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Pascal's Wager Triangle

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Magnet Fishing

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Broken Model

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1.2 Kilofives

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NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn’t Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:56:13 +0000
Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough to offset long-term drying conditions and increasing groundwater demands in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data. Declining water levels in the Great Salt Lake and Lake Mead have been testaments to a megadrought afflicting western North America since 2000. But […]
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Justin Timberlake arrested on driving while intoxicated charge
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:37:00 GMT
The pop start was arrested and formally charged on Tuesday morning, local officials told the BBC.
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Justin Timberlake arrested on DWI charge in the Hamptons
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:31:56 GMT

Pop star to be arraigned in Sag Harbor, court official confirms, after Monday night arrest

Justin Timberlake is facing a charge of driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons in New York and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, a local court official confirmed to the Guardian.

The pop singer and actor’s arraignment was set to occur at the courthouse in Sag Harbor after he was arrested in that community on Monday night, New York’s Newsday reported.

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Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI
2024-06-18T11:04:08Z

There is a lot written about technology’s threats to democracy. Polarization. Artificial intelligence. The concentration of wealth and power. I have a more general story: The political and economic systems of governance that were created in the mid-18th century are poorly suited for the 21st century. They don’t align incentives well. And they are being hacked too effectively.

At the same time, the cost of these hacked systems has never been greater, across all human history. We have become too powerful as a species. And our systems cannot keep up with fast-changing disruptive technologies...

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From Endrick to Adams: 10 players ready to shine at Copa América
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:00:17 GMT

With the tournament kicking off this week, we look at the players who will be decisive in the US this summer

One of the beautiful things about soccer in the Americas is the mix of players who suit up at the international level. Peru will once again trust 40-year-old Paolo Guerrero at a Copa América, Chile will turn to 41-year-old goalkeeper Claudio Bravo while future stars like 17-year-old Kendry Páez of Ecuador and 19-year-old Valentín Carboni of Argentina will play in their major international tournament.

Between the extremes, there are plenty of players in their primes who will dazzle. We trust you’re familiar with Lionel Messi, Vinícius Júnior and Luis Díaz, so here are 10 players who should star – if not shine as brightly as the Ballon d’Or contenders – in the US this summer.

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Instead of Mining the Deep Sea, Maybe People Should Just Fix Stuff
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000
A new report contends that deep sea mining is not only an environmental risk, it’s also not going to help meet the world’s renewable energy needs.
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From Silicon Valley to Silicon Savannah: climate expert Patrick Verkooijen on why this is Africa’s century
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:00:06 GMT

The University of Nairobi’s new chancellor says the continent has vast potential – but to realise the promise of AI and green jobs, rich countries must honour their commitments

Africa has all the potential to meet pressing climate challenges with innovative solutions, according to one of the world’s renowned environmentalists. With its vast natural capital and youthful population, “this is Africa’s century,” according to Prof Patrick Verkooijen, chief executive of the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), and the new chancellor of the University of Nairobi.

But Verkooijen emphasises that support and investment from the global north is essential, highlighting that 65% of the world’s uncultivated land is in Africa, a continent with immense promise in its population, set to make up one in four people globally by 2050.

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Sols 4216-4218: Another ‘Mammoth’ Plan!
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:36:42 +0000
Earth planning date: Friday, June 14, 2024 At the start of this week, we did a preload test on the target “Mammoth Lakes,” the rightmost bright ellipse (DRT ellipse, so less dusty) on the workspace image above. The preload test shows the stability of the rock, making sure it doesn’t move and that it doesn’t […]
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Many stunt performers are reluctant to report head injuries, study finds
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 22:53:40 +0000
"This population doesn’t often seek medical help out of fear of being unemployed.”
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NASA Awards Contract for Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Operations
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:27:33 +0000
NASA has awarded a contract to Vertex Aerospace, LLC of Madison, Mississippi, for labor support to ensure continuing safe operations of the Sonny Carter Training Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Operations Contract II has a two-year base period that begins Oct. 1, followed by five option periods ranging […]
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Stanford disappoints critics of fossil fuel donations by hiring PR firm with big oil ties
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:13:43 GMT

University hires Brunswick Group amid anger from campus organizers at its sustainability school’s funding

Stanford University’s sustainability school has hired a public relations firm to address “potential reputational challenges” amid concern from campus activists over the institution’s extensive ties with fossil fuel companies.

However, that PR firm, the Brunswick Group, has itself faced criticism for working with oil and gas companies, disappointing the university’s climate advocates. Brunswick says it is “vital to engage with companies in the most complex sectors to decarbonize”.

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NASA Interns Blast Off for Their First Week at Goddard
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:02:17 +0000
Several hundred new faces walked through the gates of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for the first time on June 3. Who is this small army of motivated space-enthusiasts? It’s Goddard’s 2024 summer intern cohort. Across Goddard’s campuses, more than 300 on-site and virtual interns spend the 10-week program contributing across all […]
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Slow Your Student’s ‘Summer Slide’ and Beat Boredom With NASA STEM
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:31:42 +0000
The school year has come to an end, and those long summer days are stretching ahead like an open runway. Parents and educators often worry about the “summer slide,” the concept that students may lose academic ground while out of school. But summer doesn’t mean students’ imaginations have to stay grounded! Are you hoping to […]
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Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. A team of scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. With the telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), the team gathered data that is […]
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Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Extreme weather threatens the investment value of many properties, but financing for climate mitigation efforts are only just getting going.
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Globetrotting NASA Research Model Increases Accuracy
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:59:00 +0000
NASA and its international partners are using the same generically shaped wing design to create physical and digital research models to better understand how air moves around an aircraft during takeoff and landing. Various organizations are doing computer modeling with computational tools and conducting wind tunnel tests using the same High Lift Common Research Model […]
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Hello sunshine: We test McLaren’s drop-top hybrid Artura Spider
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:01:31 +0000
The addition of a retractable roof makes this Artura the one to pick.
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Ukrainian Sailors Are Using Telegram to Avoid Being Tricked Into Smuggling Oil for Russia
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contract seafarers in Ukraine are turning to online whisper networks to keep themselves from being hired into Russia’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet.
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Tropical Solstice Shadows
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Solstices were some of our earliest astronomical observations, celebrated throughout history via many summer and winter celebrations.
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The Decline of the Rio Grande
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:00:31 +0000
When the water runs out, there are no good options. One of the poorest regions in Texas faces an uncertain future.
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Crossbows and eerie silences – following Antarctic whales for climate change clues
Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:06:47 GMT
How scientists are discovering secrets of Antarctic climate change in the bodies of giant humpback whales.
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How One Insurtech Firm Formulated a Strategy for Climate Change
2024-06-04T00:00:00Z

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Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
Thu, 30 May 2024 09:51:10 +0000
Temperature fluctuations are unpredictable. Humans are even more so
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How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:59:08 +0000
Opposition to new buildings has unfortunate consequences
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Hottest February marks ninth new monthly record
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:06:49 GMT
It's the ninth month of global temperature records in a row, driven by climate change and El Niño.
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Why firms are racing to produce green ammonia
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:04:21 GMT
Ammonia is essential for fertiliser production but producing it is carbon intensive.
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A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The climate crisis has become a mental health crisis. But eco-anxiety isn’t necessarily a pathology.
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:16:00 +0000

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

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

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

What is SEMrush?

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

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

Features

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


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

Ahrefs

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

Features

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

Direct Comparisons: Ahrefs vs SEMrush

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

User Interface

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

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

AHREFS

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

Additional features of the Ahrefs platform include:

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

SEMRUSH

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

You'll also find some other options like

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

WHO WINS?

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

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

Rank Tracking

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

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

Ahrefs

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

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

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

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

SEMRUSH

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

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

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

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

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

WHO WINS?

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

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

Keyword Research

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

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

AHREFS

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

Ahrefs supports several features, including:

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

SEMRUSH

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

The Keyword Magic Tool also lets you to:

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

WHO WINS?

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

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

Competitor Analysis

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

AHREFS

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

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

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

SEMRUSH

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

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

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

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

WHO WINS?

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

Pricing

Ahrefs

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

SEMRUSH

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

Which SEO tool should you choose for digital marketing?

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

Consider choosing Ahrefs if you

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

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

 

Consider SEMrush if you:

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

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

 

 

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How extreme weather could impact the Paris Olympics
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:35:21 GMT
With the Paris Olympic games coming up and extreme heat already affecting parts of Europe, there are concerns for athletes and spectators.
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Super Seniors review – the near-miraculous feats of tennis players in their 80s and 90s
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:16 GMT

Former pro Dan Lobb’s perky documentary follows the irrepressible athletes as they compete for glory in their age groups’ world championships

Three sinewy octogenarians and one unfeasibly hale-looking nonagenarian are the focus of this perky documentary looking at tennis players still holding their own in a late tiebreak with father time. A mixture of ex-pros and dogged late starters who picked the game up in middle age, they all converge at the International Tennis Federation senior world championships in Croatia; a tournament with more matches than Wimbledon. As serial winner King van Nostrand – a former maths teacher who was 85 at the time of filming – points out, small margins of age count; at a given point, a younger player of inferior ability will statistically start beating their older betters.

A stooping Floridian with a rapier grin, Van Nostrand has dominated the seniors circuit winning a record-breaking 43 titles and is still not tired of winning. His doubles partner is 87-year-old John Powless, a varsity-league and pro player whose beautiful stroke and attaboy magnanimity are intact, but whose energy is being sapped by chemo. Refusing to acknowledge her age (82), Etty Marouani is a coquettish former Parisian model who took up tennis at 42. Her girlish hair ribbon belies a killer determination to add the world title to her French seniors one. Most remarkable is 95-year-old Ukrainian Leonid Stanislavskyi, an amateur who picked up a racket to keep body and mind ticking over. He’s generally resigned to being battered by his juniors, with only two other nonagenarian competitors available. “Even if I lose, I’ll come third,” he says.

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Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:36:00 +0000

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Putin praises North Korea for Ukraine support ahead of visit to Pyongyang
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:21:58 GMT

Russian leader will have talks with Kim Jong-un with shared aim of expanding security and economic cooperation

Vladimir Putin has praised North Korea for supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine, as he travels to Pyongyang to seek continued military support from one of the world’s most isolated nations.

In his first visit to North Korea since 2000, Putin will meet Kim Jong-un for one-on-one talks in Pyongyang as the two leaders pledge to expand their security and economic cooperation in defiance of western sanctions against both countries.

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How North Korea’s lucrative trade in human hair is helping it skirt the impact of sanctions
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:47:50 GMT

Pyongyang’s trade in wigs and false eyelashes is booming, offering a vital revenue stream to help it pursue its nuclear ambitions

They almost certainly don’t know it, but western owners of shiny new wigs and false eyelashes could owe their look to North Korean slave labour.

In recent years, a booming trade in human hair has helped to sustain North Korea’s isolated economy, softening the impact of international sanctions and providing Pyongyang with vital revenue to pursue its nuclear ambitions.

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Russia’s Putin to visit North Korea, amid growing military cooperation
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:02:12 +0000
The pair will use the visit to pledge support for each other, rebuffing U.S.-led efforts to isolate Putin over Ukraine and Kim over his pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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Ukrainian Sailors Are Using Telegram to Avoid Being Tricked Into Smuggling Oil for Russia
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contract seafarers in Ukraine are turning to online whisper networks to keep themselves from being hired into Russia’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet.
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Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin praises North Korea’s ‘firm support’ for war ahead of Pyongyang visit
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:25:43 GMT

Visit is Russian president’s first to North Korea in 24 years as he seeks continued military support from Kim Jong-un

• Report: Vladimir Putin to visit North Korea as he seeks further military support

China has urged Nato to “stop shifting blame” over the war in Ukraine after the western military alliance’s chief accused Beijing of worsening the conflict through support of Russia.

Nato’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, on Monday called for China to face consequences for what US officials have called a major export push to rebuild Russia’s defence industry.

There are reports Putin will be staying at the Kumsusan guesthouse in Pyongyang, which also housed Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a 2019 state visit to North Korea in 2019.

The mansion is located near the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where Kim Jong-un’s father Kim Jong Il, and grandfather Kim Il Sung, lie in state.

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Russia and North Korea: what can they do for each other?
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:58:19 GMT

The Russian president’s visit to Pyongyang signals a deepening relationship between two isolated countries

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China accounts for more than 90% of North Korea’s trade and has been its most dependable aid donor and diplomatic ally. But as Vladimir Putin’s imminent visit to Pyongyang proves, the secluded state’s behaviour is being increasingly influenced by its security and economic ties with Russia.

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War and weapons on agenda as Putin heads to North Korea
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 06:26:04 GMT
His visit comes as Russia searches for arms and allies, two years after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI
2024-06-18T11:04:08Z

There is a lot written about technology’s threats to democracy. Polarization. Artificial intelligence. The concentration of wealth and power. I have a more general story: The political and economic systems of governance that were created in the mid-18th century are poorly suited for the 21st century. They don’t align incentives well. And they are being hacked too effectively.

At the same time, the cost of these hacked systems has never been greater, across all human history. We have become too powerful as a species. And our systems cannot keep up with fast-changing disruptive technologies...

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The unbearable heaviness of thinking everything is good for Trump
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:54:28 +0000

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Elections 2024 live updates: Biden to mark DACA anniversary; Trump heading to Wisconsin
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:54:28 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Biden moves to protect undocumented spouses and children from deportation – live
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:46:19 GMT

Latest immigration push comes weeks after implementing new rules to limit the flow of asylum seekers across the southern border

The House ethics committee has given an update into its investigation of Matt Gaetz, a rightwing Republican lawmaker from Florida who has been the subject of a long-running inquiry into his behavior.

The committee said they were continuing their investigation of Gaetz over whether he “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct”.

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Trump to seek support at Wisconsin rally days after calling Milwaukee a ‘horrible city’
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:43:56 GMT

Trump will stage ticket-only rally in the state after his unflattering reference to Milwaukee, host of the Republican National Convention

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Donald Trump is set to pitch for support in the key battleground state of Wisconsin today, just days after calling its biggest population centre, Milwaukee, “a horrible city”.

In what will also be his first visit to the midwestern state since last month’s felony conviction related to hush money payments, Trump will stage a ticket-only rally in Racine, a city of around 76,000 on the shores of Lake Michigan, about 30 miles from Milwaukee.

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Analysis: Anthony Fauci got a last-minute glimpse into Trump’s 2020 state of mind
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:33:19 +0000

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Anthony Fauci got a last-minute glimpse into Trump’s 2020 state of mind
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:23:59 +0000
Two days before the 2020 election, Trump was insistent he would win. Was it bluster — or foreshadowing?
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JD Vance ‘disrespecting the dead’ with bump stock remarks, Nevada senator says
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:40:57 GMT

Ohio Republican senator dismissed efforts by Democrats to ban gun devices, used in 2017 Las Vegas concert shooting

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Political ripples from the supreme court’s decision to overturn a Trump White House-era ban on sales of “bump stocks” – a spring-loaded stock that uses recoil to in effect turn a semi-automatic firearm into a machine gun – continued to radiate on Monday when Jacky Rosen took exception to comments on the issue made by his Republican colleague JD Vance.

Vance, the Ohio senator and potential vice-presidential pick as Trump seeks a second presidency in November had dismissed efforts by senior Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, to pass legislation banning the devices as “a huge distraction”.

Ramon Antonio Vargas contributed reporting

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New ad from conservatives attacks a Trump-backed candidate in South Carolina
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:33:49 +0000

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Trump to speak a few miles away from city he reportedly criticized
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:50:42 +0000

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Fauci’s memoir reveals clashes with Trump, other private moments
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:31:41 +0000

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“Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

“I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people."

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Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0000
After Donald Trump’s campaign announced it would accept cryptocurrency, the operators of a host of fraudulent websites have sought to hustle his supporters.
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Matt Kean, a sometimes lone Coalition voice on climate threat, announces shock retirement
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:53:55 GMT

NSW Liberal MP rules out running for federal parliament as he exits state politics after 13 years

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New South Wales Liberal MP Matt Kean has announced his resignation from politics after 13 years in state parliament.

Kean made the surprise announcement in a snap press conference at NSW parliament on Tuesday, hours after the Minns Labor government handed down its second budget.

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Jockeying intensifies for No. 2 slot on Trump’s ticket
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:59:16 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Mike Johnson’s Intelligence Committee choices anger some GOP lawmakers
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:28:04 +0000
Speaker Mike Johnson named two controversial members to the House Intelligence Committee — Reps. Scott Perry and Ronny Jackson — sparking concerns about politicizing a crucial committee. He did so partially because Donald Trump wanted him to.
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Former president Donald Trump on Monday gave a reelection endorsement to Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-Utah), who...
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:32:44 +0000

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In new ad, Hogan seeks distance from Trump
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:34:54 +0000

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Indiana GOP delegates reject Trump’s candidate for lieutenant governor
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:40:53 +0000

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Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has made bashing electric vehicles a cornerstone of his campaign,...
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:17:54 +0000

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Analysis: Trumpworld keeps overstating Trump’s support among Black voters
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:03:05 +0000

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Trump leads Biden by double digits in Iowa, new poll shows
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:44:51 +0000

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Trumpworld keeps overstating Trump’s support among Black voters
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:06:04 +0000
It’s not just the mostly-White event in Detroit — but it’s that, too.
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Electric vehicles emerge as flash point in 2024 election
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:00:37 +0000
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has made bashing EVs a cornerstone of his campaign, effectively turning EVs into more culture war fodder in an election year.
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Biden ad highlights Trump convictions in New York case, civil trials
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:20:05 +0000

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Contenders on Trump’s VP shortlist appear on Sunday shows
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:46:57 +0000

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Trump portrays rampant crime in speech at Black church in Detroit
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:30:14 +0000

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Biden, Obama warn of Trump dangers in star-studded L.A. fundraiser
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:30:10 +0000

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Trump’s Brazen Pact with the 0.001 Per Cent
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
After reaping huge profits in the Biden years, some Wall Street billionaires and tech barons are throwing their support behind the President’s rival, who is desperate for their money.
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Biden campaign launches advertising attack on ‘convicted criminal’ Trump
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000
The latest television ad signals President Biden’s attempt to make Donald Trump’s civil and criminal judgments a major contrast in the fall campaign.
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Hunter Biden’s Conviction and Trump’s Risk to the Justice Department in 2024
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
“It defies imagination to think that this is a case that would have existed in any other context than the context of Biden being in the White House,” Susan B. Glasser says.
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Parkour group damages historic Italian building in failed stunt
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:56:21 +0000
Team Phat’s stunt in Matera ended with a stone falling off a historic site and the jumper injuring himself. It comes as scrutiny of traveler behavior increases worldwide.
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Far-right violence a ‘significant’ threat to German democracy, minister warns
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:42:16 GMT

Report finds ‘alarming’ rise in extremism, with Islamist groups and cyber-attacks also posing dangers

A surge in far-right violence, Islamist extremism and cyber-attacks from Russia and China are putting German democracy under “significant” threat, the interior minister, Nancy Faeser, said as she presented a government report on domestic and foreign adversaries.

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are having strong ripple effects on German security, driving radicalism and attacks, the study by the office for the protection of the constitution (BfV) found.

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Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra indicted for insulting monarchy
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:33:29 GMT

Thaksin appears in court accused of lese-majeste relating to 2015 interview with South Korean media

The former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a powerful backer of the ruling government, has been formally indicted for allegedly insulting the monarchy almost two decades ago.

One of Thailand’s most influential political figures, Thaksin, 74, appeared at Bangkok’s Ratchada criminal court accused of lese-majeste. The case relates to an interview he gave to South Korean media in 2015. He was granted bail on Tuesday.

Thaksin was ousted by a military coup in 2006 and spent 15 years in self-imposed exile to avoid charges he said were politically motivated. He returned to Thailand last year, arriving back in the country on the same day his party Pheu Thai formed an unlikely coalition with his former enemies from the conservative military establishment – a deal that was in both sides’ interest because it kept a popular, youthful pro-reform party out of power.

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GenAI chatbots are spreading Russian propaganda
2024-06-18T10:46:51+00:00

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ISIS Created Fake CNN and Al Jazeera Broadcasts
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
One video focused on giving ISIS credit for a terror attack that Russian disinformation blamed on Ukraine. “It was essentially fake news to debunk fake news,” says an expert.
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Solstice: Celebrating the return of light – in pictures
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:00:08 GMT

Every 21 June for over 10 years, Claudine Doury has traveled from St Petersburg to Maloyaroslavets in Russia, to the island of Lake Ives in Belarus, and to Kaunas, Vilnius and the Polish and Latvian countryside, to witness the summer solstice. The night of the solstice is a traditional celebration whose roots lie in pagan festivals closely linked to the forces of nature and the worship of the sun

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Tuesday briefing: How millions are living through Sudan’s ‘harrowing’ humanitarian crisis
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:47:39 GMT

In today’s newsletter: The war has devastated Sudan, destroying much of the country and leaving 18 million facing acute hunger

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Good morning.

The war in Sudan has caused destruction throughout much of the country. And with every passing week the conflict seems to get worse between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – a paramilitary group who say their main goal is to establish democracy, though the frequent human rights abuses they commit do not support this claim.

Conservatives | Jeremy Hunt said Liz Truss’s economic ambitions were a “good thing to aim for” and her disastrous mini-budget hadn’t left an impact on the economy, according to two leaked recordings obtained by the Guardian. The chancellor was recorded at a meeting of students when he said he was “trying to basically achieve some of the same things” as the former prime minister, but that he was doing it “more gradually”.

Israel | Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the Israeli war cabinet that had been overseeing the conflict in Gaza, rebuffing his far-right allies who had been seeking seats, and apparently moving to solidify his grasp on decision-making over the fighting with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah across the Lebanese border.

Italy | At least 10 people died and dozens were missing after two separate shipwrecks close to the Italian coast, rescuers said. Ten bodies were found on Monday in the lower deck of a wooden boat in the central Mediterranean by rescuers from Nadir, a ship operated by the German charity ResQship.

Germany | Eight alleged members of the German far-right Reichsbürger are to go on trial accused of a plot to violently overthrow the state, in the third in a row of similar court cases being held across the country. The defendants, including a GP, a celebrity chef and an astrologer, are accused of serving as the plot’s leadership council and, prosecutors say, were set to become a cabinet in waiting if the group’s plan overthrow the government had succeeded.

UK news | Officers who hit an escaped cow with a car “probably did the right thing at the time” even if it looks “horrendous”, a union leader and farmer has said. A video showing a police car hitting the calf on Friday night on a residential street in Staines-upon-Thames was met with widespread outrage, including from the RSCPA which criticised it as “disproportionate”.

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‘This country gave me a lot’: the Vietnamese people staying in Ukraine
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:00:00 GMT

People across Ukraine have united in the face of the Russian threat and its Vietnamese community is no exception

When Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, Tung Nguyen drove his parents from their home, in the city of Chernihiv, to the border with Poland. Then, he returned to Kyiv and began to volunteer, bringing food and medicines to under-siege Chernihiv. Before long, he had decided to sign up and fight in the Ukrainian army.

Nguyen is part of Ukraine’s Vietnamese community, a sizeable but often hidden minority in the country. Some Vietnamese people left Ukraine after the Russian invasion, but others have stayed, particularly those from the younger generation, many of whom were born in Ukraine and are Ukrainian citizens.

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Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:59:24 +0000

UAVs continually kill civilians, but the U.S. military wants to expand its arsenal with an army of new, mass-produced kamikaze AI drones.

The post Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War appeared first on The Intercept.

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North Korea: Why Putin and Xi are courting Kim
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:50:00 GMT
The war in Ukraine has shifted the balance of power between Moscow, Pyongyang and Beijing
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‘Know how loved you were’: fathers write to their children from the frontline
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 06:00:43 GMT

Four men share their love, dreams and fears for their children in Gaza, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Sudan

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Happy Seventy-eighth Birthday, Mr. Ex-President
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 23:34:56 +0000
If ever there were a case for age-related diminishment of a candidate, Donald Trump is it.
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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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Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
2024-06-18T13:49:54+00:00

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Indian engineers warn of prolonged blackouts amid searing heatwave
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:32:55 GMT

Increasing use of fans, air coolers and air conditioners is placing ‘serious’ strain on grid in north of country

Engineers in India have warned of the possibility of prolonged power outages in the north, where a heatwave has brought misery for millions of people.

Demand for electricity has soared due to fans, air coolers and air conditioners being run constantly, placing a strain on the grid in Delhi and elsewhere in the north. Manufacturers of air conditioners and air coolers report sales rising by 40-50% compared with last summer.

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Super Seniors review – the near-miraculous feats of tennis players in their 80s and 90s
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:16 GMT

Former pro Dan Lobb’s perky documentary follows the irrepressible athletes as they compete for glory in their age groups’ world championships

Three sinewy octogenarians and one unfeasibly hale-looking nonagenarian are the focus of this perky documentary looking at tennis players still holding their own in a late tiebreak with father time. A mixture of ex-pros and dogged late starters who picked the game up in middle age, they all converge at the International Tennis Federation senior world championships in Croatia; a tournament with more matches than Wimbledon. As serial winner King van Nostrand – a former maths teacher who was 85 at the time of filming – points out, small margins of age count; at a given point, a younger player of inferior ability will statistically start beating their older betters.

A stooping Floridian with a rapier grin, Van Nostrand has dominated the seniors circuit winning a record-breaking 43 titles and is still not tired of winning. His doubles partner is 87-year-old John Powless, a varsity-league and pro player whose beautiful stroke and attaboy magnanimity are intact, but whose energy is being sapped by chemo. Refusing to acknowledge her age (82), Etty Marouani is a coquettish former Parisian model who took up tennis at 42. Her girlish hair ribbon belies a killer determination to add the world title to her French seniors one. Most remarkable is 95-year-old Ukrainian Leonid Stanislavskyi, an amateur who picked up a racket to keep body and mind ticking over. He’s generally resigned to being battered by his juniors, with only two other nonagenarian competitors available. “Even if I lose, I’ll come third,” he says.

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TDK successfully developed a material for solid-state batteries with 100-times higher energy density
2024-06-18T09:40:36+00:00

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Instead of Mining the Deep Sea, Maybe People Should Just Fix Stuff
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0000
A new report contends that deep sea mining is not only an environmental risk, it’s also not going to help meet the world’s renewable energy needs.
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What are the main UK parties promising on climate and is it enough? – podcast
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 04:00:03 GMT

Last week more than 400 scientists signed an open letter to political parties urging ambitious action on the environment to prevent making Britain and the world ‘more dangerous and insecure’.

Now that the main parties’ manifestos have all been released, Ian Sample is joined by the global environment editor, Jon Watts, and the biodiversity reporter, Phoebe Weston, to find out what the manifestos have to say about nature and climate, and whether anyone is promising the level of action scientists are asking for

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Black holes formed quasars less than a billion years after Big Bang
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:56:15 +0000
A surprisingly normal looking quasar when the Universe was 750 million years old.
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NASA Interns Blast Off for Their First Week at Goddard
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:02:17 +0000
Several hundred new faces walked through the gates of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for the first time on June 3. Who is this small army of motivated space-enthusiasts? It’s Goddard’s 2024 summer intern cohort. Across Goddard’s campuses, more than 300 on-site and virtual interns spend the 10-week program contributing across all […]
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Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000
New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. A team of scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. With the telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), the team gathered data that is […]
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TDK claims insane energy density in solid state battery breakthrough | Apple supplier says new tech has 100 times the capacity of its current batteries.
2024-06-17T13:41:13+00:00

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TDK claims insane energy density in solid-state battery breakthrough
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:35:24 +0000
Apple supplier says new tech has 100 times the capacity of its current batteries.
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Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI's Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.
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Tropical Solstice Shadows
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Solstices were some of our earliest astronomical observations, celebrated throughout history via many summer and winter celebrations.
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UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:17:35 +0000

Dan Osborn, running as an independent, has racked up endorsements in a race that could help determine Senate control in 2024.

The post UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator appeared first on The Intercept.

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RBA governor says inflation still above target; Matt Kean to retire from politics – as it happened
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:01:42 GMT

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Liberals criticise treatment of journalist by Chinese officials at press conference

Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham has condemned the treatment of journalist Cheng Lei at federal parliament yesterday.

This was an entirely counterproductive and inappropriate act by Chinese officials that should have been called out by our prime minister and government officials.

It is a reminder that we have two very different systems, the Chinese system and the Australian system, different systems of government, of course as a democracy, different respect when it comes to media, to freedom of speech, but this visit is taking place in Australia.

It is concerning, I think a lot of this comes from so many Australians genuinely doing a tough at the moment, having to make really tough decisions, from telling their kids that they can no longer play basketball or be part of the scouts group because they can’t afford the … 500 bucks a year that costs, to other Australians who are deciding between going to see the GP or fulfilling a script and putting food on the table.

People are doing it tough and so when they hear politicians talk about these targets in the future … I think Peter Dutton use this to whip up fear.

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Australian online seller Booktopia enters share trading halt a fortnight after major job cuts
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:45:07 GMT

Bookseller tells ASX it will announce outcomes from strategic review, including ‘progress in seeking additional funding’

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Australia’s largest online bookseller has entered into a voluntary share trading suspension, just two weeks after axing 50 jobs and losing its chief executive.

Booktopia Group Ltd notified the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Monday, saying its securities would be suspended from quotation immediately pending an announcement on “further outcomes” from a strategic review, “including its progress in seeking additional funding”.

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Government could repatriate Australian women and children from Syrian detention camps if it had ‘political will’, court says
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:05:56 GMT

The federal court dismissed the case brought by Save the Children and ruled that the government had no legal obligation to bring them home

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If the federal government had “the political will” to repatriate Australian women and children from Syrian detention camps “it would be a relatively straightforward exercise”, the full bench of the federal court has said in a judgment.

But there is no legal obligation on the government to bring its citizens back to Australia, the court ruled.

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China pursuing ‘significant’ expansion of nuclear arsenal, report says
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:05:00 +0000
China is also modernizing its nuclear arsenal and could have as many intercontinental ballistic missiles as the United States by 2030, a new report says.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:35:30 +0000

“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a person he thought was a right-wing activist.

The post Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio appeared first on The Intercept.

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Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:38:15 +0000

Mozilla, the maker of the popular web browser Firefox, said it received government demands to block add-ons that circumvent censorship.

The post Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request appeared first on The Intercept.

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Using AI for Political Polling
2024-06-12T11:02:27Z

Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the successes and the flaws of public polling. There are two main reasons polling fails.

First, nonresponse has skyrocketed. It’s radically harder to reach people than it used to be. Few people fill out surveys that come in the mail anymore. Few people answer their phone when a stranger calls. Pew Research reported that 36% of the people they called in 1997 would talk to them, but only 6% by 2018. Pollsters worldwide have faced similar challenges...

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Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:00:26 +0000

The draconian restrictions on asylum-seekers owe a lot to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, but the path was paved by Democrats.

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

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

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

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

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

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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Trump Is Misleading You With Covid-Era Statistics. So Is Biden.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EST
Biden and Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
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Apple Is Coming for Your Password Manager
Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A media executive is charged in an alleged money-laundering scheme, a ransomware attack disrupts care at London hospitals, and Google’s former CEO has a secretive drone project up his sleeve.
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After Training African Coup Leaders, Pentagon Blames Russia for African Coups
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:03:42 +0000

The U.S. has trained 15 coup leaders in recent decades — and U.S. counterterrorism policies in the region have failed.

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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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Exclusive: The Guardian interviews President Zelenskiy
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:48:04 GMT

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, revealed the tactics and traits that help him face the daily frustrations of leading a country at war for more than two years.

Within a ceremonial room inside Kyiv’s presidential compound, Zelenskiy spoke for nearly an hour with a Guardian team, including the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. The interview took place during perhaps the toughest time for Ukraine since the early days of the war. Russia is on the offensive in Kharkiv, an advance that follows months of delay in the US Congress over the passing of a major support package, limiting Ukraine’s battlefield capabilities

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A US Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:30:00 +0000
Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure.
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US says Russia likely launched anti-satellite weapon
Wed, 22 May 2024 04:22:18 GMT
The Russian satellite launched last week may be capable of attacking other satellites, the Pentagon says.
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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 can I do if I can't pay my energy bill?
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:03:18 GMT
If you're struggling to afford your gas and electricity bills, what options are available?
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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Rail firm must pay Native American tribe $400m for illegal crude oil trains
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:19:43 GMT

Judge orders BNSF to pay Swinomish Tribe for trespassing with dangerous cargo across tribal land of Washington state

One of the largest freight railroad networks in North America must pay nearly $400m to the Swinomish Tribe, a federally recognized tribe located in Washington state, a federal judge ordered on Monday. Last year, US district judge Robert Lasnik ruled that BNSF Railway intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe’s reservation.

Lasnik held a trial earlier this month to determine how much in profits BNSF had made from trespassing from 2012 to 2021, and how much of the company should be required to repay to the Indigenous group. Lasnik put that figure at $362m and added $32m in post-tax profits such as investment income for a total of more than $394m.

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GOP States Double Down on Fighting Medication Abortion After Supreme Court Keeps It Legal
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:51:02 +0000

From the jump, the lawsuit challenging the legality of mifepristone was a cynical, propagandistic endeavor. In a 9-0 opinion, the Supreme Court threw it out.

The post GOP States Double Down on Fighting Medication Abortion After Supreme Court Keeps It Legal appeared first on The Intercept.

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Texas A&M Wants to Keep Emails About Leonard Leo’s $15 Million Gift Secret
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:14:58 +0000

The donation, one of the largest in the school’s history, was made as right-wing megadonor Leo shopped a new law school center.

The post Texas A&M Wants to Keep Emails About Leonard Leo’s $15 Million Gift Secret appeared first on The Intercept.

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Joey Barton to pay Jeremy Vine £75,000 after calling him a ‘bike nonce’
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:29:09 GMT

Former footballer also issues public apology to presenter, who sued him over insults a court found to be defamatory

The former footballer and manager Joey Barton has issued a public apology on the social media site X and has agreed to pay £75,000 to Jeremy Vine, after a high court ruling that calling the broadcaster a “bike nonce” on social media was defamatory.

The radio and TV presenter sued Barton after the former footballer called him a “bike nonce” and a “pedo defender” during an online argument on X in January and March this year. In May the high court ruled that the social media posts could defame Vine.

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Keir Starmer commits to judge-led inquiry into Nottingham killings
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:24:48 GMT

Labour leader says families of three people stabbed to death have had ‘horrific experience’, as Barnaby Webber’s mother challenges him on radio phone-in

Keir Starmer has committed to a judge-led inquiry into the Nottingham attacks if Labour wins the election, saying there are “too many examples of victims and family members being let down”.

Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were stabbed to death last year by Valdo Calocane, who was sentenced to a hospital order after pleading guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility due to paranoid schizophrenia.

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Robbie Savage takes head coach job at Macclesfield, the club he part-owns
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:54:27 GMT

• Savage gets job after being ‘offered senior role elsewhere’
• Seventh-tier club say he will ‘judged solely on results’

Robbie Savage has been appointed as the head coach of Macclesfield FC. The former Wales midfielder was director of football at the phoenix club, as well as a shareholder, but after another club approached him he decided to take control of the first team.

Savage will be assisted by Peter Band while his former Leicester teammate Emile Heskey has been appointed in a “position-specific role as and when required”. Savage moving into the dugout means Michael Clegg, who was appointed as manager in February, has left the club.

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Stinginess, sexts and a Nazi tee: six revelations from The House of Beckham
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:00:03 GMT

Tom Bower’s unflattering portrait of Posh and Becks is packed with moments of high-level cringe

• House of Beckham by Tom Bower review – a symphony of snide

They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but what about judging it by its contents page? Scanning the list of chapters in The House of Beckham, Tom Bower’s allegedly “explosive” book on the celebrity couple, will certainly give you a good impression of what you’ll be getting. Wreckage! Shame! Agony! Cheapskate! Sex Scandal! Downfall! Warfare!

It’s safe to say this relentlessly mean book hasn’t been written with the blessing of Posh and Becks (or Thin and Thick, as Bower reminds readers they were often referred). But is it really as scandalous as it looks? Here are some things we learned from it.

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The British judges ruling on the law in authoritarian Hong Kong - podcast
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:00:04 GMT

Since 1997 Hong Kong’s highest court has included British judges. But with China changing the laws in the city, they are being urged to resign. Amy Hawkins reports

Since 1997, British and Commonwealth judges have sat in the highest court in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong legal system is derived from English common law and foreign judges, including those from the UK, have been said to add expertise and prestige to its court system.

But in 2020 Beijing imposed a strict national security law to clamp down on pro-democracy protests. Since then the number of foreign judges has fallen as fears grow that the judges are lending credibility to a system where basic rights and freedoms are not being respected.

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What does Steve Coogan’s Lost King case mean for future biopics?
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:38:22 GMT

The appetite for drama based on real events seems insatiable, but a preliminary ruling that a British film defamed the original of one of its characters – along with legal action against Baby Reindeer – may give producers pause for thought

It’s enough to chill the blood of screenwriters, directors and producers everywhere – or at least provoke a wince of recognition, whether they are in UK legal jurisdiction or not. In a preliminary ruling, a British judge has ruled that the The Lost King, the film about the discovery in 2012 of Richard III’s remains in a Leicester car park, has a case to answer that it is defamatory of Richard Taylor, a former university official.

The Lost King covers the efforts spearheaded by Philippa Langley (played by Sally Hawkins) to uncover Richard III’s skeleton, and Lee Ingleby plays Taylor, the then deputy registrar of Leicester university. Taylor claims the film shows him “behaving abominably” and shows him taking credit for the discovery for himself and the university.

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The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter – podcast
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:00:09 GMT

Stuart Potts is an unlikely do-gooder – a former crack addict who has hit rock bottom more than once. But since 2020, he has offered hundreds of homeless people a bed in his small flat – and for many of them, it has been life-changing. By Samira Shackle

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Biden moves to protect undocumented spouses and children from deportation – live
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:46:19 GMT

Latest immigration push comes weeks after implementing new rules to limit the flow of asylum seekers across the southern border

The House ethics committee has given an update into its investigation of Matt Gaetz, a rightwing Republican lawmaker from Florida who has been the subject of a long-running inquiry into his behavior.

The committee said they were continuing their investigation of Gaetz over whether he “engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, accepted improper gifts, dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship, and sought to obstruct government investigations of his conduct”.

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Another Boeing whistleblower speaks out as CEO to testify before Congress
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:53:14 GMT

Sam Mohawk alleges he was told to conceal evidence from regulators while Dave Calhoun will face senators’ questions

Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward, accusing the embattled planemaker of cutting corners on its production line hours before its CEO testifies before Congress.

Sam Mohawk, a quality assurance inspector for the company in Renton, Washington, alleged that he was instructed by his supervisors to conceal evidence from regulators.

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JD Vance ‘disrespecting the dead’ with bump stock remarks, Nevada senator says
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:40:57 GMT

Ohio Republican senator dismissed efforts by Democrats to ban gun devices, used in 2017 Las Vegas concert shooting

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Political ripples from the supreme court’s decision to overturn a Trump White House-era ban on sales of “bump stocks” – a spring-loaded stock that uses recoil to in effect turn a semi-automatic firearm into a machine gun – continued to radiate on Monday when Jacky Rosen took exception to comments on the issue made by his Republican colleague JD Vance.

Vance, the Ohio senator and potential vice-presidential pick as Trump seeks a second presidency in November had dismissed efforts by senior Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, to pass legislation banning the devices as “a huge distraction”.

Ramon Antonio Vargas contributed reporting

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Rethinking Democracy for the Age of AI
2024-06-18T11:04:08Z

There is a lot written about technology’s threats to democracy. Polarization. Artificial intelligence. The concentration of wealth and power. I have a more general story: The political and economic systems of governance that were created in the mid-18th century are poorly suited for the 21st century. They don’t align incentives well. And they are being hacked too effectively.

At the same time, the cost of these hacked systems has never been greater, across all human history. We have become too powerful as a species. And our systems cannot keep up with fast-changing disruptive technologies...

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“Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

“I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people."

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Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:25:16 +0000

The task force revealed its plans not in a communiqué to faculty and students — but instead in an Israeli newspaper article.

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Congress should push for warning labels on social media platforms, White House says
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:48:42 +0000

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Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:59:24 +0000

UAVs continually kill civilians, but the U.S. military wants to expand its arsenal with an army of new, mass-produced kamikaze AI drones.

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Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected as South Africa’s president
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:09:59 GMT

Leader gets second term after winning vote just hours after ANC and Democratic Alliance agreed coalition deal

South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has been reelected by lawmakers for a second term, hours after his African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance (DA) agreed to form a coalition, setting aside their rivalry in a historic governance pact.

Ramaphosa won the late Friday vote against Julius Malema, leader of the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters, winning 283 votes to Malema’s 44.

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South Africa’s ANC strikes coalition deal with free-market DA
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:00:29 GMT

Country’s second-largest party agrees to support re-election of Cyril Ramaphosa as president

South Africa’s African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance have agreed to form a coalition in which the former liberation movement and the pro-business party will set aside their rivalry in an historic governance pact.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s centrist preferences ultimately won out over more leftwing factions of the ANC that wanted to strike a deal with breakaway parties that back nationalisation and seizing land from white farmers. The deal was struck amid criticisms that the DA favours the interests of South Africa’s white minority, something it denies.

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:35:30 +0000

“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a person he thought was a right-wing activist.

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Judge Who Went on Israel Junket Recuses Himself From Gaza Case
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:14:44 +0000

The federal judge hearing a human rights case disputed allegations he might not be impartial but recused himself out of an “abundance of caution.”

The post Judge Who Went on Israel Junket Recuses Himself From Gaza Case appeared first on The Intercept.

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AI and the Indian Election
2024-06-13T11:02:28Z

As India concluded the world’s largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions used artificial intelligence technologies—and what lessons that holds for the rest of the world.

The campaigns made extensive use of AI, including deepfake impersonations of candidates, celebrities and dead politicians. By some estimates, millions of Indian voters viewed deepfakes.

But, despite fears of widespread disinformation, for the most part the campaigns, candidates and activists used AI constructively in the election. They used AI for typical political activities, including mudslinging, but primarily to better connect with voters...

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House Votes to Block U.S. Funding to Rebuild Gaza
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:05:30 +0000

The Republican amendment to the annual defense budget is just one of several proposals to restrict humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:17:35 +0000

Dan Osborn, running as an independent, has racked up endorsements in a race that could help determine Senate control in 2024.

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“Not the Career in Public Service I Signed Up For”: Federal Workers Protest War
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:16:16 +0000

Government employees are using their official badges to demonstrate against U.S. support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

The post “Not the Career in Public Service I Signed Up For”: Federal Workers Protest War appeared first on The Intercept.

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Exclusive: The Guardian interviews President Zelenskiy
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:48:04 GMT

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, revealed the tactics and traits that help him face the daily frustrations of leading a country at war for more than two years.

Within a ceremonial room inside Kyiv’s presidential compound, Zelenskiy spoke for nearly an hour with a Guardian team, including the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. The interview took place during perhaps the toughest time for Ukraine since the early days of the war. Russia is on the offensive in Kharkiv, an advance that follows months of delay in the US Congress over the passing of a major support package, limiting Ukraine’s battlefield capabilities

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“Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military
Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

“I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people."

The post “Utterly Dismayed”: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Slowly Spreads Within Military appeared first on The Intercept.

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Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:25:16 +0000

The task force revealed its plans not in a communiqué to faculty and students — but instead in an Israeli newspaper article.

The post Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism appeared first on The Intercept.

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Using AI for Political Polling
2024-06-12T11:02:27Z

Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the successes and the flaws of public polling. There are two main reasons polling fails.

First, nonresponse has skyrocketed. It’s radically harder to reach people than it used to be. Few people fill out surveys that come in the mail anymore. Few people answer their phone when a stranger calls. Pew Research reported that 36% of the people they called in 1997 would talk to them, but only 6% by 2018. Pollsters worldwide have faced similar challenges...

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Columbia Law Review Is Back Online After Students Threatened Work Stoppage Over Palestine Censorship
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 04:09:26 +0000

The board had proposed appending a statement that would have undermined a Palestinian scholar’s article. The students rejected it.

The post Columbia Law Review Is Back Online After Students Threatened Work Stoppage Over Palestine Censorship appeared first on The Intercept.

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