km (862 sq miles) of territory. Already in 2024 they have taken about 2,656 sq km.

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South Korean president faces impeachment calls after martial law attempt
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:45:31 +0000
The country reacted in anger and shock after President Yoon Suk Yeol abruptly called for martial law Tuesday night, only to backtrack hours later.
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The leader of South Korea’s ruling People Power Party, Han Dong-hoon, has called for Defense Minister...
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Declaration of martial law in Seoul causes chaos – in pictures
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:24:13 GMT

South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol sparked major protests by announcing martial law. He reversed his decision in the face of massive opposition

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In a cabinet meeting before South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law, defense minister...
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s decision to rescind martial...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:45:18 +0000

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South Korea’s main opposition party is calling for President Yoon Suk Yeol to resign or face...
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Martial law, then a reversal: An astonishing six hours in South Korea
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:44:14 +0000
The political roller-coaster of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration then suspension of martial law was extreme even by the standards of South Korea.
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said South Korean President...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:53:35 +0000

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FBI disrupts Russian AI bot farm spreading Ukraine disinformation
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How the South Korean president's martial law declaration unfolded – video
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:16:13 GMT

After South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in the country, thousands of protesters took to the streets alongside the leading opposition Democratic party, urging MPs to head to the national assembly and vote it down. Following a dramatic night in which soldiers attempted to block MPs from entering parliament, lawmakers unanimously adopted a bill rejecting the martial law declaration, prompting the president to backtrack. Here is how the night unfolded in Seoul

• Declaration of martial law awakens ghosts South Koreans thought were laid to rest

• South Korea gripped by uncertainty as MPs defy president’s declaration of martial law

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The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, one of country’s largest labor union federations, called for its...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:13:02 +0000

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The South Korean government passed a measure lifting martial law early Wednesday local time, the semiofficial...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:34:33 +0000

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South Korea’s Yoon declared, then lifted, martial law. Why?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:15:40 +0000

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South Korean President Yoon says martial law will be lifted
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:08:52 +0000

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Who is South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:25:35 +0000

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The Biden administration is “watching the recent developments” in South Korea “with grave concern,” Deputy Secretary...
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The South Korean won was down sharply against the U.S. dollar — about 1,420 KRW to...
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The U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Philip Goldberg, said in a statement Tuesday that the embassy...
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Kim Yeon-hee, a 36-year-old South Korean office worker, stood at the perimeter of the massive crowd...
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I’m outside the South Korean National Assembly in the bitter cold with thousands of protesters who...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:19:01 +0000

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In photos: The clash at South Korea’s National Assembly building
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:09:18 +0000

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South Korean military officials say martial law will remain in place until President Yoon Suk Yeol...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:42:22 +0000

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According to the South Korean constitution, the president “shall comply” when the National Assembly requests the...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:26:00 +0000

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The South Korean National Assembly has voted to block President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:24:20 +0000

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What’s in the martial law South Korea’s president declared?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:08:24 +0000

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South Korean lawmakers assemble to respond to martial law
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:03:30 +0000

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The declaration of martial law faces stiff opposition among South Korean political leaders.
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:59:23 +0000

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Rebels and government battle in Syria; Lebanon ceasefire fraying
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:46:17 +0000
The ceasefire in Lebanon appears to be coming apart after Israel conducted strikes in Lebanon and Hezbollah fired rockets. In Syria, Russia and Iran have pledged to back President Bashar al-Assad.
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The Chinese Embassy in South Korea advised Chinese citizens in the country to “remain calm,” pay...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:43:17 +0000

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Martial law declared in South Korea for first time in 44 years
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:26:33 +0000

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Three Teachers Tried to Give Palestinian Students a Safe Haven — and It Cost Them Their Jobs
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The Philadelphia school ordered teachers to “stay neutral” on Israel’s war on Gaza, but they helped students make pro-Palestine posters.

The post Three Teachers Tried to Give Palestinian Students a Safe Haven — and It Cost Them Their Jobs appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 128 Score: 20.00 source: theintercept.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 20.00 russia

Syrian forces regroup with help from Iran, Russia after shock rebel advance
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:14:45 +0000

Match ID: 129 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 20.00 russia

Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:43 GMT

Canonisation has long been a way for the Catholic church to shape its image. The Vatican is preparing to anoint its first millennial saint, but how does it decide who is worthy?

As a child growing up in Milan, Carlo Acutis collected stories of miracles. He wrote about the time when, in 1411, wine turned to blood in a castle chapel in Ludbreg, Croatia; of how, in 1630, a pastor in Canosio, Italy, saved his town from a flood by blessing the raging waters; of how, in 1906, a priest on the island of Tumaco, Colombia, held up a reliquary on the beach to stop an approaching tsunami. Acutis, 11 years old and a devout Catholic, began typing up these stories and posting them on his website, which he styled as a “virtual museum” of miraculous events. A section on the site invited visitors to “discover how many friends you have in heaven”, and to read stories of young saints.

Acutis hoped to one day join their ranks. He was convinced that he would die before he reached adulthood and told his mother, Antonia, that he would perish of “a broken vein in his brain”. He wanted to be buried in the town of Assisi, where his family had a summer home. In the meantime, he devoted his life to the church, which was a surprise to his largely secular parents. As a teenager, he taught catechism classes to young children, and offered them a step-by-step guide to becoming a saint. ““Always remember that you, too, can become a saint!” he would say. Every day, they were to go to mass, recite the Holy Rosary, read the scripture and confess their sins.

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Match ID: 130 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 20.00 italy

Stopping the Press: The Threats to the Media Posed by the Second Trump Term
Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
After spending years painting the media as the “enemy of the people,” Donald Trump is ready to intensify his battle against the journalists who cover him.
Match ID: 131 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:44:25 +0000
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
Match ID: 132 Score: 17.14 source: www.economist.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 17.14 russia

Starmer seeks to relaunch premiership with new promise to crack down on crime
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:30:26 GMT

After a rocky start, PM sets out ‘next phase’ covering economic growth, NHS backlogs, energy, and a ‘bobby on every beat’

Keir Starmer will attempt to reset his premiership with a series of pledges to show he is “delivering change”, including 13,000 extra neighbourhood police and a named “bobby on every beat”.

In a speech Labour hopes will set out the “next phase” of government, the prime minister will detail half a dozen “milestone” targets covering living standards, NHS backlogs, secure energy, housebuilding and children’s readiness for school.

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Match ID: 133 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 energy

Biden administration awards $100bn to boost US clean energy deployment
2024-12-04T18:15:03+00:00

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Match ID: 134 Score: 15.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 energy

UN human rights expert raises concerns about US charges against climate protesters
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:09:58 GMT

Mary Lawlor criticizes US’s failure to respond to concerns after Alex Connon and John Mark Rozendaal charges

A leading UN human rights expert has expressed dismay after the US government failed to respond to questions about the criminal crackdown on peaceful climate protesters.

Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders, on Tuesday published a letter sent to US authorities raising concerns about the potential violation of international human rights law after two climate activists, Alex Connon and John Mark Rozendaal, were charged with crimes that carried lengthy jail terms.

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Match ID: 135 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 energy

No more EV app folders: Universal plug-and-charge is due to launch in 2025
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:18:41 +0000
Most of the major EV makers and charging networks are on board.
Match ID: 136 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 energy

Lagniappe for December 2024
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:51:35 +0000
Explore Lagniappe for December 2024 featuring: Gator Speaks Do you have time for a quick story? Recently, your ol‘ friend Gator had the chance to help his family move. This move was not the same as going to the Moon or Mars like NASA’s planned Artemis adventure, but it felt similar. The move brought friends, […]
Match ID: 137 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 energy

Cuba’s national grid collapses again, leaving millions without power
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:41:12 GMT

Blackouts reported across country as government grapples with economic crisis, fuel shortages and hurricanes

Cuba’s national electrical system collapsed early on Wednesday morning after the country’s largest power plant failed, the government said, the latest of several such failures as the island’s grid falls into disarray amid fuel shortages, natural disaster and economic crisis.

The country’s energy and mines ministry said the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, the island’s top electricity producer, had shut down at about 2am, prompting the grid collapse.

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Match ID: 138 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 energy

Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:09:08 +0000
Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump
Match ID: 139 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 27 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions, 3.57 trump, 2.86 russia

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Match ID: 140 Score: 10.71 source: www.reddit.com age: 4 days
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Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:58:45 +0000
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
Match ID: 141 Score: 10.71 source: www.economist.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 10.71 trump

Nuclear deterrence talks between Washington and Seoul, plus a related exercise, have been postponed, a defense...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:45:31 +0000

Match ID: 142 Score: 10.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 10.00 nuclear

Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
Match ID: 143 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 287 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions, 2.86 russia

Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:47:39 EST
A pair of POLITICO|Morning Consult polls, one conducted in the final days of the election and the other conducted after Trump won, show how public opinion has changed.
Match ID: 144 Score: 7.14 source: www.politico.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 trump

The “Palestine Exception”
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:30:00 +0000

On The Intercept Briefing, we discuss college crackdowns on Palestine solidarity protests and the chilling effect on free speech.

The post The “Palestine Exception” appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 145 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 trump

Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:27:50 +0000

With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree.

The post Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings? appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 146 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 trump

There’s a Ceasefire in Lebanon, but Israel Keeps Gaslighting Palestinians About Ending the Assault on Gaza
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:34:03 +0000

Palestinians from Gaza feel relief for the people of Lebanon. We are also heartbroken that we are still being slaughtered.

The post There’s a Ceasefire in Lebanon, but Israel Keeps Gaslighting Palestinians About Ending the Assault on Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 147 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 trump

Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:24:15 +0000
Canada and Mexico look likely to suffer
Match ID: 148 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

Pam Bondi, Trump's New AG Pick, Lobbied for Private Prisons and Amazon
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:05:33 +0000

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

The post Pam Bondi, Trump’s New AG Pick, Lobbied for Private Prisons and Amazon appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 149 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
Match ID: 150 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:44:16 +0000
It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war
Match ID: 151 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawed
Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:37:43 +0000
Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead
Match ID: 152 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 31 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
Match ID: 153 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 176 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.14 trump

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

Interesting analysis:

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

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Match ID: 154 Score: 5.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:56:50 +0000
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
Match ID: 155 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 111 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: 156 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 238 days
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The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Local police across New York state regularly work with ICE. Before Trump can start rounding up immigrants, advocates are pushing for change.

The post The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 157 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Biden Made “Record Time” on Worker Protections for Heat. Trump Could Quickly Stamp Them Out.
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:22:48 +0000

The OSHA heat regulation was one of the few to have broad public support, but Democrats can’t ever seem to get their act together.

The post Biden Made “Record Time” on Worker Protections for Heat. Trump Could Quickly Stamp Them Out. appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 158 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:25:06 +0000
With deficits soaring, their finance ministers will have to be smart
Match ID: 159 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:56:21 +0000
The president-elect’s nominee for treasury secretary faces a gruelling job
Match ID: 160 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:07:36 GMT
How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
Match ID: 161 Score: 3.57 source: www.bbc.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:05:10 +0000
Forget interest rates. Rewards are the real problem
Match ID: 162 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 13 days
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Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:52:57 +0000
It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters
Match ID: 163 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 13 days
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Is nuclear power gaining new energy?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:03:04 GMT
Countries around the world are building new nuclear power stations.
Match ID: 164 Score: 3.57 source: www.bbc.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy, 1.43 nuclear

Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:49:32 +0000
Are bitcoin bros right to be so thrilled by Donald Trump’s victory?
Match ID: 165 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 22 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world
Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:53:02 +0000
Donald Trump’s policies could send the greenback soaring
Match ID: 166 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 24 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:50:03 +0000
They might have simply been lucky, or biased
Match ID: 167 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 27 days
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It’s still the economy: What TV ads tell us about each campaign’s closing message
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:00:00 EST
The final paid messages: Economy, culture wars and character.
Match ID: 168 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 29 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:16:07 +0000
The continent’s policymakers are too relaxed about the risks
Match ID: 169 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 35 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Harris is pounding Trump on fascism. Some Dems think that’s a mistake.
Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:53:07 EST
Harris has ratcheted up her warnings about the dangers of a second Trump term in recent weeks.
Match ID: 170 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 36 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:59:12 +0000
His zany promises would blow up the deficit
Match ID: 171 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 48 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:04:28 +0000
Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support
Match ID: 172 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 83 days
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Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 10:18:55 +0000
Donald Trump is just the latest to take a swing. In an interview with The Economist, the SEC chair defends his record
Match ID: 173 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 125 days
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Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:41:16 +0000
All come with their own drawbacks
Match ID: 174 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 132 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:35:08 +0000
Opposition would come from all angles
Match ID: 175 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 146 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Is America approaching peak tip?
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:05:29 +0000
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way
Match ID: 176 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 167 days
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
Match ID: 177 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 204 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: 178 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 225 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: 179 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 231 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: 180 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 253 days
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
Match ID: 181 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 272 days
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
Match ID: 182 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 281 days
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
Match ID: 183 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 286 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:06:55 +0000
Will they now spend big on his campaign?
Match ID: 184 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 300 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000
This is the first time Russia has used its so-called Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in combat. The launch also serves as a warning to the West.
Match ID: 185 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:36:33 +0000
The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively.
Match ID: 186 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000
In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.
Match ID: 187 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
Match ID: 188 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

How Russia is winning the arms race in Ukraine – video
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:44:19 GMT

Russia is engaging in a 'shadow war' with Nato states, which is reportedly part of a deliberate strategy to undermine the alliance’s ability to support Ukraine. At the same time Russia's military industrial complex is producing arms at a formidable rate, and with Nato countries struggling to keep up in term of numbers, the arms race is having a big impact on the frontline. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how Russia is using hybrid warfare alongside boosting its arms industry to outpace Nato, and what this all means for the war in Ukraine

• West’s spy chiefs alarmed at recklessness of Russian counterparts

• Russia to raise defence budget by 25% to highest level on record

• ‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners

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Match ID: 189 Score: 2.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
Match ID: 190 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 98 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:58:18 +0000
How long can the party last?
Match ID: 191 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 115 days
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How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:39:56 +0000
Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years
Match ID: 192 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 135 days
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European banks are making heady profits in Russia
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:56:28 +0000
But for how much longer?
Match ID: 193 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 181 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: 194 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 216 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: 195 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 230 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: 196 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 237 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: 197 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 261 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: 198 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 269 days
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:21:18 +0000
The question that now confronts Western policymakers
Match ID: 199 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 280 days
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Six Ways Supercomputing Advances Our Understanding of the Universe
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:03:12 +0000
At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the universe – from our planet to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Supercomputers enable projects across diverse research, such as making discoveries about the Sun’s activity that affects technologies in space and life on Earth, building […]
Match ID: 200 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 19 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000
Picture yourself at an airport a few decades from now. What does your airliner look like? It’s more efficient, with lower emissions than today’s aircraft – what kinds of designs or technology make that possible? NASA is working to answer those questions by commissioning five new design studies looking to push the boundaries of possibility […]
Match ID: 201 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 22 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:53:05 +0000
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
Match ID: 202 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 167 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.
Match ID: 203 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 168 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:12 +0000
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies
Match ID: 204 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 293 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: 205 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 322 days
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Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:00:00 +0000
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
Match ID: 206 Score: 1.43 source: www.wired.com age: 14 days
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U.S. stock futures and bond yields drop on reports Putin has updated nuclear doctrine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:55:00 GMT

Match ID: 207 Score: 1.43 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 15 days
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
Match ID: 208 Score: 1.43 source: www.economist.com age: 248 days
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2024 AGU Fall Meeting Hyperwall Schedule
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:34:20 +0000
NASA Science at AGU Fall Meeting Hyperwall Schedule, December 9-12, 2024 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #719) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. ***Copies of the 2025 NASA Science Calendar will be distributed at the NASA Exhibit at the start of each day.*** MONDAY, DECEMBER 9  3:20 – 3:40 PM From […]
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Exposure to air pollution increases infertility risk, US study finds
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 12:00:24 GMT

Research shows common air pollutants can be detrimental to egg, sperm and embryo development

Maternal and paternal exposure to common air pollutants may increase the risk of infertility because it can be detrimental to egg, sperm and embryo development, new research in the US finds.

Previous papers have established that air pollution exposure probably contributes to infertility, but it has been unclear whether the toxins affected men or women because both parents face similar exposures. That also made it difficult to establish when in the conception process damage occurred.

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NASA’s C-20A Studies Extreme Weather Events
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:00:00 +0000
On a changing planet, where phenomena like severe hurricanes, landslides, and wildfires are becoming more severe, scientists need data to assess and model disaster impacts and to potentially make predictions about hazards. NASA’s C-20A aircraft is a significant asset that can carry key instruments for understanding the science behind these phenomena.  Based at NASA’s Armstrong […]
Match ID: 2 Score: 30.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change, 15.00 carbon

Seagrass is fantastic at carbon capture—and it’s at risk of extinction
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:46:39 +0000
An underwater gardening experiment along the East Coast aims at restoration.
Match ID: 3 Score: 30.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change, 15.00 carbon

Expanded AI Model with Global Data Enhances Earth Science Applications
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:05:35 +0000
NASA, IBM, and Forschungszentrum Jülich have released an expanded version of the open-source Prithvi Geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model to support a broader range of geographical applications. Now, with the inclusion of global data, the foundation model can support tracking changes in land use, monitoring disasters, and predicting crop yields worldwide.  The Prithvi Geospatial […]
Match ID: 4 Score: 30.00 source: science.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change, 15.00 carbon

Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:24:05 +0000

Climate Justice Alliance was the only program grantee to speak out on Palestine — and the only one whose funding is delayed.

The post Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 5 Score: 17.14 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 8.57 climate change, 8.57 carbon

NASA Flips Efficient Wing Concept for Testing
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000
Upside down can be right side up. That’s what NASA researchers determined for tests of an efficient wing concept that could be part of the agency’s answer to making future aircraft sustainable. Research from NASA’s Advanced Air Transport Technology project involving a 10-foot model could help NASA engineers validate the concept of the Transonic Truss-Braced […]
Match ID: 6 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

Directivos de la NASA ofrecerán información actualizada sobre Artemis
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:24:48 +0000
Read this release in English here. El administrador de la NASA, Bill Nelson, y otros directivos darán una rueda de prensa el jueves 5 de diciembre a la 1 p.m. EST (hora del este de EE.UU.) en la sede de la agencia en Washington para proporcionar información sobre la campaña Artemis de la agencia. El evento […]
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NASA Leadership to Provide Update on Artemis Campaign
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:46:36 +0000
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST, Thursday, Dec. 5, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington to provide a briefing about the agency’s Artemis campaign. Watch the media event on NASA+. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including […]
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qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

Lagniappe for December 2024
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:51:35 +0000
Explore Lagniappe for December 2024 featuring: Gator Speaks Do you have time for a quick story? Recently, your ol‘ friend Gator had the chance to help his family move. This move was not the same as going to the Moon or Mars like NASA’s planned Artemis adventure, but it felt similar. The move brought friends, […]
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NASA Attorney Enjoys Serving Others and Contributing to the Team Mission
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:48:19 +0000
NASA attorney Jeff Renshaw’s work has primarily revolved around two things: serving others and solving problems. The New Orleans native retired as an U.S. Air Force judge advocate following more than two decades of service. Renshaw now has worked for more than eight years as an attorney advisor at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay […]
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qualifiers: 15.00 carbon

Dead native birds and flying foxes found in SA town home to one of world’s largest lead smelters
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:00:27 GMT

Testing found acute lead toxicosis as cause of death of two lorikeets, a honeyeater and three grey-headed flying foxes in Port Pirie

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Dozens of native birds and flying foxes have been killed by “acute” lead poisoning in the South Australian regional town of Port Pirie, with contamination fears in the town that is home to one of the world’s largest lead smelters.

Earlier this year locals in the 17,600-person town raised the alarm when they began to find dead native birds and flying foxes in large numbers in parks and green spaces, with subsequent testing of several animals showing they died from acute lead poisoning.

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The global shipping industry is on a path to net zero | Letters
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:56:51 GMT

Mark Dickinson of the Nautilus International trade union responds to an editorial about the environmental harm caused by cruise ships

Your editorial on cruise ships (26 November) asserts that the International Maritime Organization’s carbon-reduction targets “do not put it on a path to net zero”. We disagree. In July 2023, the IMO adopted a revised greenhouse gas strategy committing the global shipping industry to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This includes ambitious checkpoints for 2030 and 2040.

You also advocate for mandatory adoption of green technologies and the imposition of green taxes. It is worth noting that a global carbon levy is already part of the measures set to become mandatory in 2025 via amendments to the Marpol convention. Since 2011, this instrument has included binding provisions on greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, the use of shore power, which reduces reliance on ship engines while moored, is increasingly mandated by ports, with EU regulations coming into effect by 2030 to make shore power compulsory for passenger vessels in major European ports.

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Match ID: 12 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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NASA Experts Share Inspiring Stories of Perseverance to Students
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 22:53:14 +0000
In celebration of National Aviation History Month, experts from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, spoke with middle school students during a recent event hosted by NASA’s California Office of STEM Engagement. NASA Armstrong employees shared stories about the center’s role in aviation history and current research projects while also talking about their […]
Match ID: 13 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 2 days
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Top UN court to rule on key climate questions
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:51:29 GMT
The significant case could clarify governments' legal responsibilities in relation to climate change.
Match ID: 14 Score: 15.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 climate change

Pete Hegseth’s Secret History
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:22:16 +0000
A whistle-blower report and other documents suggest that Trump’s nominee to run the Pentagon was forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement, sexist behavior, and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job.
Match ID: 15 Score: 15.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
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An Electronic Traffic Monitor for Airports
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:01:40 +0000
Ground traffic management program saves passengers and airlines time while cutting fuel costs
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Dr. Misty Davies – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 2024 Fellow
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:17:26 +0000
In May 2024, Dr. Misty Davies joined the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Class of 2024 Fellows at a ceremony in Washington, DC.  The AIAA website states that, “AIAA confers Fellow upon individuals in recognition of their notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences or technology of aeronautics and astronautics.”  The first AIAA […]
Match ID: 17 Score: 4.29 source: www.nasa.gov age: 12 days
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Six Ways Supercomputing Advances Our Understanding of the Universe
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:03:12 +0000
At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the universe – from our planet to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Supercomputers enable projects across diverse research, such as making discoveries about the Sun’s activity that affects technologies in space and life on Earth, building […]
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Biden Made “Record Time” on Worker Protections for Heat. Trump Could Quickly Stamp Them Out.
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:22:48 +0000

The OSHA heat regulation was one of the few to have broad public support, but Democrats can’t ever seem to get their act together.

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Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:07:36 GMT
How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
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qualifiers: 2.14 climate change

NASA’s X-66 Sustainable Aircraft Model Sails Through First Wind Tests
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:41:34 +0000
At NASA, each project has milestones to ensure everything stays on track. The agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project recently passed through one of these markers of progress, as it completed a key phase of wind tunnel tests using a model of the X-66. The X-66 is an experimental aircraft that aims to achieve more […]
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NASA Engineer Carries Indigenous Roots into New Aviation Era
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:10:13 +0000
Growing up outside of Philadelphia, Abigail Reigner spent most of her childhood miles away from where her family called home, and where there was little trace of her Native American tribe and culture. Belonging to the Comanche Nation that resides in Lawton, Oklahoma, Reigner’s parents made every effort to keep her connected to her Indigenous […]
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NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000
Picture yourself at an airport a few decades from now. What does your airliner look like? It’s more efficient, with lower emissions than today’s aircraft – what kinds of designs or technology make that possible? NASA is working to answer those questions by commissioning five new design studies looking to push the boundaries of possibility […]
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NASA Armstrong Builds Sensor Pod for Autonomous Flight
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:36:54 +0000
The design and build of a unique NASA pod, produced to advance computer vision for autonomous aviation, was recently completed in-house at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, by using the center’s unique fabrication capabilities. The pod is called the NASA Airborne Instrumentation for Real-world Video of Urban Environments (AIRVUE). NASA Armstrong can […]
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Deadliest weather made worse by climate change - scientists
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:27:46 GMT
Human-caused climate change made recent extreme weather events more intense and more likely, new analysis finds.
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World way off target in tackling climate change - UN
Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:00:46 GMT
The world is wildly off track in tackling climate change, the UN says, as CO2 in the atmosphere accumulates faster than ever
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Polar bears face higher risk of disease in a warming Arctic
Wed, 23 Oct 2024 23:05:41 GMT
Climate change and sea ice loss leaves polar bears exposed to more diseases, research suggests.
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Greener Is Getting Going
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000
We’ve reached a tipping point where we’ve got a cleaner alternative for most transport. Now we have to commit.
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Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
Thu, 30 May 2024 09:51:10 +0000
Temperature fluctuations are unpredictable. Humans are even more so
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How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:59:08 +0000
Opposition to new buildings has unfortunate consequences
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A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The climate crisis has become a mental health crisis. But eco-anxiety isn’t necessarily a pathology.
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:16:00 +0000

SEMrush and Ahrefs are among the most popular tools in the SEO industry. Both companies have been in business for years and have thousands of customers per month.

If you're a professional SEO or trying to do digital marketing on your own, at some point you'll likely consider using a tool to help with your efforts. Ahrefs and SEMrush are two names that will likely appear on your shortlist.

In this guide, I'm going to help you learn more about these SEO tools and how to choose the one that's best for your purposes.

What is SEMrush?

SEMrush is a popular SEO tool with a wide range of features—it's the leading competitor research service for online marketers. SEMrush's SEO Keyword Magic tool offers over 20 billion Google-approved keywords, which are constantly updated and it's the largest keyword database.

The program was developed in 2007 as SeoQuake is a small Firefox extension

Features

• Most accurate keyword data: Accurate keyword search volume data is crucial for SEO and PPC campaigns by allowing you to identify what keywords are most likely to bring in big sales from ad clicks. SEMrush constantly updates its databases and provides the most accurate data.
• Largest Keyword database: SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool now features 20-billion keywords, providing marketers and SEO professionals the largest database of keywords.


• All SEMrush users receive daily ranking data, mobile volume information, and the option to buy additional keywords by default with no additional payment or add-ons needed
• Most accurate position tracking tool: This tool provides all subscribers with basic tracking capabilities, making it suitable for SEO professionals. Plus, the Position Tracking tool provides local-level data to everyone who uses the tool.
• SEO Data Management: SEMrush makes managing your online data easy by allowing you to create visually appealing custom PDF reports, including Branded and White Label reports, report scheduling, and integration with GA, GMB, and GSC.
• Toxic link monitoring and penalty recovery: With SEMrush, you can make a detailed analysis of toxic backlinks, toxic scores, toxic markers, and outreach to those sites.
• Content Optimization and Creation Tools: SEMrush offers content optimization and creation tools that let you create SEO-friendly content. Some features include the SEO Writing Assistant, On-Page SEO Check, er/SEO Content Template, Content Audit, Post Tracking, Brand Monitoring.

Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a leading SEO platform that offers a set of tools to grow your search traffic, research your competitors, and monitor your niche. The company was founded in 2010, and it has become a popular choice among SEO tools. Ahrefs has a keyword index of over 10.3 billion keywords and offers accurate and extensive backlink data updated every 15-30 minutes and it is the world's most extensive backlink index database.

Features

• Backlink alerts data and new keywords: Get an alert when your site is linked to or discussed in blogs, forums, comments, or when new keywords are added to a blog posting about you.
• Intuitive interface: The intuitive design of the widget helps you see the overall health of your website and search engine ranking at a glance.
• Site Explorer: The Site Explorer will give you an in-depth look at your site's search traffic.
• Domain Comparison
• Reports with charts and graphs
• JavaScript rendering and a site audit can identify SEO issues.
• A question explorer that provides well-crafted topic suggestions

Direct Comparisons: Ahrefs vs SEMrush

Now that you know a little more about each tool, let's take a look at how they compare. I'll analyze each tool to see how they differ in interfaces, keyword research resources, rank tracking, and competitor analysis.

User Interface

Ahrefs and SEMrush both offer comprehensive information and quick metrics regarding your website's SEO performance. However, Ahrefs takes a bit more of a hands-on approach to getting your account fully set up, whereas SEMrush's simpler dashboard can give you access to the data you need quickly.

In this section, we provide a brief overview of the elements found on each dashboard and highlight the ease with which you can complete tasks.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs dashboard is less cluttered than that of SEMrush, and its primary menu is at the very top of the page, with a search bar designed only for entering URLs.

Additional features of the Ahrefs platform include:

• You can see analytics from the dashboard, including search engine rankings to domain ratings, referring domains, and backlink
• Jumping from one tool to another is easy. You can use the Keyword Explorer to find a keyword to target and then directly track your ranking with one click.
• The website offers a tooltip helper tool that allows you to hover your mouse over something that isn't clear and get an in-depth explanation.

SEMRUSH

When you log into the SEMrush Tool, you will find four main modules. These include information about your domains, organic keyword analysis, ad keyword, and site traffic.

You'll also find some other options like

• A search bar allows you to enter a domain, keyword, or anything else you wish to explore.
• A menu on the left side of the page provides quick links to relevant information, including marketing insights, projects, keyword analytics, and more.
• The customer support resources located directly within the dashboard can be used to communicate with the support team or to learn about other resources such as webinars and blogs.
• Detailed descriptions of every resource offered. This detail is beneficial for new marketers, who are just starting.

WHO WINS?

Both Ahrefs and SEMrush have user-friendly dashboards, but Ahrefs is less cluttered and easier to navigate. On the other hand, SEMrush offers dozens of extra tools, including access to customer support resources.

When deciding on which dashboard to use, consider what you value in the user interface, and test out both.

Rank Tracking

If you're looking to track your website's search engine ranking, rank tracking features can help. You can also use them to monitor your competitors.

Let's take a look at Ahrefs vs. SEMrush to see which tool does a better job.

Ahrefs

The Ahrefs Rank Tracker is simpler to use. Just type in the domain name and keywords you want to analyze, and it spits out a report showing you the search engine results page (SERP) ranking for each keyword you enter.

Rank Tracker looks at the ranking performance of keywords and compares them with the top rankings for those keywords. Ahrefs also offers:

You'll see metrics that help you understand your visibility, traffic, average position, and keyword difficulty.

It gives you an idea of whether a keyword would be profitable to target or not.

SEMRUSH

SEMRush offers a tool called Position Tracking. This tool is a project tool—you must set it up as a new project. Below are a few of the most popular features of the SEMrush Position Tracking tool:

All subscribers are given regular data updates and mobile search rankings upon subscribing

The platform provides opportunities to track several SERP features, including Local tracking.

Intuitive reports allow you to track statistics for the pages on your website, as well as the keywords used in those pages.

Identify pages that may be competing with each other using the Cannibalization report.

WHO WINS?

Ahrefs is a more user-friendly option. It takes seconds to enter a domain name and keywords. From there, you can quickly decide whether to proceed with that keyword or figure out how to rank better for other keywords.

SEMrush allows you to check your mobile rankings and ranking updates daily, which is something Ahrefs does not offer. SEMrush also offers social media rankings, a tool you won't find within the Ahrefs platform. Both are good which one do you like let me know in the comment.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is closely related to rank tracking, but it's used for deciding which keywords you plan on using for future content rather than those you use now.

When it comes to SEO, keyword research is the most important thing to consider when comparing the two platforms.

AHREFS

The Ahrefs Keyword Explorer provides you with thousands of keyword ideas and filters search results based on the chosen search engine.

Ahrefs supports several features, including:

• It can search multiple keywords in a single search and analyze them together. At SEMrush, you also have this feature in Keyword Overview.
• Ahrefs has a variety of keywords for different search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and other search engines.
• When you click on a keyword, you can see its search volume and keyword difficulty, but also other keywords related to it, which you didn't use.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush's Keyword Magic Tool has over 20 billion keywords for Google. You can type in any keyword you want, and a list of suggested keywords will appear.

The Keyword Magic Tool also lets you to:

• Show performance metrics by keyword
• Search results are based on both broad and exact keyword matches.
• Show data like search volume, trends, keyword difficulty, and CPC.
• Show the first 100 Google search results for any keyword.
• Identify SERP Features and Questions related to each keyword
• SEMrush has released a new Keyword Gap Tool that uncovers potentially useful keyword opportunities for you, including both paid and organic keywords.

WHO WINS?

Both of these tools offer keyword research features and allow users to break down complicated tasks into something that can be understood by beginners and advanced users alike.

If you're interested in keyword suggestions, SEMrush appears to have more keyword suggestions than Ahrefs does. It also continues to add new features, like the Keyword Gap tool and SERP Questions recommendations.

Competitor Analysis

Both platforms offer competitor analysis tools, eliminating the need to come up with keywords off the top of your head. Each tool is useful for finding keywords that will be useful for your competition so you know they will be valuable to you.

AHREFS

Ahrefs' domain comparison tool lets you compare up to five websites (your website and four competitors) side-by-side.it also shows you how your site is ranked against others with metrics such as backlinks, domain ratings, and more.

Use the Competing Domains section to see a list of your most direct competitors, and explore how many keywords matches your competitors have.

To find more information about your competitor, you can look at the Site Explorer and Content Explorer tools and type in their URL instead of yours.

SEMRUSH

SEMrush provides a variety of insights into your competitors' marketing tactics. The platform enables you to research your competitors effectively. It also offers several resources for competitor analysis including:

Traffic Analytics helps you identify where your audience comes from, how they engage with your site, what devices visitors use to view your site, and how your audiences overlap with other websites.

SEMrush's Organic Research examines your website's major competitors and shows their organic search rankings, keywords they are ranking for, and even if they are ranking for any (SERP) features and more.

The Market Explorer search field allows you to type in a domain and lists websites or articles similar to what you entered. Market Explorer also allows users to perform in-depth data analytics on These companies and markets.

WHO WINS?

SEMrush wins here because it has more tools dedicated to competitor analysis than Ahrefs. However, Ahrefs offers a lot of functionality in this area, too. It takes a combination of both tools to gain an advantage over your competition.

Pricing

Ahrefs

• Lite Monthly: $99/month
• Standard Monthly: $179/month
• Annually Lite: $990/year
• Annually Standard: $1790/year

SEMRUSH

• Pro Plan: $119.95/month
• Guru Plan:$229.95/month
• Business Plan: $449.95/month

Which SEO tool should you choose for digital marketing?

When it comes to keyword data research, you will become confused about which one to choose.

Consider choosing Ahrefs if you

• Like friendly and clean interface
• Searching for simple keyword suggestions

• Want to get more keywords for different search engines like Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, and more

 

Consider SEMrush if you:

• Want more marketing and SEO features
• Need competitor analysis tool
• Need to keep your backlinks profile clean
• Looking for more keyword suggestions for Google

Both tools are great. Choose the one which meets your requirements and if you have any experience using either Ahrefs or SEMrush let me know in the comment section which works well for you.

 

 

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Wicked storms into Oscar race with major National Board of Review win
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:47:35 GMT

The blockbuster musical was named best movie while Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman picked up key acting prizes

Blockbuster musical Wicked has launched into this year’s Oscar race with a major win from the National Board of Review.

The adaptation of the Broadway hit was named best movie by the group whose picks are seen as a major indicator of Oscar success. “Wicked represents the pure magic that movies can bring to audiences,” said the NBR president, Annie Schulhof. “Every detail is beautifully crafted and designed, the actors are all exceptional and the music is second-to-none – together it adds up to a transporting experience like no other.”

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The 40 Best Shows on Hulu Right Now (December 2024)
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:00:00 +0000
Interior Chinatown, What We Do in the Shadows, and La Máquina are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.
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I am Artemis: Mike Lauer
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:38:37 +0000
Mike Lauer, an engineer who works for the Aerojet Rocketdyne segment of L3Harris Technologies, found his career inspiration in science fiction, but for the perspective it takes to execute complex space programs, he draws on real-world experience. Growing up, Lauer spent many cold winter nights in the basement of his Sioux Falls, South Dakota, home, […]
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The Guardian view on a new wave of biographical films: creative risks that redefine history
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:00:21 GMT

From a Lego Pharrell Williams to a monkey Robbie Williams, modern biopics are reimagining lives to uncover deeper truths

Biographical films have long been favoured by Hollywood studios for their prestige while offering actors the kind of meaty roles that win audiences – and Oscars. This year’s Oppenheimer was no exception, winning in seven categories including best film, best director and best actor. The film employed creative licence to dramatise the life of J Robert Oppenheimer, the iconic physicist and wartime director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, as he and his fellow atomic scientists and engineers raced to develop the first atomic bomb in the early 1940s. But did the movie push those liberties far enough? That’s the question asked by new biopics that place perhaps a greater value on interpretation, not just documentation. The first is the upcoming musical biopic Better Man, in which rock star Robbie Williams is portrayed as a monkey, while everyone else around him remains human. Directed by Michael Gracey, the filmmaker behind The Greatest Showman – a $435m grossing hit – the film is released on Boxing Day in the UK. It follows the monkey version of Williams from a fractious childhood to boy-band fame with Take That and, later, solo superstardom.

Hot on its heels comes Piece by Piece, a $16m musical documentary – the first Lego documentary – about hip-hop superstar Pharrell Williams. Williams wrote five new tracks for the film and took care to ensure the Lego versions of his friends, family and collaborators were as true to life as blocky mini-figures could be. His top priority? Nailing the hairstyles for fellow rappers Pusha T, Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg.

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Wish it away: will the live-action Snow White be a new low for Disney?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:00:28 GMT

A hauntingly bad new trailer for the studio’s next live-action remake promises a nightmarish procession of CGI dwarves

Here are two things that recently happened in very quick succession: my oldest son opened his laptop and said: “Daddy! There’s a new Snow White trailer!” And then, less than two minutes after that, he shrieked: “Daddy! These dwarves are TERRIFYING!”

Reader, it brings me no happiness to inform you that Disney has done it again. Several decades after shaping the animation industry as we know it with exquisite, characterful, cutting-edge feature-length fairytales that are still rightly regarded as classics, it has decided to squeeze out a hot fat turd. As the years of counselling my son now requires will tell you, there is a trailer for Disney’s new live-action Snow White movie. And it is beyond horrible.

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Zack Snyder Thinks Hollywood Needs to Get on Board With AI or Get Left Behind
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:16:51 +0000
Zack Snyder says he still questions “the why” of the technology when it comes to some aspects of filmmaking, but can definitely see the perks.
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Looking Back on a Fallen Life in “Oh, Canada”
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
In Paul Schrader’s latest film—his most audacious religious vision yet—a documentarian on his deathbed confesses, on camera, to a lifetime of misdeeds.
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Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000

 

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

1) What is an NFT?

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

2) What is Blockchain?

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

3) What makes an NFT valuable?

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

4) How do NFTs work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?

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

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

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

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

8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?

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

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

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

10) How do we buy an NFTs?

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

11) Can i mint NFT for free?

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

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

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

12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?

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

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

Final Saying

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

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Australian Music prize: 80-year-old Kankawa Nagarra wins over Nick Cave and Amyl and the Sniffers
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:45:01 GMT

Walmatjarri elder and blues musician wins $50,000 prize for Wirlmarni, saying she hopes it will bring pride to her community in Wangkatjungka

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The Walmatjarri elder and blues musician Kankawa Nagarra has won the $50,000 Australian Music prize (AMP) for her debut album Wirlmarni, seeing off competition from Nick Cave, the Dirty Three and Amyl and the Sniffers.

Inspired by the UK’s Mercury prize, the AMP focuses “entirely on artistic merit” and aims to “financially reward and increase exposure” for Australian musicians who release the best album in a calendar year.

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The Best Albums of 2024
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
It’s possible that I listened to more music this year than any other. I lost interest in podcasts. I lost interest in silence. There was too much extraordinary work out there.
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To Deprive Trans Kids of Medical Care, Supreme Court Looks to Britain and Sweden
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:48:18 +0000

Supreme Court conservatives cited overseas laws to defend draconian legislation in Tennessee banning gender-affirming care.

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These Tech Firms Won’t Tell Us If They Will Help Trump Deport Immigrants
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:26:10 +0000

The Intercept asked companies that store personal data if they will help Trump conduct mass deportations. Few had anything to say.

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Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:04:00 +0000

Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

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Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It’s Not All Bad
2024-12-03T12:00:47Z

In 2025, AI is poised to change every aspect of democratic politics—but it won’t necessarily be for the worse.

India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has used AI to translate his speeches for his multilingual electorate in real time, demonstrating how AI can help diverse democracies to be more inclusive. AI avatars were used by presidential candidates in South Korea in electioneering, enabling them to provide answers to thousands of voters’ questions simultaneously. We are also starting to see AI tools aid fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts. AI techniques are starting to augment more traditional polling methods, helping campaigns get cheaper and faster data. And congressional candidates have started using AI robocallers to engage voters on issues. In 2025, these trends will continue. AI doesn’t need to be superior to human experts to augment the labor of an overworked canvasser, or to write ad copy similar to that of a junior campaign staffer or volunteer. Politics is competitive, and any technology that can bestow an advantage, or even just garner attention, will be used...

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Hegseth vows to stay sober if confirmed as defense secretary; Trump signals pro-crypto stance with SEC pick Paul Atkins – live
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:04:25 GMT

Former Fox host tries to charm Republican senators amid growing questions over suitability; Atkins named amid flurry of appointments

• Trump taps billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead Nasa
• Hegseth says he will ‘never back down’ amid rumors he’ll be replaced by DeSantis

Conservative justice Brett Kavanaugh brought up the possibility that minors who receive gender-affirming care could later regret doing so.

“You say there are benefits from allowing these treatments, but there are also harms, right, from allowing these treatments, at least the state says so, including lost fertility, the physical and psychological effects on those who later change their mind and want to detransition, which I don’t think we can ignore,” Kavanaugh said.

The record evidence demonstrates that the rates of regret are very low for the population that has access to this treatment. So these are adolescents who have marked and sustained gender dysphoria that has worsened with the onset of puberty. They are very likely to persist in their gender identity. But if you’re thinking about this from the standpoint of, there’s no harm in just making them wait until they’re adults, I think you have to recognize that the effect of denying this care is to produce irreversible physical effects that are consistent with their birth sex, because they have to go through puberty before they turn 18.

So, essentially, what this law is doing is saying we’re going to make all adolescents in the state develop the physical secondary sex characteristics consistent with their gender or with their sex assigned at birth, even though that might significantly worsen gender dysphoria, increase the risk of suicide, and, I think, critically, make it much harder to live and be accepted in their gender identity as an adult. Because if you’re requiring someone to undergo a male puberty, and they develop an Adam’s apple, that’s going to be hard to reverse, and they’re more likely to be identified as transgender and subject to discrimination and harassment as adults.

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‘This is not time for retreat or apathy’: Black women dissect Harris loss
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:00:20 GMT

Activists among 92% of Black women who voted for Harris discuss how intersection of racism and sexism led to defeat

Misogynoir, the intersection of racism and sexism, was the main reason behind Kamala Harris’s loss in the 2024 general election, a panel of Black female experts argued, noting how post-election coverage has failed to contend with how white supremacy undergirded the election results.

In a conversation titled “Views from the 92%: Black Women Reflect on 2024 Election and Road Ahead”, several academics dissected how and why the vice-president lost, particularly given Trump’s problematic history.

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AI and the 2024 Elections
2024-12-04T12:09:23Z

It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared that deepfakes and artificial intelligence-generated misinformation would overwhelm the democratic processes. As 2024 draws to a close, it’s instructive to take stock of how democracy did.

In a Pew survey of Americans from earlier this fall, nearly eight times as many respondents expected AI to be used for mostly bad purposes...

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Biden could do so much good with pardons. Instead he bailed out his son | Tayo Bero
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:00:05 GMT

Hunter Biden cut the line while thousands of people who deserve similar considerations of mercy languish in prison

When Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he would be pardoning his son Hunter – who was facing sentencing in two federal criminal cases – he helped cement Donald Trump’s much-repeated argument that the American judicial system is rotten, politicized and in need of an overhaul.

It’s a stupid refrain, but there are some heavy issues with Biden’s choice to do this now. What are we to make of the hypocrisy of a president who promised he’d “never interfere in the dealings of the justice department”, and swore even up until six weeks ago that he would not pardon his son? Or the fact that he just delivered Trump and the Republican party the kind of ammunition they need to justify pardoning, say, the orchestrators of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol? More morally troubling is that there’s a million other worthy causes that Biden could be using his pardon powers for.

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GB News overtakes rival Sky in latest live viewing figures, data shows
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:57:27 GMT

Rightwing broadcaster’s ratings surge in month featuring farmers’ protest in London and Trump re-election in US

It may be the bane of many liberals, and its provocative broadcasts have certainly kept Ofcom busy since its launch.

But despite all the controversy, the audience for GB News keeps rising, and November appeared to be another significant month.

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Nadler, top Democrat on House Judiciary Committee, steps aside amid pressure
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:55:32 +0000

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Trump requests dismissal of charges in Georgia election interference case
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:04:06 GMT

Lawyers argue that sitting president is ‘immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal’

Donald Trump’s attorney in Georgia has asked the state’s appellate court to dismiss election interference charges against the president-elect, arguing that a sitting president “is completely immune from indictment or any criminal process, state or federal”.

The filing by attorney Steve Sadow before the Georgia court of appeals asks the court to dismiss Trump’s appeal of a lower-court decision to allow Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis to remain as prosecutor on the case, because the Fulton county superior court no longer has jurisdiction, given Trump’s electoral victory.

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Australia splits with US to back UN resolution demanding end to Israel occupation of Palestinian territories
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:19:39 GMT

Vote marks a change to the nation’s official stance held for more than two decades

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Australia has split with the US and voted with 156 other countries at the UN to demand the end of Israel’s “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible”.

The vote marks Australia’s return to the position for the first time in more than two decades.

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Ireland Rejected the Far Right. The Election Conspiracy Theories Have Already Begun
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:27:21 +0000
Ireland’s far-right candidates expected to succeed on a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric, but the people rejected them wholesale.
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Republicans’ House majority set to be their smallest in decades
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:04:44 +0000

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Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense should alarm all of us | Moira Donegan
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:43:29 GMT

Pete Hegseth, who has been accused of drunken, irresponsible and predatory behavior, would be in charge of the world’s most powerful military

It takes a lot to get a man’s mother to declare him an “abuser of women”. Mothers, as a rule, are not known for their ungenerous assessments of their sons’ behavior. But Penelope Hegseth, the mother of the Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense, once did just that in an email to her son.

“I have no respect for a man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego,” Hegseth’s mother wrote to him. “You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains and embarrasses me to say that, but it’s the sad, sad truth.” The email – which Hegseth’s mother later disavowed – appears to have come around the time of the dissolution of Hegseth’s second marriage; during Hegseth’s first marriage, according to a new report by Vanity Fair, he confessed to no fewer than five affairs.

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Hegseth calls on accusers to come forward in meeting with House Republicans
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:04:21 +0000

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Rep. Andrew Ogles (R-Tennessee), a member of the Republican Study Committee — the group of House...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:28:21 +0000

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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) stopped by Pete Hegseth’s meeting with the House Republican Study Committee and...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:19:18 +0000

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a moderate Republican, told reporters Wednesday that she has some “very real...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:45:24 +0000

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Hegseth continues to make the rounds with Republican senators
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:13:20 +0000

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While no Republican senator has publicly announced opposition to Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, one Senate...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:39:22 +0000

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Trudeau meets rivals as he seeks united front in face of Trump tariff threat
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:51:08 GMT

Canadian government scrambles to ward off tariffs as prime minister briefs politicians on meeting with Trump

Canada’s federal government has redoubled its efforts to ward off potentially disastrous tariffs from its closest ally, but provincial leaders have hinted at divergent strategies in response to the protectionist threat from president-elect Donald Trump.

Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, convened a rare, in-person meeting with his political rivals on Tuesday to brief them on a surprise meeting with Trump at his Florida resort over the weekend.

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Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:24:05 +0000

Climate Justice Alliance was the only program grantee to speak out on Palestine — and the only one whose funding is delayed.

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Supreme Court seems wary of blocking Tennessee’s ban on transgender care for minors
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:37:39 +0000
The case is the first to come before the Supreme Court testing the constitutionality of laws barring transgender teens from certain gender-affirming treatments.
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Farmer styles need an illustrative update | Brief letters
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:56:46 GMT

Archaic depictions of farmers | The ‘wondrous’ US constitution | Statues of limitations | Who’s the mug? | Inflated ego

The illustration published with John Harris’s column (1 December) showed a “typical” farmer hoping for a break in the (economic) clouds. Did he have to be from 1960s central casting? Flat cap, neckerchief, green wellies and chewing on straw? Leaning on a spade in an obviously ploughed field? Surely the Guardian doesn’t share the government’s archaic view of farmers.
Ian Stewart
Brackley, Northamptonshire

• Simon Jenkins lauds that “thing of wonder”, the US constitution, which has “held the union together … for two and a half centuries” (Biden pardons his son, Trump will absolve his criminal allies. America shouldn’t stand for this, 2 December). Has the small matter of the civil war – southern secession, four years of armed conflict, over 600,000 dead and a divisive legacy – slipped his mind?
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Emeritus professor of history, Oxford University

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How Universities Are Trying to Stop Another Year of Anti-War Activism
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:53:20 +0000

Big public universities, historically at the forefront of catalyzing activist movements, are now using legal action, disciplinary efforts, and rule changes to chill speech and dissent.

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Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:15:00 +0000

After 250 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.

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Live updates: A defiant Hegseth says he will ‘continue to fight’ for defense secretary post
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:53:59 +0000
Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.
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Trump picks former congressman Billy Long to replace IRS commissioner
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:32:08 +0000

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Trump names Peter Navarro, jailed for contempt of Congress, trade adviser
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:30:47 GMT

President-elect says Navarro, his former White House trade adviser, will focus on tariffs

Donald Trump said he would name former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.

Navarro made headlines earlier this year when, in March, he was jailed for contempt of Congress.

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Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-New York) was elected chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, replacing Rep....
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:34:58 +0000

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Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick, emerged from a meeting with incoming Senate majority leader...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:51:45 +0000

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She Joined Facebook to Fight Terror. Now She’s Convinced We Need to Fight Facebook.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:07:26 +0000

Hannah Byrne joined Facebook to combat far-right extremism. She’s now convinced the tech giant can’t be trusted with such power.

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Peter Navarro, imprisoned for contempt of Congress, to return as Trump adviser
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:23:16 +0000

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Will the far right in France seize the chance to topple the government?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:16:41 GMT

Triggered by an austerity budget, a no-confidence vote threatens fresh instability – and Macron’s future

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With threats mounting inside and outside the EU’s borders and Germany in paralysis, the last thing Europe needed was fresh upheaval besetting its other big power. Yet that is exactly what France is facing with a no-confidence vote expected today that could bring down the government.

The shaky minority administration assembled by Prime Minister Michel Barnier only three months ago began to wobble badly on Monday after he triggered an extraordinary constitutional mechanism to force through an austerity budget.

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Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:07:33 GMT

AI boom will enrich giant tech companies but creators’ rights and income will be drastically reduced unless policymakers intervene, report warns

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People working in the music sector will lose almost a quarter of their income to artificial intelligence within the next four years, according to the first global economic study examining the impact of the emerging technology on human creativity.

Those working in the audiovisual sector will also see their income shrink by more than 20% as the market for generative AI grows from €3bn (A$4.9bn) annually to a predicted €64bn by 2028.

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Namibia elects its first female president in disputed elections
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:25:00 GMT

Vice-president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah avoids runoff vote, as win extends Swapo party’s 34-year hold on power

Namibia has elected its first female leader, with Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared the winner of last week’s presidential election in a result that will extend the ruling Swapo party’s 34-year hold on power.

Nandi-Ndaitwah, the current vice-president, won with 57% of the vote, according to official results, defying predictions that she might be forced into a runoff. Swapo has ruled the country since its independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.

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‘I’ve awakened their spirit’: can man behind the mask make a dent in Ghana elections?
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:02:28 GMT

Nana Kwame Bediako is challenging the status quo with an unorthodox run for presidency appealing to younger voters

It was a bombastic statement from the man who wants to disrupt Ghana’s two-party political scene. “I’m here to represent Africa’s greatest hope,” Nana Kwame Bediako told an audience in a Palace of Westminster committee room in central London in October, referring to younger people on the continent.

After the event, a social media post by Bediako suggested the trip had involved a presentation in parliament itself, rather than an address to a committee room.

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Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House.
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Trump picks Kelly Loeffler to lead Small Business Administration
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:53:59 +0000

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Biden, in Africa, pushes to cement ties before leaving office
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:50:05 +0000
The president touted a railway project intended in part to counter China’s influence on the continent.
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Australia news live: Joe Rogan again tops Spotify Wrapped list; Dutton says he would scrap NSW offshore wind project
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:49:28 GMT

Controversial podcaster remains popular despite negative comments made by head of ABC last month. Follow today’s news live

Detectives investigating four separate incidents of children being approached by drivers in white vans in Melbourne

Victoria police detectives are investigating four separate incidents in Melbourne in the last month of children being approached by drivers in white vans.

People like Mr Rogan prey on people’s vulnerabilities: they prey on fear, they prey on anxiety, they prey on all of the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society.

They entrepreneur fantasy outcomes and conspiracy outcomes as being a normal part of social narrative – I personally find it deeply repulsive.

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Jeff Bezos says he’s optimistic for Trump’s second term in the White House
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:31:01 +0000

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Justices appear likely to uphold Tennessee ban on treatments for trans teens
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:56:02 +0000
In the biggest case of the term, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on certain gender transition medical treatments for transgender minors.
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President-elect Donald Trump will sit for an interview set to air Sunday with NBC News’ “Meet...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:31:26 +0000

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Starmer seeks to relaunch premiership with new promise to crack down on crime
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:30:26 GMT

After a rocky start, PM sets out ‘next phase’ covering economic growth, NHS backlogs, energy, and a ‘bobby on every beat’

Keir Starmer will attempt to reset his premiership with a series of pledges to show he is “delivering change”, including 13,000 extra neighbourhood police and a named “bobby on every beat”.

In a speech Labour hopes will set out the “next phase” of government, the prime minister will detail half a dozen “milestone” targets covering living standards, NHS backlogs, secure energy, housebuilding and children’s readiness for school.

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Mexico announces seizure of fentanyl after Trump threatens tariffs
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:21:13 +0000

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Tracking Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and administration
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:51:56 +0000
Here are the people Donald Trump has picked or is considering to fill his Cabinet and key positions in his administration.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) just asked a group of reporters for a pause in questions about...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:38:38 +0000

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Mexico announces record drug seizure one week after Trump threatens tariffs
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:16:52 GMT

Soldiers and marines discover drugs in Sinaloa, while separately authorities arrest more than 5,200 migrants

Mexican security forces have impounded more than a ton of fentanyl pills in what officials have called the biggest seizure of the synthetic opioid in the country’s history.

Soldiers and marines found the fentanyl at two properties in the northern state of Sinaloa, late on Tuesday – exactly a week after Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico unless the two neighbouring countries cracked down on the flow of immigrants and drugs across their borders with the US.

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Denying allegations, Hegseth says ‘there’s no reason to back down’
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:09:23 +0000

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Hegseth reschedules Thursday trip to Mar-a-Lago
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:43:39 +0000

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Hegseth said Trump told him ‘You’re my guy’
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:40:29 +0000

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Romney denounces politicians who ‘tear at our unity’ in farewell Senate speech
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:11:13 +0000
Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), a former GOP presidential nominee who became a foe of Donald Trump, stressed bipartisanship in his farewell Senate speech.
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Kash Patel threatens legal action against critic
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:59:06 +0000

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French government ​of Michel Barnier toppled ​a​fter losing no-confidence vote – as it happened
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:55:35 GMT

Three-month-old government felled by combined vote from parties of left and far right over controversial budget

• Full report: France in political crisis after no-confidence vote topples government

Boris Vallaud, the head of the centre-left Socialist party (PS) tells the prime minister that the no confidence motion is “first and foremost your failure: the failure of Michel Barnier”.

MPs elected thanks to the ‘republican front’ against the far right “were bound by only one promise, one loyalty, one commitment - not to give in to the far right,” Vallaud says, adding that Barnier “clearly found it more appropriate to speak to the far right than to the left. And we cannot resign ourselves to this.”

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Most members of the House have only known the Trump era of politics
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:48:09 +0000
Six in 10 representatives and a third of senators have only been on Capitol Hill since Trump was president. How does this affect their understanding of their role?
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Trump asks Michael Whatley to stay on as RNC chair
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:38:09 +0000

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Hegseth says he has never had a drinking problem
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:20:08 +0000

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Trump swaps out new White House counsel pick
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:03:01 +0000

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Trump picks Monica Crowley for chief of protocol
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:57:35 +0000

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Hegseth op-ed: ‘I have never backed down from a fight’
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:57:37 +0000

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A defiant Pete Hegseth just spoke to reporters in the Russell Senate Office Building, giving no...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:49:29 +0000

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Supreme Court seems wary of blocking Tennessee’s ban on certain medical treatments for trans minors
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:37:39 +0000

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The crowd outside the Supreme Court was chanting, “we won’t go back,” shortly before the rally...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:27:57 +0000

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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy meets with Trump and Vance
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:26:32 +0000

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Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar closed out the more than two-hour argument by urging the justices...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:24:37 +0000

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Hegseth defiant as Trump considers replacing him as defense secretary pick
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:18:33 +0000
The president-elect discussed the role with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Among those watching from inside the courtroom Wednesday was the 16-year-old transgender girl who challenged Tennessee’s...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:16:09 +0000

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‘Our power only grows,’ says transgender lawyer who argued case before the court
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:13:08 +0000

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Trump picks Vance aide to serve as DOJ antitrust chief
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:10:41 +0000

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Trump taps finance professor Michael Faulkender as deputy treasury secretary
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:08:30 +0000

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Attorneys for families, states hold dueling news conferences on Tennessee ban
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:08:49 +0000

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Trump taps Paul Atkins to lead SEC, signaling shift on crypto regulation
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:06:28 +0000

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The Guardian view on Sir Keir Starmer’s EU strategy: it might undermine future progress
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:00:21 GMT

The prime minister wants to reset relations with Europe but his government’s silence risks missing strategic opportunities

When it comes to managing relations with the European Union, Downing Street holds to the adage that no news is good news. In opposition, Keir Starmer saw an electoral advantage in keeping the salience of Europe as low as possible – avoiding needless aggravation of pro-Brexit sensibilities among swing voters. Having secured a massive majority, Labour strategists see no compelling reason to now embrace conspicuous europhilia.

The prime minister’s declared priorities for government, due to be set out in a speech on Thursday, focus on delivering in areas that voters consider most important. Technical adjustments to EU trade do not feature on that list, although they are an important component in the wider ambition to lift economic growth.

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The police presence around the Supreme Court building has grown. Officers are lining the steps of...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:59:55 +0000

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Video: Jackson compares Tennessee ban to past racial discrimination
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:58:38 +0000

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The crowd protesting gender-affirming care for minors is now sparse — many protesters left as oral...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:56:18 +0000

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Two-child benefit cap ‘will be scrapped’ in Scotland, vows SNP
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:50:12 GMT

Scotland’s finance secretary, Shona Robison, reveals plans in budget to end ‘pernicious’ policy

The Scottish government has unveiled plans to scrap Westminster’s controversial two-child benefit cap to lift thousands of “children out of poverty”.

Scotland’s finance secretary, Shona Robison, said her budget for the coming year “offers hope for Scotland’s future”, announcing that the two-child cap on benefits would be scrapped in Scotland as she pledged record spending for both the NHS and councils.

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The arguments have concluded.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:43:07 +0000

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Prelogar touches on human impact of ban in rebuttal
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:40:18 +0000

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Tennessee lawyer argues that transition care can be harmful
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:37:46 +0000

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Asked about parents’ rights, Tennessee lawyer invokes lobotomies and eugenics
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:35:54 +0000

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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, canceled a meeting with Sen. Josh Hawley...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:34:48 +0000

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Jackson sees little difference between Tennessee ban and interracial marriage prohibition
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:33:52 +0000

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Justice Elena Kagan challenged Tennessee solicitor general J. Matthew Rice, who defended his state’s law by...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:24:33 +0000

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When Tennessee’s lawyer said laws on gender transition care for transgender adults are left to the...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:16:22 +0000

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The imaginary justifications for Biden’s pardon of his son
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:12:13 +0000
The use of clemency by past presidents is a surprisingly murky area of history — making it easy to invent precedent that doesn’t exist.
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Tennessee solicitor general argues that state’s ban is not sex discrimination
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:11:49 +0000

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Sotomayor grills Tennessee lawyer on risks of transition care
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:08:39 +0000

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Trump said he pulled Chad Chronister out of consideration for his head of the DEA
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 17:03:32 +0000

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Justice Neil M. Gorsuch has not asked the first two lawyers challenging Tennessee’s law any questions,...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:57:46 +0000

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Speaking now is J. Matthew Rice, Tennessee’s solicitor general, who is defending the state’s 2023 law...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:54:05 +0000

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Mexico says Canada wishes it had its ‘cultural riches’ amid tariffs feud
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:53:49 GMT

Leaders cast the other as ill-prepared after Trump threatens to apply 25% taxes on goods from both countries

Mexico’s president has said Canadians “could only wish they had the cultural riches” of her country as tensions mount between the two nations, caught in a feud over tariffs and trade exacerbated by Donald Trump.

The US president-elect threatened in a social media post last week to apply devastating levies of 25% on all goods and services from both countries, and to keep them in place until “such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl, and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country!”

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Trump names Adam Boehler as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:52:03 +0000

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Alito questions whether being transgender is permanent
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:50:22 +0000

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Trump picks a former U.S. soldier turned investor as Army secretary
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:42:50 +0000

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Justice Alito, lawyer for trans minors spar over suicide risk
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:42:17 +0000

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British army could be wiped out within six months of Ukraine-scale war, minister warns
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:40:08 GMT

Alistair Carns says a casualty rate similar to Russia’s invasion could lead to the army being ‘expended’ within six to 12 months

The British army would be wiped out in as little as six months if it was forced to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict, a defence minister has warned.

Alistair Carns said a rate of casualties similar to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would lead to the army being “expended” within six to 12 months.

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Trump names businessman and private astronaut Jared Isaacman as head of NASA
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:37:44 +0000

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Meet Roger Clinton, a first-family member pardoned long before Hunter Biden
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:34:52 +0000
Hunter Biden joins Roger Clinton, half brother of former president Bill Clinton, as troubled family members who have been pardoned.
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Trump and the GOP will have a historically tiny House majority. What that means.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:32:41 +0000
A look at the numbers, and how fraught and riven the next two years could be for President-elect Trump and the GOP.
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Justice Jackson says she hears echo of racial discrimination in Tennessee ban
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:24:21 +0000

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The South Korean coup is a perfect coda to the Biden presidency | Alex Bronzini-Vender
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:22:33 GMT

Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific policy of pursuing detente against China at all costs meant embracing Yoon, whose anti-democratic attitude has always been clear

Jean Baudrillard’s 1986 travel diary of his time in Reagan’s America – “the only remaining primitive society on earth”, in his words – describes a paradox about the nature of late-century American hegemony. “American power does not seem inspired by any spirit or genius of its own,” wrote Baudrillard, “but it is, in a sense, uncontested and incontestable.” American “genius” appeared to suffer “from the weakening of all the forces that previously opposed it” – the incoherence of American strategic thinking, to Baudrillard, was thus a measure of its success.

Today, there are American adversaries everywhere – not least in what is now called the Indo-Pacific. But no such “spirit or genius” seemed to underpin the Biden administration’s response to the Tuesday coup in South Korea, much less South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempted overthrow of democratic rule. The Biden administration’s response has been, to say the least, limp. At the time of writing, the state department has said little beyond an assurance that its alliance with South Korea is “ironclad” and that the United States will “stand by Korea in its time of uncertainty”.

Alex Bronzini-Vender is a writer living in New York

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Kavanaugh raises regret as a reason to restrict gender transition care
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:20:54 +0000

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Speaking now is Chase B. Strangio, an attorney with the ACLU who is supporting the Biden...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:19:17 +0000

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Kavanaugh asks about trans athletes and girls’ sports
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:19:28 +0000

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Former Trump defense official emerges as possible Hegseth replacement
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:08:12 +0000

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Justice Kavanaugh raises the fertility risks of transition care
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:05:09 +0000

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One interesting aspect of the oral arguments is that the conservative justices have repeatedly cited the...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:01:42 +0000

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Prelogar favorably highlights a law in West Virginia
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:58:04 +0000

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Justice Kagan indicates Tennessee’s ban may amount to sex discrimination
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:58:04 +0000

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Risk of suicide comes up in arguments
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:50:53 +0000

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Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. used the phrase “a girl who wants to live like a...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:45:23 +0000

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor appears supportive of U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar’s arguments. To underscore the...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:43:56 +0000

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Pete Hegseth’s strongest ally isn’t Trump. It’s Fox News.
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:41:16 +0000
The potential defense secretary’s candidacy has been boosted far more robustly by his former employer than by his possible future one.
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Alito is trying to box Prelogar in using the abortion ruling
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:40:26 +0000

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Alito asks solicitor general about other nations’ concerns over transition care
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:34:29 +0000

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Based on Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s questions, he seems to be saying Tennessee’s ban...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:22:39 +0000

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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, will cross over to the...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:19:35 +0000

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Veteran republican Marian Price sues Disney+ over IRA murder portrayal
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:17:14 GMT

Historical drama depicts Price carrying out 1972 killing of mother and alleged informant Jean McConville

The veteran republican Marian Price is taking legal action against Disney+ after she was depicted killing Jean McConville in its show Say Nothing. The historical drama series, which is based on the book by the award-winning writer Patrick Radden Keefe, portrays the murder and secret burial of McConville by the IRA in 1972.

McConville is known as one of the Disappeared, a group of 17 people who were abducted, killed and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries during the Troubles.

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Speaking now is Elizabeth B. Prelogar, U.S. solicitor general, who is representing the Biden administration in...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:15:22 +0000

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Government argues Tennessee ban is sex discrimination
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:14:32 +0000

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Gay man explains why he disagrees with medical therapies for trans kids
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:13:26 +0000

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The justices have begun hearing oral arguments in the case regarding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:11:37 +0000

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Trump advisers renew push for pardon of Edward Snowden
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:10:52 +0000

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Lisa Townsend, 66, is in one of six groups of friends who were turned away from...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:10:55 +0000

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‘Straight in harm’s way’: can Trump open up Alaska’s 19m-acre refuge for drilling?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:00:18 GMT

Native leaders ready for a fight as Trump calls ANWR, one of the last truly wild places on Earth, the US’s ‘biggest oil farm’

The Arctic national wildlife refuge (ANWR) is one of the earth’s last intact ecosystems. Vast and little-known, this 19m-acre expanse along Alaska’s north slope is home to some of the region’s last remaining polar bears, as well as musk oxen, wolves and wolverines. Millions of birds from around the world migrate to or through the region each year, and it serves as the calving grounds for the porcupine caribou.

Donald Trump has called the refuge the US’s “biggest oil farm”.

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Outside Supreme Court, a Tennessee lawmaker defends his legislation
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:57:23 +0000

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Medical associations support gender transition care
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:56:35 +0000

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Hegseth says Trump told him to ‘keep fighting’ in tough confirmation process
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:50:48 +0000

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The scene outside the Supreme Court
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:48:17 +0000

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Medical gender transition care is uncommon among children
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:44:00 +0000

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Trump’s union-friendly choice for labor secretary sparks GOP anxiety
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:43:29 +0000

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Pete Hegseth says Trump told him to ‘keep fighting’ amid rumors he’ll be replaced by DeSantis
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:37:26 GMT

Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense vows not to back down despite multiple controversies emerging since he was named

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s embattled nominee for secretary of defense, shared an impassioned post saying he will “never back down” amid a flurry of rumors that the president-elect is contemplating replacing him with Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis.

“I’m doing this for the warfighters, not the warmongers. The Left is afraid of disrupters and change agents. They are afraid of [Donald Trump] – and me. So they smear w/ fake, anonymous sources & BS stories. They don’t want truth. Our warriors never back down, & neither will I,” Hegseth wrote on X on Wednesday morning.

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Few trans youths regret gender transition care, a recent study found
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:36:01 +0000

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The blitz of restrictions on gender transition care for youths, adopted in nearly every state in...
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:27:50 +0000

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Starmer and Badenoch clash at PMQs over Haigh’s undeclared criminal offence
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:49:47 GMT

Prime minister refuses repeatedly to give more details on ‘further information’ relating to transport minister’s resignation

The prime minister has again refused to give more details on the resignation of his transport secretary over a fraud offence before she became an MP.

Keir Starmer refused repeatedly to elaborate on the “further information” that came to light leading to Louise Haigh stepping down last week.

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South Korea crisis: motion to impeach President Yoon submitted, say opposition parties – as it happened
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:51:12 GMT

Opposition Democratic party lawmakers have called on Yoon Suk Yeol to resign immediately or they would seek his impeachment

• Yoon Suk Yeol faces calls to resign after martial law shock
• Explainer: what happened and what comes next?

South Korea’s finance ministry has said it stood ready to deploy “unlimited” liquidity into financial markets after President Yoon Suk Yeol lifted a martial law declaration he imposed overnight that pushed the won to multi-year lows, Reuters reports.

The announcement came after finance minister Choi Sang-mok and Bank of Korea governor Rhee Chang-yong held emergency talks overnight, and as the central bank board abruptly met to approve rescue measures for the local credit market.

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Rail renationalisation should reduce delays but may not cut fares, says UK minister
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:20:48 GMT

Heidi Alexander refuses to confirm cost of setting up Great British Railways but insists it is lower than fees paid to train operators

The renationalising of train companies will not necessarily bring cheaper rail fares but should reduce cancellations and late trains, the UK transport secretary has suggested.

South Western Railway is to become the first train operator nationalised under the Labour government, ministers announced on Wednesday. Greater Anglia and C2C will also be brought into public ownership next year.

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‘I am acutely frightened’: artists talk of fears over a second Trump term
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:04:02 GMT

Figures in the art world including Amy Sherald and Marilyn Minter share their concerns ahead of Trump’s return

The Iraqi artist Vian Sora has seen the absolute worst that politics has to offer – she spent most of her first 30 years living under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq, then endured the destruction of her country following the US invasion in 2003. Years later, she surfaced in the United States as a refugee. Her art, which mixes bright, neon colors with motifs from the ancient history of her homeland, is a testament to the history that has scarred her and her resilience as a survivor.

Settled now in Louisville, Kentucky, along with the family that she worked tirelessly to bring over from Iraq, she is a part of an art community grappling with what their vocation will mean now that Donald Trump has been elected president. The stakes for Sora are not just creative; her family itself may be threatened by Trump’s presidency. “I am acutely frightened by the prospects of refugees and immigrants becoming persona non grata,” she said, “as my sister has an asylum case that remains in jeopardy.”

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Four things to know about South Korean President Yoon as impeachment looms
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:47:23 +0000
Yoon Suk Yeol was a career prosecutor who made his first foray into politics when he became the People Power Party’s presidential candidate in 2021.
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Cathay Pacific apologises over inflight Family Guy episode with Tiananmen Square scene
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 06:53:49 GMT

Hong Kong carrier removes episode from entertainment system after social media complaint that it might breach national security laws

Hong Kong’s flagship airline, Cathay Pacific, has apologised over the inclusion of a Family Guy episode in its inflight entertainment system that features a scene depicting Tiananmen Square.

The airline told the South China Morning Post it had apologised to customers after a complaint was raised on social media that the episode might breach Hong Kong’s national security laws.

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Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead FBI, hit with Iranian cyberattack, sources say
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Video: Democratic spokeswoman pushes away soldier’s gun
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:23:03 +0000

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Police Raid Pro-Palestine Students’ Home in FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:33:16 +0000

George Mason University suspended its Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and effectively kicked out the group’s co-president.

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How the South Korean president's martial law declaration unfolded – video
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:16:13 GMT

After South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law in the country, thousands of protesters took to the streets alongside the leading opposition Democratic party, urging MPs to head to the national assembly and vote it down. Following a dramatic night in which soldiers attempted to block MPs from entering parliament, lawmakers unanimously adopted a bill rejecting the martial law declaration, prompting the president to backtrack. Here is how the night unfolded in Seoul

• Declaration of martial law awakens ghosts South Koreans thought were laid to rest

• South Korea gripped by uncertainty as MPs defy president’s declaration of martial law

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Turner Prize: Jasleen Kaur’s winning, welcoming ode to Glasgow
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:15:22 GMT

Pleasure and politics collide in Kaur’s work, which invites our curiosity again and again

I wanted Jasleen Kaur to win as soon as I’d seen this year’s prize show. Her work made me come back again, and simply to be there on her gigantic synthetic Axminster carpet.

Kaur invites our curiosity. Pio Abad’s work, mostly made during a residency at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, is similarly rich with detail and stories, but felt illustrational, overdependent on the explanatory wall labels.

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FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:18:29 +0000
The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient.
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US plan to protect consumers from data brokers faces dim future under Trump
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:56:28 +0000
Wyden: "Unfortunately, it will be up to Trump's CFPB to finalize this proposed rule."
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Unknown disease kills 143 people in south-west DRC, local authorities say
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:59:41 GMT

Infected people described as having flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches

An unknown disease killed 143 people in a south-west province of Democratic Republic of the Congo in November, local authorities told Reuters.

Infected people had flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches, Remy Saki, the deputy governor of Kwango province, and Apollinaire Yumba, the provincial minister of health, said on Monday.

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Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000
A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.
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What’s at stake with a second Trump presidency – in charts and maps
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:00:51 GMT

Conflicts around the globe and domestic policies on immigration and vaccinations are likely to face upheaval

The second Donald Trump administration is expected to have a vast impact both domestically and around the world, potentially reshaping everything from the very private – such as abortion access in the US – right through to something as public as the health of the planet itself.

While Trump’s policies and their effects will take time to emerge, we can tell a lot about where things are heading by comparing the status quo to current data trends in six key areas, from migration and war through to climate and vaccine uptake.

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Is Contraception Under Attack?
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
You can now buy a pill over the counter, but a conservative backlash is promoting anti-contraceptive disinformation.
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The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Local police across New York state regularly work with ICE. Before Trump can start rounding up immigrants, advocates are pushing for change.

The post The Fight to Stop New York Cops From Conspiring With ICE appeared first on The Intercept.

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Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the threat to press freedom
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:07:14 GMT

A second term for Trump has chilling implications for critical independent journalism and the media the industry

Donald Trump’s second term promises to deliver historic threats to US press freedom – directly from the Oval Office.

The president-elect made it clear during the campaign that he had the media in his sights. He told a rally on the eve of the election that he “wouldn’t mind” if an assassin shot the journalists standing in front of him.

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Economic hardship looms over Ghana as country readies for polls
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:20:22 GMT

Election is being contested between vice-president Mahamudu Bawumia and former president John Mahama, under whom corruption ballooned

When the Ghanaian opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won the presidential election on his third attempt in 2016, many saw it as a turning point.

The first person to unseat an incumbent, his historic win captured his compatriots’ frustration. Alleged corruption had ballooned under his predecessor, John Mahama: in one instance, Mahama accepted a $100,000 (£79,000) car from a foreign contractor that his spokesperson said was put into a pool of presidential vehicles; in another, judges were captured on video collecting bribes to dispense justice.

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KitchenAid Promo Codes: 15% Off Major Appliances
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:59:00 +0000
Get 15% off a selection of KitchenAid major appliances, such as refrigerators, oven ranges, dishwashers, cooktops, and more.
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Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:27:50 +0000

With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree.

The post Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings? appeared first on The Intercept.

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A Kamala Harris Canvasser’s Education
Sat, 30 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Even on my first day, I sensed dissonance between the campaign’s celebrity-inflected exuberance and the raw divisions I saw in the streets.
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Pam Bondi, Trump's New AG Pick, Lobbied for Private Prisons and Amazon
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:05:33 +0000

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

The post Pam Bondi, Trump’s New AG Pick, Lobbied for Private Prisons and Amazon appeared first on The Intercept.

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NASA Attorney Enjoys Serving Others and Contributing to the Team Mission
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:48:19 +0000
NASA attorney Jeff Renshaw’s work has primarily revolved around two things: serving others and solving problems. The New Orleans native retired as an U.S. Air Force judge advocate following more than two decades of service. Renshaw now has worked for more than eight years as an attorney advisor at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay […]
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Biden Made “Record Time” on Worker Protections for Heat. Trump Could Quickly Stamp Them Out.
Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:22:48 +0000

The OSHA heat regulation was one of the few to have broad public support, but Democrats can’t ever seem to get their act together.

The post Biden Made “Record Time” on Worker Protections for Heat. Trump Could Quickly Stamp Them Out. appeared first on The Intercept.

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UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson killed in ‘targeted attack’ — here’s what we know
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:31:00 GMT
Authorities say the veteran health-insurance executive was shot Wednesday morning by an unknown assailant outside the company’s investor conference in Midtown Manhattan.
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US supreme court conservatives appear ready to uphold Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:25:51 GMT

Justices suggest US v Skrmetti case challenging state’s ban on treatments for trans minors differs from other cases due to medical ramifications

• Protesters rally as supreme court considers gender-affirming care: ‘This is about human beings’

Conservative justices appeared ready to uphold Tennessee’s law that prevents transgender youth from accessing some gender-affirming medical treatments, as the supreme court heard oral arguments in a case challenging the policy on Wednesday.

The plaintiffs in US v Skrmetti, which was first brought by three trans youths and their parents last year, argue that the law violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment because of sex-based discrimination. The decision in the case, which is expected in June, could have sweeping implications for trans youth across the country. According to the Human Rights Campaign, 26 states have passed bans on gender-affirming care, affecting 39.4% of trans youth in the US.

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Who was Brian Thompson, slain CEO of UnitedHealthcare?
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:50:14 GMT

The 50-year-old had climbed up the ranks of the health insurance giant over 20 years and lived in Minnesota

• Manhunt under way after UnitedHealthcare CEO killed
• New York shooting – latest updates

For 20 years Brian Thompson, the healthcare executive killed in a Manhattan shooting on Wednesday, climbed to the top of UnitedHealthcare.

The 50-year-old chief executive of the main division of the conglomerate UnitedHealth Group, the US’s largest health insurer, was gunned down in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning by a masked assailant in what police are calling a “brazen targeted attack.”

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South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, facing impeachment after martial law shock
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:56:15 GMT

Opposition parties submit motion to impeach Yoon after his shock bid to put South Korea under martial law for first time in over four decades

• South Korea crisis: live updates
• Explainer: what happened and what comes next?

South Korean opposition parties have formally submitted a motion to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, over his short-lived declaration of martial law.

Early on Thursday, lawmakers presented to parliament an impeachment motion alleging that Yoon “gravely and extensively violated the constitution and the law” and accuses him of imposing martial law “with the unconstitutional and illegal intent to evade imminent investigations... into alleged illegal acts involving himself and his family”.

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Martial law came to South Korea – and my friends and I doomscrolled through the night
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:57:32 GMT

Since the separation of the Koreas in 1953, our elders have experienced the suspension of normal civil rights many times. But for the younger generation, this was a horrifying and instructive first

At 10.23pm on 3 December in Seoul, I was already in bed, alternating between reading a book and watching YouTube cooking reels. That was when Yoon Suk Yeol, the president, declared emergency martial law in South Korea for the first time since 1979.

In an unannounced televised address, Yoon said the imposition of martial law was “aimed at eradicating pro-North Korean forces and protecting the constitutional order of freedom”.

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Lagniappe for December 2024
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:51:35 +0000
Explore Lagniappe for December 2024 featuring: Gator Speaks Do you have time for a quick story? Recently, your ol‘ friend Gator had the chance to help his family move. This move was not the same as going to the Moon or Mars like NASA’s planned Artemis adventure, but it felt similar. The move brought friends, […]
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South Korea president’s aides offer to resign en masse – as it happened
Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:57:13 GMT

This blog is closed – you can follow live coverage on our new liveblog

The White House has said it is “closely” monitoring the situation in South Korea.

“The administration is in contact with the ROK government and is monitoring the situation closely,” a spokesperson for the national security council said, using the official acronym for the Republic of Korea, where thousands of US troops are based as parts of efforts to deter nuclear-armed North Korea.

All political activities are banned in South Korea following the imposition of martial law on Tuesday and all media will be subject to government monitoring.

All political activities, including those of the national assembly, local councils, political parties, and political associations, as well as assemblies and demonstrations, are strictly prohibited.

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Are chicken sandwiches a) a tasty lunch? Or b) the ultimate symbol of gen Z wokeness? | Arwa Mahdawi
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:59:05 GMT

Those waging a war on woke have turned their attentions to twentysomethings’ supposed rejection of ham and mustard sarnies. Clearly this is what people mean by bread and butter issues ...

You are what you eat. And if you eat sandwiches? Then you’re probably woke, I’m afraid. While the convenience food may have been invented by a degenerate earl who, legend has it, didn’t want a proper meal to interrupt his gambling, some sarnies have now been deemed politically correct by the MailOnline – who are, of course, leading experts in wokeness. The MailOnline is getting flak for a recent headline that states gen Z “are ditching English classics like ham and mustard in favour of fancy woke fillings”.

What sort of PC fillings are we talking about? Quinoa, vegan camembert and kale on artisanal sourdough with a non-binary condiment (they-onnaise)? Nope. It seems what has ruffled the MailOnline’s feathers is … chicken. According to The Great British Sandwich Study, a wholesome survey conducted by the bread maker Allinson’s, older generations are partial to a ham sandwich while gen Z prefer chicken. Most boomers also like cheddar while younger consumers are fond of fancier fillings. Pretty inoffensive stuff, right? Yet somehow this has been packaged up into a culture wars piece. It’s funny how conservatives love to accuse the left of being snowflakes, yet they’re the ones getting upset by a sandwich.

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According to the South Korean constitution, the president “shall comply” when the National Assembly requests the...
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:26:00 +0000

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A spectacle at Wembley despite the stalemate – Women’s Football Weekly
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:41:40 GMT

Faye Carruthers is joined by Suzy Wrack, Emma Duffy, and Tom Garry to round up the latest international fixtures and more

On today’s podcast: the panel reviews the goalless draw between England and the USA at Wembley. Was Emma Hayes right to feel disappointed? Are the Lionesses lacking firepower in their forward line, and why did it take so long to notice that it didn’t hit Alex Greenwood’s arm?

Also, we look ahead to the Euro 2025 playoff second legs, along with the Lionesses' final game of 2024, as they take on Switzerland.

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Palestinians File German Complaint on Media Giant Axel Springer’s Business in Israeli Settlements
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000

“Contributing to land theft and unlawful evictions of Palestinians in the West Bank would be a direct violation of the Supply Chain Act.”

The post Palestinians File German Complaint on Media Giant Axel Springer’s Business in Israeli Settlements appeared first on The Intercept.

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What really helps with hangovers? – podcast
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:46 GMT

What if you could take a pill or a shot that could reduce your blood alcohol level and make you feel better in the morning? That’s the promise of a range of wellness products aiming to be the next big hangover antidote. But what exactly are hangovers, and which methods of preventing them are backed by science? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Sally Adams, an alcohol researcher and associate professor of psychology at the University of Birmingham

Clips: @drinklikecut, @visitourmedia, @thegutgirlie, @settingthebrowlow

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S8, E11: Diane Morgan, actor
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:43 GMT

Actor and comedian Diane Morgan joins Grace for another helping of Comfort Eating. Diane is best known for playing mockumentary historian Philomena Cunk, droll antihero Liz in the critically acclaimed BBC sitcom Motherland, and Mandy in … Mandy. Diane reveals how she keeps a straight face when asking world experts very silly questions, why she was sacked from her waitressing job, and what happened when she tried to introduce hugging to the Morgan family.

If you liked this episode then have a listen to Grace’s conversations with Aisling Bea, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, and Jamie Demetriou

New episodes of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent will be released every Tuesday

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Coventry send for Frank Lampard and Sheffield United shine – Football Weekly
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:00:45 GMT

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Sanny Rudravajhala and George Elek as the Sky Blues get their man and Chris Wilder’s Blades continue their great form

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; Frank Lampard’s Coventry (as we are duty bound to call them) begin with a draw against Cardiff City. The panel debate whether this is a good appointment.

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Documents Contradict Google’s Claims About Its Project Nimbus Contract With Israel
Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:33:06 +0000

A previously undisclosed email and new documents show the Project Nimbus deal isn’t covered by Google’s general terms of service.

The post Documents Contradict Google’s Claims About Its Project Nimbus Contract With Israel appeared first on The Intercept.

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Javier Milei Wages War on Argentina’s Government
Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The President, a libertarian economist given to outrageous provocations, wants to remake the nation. Can it survive his shock-therapy approach?
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The Asymmetry in the Abortion-Rights Movement
Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Grassroots activists believe that high-altitude advocacy is taking precedence over helping patients access care.
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Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:05:20 +0000
Demographics and geopolitics will make a recovery harder
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Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:58:45 +0000
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
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The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:36:33 +0000
The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively.
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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: 183 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 317 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
2024-10-28T00:00:00Z
Demographics are not destiny in politics. Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse Shapiro explain how their latest research is playing out in the final stretch of the US presidential race.
Match ID: 184 Score: 8.57 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 38 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat

There’s a Reason Harris’ Campaign Is Locked in on Quick Fixes
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:00:00 EST
The Democratic nominee isn’t campaigning much on the Biden administration’s bigger, slower-moving policies.
Match ID: 185 Score: 7.86 source: www.politico.com age: 54 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat, 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: 186 Score: 7.86 source: www.economist.com age: 258 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election

Trump voters feel very differently about things now that he’s won, our new poll shows
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:47:39 EST
A pair of POLITICO|Morning Consult polls, one conducted in the final days of the election and the other conducted after Trump won, show how public opinion has changed.
Match ID: 187 Score: 7.14 source: www.politico.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 election

The “Palestine Exception”
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:30:00 +0000

On The Intercept Briefing, we discuss college crackdowns on Palestine solidarity protests and the chilling effect on free speech.

The post The “Palestine Exception” appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 188 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 7.14 election

Security Analysis of the MERGE Voting Protocol
2024-11-25T12:09:05Z

Interesting analysis: An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways.

Abstract: The recently published “MERGE” protocol is designed to be used in the prototype CAC-vote system. The voting kiosk and protocol transmit votes over the internet and then transmit voter-verifiable paper ballots through the mail. In the MERGE protocol, the votes transmitted over the internet are used to tabulate the results and determine the winners, but audits and recounts use the paper ballots that arrive in time. The enunciated motivation for the protocol is to allow (electronic) votes from overseas military voters to be included in preliminary results before a (paper) ballot is received from the voter. MERGE contains interesting ideas that are not inherently unsound; but to make the system trustworthy—to apply the MERGE protocol—would require major changes to the laws, practices, and technical and logistical abilities of U.S. election jurisdictions. The gap between theory and practice is large and unbridgeable for the foreseeable future. Promoters of this research project at DARPA, the agency that sponsored the research, should acknowledge that MERGE is internet voting (election results rely on votes transmitted over the internet except in the event of a full hand count) and refrain from claiming that it could be a component of trustworthy elections without sweeping changes to election law and election administration throughout the U.S...

Match ID: 189 Score: 5.71 source: www.schneier.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Economists need new indicators of economic misery
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:40:55 +0000
Existing measures of discomfort are failing to predict elections
Match ID: 190 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:55:47 +0000
Turning a profit from political news is a lot harder than it looks
Match ID: 191 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 132 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections

Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:00:00 +0000
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
Match ID: 192 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 14 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:36:12 +0000
Why, then, are they largely outlawed in America?
Match ID: 193 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 146 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: 194 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 227 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: 195 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 315 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: 196 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 327 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics

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

 

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

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

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

Introduction

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

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

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

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

LimeWire AI Studio

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

AI Image Generation Tools

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

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

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

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

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

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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs

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

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

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

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

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

Earn Revenue From Your Content

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

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

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

LMWR Tokens

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

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

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

Pricing Plans

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

• Basic plan: 

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

• Advanced plan: 

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

• Pro plan: 

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

• Pro Plus plan: 

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

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

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Conclusion

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

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

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

Match ID: 197 Score: 4.29 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 358 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat

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

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

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

Match ID: 198 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

Tell us your favourite stage show of 2024
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:23:39 GMT

Tell us about your standout stage production of the year – we’ll feature a selection of your favourites

We would like to hear about your favourite theatre shows of 2024. Which play captured your heart? Maybe a dance company moved you? Please briefly explain why (100 words max) by filling in the form below and we will feature a selection of them.

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Match ID: 199 Score: 3.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 15 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris
Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:11:58 +0000
Voters are starting to notice the good news just in time for the election
Match ID: 200 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 38 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

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
Match ID: 201 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 238 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

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: 202 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 269 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

Biden’s chances of re-election are better than they appear
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 10:42:47 +0000
The economy is providing a headwind at present. That could soon change
Match ID: 203 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 307 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

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

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

Canva has a web version and also a mobile app

What is Canva?

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

Who is Canva best suited for?

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

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

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

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

Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan

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

Free plan Features

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

Pro Plan Features 

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

Enterprise Plan Features

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

How to Use Canva?

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

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

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.

Match ID: 204 Score: 3.57 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 1018 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

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Match ID: 205 Score: 3.57 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3015 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election

How having babies became so political - video
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:33:44 GMT

The pronatalist movement in the US is gathering pace once again, rekindled by Silicon Valley personalities and hard-right conservatives who are becoming increasingly vocal about whether or not women are having enough babies. But it's not just in the US, some governments in other countries have launched marketing campaigns encouraging people to have more children, while others have offered financial incentives. But while many of these policies claim to be about halting population decline, there are other factors at play. Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates efforts around the world to boost birth rates, as well as the underlying political motivations, from bodily autonomy to immigration

• Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?

• When desperate measures to persuade women to have children fail, it’s time for fresh thinking

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Match ID: 206 Score: 2.14 source: www.theguardian.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 2.14 conservatives

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
2024-11-08T00:00:00Z
What can corporate leaders learn from executives who served their country during wartime conflicts? Drawing on a series of case studies, Robert Simons shares important lessons from the experiences of Walt Disney, Dwight Eisenhower, and Robert McNamara.
Match ID: 207 Score: 2.14 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 27 days
qualifiers: 2.14 executive

Gateway refuelling module gets a boost
Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:00:00 +0200

ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract amendment today at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan to extend the Lunar View refuelling module for the lunar Gateway.

Match ID: 208 Score: 1.43 source: www.esa.int age: 51 days
qualifiers: 1.43 congress

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