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Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:40 GMT
Among sweeping rightwing electoral victories across the globe, the ‘big loser of the elections has been climate’
An unprecedented year of elections around the world has underscored a sobering trend – in many countries the commitment to act on the climate crisis has either stalled or is eroding, even as disasters and record temperatures continue to mount.
So far 2024, called the “biggest election year in human history” by the United Nations with around half the world’s population heading to the polls, there have been major wins for Donald Trump, the US president-elect who calls the climate crisis “a big hoax”; the climate-skeptic right in European Union elections; and Vladimir Putin, who won another term and has endured sanctions to maintain Russia’s robust oil and gas exports.
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Match ID: 0 Score: 80.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
qualifiers: 35.00 sanctions, 25.00 trump, 20.00 russia
War Crimes Have Never Stopped the U.S. Before
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:34:22 +0000
The U.S. has a long tradition of shielding Israel (and itself) from war crime allegations — and threatening The Hague.
The post War Crimes Have Never Stopped the U.S. Before appeared first on The Intercept.
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qualifiers: 35.00 sanctions, 25.00 trump, 20.00 russia
The House Just Blessed Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook by Passing Nonprofit-Killer Bill
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:12:31 +0000
Democratic support for the bill dwindled as critics warned it would let Donald Trump crack down on political foes.
The post The House Just Blessed Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook by Passing Nonprofit-Killer Bill appeared first on The Intercept.
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qualifiers: 30.00 sanctions, 21.43 trump, 17.14 russia
Perfume boss captured on video admitting he ignored Russia sanctions
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:45:46 GMT
David Crisp told undercover agent he had ignored "government edicts" to sell £1.7m of his luxury Boadicea the Victorious product.
Match ID: 3 Score: 55.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 35.00 sanctions, 20.00 russia
The Guardian view on Europe’s duty to Ukraine: solidarity must not waver in the age of Trump | Editorial
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:45:50 GMT
Kyiv must be given the military and financial means to resist any attempt to force an unjust peace
In the aftermath of 9/11, the neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan published an influential book titled Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. The gist of the argument was that though peace-loving Europeans prided themselves on upholding the values of a rules-based international system, they largely relied on US military might to deal with the rogue states intent on undermining it.
As the catastrophic consequences of George W Bush’s illegal war in Iraq subsequently illustrated, the thesis was flawed. Costing hundreds of thousands of lives, the US “war on terror” delivered only bloody mayhem in the Middle East. But Mr Kagan’s analysis captured something true about a de facto hard power/soft power division of responsibilities in the west. Two decades on, the future of Ukraine may depend on how a reconfiguration of that relationship plays out in a new “new world order”.
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Match ID: 4 Score: 45.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 trump, 20.00 russia
The ‘Trump bump’ added $75,000 to my $1.3 million portfolio. I’m 39. Should I retire early and move to Europe?
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:21:00 GMT
“I have my eyes set on either Italy or Spain next year, where the cost of living is roughly half of what it would be in the U.S.”
Match ID: 5 Score: 45.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 25.00 trump, 20.00 italy
Trump depends on the EU and UK to act as peacemakers more than he thinks
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 05:00:01 GMT
The US doesn’t need to spend more on Ukraine. Britain can bring funding to the table – and help Trump reboot alliances
With Donald Trump the very meaning of words is up for negotiation. What does he really mean when he promises to “build a wall”? When he pledges to end the Russo-Ukrainian war in one day?
His supporters say they don’t take him literally but seriously – but who decides what “serious” is? The very ambiguity can be part of Trump’s appeal. There’s something exhilarating in the sense one is in an exclusive negotiation with the president to define reality. It’s as if he’s welcoming you backstage from the reality show of politics to the discrete board room where meaning is made.
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Match ID: 6 Score: 45.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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The Rise of 4B in the Wake of Donald Trump’s Reëlection
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Why the South Korean feminist movement, which calls for a boycott of men, is gaining traction among American women.
Match ID: 7 Score: 45.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
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Microsoft president asks Trump to “push harder” against Russian hacks
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:17:19 +0000
Brad Smith wants US to take a tougher approach to state-sponsored cyberattacks.
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San Francisco’s Biggest Hospital System: Don’t Talk About Palestine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Nine health care workers at UCSF report censorship or punishment for speaking out about human rights for Palestinians — or simply wearing a pin.
The post San Francisco’s Biggest Hospital System: Don’t Talk About Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.
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qualifiers: 20.00 sanctions, 14.29 trump, 8.57 energy
China unnerved by Russia’s growing ties with North Korea, claims US official
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:04:46 GMT
Comments part of debate over whether Beijing backs Kim Jong-un’s decision to send troops to fight in Ukraine
China is increasingly uncomfortable about North Korea’s engagement with Russia and finds the growing cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow unnerving, Kurt Campbell, the US deputy secretary of state has said.
He was leaning into a growing debate among the US’s security partners in Asia on whether China supports the decision of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un to send 10,000 troops to fight for Russia against Ukraine. It is said the North Korean troops are now inside Russia.
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Match ID: 10 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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How Trump Could Actually Increase Fossil Fuel Production
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Donald Trump will have key levers he can use, but he faces limitations too.
Match ID: 11 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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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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Liz Kendall says young people who won’t take up work will lose benefits
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:26:00 GMT
Work and pensions secretary says she will transform opportunities as Starmer bemoans ‘bulging benefits bill’
Young people who refuse to take up jobs or training will lose their benefits in the government’s crackdown on worklessness, Liz Kendall has said.
The work and pensions secretary said on Sunday: “If people repeatedly refuse to take up the training or work responsibilities, there will be sanctions on their benefits.”
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Match ID: 13 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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India slaps Meta with five-year ban on sharing info from WhatsApp for ads
2024-11-24T00:39:25+00:00
Match ID: 14 Score: 35.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Nicaragua: Ortega and wife to assume absolute power after changes approved
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:51:32 GMT
Loyalist lawmakers give green light to constitutional amendment as authoritarian president, 79, tightens grip
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife are set to assume absolute power after loyalist lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment elevating her to the position of “co-president” and boosting the pair’s joint control over the state.
Under sanctions for human rights abuses, Ortega himself had proposed the change, which also increases the president’s control over the media and extends the presidential term from five to six years.
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Match ID: 15 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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The Scale of Geoblocking by Nation
2024-11-22T12:06:07Z
Interesting analysis:
We introduce and explore a little-known threat to digital equality and freedomwebsites geoblocking users in response to political risks from sanctions. U.S. policy prioritizes internet freedom and access to information in repressive regimes. Clarifying distinctions between free and paid websites, allowing trunk cables to repressive states, enforcing transparency in geoblocking, and removing ambiguity about sanctions compliance are concrete steps the U.S. can take to ensure it does not undermine its own aims.
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Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine portends new era of warfare
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:02:11 +0000
This is the first time an IRBM, once restricted by a Cold War arms treaty, has been used in combat.
Match ID: 17 Score: 30.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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How Trump Could Change the Trajectory of the War in Ukraine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:56:30 +0000
Any deal will likely be favorable to the Russians, though the clock on Putin’s ability to sustain a wartime economy may be running out.
Match ID: 18 Score: 25.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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Australia politics live: Labor rejects Greens’ compromise offer on housing bill; NSW reveals master plans for 60,000 homes
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:43:52 GMT
The Help to Buy bill faces a final vote in the Senate scheduled for Tuesday. Follow today’s news live
Is the eSafety Commissioner concerned about role of Musk in Trump administration?
Julie Inman Grant was also asked about the role that X owner Elon Musk is going to play in the incoming Trump administration? She responded:
Well, my job is not to be concerned with what Elon Musk is doing, unless he is hurting the safety of Australians, and that is why we will continue to regulate without fear or favour and to make sure that we’re safeguarding Australians online safety, and that has always been my focus.
There’s an inquiry happening today, and what I have continued to say is that it’s really, really important that any bill like this is nationally consistent, and that this is just one piece of an interlocking set of provisions – including the digital duty of care that minister [Michelle] Rowland has announced – and the education, digital literacy work that we’ve been doing for years.
So all of these need to work in tandem together, and we’ll see what the outcomes of the inquiry are. And of course, we will enforce and carry out what the will of the parliament is.
We also need to make sure that particularly vulnerable and marginalised kids still have a way to connect and to create and explore. So whatever we do, when we implement what will become the law, we’ll try to do this in a way that is really protective of the range of children’s rights, including their ability to communicate and express themselves online.
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Match ID: 19 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Hegseth’s views on women in combat ‘flat-out wrong’, Senator Duckworth says
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 20:05:23 GMT
Democratic combat veteran says Trump’s pick for defense secretary is ‘inordinately unqualified’ for the job
Democratic US Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost both her legs after the army Black Hawk attack helicopter she was piloting was shot down during the US war in Iraq, on Sunday ramped up criticism of Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary who argues women shouldn’t be on the front line.
Pete Hegseth is the former Fox News host and soldier tapped by the president-elect to lead the Pentagon and oversee the largest military force in the world, but he is steeped in controversy.
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Match ID: 20 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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From bibles to sneakers to guitars: Trump-branded merchandise is everywhere, but could it create legal woes for the president-elect?
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:57:00 GMT
Now that he’s again headed to the White House, Trump may not be in the same position to hawk his branded items, experts say.
Match ID: 21 Score: 25.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
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Chuck Woolery, host of Love Connection, dies aged 83
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:01:48 GMT
A musician, the original Wheel of Fortune host and later a rightwing podcaster, Woolery died at home in Texas
Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of Wheel of Fortune, Love Connection and Scrabble who later became a rightwing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about Covid-19, has died. He was 83.
Mark Young, Woolery’s podcast co-host and friend, said in an email early on Sunday that Woolery died at his home in Texas with his wife, Kristen, present. “Chuck was a dear friend and brother and a tremendous man of faith, life will not be the same without him,” Young wrote.
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Republican senator: ‘We’ll have lots of questions’ for Trump’s controversial picks
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:23:42 GMT
Democrat Tammy Duckworth says Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard are unqualified for roles Trump wants them to fill
A prominent Republican US senator pledged on Sunday that Congress would not give blanket approval to Donald Trump’s controversial cabinet picks ahead of the congressional confirmation process, as a leading Democrat challenged the qualifications of some of them to serve.
Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma predicted lawmakers in the upper chamber will have tough questions in particular for the former Democratic congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard, who was chosen by the president-elect as director of national security for his second administration.
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Match ID: 23 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Will inflation stick around? What oil, gold and stocks are signaling about rising prices.
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:01:00 GMT
Inflation worries have come back to haunt U.S. financial markets as inventors fret over the potential policy changes under President-elect Donald Trump’s second term could stoke a resurgence of price pressures.
Match ID: 24 Score: 25.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 0 days
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How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:25:06 +0000
With deficits soaring, their finance ministers will have to be smart
Match ID: 25 Score: 25.00 source: www.economist.com age: 0 days
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Trump’s eldest son emerges as key voice influencing cabinet picks – report
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:14:03 GMT
President-elect has become particularly reliant on his Donald Jr for advice, sources tell Reuters
Donald Trump Jr has emerged as the family’s most influential adviser of the moment as his father builds the most controversial cabinet in modern US history, sources close to Donald Trump’s eldest son say.
Trump Jr has in some cases promoted inexperienced loyalists over more qualified candidates for top positions in president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
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Match ID: 26 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Theatrics, hatred and Linda McMahon: how pro wrestling explains Donald Trump
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:00:15 GMT
The ex-WWE CEO and likely incoming education secretary doesn’t seem like a threat. That’s what makes her one
Despite her background in professional wrestling, Linda McMahon is not known for bombast. Indeed, she’s terrible at it: in the many years during which the former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO would make occasional appearances in her company’s programming as a version of herself, she was always derided by fans for her lack of charisma and wobbly speaking voice.
The most notable thing she did in any of the storylines was pretend to be comatose in a wheelchair while her husband, the vastly more explosive Vince McMahon, sexually harassed one of his female wrestlers in a skit. Linda won’t be winning an Emmy anytime soon.
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Match ID: 27 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Nicola Jennings on a Britain beset by stormy weather – cartoon
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:10:40 GMT
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Match ID: 28 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Democrats search for answers as blue Philadelphia turns towards Trump
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:00:13 GMT
Trump grew his support in nearly all of Philadelphia’s wards – what went wrong for Harris in a key Democratic city?
When Kamala Harris stopped at the west Philadelphia barber shop Philly Cuts just days before the election, its manager, James Browne, said the vice-president came off “almost like a favorite aunt”.
Harris seemed “genuine, kind, nice, very comforting” during the half-hour she spent in the shop while campaigning in the largest city in battleground state Pennsylvania, Browne said. “Meeting her in person was very different than seeing her on TV.”
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Match ID: 29 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Iranian minister to meet European counterparts after nuclear offer rejected
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:58:36 GMT
Meeting comes amid fears Middle East tensions will lead Iran to redouble its efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon
Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, will meet his European counterparts in Geneva on Friday after the collapse of a deal last week under which Iran would have limited its uranium enrichment to 60% purity, just below the threshold to make nuclear weapons.
The offer was regarded by Iran as a first step to rebuilding confidence between it and the west over what it insists is its civilian nuclear programme. There are growing fears that wider tensions in the Middle East could result in Tehran redoubling efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon and trying to declare it necessary for its national self-defence.
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Match ID: 30 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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The silver lining at a disappointing Cop29? It showed climate progress can survive Trump 2.0 | Geoffrey Lean
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:31:16 GMT
Away from the brutal main negotiations, there were important strides forward. The science can – and must – rise above politics
The resolutions reached at Cop29 on tackling the climate crisis, in the early hours of Sunday morning, are gravely disappointing but much better than nothing. And “nothing” was almost the result of this climate conference in Baku. This was one of the most difficult of the 29 Cops I have followed.
The deal falls a long way short of hopes at the start of the climate summit, and even further behind what the world urgently needs. But coming after negotiations that frequently teetered on the very edge of collapse, the result does keep climate talks alive despite Donald Trump’s second coming, and has laid the first ever international foundation, however weak, on which the world could finally construct a system of financing poor countries’ transition away from fossil fuels.
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Match ID: 31 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Trump’s White House is filling with alleged sexual abusers ... led by him
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:00:13 GMT
As the far right celebrates a win for their gender, a raft of people accused of misconduct is named for the cabinet
Donald Trump was found civilly liable last year for the defamation and sexual abuse of the writer E Jean Carroll - just one of the more than 27 women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. In January 2025, he will again be president of the United States – the first to take office with a court-adjudicated history of sex crimes.
And it seems he’s eager to pack the White House with people just like him.
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Match ID: 32 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Bill Clinton grapples with his past in memoir – too much, too little, too late
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:00:10 GMT
The 42nd president’s latest book is a prolonged stroll down memory lane that never quite reaches a desired destination
In 1992, Bill Clinton defeated George HW Bush, a sitting Republican president. In 1996, Clinton won re-election over Bob Dole. A former Democratic governor of Arkansas, Clinton had a flair for policy and retail politics. He felt your pain, garnering support from voters without a four-year degree and graduates alike. He played the saxophone, belting out Heartbreak Hotel on late-night TV. Redefining what it meant to be presidential, he told a studio audience he preferred briefs to boxers.
He oozed charisma – and more. But his legacy remains deeply stained by allegations of predatory conduct and questionable judgment. He is one of three presidents to be impeached – in his case, for lying under oath about his extra-marital relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern. Before leaving office, to avoid professional discipline, Clinton surrendered his law license.
Citizen is published in the US by Knopf
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Match ID: 33 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Biden must Trump-proof US democracy, activists say: ‘There is a sense of urgency’
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:00:11 GMT
President can secure civil liberties, accelerate spending on climate and healthcare, and spare death row prisoners
The skies above the White House were cold and grey. Joe Biden greeted the championship winning Boston Celtics basketball team, quipping about his Irish ancestry and tossing a basketball into the crowd. But the US president could not resist drawing a wider lesson.
“When we get knocked down, we get back up,” he said. “As my dad would say, ‘Just get up, Joe. Get up.’ Character to keep going and keep the faith, that’s the Celtic way of life. That’s sports. And that’s America.”
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Match ID: 34 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Trump voters hail controversial cabinet picks as the government they want
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:00:09 GMT
Trump voters in the American heartland are excited, even as senior Republicans are less than enthusiastic about some of the president-elect’s choices
In the American heartland, they’re excited. Finally, say voters who put Donald Trump into the White House for a second time, they are about to get the president they wanted all along.
Even as leading Democrats decry Trump’s cabinet nominations as “agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance”, the former and future president’s supporters are interpreting the selections as evidence that he has finally broken free of the Washington establishment.
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Match ID: 35 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Sexual misconduct allegations didn’t stop Trump picking these candidates
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:00:27 +0000
Several of the president-elect’s selections for top jobs in his administration have faced accusations of sexual misconduct.
Match ID: 36 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Trump is coming for the executive branch. Does he know what he’s doing?
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The president-elect has signaled he will be destructive, but he seems motivated by retribution rather than saving money.
Match ID: 37 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Sharp elbows and raised voices: Inside Trump’s bumpy transition
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:48:25 +0000
His freewheeling team has returned to the patterns of his first term in office — with shouting matches, expulsions from meetings and name-calling.
Match ID: 38 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Tracking Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:53:03 +0000
Here are the people Donald Trump has picked or is considering to fill his Cabinet and key positions in his administration.
Match ID: 39 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Trump taps Brooke Rollins for agriculture secretary, rounding out Cabinet picks
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:45:04 +0000
Rollins has recently run the America First Policy Institute, which has largely stayed out of the spotlight but has made numerous proposals for the second term.
Match ID: 40 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Gorka and his hard-right views on Islam head back to the White House
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:45:13 +0000
Sebastian Gorka ruffled feathers among even reverent Trump loyalists and other Republicans, who have described him as fringe and underqualified.
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Pete Hegseth’s Army unit in Iraq was rocked by a war-crimes case
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:50:04 +0000
Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick was not involved in the murder of detainees, but the formative experience influenced his advocacy for troops accused of war crimes.
Match ID: 42 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Elizabeth Warren calls for crackdown on Internet “monopoly” you’ve never heard of
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:00:10 +0000
Senator wants to investigate whether VeriSign is ripping off customers and violating antitrust laws.
Match ID: 43 Score: 25.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 1 day
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‘I already have my ticket.’ These celebrities want to leave the U.S. with Trump as president
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:48:00 GMT
Plenty of celebrities are vowing to move out of the U.S. rather than remain while Trump serves as the 47th president.
Match ID: 44 Score: 25.00 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 1 day
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Pam Bondi, Trump’s AG pick, said ‘prosecutors will be prosecuted’
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 14:07:23 +0000
Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, is a former elected state attorney general who stood by him through scandal and investigation.
Match ID: 45 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Kamala Harris had a whirlwind 107-day campaign. What’s next for her?
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:00:46 GMT
Vice-president’s next move could involve California politics, a re-run for 2028 or a thinktank, among others
Whatever happened to Kamala Harris? For 107 days she was everywhere, filling TV screens and campaign rallies in her whirlwind bid for the White House. Then, with election defeat by Donald Trump, it all ended as abruptly as it began. The rest is silence.
“The vice-president has taken time off to go spend time with her family,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Thursday, acknowledging that Harris is holidaying in Hawaii with husband Doug Emhoff. “She has worked very hard for the last four years, and her taking a couple of days to be with her family, good for her.”
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Islamic State is primed to be thorn in the side of incoming Trump administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:00:44 GMT
The terrorist group has been looking to be active this holiday season, with online chatter about attacks increasing
Amid a presidential campaign with foreign policy discussions more focused on the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, the Islamic State stayed under the radar while calling on supporters and operatives to attack Americans on election day.
The FBI thwarted a serious plot in Oklahoma City only weeks before the vote, prompting a similar public reaction to news involving the terror group that has become customary of late: is the Islamic State a renewed threat?
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Match ID: 47 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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How to Prepare for Trump 2.0
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The Washington Roundtable speaks with David Cole, a former legal director of the A.C.L.U., about the civil and legal guardrails that could contain a second Trump Administration.
Match ID: 48 Score: 25.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 1 day
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Conner O’Malley Is the Bard of the Manosphere
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The comedian’s absurd, poignant work captures the lives of the kind of frustrated young men who helped Donald Trump win the election.
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What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for the Trump administration
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:56:21 +0000
The president-elect’s nominee for treasury secretary faces a gruelling job
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China looks to step into global vacuum as Trump vows to pull U.S. back
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 10:00:42 +0000
At the COP climate conference, China has been presenting itself as a stable and reliable global leader, seeking to draw a contrast ahead of a second Trump era.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg on abortion, religion and reality TV; Marina Hyde on Musk vs Trump Jr; inheritance inequity; and teenage love – podcast
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 05:00:33 GMT
Marina Hyde asks us to spare a sob for Don Jr, replaced in Daddy’s affections by Elon Musk. The Bank of Mum and Dad – the unspoken dynamic behind society’s growing inequality of ‘inheritocracy’. ‘I’ve been called worse than a Nazi’: Simon Hattenstone meets Jacob Rees-Mogg. And psychologist Lucy Foulkes on why we should take teenage love more seriously
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Match ID: 52 Score: 25.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Trump picks former congressman Dave Weldon of Florida to lead CDC
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 03:52:39 +0000
The medical doctor has been a vocal critic of the agency, especially its vaccine program.
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Trump pushes past sting of Gaetz’s exit with flurry of new picks
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:40:05 +0000
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Trump picks Scott Bessent for treasury and 8 others in flurry of announcements
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:40:05 +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’s picks for his Cabinet and administration so far
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:25:40 +0000
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Here are the nine selections President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday night:
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:12:31 +0000
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Trump picks Alex Wong, Sebastian Gorka for national security roles
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:00:41 +0000
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Teamsters president welcomes Trump’s choice to helm Labor Department
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:53:17 +0000
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Trump selects Johns Hopkins surgeon to run FDA
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:19:59 +0000
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President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that he plans to nominate Dave Weldon to lead the Centers...
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:09:30 +0000
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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Friday night that he intends to nominate Janette Nesheiwat to serve...
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:53:47 +0000
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President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday night that he intends to nominate Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Oregon) to...
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:39:19 +0000
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Trump selects Project 2025 contributor as budget chief
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:30:15 +0000
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Trump announces Scott Bessent is his pick for treasury secretary
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 00:18:57 +0000
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Trump expected to pick Scott Bessent as treasury secretary
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:12:10 +0000
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Trump plans to fire Jack Smith’s team, use DOJ to probe 2020 election
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:51:32 +0000
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New York judge calls off next week’s Trump sentencing in hush money case
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:45:42 +0000
The president-elect was convicted in May of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to an adult-film star ahead of the 2016 election.
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The Campaign Moment: Gaetz’s downfall, Trump’s mandate
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:15:39 +0000
Former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) pulled his name from consideration for attorney general. What will this mean for Donald Trump’s other controversial Cabinet picks?
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Gaetz out, Oz in, and your lingering election questions
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:13:48 +0000
Former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) pulled his name from consideration for attorney general. What will this mean for Donald Trump’s other controversial Cabinet picks?
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Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:31:12 +0000
Cruz claims grant program is "boondoggle," urges Biden admin to halt activities.
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Donald and Elon Pull Strings
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:41:51 +0000
But who’s playing whom?
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Will China step up if Trump takes a step back on climate change?
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:07:36 GMT
How future talks will play out if another superpower comes to the fore, just as the US steps back
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The EV Buyer’s Guide to an Uncertain Future
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
The Trump administration is likely to make big changes to US federal electric vehicle incentive programs. Buy or lease now, probably.
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Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
A second Trump Administration could give impunity to American soldiers who commit atrocities.
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The Pain Creating a New Coalition for Trump
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Despair permeates white, Black, and Latino working-class life. Democrats will have to find a new way to speak to it.
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Rep. Summer Lee on the Fight of Our Lives
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., discusses Biden’s lame-duck session and erecting barriers to Trump’s agenda on The Intercept Briefing podcast.
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Donald Trump’s Administration Hopefuls Descend on Mar-a-Lago
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Since Election Day, the Florida club has played host to a rotating cast of characters from MAGA world, all vying for positions of power.
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The Explosion of Matt Gaetz and Other Early Lessons in Trump 2.0
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:03:14 +0000
There are many more manic Thursdays to come.
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We’re closer to re-creating the sounds of Parasaurolophus
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:30:19 +0000
Preliminary model suggests the dinosaur bellowed like a large trumpet or saxophone, or perhaps a clarinet.
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Atacms: what are the missiles Ukraine has fired into Russia for the first time?
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:44:49 GMT
American and Ukrainian officials have confirmed Kyiv employed US-made Atacms missiles to strike targets within Russia. The Kremlin stated that six missiles were launched at the town of Karachev, with fragments from one reportedly causing a significant explosion.
In response, Russia has announced it is adjusting its nuclear doctrine. The Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said Moscow would interpret any attack against it carried out by a non-nuclear state using weapons supplied by a nuclear state as a joint assault. But what exactly are Atacms, and why has their deployment unsettled Russia so deeply?
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US moves to list giraffes under Endangered Species Act for first time
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:38:45 GMT
Climate crisis, habitat loss and poaching have reduced its numbers – but will Trump put the kibosh on protections?
They are the tallest animal to roam the Earth and have become an icon of children’s books, toys and awed wildlife documentaries. But giraffes are in decline, which has prompted the US government to list them as endangered for the first time.
Giraffes will be listed under the US Endangered Species Act, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed in a move that will cover five subspecies of the animal. The agency hopes the listing will crack down on the poaching of giraffes, as the US is a leading destination of rugs, pillowcases, boots, furniture and even Bible covers made from giraffe body parts.
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Congress Could Protect Journalists From Surveillance. Trump Is Lobbying to Stop Them.
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:32:15 +0000
The PRESS Act, a federal reporter shield bill, already passed the House unanimously. Trump wants it dead.
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What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:05:10 +0000
Forget interest rates. Rewards are the real problem
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Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:52:57 +0000
It could annoy some of his most loyal supporters
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What Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Planning for America?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:03:11 +0000
Matt Gaetz has “gone to Washington to burn it down,” says the staff writer Dexter Filkins. “And he’s been remarkably successful.”
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Is nuclear power gaining new energy?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:03:04 GMT
Countries around the world are building new nuclear power stations.
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Jannik Sinner tops off dream year as Italy retain Davis Cup title
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 19:11:23 GMT
- World No 1 seals 2-0 triumph over Netherlands
- Berrettini beat Van de Zandschulp in first match
The rise of Italian men’s tennis has been forecast by many for years as a special generation of young, talented players gradually climbed towards the top of the game. It is fair to say that they have arrived. One year on from their second ever triumph in the competition, Italy won the Davis Cup for a second straight year by defeating the Netherlands 2-0 in Malaga.
In a rematch of Italy’s group-stage victory in September, Matteo Berrettini opened the tie with a dominant 6-4, 6-2 win over Botic van de Zandschulp, providing the perfect platform for Jannik Sinner, the world No 1. After edging a tough opening set against an impressive Tallon Griekspoor, Sinner opened up his shoulders and marched to a 7-6 (2), 6-2 victory.
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England demolish Japan in Autumn Nations farewell to end losing streak
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:09:36 GMT
- England 59-14 Japan
- Two tries each for Jamie George and Luke Cowan-Dickie
A disappointing calendar year for England has at least ended with a flurry of nine tries and a healthier-looking outcome. A bucket-load of points against a callow Japanese team on a blustery Sunday afternoon, however, does only so much to massage the overall bottom line. Five wins from 12 Tests – with four of the victories having come against Japan twice, Italy and Wales – tells the story of a side who look better when they face inferior opposition.
The burgundy-clad hosts did not have to extend themselves unduly, crossing the whitewash more often than in their previous three Autumn Nations Series games combined. There were two tries apiece for England’s hookers Jamie George and Luke Cowan-Dickie while Henry Slade had a quietly creative game in midfield but New Zealand, Australia and South Africa would all have fancied racking up closer to 80 points against Eddie Jones’s inexperienced side.
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Zelenskyy fears Ukraine is ‘testing ground’ for Russian weapons amid rise in Shahed strikes
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:05:32 GMT
Kremlin has fired 500 drones over the border in the past week and set up two factories to make ‘hundreds a week’
Ukraine’s president said the country had been targeted by nearly 500 drones in the past week as well as more than 20 missiles and complained that Russia was using the country as “a testing ground” for its munitions.
Though Russia’s first ever use of the Oreshnik intermediate range ballistic missile on Dnipro on Thursday captured global attention, on Sunday Volodymyr Zelenskyy highlighted the increased level of Shahed drone attacks.
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Italian police and social workers leave Albania after staffing empty migrant centres
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:51:42 GMT
Centres had been open for over a month but received just 24 asylum seekers, whose detention was deemed unlawful
Dozens of Italian police officers and social workers deployed by Italy’s far-right government in migrant centres in Albania have returned home, after it emerged that the facilities, praised as a model to reduce refugee arrivals, have been empty for weeks.
Just over a month after the much-publicised opening of the multimillion-euro detention centres for asylum seekers in Albania, which were supposed to receive up to 3,000 men a month, more than 50 police officers were moved back to Italy two weeks ago while dozens of social workers have left over the weekend, with their presence in Albania considered “needless”.
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Russia-Ukraine war: Taiwan’s former president urges US to prioritise aiding Ukraine over Taiwan for now – as it happened
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:11:45 GMT
Tsai Ing-wen says Kyiv needs weapons more urgently than Taipei and says Ukrainian victory will be ‘effective deterrent to future aggression’
Taiwan’s former president urges US to prioritise aiding Ukraine over Taiwan for now, says report. Former Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen has suggested that the US should prioritise helping Ukraine over Taiwan – in the immediate future – as Kyiv needs weapons more urgently than Taipei. Speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, the former Taiwanese leader was quoted by Politico as saying: “They should do whatever they can to help the Ukrainians … We [Taiwan] still have time.”
Moscow offers debt forgiveness to new recruits. Vladimir Putin has signed a law granting debt forgiveness to new army recruits who enlist to fight in Moscow’s war on Ukraine. According to Russian state news agency Interfax, the new legislation allows those signing up for a one-year contract to write off bad debts of up to 10 million rubles ($96,000; £77,000).
An air alert has been sounded ‘almost daily’ across Ukraine this week, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says as he pleads for more air defences. Zelenskyy has posted to Telegram saying that his country needs more air defences to protect itself against relentless Russian attacks. He said that Russia used more than 800 guided aerial bombs, about 460 attack drones, and more than 20 missiles over the past week.
Russia prepared to launch cyber-attacks on UK, minister to warn. Russia is prepared to launch a series of cyber-attacks on Britain and other Nato members as it seeks to weaken support for Ukraine, a senior UK cabinet minister will warn in a speech on Monday. Moscow will “not think twice” about exploiting defence gaps to target UK businesses, and allies must “not underestimate” the threat it poses, Pat McFadden, a senior UK minister whose portfolio includes national security, will say. In a speech to the Nato cyber defence conference at Lancaster House, the minister is expected to say: “Military hard-power is one thing. But cyberwar can be destabilising and debilitating. With a cyber-attack, Russia can turn the lights off for millions of people. It can shut down the power grids. This is the hidden war Russia is waging with Ukraine.”
No ‘red lines’ when it comes to support for Ukraine, France’s foreign minister says. The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, has told the BBC in an interview that western allies should not put any limits on support for Ukraine against Russia, and “not set and express red lines”. Barrot’s comments are significant, coming a few days after US and UK long-range missiles were used in that way for the first time. Barrot said that Ukraine could fire French long-range missiles into Russia “in the logics of self-defence”, but would not confirm if French weapons had already been used.
Vladimir Putin has signed a law granting debt forgiveness to new army recruits who enlist to fight in Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
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South Korean man dodged draft by binge eating
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:54:25 GMT
The 26-year-old man began deliberately gaining weight before a physical examination, a judge ruled.
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World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:00:07 GMT
Countries must curb production now and tackle plastic’s full life cycle, says Norwegian minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim ahead of key UN talks this week
The world will be “unable to cope” with the sheer volume of plastic waste a decade from now unless countries agree to curbs on production, the co-chair of a coalition of key countries has warned ahead of crunch talks on curbing global plastic pollution.
Speaking before the final, critical round of UN talks on the first global treaty to end plastic waste, in Busan, South Korea, this week, Norway’s minister for international development, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, acknowledged the split that had developed between plastic-producing countries and others. She represents more than 60 “high ambition” nations, led by Rwanda and Norway, who want plastic pollution tackled over its full life cycle. Crucially, this means clamping down heavily on production.
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The big picture: earthbound reality at the International Space Station landing site in Kazakhstan
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 07:00:04 GMT
Andrew McConnell’s shot of a young scrap collector at the remote spot where astronauts return from space captures a curious juxtaposition
The photographer Andrew McConnell first went to Kazakhstan in 2015, to witness what the Earth’s primary space portal looked like on the ground. A particular corner of the remote steppe-land, near a village called Kenjebai-Samai, was where, every three months, astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station fell to earth, having been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome 400 miles to the south. McConnell had spent much of the previous years working in war zones and was keen to focus on something more life-affirming.
He discovered a curious landscape that was both on the frontier of human exploration and unchanged for centuries. Over a dozen visits in the subsequent years, McConnell became used to the rhythm of the landings. He would sleep out on the steppe in a tent with the ground crew of the Russian space agency; on hearing the explosion that heralded the capsule separating in the sky above, they would drive out over the wasteland to meet it as it landed – a vehicle no bigger than a family car.
Some Worlds Have Two Suns by Andrew McConnell is published by Gost (£60)
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Russia ‘aggressive’ and ‘reckless’ in cyber realm and threat to Nato, UK minister to warn
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 03:58:02 GMT
Pat McFadden will tell cyber summit that Russia ‘won’t think twice about targeting British businesses’ and danger to Nato must not be underestimated
Russia is “exceptionally aggressive and reckless in the cyber realm” and “no one should underestimate” the threat to Nato, a senior UK minister will warn in a speech on Monday.
Pat McFadden, whose portfolio includes national security, will tell a Nato cybersecurity conference in London that Moscow “won’t think twice about targeting British businesses”, according to excerpts of his address released on Sunday by his ministry.
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Fires, first aid and guns: meet the Finnish women training for war with Russia
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:13:22 GMT
Anxious Finns are learning how to survive in the wild in preparation for an invasion by their hostile neighbour
It is Friday night on a forested military base in western Finland. A group of women dressed in camouflage with matching purple beanie hats are sat in a dark tent discussing how their perspectives have changed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“I didn’t think it was a real threat that Russia would attack us,” says Sari, 42, who works in sales and lives in a nearby town. But then, she adds: “They attacked Ukraine. I saw that it is possible that we are next.”
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Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000
This is the first time Russia has used its so-called Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in combat. The launch also serves as a warning to the West.
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Almost 10% Of South Korea's Workforce Is Now A Robot
2024-11-23T16:26:30+00:00
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‘We live in a climate of fear’: graphic novelist’s Elon Musk book can’t find UK or US publisher
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:00:01 GMT
Darryl Cunningham blames fear of ‘legal consequences’ for reluctance to take on book, now only available in French
A biography by a British graphic novelist of Elon Musk is struggling to find an English-language publisher due to feared “legal consequences”.
Elon Musk: Investigation into a New Master of the World is the latest graphic novel by Darryl Cunningham, from West Yorkshire. Cunningham, 64, has written and illustrated seven nonfiction books on topics ranging from the 2008 global economic meltdown (Supercrash), to Russian leader Vladimir Putin (subtitled The Rise of a Dictator).
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‘It’s boorish’: E-scooter firms threaten to leave Italy after highway code updated
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:00:42 GMT
Fear for jobs after parliament votes for helmets, insurance and big fines for ‘wild’ riders and rogue parking, amid rise in traffic accidents
On a road by Rome’s traffic-clogged Piazza Venezia, an e-scooter rider weaves through a crowd of pedestrians, who in turn are trying not to trip over a scooter dumped on the pavement. At the adjacent crossing, two e-scooter riders whiz through a red light as another glides around the curve with his passenger capturing the journey on her mobile phone.
Such scenes have become common in the Italian capital and other towns and cities in recent years, amid the boom in popularity of rented e-scooters. But now the government is getting tough on wayward use of the vehicles as part of a broader overhaul of the highway code.
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Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:03:27 +0000
“Nearest Neighbor Attack” finally lets Russia’s Fancy Bear into target’s Wi-Fi network.
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SARP East 2024 Atmospheric Science Group
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:33:26 +0000
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Guanyu Huang, Stony Brook University Graduate Mentor: Ryan Schmedding, McGill University Ryan Schmedding, Graduate Mentor Danielle Jones Remote sensing of poor air quality in mountains: A case study in Kathmandu, Nepal Danielle Jones, University of Wyoming Urban activity produces particulate matter in the atmosphere known as aerosol particles. These aerosols can negatively […]
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The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:36:33 +0000
The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively.
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Hungary invites Netanyahu to visit as world leaders split over ICC arrest warrant
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:54:28 GMT
Viktor Orbán says he will not enforce ICC decision that requires court members to detain Israeli PM if he enters their country
Hungary’s illiberal prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has said he will invite his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, to visit in defiance of an international criminal court arrest warrant, as world leaders split over the ICC’s momentous decision.
The world’s highest criminal court issued warrants on Thursday for Netanyahu, his former defence minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas commander Ibrahim al-Masri, commonly known as Mohammed Deif, who is believed to be dead, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000
In a first, Russia's APT28 hacking group appears to have remotely breached the Wi-Fi of an espionage target by hijacking a laptop in another building across the street.
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Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”
Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Silicon Valley has successfully rebranded military contracting as a proud national duty for the industry.
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The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:45:37 +0000
Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?
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Senators Have a Chance to Halt Weapons Sales to Israel. Will They Take It?
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:58:28 +0000
A joint resolution from Sen. Bernie Sanders would block arms sales to Israel. The challenge is convincing Democrats to act.
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Malian singer Rokia Traoré to be extradited from Italy to Belgium
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:29:12 GMT
Italy’s highest court rejects musician’s appeal after she was arrested in Rome in June over child custody dispute
Malian musician Rokia Traoré, who was arrested in Rome last June over an international child custody dispute, will be handed over to Belgium in the coming days after Italy’s highest court rejected her appeal, her lawyer said on Wednesday.
Traoré, 50, a former goodwill ambassador for the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR, was arrested on 20 June at Rome’s Fiumicino airport under a European arrest warrant.
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Bernie Sanders Lost Vote to Block Arms for Israel, Says U.S. Is “Funding the Starvation of Children in Gaza”
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:02:51 +0000
Sanders’s resolutions to block arms sales to Israel gained momentum, but ran headlong into White House opposition.
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Take Out the Trash: A Proposal to Clean Up the Democratic Party
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Democrats are in disarray. It’s time to name our enemies and assert our demands to build a party that can win.
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The Guardian view on Cop29: poor-world discontent over a failure of rich countries to deliver | Editorial
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:42:52 GMT
A rushed final text in Baku strains trust between nations, as inadequate climate finance commitments leave vulnerable countries calling for justice
The hasty imposition of a deal at the UN climate conference, Cop29, in Azerbaijan, over the objections of poorer nations has fractured global trust and undermined recent progress. This was supposed to be the “finance Cop” when two dozen industrialised countries – including the US, Europe and Canada – promised to pay developing nations for the damage caused by their rise. Instead, developing nations – led by a group including India, Nigeria and Bolivia – say this weekend’s agreement for $300bn a year in 2035 is too little, too late. Worse, rich-world governments will be able to escape their obligations by being able to rely on cash from private companies and international lenders.
Independent experts say the developing world, excluding China, would need $1.3tn a year by 2035 to fund its green transition and keep temperature rises in line with the Paris agreement. The climate finance target, pushed through by the Azerbaijani chair, is described by poor nations as a death sentence for those already drowning under rising seas and facing devastating costs.
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Retailers prepare for cautious Christmas as a chill settles on consumers
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:00:12 GMT
A late Black Friday and a mild October mean seasonal sales have got off to a slow start, and hopes are not high
Shoppers may be preparing to swoop for Black Friday bargains this week, but retailers are expecting a “cautious Christmas”, with households concerned about high energy and housing costs, as well as the potential impact of the recent budget.
Trade has been slow in the run-up to the US-inspired promotional spree, which is a week later than last year, as shoppers held off buying presents in the hope they can snap up a bargain.
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How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000
The WIRED & Octopus Energy Tech Summit in Berlin was bursting with innovative ideas for reaching net zero and on working together at an ever-greater scale.
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SARP East 2024 Hydroecology Group
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:33:08 +0000
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Dom Ciruzzi, College of William & Mary Graduate Mentor: Marley Majetic, Pennsylvania State University Marley Majetic, Graduate Mentor Jordan DiPrima How are different land cover types affected by land subsidence on the U.S. Atlantic Coast? Jordan DiPrima, University of New Hampshire Land subsidence is a frequently overlooked geologic hazard that is caused […]
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Our Universe is not fine-tuned for life, but it’s still kind of OK
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:30:38 +0000
Inspired by the Drake equation, researchers optimize a model universe for life.
Match ID: 117 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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The World’s Biggest EV Maker Has the Industry’s Worst Human Rights Appraisal
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:30:00 +0000
Amnesty International has issued a report charting the supply chains and human rights due diligence policies of 13 major EV manufacturers. The results are a world away from the clean, safe future that electric vehicles promise.
Match ID: 118 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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From Campus to the Courts, the “Palestine Exception” Rules University Crackdowns
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:04:56 +0000
The fights over Gaza protests are playing out online, in campus quads, internal disciplinary proceedings, and in the courts.
The post From Campus to the Courts, the “Palestine Exception” Rules University Crackdowns appeared first on The Intercept.
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White House Staffers to Biden: “You Are Running Out of Time” on Gaza
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:26:32 +0000
The letter urges President Joe Biden to follow through on an ultimatum his administration issued to Israel over humanitarian aid.
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“Absolutely Insane”: Pentagon Officials on Trump’s Military Deportation Plan
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:23:32 +0000
Trump campaigned on mass deportations. Now he’s threatening to use the U.S. military to carry them out.
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Vice’s Hard-Right Turn to Trumpism
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:34:32 +0000
In new videos, Vice editor-in-chief Shane Smith treats immigrants as a problem and apologizes to Elon Musk for past coverage.
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Donald Trump’s U.F.C. Victory Party
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Dana White, the C.E.O. of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, helped Trump reach young male voters. Now White says he’s done with politics: “I want nothing to do with this shit.”
Match ID: 123 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Built to combat terrorism, fusion centers give US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a way to gain access to data that’s meant to be protected under city laws limiting local police cooperation with ICE.
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Billionaire Gautam Adani charged in US over alleged $250m bribery plot
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:57:04 GMT
Indian chair of Adani Group, worth about $85bn, accused of agreeing to pay bribes to obtain solar energy contracts
Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest men, has been indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar scheme to pay $250m in bribes and conceal it from US investors.
Prosecutors charged the chair of the Indian conglomerate Adani Group and two other executives of a renewable energy company with securities fraud and conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud.
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Why Italy Sells So Much Spyware
2024-11-19T12:05:31Z
Interesting analysis:
Although much attention is given to sophisticated, zero-click spyware developed by companies like Israel’s NSO Group, the Italian spyware marketplace has been able to operate relatively under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools. According to an Italian Ministry of Justice document, as of December 2022 law enforcement in the country could rent spyware for €150 a day, regardless of which vendor they used, and without the large acquisition costs which would normally be prohibitive.
As a result, thousands of spyware operations have been carried out by Italian authorities in recent years, according to a ...
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Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:09:08 +0000
Whether that lasts is up to Donald Trump
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Pensioners in England and Wales: how has losing the winter fuel allowance affected you?
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:08:04 GMT
We would like to hear from people who no longer receive the winter fuel payment and what it means for them
With the loss of the winter fuel allowance potentially forcing 100,000 pensioners in England and Wales into relative fuel poverty, we would like to find out more about how losing the payment has affected people.
What impact has it had on you and what changes have you made to make up for no longer receiving the winter fuel payment?
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More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump’s Return Means for US Cybersecurity
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Experts expect Donald Trump’s next administration to relax cybersecurity rules on businesses, abandon concerns around human rights, and take an aggressive stance against the cyber armies of US adversaries.
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Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:53:16 +0000
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
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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: 132 Score: 7.14 source: www.wired.com age: 4 days
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Russia Is Going All Out on Election Day Interference
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:04:35 +0000
Along with other foreign influence operations—including from Iran—Kremlin-backed campaigns to stoke division and fear have gone into overdrive.
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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: 134 Score: 5.71 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 5 days
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How serious are Putin's nuclear threats?
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:01:00 GMT
Three Ukrainians on how their lives have changed and their hopes for peace
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The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:39:40 +0000
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
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The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:44:16 +0000
It may bring stronger growth, higher inflation and a global trade war
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Why investors’ “Trump trade” might be flawed
Sun, 03 Nov 2024 10:37:43 +0000
Markets are betting Trump 2.0 would boost the dollar. It could fall instead
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
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How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:56:50 +0000
So far, measures have had little effect. That could change
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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
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Elon Musk Quietly Tried to Oust a Reform DA. Here’s Why He Failed.
Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Reports of the criminal justice reform movement’s death are greatly exaggerated.
The post Elon Musk Quietly Tried to Oust a Reform DA. Here’s Why He Failed. appeared first on The Intercept.
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Matt Gaetz Is Barely a Lawyer
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:13:10 +0000
Trump’s pick for attorney general shows that loyalty is the only qualification that matters.
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House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:14:34 +0000
Dozens of Democrats still support the bill — giving the Republican-controlled House plenty of breathing room to pass it next week.
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ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won
Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement put out a fresh call for contracts for surveillance technologies before an anticipated surge in the number of people it monitors ahead of deportation hearings.
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Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:49:32 +0000
Are bitcoin bros right to be so thrilled by Donald Trump’s victory?
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
Match ID: 147 Score: 3.57 source: www.wired.com age: 12 days
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America’s strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world
Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:53:02 +0000
Donald Trump’s policies could send the greenback soaring
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What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:50:03 +0000
They might have simply been lucky, or biased
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It’s still the economy: What TV ads tell us about each campaign’s closing message
Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:00:00 EST
The final paid messages: Economy, culture wars and character.
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Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:16:07 +0000
The continent’s policymakers are too relaxed about the risks
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Harris is pounding Trump on fascism. Some Dems think that’s a mistake.
Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:53:07 EST
Harris has ratcheted up her warnings about the dangers of a second Trump term in recent weeks.
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Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:59:12 +0000
His zany promises would blow up the deficit
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Harris dismisses Trump as ‘not serious’ on the economy in MSNBC interview
Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:08:24 EST
It was her first solo interview with a national network as the Democratic presidential nominee.
Match ID: 154 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 59 days
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An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:04:28 +0000
Donald Trump’s latest proposal has worryingly broad support
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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
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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
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Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:35:08 +0000
Opposition would come from all angles
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Is America approaching peak tip?
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:05:29 +0000
The country’s gratuity madness may soon calm, so long as Donald Trump does not get his way
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
Match ID: 163 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 243 days
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
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Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:06:55 +0000
Will they now spend big on his campaign?
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What Donald Trump can learn from the Big Mac index
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:01:35 +0000
Should the presidential candidate go on another crusade against the yuan?
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Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
Sat, 16 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: An “AI granny” is wasting scammers’ time, a lawsuit goes after spyware-maker NSO Group’s executives, and North Korea–linked hackers take a crack at macOS malware.
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Auto-Rebooting iPhones Are Causing Chaos for Cops
Sat, 09 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Hot Topic confirms a customer data breach, Germany arrests a US citizen for allegedly passing military secrets to Chinese intelligence, and more.
Match ID: 170 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 15 days
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How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
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Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:58:18 +0000
How long can the party last?
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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
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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?
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:21:18 +0000
The question that now confronts Western policymakers
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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: 181 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 9 days
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NASA Funds New Studies Looking at Future of Sustainable Aircraft
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:00:00 +0000
Picture yourself at an airport a few decades from now. What does your airliner look like? It’s more efficient, with lower emissions than today’s aircraft – what kinds of designs or technology make that possible? NASA is working to answer those questions by commissioning five new design studies looking to push the boundaries of possibility […]
Match ID: 182 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 12 days
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Burning rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power
Tue, 15 Oct 2024 04:45:35 GMT
Nearly half of waste is now burned for energy, but BBC analysis finds it is as dirty as coal.
Match ID: 183 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.com age: 40 days
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Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:53:05 +0000
The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
Match ID: 184 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 157 days
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Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
After hitting a power-output milestone, fusion technology is ready to graduate from small-scale lab experiment to full-sized power plant.
Match ID: 185 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 158 days
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The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:12 +0000
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies
Match ID: 186 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 283 days
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
Match ID: 187 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 312 days
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Which rural area will take the UK’s nuclear waste?
Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:20:51 GMT
The UK's nuclear waste needs a permanent home - but finding a community willing to take it is tricky.
Match ID: 188 Score: 1.43 source: www.bbc.com age: 76 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
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Congress Could Protect Journalists From Surveillance. Trump Is Lobbying to Stop Them.
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:32:15 +0000
The PRESS Act, a federal reporter shield bill, already passed the House unanimously. Trump wants it dead.
The post Congress Could Protect Journalists From Surveillance. Trump Is Lobbying to Stop Them. appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 0 Score: 42.86 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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War Crimes Have Never Stopped the U.S. Before
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:34:22 +0000
The U.S. has a long tradition of shielding Israel (and itself) from war crime allegations — and threatening The Hague.
The post War Crimes Have Never Stopped the U.S. Before appeared first on The Intercept.
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From Campus to the Courts, the “Palestine Exception” Rules University Crackdowns
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:04:56 +0000
The fights over Gaza protests are playing out online, in campus quads, internal disciplinary proceedings, and in the courts.
The post From Campus to the Courts, the “Palestine Exception” Rules University Crackdowns appeared first on The Intercept.
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Making the case for a law on assisted dying | Letter
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:17:52 GMT
Stephen Sedley, a former court of appeal judge, responds to an article by MPs Diane Abbott and Edward Leigh
While no one should underestimate the complexity of safeguarding (and Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill, if anything, does the opposite), Diane Abbott and Edward Leigh inadvertently make the case for legalising assisted dying when they say that “the only adequate safeguard is to keep the law unchanged” (Our politics could not be more different – but we’re united against this dangerous assisted dying bill, 20 November).
The law as it stands is an inhumane set of traps. In 1961, it decriminalised suicide and then criminalised “encouraging or assisting” it – two different things. Encouraging suicide should continue to be a crime. The proposed reform is about whether it should continue to be a crime to assist a mentally competent adult to bring a dignified conclusion to a life that is approaching its end. If it is open to criticism, it is for leaving out individuals who face an incurable condition with no end in sight.
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South Korean man dodged draft by binge eating
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 10:54:25 GMT
The 26-year-old man began deliberately gaining weight before a physical examination, a judge ruled.
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The Intercept’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI Advances on Claim It Removed Reporters’ Bylines
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:00:16 +0000
The Intercept’s lawsuit argues that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents OpenAI from stripping a story’s title or byline.
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New York judge calls off next week’s Trump sentencing in hush money case
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:45:42 +0000
The president-elect was convicted in May of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to an adult-film star ahead of the 2016 election.
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School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:06:05 +0000
Student "indiscriminately copied and pasted text," including AI hallucinations.
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Republican senator: ‘We’ll have lots of questions’ for Trump’s controversial picks
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:23:42 GMT
Democrat Tammy Duckworth says Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard are unqualified for roles Trump wants them to fill
A prominent Republican US senator pledged on Sunday that Congress would not give blanket approval to Donald Trump’s controversial cabinet picks ahead of the congressional confirmation process, as a leading Democrat challenged the qualifications of some of them to serve.
Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma predicted lawmakers in the upper chamber will have tough questions in particular for the former Democratic congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard, who was chosen by the president-elect as director of national security for his second administration.
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Gaetz investigation report divides Ethics Committee, shining light on panel
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 20:17:15 +0000
The little-known congressman Michael Guest serves as chair of the House Ethics Committee and got forced into a corner to block the public release of its report into Matt Gaetz.
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Elizabeth Warren calls for crackdown on Internet “monopoly” you’ve never heard of
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:00:10 +0000
Senator wants to investigate whether VeriSign is ripping off customers and violating antitrust laws.
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Trump picks former congressman Dave Weldon of Florida to lead CDC
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 03:52:39 +0000
The medical doctor has been a vocal critic of the agency, especially its vaccine program.
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Trump picks Scott Bessent for treasury and 8 others in flurry of announcements
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 02:40:05 +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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Former congressman Dave Weldon of Florida chosen to lead CDC
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:37:04 +0000
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Supreme Court to examine power of Congress to delegate authority
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:56:01 +0000
The cases explore whether Congress violated the Constitution when it allowed the Federal Communications Commission to gather fees to help pay for critical telecommunications services in communities that might not otherwise have it.
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The Campaign Moment: Gaetz’s downfall, Trump’s mandate
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:15:39 +0000
Former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) pulled his name from consideration for attorney general. What will this mean for Donald Trump’s other controversial Cabinet picks?
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Gaetz out, Oz in, and your lingering election questions
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:13:48 +0000
Former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) pulled his name from consideration for attorney general. What will this mean for Donald Trump’s other controversial Cabinet picks?
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Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:31:12 +0000
Cruz claims grant program is "boondoggle," urges Biden admin to halt activities.
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Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Internet ‘Monopoly’ You’ve Never Heard Of
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:00:00 +0000
US senator Elizabeth Warren and congressman Jerry Nadler have demanded the government investigate whether VeriSign, steward of the .com domain, is ripping off customers and violating antitrust laws.
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Rep. Summer Lee on the Fight of Our Lives
Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., discusses Biden’s lame-duck session and erecting barriers to Trump’s agenda on The Intercept Briefing podcast.
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The House Just Blessed Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook by Passing Nonprofit-Killer Bill
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:12:31 +0000
Democratic support for the bill dwindled as critics warned it would let Donald Trump crack down on political foes.
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Bernie Sanders Lost Vote to Block Arms for Israel, Says U.S. Is “Funding the Starvation of Children in Gaza”
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:02:51 +0000
Sanders’s resolutions to block arms sales to Israel gained momentum, but ran headlong into White House opposition.
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Senators Have a Chance to Halt Weapons Sales to Israel. Will They Take It?
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:58:28 +0000
A joint resolution from Sen. Bernie Sanders would block arms sales to Israel. The challenge is convincing Democrats to act.
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San Francisco’s Biggest Hospital System: Don’t Talk About Palestine
Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Nine health care workers at UCSF report censorship or punishment for speaking out about human rights for Palestinians — or simply wearing a pin.
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Take Out the Trash: A Proposal to Clean Up the Democratic Party
Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Democrats are in disarray. It’s time to name our enemies and assert our demands to build a party that can win.
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Matt Gaetz Is Barely a Lawyer
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:13:10 +0000
Trump’s pick for attorney general shows that loyalty is the only qualification that matters.
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Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”
Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Silicon Valley has successfully rebranded military contracting as a proud national duty for the industry.
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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
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House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits
Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:14:34 +0000
Dozens of Democrats still support the bill — giving the Republican-controlled House plenty of breathing room to pass it next week.
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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.
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The 24 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (November 2024)
Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000
No Time to Die, My Old Ass, and American Fiction are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.
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Daniel Craig’s Masculine Constructs
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The actor discusses making the new movie “Queer” and breaking out of his Bondian image.
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The Chronicles of Doom review – unmasking hip-hop’s peerless prankster
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 13:00:11 GMT
SH Fernando Jr’s exhaustive biography of MF Doom takes us on the underground rapper’s strange musical journey from New York suburb to Yorkshire social club
Hip-hop has no shortage of larger-than-life characters and tall tales. One of its most confounding operators was a cult underground rapper-producer most often known as MF Doom, whose death was announced at the end of 2020. Throughout his career as Doom, Dumile (pronounced “doom-eye-lay”) Daniel Thompson Jr wore a custom-made mask, fuelling his myth and safeguarding his anonymity.
Against prevailing 00s hip-hop narratives – first-hand street verité, conspicuous consumption – Doom created a stable of fantastical personae. His aesthetic was indebted to comic books, monster movies and low-rent TV soundtracks. He made mischief, sometimes sending other people to perform in his stead.
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Wrestler, film star – and future president? Why we should all take Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson seriously
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:00:10 GMT
The WWE icon, already one of Hollywood’s highest-paid film stars, has shown himself to be ‘focus group-proof’
It’s proving to be a busy period for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, sometime WWE professional wrestler and Hollywood film star. Well, another one. Red One, a Christmas-themed action movie (Johnson plays Santa Claus’s bodyguard), was released earlier this month. The Disney animation, Moana 2 (for which he voices the tattooed demigod Maui) is about to be released. He is also in the process of filming the new live-action version of Moana, and embarking on another Disney movie, Monster Jam.
If anyone is surprised by Johnson’s repeated donning of the cinematic mouse ears, or by his general presence in children’s films, they shouldn’t be. While he is probably still best known for the Fast & Furious film franchise, and other flexes of his big-screen muscle, he has long been a staple in family movies. With his reputed $50m fee for Red One, and with an estimated net worth of about $800m, he has become one of Hollywood’s highest paid stars. Johnson also made the Time magazine 100 list of influential people – not once but twice, in 2016 and 2019.
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Shuang Xuetao on Memory as a Movie
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
The author discusses his story “Paris Friend.”
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Richard Linklater: ‘I’ve always had that French new wave notion – that a film should be an extension of your life’
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:30:07 GMT
The American director on the 20-year project he is just beginning, how hitmen don’t exist in real life and why his career would not be possible today
The American director Richard Linklater has one of the great, eclectic film-making CVs: from classics such as Dazed and Confused to School of Rock, Before Sunrise to Boyhood, which was filmed with the same cast over 12 years. That versatility is seen again in his latest movie, Hit Man, released earlier this year to critical and audience acclaim and now on Netflix. A rare foray for him into the comedy-thriller genre, it tells the trueish story of a nondescript college professor (an excellent Glen Powell) who has a side hustle as an undercover operative for the New Orleans police, pretending to be different hitmen in order to illicit arrests. Next year he releases Nouvelle Vague, shot entirely in French. Linklater is 64 and lives in Austin, Texas.
There’s a line early on in your latest film: “Hitmen don’t really exist.” You mean that they are, essentially, an invention of Hollywood films. Were you surprised by this fact?
No, I’m completely amused and thrilled by it. I’ve known this for 25-plus years: hitmen are like snuff films, they don’t really exist. There’s not one record of a hitman being arrested. This is a myth, but one people believe so thoroughly because of pop culture – movies and TV mostly. [A hitman] is just a great character and we love the idea of them too much – even though shouldn’t we be relieved that there aren’t any?
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‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:00:07 GMT
One of Britain’s most prolific actors, Stephen Graham is the face of countless hard-to-forget TV and film characters, a regular Scorsese collaborator and good mates with Leo DiCaprio. He talks about living it up in Leicestershire – and why he’s in the shape of his life
Stephen Graham likes to quote that very famous saying in acting, “There are no small parts, only small actors” – though it has nothing to do with the fact that the 51-year-old stands a power-packed 5ft five-and-a-half inches. When in 2020 he set up his own production company, Matriarch Productions, after a storied career as one of our great character performers, he made it one of the company’s founding principles.
Graham established Matriarch with his wife, the actor Hannah Walters. Their first project was the 2021 film Boiling Point, which created history as the first British single-take movie. Graham won a Bafta nomination for his portrayal of head chef Andy Jones, whose life unravels in real time during one frenzied service in the kitchen. But he was determined that Boiling Point would be just as radical behind the camera, too. Typically on TV and film productions, each actor is assigned a cast number, which functions as an unspoken hierarchy of their importance on the set. Graham decided he didn’t want that.
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We’re closer to re-creating the sounds of Parasaurolophus
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:30:19 +0000
Preliminary model suggests the dinosaur bellowed like a large trumpet or saxophone, or perhaps a clarinet.
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“Wicked” and “Gladiator II” Offer Nostalgic, Half-Satisfying Showdowns
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:33:37 +0000
With a musical return to Oz and a bloody epic of ancient Rome, Hollywood studios double down on blockbuster spectacle.
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Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 10:04:00 +0000
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the most popular digital assets today, capturing the attention of cryptocurrency investors, whales and people from around the world. People find it amazing that some users spend thousands or millions of dollars on a single NFT-based image of a monkey or other token, but you can simply take a screenshot for free. So here we share some freuently asked question about NFTs.
1) What is an NFT?
NFT stands for non-fungible token, which is a cryptographic token on a blockchain with unique identification codes that distinguish it from other tokens. NFTs are unique and not interchangeable, which means no two NFTs are the same. NFTs can be a unique artwork, GIF, Images, videos, Audio album. in-game items, collectibles etc.
2) What is Blockchain?
A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger that allows for the secure storage of data. By recording any kind of information—such as bank account transactions, the ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), or Decentralized Finance (DeFi) smart contracts—in one place, and distributing it to many different computers, blockchains ensure that data can’t be manipulated without everyone in the system being aware.
3) What makes an NFT valuable?
The value of an NFT comes from its ability to be traded freely and securely on the blockchain, which is not possible with other current digital ownership solutionsThe NFT points to its location on the blockchain, but doesn’t necessarily contain the digital property. For example, if you replace one bitcoin with another, you will still have the same thing. If you buy a non-fungible item, such as a movie ticket, it is impossible to replace it with any other movie ticket because each ticket is unique to a specific time and place.
4) How do NFTs work?
One of the unique characteristics of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is that they can be tokenised to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought, sold and traded on the blockchain.
As with crypto-currency, records of who owns what are stored on a ledger that is maintained by thousands of computers around the world. These records can’t be forged because the whole system operates on an open-source network.
NFTs also contain smart contracts—small computer programs that run on the blockchain—that give the artist, for example, a cut of any future sale of the token.
5) What’s the connection between NFTs and cryptocurrency?
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren't cryptocurrencies, but they do use blockchain technology. Many NFTs are based on Ethereum, where the blockchain serves as a ledger for all the transactions related to said NFT and the properties it represents.5) How to make an NFT?
Anyone can create an NFT. All you need is a digital wallet, some ethereum tokens and a connection to an NFT marketplace where you’ll be able to upload and sell your creations
6) How to validate the authencity of an NFT?
When you purchase a stock in NFT, that purchase is recorded on the blockchain—the bitcoin ledger of transactions—and that entry acts as your proof of ownership.
7) How is an NFT valued? What are the most expensive NFTs?
The value of an NFT varies a lot based on the digital asset up for grabs. People use NFTs to trade and sell digital art, so when creating an NFT, you should consider the popularity of your digital artwork along with historical statistics.
In the year 2021, a digital artist called Pak created an artwork called The Merge. It was sold on the Nifty Gateway NFT market for $91.8 million.
8) Can NFTs be used as an investment?
Non-fungible tokens can be used in investment opportunities. One can purchase an NFT and resell it at a profit. Certain NFT marketplaces let sellers of NFTs keep a percentage of the profits from sales of the assets they create.
9) Will NFTs be the future of art and collectibles?
Many people want to buy NFTs because it lets them support the arts and own something cool from their favorite musicians, brands, and celebrities. NFTs also give artists an opportunity to program in continual royalties if someone buys their work. Galleries see this as a way to reach new buyers interested in art.
10) How do we buy an NFTs?
There are many places to buy digital assets, like opensea and their policies vary. On top shot, for instance, you sign up for a waitlist that can be thousands of people long. When a digital asset goes on sale, you are occasionally chosen to purchase it.
11) Can i mint NFT for free?
To mint an NFT token, you must pay some amount of gas fee to process the transaction on the Etherum blockchain, but you can mint your NFT on a different blockchain called Polygon to avoid paying gas fees. This option is available on OpenSea and this simply denotes that your NFT will only be able to trade using Polygon's blockchain and not Etherum's blockchain. Mintable allows you to mint NFTs for free without paying any gas fees.
12) Do i own an NFT if i screenshot it?
The answer is no. Non-Fungible Tokens are minted on the blockchain using cryptocurrencies such as Etherum, Solana, Polygon, and so on. Once a Non-Fungible Token is minted, the transaction is recorded on the blockchain and the contract or license is awarded to whoever has that Non-Fungible Token in their wallet.
12) Why are people investing so much in NFT?
Non-fungible tokens have gained the hearts of people around the world, and they have given digital creators the recognition they deserve. One of the remarkable things about non-fungible tokens is that you can take a screenshot of one, but you don’t own it. This is because when a non-fungible token is created, then the transaction is stored on the blockchain, and the license or contract to hold such a token is awarded to the person owning the token in their digital wallet.
You can sell your work and creations by attaching a license to it on the blockchain, where its ownership can be transferred. This lets you get exposure without losing full ownership of your work. Some of the most successful projects include Cryptopunks, Bored Ape Yatch Club NFTs, SandBox, World of Women and so on. These NFT projects have gained popularity globally and are owned by celebrities and other successful entrepreneurs. Owning one of these NFTs gives you an automatic ticket to exclusive business meetings and life-changing connections.
Final Saying
That’s a wrap. Hope you guys found this article enlightening. I just answer some question with my limited knowledge about NFTs. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comment section below. Also I have a question for you, Is bitcoin an NFTs? let me know in The comment section below
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