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Trump Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Federal Prisons Are Purposely Inhumane
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
And that’s how he wants to keep it, his executive orders and memos from Attorney General Pam Bondi show.
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Constitutional Crisis Looms
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“What he’s done is testing the limits of his power in a way we have never seen in this country,” says retired federal Judge Nancy Gertner.
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qualifiers: 30.00 republican, 30.00 democrat, 25.00 election, 15.00 executive, 15.00 elections, 15.00 constitution, 10.00 congress
Democrats Swear They’ll Fight Elon Musk. But What About the Cash They Took From SpaceX?
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000
Musk has emerged as Trump’s far-right-hand man, creating some awkwardness for the president’s Democratic foes.
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qualifiers: 25.71 republican, 25.71 politics, 25.71 democrat, 21.43 election, 17.14 federal government, 8.57 congress
AI and Civil Service Purges
2025-02-14T13:03:22Z
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to reform is upending government operations. Critical functions have been halted, tens of thousands of federal staffers are being encouraged to resign, and congressional mandates are being disregarded. The next phase: The Department of Government Efficiency reportedly wants to use AI to cut costs. According to The Washington Post, Musk’s group has started to run sensitive data from government systems through AI programs to analyze spending and determine what could be pruned. This may lead to the elimination of human jobs in favor of automation. As one government official who has been tracking Musk’s DOGE team told the...
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The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:40:53 +0000
How exactly the IRS will use the SuperPod AI hardware is unclear. But it comes amid a push for automation in government.
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qualifiers: 30.00 republican, 30.00 politics, 25.00 election, 15.00 executive
Stephen A. Smith for President
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
If the Democratic Party has a problem drawing young men who believe that the excesses of wokeness have left them behind, could there be a more appealing figure than the guy they’ve been watching argue about sports for the past decade?
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Living under the yoke of an authoritarian regime? Why not join the Raccoons of the Resistance! | First Dog on the Moon
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:06:51 GMT
It’s time we put an end to the era of Trumpian Muskocracy
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Dems concede Republicans ‘running circles’ around them online as Trump remakes Washington
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:00:00 EST
The Democratic response to Trump, one Texas lawmaker said, is “too slow and too tepid and not meeting the moment.”
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Badenoch and Farage to vie for attention of Trump allies at London summit
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:00:25 GMT
Event co-founded by Jordan Peterson will bring together global rightwing figures including senior US Republicans
Influential rightwingers from around the world are to gather in London from Monday at a major conference to network and build connections with senior US Republicans linked to the Trump administration.
The UK opposition leader, the Conservatives’ Kemi Badenoch, and Nigel Farage of the Reform UK party, her hard-right anti-immigration rival, will compete to present themselves as the torchbearer of British conservatism.
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The Guardian view on new housing: Labour must not let builders dictate terms | Editorial
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:25:11 GMT
The lack of affordable homes to buy and rent is a serious injustice. Ministers must fight for plans that put people first
The greatly increased difficulty for young adults of either buying a home or finding a long-term, affordable tenancy is both a generational and socioeconomic injustice, and a serious political problem. Sir Keir Starmer’s government knows this and hopes its commitment to build 1.5m new homes will shore up support among voters.
Making people more secure, so that disappointment and grievance do not make them easy targets for rightwing populists, is a vital task for social democratic parties everywhere. In the UK, where accommodation costs are 44% higher than the western European average, and younger people are disproportionately trapped in low-quality homes, policies to support those in housing need are a pressing priority.
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Pentagon Official: Hegseth’s Campaign to Scrub DEI History Is a “Dumb” Distraction
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:18:57 +0000
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is trying to eliminate all Defense Department DEI efforts. It hasn’t been entirely successful.
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Weekend voting among changes needed to overhaul UK elections system, officials say
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:45:12 GMT
Fewer polling stations and earlier deadline for postal vote applications also recommended to modernise elections
The UK’s elections system needs a fundamental overhaul including weekend voting and a cut in the number of polling stations, the group representing electoral officials has said.
Years of changes in everything from postal voting to mandatory ID, with more reforms planned, has involved “bolting 21st century voter expectations on to 19th century infrastructure”, the Association of Electoral Administrators (AEA) said.
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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:07:33 +0000
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
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Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career”
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:09:38 +0000
CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger could barely contain his excitement about the Laken Riley Act and Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders.
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JD Vance and those threats from within | Letters
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:09:29 GMT
Thatcher nostalgia | US hypocrisy | Valentine’s Day | Inside Reform | School reports
Among the justified furore around America’s new position in the world, one part at least triggers a bit of nostalgia (JD Vance stuns Munich conference with blistering attack on Europe’s leaders, 14 February). JD Vance’s description of the “threat from within” brings back memories of Margaret Thatcher’s designation of those who disagreed with her as “the enemy within”. I still have a badge with that somewhere. Maybe it’s time I dusted it off.
Steve Townsley
Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan
• As JD Vance lectures European leaders about freedom of speech, Louisiana is banning health officials from promoting vaccinations and libraries across the US are having to purge their shelves of any books that make mention of subjects that Republicans dislike. No hypocrisy there, then?
Tony Green
Ipswich, Suffolk
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‘The greatest propaganda op in history’: Trump’s reshaping of US culture evokes past antidemocratic regimes
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:00:09 GMT
The president’s full-court press to dominate media and control cultural institutions is straight out of the authoritarian playbook
Bigger than the Super Bowl, claimed Donald Trump, sitting in a big leather chair beside a big map. Then came an announcement over the public address system. “Air Force One is currently in international waters,” declared the flight crew of the US presidential jet, “for the first time in history flying over the recently renamed Gulf of America.”
As his aides clapped and whooped, Trump gloated: “Isn’t that nice? We’re about ‘Make America Great Again’, right? That’s what we care about.” He proceeded to sign a proclamation declaring 9 February “Gulf of America Day” as Air Force One flew over the body of water previously known as the Gulf of Mexico.
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We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.
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Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:31:52 +0000
In a tweet announcing his attack on the Climate Justice Alliance, EPA head Lee Zeldin linked it to the group’s protected speech about Palestine.
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How Many Trump Officials Have Taken Money From Qatar?
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:02:00 +0000
Oversight laws about foreign influence were already limited. Now the Trump administration is shredding them.
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Embattled casino operator Star offered $650m lifeline – as it happened
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:58:58 GMT
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Hume rules out working with teals if Coalition wins 70-72 seats
Jane Hume was asked whether the Coalition was in a position to form any alliances with the crossbench, amid new polling from YouGov showing neither party looks to be coming out with a clear majority.
That would cause chaos, and would cause chaos politically and economically as well.
On average, the teals have voted with the Greens around 78% of the time, with Labor around 75% of the time, and with the Coalition around 18% of the time.
I think it’s really important to look at what people do rather than what people say. We’re planning on going to this election to win the election, because Australians deserve better than what they’ve had for the last three years.
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The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age – podcast
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:00:27 GMT
The old model of political debate is over, and spectacle beats argument every time. How did we get here? By Chris Hayes. Read by Adam Sims
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Convicted murderer among three members of NZYQ cohort to be resettled in Nauru under deal struck by Labor
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:30:56 GMT
Three non-citizens with criminal histories taken into immigration detention in preparation for removal from Australia, home affairs minister says
Three members of the NZYQ cohort of non-citizens, including a convicted murderer, will be resettled in Nauru after the Albanese government struck a deal with the tiny Pacific nation for an undisclosed sum.
The trio were placed into immigration detention in preparation for their removal from Australia after being granted 30-year resettlement visas by Nauru on Saturday, the home affairs minster, Tony Burke, announced on Sunday.
The NZYQ cohort includes non-citizens released into the community in Australia as a result of a landmark 2023 high court decision, where the court ruled in favour of “NZYQ”, a stateless Rohingya man, who faced the prospect of detention for life because no country had agreed to resettle him, due to a criminal conviction for raping a 10-year-old in Australia.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire independent agency leader
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:47:16 +0000
President Donald Trump wants the justices to allow him to remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower reports.
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Trump under fire for likening himself to Napoleon amid attacks on judges
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:52:15 GMT
President posted ‘he who saves his country does not violate any laws’ quote attributed to French emperor
Critics rounded on Donald Trump on Sunday for likening himself to Napoleon in a “dictatorial” social media post echoing the French emperor’s assertion that “he who saves his country does not violate any laws”.
The post came at the end of another tumultuous week early in Trump’s second presidency, during which acolytes questioned the legitimacy of judges making a succession of rulings to stall his administration’s aggressive seizure or dismantling of federal institutions and budgets.
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MLK’s family fear new batch of assassination files will have FBI ‘smears’
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:26:46 GMT
Family of Martin Luther King Jr says Trump mandate could revive J Edgar Hoover’s efforts to discredit revered activist
The family of Martin Luther King Jr has expressed concern over Donald Trump’s executive order to release records surrounding the civil rights leader’s assassination, saying the president’s mandate could revive efforts to discredit the revered activist with the public.
Speaking to Axios, a friend of the King family said: “We know J Edgar Hoover tried to destroy Dr King’s legacy, and the family doesn’t want that effort to prevail,” referring to the late former FBI director and his agency’s years-long surveillance of King as well his associates.
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In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:04:54 GMT
My dad’s journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: we’ll be lost if they succeed in ‘sending them home’
One bitter absurdity now sits at the heart of British life. It centres on the NHS, our strained systems of social care and an ever-more toxic and hateful conversation about immigration. Without hundreds of thousands of people who have come to the UK from abroad, the most basic aspects of how we look after old, infirm and ill people would simply collapse. Politics, however, increasingly seems to demand that this truth has to be denied – and the result is a level of hypocrisy that is remarkable even by modern standards.
Three weeks before last Christmas, my dad – who turns 89 next month – fell down a flight of stairs, and broke his hip. After a terrifyingly long wait for an ambulance, he was admitted to hospital in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and operated on. In the midst of yet another awful NHS winter, the treatment he received felt faintly miraculous. And there was another aspect of his stay that seemed no less remarkable. Macclesfield is hardly the most diverse place in the world, but most of the doctors and nurses who so carefully looked after him were first-generation immigrants, mostly either from African countries, or India: people regularly overburdened and rushed off their feet, but who answered my endless questions and queries with an amazing grace and patience.
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In Denali’s shadow, little love for again calling the mount McKinley
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:05:50 +0000
President Trump’s executive order to rename the Alaska peak — North America’s highest — perplexes and worries many who live in its snow-shrouded midst.
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Why the budding Trump DOJ scandal is a big deal
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:29:13 +0000
The episode crystallizes Trump’s politicization of usually independent government functions, and in this case some conservatives actually bucked his team.
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The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000
For some members of the WhatsApp group, speaking out for Palestine and criticizing Israel are tantamount to supporting Hamas.
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Can Drake come back from Kendrick Lamar’s diss?; Marina Hyde on Starmer aping Trump; ‘I was trapped for 65 hours under 4,000 tons of rubble’; and Philippa Perry on setting boundaries with your parents – podcast
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 05:00:27 GMT
Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer’s palid imitation of Trumpism. The sole survivor of a landslide describes the pain, the fear and the long, winding path of recovery. After Kendrick Lamar lands another savage blow at the Super Bowl, a crisis expert advises on how Drake can return to relevance. And, ‘I feel happier and healthier when not around my mother’ – Philippa Perry advises one reader
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DOGE as a National Cyberattack
2025-02-13T12:03:26Z
In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national security are profound.
First, it was reported that people associated with the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed the US Treasury computer system, giving them the ability to collect data on and potentially control the department’s roughly ...
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Singapore opposition leader, found guilty of lying to parliament, could face electoral ban
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:13:12 GMT
Pritam Singh’s conviction is a blow to the city state’s struggling political opposition, which is seeking to challenge the entrenched ruling party in upcoming elections
Singapore’s opposition leader has been convicted of lying to parliament while helping a fellow party member to cover up a false witness account, in a case that could disqualify him from running in upcoming national elections.
Pritam Singh, 48, secretary-general of the Workers’ Party, was found guilty on Monday on two counts of lying to a parliamentary committee that was investigating a fellow MP.
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Lawmakers expect tough questions over Trump’s vision in Europe
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:40:14 +0000
The question every American lawmaker faces this year at the Munich conference: Does America still stand behind Europe and other global allies?
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How Trump got the Cabinet he wanted and quashed GOP concerns
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 13:00:32 +0000
The triumph of Trump’s most controversial picks has set the tone for the president’s domineering relationship with Congress — and left allies more confident than ever that he can have his way in Washington.
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Oh, Canada! Can Trump just take it? – podcast
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:00:08 GMT
On the first day of his second term in office, Donald Trump suggested he wanted the US to ‘expand’ its territory. Few thought he could actually mean taking Canada and making it the 51st state. But could he actually do that?
Jonathan Freedland speaks to the reporter Leyland Cecco in Toronto about the possibility of the two North American allies merging, what Canadians think about it, and why this existential threat has had an impact on Canadian national politics
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What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“I think the Democrats have worked themselves into a bit of a corner,” the writer Brady Brickner-Wood says. “They’re going to need to soul search in a way that’s not just performative and is consistent with their values.”
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Human rights are not a ‘loophole’ – why can’t families from Gaza like mine seek safety in the UK? | Ghassan Ghaben
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:51:24 GMT
When another Palestinian family was allowed to stay here, I saw a glimmer of hope. Now the prime minister wants to put it out
As the devastation in Gaza continues, Palestinian families in Britain are racing against the clock to try to bring our loved ones to safety. News finally came of a successful family reunification – but instead of being able to feel a moment of relief for this one family, we’ve had to face a vicious political and media backlash.
The UK media, government and even the prime minister have fixated on a “loophole” that allowed a mother, father and four children from Gaza to be granted the right to live in the UK via the Ukraine family scheme. It obscures the reality that there is no Gaza family reunification scheme, forcing Palestinians to navigate an immigration system that offers no clear pathway to safety.
Ghassan Ghaben is a member of the Gaza Families Reunited campaign
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Peter Dutton sidesteps questions on state-funded nuclear disaster insurance plan
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:28:47 GMT
Albanese government also asked if it has considered nuclear insurance pool in context of Aukus nuclear-powered submarines
Peter Dutton has sidestepped questions about the potential need for a government-backed insurance pool for nuclear disasters after the industry’s peak body exposed a possible missing piece in his flagship energy plan.
The Insurance Council of Australia on Monday suggested the commonwealth may need to underwrite a scheme to cover communities against nuclear accidents.
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UK marketplace sellers face ‘second Brexit’ hit from Trump’s US import rules
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:00:30 GMT
End of ‘de minimis’ policy for Chinese goods also expected to hit bigger fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo
Many UK-based independent sellers on marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon could suffer a significant hit to US sales from planned changes to import rules under Donald Trump, with experts comparing the impact to a second Brexit.
The new rules, which mean all parcels originating or made in China and being sold into the US must pay import duty – of as much as 15% on fashion items – and an additional 10% tariff, are also expected to impact bigger online clothing retailers such as Asos and Boohoo.
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As the US retreats, Europe must look out for itself – so is Macron’s nuclear offer the answer? | Simon Tisdall
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:00:30 GMT
Development of a joint defence shield would be politically explosive for Keir Starmer. But it’s an idea whose time has come
The startling contempt for Europe’s intensifying security concerns displayed by Donald Trump and his henchmen has brought an old, controversial question back to the fore: should Britain and France pool their nuclear weapons capabilities and create a Europe-wide defensive nuclear shield to deter Vladimir Putin’s Russia, if the US reduces or withdraws its support?
Trump has not so far explicitly threatened to cut US nuclear forces based in Europe. But speaking last week, the president said he wanted to halve the US’s defence spending, especially on nuclear weapons. Trump often denigrates Nato, keystone of European security. Last year, he encouraged Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to member states that, in his view, spend too little on defence.
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Trump’s plan for Gaza leaves Arab nations facing an impossible choice | Nesrine Malik
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:00:29 GMT
This mortifying dilemma goes to the very soul of the region - and its leaders have brought it on themselves
Arab states are in a bind. King Abdullah of Jordan squirmed in the Oval Office last week, as the press asked him and Donald Trump about the latter’s Gaza plan. He is in a tight spot, wanting to keep Trump onside while at the same time not agreeing to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Immediately after, anonymous Egyptian “security sources” – not parties prone to leaking without strategic direction from President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi – said that Sisi would not accept an invitation to visit Washington as long as the Gaza displacement plan was on the agenda. Now, this was probably more for the Egyptian public’s consumption than for Trump’s benefit – Egypt is in no position to make an enemy of the new administration – but it nonetheless shows how hard it is for Trump to secure the acquiescence of even the US’s closest allies.
Saudi Arabia also postponed a visit to the US once Trump announced his intentions for Gaza. And in a remarkable change of tune, Saudi, which before 7 October 2023 was en route to normalisation with Israel and is not usually a country to make heated statements, lost its patience. When Benjamin Netanyahu quipped that maybe it would like to take Palestinians from Gaza (“they have a lot of territory”, he said), Saudi state media unleashed a storm of invective against him. When Trump announced his plan, Saudi Arabian authorities immediately put out a statement rejecting it. So keen was the government to signal that rejection that it released the statement at 4am local time.
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Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:00:27 GMT
Uncertainty created by tariffs and contempt for rule of law will deter investment, says top economist
Donald Trump’s tariff threats have made the US “a scary place to invest” and may unleash stagflation, the Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has said.
“It risks the worst of all possible worlds: a kind of stagflation,” Stiglitz said in an interview with the Guardian.
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Reeves warned UK inflation will push public sector unions to seek higher pay rises
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:00:27 GMT
Plan for ‘reasonable’ 2.8% rises may prove insufficient, forcing chancellor to find billions in extra funding
Rachel Reeves has been warned public sector unions will demand higher pay increases to compensate for accelerating inflation, heaping pressure on the chancellor to find billions of pounds in extra funding.
The government made recommendations in December for a 2.8% pay rise for teachers, NHS staff and other public sector workers for the financial year beginning in April, saying it was a “reasonable amount” given forecasts for the economy.
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UK firms mull biggest layoffs in a decade as business confidence slumps
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:01:20 GMT
Impending tax rises from autumn budget fuel collapse in sentiment and rising redundancy intentions, surveys show
UK employers are preparing for the biggest redundancy round in a decade amid collapsing business confidence as firms brace for tax increases from April that Rachel Reeves announced in her autumn budget.
In a fresh blow for the chancellor, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which represents human resources professionals, said a survey of 2,000 employers showed redundancy intentions at their highest level in 10 years, barring the Covid pandemic.
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Poorest UK households pay rising share of income on council tax, study finds
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:01:20 GMT
Resolution Foundation report says failure to reform has ‘slowly recreated the issues that undid the poll tax’
Britain’s poorest households are paying an increasing share of their income on council tax, according to new analysis that likened it to the poll tax that contributed to the downfall of Margaret Thatcher.
The poorest fifth of households paid 4.8% of their income on council tax in England, Wales and Scotland and on domestic rates in Northern Ireland in the 2020-21 financial year, up from 2.9% in 2002-3, according to research by the Resolution Foundation.
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Most NHS users in England affected by dysfunctional admin, report finds
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:01:19 GMT
About 64% of people had difficulties with health service last year relating to communication about care
Patients routinely have to chase up test results, receive appointment letters after their appointments and do not know when their treatment will occur because the NHS is so “dysfunctional”.
That is the conclusion of research by two major patients’ organisations and the King’s Fund, which lays bare a host of problems with the way the health service interacts with it users.
32% had to chase up the results of a test, scan or X-ray.
32% had not been told how long they would have to wait for their care or treatment.
23% were unaware of who to contact while they waited.
20% received an invitation to an appointment after the date had passed.
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Trump cuts reach FDA workers focused on food safety and medical devices
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:47:16 GMT
Positions cut also appeared to focus on agency’s centers for tobacco products, including oversight of e-cigarettes
The Trump administration’s effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the Food and Drug Administration this weekend, as recently hired employees who review the safety of food ingredients, medical devices and other products were fired.
Probationary employees across the FDA received notices on Saturday evening that their jobs were being eliminated, according to three FDA staffers who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
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Starmer ready to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine if peace deal reached
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:15:22 GMT
It is understood to be the first time the PM has been explicit about sending British peacekeepers to Ukraine
Keir Starmer has said he is prepared to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine if there is a deal to end the war with Russia – acknowledging it could put UK forces “in harm’s way” if Vladimir Putin launches another attack.
It is understood to be the first time the prime minister has explicitly stated he is considering deploying British peacekeepers to Ukraine. The comments came just before emergency talks with European leaders in Paris on Monday.
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Trump takes a victory lap at a rain-splattered Daytona 500
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:59:39 +0000
NASCAR is Trump country, White House officials have said, and attendees on Sunday warmly welcomed the president in a brief visit.
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Under Trump, a U.S. that once united Europe now divides it
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:08:29 +0000
When Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, U.S. leaders helped whip Europe into a staunchly unified response. Now U.S. leaders seem eager to split the continent into pieces, policymakers say.
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Acting archivist, inspector general for National Archives forced out
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:45:20 +0000
The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts recover documents from Mar-a-Lago.
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Macron convenes European leaders for Ukraine summit amid tension with US
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:17:02 GMT
Paris meeting aims to devise action plan for Ukraine’s future as US and Russian delegates prepare to meet
The sudden transatlantic chasm over Ukraine will be laid bare on Monday when US officials start preliminary talks in Riyadh with Russian counterparts about a ceasefire, just as Emmanuel Macron hosts a Paris summit of European defence powers to demand the US ends the lockout of Europe and Kyiv from the process.
The US and Russia talks precede a planned meeting this week between the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the first such meeting between the two countries in over two years. There are fears in Europe that Russia via the US talks will relaunch its plan for imposed Ukrainian neutrality and a joint US-Russia carve-up with agreed spheres of influence.
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The Guardian view on JD Vance in Munich: Europe must stand up for its values | Editorial
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:30:11 GMT
The vice-president’s speech on Friday was another wake-up call for European leaders. On defence and in other areas, they need to chart their own course
In 2007, Vladimir Putin delivered a speech to the Munich security conference that stunned western diplomats by launching an unforeseen assault on the post-1989 international order. The United States, alleged Mr Putin, had perniciously manufactured a unipolar world “in which there is one master, one sovereign”. Seven years later, Russian forces illegally occupied Crimea, and Moscow-funded separatists seized swathes of territory in eastern Ukraine, in what turned out to be the precursor to full-blown invasion.
Nearly two decades later, the disturbing speech at the same venue by the US vice-president, JD Vance, may prove to be similarly significant as the geopolitics of the 21st century continue to shift. Mr Vance had been expected to concentrate last Friday’s remarks on Ukraine, after a week in which Donald Trump appeared to be unilaterally preparing to negotiate a ceasefire deal entirely on Mr Putin’s terms. Instead, he used his platform as a pulpit from which to berate the US’s European allies on issues such as multiculturalism, migration and the regulation of social media. Indefensibly, the Trump administration now actively cheerleads for far-right parties such as Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland, whose leader, Alice Weidel, he chose to meet in Munich.
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UK must act more promptly over latest Iran detentions, says Richard Ratcliffe
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:33:27 GMT
Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe expresses concern for Craig and Lindsay Foreman who were held in January
The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has called on ministers to act “more promptly” than they did to help free his wife, after Iran detained a British couple on a motorcycle trip.
Richard Ratcliffe, whose wife was freed in 2022 after five years in a Tehran prison, expressed fears that the couple would now face the “brutal theatre” of court process to “get the government’s attention”.
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‘The US is ready to hand Russia a win’: newspapers on Europe’s Trump shock
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:02 GMT
European papers express deep alarm at declaration of an ‘ideological war’, while the NYT says Putin may soon ‘realise his dream’
This year’s Munich security conference exposed the chasm in core values separating the Trump administration from most Europeans and sparked deep alarm at US efforts to control the Ukraine peace process and exclude European governments from it.
Here is what some of the main European and US newspapers had to say about it.
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Zelenskyy says Russia will ‘wage war on Nato’ if US support for Ukraine wanes
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:04:35 GMT
Ukrainian president tells NBC’s Meet the Press that Putin’s next targets may be Poland and Lithuania
Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday predicted Russia would “wage war against Nato” if the US stepped back from its support of Ukraine – and that he had seen intelligence suggesting that the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, was building up troops for a possible military invasion of another European country.
The Ukrainian president made the claim on the NBC show Meet the Press in a wide-ranging interview ahead of an emergency summit of European leaders in Paris to discuss Russia’s war on Ukraine – and peace talks between US and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia.
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Trump called Washington a city of ‘filth' and 'decay.’ He’s trying to remake it in his image.
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:00:00 EST
Trump in his first weeks of his second term has targeted the city like few presidents before him.
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John Major: Trump’s US isolationism threatens global democracy
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:50:18 GMT
Former UK prime minister says US may regret ceding world stage to China and condemns ‘hypocritical’ JD Vance speech
Democracy around the globe is under threat from the retreat of Donald Trump’s US into isolationism and its likely replacement by China on the world stage, John Major has said.
The former UK prime minister, who rarely offers direct opinion on contemporary politics, used an interview with BBC Radio 4 to say Trump’s administration was unlike anything he had seen before – and to warn that Washington may live to regret ceding global leadership to a more autocratic power.
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As Trump vents about covid, experts worry his moves could worsen next threat
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:17:34 +0000
The president, still angry about the pandemic response, may be cutting into the country’s fundamental ability to identify emerging diseases and head them off.
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As Musk reshapes the government, some ask: Where are the guardrails?
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:34:50 +0000
As Elon Musk upends the government, the White House has taken advantage of rules with weak enforcement and loopholes — or simply declared it can outweigh other laws.
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Trump’s comments on Canada prompt surge of patriotism – in a Canadian way
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:24:47 GMT
Trump’s diplomatic trolling has sparked disbelief and defiance – but also revived questions of national identity
A lone figure takes to the stage, a giant maple leaf flag rippling on a screen behind him as he gingerly approaches the microphone.
“I’m not a lumberjack, or a fur trader,” he tells the crowd. “I have a prime minister, not a president. I speak English and French, not American. And I pronounce it ‘about’ – not ‘a boot’.”
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Starmer union ally joins opposition to rules barring citizenship for small boat refugees
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:00:07 GMT
Head of Unison Christina McAnea is one of 148 signatories of letter warning rules will ‘breed division and mistrust’
Keir Starmer’s most generous union backer has joined faith leaders to warn Yvette Cooper that new rules refusing citizenship to refugees who arrive in small boats will “breed division and distrust” and could fuel attacks on migrant hotels.
Christina McAnea, the general secretary of Unison, and nine Church of England bishops are among 148 signatories of a letter saying the home secretary’s plan to bar naturalisation for anyone who has made a dangerous journey will label tens of thousands of people “second-class citizens”.
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The north of England had high hopes for this government. Why is it only offering us crumbs from the south? | Peter Hetherington
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:00:07 GMT
Neglect of schemes like the Tyne Bridge restoration contrasts sharply with bullishness over southern projects
It’s a tale of two river crossings, and of two nations: a defining national landmark across the Tyne in need of an extra £6m from the government, and an ambitious plan being pushed by the chancellor for a Lower Thames Crossing at an estimated cost of at least £6bn. Together, they speak volumes about two-speed England and government priorities.
Somewhat forlorn, partly covered in scaffolding, the majestic, rusting Tyne Bridge linking Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead is undergoing a long-delayed, four-year restoration meant to be completed for its centenary in 2028. The last government initially promised £35m towards the £41m cost – and while the prime minister recently described the structure as an “iconic part of the Newcastle and Gateshead skyline”, he refused to offer any assurance that the remaining £6m would be forthcoming in a review of infrastructure projects being undertaken by the Department for Transport. Local councils, cash-strapped and facing another round of austerity, are dismayed.
Peter Hetherington writes for Society Guardian on communities and regeneration
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UK hopes to be a bridge between Europe and Trump’s US, minister says
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:57:39 GMT
Jonathan Reynolds says Britain has not given up on persuading the US to allow Ukraine to join Nato
The UK hopes to act as a bridge between Europe and Donald Trump’s US, the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has said before what could be a crucial week of diplomacy in deciding Ukraine’s future.
With Keir Starmer expected to travel to Paris on Monday for an emergency summit of European leaders, in advance of a possible trip to Washington the following week, Reynolds said the UK had still not given up on persuading the US to allow Ukraine to join Nato.
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Trump wants to shut the Education Department. Is it sleight-of-hand?
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Even if it’s shuttered, the programs and money may be moved to other agencies.
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Mass resignation marks a new kind of defiance in the second Trump era
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:05:51 +0000
The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further defiance.
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Scholz blasts Vance’s support for Germany’s far right
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:41:30 +0000
Some see the Trump administration actively promoting political extremism in the West.
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Tensions over Palestinians at heart of Trump’s Middle East gambit
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:07:37 +0000
Trump’s goals for the Middle East face a major test as Secretary of State Marco Rubio holds talks with leaders in Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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Ukraine rejects initial Trump request for half its mineral wealth
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:28:36 +0000
Ukraine is hoping to reach a deal on a counter-offer, but the opening proposal rippled through European diplomatic circles not only for its audacity but because the war-ravaged country appears ready to play ball.
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As federal workers and aid recipients reel, Trump’s team is unmoved
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:25:42 +0000
“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” a White House official said.
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See inside DOGE’s playbook for eliminating DEI
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:00:32 +0000
Documents detail step-by-step plans by the U.S. DOGE Service to purge federal agencies of diversity, equity, and inclusion workers and offices. Here’s what comes next.
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For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000
Replicating the abilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fleet of weather satellites would take time and a lot of money—and expose private companies to a large amount of risk.
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Arsenal accused of snub to DRC minister over ‘bloodstained’ Visit Rwanda deal
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:00:35 GMT
Exclusive: Foreign minister says she sought meeting with the north London Premier League club to discuss sponsorship by country accused of aiding armed rebels
Arsenal Football Club has been accused of delivering an “outrageous” snub to the Congolese government by not meeting the foreign minister to discuss its sponsorship deal with Rwanda.
Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), who was in London this week to raise concerns over Rwanda’s support for the M23 militia, said she attempted to meet Arsenal officials to discuss the club’s Visit Rwanda sponsorship deal.
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Rwandan-backed M23 rebels enter Bukavu in eastern DRC
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:52:56 GMT
Rebels make rapid advance into capital of South Kivu province, less than a month after taking Goma
Rebels from the Rwandan-backed M23 group have entered Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after a rapid advance south in recent days.
M23 fighters entered the city’s Kazingu and Bagira zone and late on Friday were advancing towards the centre of the city of about 1 million people. Gunfire rang out but the rebel forces encountered little resistance. Shops and businesses had long closed and frightened civilians fled.
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US Judge Extends Order to Block DOGE From Treasury Department Data
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:49:08 +0000
A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the US Treasury Department.
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Elon Musk’s Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:56:26 +0000
An email sent to workers at the US Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service said DOGE’s Tom Krause is “currently” the CEO of the Cloud Software Group. Critics believe this could be a massive conflict of interest.
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US deports 119 immigrants of varying nationalities to Panama
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT
People from Afghanistan, Iran, China and other countries flown out as Trump’s deportation effort intensifies
The US has sent undocumented immigrants from several Asian countries whose governments have refused to accept them to Panama, in a move signalling an intensification of the Trump administration’s deportation effort.
A military plane carrying 119 immigrants from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Pakistan flew from California to Panama City on Wednesday in what was expected to be the first of three migrants flights to the country.
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The DOGE Squad Is Squandering a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0000
Government tech experts say Elon Musk’s team could have seized the moment to make Washington work better.
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Confessions of a Gay Priest on Hookup Apps
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Reverend Paul Anthony Daniels believes love is everywhere—even on Jack’d.
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The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:00:00 EST
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
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The Strategy Behind Trump’s Defiance of the Law
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:28:47 +0000
His violations follow an old playbook—trigger lawsuits, giving the Supreme Court a chance to declare statutes unconstitutional.
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DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:13:12 +0000
The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority, while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
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How We’re Keeping Tabs on DOGE
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:21:26 +0000
On this special episode of Uncanny Valley, WIRED’s politics editor and global editorial director catch us up on Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration.
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DOGE’s Race to the Bottom
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:11:08 +0000
Elon Musk’s takeover of US government agencies has happened at remarkable speeds. That’s the point.
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Trial over alleged murder of Cassius Turvey hears of previous attack on another teenage boy
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:24:05 GMT
Teen witness tells court of separate attack by two defendants in the days before the Indigenous teen was killed
A teenage boy was allegedly punched in the face, stabbed and stomped on before he was abducted by some of the men accused of murdering Cassius Turvey, a court has heard.
Cassius, a 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, died in hospital 10 days after prosecutors say he was chased down, knocked to the ground and “deliberately struck to the head with a metal pole” in Perth’s eastern suburbs on 13 October 2022.
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Australia’s next tropical cyclone gets name change to avoid confusion with prime minister
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:46:54 GMT
Cyclone Zelia, which hit Western Australia on Friday, brought the Bureau of Meteorology to the end of an alphabetical list
Tropical Cyclone Zelia may have dissipated but it won’t be the last to threaten Australia’s coastline and the next one has forced a name change before it even forms.
Zelia, which crossed the Western Australian coast on Friday, brought the Bureau of Meteorology to the end of an alphabetical list that alternates by gender, with the next cyclone due to be named Anthony.
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Patient with hallucinations waits in Sydney hospital ED for five days amid psychiatrists dispute
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:26:01 GMT
Some people experiencing psychotic episodes have waited days at an inner-city hospital emergency department, according to a source
A psychiatric patient having hallucinations waited in a major Sydney emergency department for more than five days amid an ongoing dispute between New South Wales and its psychiatrists.
A patient list from a major inner-city hospital on Monday morning showed the six patients experiencing the highest wait times were all psychiatric patients. The evidence provided by the source had been anonymised.
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Baftas 2025: Mikey Madison gets her star-is-born moment and classy Conclave wins big | Peter Bradshaw
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:05:22 GMT
The Brutalist was the night’s almost-joint winner, with prizes for director Brady Corbet and Adrien Brody, while A Real Pain and Kneecap provided heartening victories
• Conclave beats The Brutalist to best picture
• Full list of winners
• Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison among the winners – in pictures
• Best quotes of the night
Whatever else happened at this year’s Bafta ceremony, it provided us with a very exciting star-is-born moment. Mikey Madison broke ahead of a densely packed crowd of best-actress contenders (in which only the hapless Karla Sofía Gascón was really lagging behind) to win the Bafta for her wonderfully smart, funny, charismatic and vulnerable performance in Sean Baker’s Anora, playing a New York table dancer who gets a Vegas wedding to a Russian oligarch’s son. Her final closeup scene in that film is a thrilling masterclass in complexity. I admit that I myself had been rooting for Marianne Jean-Baptiste for her performance in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, but who could possibly begrudge Madison her night of triumph?
Otherwise, the night’s big winner was Edward Berger’s superbly classy and sleek Vatican conspiracy drama Conclave, based on the Robert Harris bestseller; it was level pegging in terms of numbers with The Brutalist, but carried off the evening’s top prize. Conclave is the movie whose blue-chip excellence all round made it a firm favourite with Bafta voters, who were thrilled by Ralph Fiennes’s lead performance as the troubled cardinal; they were diverted by its visual flourishes, amused by its intelligent but approachable dialogue on religious issues and vastly entertained by its twist ending. Strict anti-spoiler rules dictate that we can’t fully discuss how this film in fact is part of a contemporary debate exhaustively analysed elsewhere.
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Baftas 2025: Conclave beats The Brutalist to best picture as Mikey Madison scoops best actress
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:08:18 GMT
Both Edward Berger and Brady Corbet’s dramas take four awards while Demi Moore denied comeback prize as competition heats up for next month’s Oscars
Conclave, Edward Berger’s Vatican-set thriller starring Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal overseeing the election of a new pope, went into this year’s Bafta ceremony with a dozen nominations – the most of any contender. It ended up with four awards: for best picture, outstanding British film, adapted screenplay and editing.
Accepting the second of those, Berger – who swept the board at the awards two years ago with his remake of All Quiet on the Western Front, which won seven prizes – said: “We live in a time of a crisis of democracy. Institutions used to bringing us together are used to pull us apart. Sometimes it’s hard to keep the faith, and that’s why we make movies.”
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Baftas 2025: the full list of winners
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:40:15 GMT
Every prize at the British Academy Film awards from the Royal Festival Hall in London
• Conclave beats The Brutalist to best picture
• Baftas 2025: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – live!
• Baftas 2025 red carpet: sequins, satin and a ski mask – in pictures
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave – WINNER!
Emilia Pérez
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'Power abusers' and bots shaped Alberta election discourse, report says
2025-02-16T14:50:23+00:00
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Trump Is Bullying Jordan and Egypt to Help in Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza. It Isn’t Working.
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:14:46 +0000
Even with Jordan and Egypt refusing to take in expelled Palestinians, Trump is charging on with his real estate development plan.
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The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:22:53 +0000
Betar U.S. said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”
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Why Are Dems Surprised?
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Democrats struggle to counter Trump’s renewed agenda.
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Wife of Valor
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Liana Finck illustrates a selection from the Old Testament, which she sang as a child.
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ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.
The post ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 95 Score: 17.14 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 8.57 executive, 8.57 constitution
The man with Elon Musk’s chip in his brain – podcast
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:00:23 GMT
When Noland Arbaugh was left paralysed he signed up for an implant created by Musk’s Neuralink company that would allow his mind to directly interact with computers. Jenny Kleeman reports
Noland Arbaugh was a 22-year-old student when an accident changed his life for ever. Swimming with a group of friends, he was hit in the head and blacked out. He was pulled from the water, and when he came round, it was clear the injury to his spinal cord meant he had lost all movement below his shoulders.
A committed Christian, Arbaugh has dealt with his changed circumstances with patience and good humour, the journalist Jenny Kleeman tells Helen Pidd. However, the opportunity came along to have an implant fitted into his brain that would allow him to directly interact with a computer. He jumped at the chance. The operation carried real risk, but he says the thought of being able to move things on a screen with his mind pushed him on.
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Match ID: 96 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive
Arm to start making server CPUs in-house
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:05:57 +0000
Meta will be one of Arm's first customers.
Match ID: 97 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 15.00 executive
Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Musk seeks not only to dismantle the federal government but to install his own technological vision of the future at its heart—techno-fascism by chatbot.
Match ID: 98 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
qualifiers: 14.29 federal government
What Happens if Trump Defies the Courts
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:48:05 +0000
Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?
Match ID: 99 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 8.57 executive, 5.71 congress
Marco Rubio’s USAID “Humanitarian Waiver” Isn’t Helping Restart Lifesaving Programs
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:51:23 +0000
After plunging USAID and its network of contractors into chaos, communications breakdowns and bureaucratic snafus leave projects stalled.
The post Marco Rubio’s USAID “Humanitarian Waiver” Isn’t Helping Restart Lifesaving Programs appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 100 Score: 13.57 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 4.29 politics, 2.86 federal government, 2.14 executive
How a young Dutch woman’s life began when she was allowed to die – podcast
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:00:05 GMT
At the last minute, Zoë decided to call off her euthanasia. But how do you start over after you’ve said all of your goodbyes? By Stephanie Bakker. Read by Micky Overman
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Match ID: 101 Score: 12.86 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
qualifiers: 12.86 executive
Unions sue to stop DOGE from accessing federal data
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:32:12 EST
The legal complaint marks yet another challenge to the sweeping access and authority granted to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
Match ID: 102 Score: 12.86 source: www.politico.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 12.86 politics
Gaza Protester Who Interrupted Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime Show Speaks Out
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:16:22 +0000
“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”
The post Gaza Protester Who Interrupted Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime Show Speaks Out appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 103 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 12.86 politics
US Funding Cuts Are Helping Criminals Get Away With Child Abuse and Human Trafficking
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:47:24 +0000
Services supporting victims of online child exploitation and trafficking around the world have faced USAID and State Department cuts—and children are suffering as a result, sources tell WIRED.
Match ID: 104 Score: 12.86 source: www.wired.com age: 6 days
qualifiers: 12.86 politics
Trump ousted the top Democratic campaign finance regulator. She says it's illegal.
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:50:16 EST
Ellen Weintraub has served on the commission since 2002.
Match ID: 105 Score: 12.14 source: www.politico.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 3.57 election
Top Democrats are staying out of the Trump outrage cycle this time
Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:00:00 EST
Their approach to Trump this time is much quieter.
Match ID: 106 Score: 12.14 source: www.politico.com age: 21 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 3.57 election
How Democrats lost the DEI war
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 14:00:00 EST
Conservatives won the culture war by riding the backlash to Black Lives Matter protests.
Match ID: 107 Score: 10.71 source: www.politico.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat, 2.14 conservatives
DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:24:50 +0000
DOGE site is apparently not running on government servers.
Match ID: 108 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress
Rocket Report: A blue mood at Blue; Stoke Space fires a shot over the bow
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:00:58 +0000
"Rapid turnaround isn’t merely a goal, it’s baked into the design."
Match ID: 109 Score: 10.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
qualifiers: 10.00 congress
AI-Generated Fake News Is Coming to an Election Near You
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Targeted, AI-generated political misinformation is already out there—and humans are falling for it.
Match ID: 110 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 391 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election, 2.14 elections
The Second Trump Administration Takes Aim at the Climate
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
More than thirty actions and executive orders either boost fossil-fuel production or cripple programs that might reduce fossil-fuel use.
Match ID: 111 Score: 8.57 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
qualifiers: 8.57 executive
Elon Musk presents a new vulnerability for Donald Trump
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:20:13 EST
The billionaire's strategy of moving fast and breaking things isn't going over so well with the public.
Match ID: 112 Score: 8.57 source: www.politico.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
2024-10-28T00:00:00Z
Demographics are not destiny in politics. Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse Shapiro explain how their latest research is playing out in the final stretch of the US presidential race.
Match ID: 113 Score: 8.57 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 112 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 4.29 democrat
Global HIV Care Thrown Into Chaos by Trump: “I Will Be Sick and Maybe Die”
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:56:06 +0000
In South Africa, a 36-year-old living with HIV since childhood fears she will lose access to treatment due to Trump’s policy.
The post Global HIV Care Thrown Into Chaos by Trump: “I Will Be Sick and Maybe Die” appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 114 Score: 7.86 source: theintercept.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 republican, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress
Trump’s Attacks on USAID Spark Fear That Lifesaving Care Will Become “Transactional”
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:54:46 +0000
If the State Department takes over USAID, experts fear foreign assistance will stop unless it has a perceived benefit for Trump.
The post Trump’s Attacks on USAID Spark Fear That Lifesaving Care Will Become “Transactional” appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 115 Score: 7.86 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 2.14 executive, 1.43 congress
Chuck Todd, former ‘Meet the Press’ host, leaving NBC News
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:00:55 EST
The longtime journalist and anchor said that he planned on staying in media.
Match ID: 116 Score: 7.86 source: www.politico.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election
Kamala Harris provides a big signal about her next move
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:25:08 EST
The new organization will be a vehicle to help her decide her next steps.
Match ID: 117 Score: 7.86 source: www.politico.com age: 24 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 3.57 election
A running list of Trump's planned executive orders, actions, proclamations and legislation
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:54:47 EST
Here’s a look at what Trump signed on Day One.
Match ID: 118 Score: 6.43 source: www.politico.com age: 26 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 2.14 executive
ACLU Warns DOGE’s ‘Unchecked’ Access Could Violate Federal Law
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:43:33 +0000
The ACLU says it stands ready to sue for access to government records that detail DOGE’s access to sensitive personnel data.
Match ID: 119 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 1.43 congress
'I don't think they're going to get the battle that they want.' Inside Trump’s first clashes with Congress and the courts
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:00:15 EST
Trump is testing the limits of his power.
Match ID: 120 Score: 5.71 source: www.politico.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 1.43 congress
Trump's billionaire brigade poised to upend Washington: ‘We are in a post-conflicts-of-interest world’
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:24:33 EST
The new class of moguls surrounding President Donald Trump crave deregulation and fast-paced innovation, but they’ll need to get through Congress and a glacial bureaucracy.
Match ID: 121 Score: 5.71 source: www.politico.com age: 18 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics, 1.43 congress
Economists need new indicators of economic misery
Thu, 14 Nov 2024 10:40:55 +0000
Existing measures of discomfort are failing to predict elections
Match ID: 122 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 94 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections
Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 09:55:47 +0000
Turning a profit from political news is a lot harder than it looks
Match ID: 123 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 206 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election, 2.14 elections
Forensics Experts Challenged the FBI. So the FBI Tried to Censor Their Conference.
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:28:27 +0000
An FBI official urged the American Academy of Forensic Sciences to cancel a conference presentation titled “Taking on the FBI.”
The post Forensics Experts Challenged the FBI. So the FBI Tried to Censor Their Conference. appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 124 Score: 5.00 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 2.86 federal government, 2.14 executive
“You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:20:00 +0000
Palestinians from Gaza responded with outrage to Trump’s proposal to expel them from their homes.
The post “You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 125 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Trump cuts Biden access to security briefings as payback
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:14:23 EST
Biden cut off access to briefings for Trump in 2021.
Match ID: 126 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 9 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Note to Our Readers
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:45:33 EST
POLITICO has been the subject of debate on X this week. Some of it has been misinformed, and some of it has been flat-out false. Let’s set the record straight.
Match ID: 127 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Dems attack Elon Musk after DOGE gains access to sensitive data
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:46:29 EST
Match ID: 128 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 10 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:30:20 +0000
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
Match ID: 129 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
The Collapse of USAID Is Already Fueling Human Trafficking and Slavery at Scammer Compounds
Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:33:53 +0000
The dismantling of USAID by Elon Musk's DOGE and a State Department funding freeze have severely disrupted efforts to help people escape forced labor camps run by criminal scammers.
Match ID: 130 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Trump: “The U.S. Will Take Over the Gaza Strip”
Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:02:32 +0000
Trump told reporters that he wants to expel “all” Palestinians from Gaza — not just during a period of reconstruction, but permanently.
The post Trump: “The U.S. Will Take Over the Gaza Strip” appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 131 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
February 2025
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:59:18 EST
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker.
Match ID: 132 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
'Radical lunatics': Trump, Musk target USAID
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:22:45 EST
Match ID: 133 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 13 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Elon Musk spoke privately with Todd Young, did not ask for guarantee on Tulsi Gabbard
Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:47:16 EST
The conversation came the same day Musk targeted Young on X before deleting the post.
Match ID: 134 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 14 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
LA Times accused by writer of ‘distorting’ an op-ed – in a way that aligns with owner's pro-RFK views
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:58:30 EST
The paper’s billionaire owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, has vocally called for Kennedy to be confirmed.
Match ID: 135 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Lobbying firms tied to Trump report wave of new clients
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:16:50 EST
On K Street, firms linked to a new administration often see their fortunes rise. One of the biggest winners this cycle: Ballard Partners.
Match ID: 136 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 18 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
The Trial at the Tip of the Terrorgram Iceberg
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000
Atomwaffen Division cofounder and alleged Terrorgram Collective member Brandon Russell is facing a potential 20-year sentence for an alleged plot on a Baltimore electrical station. His case is only the beginning.
Match ID: 137 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 18 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Will Trump’s billionaire brigade run America like a tech startup?
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:27:08 EST
Match ID: 138 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 19 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Jim Acosta, prominent Trump critic, leaves CNN
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:31:43 EST
Trump called him “a major sleazebag.” Acosta said the press must “hold power to account.”
Match ID: 139 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 19 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Trump plan to upend civil service advances under new name
Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:03:23 EST
New guidance gives federal agencies 90 days to do a preliminary review of jobs that are "policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating."
Match ID: 140 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
One week out of Washington, Doug Emhoff returns to legal career
Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:00:44 EST
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband was announced as partner at the global law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
Match ID: 141 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
‘I am terrified’: Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies
Sat, 25 Jan 2025 16:00:00 EST
“I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go," said one staffer.
Match ID: 142 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 22 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and writer known for lacerating wit, dies at 95
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:15:00 EST
“It’s hard to remember what hypocrisy looked like before Jules Feiffer sketched it,” Todd Gitlin opined in 1987.
Match ID: 143 Score: 4.29 source: www.politico.com age: 26 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:05:20 +0000
Demographics and geopolitics will make a recovery harder
Match ID: 144 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 80 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:36:12 +0000
Why, then, are they largely outlawed in America?
Match ID: 145 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 220 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
How American politics has infected investing
Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:41:46 +0000
Beware: taking a stand can be expensive
Match ID: 146 Score: 4.29 source: www.economist.com age: 301 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
A Dangerous New Home for Online Extremism
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs, offer independently-minded internet users a safe haven—but it’s also a boon to those with a darker purpose.
Match ID: 147 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 389 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
Regulators Are Finally Catching Up With Big Tech
Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The lawless, Wild West era of AI and technology is almost at an end, as data protection authorities use new and existing legislation to get tough.
Match ID: 148 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 401 days
qualifiers: 4.29 politics
LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features
Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:10:00 +0000
In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools. This platform not only stands out from the multitude of existing AI tools but also brings a fresh approach to content generation. LimeWire not only empowers users to create AI content but also provides creators with creative ways to share and monetize their creations.
As we explore LimeWire, our aim is to uncover its features, benefits for creators, and the exciting possibilities it offers for AI content generation. This platform presents an opportunity for users to harness the power of AI in image creation, all while enjoying the advantages of a free and accessible service.
Let's unravel the distinctive features that set LimeWire apart in the dynamic landscape of AI-powered tools, understanding how creators can leverage its capabilities to craft unique and engaging AI-generated images.
Introduction
LimeWire, a name once associated with the notorious file-sharing tool from the 2000s, has undergone a significant transformation. The LimeWire we discuss today is not the file-sharing application of the past but has re-emerged as an entirely new entity—a cutting-edge AI content publishing platform.
This revamped LimeWire invites users to register and unleash their creativity by crafting original AI content, which can then be shared and showcased on the LimeWire Studio. Notably, even acclaimed artists and musicians, such as Deadmau5, Soulja Boy, and Sean Kingston, have embraced this platform to publish their content in the form of NFT music, videos, and images.
Beyond providing a space for content creation and sharing, LimeWire introduces monetization models to empower users to earn revenue from their creations. This includes avenues such as earning ad revenue and participating in the burgeoning market of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). As we delve further, we'll explore these monetization strategies in more detail to provide a comprehensive understanding of LimeWire's innovative approach to content creation and distribution.
LimeWire Studio welcomes content creators into its fold, providing a space to craft personalized AI-focused content for sharing with fans and followers. Within this creative hub, every piece of content generated becomes not just a creation but a unique asset—ownable and tradable. Fans have the opportunity to subscribe to creators' pages, immersing themselves in the creative journey and gaining ownership of digital collectibles that hold tradeable value within the LimeWire community. Notably, creators earn a 2.5% royalty each time their content is traded, adding a rewarding element to the creative process.
The platform's flexibility is evident in its content publication options. Creators can choose to share their work freely with the public or opt for a premium subscription model, granting exclusive access to specialized content for subscribers.
As of the present moment, LimeWire focuses on AI Image Generation, offering a spectrum of creative possibilities to its user base. The platform, however, has ambitious plans on the horizon, aiming to broaden its offerings by introducing AI music and video generation tools in the near future. This strategic expansion promises creators even more avenues for expression and engagement with their audience, positioning LimeWire Studio as a dynamic and evolving platform within the realm of AI-powered content creation.
AI Image Generation Tools
The LimeWire AI image generation tool presents a versatile platform for both the creation and editing of images. Supporting advanced models such as Stable Diffusion 2.1, Stable Diffusion XL, and DALL-E 2, LimeWire offers a sophisticated toolkit for users to delve into the realm of generative AI art.
Much like other tools in the generative AI landscape, LimeWire provides a range of options catering to various levels of complexity in image creation. Users can initiate the creative process with prompts as simple as a few words or opt for more intricate instructions, tailoring the output to their artistic vision.
What sets LimeWire apart is its seamless integration of different AI models and design styles. Users have the flexibility to effortlessly switch between various AI models, exploring diverse design styles such as cinematic, digital art, pixel art, anime, analog film, and more. Each style imparts a distinctive visual identity to the generated AI art, enabling users to explore a broad spectrum of creative possibilities.
The platform also offers additional features, including samplers, allowing users to fine-tune the quality and detail levels of their creations. Customization options and prompt guidance further enhance the user experience, providing a user-friendly interface for both novice and experienced creators.
Excitingly, LimeWire is actively developing its proprietary AI model, signaling ongoing innovation and enhancements to its image generation capabilities. This upcoming addition holds the promise of further expanding the creative horizons for LimeWire users, making it an evolving and dynamic platform within the landscape of AI-driven art and image creation.
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Automatically Mint Your Content As NFTs
Upon completing your creative endeavor on LimeWire, the platform allows you the option to publish your content. An intriguing feature follows this step: LimeWire automates the process of minting your creation as a Non-Fungible Token (NFT), utilizing either the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. This transformative step imbues your artwork with a unique digital signature, securing its authenticity and ownership in the decentralized realm.
Creators on LimeWire hold the power to decide the accessibility of their NFT creations. By opting for a public release, the content becomes discoverable by anyone, fostering a space for engagement and interaction. Furthermore, this choice opens the avenue for enthusiasts to trade the NFTs, adding a layer of community involvement to the artistic journey.
Alternatively, LimeWire acknowledges the importance of exclusivity. Creators can choose to share their posts exclusively with their premium subscribers. In doing so, the content remains a special offering solely for dedicated fans, creating an intimate and personalized experience within the LimeWire community. This flexibility in sharing options emphasizes LimeWire's commitment to empowering creators with choices in how they connect with their audience and distribute their digital creations.
After creating your content, you can choose to publish the content. It will automatically mint your creation as an NFT on the Polygon or Algorand blockchain. You can also choose whether to make it public or subscriber-only.
If you make it public, anyone can discover your content and even trade the NFTs. If you choose to share the post only with your premium subscribers, it will be exclusive only to your fans.
Earn Revenue From Your Content
Additionally, you can earn ad revenue from your content creations as well.
When you publish content on LimeWire, you will receive 70% of all ad revenue from other users who view your images, music, and videos on the platform.
This revenue model will be much more beneficial to designers. You can experiment with the AI image and content generation tools and share your creations while earning a small income on the side.
LMWR Tokens
The revenue you earn from your creations will come in the form of LMWR tokens, LimeWire’s own cryptocurrency.
Your earnings will be paid every month in LMWR, which you can then trade on many popular crypto exchange platforms like Kraken, ByBit, and UniSwap.
You can also use your LMWR tokens to pay for prompts when using LimeWire generative AI tools.
Pricing Plans
You can sign up to LimeWire to use its AI tools for free. You will receive 10 credits to use and generate up to 20 AI images per day. You will also receive 50% of the ad revenue share. However, you will get more benefits with premium plans.
For $9.99 per month, you will get 1,000 credits per month, up to 2 ,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 50% ad revenue share
For $29 per month, you will get 3750 credits per month, up to 7500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 60% ad revenue share
For $49 per month, you will get 5,000 credits per month, up to 10,000 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share
For $99 per month, you will get 11,250 credits per month, up to 2 2,500 image generations, early access to new AI models, and 70% ad revenue share
With all premium plans, you will receive a Pro profile badge, full creation history, faster image generation, and no ads.
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Conclusion
In conclusion, LimeWire emerges as a democratizing force in the creative landscape, providing an inclusive platform where anyone can unleash their artistic potential and effortlessly share their work. With the integration of AI, LimeWire eliminates traditional barriers, empowering designers, musicians, and artists to publish their creations and earn revenue with just a few clicks.
The ongoing commitment of LimeWire to innovation is evident in its plans to enhance generative AI tools with new features and models. The upcoming expansion to include music and video generation tools holds the promise of unlocking even more possibilities for creators. It sparks anticipation about the diverse and innovative ways in which artists will leverage these tools to produce and publish their own unique creations.
For those eager to explore, LimeWire's AI tools are readily accessible for free, providing an opportunity to experiment and delve into the world of generative art. As LimeWire continues to evolve, creators are encouraged to stay tuned for the launch of its forthcoming AI music and video generation tools, promising a future brimming with creative potential and endless artistic exploration
Match ID: 149 Score: 4.29 source: techncruncher.blogspot.com age: 432 days
qualifiers: 4.29 democrat
Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:58:45 +0000
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
Match ID: 150 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 80 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election
America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris
Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:11:58 +0000
Voters are starting to notice the good news just in time for the election
Match ID: 151 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 112 days
qualifiers: 3.57 election
Canva Review 2022: Details, Pricing & Features
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:02:00 +0000
Are you looking for a new graphic design tool? Would you like to read a detailed review of Canva? As it's one of the tools I love using. I am also writing my first ebook using canva and publish it soon on my site you can download it is free. Let's start the review.
Canva has a web version and also a mobile app
Canva is a free graphic design web application that allows you to create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, banners, and more using professionally designed templates. You can upload your own photos from your computer or from Google Drive, and add them to Canva's templates using a simple drag-and-drop interface. It's like having a basic version of Photoshop that doesn't require Graphic designing knowledge to use. It’s best for nongraphic designers.
Who is Canva best suited for?
Canva is a great tool for small business owners, online entrepreneurs, and marketers who don’t have the time and want to edit quickly.
To create sophisticated graphics, a tool such as Photoshop can is ideal. To use it, you’ll need to learn its hundreds of features, get familiar with the software, and it’s best to have a good background in design, too.
Also running the latest version of Photoshop you need a high-end computer.
So here Canva takes place, with Canva you can do all that with drag-and-drop feature. It’s also easier to use and free. Also an even-more-affordable paid version is available for $12.95 per month.
Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Pricing plan
The product is available in three plans: Free, Pro ($12.99/month per user or $119.99/year for up to 5 people), and Enterprise ($30 per user per month, minimum 25 people).
Free plan Features
- 250,000+ free templates
- 100+ design types (social media posts, presentations, letters, and more)
- Hundreds of thousands of free photos and graphics
- Invite members to your team
- Collaborate and comment in real-time
- 5GB of cloud storage
- Try Canva Pro for free for 30 days
Pro Plan Features
- Everything Free, has plus:
- 100+ million premium and stock photos, videos, audio, and graphics
- 610,000+ premium and free templates with new designs daily
- Access to Background Remover and Magic Resize
- Create a library of your brand or campaign's colors, logos, and fonts with up to 100 Brand Kits
- Remove image backgrounds instantly with background remover
- Resize designs infinitely with Magic Resize
- Save designs as templates for your team to use
- 100GB of cloud storage
- Schedule social media content to 8 platforms
Enterprise Plan Features
- Everything Pro has plus:
- Establish your brand's visual identity with logos, colors and fonts across multiple Brand Kits
- Control your team's access to apps, graphics, logos, colors and fonts with brand controls
- Built-in workflows to get approval on your designs
- Set which elements your team can edit and stay on brand with template locking
- Unlimited Storage
- Log in with single-sign on (SSO) and have access to 24/7 Enterprise-level support.
How to Use Canva?
To get started on Canva, you will need to create an account by providing your email address, Google, Facebook or Apple credentials. You will then choose your account type between student, teacher, small business, large company, non-profit, or personal. Based on your choice of account type, templates will be recommended to you.
You can sign up for a free trial of Canva Pro, or you can start with the free version to get a sense of whether it’s the right graphic design tool for your needs.
Designing with Canva
When you sign up for an account, Canva will suggest different post types to choose from. Based on the type of account you set up you'll be able to see templates categorized by the following categories: social media posts, documents, presentations, marketing, events, ads, launch your business, build your online brand, etc.
Start by choosing a template for your post or searching for something more specific. Search by social network name to see a list of post types on each network.
Templates
Next, you can choose a template. Choose from hundreds of templates that are ready to go, with customizable photos, text, and other elements.
You can start your design by choosing from a variety of ready-made templates, searching for a template matching your needs, or working with a blank template.
Canva has a lot to choose from, so start with a specific search.if you want to create business card just search for it and you will see alot of templates to choose fromElements
Inside the Canva designer, the Elements tab gives you access to lines and shapes, graphics, photos, videos, audio, charts, photo frames, and photo grids.The search box on the Elements tab lets you search everything on Canva.
To begin with, Canva has a large library of elements to choose from. To find them, be specific in your search query. You may also want to search in the following tabs to see various elements separately:
Photos
The Photos tab lets you search for and choose from millions of professional stock photos for your templates.
You can replace the photos in our templates to create a new look. This can also make the template more suited to your industry.
You can find photos on other stock photography sites like pexel, pixabay and many more or simply upload your own photos.
When you choose an image, Canva’s photo editing features let you adjust the photo’s settings (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.), crop, or animate it.
When you subscribe to Canva Pro, you get access to a number of premium features, including the Background Remover. This feature allows you to remove the background from any stock photo in library or any image you upload.
Text
The Text tab lets you add headings, normal text, and graphical text to your design.
When you click on text, you'll see options to adjust the font, font size, color, format, spacing, and text effects (like shadows).
Canva Pro subscribers can choose from a large library of fonts on the Brand Kit or the Styles tab. Enterprise-level controls ensure that visual content remains on-brand, no matter how many people are working on it.
Audio
Create an animated image or video by adding audio to capture user’s attention in social news feeds.
If you want to use audio from another stock site or your own audio tracks, you can upload them in the Uploads tab or from the more option.
Video
Want to create your own videos? Choose from thousands of stock video clips. You’ll find videos that range upto 2 minutes
You can upload your own videos as well as videos from other stock sites in the Uploads tab.
Once you have chosen a video, you can use the editing features in Canva to trim the video, flip it, and adjust its transparency.
Backgrounds
On the Background tab, you’ll find free stock photos to serve as backgrounds on your designs. Change out the background on a template to give it a more personal touch.
Styles
The Styles tab lets you quickly change the look and feel of your template with just a click. And if you have a Canva Pro subscription, you can upload your brand’s custom colors and fonts to ensure designs stay on brand.
Logos
If you have a Canva Pro subscription, you’ll have a Logos tab. Here, you can upload variations of your brand logo to use throughout your designs.
With Canva, you can also create your own logos. Note that you cannot trademark a logo with stock content in it.
Publishing with Canva
With Canva, free users can download and share designs to multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack and Tumblr.
Canva Pro subscribers can create multiple post formats from one design. For example, you can start by designing an Instagram post, and Canva's Magic Resizer can resize it for other networks, Stories, Reels, and other formats.
Canva Pro subscribers can also use Canva’s Content Planner to post content on eight different accounts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Slack, and Tumblr.
Canva Team
Canva Pro allows you to work with your team on visual content. Designs can be created inside Canva, and then sent to your team members for approval. Everyone can make comments, edits, revisions, and keep track via the version history.
Canva Print
When it comes to printing your designs, Canva has you covered. With an extensive selection of printing options, they can turn your designs into anything from banners and wall art to mugs and t-shirts.
Canva Print is perfect for any business seeking to make a lasting impression. Create inspiring designs people will want to wear, keep, and share. Hand out custom business cards that leave a lasting impression on customers' minds.
Canva Apps
The Canva app is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Canva app has earned a 4.9 out of five star rating from over 946.3K Apple users and a 4.5 out of five star rating from over 6,996,708 Google users.
In addition to mobile apps, you can use Canva’s integration with other Internet services to add images and text from sources like Google Maps, Emojis, photos from Google Drive and Dropbox, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, Bitmojis, and other popular visual content elements.
Canva Pros and Cons
Pros:
- A user-friendly interface
- Canva is a great tool for people who want to create professional graphics but don’t have graphic design skills.
- Hundreds of templates, so you'll never have to start from scratch.
- Wide variety of templates to fit multiple uses
- Branding kits to keep your team consistent with the brand colors and fonts
- Creating visual content on the go
- You can find royalty free images, audio, and video without having to subscribe to another service.
Cons:
- Some professional templates are available for Pro user only
- Advanced photo editing features like blurring or erasing a specific area are missing.
- Some elements that fall outside of a design are tricky to retrieve.
- Features (like Canva presentations) could use some improvement.
- If you are a regular user of Adobe products, you might find Canva's features limited.
- Prefers to work with vectors. Especially logos.
- Expensive enterprise pricing
Conclusion
In general, Canva is an excellent tool for those who need simple images for projects. If you are a graphic designer with experience, you will find Canva’s platform lacking in customization and advanced features – particularly vectors. But if you have little design experience, you will find Canva easier to use than advanced graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for most projects. If you have any queries let me know in the comments section.
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What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
2024-11-08T00:00:00Z
What can corporate leaders learn from executives who served their country during wartime conflicts? Drawing on a series of case studies, Robert Simons shares important lessons from the experiences of Walt Disney, Dwight Eisenhower, and Robert McNamara.
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NASA Kicks off Testing Campaign for Remotely Piloted Cargo Flights
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:21:00 +0000
NASA recently began a series of flight tests with partners to answer an important aviation question: What will it take to integrate remotely piloted or autonomous planes carrying large packages and cargo safely into the U.S. airspace? Researchers tested new technologies in Hollister, California, that are helping to investigate what tools and capabilities are needed […]
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Family of British couple detained in Iran seek their return
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:19:36 +0000
Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both in their 50s, were traveling the world by motorcycle. Iranian state media said two Britons were accused of “security crimes.”
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Thrill-seeking made me feel alive – until the day I hurtled down a volcano on a mountain bike | Gary Nunn
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:00:29 GMT
My bungee-jumping and skydiving days are over because I can’t shake the visceral memory of learning that I’m not invincible
I’d just completed the spectacular four-day Inca Trail hike to Machu Picchu and, drunk on nature, was feeling dangerously invincible. Fresh Peruvian air still rejuvenated my lungs and the brain fog induced by my daily smartphone addiction hadn’t yet crept back in.
The disastrous events that followed began once I turned my phone back on. Responding to a Twitter solicitation for Peru recommendations, a man I’d never met posted: “Go mountain biking down a volcano in Arequipa!”
Gary Nunn is a freelance journalist and author
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Falling for Alassio – the rebirth of an Italian resort
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:00:28 GMT
The former fishing village on the Ligurian coast was once a favourite with the wealthy British set. Now instead of tennis and tea parties, it offers scenic treks and seafood feasts in glorious spring sunshine
‘Why don’t the inglesi come here any more?” The question was asked by a customer at Caffè Roma in the seaside town of Alassio, whose pre-second world war British population could reach 5,000.
There are several reasons, I think. From the late 19th century, wealthy Britons would arrive in October to escape the winter cold, stay until May, and then head home before the torrid Italian summer. These days, British people with that kind of wealth probably winter between Zermatt and the Caribbean. But neither has Alassio great appeal to more ordinary Britons wanting a summer holiday: August temperatures can hit the high 30s, crowds and prices surge and, as in so many Italian resorts, the sands are taken over by beach concessions from Easter to September.
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‘They wanted to attack me’: Aurore Clément on violent premieres and smuggling bananas for Brando
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:00:26 GMT
As the film that caused havoc at its Paris premiere resurfaces, the great French actor looks back on an extraordinary career, from the furore of Meetings With Anna to the meltdown of Apocalypse Now
‘People stood up and started to yell,” says Aurore Clément, remembering the day Les Rendez-vous d’Anna premiered at the Paris film festival and caused havoc. This glacial, disquieting film, which appeared in English as Meetings With Anna, follows the titular director on an odyssey around Europe that climaxes with her singing an Edith Piaf song to her lover. And that, apparently, was the final straw. “They wanted to attack me,” says Clément, who played Anna. “The journalist sitting next to me put his trenchcoat over me and got me out of there.”
The film was the third feature from Chantal Akerman, who loosely based Anna on herself. It was undoubtedly a challenging, elusive film – a series of haunted confessions heard by this film-maker protagonist from lovers, family and wayfarers while on her travels promoting an unknown work. Anna’s existential solitude, her refusal to remake herself for her lovers, was quietly radical. “People weren’t ready to accept it at the time, its feminism,” says Clément of the film, which was released in 1978. “Society was still very closed, women didn’t have much say.”
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U.S. and Russian officials to discuss how to end Ukraine war
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:18:02 +0000
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security adviser Michael Waltz and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff are expected to travel to Riyadh for early-stage talks.
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Loving the British Museum, pots and all | Letters
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:11:51 GMT
Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s experience of the institution’s treasures
I would guess that Adrian Chiles is no fan of The Great Pottery Throw Down, currently on Channel 4 (At 57, I went to the British Museum for the first time – and it left me rather cold, 12 February). Not only is he missing out on a lovely creative piece of television, but he is failing to recognise that pots, jugs, vessels, dishes and containers of all shapes and sizes have played a vital part in the development of civilisation over the ages.
Pots for carrying, storing and dispensing water, wine, oil, foodstuff and human waste are important historical markers of human ingenuity and skill that we should not dismiss. While the use of terracotta, ceramics, bone china etc for functional items in our lives has been usurped by plastic and metal, the artistic merits of pots and their intricate illustrations is something to be celebrated. Maybe Mr Chiles needs to sign up for a pottery class.
Jan Ross
Silverton, Devon
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What would I tell my younger self if I met her for coffee? Mostly that things do get better | Emma Beddington
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:00:09 GMT
Everyone hopes that they will get happier and wiser as well as older. And you know what? Sometimes they do
I met my younger self for coffee. She wore a crisp white Agnès B shirt and patent ballet pumps; I wore H&M elastic waisted trousers and the T-shirt I wore to the gym the day before. She ordered … hang on, hang on. First, isn’t this a time-travel no-no? And if it’s OK, I have questions. Say I met my 20-year-old self – is it 1995, meaning weak filter in the hippy cafe with cakes that taste like horse food? Or 2025, when every second shop serves violently acidic espressos? (Either way, I need to prepare my stomach.) And how have I lured her out? Because she may be naive, but no way would she agree to coffee with “your future self”. That’s plainly a trap.
This whimsy, you may not be surprised to hear, is a TikTok trend. Based on a poem by Jennae Cecelia, it has been enthusiastically adopted by the youth (how are you dewy-faced babies meeting your younger selves – what are they, foetuses?). The formulaic videos are set to the kind of acoustic crooning that makes my husband instantly switch the radio to Capital Dance and wow, are they earnest about their lost, hurting youthful selves and self-actualised current incarnations. Aren’t gen Z supposed to be jokey nihilists? “We hugged and I told her I am becoming everything she had ever wanted me to be,” goes TikToker @earthtoapryl’s version (2m views). “I told her she’s full of purpose and has taught 10 million people to love themselves,” says another, and if you aren’t cringing your entire body inside out reading that, you’re probably not a gen X cynic.
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UK hopes to be a bridge between Europe and Trump’s US, minister says
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:57:39 GMT
Jonathan Reynolds says Britain has not given up on persuading the US to allow Ukraine to join Nato
The UK hopes to act as a bridge between Europe and Donald Trump’s US, the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has said before what could be a crucial week of diplomacy in deciding Ukraine’s future.
With Keir Starmer expected to travel to Paris on Monday for an emergency summit of European leaders, in advance of a possible trip to Washington the following week, Reynolds said the UK had still not given up on persuading the US to allow Ukraine to join Nato.
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‘There has been an awakening’: ancient sects on the rise in Modi’s India
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:00:05 GMT
Some 400 million devotees will attend this year’s Kumbh Mela festival. Pilgrims and politicians explain why it’s bigger than ever
They sat quietly together on the banks of the Ganges river, heads bowed in sombre meditation. Some men were naked, their bodies smeared grey with ash. Others had a simple saffron cloth tied around their waist. Nearby, barbers balanced on their haunches, shaving the head of each man clean with a flick of their knives, save for a small strand at the back.
This ceremony, in which millions of pilgrims seek to cleanse their sins to break the cycle of reincarnation has been taking place at the Kumbh Mela festival for centuries. It is mandatory for thousands of sadhus – Hindu holy men who live an austere life of strict spiritual discipline. Among the most sacred events in the Hindu calendar, the festival occurs every 12 years across four sacred locations in India where it is believed the Hindu god Vishnu once spilled drops of the nectar of immortality.
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At least 18 people die in crowd crush at Delhi railway station
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:11:44 GMT
Rush broke out as travellers scrambled to board trains in India’s capital to go to world’s largest religious gathering
At least 18 people have died in a crush at a railway station in India’s capital when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the world’s largest religious gathering, officials have said.
The Kumbh Mela attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful every 12 years to the northern city of Prayagraj, and has a history of crowd-related disasters – including one last month, when at least 30 people died in another crush at the holy confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers.
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‘We’re reminded that even beautiful things have their negative side’: Sayan Bose’s best phone picture
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:00:34 GMT
Indian photographer Sayan Bose celebrates the cultural heritage of Bengal in this striking image of a young farmer
Sayan Bose had travelled two hours from his home in Kolkata, India, for a day of documentary photography in Sangrampur, West Bengal. “I was roaming around the village, capturing the local people’s lifestyle, asking about their daily lives and jobs and struggles,” Bose says. “I got talking to a 17-year-old called Ariful Alam. He was a farmer at a large sunflower garden. He was youthful and fun-loving, and agreed to pose in the field for me.”
Alam wears a Chou, or Chhau, mask. “They hold a significant place in Bengal’s rich cultural heritage,” Bose says. “They’re used in a traditional folk dance, the Purulia Chhau, which narrates mythologies and folklores, and also as decorative pieces. I chose to use the mask that depicts a character named Mahisha, from Mahishasura Mardini, a 21-verse stotra from Hindu mythology.”
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NASA Sets Coverage of Firefly’s First Robotic Commercial Moon Landing
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:01:19 +0000
With a suite of NASA science and technology on board, Firefly Aerospace is targeting no earlier than 3:45 a.m. EST on Sunday, March 2, to land the Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon. Blue Ghost is slated to touch down near Mare Crisium, a plain in the northeast quadrant on the near side of […]
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Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:31:52 +0000
In a tweet announcing his attack on the Climate Justice Alliance, EPA head Lee Zeldin linked it to the group’s protected speech about Palestine.
The post Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.
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13 Best MagSafe Wireless Chargers (2025): Power Banks, Stands, Pads, and Travel Chargers
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:30:00 +0000
Keep your iPhone battery topped up with a magnetic MagSafe wireless charger.
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“You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:20:00 +0000
Palestinians from Gaza responded with outrage to Trump’s proposal to expel them from their homes.
The post “You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild appeared first on The Intercept.
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Global HIV Care Thrown Into Chaos by Trump: “I Will Be Sick and Maybe Die”
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:56:06 +0000
In South Africa, a 36-year-old living with HIV since childhood fears she will lose access to treatment due to Trump’s policy.
The post Global HIV Care Thrown Into Chaos by Trump: “I Will Be Sick and Maybe Die” appeared first on The Intercept.
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60 days in bed for science
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:30:00 +0100
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A group of volunteers is spending two months lying in bed—with their feet up and one shoulder always touching the mattress—even while eating, showering, and using the toilet. But why? This extreme bedrest study is helping scientists understand how space travel affects the human body and how to keep astronauts healthy on long missions.
Microgravity causes muscle and bone loss, fluid shifts, and other physiological changes similar to those experienced by bedridden patients on Earth. By studying volunteers here on Earth, researchers can develop better countermeasures for astronauts and even improve treatments for medical conditions like osteoporosis.
In this study, participants are divided into three groups: one stays in bed with no exercise, another cycles in bed to mimic astronaut workouts, and a third cycles while being spun in a centrifuge to simulate artificial gravity. Scientists hope artificial gravity could become a key tool in protecting astronauts during deep-space missions.
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Endangered frog dads travel 7,000 miles to 'give birth'
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:51:00 GMT
Male frogs carrying tadpoles made an incredible journey to the UK by boat, plane, and car.
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Future of space travel: Could robots really replace human astronauts?
Tue, 31 Dec 2024 01:46:51 GMT
Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks and cost
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From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.
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As the US retreats, Europe must look out for itself – so is Macron’s nuclear offer the answer? | Simon Tisdall
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:00:30 GMT
Development of a joint defence shield would be politically explosive for Keir Starmer. But it’s an idea whose time has come
The startling contempt for Europe’s intensifying security concerns displayed by Donald Trump and his henchmen has brought an old, controversial question back to the fore: should Britain and France pool their nuclear weapons capabilities and create a Europe-wide defensive nuclear shield to deter Vladimir Putin’s Russia, if the US reduces or withdraws its support?
Trump has not so far explicitly threatened to cut US nuclear forces based in Europe. But speaking last week, the president said he wanted to halve the US’s defence spending, especially on nuclear weapons. Trump often denigrates Nato, keystone of European security. Last year, he encouraged Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to member states that, in his view, spend too little on defence.
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Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:03:47 +0000
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far side
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Europe, sidelined by U.S. and Russia, seeks influence in Ukraine talks
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:05:27 +0000
European leaders planned to meet Monday on how they might influence talks that could determine the future of Ukraine and of Europe’s security landscape.
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Starmer ready to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine if peace deal reached
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:15:22 GMT
It is understood to be the first time the PM has been explicit about sending British peacekeepers to Ukraine
Keir Starmer has said he is prepared to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine if there is a deal to end the war with Russia – acknowledging it could put UK forces “in harm’s way” if Vladimir Putin launches another attack.
It is understood to be the first time the prime minister has explicitly stated he is considering deploying British peacekeepers to Ukraine. The comments came just before emergency talks with European leaders in Paris on Monday.
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Under Trump, a U.S. that once united Europe now divides it
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:08:29 +0000
When Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, U.S. leaders helped whip Europe into a staunchly unified response. Now U.S. leaders seem eager to split the continent into pieces, policymakers say.
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The Guardian view on JD Vance in Munich: Europe must stand up for its values | Editorial
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:30:11 GMT
The vice-president’s speech on Friday was another wake-up call for European leaders. On defence and in other areas, they need to chart their own course
In 2007, Vladimir Putin delivered a speech to the Munich security conference that stunned western diplomats by launching an unforeseen assault on the post-1989 international order. The United States, alleged Mr Putin, had perniciously manufactured a unipolar world “in which there is one master, one sovereign”. Seven years later, Russian forces illegally occupied Crimea, and Moscow-funded separatists seized swathes of territory in eastern Ukraine, in what turned out to be the precursor to full-blown invasion.
Nearly two decades later, the disturbing speech at the same venue by the US vice-president, JD Vance, may prove to be similarly significant as the geopolitics of the 21st century continue to shift. Mr Vance had been expected to concentrate last Friday’s remarks on Ukraine, after a week in which Donald Trump appeared to be unilaterally preparing to negotiate a ceasefire deal entirely on Mr Putin’s terms. Instead, he used his platform as a pulpit from which to berate the US’s European allies on issues such as multiculturalism, migration and the regulation of social media. Indefensibly, the Trump administration now actively cheerleads for far-right parties such as Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland, whose leader, Alice Weidel, he chose to meet in Munich.
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‘The US is ready to hand Russia a win’: newspapers on Europe’s Trump shock
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:02 GMT
European papers express deep alarm at declaration of an ‘ideological war’, while the NYT says Putin may soon ‘realise his dream’
This year’s Munich security conference exposed the chasm in core values separating the Trump administration from most Europeans and sparked deep alarm at US efforts to control the Ukraine peace process and exclude European governments from it.
Here is what some of the main European and US newspapers had to say about it.
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Zelenskyy says Russia will ‘wage war on Nato’ if US support for Ukraine wanes
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:04:35 GMT
Ukrainian president tells NBC’s Meet the Press that Putin’s next targets may be Poland and Lithuania
Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday predicted Russia would “wage war against Nato” if the US stepped back from its support of Ukraine – and that he had seen intelligence suggesting that the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, was building up troops for a possible military invasion of another European country.
The Ukrainian president made the claim on the NBC show Meet the Press in a wide-ranging interview ahead of an emergency summit of European leaders in Paris to discuss Russia’s war on Ukraine – and peace talks between US and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia.
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John Major: Trump’s US isolationism threatens global democracy
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:50:18 GMT
Former UK prime minister says US may regret ceding world stage to China and condemns ‘hypocritical’ JD Vance speech
Democracy around the globe is under threat from the retreat of Donald Trump’s US into isolationism and its likely replacement by China on the world stage, John Major has said.
The former UK prime minister, who rarely offers direct opinion on contemporary politics, used an interview with BBC Radio 4 to say Trump’s administration was unlike anything he had seen before – and to warn that Washington may live to regret ceding global leadership to a more autocratic power.
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UK hopes to be a bridge between Europe and Trump’s US, minister says
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:57:39 GMT
Jonathan Reynolds says Britain has not given up on persuading the US to allow Ukraine to join Nato
The UK hopes to act as a bridge between Europe and Donald Trump’s US, the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has said before what could be a crucial week of diplomacy in deciding Ukraine’s future.
With Keir Starmer expected to travel to Paris on Monday for an emergency summit of European leaders, in advance of a possible trip to Washington the following week, Reynolds said the UK had still not given up on persuading the US to allow Ukraine to join Nato.
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UK marketplace sellers face ‘second Brexit’ hit from Trump’s US import rules
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:00:30 GMT
End of ‘de minimis’ policy for Chinese goods also expected to hit bigger fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo
Many UK-based independent sellers on marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon could suffer a significant hit to US sales from planned changes to import rules under Donald Trump, with experts comparing the impact to a second Brexit.
The new rules, which mean all parcels originating or made in China and being sold into the US must pay import duty – of as much as 15% on fashion items – and an additional 10% tariff, are also expected to impact bigger online clothing retailers such as Asos and Boohoo.
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Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:00:27 GMT
Uncertainty created by tariffs and contempt for rule of law will deter investment, says top economist
Donald Trump’s tariff threats have made the US “a scary place to invest” and may unleash stagflation, the Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has said.
“It risks the worst of all possible worlds: a kind of stagflation,” Stiglitz said in an interview with the Guardian.
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‘Trump trades’ like the dollar and bitcoin are stalling, while Chinese stocks are racing ahead
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:06:00 GMT
President Trump has been back in the White House for less than a month. Yet many of the most popular “Trump trades” have already seen their momentum wane, while Chinese and European stocks — which had struggled in the aftermath of his electoral victory — are racing ahead.
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Trump’s comments on Canada prompt surge of patriotism – in a Canadian way
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:24:47 GMT
Trump’s diplomatic trolling has sparked disbelief and defiance – but also revived questions of national identity
A lone figure takes to the stage, a giant maple leaf flag rippling on a screen behind him as he gingerly approaches the microphone.
“I’m not a lumberjack, or a fur trader,” he tells the crowd. “I have a prime minister, not a president. I speak English and French, not American. And I pronounce it ‘about’ – not ‘a boot’.”
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Trump has thrown a wrench into a national EV charging program
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:07:10 +0000
Electric charging projects have been thrown into chaos by the administration's directive.
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The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000
For some members of the WhatsApp group, speaking out for Palestine and criticizing Israel are tantamount to supporting Hamas.
The post The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters appeared first on The Intercept.
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Mexico threatens to escalate US gunmakers lawsuit with terror charges
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:06:34 GMT
Claudia Scheinbaum warns of reciprocal action if Washington designates country’s cartels as terrorist groups
Mexico’s president has warned US gunmakers they could face fresh legal action as accomplices of organized crime if Washington designates the country’s cartels as terrorist groups.
The Latin American country, which is under mounting pressure from Donald Trump to curb illegal drug smuggling, wants its neighbor to crack down on firearms trafficking in the other direction.
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Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:31:52 +0000
In a tweet announcing his attack on the Climate Justice Alliance, EPA head Lee Zeldin linked it to the group’s protected speech about Palestine.
The post Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.
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It Took Trump Only Twenty-four Days to Sell Out Ukraine
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:12:05 +0000
Amid the chaos in Washington, the President’s phone call with Putin has Moscow filled with glee.
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DOGE as a National Cyberattack
2025-02-13T12:03:26Z
In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national security are profound.
First, it was reported that people associated with the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed the US Treasury computer system, giving them the ability to collect data on and potentially control the department’s roughly ...
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Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump’s plan for Gaza
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:50:46 GMT
Israeli PM and US secretary of state express joint support for ‘bold vision’ that would force 2 million people to leave
Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government is working closely with the US to implement Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, which involves US ownership of the coastal strip, the removal of more than 2 million Palestinians and the redevelopment of the occupied territory as a resort.
The Israeli prime minister was speaking after a meeting in Jerusalem with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who defended the Trump plan as bold and visionary. Rubio and Netanyahu blamed Iran for the violence in the Middle East and insisted Tehran would be stopped from developing nuclear weapons.
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Summary of the 10th DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:10:31 +0000
Introduction The 10th Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Radiometer [NISTAR] Science Team Meeting (STM) was held October 16–18, 2024. Over 50 scientists attended, most of whom were from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), with several participating from other NASA centers, U.S. universities, and U.S. Department of […]
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How Many Trump Officials Have Taken Money From Qatar?
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:02:00 +0000
Oversight laws about foreign influence were already limited. Now the Trump administration is shredding them.
The post How Many Trump Officials Have Taken Money From Qatar? appeared first on The Intercept.
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Peter Dutton sidesteps questions on state-funded nuclear disaster insurance plan
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:28:47 GMT
Albanese government also asked if it has considered nuclear insurance pool in context of Aukus nuclear-powered submarines
Peter Dutton has sidestepped questions about the potential need for a government-backed insurance pool for nuclear disasters after the industry’s peak body exposed a possible missing piece in his flagship energy plan.
The Insurance Council of Australia on Monday suggested the commonwealth may need to underwrite a scheme to cover communities against nuclear accidents.
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Tiger Woods expects Trump talks to see LIV golfers back on PGA Tour in 2025
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:13:06 GMT
- PGA Tour board members met Trump at start of February
- ‘I think things are going to heal quickly,’ says Woods
Tiger Woods has claimed LIV golfers could make a sensational return to the PGA Tour this year after the direct involvement of Donald Trump in the sport’s unification talks.
Elite golf has been fractured since the launch of the Saudi Arabian-backed LIV circuit in 2022. A key upshot was the generally acrimonious departure of several big names from the PGA Tour to LIV. Despite the signing of a framework agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund in the summer of 2023, progress has been glacial.
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Can Europe and UK persuade Trump they're relevant to Ukraine's future?
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:41:41 GMT
Europe's hastily convened security summit in Paris is proof of leaders' anxiety about their role in defending Ukraine, the BBC's Katya Adler writes.
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TV tonight: a vital film about young people in Gaza
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:20:27 GMT
A 10-year-old TikToker and an 11-year-old who dreams of being a paramedic show us the horrors of living in a warzone. Plus: unbearable holidaygoers check in at the White Lotus. Here’s what to watch this evening
9pm, BBC Two
A teenager narrates this absolutely vital film about what life has been like for young people in Gaza since 7 October 2023. Abdullah, 13, is incisive, quick on his feet and at times alarmingly indifferent as he shows the horrors around him. We also meet cooking TikToker Renad, 10, who stops whisking when a bomb hits nearby: “We’re not afraid, we’re used to it.” And Zakaria, 11, who dreams of being a paramedic, is determined to “find a way to fit in” by helping casualties; it is a relief to see him enjoy a moment in the sea. Most haunting still, following news of Donald Trump’s intentions for Gaza, are Renad’s words after the ceasefire is announced: “If Gaza goes back to how it was before, I’ll stay for sure.” Hollie Richardson
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Living under the yoke of an authoritarian regime? Why not join the Raccoons of the Resistance! | First Dog on the Moon
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:06:51 GMT
It’s time we put an end to the era of Trumpian Muskocracy
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Trump’s plan for Gaza leaves Arab nations facing an impossible choice | Nesrine Malik
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:00:29 GMT
This mortifying dilemma goes to the very soul of the region - and its leaders have brought it on themselves
Arab states are in a bind. King Abdullah of Jordan squirmed in the Oval Office last week, as the press asked him and Donald Trump about the latter’s Gaza plan. He is in a tight spot, wanting to keep Trump onside while at the same time not agreeing to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Immediately after, anonymous Egyptian “security sources” – not parties prone to leaking without strategic direction from President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi – said that Sisi would not accept an invitation to visit Washington as long as the Gaza displacement plan was on the agenda. Now, this was probably more for the Egyptian public’s consumption than for Trump’s benefit – Egypt is in no position to make an enemy of the new administration – but it nonetheless shows how hard it is for Trump to secure the acquiescence of even the US’s closest allies.
Saudi Arabia also postponed a visit to the US once Trump announced his intentions for Gaza. And in a remarkable change of tune, Saudi, which before 7 October 2023 was en route to normalisation with Israel and is not usually a country to make heated statements, lost its patience. When Benjamin Netanyahu quipped that maybe it would like to take Palestinians from Gaza (“they have a lot of territory”, he said), Saudi state media unleashed a storm of invective against him. When Trump announced his plan, Saudi Arabian authorities immediately put out a statement rejecting it. So keen was the government to signal that rejection that it released the statement at 4am local time.
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The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age – podcast
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:00:27 GMT
The old model of political debate is over, and spectacle beats argument every time. How did we get here? By Chris Hayes. Read by Adam Sims
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Badenoch and Farage to vie for attention of Trump allies at London summit
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:00:25 GMT
Event co-founded by Jordan Peterson will bring together global rightwing figures including senior US Republicans
Influential rightwingers from around the world are to gather in London from Monday at a major conference to network and build connections with senior US Republicans linked to the Trump administration.
The UK opposition leader, the Conservatives’ Kemi Badenoch, and Nigel Farage of the Reform UK party, her hard-right anti-immigration rival, will compete to present themselves as the torchbearer of British conservatism.
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How Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' pledge is affecting other countries
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:04:23 GMT
Some major carbon-emitting countries are hinting they may follow suit as the US opts to ramp up fossil fuels.
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Trump makes first Supreme Court appeal in test of power to fire officials
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:23:46 GMT
The leader of an independent whistleblowing agency sued after he was fired by email this month.
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Trump cuts reach FDA workers focused on food safety and medical devices
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:47:16 GMT
Positions cut also appeared to focus on agency’s centers for tobacco products, including oversight of e-cigarettes
The Trump administration’s effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the Food and Drug Administration this weekend, as recently hired employees who review the safety of food ingredients, medical devices and other products were fired.
Probationary employees across the FDA received notices on Saturday evening that their jobs were being eliminated, according to three FDA staffers who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire independent agency leader
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:47:16 +0000
President Donald Trump wants the justices to allow him to remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower reports.
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Trump takes a victory lap at a rain-splattered Daytona 500
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:59:39 +0000
NASCAR is Trump country, White House officials have said, and attendees on Sunday warmly welcomed the president in a brief visit.
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Watch: Trump's motorcade drives lap of Daytona 500 racetrack
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:43:07 GMT
The president opened the Nascar season with a flyby and lap in front of the racing cars.
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Acting archivist, inspector general for National Archives forced out
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:45:20 +0000
The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts recover documents from Mar-a-Lago.
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On first Mideast tour, Rubio warns Iran, praises Trump’s Gaza plan
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:43:29 +0000
After talks, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Tehran “the single greatest source of instability in the region,” while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Trump’s “bold vision for Gaza.”
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Trump under fire for likening himself to Napoleon amid attacks on judges
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:52:15 GMT
President posted ‘he who saves his country does not violate any laws’ quote attributed to French emperor
Critics rounded on Donald Trump on Sunday for likening himself to Napoleon in a “dictatorial” social media post echoing the French emperor’s assertion that “he who saves his country does not violate any laws”.
The post came at the end of another tumultuous week early in Trump’s second presidency, during which acolytes questioned the legitimacy of judges making a succession of rulings to stall his administration’s aggressive seizure or dismantling of federal institutions and budgets.
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MLK’s family fear new batch of assassination files will have FBI ‘smears’
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:26:46 GMT
Family of Martin Luther King Jr says Trump mandate could revive J Edgar Hoover’s efforts to discredit revered activist
The family of Martin Luther King Jr has expressed concern over Donald Trump’s executive order to release records surrounding the civil rights leader’s assassination, saying the president’s mandate could revive efforts to discredit the revered activist with the public.
Speaking to Axios, a friend of the King family said: “We know J Edgar Hoover tried to destroy Dr King’s legacy, and the family doesn’t want that effort to prevail,” referring to the late former FBI director and his agency’s years-long surveillance of King as well his associates.
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Egypt draws up Gaza reconstruction plan that would exclude Hamas
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:44:46 GMT
Alternative to Trump plan would involve committee of technocrats but future military status of Hamas unresolved
An alternative to Donald Trump’s plan to turn the Gaza Strip into a US-owned “Riviera of the Middle East” is being prepared by Egypt in conjunction with the World Bank, under which Hamas would be formally excluded from governance and control of the territory’s reconstruction.
The process would be handed over on an interim basis to the control of a social or community support committee. No member of Hamas would sit on the committee. But the future military status of Hamas within Gaza is unresolved, which is likely to be a barrier to Israeli endorsement of the plan.
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Nicola Jennings on what’s on the table for Trump and Putin – cartoon
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:35:37 GMT
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Trump admin pulls hundreds of videos from CFPB’s YouTube channel
2025-02-16T17:31:14+00:00
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Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump’s 'bold vision' for Gaza – video
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:22:46 GMT
Benjamin Netanyahu has said his government is working closely with the US to implement Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, which involves US ownership of the coastal strip, the removal of more than 2 million Palestinians and the redevelopment of the occupied territory as a resort. The Israeli prime minister was speaking after a meeting in Jerusalem with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who defended the Trump plan as bold and visionary
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Trump called Washington a city of ‘filth' and 'decay.’ He’s trying to remake it in his image.
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:00:00 EST
Trump in his first weeks of his second term has targeted the city like few presidents before him.
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As Trump vents about covid, experts worry his moves could worsen next threat
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:17:34 +0000
The president, still angry about the pandemic response, may be cutting into the country’s fundamental ability to identify emerging diseases and head them off.
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Can Starmer Bridge the Gap Between Trump and Europe?
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:58:00 GMT
European leaders have called an emergency summit over the war in Ukraine.
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Dems concede Republicans ‘running circles’ around them online as Trump remakes Washington
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:00:00 EST
The Democratic response to Trump, one Texas lawmaker said, is “too slow and too tepid and not meeting the moment.”
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Trump Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Federal Prisons Are Purposely Inhumane
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
And that’s how he wants to keep it, his executive orders and memos from Attorney General Pam Bondi show.
The post Trump Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Federal Prisons Are Purposely Inhumane appeared first on The Intercept.
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‘The greatest propaganda op in history’: Trump’s reshaping of US culture evokes past antidemocratic regimes
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:00:09 GMT
The president’s full-court press to dominate media and control cultural institutions is straight out of the authoritarian playbook
Bigger than the Super Bowl, claimed Donald Trump, sitting in a big leather chair beside a big map. Then came an announcement over the public address system. “Air Force One is currently in international waters,” declared the flight crew of the US presidential jet, “for the first time in history flying over the recently renamed Gulf of America.”
As his aides clapped and whooped, Trump gloated: “Isn’t that nice? We’re about ‘Make America Great Again’, right? That’s what we care about.” He proceeded to sign a proclamation declaring 9 February “Gulf of America Day” as Air Force One flew over the body of water previously known as the Gulf of Mexico.
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We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts.
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Relatives and records cast doubt on Guantánamo migrants being ‘worst of the worst’
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Details on some of the Guantánamo migrants have begun to emerge. They are young Venezuelan men, and relatives say they have been falsely branded Tren de Aragua gang members.
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Trump wants to shut the Education Department. Is it sleight-of-hand?
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Even if it’s shuttered, the programs and money may be moved to other agencies.
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In Haiti, Trump’s assault on foreign aid is ‘a gift to the gangs’
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000
The history of U.S. aid in Haiti is complicated. But even critics say Trump’s broad assault on foreign assistance will do more harm than good.
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Rubio expected to push Trump plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza on trip to Israel
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:50:24 GMT
US secretary of state is making his first trip to region and is expected to advocate Trump’s plan to create ‘Riviera of the Middle East’
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, will discuss the Gaza ceasefire with Israel’s prime minister in Jerusalem, launching a Middle East tour a day after the latest hostage-prisoner exchange.
On his first visit to the region as Washington’s top diplomat, Rubio is expected to push the US president Donald Trump’s widely condemned proposal to take control of the Gaza Strip and relocate its more than 2 million residents – which experts say would amount to ethnic cleansing.
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Trump’s global funding freeze leaves anti-terror programs in limbo
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:00:31 +0000
U.S. officials say now-suspended programs across Africa were designed specifically to respond to national security threats and contain the spread of terrorism.
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In Denali’s shadow, little love for again calling the mount McKinley
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:05:50 +0000
President Trump’s executive order to rename the Alaska peak — North America’s highest — perplexes and worries many who live in its snow-shrouded midst.
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Mass resignation marks a new kind of defiance in the second Trump era
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:05:51 +0000
The Trump team has rarely if ever faced such resistance from within the government, a move that may pave the way for further defiance.
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Scholz blasts Vance’s support for Germany’s far right
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:41:30 +0000
Some see the Trump administration actively promoting political extremism in the West.
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Tensions over Palestinians at heart of Trump’s Middle East gambit
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:07:37 +0000
Trump’s goals for the Middle East face a major test as Secretary of State Marco Rubio holds talks with leaders in Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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Ukraine rejects initial Trump request for half its mineral wealth
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:28:36 +0000
Ukraine is hoping to reach a deal on a counter-offer, but the opening proposal rippled through European diplomatic circles not only for its audacity but because the war-ravaged country appears ready to play ball.
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As federal workers and aid recipients reel, Trump’s team is unmoved
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 15:25:42 +0000
“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” a White House official said.
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Lawmakers expect tough questions over Trump’s vision in Europe
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:40:14 +0000
The question every American lawmaker faces this year at the Munich conference: Does America still stand behind Europe and other global allies?
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Why the budding Trump DOJ scandal is a big deal
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:29:13 +0000
The episode crystallizes Trump’s politicization of usually independent government functions, and in this case some conservatives actually bucked his team.
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See inside DOGE’s playbook for eliminating DEI
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:00:32 +0000
Documents detail step-by-step plans by the U.S. DOGE Service to purge federal agencies of diversity, equity, and inclusion workers and offices. Here’s what comes next.
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How Trump got the Cabinet he wanted and quashed GOP concerns
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 13:00:32 +0000
The triumph of Trump’s most controversial picks has set the tone for the president’s domineering relationship with Congress — and left allies more confident than ever that he can have his way in Washington.
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Trump doubts Gazans want to stay. But amid the ruins, this man disagrees.
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:00:47 +0000
One Gazan’s journey back home as President Donald Trump insists that Palestinians remain in Gaza because “they’ve never had an alternative.”
Match ID: 67 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Can Drake come back from Kendrick Lamar’s diss?; Marina Hyde on Starmer aping Trump; ‘I was trapped for 65 hours under 4,000 tons of rubble’; and Philippa Perry on setting boundaries with your parents – podcast
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 05:00:27 GMT
Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer’s palid imitation of Trumpism. The sole survivor of a landslide describes the pain, the fear and the long, winding path of recovery. After Kendrick Lamar lands another savage blow at the Super Bowl, a crisis expert advises on how Drake can return to relevance. And, ‘I feel happier and healthier when not around my mother’ – Philippa Perry advises one reader
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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:07:33 +0000
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
Match ID: 69 Score: 25.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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“The country is less safe”: CDC disease detective program gutted
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:41:39 +0000
CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service is as critical to public health as it is revered.
Match ID: 70 Score: 25.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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US Judge Extends Order to Block DOGE From Treasury Department Data
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:49:08 +0000
A lawyer for the Trump administration couldn’t say whether the data DOGE accessed had been shared outside the US Treasury Department.
Match ID: 71 Score: 25.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:40:53 +0000
How exactly the IRS will use the SuperPod AI hardware is unclear. But it comes amid a push for automation in government.
The post The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 72 Score: 25.00 source: theintercept.com age: 2 days
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Danielle Sassoon’s American Bravery
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:22:00 +0000
A conservative prosecutor in New York makes the first bold move against Donald Trump’s rampaging Presidency.
Match ID: 73 Score: 25.00 source: www.newyorker.com age: 2 days
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DOGE’s .gov site lampooned as coders quickly realize it can be edited by anyone
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:24:50 +0000
DOGE site is apparently not running on government servers.
Match ID: 74 Score: 25.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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US deports 119 immigrants of varying nationalities to Panama
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT
People from Afghanistan, Iran, China and other countries flown out as Trump’s deportation effort intensifies
The US has sent undocumented immigrants from several Asian countries whose governments have refused to accept them to Panama, in a move signalling an intensification of the Trump administration’s deportation effort.
A military plane carrying 119 immigrants from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Pakistan flew from California to Panama City on Wednesday in what was expected to be the first of three migrants flights to the country.
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The DOGE Squad Is Squandering a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0000
Government tech experts say Elon Musk’s team could have seized the moment to make Washington work better.
Match ID: 76 Score: 25.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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AI and Civil Service Purges
2025-02-14T13:03:22Z
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to reform is upending government operations. Critical functions have been halted, tens of thousands of federal staffers are being encouraged to resign, and congressional mandates are being disregarded. The next phase: The Department of Government Efficiency reportedly wants to use AI to cut costs. According to The Washington Post, Musk’s group has started to run sensitive data from government systems through AI programs to analyze spending and determine what could be pruned. This may lead to the elimination of human jobs in favor of automation. As one government official who has been tracking Musk’s DOGE team told the...
Match ID: 77 Score: 25.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 2 days
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Rocket Report: A blue mood at Blue; Stoke Space fires a shot over the bow
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:00:58 +0000
"Rapid turnaround isn’t merely a goal, it’s baked into the design."
Match ID: 78 Score: 25.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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Constitutional Crisis Looms
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“What he’s done is testing the limits of his power in a way we have never seen in this country,” says retired federal Judge Nancy Gertner.
The post Constitutional Crisis Looms appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 79 Score: 25.00 source: theintercept.com age: 2 days
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China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000
Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn’t stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
Match ID: 80 Score: 25.00 source: www.wired.com age: 4 days
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Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career”
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:09:38 +0000
CoreCivic CEO Damon Hininger could barely contain his excitement about the Laken Riley Act and Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders.
The post Private Prison CEO on Trump Deportation Surge: “One of the Most Exciting Periods in My Career” appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 81 Score: 22.86 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
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Democrats Swear They’ll Fight Elon Musk. But What About the Cash They Took From SpaceX?
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000
Musk has emerged as Trump’s far-right-hand man, creating some awkwardness for the president’s Democratic foes.
The post Democrats Swear They’ll Fight Elon Musk. But What About the Cash They Took From SpaceX? appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 82 Score: 21.43 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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Oh, Canada! Can Trump just take it? – podcast
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:00:08 GMT
On the first day of his second term in office, Donald Trump suggested he wanted the US to ‘expand’ its territory. Few thought he could actually mean taking Canada and making it the 51st state. But could he actually do that?
Jonathan Freedland speaks to the reporter Leyland Cecco in Toronto about the possibility of the two North American allies merging, what Canadians think about it, and why this existential threat has had an impact on Canadian national politics
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Match ID: 83 Score: 21.43 source: www.theguardian.com age: 3 days
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Papa Elon or Donald, Sr.
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:39:48 +0000
Which father knows best?
Match ID: 84 Score: 21.43 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
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The Strategy Behind Trump’s Defiance of the Law
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:28:47 +0000
His violations follow an old playbook—trigger lawsuits, giving the Supreme Court a chance to declare statutes unconstitutional.
Match ID: 85 Score: 21.43 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
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DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:13:12 +0000
The source code for the new Department of Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority, while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
Match ID: 86 Score: 21.43 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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How We’re Keeping Tabs on DOGE
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:21:26 +0000
On this special episode of Uncanny Valley, WIRED’s politics editor and global editorial director catch us up on Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration.
Match ID: 87 Score: 21.43 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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DOGE’s Race to the Bottom
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:11:08 +0000
Elon Musk’s takeover of US government agencies has happened at remarkable speeds. That’s the point.
Match ID: 88 Score: 21.43 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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What Does It Mean to Resist Trump in 2025?
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
“I think the Democrats have worked themselves into a bit of a corner,” the writer Brady Brickner-Wood says. “They’re going to need to soul search in a way that’s not just performative and is consistent with their values.”
Match ID: 89 Score: 21.43 source: www.newyorker.com age: 3 days
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Europe live: European leaders meet in Paris to discuss Ukraine’s future
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:40:53 GMT
Emmanuel Macron convenes summit to try to find path outside EU as US and Russia prepare to meet without European involvement
Swedish foreign minister Maria Malmer Stenergard told public radio Sveriges Radio that the country would not rule out sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine if necessary.
“We must first now negotiate a fair and sustainable peace that respects international law... When we have such a peace in place, it will need to be maintained and for that our government is not ruling out anything,” she said.
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Match ID: 90 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Six Nations half-term report: Ireland top of class but Wales go from bad to worse | Ugo Monye
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:00:31 GMT
In rating the teams it is the defending champions that look a cut above as the other sides struggle to find consistency
There was a suspicion of vulnerability to Ireland coming into the Six Nations but they have answered those questions in style so far. Perhaps we’d just become a bit complacent about their standards but, as the only side unbeaten after two rounds, they look formidable.
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Match ID: 91 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Falling for Alassio – the rebirth of an Italian resort
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:00:28 GMT
The former fishing village on the Ligurian coast was once a favourite with the wealthy British set. Now instead of tennis and tea parties, it offers scenic treks and seafood feasts in glorious spring sunshine
‘Why don’t the inglesi come here any more?” The question was asked by a customer at Caffè Roma in the seaside town of Alassio, whose pre-second world war British population could reach 5,000.
There are several reasons, I think. From the late 19th century, wealthy Britons would arrive in October to escape the winter cold, stay until May, and then head home before the torrid Italian summer. These days, British people with that kind of wealth probably winter between Zermatt and the Caribbean. But neither has Alassio great appeal to more ordinary Britons wanting a summer holiday: August temperatures can hit the high 30s, crowds and prices surge and, as in so many Italian resorts, the sands are taken over by beach concessions from Easter to September.
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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy waves away first US bid for critical minerals
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:42:18 GMT
President says draft deal did not guarantee Ukraine’s security; diplomatic chaos as US and Russia meet in Riyadh and Macron convenes Europe crisis talks. What we know on day 1,090
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Match ID: 93 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Friends of Russian anti-war singer cast doubt on official version of his death
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:00:27 GMT
Vadim Stroykin reported to have killed himself by jumping from a ninth-floor window during visit by security services
No one knows exactly what happened in the final moments of Vadim Stroykin’s life.
The 59-year-old Russian singer-songwriter’s vibrant career came to a sudden end on 5 February when a team from Russia’s security services arrived at his cramped ninth-floor St Petersburg flat at 9am. They were investigating him for what has become one of the gravest offences in today’s Russia — donating to the Ukrainian army.
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Korea suspends access to China-based DeepSeek app
2025-02-17T04:13:21+00:00
Match ID: 95 Score: 20.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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New downloads of DeepSeek suspended in South Korea, data protection agency says
2025-02-17T03:30:25+00:00
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U.S. and Russian officials to discuss how to end Ukraine war
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:18:02 +0000
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security adviser Michael Waltz and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff are expected to travel to Riyadh for early-stage talks.
Match ID: 97 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 0 days
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Baftas 2025: Mikey Madison gets her star-is-born moment and classy Conclave wins big | Peter Bradshaw
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:05:22 GMT
The Brutalist was the night’s almost-joint winner, with prizes for director Brady Corbet and Adrien Brody, while A Real Pain and Kneecap provided heartening victories
• Conclave beats The Brutalist to best picture
• Full list of winners
• Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison among the winners – in pictures
• Best quotes of the night
Whatever else happened at this year’s Bafta ceremony, it provided us with a very exciting star-is-born moment. Mikey Madison broke ahead of a densely packed crowd of best-actress contenders (in which only the hapless Karla Sofía Gascón was really lagging behind) to win the Bafta for her wonderfully smart, funny, charismatic and vulnerable performance in Sean Baker’s Anora, playing a New York table dancer who gets a Vegas wedding to a Russian oligarch’s son. Her final closeup scene in that film is a thrilling masterclass in complexity. I admit that I myself had been rooting for Marianne Jean-Baptiste for her performance in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, but who could possibly begrudge Madison her night of triumph?
Otherwise, the night’s big winner was Edward Berger’s superbly classy and sleek Vatican conspiracy drama Conclave, based on the Robert Harris bestseller; it was level pegging in terms of numbers with The Brutalist, but carried off the evening’s top prize. Conclave is the movie whose blue-chip excellence all round made it a firm favourite with Bafta voters, who were thrilled by Ralph Fiennes’s lead performance as the troubled cardinal; they were diverted by its visual flourishes, amused by its intelligent but approachable dialogue on religious issues and vastly entertained by its twist ending. Strict anti-spoiler rules dictate that we can’t fully discuss how this film in fact is part of a contemporary debate exhaustively analysed elsewhere.
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Macron convenes European leaders for Ukraine summit amid tension with US
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:17:02 GMT
Paris meeting aims to devise action plan for Ukraine’s future as US and Russian delegates prepare to meet
The sudden transatlantic chasm over Ukraine will be laid bare on Monday when US officials start preliminary talks in Riyadh with Russian counterparts about a ceasefire, just as Emmanuel Macron hosts a Paris summit of European defence powers to demand the US ends the lockout of Europe and Kyiv from the process.
The US and Russia talks precede a planned meeting this week between the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the first such meeting between the two countries in over two years. There are fears in Europe that Russia via the US talks will relaunch its plan for imposed Ukrainian neutrality and a joint US-Russia carve-up with agreed spheres of influence.
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Ukraine recaptures frontline village amid signs of slowing Russian advance
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:25:26 GMT
Pischane in Donetsk back under Kyiv’s control as Zelenskyy renews call for fighting to end ‘with just and lasting peace’
Ukrainian forces have recaptured a village on the frontline in the country’s east, amid signs Russia’s advance may be slowing down and as Volodymyr Zelenskyy renewed his call for the fighting to end “with a just and lasting peace”.
On Sunday, Ukrainian forces took back the village of Pischane, south-west of the city of Pokrovsk, military officials said. Russian units had made rapid gains in the area in December and January, seizing a string of settlements and threatening to cut off Pokrovsk.
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Parents of Alexei Navalny join hundreds of mourners on the anniversary of his death – video report
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:34:14 GMT
The parents of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny joined hundreds of mourners at their son's grave on Sunday to mark the anniversary of his death. Navalny died aged 47 on 16 February last year while being held in a jail about 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where he had been sentenced to 19 years under a ‘special regime’
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Match ID: 101 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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The punishment doesn’t fit the crime in Britain. That’s why our jails are overflowing | Samira Shackle
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:00:13 GMT
For 20 years, the UK has been inflating sentences despite little evidence it deters crime. But a new review offers a glimmer of hope
We’ve heard a lot about prisons in recent months; specifically, the fact that they were full when the new government took office last summer. Labour introduced emergency measures to release thousands of prisoners early, which eased the immediate pressure. The government has committed to building four new prisons as well as adding blocks to existing prisons, creating 14,000 new prison spaces over the next seven years. But when the prison system gets bigger, so do the problems within it. And none of this answers the more complicated question of what happens next.
So far, we have seen sticking-plaster solutions to a systemic crisis that has been created, in no small part, by the desire of successive governments to appear tough on crime. Any serious attempt to turn things around requires consideration of how we got here. The UK’s prison population is at record levels; it has almost doubled in the past 30 years. England and Wales have the highest per capita prison population in western Europe, and in the wider continent, only Russia and Turkey jail more people. Amid endemic overcrowding and understaffing, conditions are often poor, with inmates routinely confined to their cells – usually shared – for 23 hours a day. The suicide rate in our jails is twice the European average. Waiting lists for rehabilitative work – behaviour courses, education, training – are so long that some inmates might never access them at all. Most people would probably agree that none of this is desirable; it certainly doesn’t do much to lower the crime rate.
Samira Shackle is a freelance journalist and the author of Karachi Vice
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Alexei Navalny supporters visit grave on first anniversary of his death
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:49:53 GMT
Queues of people risk possible arrest at Moscow cemetery while European leaders condemn Kremlin
European leaders have condemned the Kremlin’s “ultimate responsibility” in the death of Alexei Navalny, as supporters of Russia’s best-known opposition politician held remembrance events a year after he died in an Arctic penal colony.
A steady queue of people braved freezing temperatures and possible arrest in Moscow to visit Navalny’s grave in Borisovskoye cemetery, while his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, was due to address a memorial ceremony in Berlin, where she is living in exile.
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Match ID: 103 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:18:52 GMT
An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content
Google has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitate censorship requests, an Observer investigation can reveal.
The technology company has engaged with the administrations of about 150 countries since 2011 that want information scrubbed from their public domains.
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Presenter Sara Cox looks back: ‘Clare and I met when we were teen models in Korea. I got sent home for bad behaviour’
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:00:36 GMT
The radio and television presenter and her best friend, Clare Hamilton, on behaving badly on shoots, hanging out with the stars after The Girlie Show, and a major wardrobe malfunction
Born in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in 1974, Sara Cox began her career as a model before becoming a presenter on Channel 4’s The Girlie Show in 1996. In 2000, she took over BBC Radio 1’s breakfast show, hosting for three years. She now presents for BBC Radio 2, fronted TV shows including Between the Covers, and has published two novels. Cox lives in London with her husband, Ben Cyzer, and three children. This month, she and her best friend Clare Hamilton launch Teen Commandments, a podcast about parenting adolescents.
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Match ID: 105 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Researchers find RedNote lacks basic security measures, surveillance ramps up around the US-Mexico border, and the UK ordering Apple to create an encryption backdoor comes under fire.
Match ID: 106 Score: 20.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen freed during Israel-Hamas ceasefire
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:59:29 +0000
The 36-year-old American Israeli dual national was released with Russian Israeli Alexander Troufanov, 29, and Iair Horn, 46, who was born in Argentina.
Match ID: 107 Score: 20.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 2 days
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What is device code phishing, and why are Russian spies so successful at it?
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:16:11 +0000
Overlooked attack method has been used since last August in a rash of account takeovers.
Match ID: 108 Score: 20.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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Pentagon Official: Hegseth’s Campaign to Scrub DEI History Is a “Dumb” Distraction
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:18:57 +0000
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is trying to eliminate all Defense Department DEI efforts. It hasn’t been entirely successful.
The post Pentagon Official: Hegseth’s Campaign to Scrub DEI History Is a “Dumb” Distraction appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 109 Score: 17.86 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Donald Trump’s Pro-Union Labor Secretary
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
The nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer reflects MAGA’s working-class contradictions.
Match ID: 110 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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Gaza Must Be Rebuilt by Palestinians, for Palestinians
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Palestinians returning after the ceasefire confront the destruction of their homes and the horror of President Trump’s proposal to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” by committing ethnic cleansing.
Match ID: 111 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter?
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:55:56 +0000
In a strong economy, price pressure can endure for a long time
Match ID: 112 Score: 17.14 source: www.economist.com age: 3 days
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Metals Crucial to Clean Energy Are Getting Caught Up in the US–China Trade War
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000
After a Chinese export ban, can the US get gallium and germanium from Canada—or will tariffs get in the way?
Match ID: 113 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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WWF helping facilitate trade in polar bear fur, investigation reveals
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 06:00:30 GMT
Wildlife charity backs policy of exploitation of small number of some endangered species for economic purposes – such as trophy hunting
The wildlife charity WWF has been working to support the trade in polar bear fur at the same time as using images of the bears to raise money, it can be revealed.
Polar bears are severely affected by the loss of Arctic sea ice, which makes seeking prey harder and forces the bears to use more energy. In some regions, polar bears are showing signs of declining physical condition, having fewer cubs, and dying younger.
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Match ID: 114 Score: 15.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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AI used to design a multi-step enzyme that can digest some plastics
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:47:33 +0000
Enzyme mechanisms can be complex, and getting them to work is tricky.
Match ID: 115 Score: 15.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 2 days
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Federal EV Charger Freeze Sows Chaos, but Chargers Are Still Getting Built
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Chargers funded through the program were due to be just a small share of those opening this year. The longer-term effects aren’t yet clear.
Match ID: 116 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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A Hacker Group Within Russia’s Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000
A team Microsoft calls BadPilot is acting as Sandworm's “initial access operation,” the company says. And over the last year it's trained its sights on the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia.
Match ID: 117 Score: 14.29 source: www.wired.com age: 4 days
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What Happens if Trump Defies the Courts
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:48:05 +0000
Do judges have the power to enforce their rulings if the executive branch refuses to comply?
Match ID: 118 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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Trump Is Bullying Jordan and Egypt to Help in Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza. It Isn’t Working.
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:14:46 +0000
Even with Jordan and Egypt refusing to take in expelled Palestinians, Trump is charging on with his real estate development plan.
The post Trump Is Bullying Jordan and Egypt to Help in Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza. It Isn’t Working. appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 119 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
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J. D. Vance Brawls with the Bishops Over the Trump-Musk Agenda
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:28:32 +0000
The dispute involves Catholic precepts on immigration and charity—which the Church has administered for decades through U.S.A.I.D.
Match ID: 120 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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The Second Trump Administration Takes Aim at the Climate
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
More than thirty actions and executive orders either boost fossil-fuel production or cripple programs that might reduce fossil-fuel use.
Match ID: 121 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.
The post ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 122 Score: 14.29 source: theintercept.com age: 5 days
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A Nose-Computer Interface Could Turn Dogs Into Super Detectors
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:45:37 +0000
Startup Canaery is partnering with a US Department of Energy lab to develop neural implants for rats and dogs that are capable of decoding what they smell.
Match ID: 123 Score: 12.86 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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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
Match ID: 124 Score: 11.43 source: www.economist.com age: 101 days
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Trump’s aid cuts will lead to a surge in propaganda and misinformation, say press freedom groups
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 05:00:09 GMT
From Ukraine to Afghanistan, independent media organisations across the world are being forced to lay off staff or shut down after losing USAid funding
Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze will lead to a decline in the number of independent media outlets across the world, causing a surge in misinformation and playing into the hands of state propagandists, media organisations have warned.
The US president has suspended billions of dollars in projects supported by USAid, including more than $268m (£216m) allocated to support “independent media and the free flow of information”.
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Match ID: 125 Score: 10.71 source: www.theguardian.com age: 6 days
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What Will DOGE’s Moves on Government Agencies Mean for OSHA?
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:26:33 +0000
Unions took to the streets—and the courts—to try to keep Elon Musk’s initiative out of the Labor Department.
Match ID: 126 Score: 10.71 source: www.newyorker.com age: 6 days
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Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:23:21 +0000
Duties on aluminium and steel will throttle American industry and fragment global markets
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Gaza Protester Who Interrupted Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl Halftime Show Speaks Out
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:16:22 +0000
“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”
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US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers
2025-02-16T01:31:43+00:00
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Tycoon profited after India relaxed border security rules for energy park
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:00:18 GMT
Exclusive: Military experts raise concerns over change to protocols on Pakistan border to allow project that was handed to billionaire Gautam Adani
The Indian government relaxed national security protocols along the Pakistan border to make way for a renewable energy park, a project ultimately handed to one of India’s richest men, Gautam Adani, official documents reveal.
The Adani Group is constructing the Khavda plant, the largest renewable project in the world, in the state of Gujarat. The conglomerate is controlled by Adani, whose close relationship with the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has recently been under intense scrutiny.
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Trump: “The U.S. Will Take Over the Gaza Strip”
Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:02:32 +0000
Trump told reporters that he wants to expel “all” Palestinians from Gaza — not just during a period of reconstruction, but permanently.
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UK Secret Order Demands That Apple Give Access to Users’ Encrypted Data
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Benjamin Netanyahu gives Donald Trump a golden pager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise blames Russian government hackers for a breach, and more.
Match ID: 132 Score: 6.43 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
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Trump’s Attacks on USAID Spark Fear That Lifesaving Care Will Become “Transactional”
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:54:46 +0000
If the State Department takes over USAID, experts fear foreign assistance will stop unless it has a perceived benefit for Trump.
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Forensics Experts Challenged the FBI. So the FBI Tried to Censor Their Conference.
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:28:27 +0000
An FBI official urged the American Academy of Forensic Sciences to cancel a conference presentation titled “Taking on the FBI.”
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White House trade chief says Trump will 'structurally shift' the economy
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:57:01 EST
Match ID: 135 Score: 5.71 source: www.politico.com age: 12 days
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Foreign Hackers Are Using Google’s Gemini in Attacks on the US
Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: WhatsApp discloses nearly 100 targets of spyware, hackers used the AT&T breach to hunt for details on US politicians, and more.
Match ID: 136 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 15 days
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How much oil can Trump pump?
Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:44:21 +0000
The president-elect wants to be the ultimate energy baron
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Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:24:15 +0000
Canada and Mexico look likely to suffer
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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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How Democrats lost the DEI war
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 14:00:00 EST
Conservatives won the culture war by riding the backlash to Black Lives Matter protests.
Match ID: 144 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 8 days
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“You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:20:00 +0000
Palestinians from Gaza responded with outrage to Trump’s proposal to expel them from their homes.
The post “You Don’t Own Gaza, Donald Trump”: Palestinians Vow to Remain and Rebuild appeared first on The Intercept.
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Trump cuts Biden access to security briefings as payback
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:14:23 EST
Biden cut off access to briefings for Trump in 2021.
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Trump ousted the top Democratic campaign finance regulator. She says it's illegal.
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:50:16 EST
Ellen Weintraub has served on the commission since 2002.
Match ID: 147 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 9 days
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Global HIV Care Thrown Into Chaos by Trump: “I Will Be Sick and Maybe Die”
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:56:06 +0000
In South Africa, a 36-year-old living with HIV since childhood fears she will lose access to treatment due to Trump’s policy.
The post Global HIV Care Thrown Into Chaos by Trump: “I Will Be Sick and Maybe Die” appeared first on The Intercept.
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Why Are Dems Surprised?
Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000
Democrats struggle to counter Trump’s renewed agenda.
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Marco Rubio’s USAID “Humanitarian Waiver” Isn’t Helping Restart Lifesaving Programs
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:51:23 +0000
After plunging USAID and its network of contractors into chaos, communications breakdowns and bureaucratic snafus leave projects stalled.
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Match ID: 150 Score: 3.57 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
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The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:22:53 +0000
Betar U.S. said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”
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Elon Musk presents a new vulnerability for Donald Trump
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:20:13 EST
The billionaire's strategy of moving fast and breaking things isn't going over so well with the public.
Match ID: 152 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 10 days
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Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:52:24 +0000
Lessons from a week of chaos
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How Trump’s tariff turbulence will cause economic pain
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:19:03 +0000
Mexico and Canada win a reprieve, but firms remain rattled
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'Radical lunatics': Trump, Musk target USAID
Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:22:45 EST
Match ID: 155 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 13 days
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Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before
Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:05:43 +0000
Canada, Mexico and China are going to be made to suffer
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'I don't think they're going to get the battle that they want.' Inside Trump’s first clashes with Congress and the courts
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 05:00:15 EST
Trump is testing the limits of his power.
Match ID: 157 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 16 days
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Donald Trump’s economic warfare has a new front
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:58:33 +0000
The president has threatened to blow up the global tax system. Will allies be able to stop him?
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Lobbying firms tied to Trump report wave of new clients
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:16:50 EST
On K Street, firms linked to a new administration often see their fortunes rise. One of the biggest winners this cycle: Ballard Partners.
Match ID: 159 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 18 days
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Don’t let Donald Trump see our Big Mac index
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:54:35 +0000
America’s tariff-loving president could learn the wrong lessons from international burger prices
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Trump's billionaire brigade poised to upend Washington: ‘We are in a post-conflicts-of-interest world’
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:24:33 EST
The new class of moguls surrounding President Donald Trump crave deregulation and fast-paced innovation, but they’ll need to get through Congress and a glacial bureaucracy.
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Trump's spending freeze spreads chaos across US
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:15:00 EST
Supporters of climate, infrastructure, mortgage, tech, health, veterans' and other projects expressed alarm as tens of thousands of programs appeared possibly at risk.
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Will Trump’s billionaire brigade run America like a tech startup?
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:27:08 EST
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Jim Acosta, prominent Trump critic, leaves CNN
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:31:43 EST
Trump called him “a major sleazebag.” Acosta said the press must “hold power to account.”
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Trump plan to upend civil service advances under new name
Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:03:23 EST
New guidance gives federal agencies 90 days to do a preliminary review of jobs that are "policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating."
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Top Democrats are staying out of the Trump outrage cycle this time
Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:00:00 EST
Their approach to Trump this time is much quieter.
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Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster?
Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:30:21 +0000
Donald Trump’s team is about to bring digital finance into the mainstream
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‘I am terrified’: Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies
Sat, 25 Jan 2025 16:00:00 EST
“I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go," said one staffer.
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A running list of Trump's planned executive orders, actions, proclamations and legislation
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:54:47 EST
Here’s a look at what Trump signed on Day One.
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Donald Trump issues fresh tariff threats
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:15:29 +0000
But it may be a while before he unleashes a universal levy
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Lael Brainard's ‘Crisis Management Agency’ — and Her Warning For Trump
Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:00:00 EST
Joe Biden's top economic adviser opens up on harrowing moments from her time in the White House, and what makes her nervous about the Trump agenda.
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Will Donald Trump unleash Wall Street?
Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:38:26 +0000
Bankers have plenty of reason to be hopeful
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Iran is vulnerable to a Trumpian all-out economic assault
Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:32:36 +0000
Oil prices are already at a five-month high
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Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy?
Thu, 02 Jan 2025 09:49:34 +0000
He will face challenges from both America firsters and conservative mainstreamers
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What investors expect from President Trump
Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:25:47 +0000
Shareholders are over the moon; bondholders are readying the whip hand
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Trump asks Supreme Court to pause TikTok ban
Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:32:00 GMT
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Stephen Miran is Trump's pick to lead Council of Economic Advisers
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:48:07 EST
Miran has called for a sweeping overhaul of the Fed to ensure greater political control over the central bank, including giving the president the power to fire board members at will.
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The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:12:20 +0000
Time for Jerome Powell to enter the octagon
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How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
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Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:58:45 +0000
An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:30:20 +0000
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
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Giorgia Meloni has grand banking ambitions
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:01:06 +0000
Will Italy’s nationalist prime minister manage to concentrate financial power?
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Argonaut: a first European lunar lander
Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:15:00 +0100
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract with Thales Alenia Space in Italy to lead European aerospace companies in building the Argonaut Lunar Descent Element, ESA’s first lunar lander.
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Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:51:43 +0000
Whether that lasts depends on its ability to overcome acute shortages of power, men and money
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Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:44:25 +0000
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
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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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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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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/16/2024
Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:00:17 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by completing a Waste Hygiene Compartment (WHC) Filter Removal & Replacement (R&R), and completing various hydroponic flow tests with Plant Water Management 6 (PWM-6) hardware. Payloads: Lumina: The crew power-cycled the Lumina hardware, and transferred the science data to a Station …
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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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NASA Scientists, Engineers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:25:23 +0000
President Biden has named 19 researchers who contribute to NASA’s mission as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients are among nearly 400 federally funded researchers receiving the honor. Established in 1996 by the National Science and Technology Council, the PECASE Award is the highest honor given by […]
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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
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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.
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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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'Build baby build', says PM as he sets out nuclear plan
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:23:42 GMT
The government wants to make it quicker and easier to build mini nuclear power stations in England and Wales.
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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
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Metals Crucial to Clean Energy Are Getting Caught Up in the US–China Trade War
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:00:00 +0000
After a Chinese export ban, can the US get gallium and germanium from Canada—or will tariffs get in the way?
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qualifiers: 50.00 china trade, 40.00 china
Summary of the 10th DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:10:31 +0000
Introduction The 10th Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Radiometer [NISTAR] Science Team Meeting (STM) was held October 16–18, 2024. Over 50 scientists attended, most of whom were from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), with several participating from other NASA centers, U.S. universities, and U.S. Department of […]
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US deports 119 immigrants of varying nationalities to Panama
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:09:25 GMT
People from Afghanistan, Iran, China and other countries flown out as Trump’s deportation effort intensifies
The US has sent undocumented immigrants from several Asian countries whose governments have refused to accept them to Panama, in a move signalling an intensification of the Trump administration’s deportation effort.
A military plane carrying 119 immigrants from countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Pakistan flew from California to Panama City on Wednesday in what was expected to be the first of three migrants flights to the country.
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European defence stocks surge to record high; China’s Xi holds rare meeting with company leaders – business live
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:53:37 GMT
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
European government borrowing costs are rising this morning too – perhaps a sign that investors are pricing in higher defence spending.
The yield, or interest rate, on UK 10-year bonds has risen by 7 basis points (0.07 percentage points) to 4.56% this morning, reversing losses last Thursday.
“We are at a turning point.
“This forces us more than ever before to support our defence for Ukraine, and to increase our defence spending budget and to be on the front foot.”
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UK marketplace sellers face ‘second Brexit’ hit from Trump’s US import rules
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:00:30 GMT
End of ‘de minimis’ policy for Chinese goods also expected to hit bigger fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo
Many UK-based independent sellers on marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon could suffer a significant hit to US sales from planned changes to import rules under Donald Trump, with experts comparing the impact to a second Brexit.
The new rules, which mean all parcels originating or made in China and being sold into the US must pay import duty – of as much as 15% on fashion items – and an additional 10% tariff, are also expected to impact bigger online clothing retailers such as Asos and Boohoo.
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As the US retreats, Europe must look out for itself – so is Macron’s nuclear offer the answer? | Simon Tisdall
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:00:30 GMT
Development of a joint defence shield would be politically explosive for Keir Starmer. But it’s an idea whose time has come
The startling contempt for Europe’s intensifying security concerns displayed by Donald Trump and his henchmen has brought an old, controversial question back to the fore: should Britain and France pool their nuclear weapons capabilities and create a Europe-wide defensive nuclear shield to deter Vladimir Putin’s Russia, if the US reduces or withdraws its support?
Trump has not so far explicitly threatened to cut US nuclear forces based in Europe. But speaking last week, the president said he wanted to halve the US’s defence spending, especially on nuclear weapons. Trump often denigrates Nato, keystone of European security. Last year, he encouraged Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to member states that, in his view, spend too little on defence.
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Brazil asks UN to ditch proposed levy on global shipping
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:00:28 GMT
Those supporting the deal hope it will raise billions to help poor countries deal with climate breakdown
Brazil has asked the UN to throw out plans for a new levy on global shipping that would raise funds to fight the climate crisis, despite playing host to the next UN climate summit.
The proposed levy on carbon dioxide emissions from shipping will be discussed at a crunch meeting of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) that begins on Monday. Those supporting the deal, including the UK, the EU and Japan, are hoping the levy will raise billions of dollars a year, which could be used to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate breakdown.
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James Murdoch lays bare his relationship with ‘misogynist’ father amid succession fight in rare interview
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:47:30 GMT
Rupert Murdoch’s second son reveals bitter details that set the scene for court battle for News Corp empire
More of the Murdoch family’s betrayals, leaks, “mind games”, manipulations, machinations and humiliations have been laid bare, in the wake of a messy court trial that offered tantalising glimpses inside the dynasty.
The American journalist McKay Coppins this weekend published a rare and wide-ranging interview with James Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s second-oldest son, who is often portrayed as a bitter rival to his older brother, Lachlan.
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Korea suspends access to China-based DeepSeek app
2025-02-17T04:13:21+00:00
Match ID: 8 Score: 40.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Cook Islands PM defends signing of wide-ranging deal with China
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:08:10 GMT
Mark Brown says Beijing deal that covers trade, investment, oceans, infrastructure and transport complements ties with New Zealand
The Cook Islands says it has signed a deal to expand relations with China, stressing that the accord does not impinge on ties with former colonial power New Zealand.
Prime minister Mark Brown said he signed an “action plan for the comprehensive strategic partnership” with Chinese premier Li Qiang in the northern city of Harbin during a five-day state visit to China last week.
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TikTok Ban Fueled by Israel, Not China
2025-02-16T22:51:47+00:00
Match ID: 10 Score: 40.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Loving the British Museum, pots and all | Letters
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:11:51 GMT
Readers respond to Adrian Chiles’s experience of the institution’s treasures
I would guess that Adrian Chiles is no fan of The Great Pottery Throw Down, currently on Channel 4 (At 57, I went to the British Museum for the first time – and it left me rather cold, 12 February). Not only is he missing out on a lovely creative piece of television, but he is failing to recognise that pots, jugs, vessels, dishes and containers of all shapes and sizes have played a vital part in the development of civilisation over the ages.
Pots for carrying, storing and dispensing water, wine, oil, foodstuff and human waste are important historical markers of human ingenuity and skill that we should not dismiss. While the use of terracotta, ceramics, bone china etc for functional items in our lives has been usurped by plastic and metal, the artistic merits of pots and their intricate illustrations is something to be celebrated. Maybe Mr Chiles needs to sign up for a pottery class.
Jan Ross
Silverton, Devon
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John Major: Trump’s US isolationism threatens global democracy
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:50:18 GMT
Former UK prime minister says US may regret ceding world stage to China and condemns ‘hypocritical’ JD Vance speech
Democracy around the globe is under threat from the retreat of Donald Trump’s US into isolationism and its likely replacement by China on the world stage, John Major has said.
The former UK prime minister, who rarely offers direct opinion on contemporary politics, used an interview with BBC Radio 4 to say Trump’s administration was unlike anything he had seen before – and to warn that Washington may live to regret ceding global leadership to a more autocratic power.
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Moon rocks reveal hidden lunar history
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:03:47 +0000
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far side
Match ID: 13 Score: 40.00 source: arstechnica.com age: 0 days
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Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:18:52 GMT
An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content
Google has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitate censorship requests, an Observer investigation can reveal.
The technology company has engaged with the administrations of about 150 countries since 2011 that want information scrubbed from their public domains.
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Match ID: 14 Score: 40.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: Researchers find RedNote lacks basic security measures, surveillance ramps up around the US-Mexico border, and the UK ordering Apple to create an encryption backdoor comes under fire.
Match ID: 15 Score: 40.00 source: www.wired.com age: 1 day
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AI and Civil Service Purges
2025-02-14T13:03:22Z
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to reform is upending government operations. Critical functions have been halted, tens of thousands of federal staffers are being encouraged to resign, and congressional mandates are being disregarded. The next phase: The Department of Government Efficiency reportedly wants to use AI to cut costs. According to The Washington Post, Musk’s group has started to run sensitive data from government systems through AI programs to analyze spending and determine what could be pruned. This may lead to the elimination of human jobs in favor of automation. As one government official who has been tracking Musk’s DOGE team told the...
Match ID: 16 Score: 40.00 source: www.schneier.com age: 2 days
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In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:04:54 GMT
My dad’s journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: we’ll be lost if they succeed in ‘sending them home’
One bitter absurdity now sits at the heart of British life. It centres on the NHS, our strained systems of social care and an ever-more toxic and hateful conversation about immigration. Without hundreds of thousands of people who have come to the UK from abroad, the most basic aspects of how we look after old, infirm and ill people would simply collapse. Politics, however, increasingly seems to demand that this truth has to be denied – and the result is a level of hypocrisy that is remarkable even by modern standards.
Three weeks before last Christmas, my dad – who turns 89 next month – fell down a flight of stairs, and broke his hip. After a terrifyingly long wait for an ambulance, he was admitted to hospital in Macclesfield, Cheshire, and operated on. In the midst of yet another awful NHS winter, the treatment he received felt faintly miraculous. And there was another aspect of his stay that seemed no less remarkable. Macclesfield is hardly the most diverse place in the world, but most of the doctors and nurses who so carefully looked after him were first-generation immigrants, mostly either from African countries, or India: people regularly overburdened and rushed off their feet, but who answered my endless questions and queries with an amazing grace and patience.
John Harris is a Guardian columnist
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‘There has been an awakening’: ancient sects on the rise in Modi’s India
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:00:05 GMT
Some 400 million devotees will attend this year’s Kumbh Mela festival. Pilgrims and politicians explain why it’s bigger than ever
They sat quietly together on the banks of the Ganges river, heads bowed in sombre meditation. Some men were naked, their bodies smeared grey with ash. Others had a simple saffron cloth tied around their waist. Nearby, barbers balanced on their haunches, shaving the head of each man clean with a flick of their knives, save for a small strand at the back.
This ceremony, in which millions of pilgrims seek to cleanse their sins to break the cycle of reincarnation has been taking place at the Kumbh Mela festival for centuries. It is mandatory for thousands of sadhus – Hindu holy men who live an austere life of strict spiritual discipline. Among the most sacred events in the Hindu calendar, the festival occurs every 12 years across four sacred locations in India where it is believed the Hindu god Vishnu once spilled drops of the nectar of immortality.
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Match ID: 18 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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At least 18 people die in crowd crush at Delhi railway station
Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:11:44 GMT
Rush broke out as travellers scrambled to board trains in India’s capital to go to world’s largest religious gathering
At least 18 people have died in a crush at a railway station in India’s capital when surging crowds scrambled to catch trains to the world’s largest religious gathering, officials have said.
The Kumbh Mela attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful every 12 years to the northern city of Prayagraj, and has a history of crowd-related disasters – including one last month, when at least 30 people died in another crush at the holy confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers.
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‘We’re reminded that even beautiful things have their negative side’: Sayan Bose’s best phone picture
Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:00:34 GMT
Indian photographer Sayan Bose celebrates the cultural heritage of Bengal in this striking image of a young farmer
Sayan Bose had travelled two hours from his home in Kolkata, India, for a day of documentary photography in Sangrampur, West Bengal. “I was roaming around the village, capturing the local people’s lifestyle, asking about their daily lives and jobs and struggles,” Bose says. “I got talking to a 17-year-old called Ariful Alam. He was a farmer at a large sunflower garden. He was youthful and fun-loving, and agreed to pose in the field for me.”
Alam wears a Chou, or Chhau, mask. “They hold a significant place in Bengal’s rich cultural heritage,” Bose says. “They’re used in a traditional folk dance, the Purulia Chhau, which narrates mythologies and folklores, and also as decorative pieces. I chose to use the mask that depicts a character named Mahisha, from Mahishasura Mardini, a 21-verse stotra from Hindu mythology.”
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Match ID: 20 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 1 day
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Goa man found guilty of rape and murder of Irish backpacker eight years ago
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:04:08 GMT
Family of Danielle McLaughlin say justice has finally been achieved after Vikat Bhagat convicted in India
The family of a young Irish woman raped and murdered in India eight years ago have said justice has finally been achieved after a man was convicted in Goa.
Danielle McLaughlin, from Buncrana in County Donegal, was found dead in a field in Canacona, an area of Goa popular with holidaymakers, in March 2017.
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Match ID: 21 Score: 35.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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TikTok Is Back in US App Stores
Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:11:54 +0000
The move reportedly comes after US attorney general Pam Bondi reassured Apple and Google they would not be fined for hosting TikTok.
Match ID: 22 Score: 34.29 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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DOGE as a National Cyberattack
2025-02-13T12:03:26Z
In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national security are profound.
First, it was reported that people associated with the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed the US Treasury computer system, giving them the ability to collect data on and potentially control the department’s roughly ...
Match ID: 23 Score: 34.29 source: www.schneier.com age: 3 days
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New downloads of DeepSeek suspended in South Korea, data protection agency says
2025-02-17T03:30:25+00:00
Match ID: 24 Score: 30.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:00:00 +0000
Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn’t stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
Match ID: 25 Score: 28.57 source: www.wired.com age: 4 days
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Singapore opposition leader, found guilty of lying to parliament, could face electoral ban
Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:13:12 GMT
Pritam Singh’s conviction is a blow to the city state’s struggling political opposition, which is seeking to challenge the entrenched ruling party in upcoming elections
Singapore’s opposition leader has been convicted of lying to parliament while helping a fellow party member to cover up a false witness account, in a case that could disqualify him from running in upcoming national elections.
Pritam Singh, 48, secretary-general of the Workers’ Party, was found guilty on Monday on two counts of lying to a parliamentary committee that was investigating a fellow MP.
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Tycoon profited after India relaxed border security rules for energy park
Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:00:18 GMT
Exclusive: Military experts raise concerns over change to protocols on Pakistan border to allow project that was handed to billionaire Gautam Adani
The Indian government relaxed national security protocols along the Pakistan border to make way for a renewable energy park, a project ultimately handed to one of India’s richest men, Gautam Adani, official documents reveal.
The Adani Group is constructing the Khavda plant, the largest renewable project in the world, in the state of Gujarat. The conglomerate is controlled by Adani, whose close relationship with the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has recently been under intense scrutiny.
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NASA Supports GoAERO University Awardees for Emergency Aircraft Prototyping
Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:54:43 +0000
With support from NASA, the international GoAERO Prize competition recently announced funding for 14 U.S. university teams to build innovative new compact emergency response aircraft. The teams will develop prototype versions of Emergency Response Flyers, aircraft intended to perform rescue and response missions after disasters and in crisis situations. The flyers must be designed to […]
Match ID: 28 Score: 20.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 5 days
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The Rise of the Drone Boats
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Swarms of weaponized unmanned surface vessels have proven formidable weapons in the Black and Red Seas. Can the US military learn the right lessons from it?
Match ID: 29 Score: 17.14 source: www.wired.com age: 6 days
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Police in India stop Ed Sheeran busking on street before concert
Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:03:00 GMT
Local channels show police officer walking up to star as he sings Shape of You and unplugging microphone
Ed Sheeran has been stopped by police from busking in India after he was told he lacked permissions.
The songwriter was seen singing the hit single Shape of You on a pavement in the southern city of Bengaluru before his concert on Sunday night.
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Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?
2024-10-24T00:00:00Z
Chinese companies have been evading US tariffs by shipping goods through Vietnam, but not to the degree that the headlines would suggest. Ebehi Iyoha and Jaya Wen dig into trade microdata to illustrate Vietnam's strategic importance and why American policymakers should take note.
Match ID: 31 Score: 15.00 source: hbswk.hbs.edu age: 116 days
qualifiers: 7.14 china trade, 5.71 china, 2.14 vietnam
How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:44:29 +0000
He believes the country’s future lies with China and India. What could go wrong?
Match ID: 32 Score: 10.71 source: www.economist.com age: 172 days
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Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China’s exports
Thu, 23 May 2024 10:13:46 +0000
To avoid an economic shock, they are pursuing a strange mix of free trade and protectionism
Match ID: 33 Score: 10.71 source: www.economist.com age: 269 days
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Trump’s Attacks on USAID Spark Fear That Lifesaving Care Will Become “Transactional”
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:54:46 +0000
If the State Department takes over USAID, experts fear foreign assistance will stop unless it has a perceived benefit for Trump.
The post Trump’s Attacks on USAID Spark Fear That Lifesaving Care Will Become “Transactional” appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 34 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
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The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:22:53 +0000
Betar U.S. said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”
The post The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport appeared first on The Intercept.
Match ID: 35 Score: 5.71 source: theintercept.com age: 10 days
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Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire
Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:46:53 +0000
China’s trade retaliation carries a warning of worse to come
Match ID: 36 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 12 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before
Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:05:43 +0000
Canada, Mexico and China are going to be made to suffer
Match ID: 37 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 15 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Foreign Hackers Are Using Google’s Gemini in Attacks on the US
Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: WhatsApp discloses nearly 100 targets of spyware, hackers used the AT&T breach to hunt for details on US politicians, and more.
Match ID: 38 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 15 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot
Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:30:00 +0000
Security researchers tested 50 well-known jailbreaks against DeepSeek’s popular new AI chatbot. It didn’t stop a single one.
Match ID: 39 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 16 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data
Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:34:22 +0000
China-based DeepSeek has exploded in popularity, drawing greater scrutiny. Case in point: Security researchers found more than 1 million records, including user data and API keys, in an open database.
Match ID: 40 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 18 days
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DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China
Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:10:34 +0000
Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny.
Match ID: 41 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 20 days
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Has Japan truly escaped low inflation?
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:04:26 +0000
Its central bankers are increasingly hopeful
Match ID: 42 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 24 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
China’s financial system is under brutal pressure
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:45:53 +0000
When will something break?
Match ID: 43 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 24 days
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China meets its official growth target. Not everyone is convinced
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:37:51 +0000
For one thing, 2024 saw the second-weakest rise in nominal GDP since the 1970s
Match ID: 44 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 30 days
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China’s markets take a fresh beating
Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:30:24 +0000
Authorities have responded by bossing around investors
Match ID: 45 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 40 days
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China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers
Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:22:45 +0000
Policymakers at home and abroad are anxious about offshoring
Match ID: 46 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 49 days
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What a censored speech says about China’s economy
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:09:08 +0000
If growth is on target, why is inflation so low?
Match ID: 47 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 66 days
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The hidden cost of Chinese loans
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:12:33 +0000
Governments that borrow from China must pay more to borrow from others
Match ID: 48 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 73 days
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How China will strike back at Trump
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 16:45:27 +0000
Xi Jinping has set out his tariff red lines. What if America crosses them?
Match ID: 49 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 77 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Russia’s plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:44:25 +0000
Supplies from China are about to become more expensive
Match ID: 50 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 77 days
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Is China really a nation of slackers?
Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:54:55 +0000
A new survey raises the question
Match ID: 51 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 87 days
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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
Match ID: 52 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
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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
Match ID: 53 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 94 days
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Why China needs to fill its empty homes
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:03:24 +0000
The country’s economy is broken. A recovery requires a healthier property market
Match ID: 54 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 108 days
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:05:00 GMT
Match ID: 55 Score: 5.71 source: www.marketwatch.com age: 128 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:25:56 +0000
Unsold homes are contributing to a balance-sheet recession
Match ID: 56 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 129 days
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At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:22:31 +0000
“Buy everything,” says an American hedge fund
Match ID: 57 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 142 days
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China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:19:59 +0000
But it will need more help from the government
Match ID: 58 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 145 days
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How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:33:09 +0000
Even though they are not very good at it
Match ID: 59 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 154 days
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China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:00:52 +0000
That is despite a stingy tax-and-transfer system
Match ID: 60 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 157 days
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China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:53:31 +0000
Can anything perk up its economy?
Match ID: 61 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 164 days
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Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:59:36 +0000
Ueda Kazuo begins on a dangerous mission
Match ID: 62 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 171 days
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What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:19:41 +0000
The central bank seems to think the government’s debt is too popular
Match ID: 63 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 186 days
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Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:24:53 +0000
Volatility in global markets continues
Match ID: 64 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 195 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
Why Japanese markets have plummeted
Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:21:56 +0000
The global rout continues, with the Topix experiencing its worst day since 1987
Match ID: 65 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 195 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:41:12 +0000
American and Japanese indices have taken a battering. So have banks and gold
Match ID: 66 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 198 days
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China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:09:53 +0000
All it takes is for the state to work with the market
Match ID: 67 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 201 days
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ISS Daily Summary Report – 7/18/2024
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:00:38 +0000
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew with a few payload activities and completed Onboard Training for Backup Flight Control Proficiency. Payloads: Electro-static Levitation Furnace (ELF): The ELF cartridge holder containing the latest melted sample was removed and replaced with a new sample holder and sample. The completed …
Match ID: 68 Score: 5.71 source: www.nasa.gov age: 213 days
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Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:17:13 +0000
Currency meddling will prove futile
Match ID: 69 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 213 days
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China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:49:47 +0000
Reality intruded at the “third plenum”, intended to discuss long-term reforms
Match ID: 70 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 216 days
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China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:38:25 +0000
Its share of international reserves has stalled
Match ID: 71 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 248 days
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China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:14:09 +0000
State purchases of shares are bad enough, but other measures are far more destructive
Match ID: 72 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 251 days
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China’s economic model retains a dangerous allure
Mon, 03 Jun 2024 17:08:43 +0000
Despite the country’s current struggles, autocrats elsewhere see a lot to admire
Match ID: 73 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 258 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
Xi Jinping’s surprising new source of economic advice
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:06:54 +0000
What China’s leader may learn from a pair of reform-minded academics
Match ID: 74 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 262 days
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The property firm that could break China’s back
Thu, 16 May 2024 10:04:20 +0000
If Vanke collapses, so might confidence in the state’s management of the economy
Match ID: 75 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 276 days
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
Match ID: 76 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 278 days
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Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:58:40 +0000
China would not be happy
Match ID: 77 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 283 days
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What would get China’s consumers spending?
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:49 +0000
Clues from a grocer in a fourth-tier city
Match ID: 78 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 283 days
qualifiers: 5.71 china
What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 09:57:57 +0000
Despite his protestations, the country does have an overcapacity problem
Match ID: 79 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 283 days
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Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:00:14 +0000
Expensive government intervention looks likely to provide only brief respite
Match ID: 80 Score: 5.71 source: www.economist.com age: 293 days
qualifiers: 5.71 japan
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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Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:05:21 +0000
The fund will freeze out China if that is what it takes to offer relief
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Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth
Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:20:10 +0000
Tax cuts may lift short-term output, but deeper reform is required
Match ID: 83 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 10 days
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NASA Scientists, Engineers Receive Presidential Early Career Awards
Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:25:23 +0000
President Biden has named 19 researchers who contribute to NASA’s mission as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients are among nearly 400 federally funded researchers receiving the honor. Established in 1996 by the National Science and Technology Council, the PECASE Award is the highest honor given by […]
Match ID: 84 Score: 5.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 30 days
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Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter
Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:47:46 +0000
India’s most consequential finance minister, who later became PM, has died aged 92
Match ID: 85 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 50 days
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India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:12:08 +0000
Small investors, rejoice—and beware
Match ID: 86 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 101 days
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Can markets reduce pollution in India?
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:55:05 +0000
An experiment in Gujarat yields impressive results
Match ID: 87 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 129 days
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India’s economic policy will not make it rich
Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:58:55 +0000
A new World Bank report takes aim at emerging-market growth plans
Match ID: 88 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 199 days
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Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:59:48 +0000
A weakened Narendra Modi is bad news for investors in government-controlled firms
Match ID: 89 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 241 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india
Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
Thu, 30 May 2024 10:05:08 +0000
A roaring economy is not enough to entice them
Match ID: 90 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 262 days
qualifiers: 5.00 india
Hedge funds make billions as India’s options market goes ballistic
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:14:54 +0000
The country’s retail investors are doing less well
Match ID: 91 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 290 days
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Will services make the world rich?
Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:51:25 +0000
American fried chicken can now be served from the Philippines
Match ID: 92 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 237 days
qualifiers: 2.14 philippines
The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:16:45 +0000
Bangladesh and Niger are very different places
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