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Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process
Fri, 10 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

A new anti-terrorism bill would allow the government to take away vital tax exemptions from nonprofit news outlets.

The post Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process appeared first on The Intercept.

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TechScape: The new law that could protect UK children online – as long as it works
Tue, 14 May 2024 10:45:15 GMT

Thanks to a new act that could reshape the internet, TikTok, Instagram and other platforms will need to ‘tame’ harmful content and algorithms

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The Online Safety Act in the UK is, quietly, one of the most important pieces of legislation to have come out of this government. Admittedly, the competition is slim. But as time goes by, and more and more of the act begins to take effect, we’re starting to see how it will reshape the internet.

From our story last week:

Social media firms have been told to “tame aggressive algorithms” that recommend harmful content to children, as part of Ofcom’s new safety codes of practice.

The children’s safety codes, introduced as part of the Online Safety Act, let Ofcom set new, tight rules for internet companies and how they can interact with children. It calls on services to make their platforms child-safe by default or implement robust age checks to identify children and give them safer versions of the experience.

The Goldilocks theory of policy is simple enough. If Mummy Bear says your latest government bill is too hot, and Daddy Bear says your latest government bill is too cold, then you can tuck in knowing that the actual temperature is just right.

Unfortunately, the Goldilocks theory sometimes fails. You learn that what you actually have in front of you is less a perfectly heated bowl of porridge and more a roast chicken you popped in the oven still frozen: frosty on the inside, burnt on the outside, and harmful to your health if you try to eat it.

The code is weak on design features, however. While the research shows livestreaming and direct messaging are high risk, there are few mandatory mitigations included to tackle them. Similarly, the requirement for measures to have an existing evidence base fails to incentivise new approaches to safety … How can you provide evidence that something does not work if you don’t try it?

As we celebrate the arrival of the draft code, we should already be demanding that the holes in it are fixed, the exceptions readdressed, the lobbyists contained.

Chain-of-thought responses from language models improve performance across most benchmarks. However, it remains unclear to what extent these performance gains can be attributed to human-like task decomposition or simply the greater computation that additional tokens allow. We show that transformers can use meaningless filler tokens (eg, ‘......’) in place of a chain of thought to solve two hard algorithmic tasks they could not solve when responding without intermediate tokens.

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Nottingham killer's sentence not unduly lenient, judges rule
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:45:46 GMT
Valdo Calocane was given a hospital order after admitting manslaughter by diminished responsibility.
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The Deep Blue Sea review – Tamsin Greig adds bite to Terence Rattigan
Tue, 14 May 2024 10:17:55 GMT

Ustinov, Bath
As a woman who has left her husband for a dissolute younger man in postwar London, Greig’s quiet despair compels

The torch song Stormy Weather sobs between scenes in this revival of Terence Rattigan’s 1952 drama. Desire has shaken the heroine’s world like a tempest: keeps raining all the time. We’re in pre-gentrified west London, where renegade judge’s wife Hester (Tamsin Greig) has left married respectability to live with a younger man, Freddie Page (Oliver Chris), big on golf, short on prospects.

Peter McKintosh designs a room of gloom: peeling wallpaper, faded rugs, grey light sighing through the curtains. Even the landscape on the wall shows Weymouth Pier under washed-out skies. People smoke nervy cigs or gulp at corner shop claret. Quiet despair lurks in the silences.

At the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, until 1 June

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The growing tensions over immigration in Ireland
Tue, 14 May 2024 02:00:22 GMT

Rory Carroll, the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent, looks at what is fuelling anti-immigrant anger in the Republic of Ireland

Immigration has increasingly become a point of tension in Ireland. Recently, the Irish government said the threat of deportation to Rwanda had partly fuelled a surge in arrivals entering Ireland via the land border with Northern Ireland, a route that it says now accounts for more than 80% of asylum seekers in the republic. The Irish Refugee Council and other advocacy groups have questioned the figure. On Monday a judge in Belfast ruled that large parts of the UK government’s illegal migration act should not apply in Northern Ireland because they breach human rights laws; the UK government has said it will appeal the ruling.

Today in Focus host Hannah Moore talks to Rory Carroll, the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent, about immigration policy in Ireland. He tells Hannah that a changing population, a housing crisis and social and economic inequalities have led to rising anti-immigrant sentiment in Ireland. In November, riots broke out after a stabbing in Dublin. Social media commentators outed the alleged assailant as a foreigner – in fact, he was a naturalised Irish citizen, reportedly from Algeria – and a violent protest ensued. Hundreds of people rampaged through central Dublin, targeting property and police.

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AT&T loses key ruling in attempt to escape Carrier-of-Last-Resort obligation
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:29:47 +0000
AT&T submitted "flawed and erroneous assertions," California agency judge says.
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The judge has called a 15-minute midmorning break. Jurors are stepping out.
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:25:47 +0000

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Jailed Indian opposition leader granted bail to take part in election campaign
Fri, 10 May 2024 14:52:34 GMT

Supreme court judges order Arvind Kejriwal’s release until 1 June and question timing of his arrest on corruption charges

One of India’s best-known opposition leaders, Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, has been granted bail by the country’s supreme court to allow him to take part in general election campaigningafter being kept behind bars for almost two months.

Kejriwal, who heads the Aam Aadmi party (AAP), has been held in jail since March when he was arrested on money-laundering charges. He has maintained that his arrest and detention was politically motivated to prevent him taking part in the election, which began in April and will continue until June.

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What’s Holding Up Trump’s Florida Case?
Thu, 09 May 2024 19:50:14 +0000
Judge Aileen Cannon has said, in effect, that the case has become too complicated to proceed sooner. Unfortunately, that may be true.
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Russia-Ukraine war live: Blinken says US arms will make real difference as Russia claims advances in northern Kharkiv region
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:27:38 GMT

Mission to Kyiv by US secretary of state comes after Congress approved long-delayed $60bn aid package; Russia claims to have captured Buhruvatka

• Zelenskiy calls for more air defences as Blinken arrives in Kyiv

Putin to visit China May 16-17

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will visit China on May 16-17, Chinese state media reported.

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Nebraska congressman faces primary challenge without support of state GOP
Tue, 14 May 2024 10:45:47 +0000

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Zelenskiy calls for more air defences as Blinken arrives in Kyiv
Tue, 14 May 2024 09:51:12 GMT

Plea comes as US secretary of state makes first visit to Ukraine since new aid package was passed by Congress

• Ukraine war – live updates

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday morning on his first visit to Ukraine since a major US aid package was passed last month, as Ukrainian forces struggle to defend against increasingly intense Russian attacks.

Blinken, who arrived by train from Poland in an unannounced visit, met Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, shortly after arriving.

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Blinken visits Ukraine to push U.S. support as Russia pummels Kharkiv
Tue, 14 May 2024 09:15:55 +0000
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Ukraine to offer U.S. support in Kyiv’s fight against Russia after a $61 billion aid package passed Congress.
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I’ve seen how firms cheat the law to exploit workers and here’s a warning: those days are ending | Polly Toynbee
Tue, 14 May 2024 07:00:28 GMT

For all the controversy about Labour’s policy on ‘workers’ rights’, it looks set to be a gamechanger

How did Labour let its most life-transforming policy get more publicity for its suspected “watering down” than it ever got for the policy itself? Today, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner will meet the unions to assure them the new deal for working people is as radical as ever: an agreed, detailed policy document follows soon. The Trades Union Congress, broadly supportive, is watching carefully for any weakening of the deal, while this year’s TUC president, the Fire Brigades Union’s Matt Wrack, sends out warning shots against backsliding.

Speaking to the shopworkers’ union Usdaw last month, Starmer was adamant that he would not back down. And to business leaders recently he said that “to be crystal clear”, Labour would “level up workers’ rights in a way that has not been attempted for decades”, though he recognised “that might not please everyone in the room or the wider business community”. This is core to Labour’s purpose and to igniting growth. Only Unite’s Sharon Graham publicly claims “betrayal”, as she often does. But in private today, all unions will want cast-iron reassurance.

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

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Pentagon Compensated Zero Civilian Victims in 2022 — Despite Evidence That the U.S. Killed a Mom and Child in Somalia
Mon, 13 May 2024 21:30:00 +0000

The 22-year-old woman and her child were civilian casualties of a U.S. drone strike, but the Pentagon won't return the family's messages.

The post Pentagon Compensated Zero Civilian Victims in 2022 — Despite Evidence That the U.S. Killed a Mom and Child in Somalia appeared first on The Intercept.

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Biden set to levy 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs this week
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:45:23 +0000
Both the US and EU are deeply concerned about heavily subsidized Chinese OEMs.
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15 Years Ago: STS-125, the Final Hubble Servicing Mission
Mon, 13 May 2024 12:03:44 +0000
 “Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake.” James B. Odom, Hubble Program Manager 1983-1990. The fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, placed in orbit in 1990, took place during the STS-125 mission in May 2009. During the 13-day flight, […]
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The TikTok Ban Is “a Vast Overreach, Rooted in Hypocrisy,” Wired’s Katie Drummond says
Mon, 13 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A prominent tech journalist sees Silicon Valley corporations making policy in Washington—and lawmakers refusing to regulate social media properly.
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Neither Candidate Has Much to Say About Israel. So Why Is AIPAC Pouring Money Into This Race?
Sat, 11 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The powerful lobbying group is going against a Capitol Police officer who fended off January 6 insurrectionists.

The post Neither Candidate Has Much to Say About Israel. So Why Is AIPAC Pouring Money Into This Race? appeared first on The Intercept.

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Israel “Likely” Used U.S.-Supplied Weapons in Violation of International Law. That’s OK, Though, State Department Says.
Fri, 10 May 2024 22:42:27 +0000

Antony Blinken’s report identifies “incidents that raise concerns,” but says Israel is not blocking humanitarian aid.

The post Israel “Likely” Used U.S.-Supplied Weapons in Violation of International Law. That’s OK, Though, State Department Says. appeared first on The Intercept.

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October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division”
Fri, 10 May 2024 18:44:33 +0000

Four lawsuits alleging Hamas ties against Students for Justice in Palestine, the AP, UNRWA, and a cryptocurrency exchange share many of the same plaintiffs.

The post October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division” appeared first on The Intercept.

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AIPAC and Republican Donors Raising Big Money for Maxine Dexter Against Susheela Jayapal in Oregon
Fri, 10 May 2024 18:08:57 +0000

A donor to Dexter in the Portland congressional race tells The Intercept: “I give all my contributions through AIPAC.”

The post AIPAC and Republican Donors Raising Big Money for Maxine Dexter Against Susheela Jayapal in Oregon appeared first on The Intercept.

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Even Biden’s Lawyers Are Urging the White House to Change Course on Gaza
Fri, 10 May 2024 14:44:59 +0000

An open letter from government attorneys questions the legal cover for arms transfers to Israel.

The post Even Biden’s Lawyers Are Urging the White House to Change Course on Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

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Who Ran This Derogatory Prison Meme Page? A Prison Guard.
Wed, 08 May 2024 13:23:26 +0000

A former facility psychologist is suing the Bureau of Prisons over an Instagram account that joked about suicide at FCC Lompoc.

The post Who Ran This Derogatory Prison Meme Page? A Prison Guard. appeared first on The Intercept.

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As Biden Warns Against Rafah Invasion, AIPAC Pushes Congress to Support Israel’s Operation
Thu, 09 May 2024 01:38:59 +0000

In talking points reviewed by The Intercept, the pro-Israel lobby argues that Israel has “no other option” but to invade Rafah.

The post As Biden Warns Against Rafah Invasion, AIPAC Pushes Congress to Support Israel’s Operation appeared first on The Intercept.

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Top FBI Official Urges Agents to Use Warrantless Wiretaps on US Soil
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:48:45 +0000
An internal email from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate, obtained by WIRED, tells employees to search for “US persons” in a controversial spy program's database that investigators have repeatedly misused.
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They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either.
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:06:07 +0000

On campus, inside the Capitol, and in court, there’s an all-out assault on American democracy in the name of Israel.

The post They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either. appeared first on The Intercept.

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They Exposed an Israeli Spyware Firm. Now the Company Is Badgering Them in Court.
Mon, 06 May 2024 19:03:09 +0000

NSO Group, which makes Pegasus spyware, keeps trying to extract information from Citizen Lab researchers — and a judge keeps swatting it down.

The post They Exposed an Israeli Spyware Firm. Now the Company Is Badgering Them in Court. appeared first on The Intercept.

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New Lawsuit Attempting to Make Adversarial Interoperability Legal
2024-05-06T11:03:08Z

Lots of complicated details here: too many for me to summarize well. It involves an obscure Section 230 provision—and an even more obscure typo. Read this.

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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
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In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests
Sat, 04 May 2024 20:11:18 +0000

The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban.

The post In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests appeared first on The Intercept.

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3 Best Smart Scales (2024): Luxe, Budget, and All App-Connected
Sat, 11 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000
If you’re ready to start tracking your weight, BMI, and other critical health data on your phone, we’ve weighed in on some great options.
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The Best Period Underwear, Menstrual Cups, and Reusable Pads (2024)
Fri, 10 May 2024 16:30:00 +0000
Aunt Flo doesn’t have to suck (that much). These menstrual cups, absorbent underwear, and reusable pads are eco-friendly and comfortable.
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‘What’s next for me?’ Rikke Sevecke on the heart condition that ended her football career at 27
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:00:16 GMT

I have been forced to adjust to a reality where I can no longer be an elite athlete but I have tried to find something positive in it

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Everyone goes through change in life. It is just about how you respond. They can be big changes; they can be small, but it is about how you handle it yourself.

Over the last few months, I have been through the biggest change of all. Since being diagnosed with a heart condition – arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy or ARVC, a disease that causes irregular heartbeats – last year at just 27, I have had to learn to navigate a world where I can no longer be a professional footballer. I have been forced to adjust to a reality where I can no longer be an elite athlete and where I can’t play a sport I have been a part of since I was three. I have had to accept the reality of my condition and everything that comes with it.

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Brazilian rowers give up Olympic dream to help flood victims
Tue, 14 May 2024 10:13:15 GMT
The athletes decided to stay in their home state of Rio Grande do Sul to help flood victims.
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Top 10 Best PLR(Private Label Rights) Websites | Which One You Should Join in 2022?
Sat, 26 Feb 2022 13:36:00 +0000

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Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
2024-04-26T00:00:00Z
The former star athlete known for flash uses unglamorous command-and-control methods to get results as a college football coach. Business leaders can learn 10 key lessons from the way 'Coach Prime' builds a culture of respect and discipline without micromanaging, says Hise Gibson.
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As Europe’s power shrinks, its fear is growing – and the result is huge mistakes | Nathalie Tocci
Tue, 14 May 2024 06:00:29 GMT

Scared of Ukraine losing and scared of Russia being beaten, of migrants, Gaza and Trump, the EU is making poor choices at home and abroad

Europe no longer wields the power it once did in world affairs, when there was a liberal international order that hinged on US power and in which international cooperation flourished. In that world, Europe was not a superpower, but the hallmarks of the post-cold war era – multilateralism, regional cooperation, interdependence, the flourishing of democracy, soft power and free trade – were also insignia of the European Union.

Today we are in a post-post-cold war era and the world has changed direction. Some features of the old system live on. But contrasting forces such as nationalism, protectionism and unilateralism are all on the rise.

Nathalie Tocci is a Guardian Europe columnist

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Andrei Belousov: Putin picks trusted technocrat to run defence ministry
Tue, 14 May 2024 06:00:27 GMT

Loyalist economist who ‘thinks years ahead’ inherits Kremlin’s biggest challenge as it prepares for the long haul in Ukraine

In 2014, Russia’s bloc of economic strategists was panicked by Vladimir Putin’s decision to annex Crimea and foment a war in east Ukraine, a move that led to western condemnation and sanctions against Russia that were seen as potentially ruinous.

But his adviser Andrei Belousov was a rare economist who publicly stood by his side, calling the damage manageable and western sanctions “insignificant” in terms of the Russian economy.

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Tuesday briefing: How Russia’s advance on Kharkiv might end
Tue, 14 May 2024 05:52:43 GMT

In today’s newsletter: A major new attack on territory known for Kyiv’s biggest victory has led to a sense of Ukraine’s prospects viciously unravelling, town by town

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Good morning. In September 2022, Kharkiv province was the site of the greatest Ukrainian victory of the war so far: the lightning counteroffensive that liberated at least 12,000 square kilometres from Russian control, pushed Moscow’s artillery out of range of Kharkiv city and provided real hope that Vladimir Putin could not just be slowed down, but defeated.

Over the past few days, Kharkiv has been the location of a very different shift. This time, it is the Russians who have made larger daily advances than at almost any other point in the war, and are now moving further forwards. Civilians who had come home are fleeing once more in their thousands, and even Kyiv admits that the situation is “difficult”. Further attacks could draw sparse Ukrainian resources from along the frontline, deal a heavy blow to Ukrainian morale and redraw the map before the resources belatedly provided by the US last month are in place to do anything about it.

Medical research | A weight loss injection could reduce the risk of heart attacks and benefit the cardiovascular health of millions of adults in what could be the largest medical breakthrough since statins, according to a study. Trial participants who took semaglutide, sold as Wegovy and Ozempic, had a 20% lower risk of heart attack, stroke, or death due to cardiovascular disease.

Housing | Rent rises should be capped for millions of people struggling to afford soaring rates, according to a landmark report commissioned by Labour. Leaked proposals from the independent report will put pressure on Keir Starmer to adopt measures that could ease pressure on tenants who saw an average 9% increase in rates last year.

Donald Trump | Donald Trump told his one-time fixer Michael Cohen only weeks before the 2016 election to bury Stormy Daniels’s account of an alleged sexual liaison, demanding that he “just take care of it”, Cohen told the former president’s trial on Monday. In hours of testimony, Cohen linked Trump to a $130,000 hush money payment and said: “Everything required Mr Trump’s sign-off.”

Gaza | Israeli settlers attacked an aid convoy headed into Gaza on Monday, throwing packages of food into the road and setting fire to vehicles. The incident, condemned by the US as “a total outrage”, came as Israeli troops continued their offence across Gaza in the most intensive round of fighting for weeks.

Women’s health | Women in labour have been mocked, ignored, fobbed off with paracetamol and left with permanent damage by midwives and doctors, a damning report by MPs has found. The UK’s first inquiry into birth trauma called for the appointment of a maternity commissioner and the creation of new specialist postnatal services to address the problems.

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‘Bidenomics’ 2.0 or ‘Trumponomics’ 2.0? Both would hurt trade and growth.
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:05:00 GMT
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are each pushing a protectionist agenda that weakens U.S. interests at home and globally.
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First Thing: Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles
Tue, 14 May 2024 10:32:53 GMT

Increased levy to protect US makers from cheap imports likely to worsen trade tensions with Beijing. Plus, chaos on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

Good morning.

Joe Biden has announced a 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) as part of a raft of stringent policies developed to shield US manufacturers from cheap imports.

How significant is this? At the moment, it’s largely symbolic – Chinese EVs have already been virtually excluded from the US market by tariffs previously introduced by Donald Trump.

On the other hand … Lobby groups have suggested Beijing could pose a future threat by using exports to make up for a frail domestic economy, which the Alliance for American Manufacturing claims would result in an “extinction-level event” for US carmakers.

How is this affecting aid? It’s having a real impact. The HRW report found: “These attacks are having a chilling effect on efforts to provide life-saving aid in Gaza.”

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Biden set to levy 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs this week
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:45:23 +0000
Both the US and EU are deeply concerned about heavily subsidized Chinese OEMs.
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Biden White House to expand tariffs on Chinese trade
Fri, 10 May 2024 12:06:52 GMT

President likely to add sectors such as electric vehicles, batteries and solar cells to range of levies set up under Donald Trump

Joe Biden is expected as early as next week to announce fresh tariffs on Chinese trade, with levies focused on strategic sectors including electric vehicles, in a review of measures first put into place under Donald Trump.

An announcement planned for Tuesday will keep the blanket tax rises introduced by the president’s predecessor but supplement them with targeted levies on industries connected to EVs, including batteries and solar cells, according to reports.

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Trump hush-money trial: Michael Cohen to continue testimony – live updates
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:45:15 GMT

Ex-president’s former fixer to return to stand after telling court Trump told him to ‘just take care’ of Stormy Daniels story

• Michael Cohen to continue testimony at Trump hush-money trial

Good morning. Michael Cohen, once one of Donald Trump’s most loyal lieutenants and enforcers, is expected to take the stand this morning for a second day after testifying that the former president demanded that he bury an adult film star’s account of an alleged sexual liaison weeks before the election.

Cohen’s hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels is at the very heart of the historic trial in Manhattan criminal court. Prosecutors charge that Cohen wired $130,000 to Daniels’s then attorney just 12 days before the presidential election to keep quiet about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with the payments and had pleaded not guilty.

A guide to Trump’s hush-money trial – so far

The key takeaways from Daniels’ testimony last week.

The jurors: who is on the Trump trial jury?

The key arguments prosecutors will use against Trump

How will Trump’s trial work?

From Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels: the key players

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Election 2024 latest news: Primary elections today in Maryland, Nebraska, West Virginia
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:45:58 +0000
Get live updates and elections results from the Maryland, Nebraska and West Virginia primaries. Plus the latest news on Biden and Trump from the campaign trial.
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Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency
2024-05-14T11:24:13+00:00

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Trump’s hush-money case has proven he’s a low-life. Can it prove he’s a criminal? | Margaret Sullivan
Tue, 14 May 2024 10:01:18 GMT

This is likely the only Trump trial before the election – and the only hope for a shred of accountability for his endless misdeeds

When you set out to explore Donald Trump’s personal life and business practices, you don’t expect to meet any paragons of virtue.

Sleazy media figures who buy and “kill” damaging stories? Yes. An adult film actor ready to tell all to make a buck? Certainly. A parade of spokespeople and staffers who compromised their own integrity during his presidential administration? No doubt.

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Michael Cohen to continue testimony at Trump hush-money trial
Tue, 14 May 2024 07:00:31 GMT

Former fixer told Manhattan court on Monday that Trump had asked him to keep stories about his personal life out of the media

Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is set to continue crucial testimony on Tuesday in the former US president’s New York hush-money trial, where Trump faces charges of allegedly falsifying records of payments to a porn actor to cover an affair.

Cohen’s testimony is seen as crucial to the prosecution’s arguments that the money paid to Stormy Daniels represented an election expense, because Trump and his campaign believed news of their sexual encounter would hurt his 2016 bid for the White House.

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How Michael Cohen went from Trump’s fixer to a key witness against him
Mon, 13 May 2024 22:53:23 +0000
For years, Cohen said he fixed Trump’s problems. Now the disbarred lawyer is the star witness for New York prosecutors trying to link Trump to an illegal hush money plot.
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Michael Cohen testimony ties Donald Trump to hush money payment
Mon, 13 May 2024 22:40:20 +0000
“Just do it,” then-candidate Donald Trump allegedly told Michael Cohen, his lawyer and fixer at the time, as a sex scandal threatened to upend his 2016 presidential campaign.
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Biden paints contrasts with Trump in speech to Asian Americans
Mon, 13 May 2024 22:06:37 +0000

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Analysis: Trump is gagged. So his surrogates say the forbidden stuff for him.
Mon, 13 May 2024 21:21:27 +0000

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Your regular reminder: Rally turnout doesn’t predict election results
Mon, 13 May 2024 21:19:08 +0000
Trump had a big rally in New Jersey over the weekend. And?
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Burying stories, lying, no emails - Cohen on life as Trump's fixer
Mon, 13 May 2024 21:10:25 GMT
Cohen said the ex-president never had an email address, telling Cohen people ''have gone down'' because of emails used against them.
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Special episode: The Fixer
Mon, 13 May 2024 21:06:09 +0000
The crew gathers for a special Monday episode all about former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who was called to testify in Trump's New York trial by prosecutors on Monday morning. Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann sit down with political investigations reporter Peter Jamison to discuss Cohen's past as Trump's self-described "fixer," and Cohen's claims that he has changed since leaving Trump's employment. Plus, national security and law enforcement reporter Devlin Barrett returns to the show to discuss why Cohen is one of the key witnesses in the New York trial.
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Trump is gagged. So his surrogates say the forbidden stuff for him.
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:58:17 +0000
Three GOP senators have appeared with Trump in court and conveniently proceeded to say precisely what he can’t.
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Michael Cohen testifies on Stormy Daniels payment in Trump trial
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:44:05 +0000
Michael Cohen, a key witness in Donald Trump’s trial on allegations of business fraud related to hush money payments, testified for most of Monday in Manhattan criminal court.
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Cohen says Trump knew about ‘legal fee’ misrepresentation
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:39:06 +0000

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After Michael Cohen’s ongoing work for Trump was announced on Fox News in early 2017, a...
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Cohen says Trump CFO suggested ‘grossing up’ hush money
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:26:58 +0000

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Cohen says he wanted to ‘monetize’ Trump relationship
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:07:46 +0000

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Cohen says he and Hope Hicks celebrated suppression of Trump stories
Mon, 13 May 2024 19:51:50 +0000

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The break is ending. Michael Cohen is back in the room and taking the stand. The...
Mon, 13 May 2024 19:36:03 +0000

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A choice young voters see: Upend the country too much or not enough?
Mon, 13 May 2024 19:28:09 +0000
New swing-state polling released by Siena College and the New York Times shows President Biden’s continued weakness. But how predictive is it?
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The court took a break just as Michael Cohen began to talk about his conversations from...
Mon, 13 May 2024 19:23:03 +0000

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Michael Cohen said he let Donald Trump know “immediately” when he had successfully paid Stormy Daniels...
Mon, 13 May 2024 19:09:39 +0000

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When Michael Cohen wired the money to Stormy Daniels’s attorney, he said, he labeled the payment...
Mon, 13 May 2024 19:06:34 +0000

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Asked directly whether he would have paid off Stormy Daniels without Donald Trump’s authorization, Michael Cohen...
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:50:14 +0000

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Cohen says Trump promised to pay him back for Stormy Daniels money
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:41:38 +0000

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Cohen said he worked on behalf of the Trump campaign
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:36:24 +0000

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Donald Trump smirked just now as Michael Cohen said he was doing everything he could do...
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:33:55 +0000

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Stormy Daniels court appearance reopens wounds for Trump’s #MeToo accusers
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:05:21 +0000

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Direct examination has resumed. Jurors are back in their seats.
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:04:38 +0000

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Michael Cohen just walked back into the courtroom and took his seat on the witness stand....
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:00:16 +0000

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Added to the Trump entourage in the courtroom this afternoon is Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.).
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Donald Trump is back in the courtroom.
Mon, 13 May 2024 17:57:02 +0000

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Courtroom photo ban adds to hurdles for Trump trial journalists
Mon, 13 May 2024 17:30:46 +0000

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The Historic Trump Court Cases That We Cannot See
Mon, 13 May 2024 17:02:39 +0000
The former President is on trial in a courtroom that has banned cameras. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is deciding whether his other trials should even happen.
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Cohen says Trump bragged about porn actress liking him more than star QB
Mon, 13 May 2024 17:02:44 +0000

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Donald Trump brushed off concern for Melania when alleged affair with adult actress discussed
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:56:44 +0000

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Trump shakes his head as Cohen suggests he worried about election fallout, not his wife
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:54:47 +0000

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Trump said that ‘women are going to hate me,’ Cohen testified
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:53:12 +0000

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Cohen talks about getting salacious articles about Trump taken down
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:45:18 +0000

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Donald Trump is still mostly sitting back with his eyes closed, a slight frown on his...
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:35:57 +0000

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Michael Cohen testified that when he learned of the possibility that Trump’s alleged affair with Stormy...
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:34:26 +0000

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How the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape cemented Trump’s invincibility
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:32:39 +0000

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Michael Cohen asked to spin ‘Access Hollywood’ tape for Trump during campaign, says ‘locker room’ comment was Melania’s idea
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:31:14 +0000

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Why Trump never had to repay the Karen McDougal hush money, per Cohen
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:27:33 +0000

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Analysis: Narrow Trump’s VP shortlist with this quiz
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:19:11 +0000

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Profit trumps all in plans for the Hundred | Letter
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:10:56 GMT

County cricket members take their duty as custodians of cricket seriously and deserve a say in its future, says Alan Higham

Selling stakes in the Hundred teams to private equity is a seismic moment in cricket’s history (Selling off the summer? Why Hundred plans should matter to all cricket lovers, 9 May). It points to a future where profit trumps all other factors. There is no detail on how the sale makes cricket more sustainable and accessible. Most of the new money will surely go on higher player and executive pay. Private equity won’t care whether more young people play the game or whether top players can help England win the Ashes.

English cricket is said to be broke but, taking in the ECB, 18 county teams and the MCC, it has an income of £600m a year, more than double that of five years ago. A hard look at costs and spending priorities so that all stakeholders broadly support the direction of travel is surely the right action before selling the silver.

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Michael Cohen summed up the theme of his whole testimony in one line when explaining money...
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:09:51 +0000

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Cohen: Trump executive didn’t want company associated with payoff money
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:08:24 +0000

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As Michael Cohen restarted his testimony, Donald Trump smiled a bit and shook his head while...
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:48:33 +0000

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Donald Trump and Michael Cohen are back in the courtroom after the morning break.
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:43:17 +0000

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Cohen says he recorded Trump to keep National Enquirer in line
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:42:30 +0000

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Donald Trump pumped his fist three times as he walked out of the courtroom for a...
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:39:29 +0000

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Donald Trump has left the courtroom. Walking out, he had the same slightly irritated facial expression...
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:27:21 +0000

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The judge has called a 15-minute midmorning break. Jurors are stepping out.
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:25:47 +0000

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National Enquirer exec wanted Trump to pay him back for McDougal deal
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:25:40 +0000

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Jurors have been paying close attention to Michael Cohen’s testimony, and a number of them are...
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:25:08 +0000

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Cohen describes Trump agreeing to pay $150,00 to kill affair story
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:13:03 +0000

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How Cohen says Trump reacted to Playboy model’s story: ‘She’s really beautiful’
Mon, 13 May 2024 15:00:59 +0000

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In top races, Republicans try to stay quiet on Trump’s false 2020 claims
Mon, 13 May 2024 14:59:47 +0000

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Donald Trump grimaced earlier when a doorman with salacious allegations about him came up in testimony....
Mon, 13 May 2024 14:56:27 +0000

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How Cohen says he helped pay off a Trump doorman
Mon, 13 May 2024 14:54:34 +0000

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Tabloid executive agreed to assist Trump’s 2016 campaign for president, trash his competition, Cohen says
Mon, 13 May 2024 14:50:28 +0000

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Neither Candidate Has Much to Say About Israel. So Why Is AIPAC Pouring Money Into This Race?
Sat, 11 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The powerful lobbying group is going against a Capitol Police officer who fended off January 6 insurrectionists.

The post Neither Candidate Has Much to Say About Israel. So Why Is AIPAC Pouring Money Into This Race? appeared first on The Intercept.

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Stormy Daniels’s American Dream
Fri, 10 May 2024 22:18:45 +0000
Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to portray the scrappy adult-film actress as a lying profiteer. Instead, she emerged as an intelligent, credible witness who is also very good at making money.
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October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division”
Fri, 10 May 2024 18:44:33 +0000

Four lawsuits alleging Hamas ties against Students for Justice in Palestine, the AP, UNRWA, and a cryptocurrency exchange share many of the same plaintiffs.

The post October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division” appeared first on The Intercept.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: Blinken says US arms will make real difference as Russia claims advances in northern Kharkiv region
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:27:38 GMT

Mission to Kyiv by US secretary of state comes after Congress approved long-delayed $60bn aid package; Russia claims to have captured Buhruvatka

• Zelenskiy calls for more air defences as Blinken arrives in Kyiv

Putin to visit China May 16-17

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will visit China on May 16-17, Chinese state media reported.

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Zelenskiy calls for more air defences as Blinken arrives in Kyiv
Tue, 14 May 2024 09:51:12 GMT

Plea comes as US secretary of state makes first visit to Ukraine since new aid package was passed by Congress

• Ukraine war – live updates

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday morning on his first visit to Ukraine since a major US aid package was passed last month, as Ukrainian forces struggle to defend against increasingly intense Russian attacks.

Blinken, who arrived by train from Poland in an unannounced visit, met Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, shortly after arriving.

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Second Russian invasion is worse than the first, Kharkiv region evacuees say
Tue, 14 May 2024 09:16:28 +0000
Thousands of Ukrainians have fled border towns and villages in the northeast Kharkiv region as Russian troops advance in a new attack.
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Blinken visits Ukraine to push U.S. support as Russia pummels Kharkiv
Tue, 14 May 2024 09:15:55 +0000
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Ukraine to offer U.S. support in Kyiv’s fight against Russia after a $61 billion aid package passed Congress.
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Biden admin shells out $120M to return chip startup to US ownership | Korean-controlled silicon slinger could be coming back to the fold
2024-05-13T23:11:31+00:00

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Raw milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus
Mon, 13 May 2024 22:58:27 +0000
Raw milk fans called warnings "fear mongering," despite 52% fatality rate in humans.
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Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches
Mon, 13 May 2024 22:41:54 +0000
US military seeks an "independent review" to determine if Vulcan can scale.
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Black Basta ransomware group is imperiling critical infrastructure, groups warn
Mon, 13 May 2024 19:55:52 +0000
Threat group has targeted 500 organizations. One is currently struggling to cope.
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Russia’s new defense minister shows economy is firmly on war footing
Mon, 13 May 2024 18:47:08 +0000
President Vladimir Putin’s choice of an economist for the job suggests he views managing budgets and curbing corruption to be key components to military victory in Ukraine.
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Georgian Parliament set to adopt controversial foreign agent law Tuesday
Mon, 13 May 2024 13:42:36 +0000
The governing Georgia Dream party said it would speed up a final vote, defying protesters who denounced the law as a Russian-style effort to squash free speech.
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Tens of thousands in Georgia protest Russian-style ‘foreign agents’ law
Sun, 12 May 2024 20:39:51 +0000
National security adviser Jake Sullivan praised those who turned out against the bill, proposed by the Georgian Dream party. Demonstrators demanded it not be adopted.
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Putin reassigns defense minister Shoigu in shake-up of Kremlin security team
Sun, 12 May 2024 19:02:05 +0000
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, a longtime confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, will become head of the national security council.
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Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process
Fri, 10 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

A new anti-terrorism bill would allow the government to take away vital tax exemptions from nonprofit news outlets.

The post Criticizing Israel? Nonprofit Media Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Without Due Process appeared first on The Intercept.

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What’s Holding Up Trump’s Florida Case?
Thu, 09 May 2024 19:50:14 +0000
Judge Aileen Cannon has said, in effect, that the case has become too complicated to proceed sooner. Unfortunately, that may be true.
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Microsoft Deploys Generative AI for US Spies
Sat, 11 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: China is suspected in a hack targeting the UK’s military, the US Marines are testing gun-toting robotic dogs, and Dell suffers a data breach impacting 49 million customers.
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Federal budget 2024 live updates: Jim Chalmers delivers Australia budget speech – latest news
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:43:44 GMT

$300 energy rebate to every Australian household as $3.5bn centrepiece of pre-election cost-of-living budget. Follow live updates

• Federal budget 2024: $300 energy rebates, cheaper medicines and rent relief in Jim Chalmers’ cost-of-living budget
• Karen Middleton: Jim Chalmers feels your pain and hopes, come election time, you will do your bit
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Nick McKim said he agrees with EY chief economist, Cherelle Murphy, who says that you can look after people without impacting inflation by taking the money you are spending on people who don’t need it, and redirecting it to people who do. (Therefore it is the same pool of money, but targeted differently.)

McKim:

For example, you could end the massive tax breaks for property investors who own multiple investment properties then put in place a rent freeze and a rent cap, for example.

You could tax billionaires and CEOs on the basis of their wealth and you could use that revenue to raise income support, which would lift a large number of Australians out of the grinding poverty that they experience every day.

No, certainly not. I mean, what the surplus shows is that they’re prioritising their own political benefit over investing in the kind of programs that would provide genuine help to people who are really doing it tough at the moment.

So what you’re going to see in the budget tonight is that having talked up an absolute storm on things like climate change and on things like cost of living, Labor is simply not prepared to take the action necessary to respond to those challenges that the urgency and the scale that is required.

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‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:00:16 GMT

IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster

Hopes that replacement fuels for airplanes will slash carbon pollution are misguided and support for these alternatives could even worsen the climate crisis, a new report has warned.

There is currently “no realistic or scalable alternative” to standard kerosene-based jet fuels, and touted “sustainable aviation fuels” are well off track to replace them in a timeframe needed to avert dangerous climate change, despite public subsidies, the report by the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive thinktank, found.

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Federal budget 2024 – winners and losers summary
Tue, 14 May 2024 10:14:40 GMT

While everyone’s a winner with the energy rebate, which applies to every household, there are certainly some losers

• Federal budget 2024 LIVE updates: Australia government budget announcement and speech – latest news
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In providing $300 in savings to everyone’s energy bill, the Albanese government is hoping everyone considers themselves a winner with its 2024 budget.

While the energy bill relief is being framed as a rebate, it applies to every household and will be automatically credited to electricity bills, essentially making it a cash handout for everyone that is part of a broader rebate program that will cost $3.5bn over three years.

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My stepfather-in-law is still happy at work aged 90 – what’s his secret? | Zoe Williams
Tue, 14 May 2024 10:00:16 GMT

I wouldn’t force a seven-decade-career on anyone, but when you see someone who loves what they do after that amount of time, it’s worth learning from them

Maybe the most remarkable thing about my stepfather-in-law is that he managed to find love in a swimming pool, at the age of 85, which is how I became related to him in the first place. Just the awesome amount of charm it takes to woo over the smell of chlorine, at 6am, dressed in trunks, never mind the energy; it will be baffling to those who don’t know him. That was five years ago. Now his 90th birthday is around the corner, and even though everyone has acclimatised to the energy, the charm and the swimming, it’s still a bit chastening how hard he works. I want to call it dabbling, maybe a little bit of advice to a younger colleague; but it looks much more like actual work. He’s an academic, fine, it’s reasonable for them to have a long arc. And his subject is education which, as an area of policy it pleases the government to mess around in for dumb reasons, is in constant flux and needful of critique.

Conservatively, though, I’d say he works more hours than I do. He can find his way round a Zoom meeting faster than anyone besides gen Zs. I’m reasonably confident he can remember the dark nuances of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings’s “blob” years better than either of them can. He’s all over Labour’s plans, when nobody else is sure they have any. He still travels for work when most of us have forgotten that was even a thing. I’ve never been 100% sure what “emeritus” means, but if he is the model, it’s something like “Highlander”.

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Sweet potatoes to faster passports: things you might have missed among 7,200 pages of budget papers
Tue, 14 May 2024 09:52:50 GMT

Not every measure makes the headlines, here we look at some of them – from a French re-connection to milk mix-ups in this year’s budget

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The 2024 federal budget was delivered to the nation’s journalists in the form of 7,265 pages, including four main papers, 38 media releases, 20 portfolio budget statements and 12 portfolio budget supplements.

It is a dense, arduous reading experience – and it’s easy to miss some things.

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2024 budget delivers minor surplus but deficits loom over economy as Australia’s spending ramps up
Tue, 14 May 2024 09:51:28 GMT

Major shortfalls predicted over next two years as Jim Chalmers downplays potential for inflationary pressures

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The federal budget will swing to sizable deficits from the coming financial year as government spending picks up, a switch that the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, hopes will not stoke inflationary pressures in the economy.

The budget will post a forecast surplus in the current year of $9.3bn – equivalent to 0.3% of gross domestic product – making it the first back-to-back surplus since 2007-08. The ledger, though, will slip sharply into a deficit of $28.3bn (1% of GDP) and further into the red at $42.8bn (1.5% of GDP) the following year.

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Fossil fuel firms forcing countries to compensate them, Mary Robinson says
Tue, 14 May 2024 07:00:29 GMT

Former Irish president and Ban Ki-moon say fossil lobbying is hampering climate progress

Fossil fuel companies are forcing governments to compensate them for lost earnings in the transition to a low-carbon global economy, and destroying the world’s ability to counter their harmful activities, former top UN officials have warned.

Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland who was twice a UN climate envoy, said she was “outraged” by the activities of fossil fuel companies, including forcing governments into “investment treaties” that reward them with billions in compensation when countries reduce their reliance on oil, gas and coal.

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UK ‘net zero’ project will produce 20m tonnes of carbon pollution, say experts
Tue, 14 May 2024 05:00:28 GMT

Government told Net Zero Teesside gas scheme will be massive polluter despite its carbon capture claims

A multibillion-pound “net zero” project backed by two of the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms will be responsible for more than 20m tonnes of planet-heating carbon over its lifetime, according to research submitted to the UK government.

The Net Zero Teesside scheme to build a new gas-fired power station in north-east England is backed by BP and Equinor and says it will use carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to capture up to 95% of its emissions and bury them beneath the North Sea.

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What Is… Earth’s Atmosphere?
Tue, 14 May 2024 00:04:19 +0000
When we talk about the Earth’s Atmosphere, what do we mean? Imagine a layer cake, wrapping around the Earth. That is essentially what the Earth’s atmosphere is like: layers upon layers of gas surrounding the Earth, working to protect the planet. We asked Rei Ueyama, an atmospheric scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, to explain […]
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NASA to Discuss New Polar Climate Mission During Media Teleconference
Mon, 13 May 2024 19:14:38 +0000
NASA is hosting a media call at 3 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 15, to discuss the agency’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission, which aims to improve life on Earth by studying heat loss from Earth’s polar regions and provide information on our changing climate. The first of two shoebox-sized satellites is […]
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World’s most efficient water electrolyzer prepares to be mass-produced | This new electrolyzer design is 20 percent more efficient than its peers and will make green hydrogen even more accessible.
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Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals
Mon, 13 May 2024 04:00:16 GMT

Among world’s top 60 banks those in US are biggest fossil fuel financiers, while Barclays leads way in Europe

The world’s big banks have handed nearly $7tn (£5.6tn) in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement to limit carbon emissions, according to research.

In 2016, after talks in Paris, 196 countries signed an agreement to limit global heating as a result of carbon emissions to at most 2C above preindustrial levels, with an ideal limit of 1.5C to prevent the worst impacts of a drastically changed climate.

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Are heat pumps more expensive to run than gas boilers?
Mon, 13 May 2024 04:00:17 GMT

The first in a series exploring the myths and realities surrounding heat pumps

• The fascinating science of heat pumps – visualised

Every year about 130 million households across Europe burn almost 40% of the continent’s total gas consumption to heat their homes. Those boilers contribute more than a fifth of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions in the process.

Many have warned that the dominance of the humble gas boiler threatens to derail global climate targets, while keeping Europe reliant on gas imports and shackled to higher energy costs.

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NASA’s Quest to Touch the Sun
Sun, 12 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000
The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface. NASA sent a probe to find out why—by getting closer to the star than ever before.
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Who Ran This Derogatory Prison Meme Page? A Prison Guard.
Wed, 08 May 2024 13:23:26 +0000

A former facility psychologist is suing the Bureau of Prisons over an Instagram account that joked about suicide at FCC Lompoc.

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They Used to Say Arabs Can’t Have Democracy Because It’d Be Bad for Israel. Now the U.S. Can’t Have It Either.
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:06:07 +0000

On campus, inside the Capitol, and in court, there’s an all-out assault on American democracy in the name of Israel.

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'Tungsten wall' leads to nuclear fusion breakthrough
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A (Strange) Interview With the Russian-Military-Linked Hackers Targeting US Water Utilities
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Despite Cyber Army of Russia’s claims of swaying US “minds and hearts,” experts say the cyber sabotage group appears to be hyping its hacking for a domestic audience.
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Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:08:09 +0000
How the rise of middle powers helps America’s enemies
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Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:26:59 +0000
Janet Yellen promises sanctions for those supporting Vladimir Putin’s war
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Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:59 +0000
It sets the stage for a nasty new Trump-China clash, among other things
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Trump Is Misleading You With Covid-Era Statistics. So Is Biden.
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:00:00 EST
Biden and Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.
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Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:59:46 +0000
Expensive oil could put Donald Trump in the White House
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Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
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The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:22:29 +0000
Everyone, from Donald Trump and Peter Thiel to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is getting involved
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How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:46:06 +0000
It is hard to overcome economic incentives
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Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
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Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:06:55 +0000
Will they now spend big on his campaign?
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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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Inside Ukraine’s Killer-Drone Startup Industry
Thu, 02 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000
Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home.
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The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:16:03 +0000
Thousands of planes and ships are facing GPS jamming and spoofing. Experts warn these attacks could potentially impact critical infrastructure, communication networks, and more.
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
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What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:21:18 +0000
The question that now confronts Western policymakers
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The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:12 +0000
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies
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Goodbye to gas: how insulation and a heat pump can make you more energy efficient
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:31:09 GMT

When it comes to heating our homes efficiently, the UK is lagging behind our European neighbours, however, there are ways in which we can better insulate and save money

Whether it’s squabbles over the office air conditioning or a family member telling you to put on another jumper, heating has always been a hot topic. However, with rising energy costs and the pressing climate crisis at the front of everyone’s mind, how we keep our homes warm is getting even more attention. While we might crave that satisfying feeling of nearly scalding our hand on a radiator when we crank up our central heating, we need to adopt a new mindset.

The UK is still very much reliant on fossil fuels for heating our homes. At the same time, reduction of fossil fuel usage is the number one priority when it comes to combating climate change, meaning the way we heat our homes is long overdue for an overhaul. In England, 90% of homes (pdf) have a boiler system with radiators as their main form of heating, while across the UK, 25m gas boilers are in use, which accounts to 16% of the nation’s total greenhouse gas emissions. To put it into perspective, for the UK to meet the government’s net zero target by 2050, about 8m buildings will need to switch from gas boilers to cleaner alternatives by 2035.

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From solar panels needing sun to 21C being ideal: five household heating myths are debunked
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:29:53 GMT

When you heat your home efficiently, you can stay cosy and warm without damaging your purse or the environment. However, knowing exactly how to heat your home is key, and here we bust some myths so you can reap the full benefits …

Myth 1: The ideal room temperature is 21C
We often keep our homes warmer than necessary. While a few degrees might not sound like much, it makes a big difference in terms of the overall energy output and cost. We might think we need our home to be set to around 21C, but in reality a little lower is more than sufficient. The World Health Organization suggests 18C is the ideal room temperature for healthy and appropriately dressed people, while The Sleep Charity recommends a bedtime temperature between 16C and 18C for optimum sleep.

Myth 2: Boilers are the most efficient way to heat your home
While in the UK many of us have relied on traditional gas boilers for generations, our European neighbours have been switching to heat pumps. These home heating devices are a modern, low-carbon and economical solution for creating a cosy home. Working much like a fridge or air conditioning unit, they use evaporation and condensation to create heat energy without the need for any fossil fuels.

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Heat pumps: what are they, how do they work, and should you get one?
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:28:57 GMT

They’re often described as fridges in reverse … but what exactly is a heat pump?

We all want to live in a cosy home but, during the cold winter months, keeping our houses warm can be a challenge. This proves even harder in the cost of living crisis, with many of us hit by higher-than-normal heating bills. Simultaneously, lots of us are thinking more about how our homes and lifestyle are affecting the ever-warming climate.

Heat pumps are a clever piece of innovation that can help with both problems – warming our homes while saving money and being better for the environment. An alternative to a traditional boiler, heat pumps keep houses at a comfortable temperature via a process that doesn’t require gas or oil, only electricity, which can be provided by renewable sources. In fact, recent research from the University of Oxford and the Regulatory Assistance Project, an independent, NGO advancing energy policy innovation, found that even at temperatures as cold as -30C, heat pumps outperformed oil and gas heating systems.

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From cold martyr to cosy saver: check your approach to warming the home with our heating quiz
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:27:09 GMT

Do you keep the entire house at a permanent 30C, or are you a Bear Grylls wannabe with an ‘extreme survival’ approach to turning the heating on? There are many ways to heat our homes and lots of us are doing it totally wrong. Take our quiz and find out if you need to adopt a smarter approach to central heating

From heat pumps to insulation, solar panels and more, explore ways the government can support you at gov.uk/energy-efficient-home.

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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:00:16 GMT

IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster

Hopes that replacement fuels for airplanes will slash carbon pollution are misguided and support for these alternatives could even worsen the climate crisis, a new report has warned.

There is currently “no realistic or scalable alternative” to standard kerosene-based jet fuels, and touted “sustainable aviation fuels” are well off track to replace them in a timeframe needed to avert dangerous climate change, despite public subsidies, the report by the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive thinktank, found.

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What Is… Earth’s Atmosphere?
Tue, 14 May 2024 00:04:19 +0000
When we talk about the Earth’s Atmosphere, what do we mean? Imagine a layer cake, wrapping around the Earth. That is essentially what the Earth’s atmosphere is like: layers upon layers of gas surrounding the Earth, working to protect the planet. We asked Rei Ueyama, an atmospheric scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, to explain […]
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Meet NASA Women Behind World’s Largest Flying Laboratory
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:30:48 +0000
NASA’s DC-8 aircraft – the world’s largest flying science laboratory – began its science missions in 1987 and since then, has flown in service of the science community over places like Antarctica, Greenland, and Thailand. Aircraft like the DC-8 have enabled scientists to ask questions about life on Earth and explore them in a way […]
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NASA to Discuss New Polar Climate Mission During Media Teleconference
Mon, 13 May 2024 19:14:38 +0000
NASA is hosting a media call at 3 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 15, to discuss the agency’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission, which aims to improve life on Earth by studying heat loss from Earth’s polar regions and provide information on our changing climate. The first of two shoebox-sized satellites is […]
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Federal budget 2024 live updates: Jim Chalmers delivers Australia budget speech – latest news
Tue, 14 May 2024 11:43:44 GMT

$300 energy rebate to every Australian household as $3.5bn centrepiece of pre-election cost-of-living budget. Follow live updates

• Federal budget 2024: $300 energy rebates, cheaper medicines and rent relief in Jim Chalmers’ cost-of-living budget
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Nick McKim said he agrees with EY chief economist, Cherelle Murphy, who says that you can look after people without impacting inflation by taking the money you are spending on people who don’t need it, and redirecting it to people who do. (Therefore it is the same pool of money, but targeted differently.)

McKim:

For example, you could end the massive tax breaks for property investors who own multiple investment properties then put in place a rent freeze and a rent cap, for example.

You could tax billionaires and CEOs on the basis of their wealth and you could use that revenue to raise income support, which would lift a large number of Australians out of the grinding poverty that they experience every day.

No, certainly not. I mean, what the surplus shows is that they’re prioritising their own political benefit over investing in the kind of programs that would provide genuine help to people who are really doing it tough at the moment.

So what you’re going to see in the budget tonight is that having talked up an absolute storm on things like climate change and on things like cost of living, Labor is simply not prepared to take the action necessary to respond to those challenges that the urgency and the scale that is required.

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Fossil fuel firms forcing countries to compensate them, Mary Robinson says
Tue, 14 May 2024 07:00:29 GMT

Former Irish president and Ban Ki-moon say fossil lobbying is hampering climate progress

Fossil fuel companies are forcing governments to compensate them for lost earnings in the transition to a low-carbon global economy, and destroying the world’s ability to counter their harmful activities, former top UN officials have warned.

Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland who was twice a UN climate envoy, said she was “outraged” by the activities of fossil fuel companies, including forcing governments into “investment treaties” that reward them with billions in compensation when countries reduce their reliance on oil, gas and coal.

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UK ‘net zero’ project will produce 20m tonnes of carbon pollution, say experts
Tue, 14 May 2024 05:00:28 GMT

Government told Net Zero Teesside gas scheme will be massive polluter despite its carbon capture claims

A multibillion-pound “net zero” project backed by two of the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms will be responsible for more than 20m tonnes of planet-heating carbon over its lifetime, according to research submitted to the UK government.

The Net Zero Teesside scheme to build a new gas-fired power station in north-east England is backed by BP and Equinor and says it will use carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to capture up to 95% of its emissions and bury them beneath the North Sea.

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Tech Today: A NASA-Inspired Bike Helmet with Aerodynamics of a Jet
Mon, 13 May 2024 20:03:26 +0000
Before the U.S. Cycling Federation adopted a requirement for all bike racers to wear helmets in 1986, most people rode without one. The only helmet options at the time drew rider complaints for being too hot and heavy. But, with a bit inspiration from a NASA aircraft wing design used during World War II, more […]
Match ID: 7 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Station Science 101 | Research in Microgravity: Higher, Faster, Longer
Mon, 13 May 2024 19:05:51 +0000
The International Space Station provides unique features that enable innovative research, including microgravity, exposure to space, a unique orbit, and hands-on operation by crew members. Microgravity The space station provides consistent, long-term access to microgravity. Eliminating the effects of Earth’s gravity on experiments is a game-changer across many disciplines, including research on living things and […]
Match ID: 8 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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NASA’s Juno Mission Spots Jupiter’s Tiny Moon Amalthea
Mon, 13 May 2024 17:37:14 +0000
NASA’s Juno mission captured these views of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant planet on March 7, 2024. They provide a good look at Jupiter’s colorful belts and swirling storms, including the Great Red Spot. Close examination reveals something more: two glimpses of the tiny moon Amalthea (see Figure B below). Figure […]
Match ID: 9 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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NASA Names First Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:36:51 +0000
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Monday named David Salvagnini as the agency’s new chief artificial intelligence (AI) officer, effective immediately. The role is an expansion of Salvagnini’s current role as chief data officer. A wide variety of AI tools are used by NASA to benefit humanity from supporting missions and research projects across the agency, […]
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Beethoven likely didn’t die from lead poisoning, new DNA analysis reveals
Mon, 13 May 2024 16:16:03 +0000
There was also mercury and arsenic but none of the toxins likely caused composer's death.
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15 Years Ago: STS-125, the Final Hubble Servicing Mission
Mon, 13 May 2024 12:03:44 +0000
 “Trying to do stellar observations from Earth is like trying to do birdwatching from the bottom of a lake.” James B. Odom, Hubble Program Manager 1983-1990. The fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, placed in orbit in 1990, took place during the STS-125 mission in May 2009. During the 13-day flight, […]
Match ID: 12 Score: 15.00 source: www.nasa.gov age: 0 days
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Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals
Mon, 13 May 2024 04:00:16 GMT

Among world’s top 60 banks those in US are biggest fossil fuel financiers, while Barclays leads way in Europe

The world’s big banks have handed nearly $7tn (£5.6tn) in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement to limit carbon emissions, according to research.

In 2016, after talks in Paris, 196 countries signed an agreement to limit global heating as a result of carbon emissions to at most 2C above preindustrial levels, with an ideal limit of 1.5C to prevent the worst impacts of a drastically changed climate.

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Neither Candidate Has Much to Say About Israel. So Why Is AIPAC Pouring Money Into This Race?
Sat, 11 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The powerful lobbying group is going against a Capitol Police officer who fended off January 6 insurrectionists.

The post Neither Candidate Has Much to Say About Israel. So Why Is AIPAC Pouring Money Into This Race? appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 14 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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In Defense of Parasitic Worms
Sat, 11 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000
Nature can’t run without parasites, and climate change is driving some to extinction. What happens when they start to disappear?
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AIPAC and Republican Donors Raising Big Money for Maxine Dexter Against Susheela Jayapal in Oregon
Fri, 10 May 2024 18:08:57 +0000

A donor to Dexter in the Portland congressional race tells The Intercept: “I give all my contributions through AIPAC.”

The post AIPAC and Republican Donors Raising Big Money for Maxine Dexter Against Susheela Jayapal in Oregon appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 16 Score: 12.86 source: theintercept.com age: 3 days
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Climate Protesters Storm Tesla’s Gigafactory in Europe
Fri, 10 May 2024 13:08:01 +0000
The carmaker’s only European gigafactory has become the target of increasingly radical protests since announcing expansion plans.
Match ID: 17 Score: 12.86 source: www.wired.com age: 3 days
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NASA Licenses 3D-Printable Superalloy to Benefit US Economy
Thu, 09 May 2024 12:14:04 +0000
NASA’s investment in a breakthrough superalloy developed for the extreme temperatures and harsh conditions of air and spaceflight is on the threshold of paying commercial dividends. The agency is licensing its invention, dubbed “GRX-810,” to four American companies, a practice that benefits the United States economy as a return on investment of taxpayer dollars. GRX-810 […]
Match ID: 18 Score: 10.71 source: www.nasa.gov age: 4 days
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NASA Uses Small Engine to Enhance Sustainable Jet Research
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make aviation more sustainable.  The engine’s smaller size and modestly equipped test stand means researchers and engineers can try out newly designed engine components less expensively […]
Match ID: 19 Score: 4.29 source: www.nasa.gov age: 15 days
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ARMD Solicitations
Fri, 03 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
This ARMD solicitations page compiles the opportunities to collaborate with NASA’s aeronautical innovators and/or contribute to their research to enable new and improved air transportation systems. A summary of available opportunities with key dates requiring action are listed first. More information about each opportunity is detailed lower on this page. University Leadership InitiativeKey date: May […]
Match ID: 20 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 10 days
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NASA’s Commitment to Safety Starts with its Culture
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0000
NASA works on projects that often have never been done, or perhaps the way they are being done has never been tried. Living on the edge of innovation requires a high degree of risk. After organizational silence led to the loss of space shuttle Challenger and its crew in 1986, NASA vowed to change the […]
Match ID: 21 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 13 days
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The White House Has a New Master Plan to Stop Worst-Case Scenarios
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000
President Joe Biden has updated the directives to protect US critical infrastructure against major threats, from cyberattacks to terrorism to climate change.
Match ID: 22 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 13 days
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NASA, FAA Partner to Develop New Wildland Fire Technologies
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:47:24 +0000
NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have established a research transition team to guide the development of wildland fire technology.  Wildland fires are occurring more frequently and at a larger scale than in past decades, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Emergency responders will need a broader set of technologies to prevent, monitor, and […]
Match ID: 23 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 24 days
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NASA Photographer Honored for Thrilling Inverted In-Flight Image
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:37:45 +0000
Riding in the back seat of a car can be boring. Riding in the back of a NASA aircraft is exhilarating, especially for photographers capturing NASA’s story. Jim Ross, photo lead at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was awarded first place for an image he took while flying upside down in a […]
Match ID: 24 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 26 days
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye … for Now
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:54:28 +0000
The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in […]
Match ID: 25 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 27 days
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NASA’s DC-8 Completes Final Mission, Set to Retire
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 21:24:53 +0000
After 37 years of successful airborne science missions, NASA’s DC-8 aircraft completed its final mission and returned to the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center Building 703 in Palmdale, California, on April 1. The DC-8 and crew were welcomed back with a celebratory water salute by the U.S Air Force Plant 42 Fire Department after completing […]
Match ID: 26 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 34 days
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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 […]
Match ID: 27 Score: 2.14 source: www.nasa.gov age: 38 days
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How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:59:08 +0000
Opposition to new buildings has unfortunate consequences
Match ID: 28 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 61 days
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Hottest February marks ninth new monthly record
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:06:49 GMT
It's the ninth month of global temperature records in a row, driven by climate change and El Niño.
Match ID: 29 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 68 days
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Why firms are racing to produce green ammonia
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:04:21 GMT
Ammonia is essential for fertiliser production but producing it is carbon intensive.
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Goodbye to gas: how insulation and a heat pump can make you more energy efficient
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:31:09 GMT

When it comes to heating our homes efficiently, the UK is lagging behind our European neighbours, however, there are ways in which we can better insulate and save money

Whether it’s squabbles over the office air conditioning or a family member telling you to put on another jumper, heating has always been a hot topic. However, with rising energy costs and the pressing climate crisis at the front of everyone’s mind, how we keep our homes warm is getting even more attention. While we might crave that satisfying feeling of nearly scalding our hand on a radiator when we crank up our central heating, we need to adopt a new mindset.

The UK is still very much reliant on fossil fuels for heating our homes. At the same time, reduction of fossil fuel usage is the number one priority when it comes to combating climate change, meaning the way we heat our homes is long overdue for an overhaul. In England, 90% of homes (pdf) have a boiler system with radiators as their main form of heating, while across the UK, 25m gas boilers are in use, which accounts to 16% of the nation’s total greenhouse gas emissions. To put it into perspective, for the UK to meet the government’s net zero target by 2050, about 8m buildings will need to switch from gas boilers to cleaner alternatives by 2035.

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From solar panels needing sun to 21C being ideal: five household heating myths are debunked
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:29:53 GMT

When you heat your home efficiently, you can stay cosy and warm without damaging your purse or the environment. However, knowing exactly how to heat your home is key, and here we bust some myths so you can reap the full benefits …

Myth 1: The ideal room temperature is 21C
We often keep our homes warmer than necessary. While a few degrees might not sound like much, it makes a big difference in terms of the overall energy output and cost. We might think we need our home to be set to around 21C, but in reality a little lower is more than sufficient. The World Health Organization suggests 18C is the ideal room temperature for healthy and appropriately dressed people, while The Sleep Charity recommends a bedtime temperature between 16C and 18C for optimum sleep.

Myth 2: Boilers are the most efficient way to heat your home
While in the UK many of us have relied on traditional gas boilers for generations, our European neighbours have been switching to heat pumps. These home heating devices are a modern, low-carbon and economical solution for creating a cosy home. Working much like a fridge or air conditioning unit, they use evaporation and condensation to create heat energy without the need for any fossil fuels.

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A New Way to See Your Climate Anxiety
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The climate crisis has become a mental health crisis. But eco-anxiety isn’t necessarily a pathology.
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
Match ID: 34 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 118 days
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Ahrefs vs SEMrush: Which SEO Tool Should You Use?
Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:16:00 +0000

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

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

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

What is SEMrush?

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

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

Features

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


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

Ahrefs

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

Features

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

Direct Comparisons: Ahrefs vs SEMrush

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

User Interface

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

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

AHREFS

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

Additional features of the Ahrefs platform include:

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

SEMRUSH

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

You'll also find some other options like

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

WHO WINS?

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

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

Rank Tracking

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

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

Ahrefs

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

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

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

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

SEMRUSH

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

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

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

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

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

WHO WINS?

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

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

Keyword Research

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

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

AHREFS

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

Ahrefs supports several features, including:

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

SEMRUSH

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

The Keyword Magic Tool also lets you to:

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

WHO WINS?

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

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

Competitor Analysis

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

AHREFS

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

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

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

SEMRUSH

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

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

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

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

WHO WINS?

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

Pricing

Ahrefs

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

SEMRUSH

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

Which SEO tool should you choose for digital marketing?

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

Consider choosing Ahrefs if you

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

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

 

Consider SEMrush if you:

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

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

 

 

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