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A modern pilgrimage’s transformative power | Letters
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:06:06 GMT

Norma Neill and Judith A Daniels respond to a Guardian leader on the long path to enlightenment

Re your editorial (The Guardian view on pilgrimage: a 21st-century spiritual exercise, 14 April), my sister has just completed her third pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

On this trip she met a young man who was walking the 500 miles with his probation officer. He had had the choice of walking the Camino or going to prison; for what offence she did not discover, but over the six weeks of walking she reports that she saw a transformation in the fitness and general wellbeing of both men. It would seem that the men and the justice system in Spain benefited.
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‘No limits’: how the marathon was overtaken in sprint to stretch horizons
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:00:48 GMT

Race distance seen as pinnacle of human achievement since time of ancient Greece is no longer the finishing line for what body can endure

The Olympic marathon held 120 years ago saw 32 people start, 14 finish, the winner disqualified for spending most of the race in a car, and another competitor undergo emergency surgery for the damage caused by inhaling dust thrown up by the cars and bicycles that accompanied the athletes around the outskirts of St Louis.

“When the Games are held in 1908 I do not think that the marathon will be included in the program,” said James Sullivan of the Amateur Athletic Union, the event’s organiser. “I personally am opposed to it and it is indefensible on any ground but historic. A 25-mile run is asking too much of human endurance. In sending some 30 men or more into an endurance test as keen and terrible as the marathon run, an awful chance is taken.”

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Who really wins if the Enhanced Games go ahead? – podcast
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 04:00:20 GMT

Billed as a rival to the Olympic Games, the Enhanced Games, set to take place in 2025, is a sporting event with a difference; athletes will be allowed to dope. Ian Sample talks to chief sports writer Barney Ronay about where the idea came from and how it’s being sold as an anti-establishment underdog, and to Dr Peter Angell about what these usually banned substances are, and what they could do to athletes’ bodies

Clips: Talk TV, News Nation, Inside with Brett Hawke, ESPN

Read Barney Ronay’s opinion piece on the Enhanced Games

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How American states squeeze athletes (and remote workers)
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:05:59 +0000
The public loves jock taxes; baseball players do not
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Artist evicted by London landlord cuts rent by commuting from Argentina
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:01:17 GMT

Andy Leek, creator of Notes to Strangers, made the move after finding himself unable to afford rising rents in UK capital

An artist who was made homeless after being evicted by his private landlord in London has started effectively commuting from Argentina where the rent is so much cheaper that it covers the cost of air fare.

Andy Leek, 38, whose Notes to Strangers works are pasted on to walls and junction boxes across more than 20 British and European cities, has moved to Buenos Aires where the rents are several times cheaper and he travels back to the UK roughly every two months for work. The flight costs less than a monthly train season ticket between Bristol and London.

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Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant People Are Second-Class Citizens
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The state says EMTALA, a law barring discrimination in emergency medical care, interferes with its abortion ban.

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Australia urges Israel and Iran to avoid ‘spiral of violence’; Dfat issues Middle East travel advice – as it happened
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:04:59 GMT

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The NSW police commissioner, Karen Webb, is speaking to the media after a 16-year-old was charged with a “terrorist act” for allegedly stabbing a bishop on Monday and is expected to appear at a bedside hearing today.

She said members of the joint counter-terrorism team interviewed the alleged offender at a medical facility last night, and he was subsequently charged with a commonwealth offence for terrorism and refused bail.

We expect he will be attending a bedside court hearing today to determine bail. This relates to the stabbing of the Bishop [Mar Mari Emmanuel, who] we allege on Monday night [was] stabbed up to six times.

We also allege that the boy had travelled for 90 minutes to attend that location from his home address.

We’ve got a crisis of male violence in Australia. We know that it’s a scourge in our society, we know it must end and I think it’s really clear women can’t be expected to solve violence against women although it is time for men to step up.

I don’t think debating definitions is the way to go … We need to act, we need to educate ourselves, men need to step up, we need to talk to our sons, to our colleagues, to our friends. We need to work together to a solution. And I think going down some kind of almost a wrong path to say let’s redefine – it’s not about definitions. This is about action. We need to shift the way in which we think about this …

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‘A water world teeming with wildlife’: readers’ favourite national parks in Europe
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 06:00:04 GMT

From camping beside glacial lakes in Montenegro to birdwatching in Poland, the continent has no shortage of inspiring wilderness adventures

One of the most incredible bird scenes in Europe took place as I hiked through the Bielawa nature reserve in northern Poland, about 40 miles north of Gdansk. I had left the village of Sławoszyno via a dirt track and was heading towards Kłanino, the open countryside and fields disappearing from my sight as the hedgerows grew taller either side of me. As I stepped forward, a gap appeared in the hedge and in front of my eyes a flock of nearly 100 cranes, which had been silent, took off across the field, honking with their red-tinged heads and faces, and feathery wing feathers flapping. I could almost touch them. The 19,000-hectare (47,000-acre) park is a mix of forest, wetland and coast.
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The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is restricting government employees and their family members from personal travel...
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:03:09 +0000

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Moving pictures: travelling cinema takes stories of ‘departures and dreams’ to Senegal
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:00:01 GMT

Cinemovel is screening Oscar-nominated Io Capitano to packed houses around the country, highlighting the perils migrants face on the journey to Europe

At about 1pm on Monday a 35-seater bus arrived in Pikine, a city east of the Senegalese capital, Dakar. A portable screen, projector, sound system and generator were unpacked to set up a temporary cinema in a lively neighbourhood where the scent of hibiscus and orange blossom fill the air.

Pikine’s cultural centre was the first stop for Cinemovel, a travelling cinema that is showing the Oscar-nominated Italian film Io Capitano in the streets and villages of Senegal. It is part of an initiative run by the Cinemovel Foundation, an Italian group that has been bringing a touring cinema to remote parts of Africa since 2001.

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55 Years Ago: Three Months Until the Moon Landing
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:36:56 +0000
The rapid pace of preparations for the first Moon landing continued in April 1969. The successful Apollo 9 mission in March cleared the way for Apollo 10 to test all three components of the spacecraft in lunar orbit in May, in a dress rehearsal for the landing itself. Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John […]
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Footage shows people in Gaza fleeing strikes as people try to return to the north – video
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:36:36 GMT

Video shared across social media shows alleged IDF strikes and sniper fire targeting groups of people attempting to travel to the north of Gaza, which Israel says is an active 'war zone'. The northern half of the coastal enclave has been sealed off by the Israeli military, but rumours spread over the weekend of civilians passing through, triggering a wave of people trying to return to their homes

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NASA Langley Team to Study Weather During Eclipse Using Uncrewed Vehicles
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:18:40 +0000
A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to study changes in the Sun’s radiation as it reaches Earth before, during, and after the total solar eclipse April 8. Weather sensors similar to what is used on daily weather balloons by the National Weather […]
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‘Hidden in plain sight’: the European city tours of slavery and colonialism
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:30:02 GMT

From Puerta del Sol plaza in Madrid to the Tuileries Garden in Paris, guides reshape stories continent tells about itself

Dodging between throngs of tourists and workers on their lunch breaks in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol plaza, we stop in front of the nearly 3-tonne statue depicting King Carlos III on a horse. Playfully nicknamed Madrid’s best mayor, Carlos III is credited with modernising the city’s lighting, sewage systems and rubbish removal.

Kwame Ondo, the tour guide behind AfroIbérica Tours, offers up another, albeit lesser-known tidbit about the monarch. “He was one of the biggest slave owners of his time,” says Ondo, citing the 1,500 enslaved people he kept on the Iberian peninsula and the 18,500 others held in Spain’s colonies in the Americas. As aristocratic families sought to keep up with the monarch, the proportion of enslaved people in Madrid swelled to an estimated 4% of the population in the 1780s.

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University Teams Selected as Finalists to Envision New Aviation Responses to Natural Disasters
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:12:46 +0000
Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Blue Skies Forum, May 30 and 31, 2024 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.   Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research […]
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New Look at NASA, Boeing Sustainable Experimental Airliner
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:00:00 +0000
As NASA and Boeing enter the early stages of producing the X-66, the first X-plane specifically focused on helping the United States achieve net-zero aviation emissions by 2050, the team is already picturing what the aircraft will look like soaring above the clouds.  A new rendering of the X-66 from Boeing demonstrates the aircraft’s signature […]
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Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:21:58 GMT

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.

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.

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Columbia Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter One Day After Omar Grilled School Administrators
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:41:47 +0000

The university suspended three students out of hundreds participating in an on-campus encampment to protest the Israeli government.

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Ahead of Congressional Testimony, Columbia President Cracks Down on Student Advocacy for Palestine
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:14:07 +0000

Columbia, Vanderbilt, and Pomona College all seriously disciplined students protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza this month.

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Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant People Are Second-Class Citizens
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000

The state says EMTALA, a law barring discrimination in emergency medical care, interferes with its abortion ban.

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Digested week: May Sharon Osbourne and Amanda Holden’s spat keep on giving | Lucy Mangan
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:00:47 GMT

They might not be Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, but the X Factor judges’ ding-dong over Simon Cowell is a joy

All weekend and on into Monday, the row between the TV presenter and erstwhile wife of Les Dennis, Amanda Holden, and the managerial powerhouse Sharon Osbourne has been quite something. In brief: on Celebrity Big Brother Sharon slagged off their joint sometime-boss Simon Cowell. Holden then leapt to his defence in a Daily Mail interview, calling Sharon “bitter and pathetic”. Sharon then delivered a two-page diatribe against Holden, listing her many and lucrative achievements long before The X Factor entered her life, much though she enjoyed her judging stint. “Simon paid me very well. Probably more than what you’re receiving today, but all that, my darling, went on a few handbags.”

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‘It taught me about brainwashing’: how reality show stars fell for a fake Prince Harry
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:26:35 GMT

A show in which women competed to date a royal lookalike was panned at the time as ‘fodder for the braindead’. But the contestants had been duped, as a new podcast reveals …

Next month marks a decade since one of the most ridiculous reality shows ever aired on television. I Wanna Marry “Harry” was a dating show in which 12 American women dated Prince Harry, then the world’s most eligible bachelor. Only, obviously, it wasn’t him at all. The “Harry” in question was a lookalike: according to the show, a “99% lookalike” (I will let you be the judge).

Airing on Fox in the US before making its way to ITV2, the reality show consisted of the dozen potential girlfriends being whisked to a secluded mansion in the Berkshire countryside, then going on a series of dates with the fake prince. It was constantly implied by the production team that they were in the presence of royalty: Harry was even referred to as “sir”, when really he was plain old Matt Hicks, an environmental consultant from Exeter who had had his hair dyed ginger. The stunts for the ruse were quite something: from “sir” being whisked away by men in sunglasses after a “security incident”, to fake paparazzi invading a date before being tackled to the ground. Fake Harry was even Photoshopped into an image alongside the real Prince William for a potential date to stumble across while Hicks went to the bathroom.

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You be the judge: should my sister help me challenge our brother’s sexist views?
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 07:00:03 GMT

Mina confronts Tom, but little sister Layla would rather keep the peace. You decide who’s right in this sister act?

Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror

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Guardian wins award for exposé of founders’ links to transatlantic slavery
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:14:26 GMT

Press Awards recognise cross-platform Cotton Capital series, and there are wins for several Guardian reporters

The Guardian has won a diversity award at the prestigious Press Awards after its exposé on its founders’ links to transatlantic slavery, while one of its reporters took home the award for news reporter of the year.

Judges at the Press Awards called the Guardian’s cross-platform Cotton Capital series, encompassing news articles, long-form essays, podcasts, video, a magazine, a 15-part newsletter and social media content, a “breathtakingly honest mea culpa”.

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Judge shoots down request to tell Trump who the first 3 trial witnesses will be
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:08:34 +0000

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A silent Trump glowers and stares during third day of criminal trial
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:59:51 GMT

This was not Donald Trump the business mogul or Donald Trump the 45th president – it was Donald Trump the defendant

With Donald Trump just a few feet away, a potential juror in the criminal case against him summed up the experience in just three words. “This is bizarre,” she said, with just a slight hint of a seasoned New York accent.

Bizarre it was. There was a potential juror who once spent the night at one of Trump’s lawyers’ homes more than a decade ago (Trump’s team used one of its peremptory strikes to remove the juror). The microphones didn’t work. The proceedings had to start over when Judge Juan Merchan realized that a court reporter hadn’t been present first thing. And the temperature in the courthouse was so frigid that Todd Blanche, one of Trump’s lawyers, asked Merchan if it would be possible to turn up the temperature “just one degree”.

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Lawyers ask judge to remove some potential jurors
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:19:00 +0000

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Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:13:21 +0000
Ruling: Thumbprint scan is like a "blood draw or fingerprint taken at booking."
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The Guardian view on the catastrophe in Gaza: it must not be overshadowed by the Iran crisis | Editorial
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:34:20 GMT

Hopes of a ceasefire have ebbed, concerns about an assault on Rafah endure, and aid remains wholly insufficient

The Middle East is “on the precipice” and “one miscalculation, one miscommunication, one mistake, could lead to the unthinkable,” the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, warned on Thursday. Israel has vowed to retaliate to Iran’s weekend barrage of missiles and drones – itself a response to Israel’s killing of two generals at an Iranian diplomatic facility in Damascus. It is hard to have confidence in either’s ability to calibrate their actions when both have misjudged already.

Yet the spectre of full-scale regional conflict, and the many deaths that could result, must not draw attention away from the almost 34,000 Palestinians already killed in Gaza, according to its health authorities, and the many more who will soon die without an immediate ceasefire and massive increase in aid in what Mr Guterres called a “humanitarian hellscape”.

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Judge Merchan said a short time ago that they would go through the rest of the...
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:45:44 +0000

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Judge says court temperature difficult to set
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Before questioning of more prospective jurors resumes, prosecutors are telling the judge they believe Donald...
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:50:01 +0000

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Judge excuses one of the seven jurors already selected
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Having remade Twitter, Elon Musk takes his speech fight global
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:00:04 +0000
The X owner’s dispute over disinformation with a Brazilian judge could influence social media use everywhere.
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Stories from the Trump Bible
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
And Jesus said to Pontius Pilate, “This trial is very unfair. You are a corrupt judge, and your wife is a very nasty woman.”
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Meghan’s gone from royal upsetter to tradwife in three short years. Given what’s out there, you’d do the same | Gaby Hinsliff
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:00:46 GMT

Her cookery and lifestyle show looks like a sensible retreat from the abuse she’s suffered simply for being a modern black woman

Meghan Markle has bottled it. Or more precisely, she has been making jam. Branded jars of her strawberry preserves, adorned with one of those frilly caps you see at village fete produce stalls, were distributed this week to assorted celebrity friends to post on social media (though possibly not for actually eating, given the restrictions of a Hollywood diet). This housewifely offering marks the debut of American Riviera Orchard, which sounds like one of Jamie Oliver’s children but is in fact the name of the Duchess of Sussex’s new commercial venture, under which she plans to flog everything from tableware to yoga kit to her reinvented self.

In a retro, sepia-tinted launch video, the woman we once hoped would put a rocket up the royal family is seen blissfully stirring a saucepan and arranging flowers. It’s only three years since she wrote an open letter to US congressional leaders lobbying for paid family leave for working parents, sparking wild speculation about a run for political office, but suddenly that feels like a very long time ago. For now at least, it’s goodbye to the much-mocked empowering feminist podcasts and hello to the safety of her Californian kitchen. Meghan is, it seems, entering her tradwife era.

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Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students | Moira Donegan
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:00:34 GMT

In her willingness to unleash state violence against student protestors, Minouche Shafik proved herself to be a willing ally to extremists

The students sat on the ground and sang as police in riot gear approached them. Eventually, more than 100 of them would be arrested; their tents, protest signs and Palestinian flags were gathered into trash bags by the police and thrown away. One video showed officers and university maintenance workers destroying food that had been donated to the encampment, making sure it would be inedible. According to student journalists reporting from WKCR, Columbia University’s student radio station, one arrested student protestor asked the police to be allowed to go to their dorm to collect medication and was denied; as a result, they went into shock. The arrested students were charged with “trespassing” on the campus that they are charged more than $60,000 a year to attend.

The day before her administration asked the New York police department to storm their campus and arrest their students, Minouche Shafik, the Columbia University president, testified before Congress, saying that she wanted her university to be a safe and welcoming environment for everyone. But Shafik, who was called to testify after missing a hearing last year where the presidents of Penn and Harvard were each grilled on their insufficient hostility to pro-Palestinian students, appeared eager to please the Republican-controlled committee. The Penn and Harvard presidents who had testified each lost their jobs soon thereafter; Shafik clearly entered the hearing room determined to keep her own.

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U.S. Troops in Niger Say They’re “Stranded” and Can’t Get Mail, Medicine
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:22:11 +0000

U.S. military service members interviewed for a congressional inquiry said intelligence reports about how bad the situation is were being suppressed.

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Columbia Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter One Day After Omar Grilled School Administrators
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 19:41:47 +0000

The university suspended three students out of hundreds participating in an on-campus encampment to protest the Israeli government.

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36-year-old Republican congressman from Kansas won’t seek reelection
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:09:27 +0000

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55 Years Ago: Three Months Until the Moon Landing
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:36:56 +0000
The rapid pace of preparations for the first Moon landing continued in April 1969. The successful Apollo 9 mission in March cleared the way for Apollo 10 to test all three components of the spacecraft in lunar orbit in May, in a dress rehearsal for the landing itself. Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John […]
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The Gaping Hole in Supreme Court Rules for Tracking Links Between Litigants and Influence Groups
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:24:39 +0000

Parties appearing before the Supreme Court can fund the groups that file briefs supporting their arguments — and almost never have to disclose it.

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Columbia Suspended Two Students for Assault on Gaza Rally, School Says in Antisemitism Hearing
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:58:01 +0000

In congressional testimony, school administrators also said they are investigating pro-Israel and pro-Palestine professors.

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Defying Niger exit order leaves U.S. troops vulnerable, whistleblower says
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:52:05 +0000
A U.S. Air Force leader in Niger made a whistleblower complaint to Congress raising alarm over the Biden administration’s reluctance to heed an eviction notice.
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Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:08:59 +0000

Despite Biden’s pledge to support a two-state solution, cables argue that Palestine should not be granted U.N. member status.

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Big Tech Says Spy Bill Turns Its Workers Into Informants
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:11:29 +0000
One of Silicon Valley’s most influential lobbying arms joins privacy reformers in a fight against the Biden administration–backed expansion of a major US surveillance program.
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Russia hits Chernihiv, killing 18 as Ukraine pleads for air defense
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:00:56 +0000
With a U.S. aid package stalled in Congress, Russia has exploited Ukraine’s ammunition and air defense shortages, destroying energy infrastructure across the country.
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From the archive: Did Brazil’s evangelical superstar have her husband killed? – podcast
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 04:00:05 GMT

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.

This week, from 2021: Flordelis grew up in a Rio favela, but rose to fame after adopting more than 50 children, becoming a hugely successful gospel singer and winning a seat in congress. And now she is on trial for murder. By Tom Phillips

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Match ID: 28 Score: 10.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 2 days
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Democrats Question U.S. Claims That Israel Isn’t Violating International Law Using American Weapons
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:03:12 +0000

Biden campaign co-chair Rep. Veronica Escobar co-led a congressional letter questioning the administration's compliance with its own arms transfer memo.

The post Democrats Question U.S. Claims That Israel Isn’t Violating International Law Using American Weapons appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 29 Score: 10.00 source: theintercept.com age: 2 days
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US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:02:58 +0000
A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government’s behalf, including on fellow Americans.
Match ID: 30 Score: 10.00 source: www.wired.com age: 2 days
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Ahead of Congressional Testimony, Columbia President Cracks Down on Student Advocacy for Palestine
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:14:07 +0000

Columbia, Vanderbilt, and Pomona College all seriously disciplined students protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza this month.

The post Ahead of Congressional Testimony, Columbia President Cracks Down on Student Advocacy for Palestine appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 31 Score: 8.57 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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Remember the Centrists Who Lost the House in 2022? They’re Back!
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

New York congressional hopeful John Avlon, a centrist with GOP ties, was endorsed by a party chair widely blamed for losing the House.

The post Remember the Centrists Who Lost the House in 2022? They’re Back! appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 32 Score: 7.14 source: theintercept.com age: 4 days
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House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:30:44 +0000
The US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend the Section 702 spy program. It passed without an amendment that would have required the FBI to obtain a warrant to access Americans’ information.
Match ID: 33 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 6 days
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There’s a Bigger Driver of Veteran Radicalization Than Donald Trump
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:29:40 +0000

A RAND Corporation study finds that negative experiences in the military are a main cause of veterans turning to extremism.

The post There’s a Bigger Driver of Veteran Radicalization Than Donald Trump appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 34 Score: 2.86 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
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University Teams Selected as Finalists to Envision New Aviation Responses to Natural Disasters
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:12:46 +0000
Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Blue Skies Forum, May 30 and 31, 2024 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.   Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research […]
Match ID: 35 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 23 days
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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
Match ID: 36 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 80 days
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Trump Loyalists Kill Vote on US Wiretap Program
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:15:05 +0000
An attempt to reauthorize Section 702, the so-called crown jewel of US spy powers, failed for a third time in the House of Representatives after former president Donald Trump criticized the law.
Match ID: 37 Score: 1.43 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
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Section 702: The Future of the Biggest US Spy Program Hangs in the Balance
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 20:21:16 +0000
The US Congress will this week decide the fate of Section 702, a major surveillance program that will soon expire if lawmakers do not act. WIRED is tracking the major developments as they unfold.
Match ID: 38 Score: 1.43 source: www.wired.com age: 9 days
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A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
Sun, 07 Apr 2024 21:13:18 +0000
While some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable to implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse.
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