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Software Testing Day

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Google Solar Cycle

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Good and Bad Ideas

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Some Universities Chose Violence. Others Responded to Protests by Considering Student Demands.
Wed, 08 May 2024 21:42:05 +0000

At least seven schools have reached an agreement with students around investment transparency and exploring divestment from Israel.

The post Some Universities Chose Violence. Others Responded to Protests by Considering Student Demands. appeared first on The Intercept.

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From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack
Thu, 02 May 2024 21:15:55 +0000

University faculty have put their bodies and livelihoods on the line amid a brutal, violent response to student protests for Gaza.

The post From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack appeared first on The Intercept.

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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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“A New Sense of World-Building”: Inside the Student Movement for Gaza
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The movement to divest from Israel and the defense industry is gaining momentum on college campuses.

The post “A New Sense of World-Building”: Inside the Student Movement for Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

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How Much Money Did the NYPD Waste Quashing Student Protests? We Tallied It Up.
Tue, 07 May 2024 21:10:55 +0000

The last big protests cost $150 million in NYPD overtime — with tens of millions more in lawsuit settlements.

The post How Much Money Did the NYPD Waste Quashing Student Protests? We Tallied It Up. appeared first on The Intercept.

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After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail
Mon, 06 May 2024 20:36:52 +0000

Two college protesters were placed in solitary confinement, according to Columbia professors who worked in real time to support jailed students.

The post After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail appeared first on The Intercept.

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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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NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator” to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia
Fri, 03 May 2024 20:34:07 +0000

Nahla Al-Arian lost more than 200 relatives in Israel's attacks on Gaza. Then Eric Adams said she was the reason police raided Columbia.

The post NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator” to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia appeared first on The Intercept.

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Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University
Fri, 03 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
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I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:14:34 +0000

When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.

The post I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide
Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The famed scholar on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians.

The post Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide appeared first on The Intercept.

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How much protein is too much? - podcast
Thu, 09 May 2024 04:00:40 GMT

Sales of cottage cheese are booming thanks to a boost from protein-hungry social media influencers. But do we really need all this extra protein? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Joanne Slavin, a professor of food science and nutrition at the University of Minnesota, to find out what exactly protein is doing in our bodies, and what happens to it when we consume it in excess

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19 Best Sex Toys (2024): Gender Inclusive, Couples, Solo
Wed, 08 May 2024 16:11:52 +0000
These are our favorite gender-inclusive vibrators, wand massagers, and sleeves to give you and your partner(s) a helping hand.
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A moment that changed me: I thought fitness was my superpower. Then I realised it was a ball and chain
Wed, 08 May 2024 06:00:37 GMT

Running had been my identity, my career, my life. One beautiful spring day, I realised it wasn’t enough

I have Jane Fonda to thank for my fitness “discovery” in the late 1980s. Still in my teens, I wore through the carpet doing her workout videos in front of the TV. I also spent hours ploughing up and down the pool at the local leisure centre and honing my muscles at the gym.

I always regarded fitness as my superpower. Something that I worked hard at, for sure, but something that gave me kudos. Keeping fit – I mean, really fit – seemed to me an admirable and noble pursuit. I could fit into nice clothes easily. I could push my body and trust it not to fail. Whatever other qualities I didn’t possess, whatever I wasn’t good enough at, I could walk into a gym or toe a start line for a race and pass muster.

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I Rode Saga's HoloBike and Things Got a Little Weird
Tue, 07 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000
Saga's HoloBike just launched on Kickstarter. It's pretty and has potential, but the rides themselves are short and need some work.
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Mark Ulriksen’s “Shotime”
Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
For many fans, the real harbinger of spring is the beginning of baseball season.
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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
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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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How American states squeeze athletes (and remote workers)
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:05:59 +0000
The public loves jock taxes; baseball players do not
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The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan review – dire strait
Thu, 09 May 2024 08:00:44 GMT

How presidential animosity and diplomatic failures by China and the US have left the island in a perilous state

As flashpoints go, few come flashier than Taiwan. To pick one incident from a string of recent close calls: the visit of Nancy Pelosi to Taipei in the summer of 2022. Pelosi, then speaker of the House and third in line to the presidency, was travelling to Taiwan to make an “unequivocal statement that America stands with Taiwan”. The visit produced predictable fury in Beijing: it was “manic, irresponsible and highly irrational”, according to officials; Pelosi was “playing with fire”. Troops were placed on high alert; military exercises were ordered; missiles were launched into the Taiwan Strait. The editor of one mainland tabloid even called for Pelosi’s plane to be shot down. But the more Beijing threatened, the more determined the speaker became, and so, for a few days that August, the world’s two largest economies stood one small military accident away from catastrophic conflict.

How, the observer wonders, did we come to this? There are a dozen reasons, which Sulmaan Wasif Khan, a historian at Tufts University, lays out in his deeply researched and fascinating history of the island. But the nutshell answer is that a mixture of poisonous nationalism and fudged diplomacy over many years, combined with the premierships of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, has turned the Sino-American relationship into a tinderbox. Taiwan could be the spark that ignites it.

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‘When he is older there will be no rain’: how southern Madagascar is coping in a climate crisis
Thu, 09 May 2024 07:00:43 GMT

The island nation is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world, as changing weather patterns bring more dry spells and unpredictable rainy seasons. Sean Smith travelled to the south to meet those affected and to report on the ways they are trying to prepare for an altered future

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The culture warriors have come for the National Trust. This is how we take them on – and win | Celia Richardson
Thu, 09 May 2024 07:00:44 GMT

Organised populists are trying to drag our cherished institution into polarising and divisive rows. The public won’t let them

• Celia Richardson is director of communications and marketing at the National Trust

In March this year, the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, gave a speech on the BBC’s future. He said unbalanced, unfair and overtly politicised attacks on institutions eroded the essence of what made Britain so globally admired. He was right. The increasing number of attacks on our institutions poses a risk to us all – at home as well as overseas. Strong, independent institutions are essential to functioning democracies. Remaining impartial allows them to put the public interest above political and business interests, take a long-term view of complex issues, and make decisions that benefit society as a whole. Their neutrality allows workers to apply expertise without fear of reprisal or coercion. And they act as roadblocks to extremism.

Too often, charities, public bodies and universities are becoming proxies in other people’s fights, and targets in other people’s schemes. It’s part of a populist approach: choose a well-known institution and level divisive accusations at it, and you can surprise people and grab headlines. The National Trust, where I work, will be 130 years old in January next year. Nearly 10% of the UK’s population are signed-up, paying members. It’s been called a peculiarly British miracle. It’s been achieved through cooperation towards a common goal – securing hundreds of miles of coast and countryside, nature reserves, historic landscapes and buildings, and priceless treasures, in perpetuity, for the benefit of the entire country.

Celia Richardson is director of communications and marketing at the National Trust

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Selling off the summer? Why Hundred plans should matter to all cricket lovers | Barney Ronay
Thu, 09 May 2024 07:00:42 GMT

The ECB’s proposals to invite private investment into its divisive tournament require further scrutiny with the wider game at stake

Why should anyone be worried about the England and Wales Cricket Board’s plan to sell its stake in the eight Hundred franchise teams to private investors? A deadline for counties to agree to a “direction of travel” on this issue has been set for Friday. The governing body’s preferred direction appears clear enough. The intention seems to be to sell English cricket’s chief domestic revenue levers as quickly as possible. Most likely this will be to the existing owners of Indian Premier League franchises. IPL owners already have teams in the US, the United Arab Emirates and South Africa. So why not here?

To date nobody with any kind of platform in the game seems overly concerned about this prospect. We have seen no breaking of ranks among administrators, no big‑ticket media names pointing to the potential pitfalls, no European Super League-style protests on the streets.

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Somerset’s growing cycle network bears fruit: a ride on the Strawberry Line
Thu, 09 May 2024 06:00:42 GMT

Mostly traffic-free and flat, this route between Yatton and Cheddar takes in old stations and views across the Levels to the Bristol Channel – and it’s being extended to form part of the 76-mile Somerset Circle

It’s a noise the former railway tunnel probably hadn’t heard in a while. Somewhere in the dark is a hooting part-owl, part-forlorn steam train. My sister Ele has stopped on her bike to blow determinedly across her cupped hands like a flute. As she recreates this long-gone sound, I pedal on through the cool, damp air. Water drips steadily from the stalactite-coated brickwork as my front light illuminates pedestrians and their dogs looming from the echoing shadows.

We are cycling the Strawberry Line, a 10.75-mile, mostly off-road cycling and walking route from Yatton to Cheddar in north Somerset, on a sunny spring morning. White blackthorn flowers blossom in the hedges, and puddles splatter us with brick-coloured mud. I always love the thought that this rich red soil was formed when Britain basked close to the equator, before migrating north, along with Europe and North America.

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UK toddler has hearing restored in world first gene therapy trial
Thu, 09 May 2024 04:00:40 GMT

Opal Sandy can hear almost perfectly after groundbreaking surgery that took just 16 minutes

A British toddler has had her hearing restored after becoming the first person in the world to take part in a pioneering gene therapy trial, in a development that doctors say marks a new era in treating deafness.

Opal Sandy was born unable to hear anything due to auditory neuropathy, a condition that disrupts nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to the brain and can be caused by a faulty gene.

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RFK Jr. says he had parasitic brain worm and undisclosed memory loss
Thu, 09 May 2024 01:38:56 +0000
Kennedy’s campaign spokeswoman said he contracted a parasite years ago while traveling “extensively in Africa, South America and Asia in his work as an environmental advocate.”
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NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet
Wed, 08 May 2024 23:22:45 +0000
While the planet is too hot to be habitable, detecting its atmosphere could provide insights into the early conditions of Earth, Venus, and Mars. Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date […]
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Castoffs to catwalk: fashion show shines light on vast Chile clothes dump visible from space
Wed, 08 May 2024 09:00:38 GMT

The Atacama desert has become a ‘global sacrifice zone’ of used fast fashion. Activists and designers organised an event to raise awareness of the devastation to the land and people

Draped in layers of denim, Sadlin Charles walks the catwalk of sand between piles of discarded clothes and tyres in Chile’s Atacama desert. His outfit has been made from items found in the surrounding heaps of rubbish, which are so vast they can be seen from space. Almost all of this waste has come from countries thousands of miles away, including the US, China, South Korea and the UK.

A staggering 60,000 tonnes of used clothing is shipped to Chile each year. According to the latest UN figures, Chile is the third largest importer of secondhand clothes in the world. Some of these clothes are resold in secondhand markets, but at least 39,000 tonnes ends up being illegally dumped in the Atacama desert. The desert is one of the country’s most popular tourism destinations, famed for its otherworldly beauty and stargazing, but for those living near the dump sites it has become a place of devastation.

Sadlin Charles models denim salvaged from discarded garments at Atacama fashion week

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5 Best French Presses (2024): Plastic, Glass, Stainless Steel, Travel
Mon, 06 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000
The humble French press is affordable, effective, and hard to mess up. Here are our favorites to make your morning cup of coffee.
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NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator” to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia
Fri, 03 May 2024 20:34:07 +0000

Nahla Al-Arian lost more than 200 relatives in Israel's attacks on Gaza. Then Eric Adams said she was the reason police raided Columbia.

The post NYC Mayor Smeared a Grandmother as an “Outside Agitator” to Justify NYPD Assault on Columbia appeared first on The Intercept.

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‘The Greens are our enemy’: What is fuelling the far right in Germany?
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:42:56 GMT

The far right are on the march in Germany and the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany has become the most popular party in several states. Immigration and a sense of being economically left behind have been driving factors in the rise in popularity but the Green party and the federal government’s climate policies have also borne the brunt of public anger. The Guardian travelled to Görlitz, on the German border with Poland, to find out to what extent Germany’s green policies are fuelling the far right

• How climate policies are becoming focus for far-right attacks in Germany

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NASA Langley Team to Study Weather During Eclipse Using Uncrewed Vehicles
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 18:18:40 +0000
A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, will travel to Fort Drum, N.Y., to study changes in the Sun’s radiation as it reaches Earth before, during, and after the total solar eclipse April 8. Weather sensors similar to what is used on daily weather balloons by the National Weather […]
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Guardian Traveller newsletter: Sign up for our free holidays email
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:21:58 GMT

From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays.

From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors.

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Arrested U.S. soldier was in Russia to pursue girlfriend
Wed, 08 May 2024 15:51:31 +0000
Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, met a Russian woman while stationed in South Korea and followed her to Russia without notifying his commanders.
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Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur
Thu, 09 May 2024 03:00:37 GMT

As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries in Sudan

Gruesome new testimony details one of the worst atrocities of the year-long Sudanese civil war – the large-scale massacre of civilians as they desperately tried to flee an ethnic rampage in Darfur last summer.

Witnesses describe children, still alive, being “piled up and shot” by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as they attempted to escape the regional capital of El Geneina in June last year during a bout of ethnic violence in which thousands of civilians were killed.

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Ukraine orders nationwide electricity rationing after Russian airstrikes
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:28:10 +0000
The Russian missile and drone strikes, which lasted more than three hours early Wednesday, targeted energy infrastructure in six Ukrainian regions.
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Western military trainers could go to Ukraine, Lithuania minister says
Thu, 09 May 2024 06:00:41 GMT

Gabrielius Landsbergis also backs David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron on standing up to Putin

Lithuania’s foreign minister has raised the prospect of an ad hoc coalition of western countries sending military training personnel into Ukraine backed by ground-based air defence, days after Russia took an increasingly strident tone against what it sees as the threat of deeper western involvement in the war.

Speaking to the Guardian after meeting his British counterpart, David Cameron, in London, Gabrielius Landsbergis also backed the British foreign secretary for saying that Ukraine could use British-made weapons against Russia; remarks that alongside Emmanuel Macron refusing to rule out western troops in Ukraine prompted the Kremlin to threaten UK assets and order a tactical nuclear training exercise.

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The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan review – dire strait
Thu, 09 May 2024 08:00:44 GMT

How presidential animosity and diplomatic failures by China and the US have left the island in a perilous state

As flashpoints go, few come flashier than Taiwan. To pick one incident from a string of recent close calls: the visit of Nancy Pelosi to Taipei in the summer of 2022. Pelosi, then speaker of the House and third in line to the presidency, was travelling to Taiwan to make an “unequivocal statement that America stands with Taiwan”. The visit produced predictable fury in Beijing: it was “manic, irresponsible and highly irrational”, according to officials; Pelosi was “playing with fire”. Troops were placed on high alert; military exercises were ordered; missiles were launched into the Taiwan Strait. The editor of one mainland tabloid even called for Pelosi’s plane to be shot down. But the more Beijing threatened, the more determined the speaker became, and so, for a few days that August, the world’s two largest economies stood one small military accident away from catastrophic conflict.

How, the observer wonders, did we come to this? There are a dozen reasons, which Sulmaan Wasif Khan, a historian at Tufts University, lays out in his deeply researched and fascinating history of the island. But the nutshell answer is that a mixture of poisonous nationalism and fudged diplomacy over many years, combined with the premierships of Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, has turned the Sino-American relationship into a tinderbox. Taiwan could be the spark that ignites it.

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Mockery, low tactics, sexist tropes: gloriously, Stormy Daniels is repaying Donald Trump in kind
Thu, 09 May 2024 08:00:43 GMT

At some deep level, the former adult film star clearly has his number and knows how to hit him where it hurts

The spectacle of Stormy Daniels on the witness stand in a Manhattan courtroom this week sent one back to the image of Trump’s last female antagonist, E Jean Carroll, the advice columnist who famously sued Trump for sexually assaulting her, standing victorious outside another courtroom in January. Daniels, unlike Carroll, is not the plaintiff in this case. Nonetheless, Trump’s fortunes rest, to a large degree, on her credibility, a 45-year-old former porn star who the New York Times described this week as “a complicated and imperfect witness”. If Carroll – elegant, measured, articulate – was the perfect victim, Daniels is practically the archetype of the woman court systems tend to revile. And yet, on the strength of her opening testimony, she strikes me as Trump’s very worst nightmare.

This impression is extrajudicial. Daniels, who has already been rebuked by the judge for straying off topic, may prove too wayward a witness to achieve what Carroll did: the civil case equivalent of a guilty verdict against a man almost supernaturally able to avoid them. If we are looking beyond verdicts to the public image, however, Daniels is in some ways by far the more menacing foe for Trump. You couldn’t make up the details of her testimony this week, which sent court reporters scrambling to find sober ways to present her account of spanking Trump with a rolled up magazine and insisting on having sex with her without a condom. This is a woman willing to meet Trump at his preferred site of conflict – public humiliation – and on the evidence so far, he isn’t weathering it well.

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Stormy Daniels to return to stand for second day of testimony at Trump trial
Thu, 09 May 2024 07:00:43 GMT

Adult film star will continue to be cross-examined by Trump’s legal team after prosecutors drew out details of alleged affair

Donald Trump’s hush-money trial will resume on Thursday with more testimony from Stormy Daniels, the adult film star whose brief alleged affair with the former US president has already been the subject of much salacious questioning by prosecutors.

Daniels will continue being cross-examined by Trump’s legal team.

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The key arguments prosecutors will use against Trump

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Top Republicans, led by Trump, refuse to commit to accept 2024 election results
Thu, 09 May 2024 04:01:09 +0000
One possible vice-presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), repeatedly declined to say whether he will accept the outcome.
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Barron Trump chosen as Florida delegate to Republican National Convention
Thu, 09 May 2024 03:45:05 GMT

Eighteen-year-old will be among delegates to officially nominate his father, Donald Trump, as candidate for upcoming presidential election

Barron Trump, who is former president Donald Trump’s youngest son, has been chosen to serve as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention, the state party chairman has said.

Evan Power said the 18-year-old high school senior will serve as one of 41 at-large delegates from Florida to July’s national gathering, where the GOP is set to officially nominate his father as its presidential candidate for the November federal election.

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Judge keeps tying Trump to possible intimidation
Thu, 09 May 2024 00:17:31 +0000
Juan Merchan has cited at least three instances of Trump’s potentially intimidating a witness or jurors. But experts say it’s hard to police.
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Biden says he doesn’t believe Trump will accept the results of the 2024 election
Wed, 08 May 2024 21:19:43 +0000

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The Washington Post analyzed 14,101 of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts from the day he announced...
Wed, 08 May 2024 20:39:30 +0000

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Stormy Daniels takes the stand (and Trump curses)
Wed, 08 May 2024 20:26:09 +0000
This week in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president, Stormy Daniels gave explicit and disturbing testimony and sparked an angry reaction from Donald Trump.
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In new ad, Democratic House candidate John Avlon focuses attention on Trump
Wed, 08 May 2024 20:22:14 +0000

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The 2020-was-stolen crew is here to stoke fears of noncitizen voters
Wed, 08 May 2024 20:19:55 +0000
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) led a news conference featuring key Trump allies in which he tried to amplify baseless warnings about non-citizen voters.
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Poll: Biden leads Trump in Wisconsin, but race tightens with third-party candidates
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:52:21 +0000

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Trump has yet to decide his VP pick – and it’s turning into a pageant of its own
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:35:25 GMT

It’s less than six months until election day, and Donald Trump is choosing his running mate. It’s quite the spectacle

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The Marshall Star for May 8, 2024
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:20:32 +0000
New Flag is in the Stars for Marshall’s Huntsville Operations Support Center By Wayne Smith A new flag is flying closer to the stars outside the Huntsville Operations Support Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center following a May 2 ceremony. The white flag features a blue logo of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and marks contributions […]
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Biden touts Microsoft AI center on site of Trump’s failed Foxconn deal
Wed, 08 May 2024 19:11:11 +0000
The multibillion-dollar investment is expected to create 2,000 permanent jobs and 2,300 temporary union construction jobs.
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How Trump’s allies amplify his Truth Social messages to the wider world
Wed, 08 May 2024 18:09:50 +0000

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For all the complaints, Trump isn’t campaigning much on trial off-days
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:55:08 +0000
The former president insists that the trial is meant to keep him off the campaign trail. So what’s keeping him off it on other days?
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Biden highlights Trump’s connection to a failed Foxconn deal in Wisconsin
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:50:53 +0000

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Analysis: For all the complaints, Trump isn’t campaigning much on trial off-days
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:27:27 +0000

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Why conservative media is suddenly turning on Kristi Noem
Wed, 08 May 2024 16:48:51 +0000
The Trump-era right wing has proven it will put up with plenty — until it decides you’re a political liability.
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Analysis: Trump’s classified documents trial blown apart by Cannon
Wed, 08 May 2024 15:59:21 +0000

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Georgia court to hear Trump appeal seeking to disqualify Fani Willis
Wed, 08 May 2024 15:37:47 +0000

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Trump’s classified documents trial blown apart by Cannon
Wed, 08 May 2024 15:33:07 +0000
Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee in charge of the Florida prosecution, has repeatedly given Trump’s team exactly what it wants. His fans have noticed.
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New Biden campaign ad targets Trump’s efforts to repeal Obamacare
Wed, 08 May 2024 14:39:06 +0000

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Tracking the Trump criminal cases and where they stand
Wed, 08 May 2024 14:27:35 +0000
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has been indicted in four criminal cases. Here is the latest news on each.
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Biden to tout new Microsoft AI center on site of Trump’s failed Foxconn deal
Wed, 08 May 2024 13:51:28 +0000

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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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Former House speaker Paul Ryan says he won’t vote for Trump
Wed, 08 May 2024 12:03:11 +0000

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Stormy Daniels testifies, Trump curses in an angry day in court
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:30:32 +0000

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Judge indefinitely delays Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:15:55 +0000

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Can Suing People for Lying Save Democracy?
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The lawyers at Protect Democracy have brought defamation suits against Rudy Giuliani, Kari Lake, and Project Veritas, hoping to limit the spread of disinformation. Others worry that their efforts could impinge on freedom of speech.
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Actually, I Can’t Wait for a Trump-Biden Rematch
Wed, 08 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
This time around, we’ll remember to stock the appropriate amount of Xanax, anticipating that the election will take several days to call.
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Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial - podcast
Wed, 08 May 2024 07:25:22 GMT

It was the moment Donald Trump was dreading. The former president could only sit and watch as the adult film actor Stormy Daniels told her version of events from an alleged sexual encounter they had in 2006. Prosecutors say that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen shuttled a $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, to keep her from talking to anyone about her alleged encounter with Trump.

So how bad was Daniels’ testimony for the presumptive GOP candidate? Jonathan Freedland and the political commentator Molly Jong-Fast discuss an extraordinary day in a Manhattan courtroom

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Biden and Trump’s day of contrasts marks a surreal campaign
Tue, 07 May 2024 23:27:19 +0000
Biden speaks at a Holocaust event at the U.S. Capitol while Trump sits through a day of court testimony about his alleged affair.
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Former president Donald Trump is the projected winner of the Republican presidential primary in Indiana, according...
Tue, 07 May 2024 23:03:08 +0000

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How Trump reacted to seeing Stormy Daniels for the first time in years
Tue, 07 May 2024 23:01:39 +0000
The courtroom confrontation Tuesday was the first face-to-face encounter between Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump in years.
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The legal — and political — stakes of Stormy Daniels on the stand
Tue, 07 May 2024 22:20:15 +0000
The adult-film actress provided the most significant counterpoint to date to Trump’s consistent denials of a 2006 tryst. Will it matter?
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Donald Trump endorsed Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) for governor of Indiana ahead of Tuesday’s primary races,...
Tue, 07 May 2024 21:43:43 +0000

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What Stormy Daniels said during her first day of testimony in Trump’s hush money trial
Tue, 07 May 2024 21:24:20 +0000
Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels told a riveted jury about her alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in a Lake Tahoe hotel room.
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As he left his criminal trial, Donald Trump said that Tuesday was a “very big day,...
Tue, 07 May 2024 21:02:52 +0000

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Stormy Daniels testifies that her obviously false denial was false
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:49:44 +0000
In early 2018, Daniels released a carefully worded statement denying an “affair” with Trump. Soon after its release and again Tuesday under oath, she said that the claims she made in that statement were false.
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Why Stormy Daniels’s account of sex with Trump may be problematic, and other takeaways
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:42:38 +0000
Key takeaways from day 13 of Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial.
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As he left the courthouse, Donald Trump said that Tuesday was a “very big day, a...
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:40:21 +0000

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Justice Juan Merchan sent the jury home for the day. Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels has testified...
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:36:45 +0000

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Trump lawyer accuses Stormy Daniels of fabricating tale of a threat in a parking lot
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:25:17 +0000

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Justice Juan Merchan is back on the bench and asked the defense whether Stormy Daniels’s testimony...
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:20:41 +0000

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Donald Trump is leaving the building for the midafternoon break.
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:03:17 +0000

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Lawyer charges Daniels made money by ‘claiming’ to have had sex with Trump
Tue, 07 May 2024 19:54:54 +0000

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Stormy Daniels’s tone is getting increasingly more defensive, and she is snapping back at Trump lawyer...
Tue, 07 May 2024 19:46:38 +0000

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Trump seems to have a more relaxed posture, leaning back in his chair, as his lawyer...
Tue, 07 May 2024 19:44:12 +0000

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New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has been having frequent sidebars during the cross-examination of...
Tue, 07 May 2024 19:41:12 +0000

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Daniels says she owes Trump $660,000 in legal fees
Tue, 07 May 2024 19:33:39 +0000

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Direct examination of Stormy Daniels just ended. Trump lawyer Susan Necheles is getting up to conduct...
Tue, 07 May 2024 19:12:56 +0000

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What Sleepy Trump Dreams About at Trial
Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Mashed-potato nightmares! Kafka in the Oval Office! And other things going through the mind of the nap-happy ex-President in court.
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Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin accuses ‘arrogant’ west of risking global conflict and says his forces are at ‘combat readiness’
Thu, 09 May 2024 08:45:02 GMT

Vladimir Putin marks second world war Victory Day as relations with west spiral towards crisis

Ukraine-launched drone attack sparked fire and damaged several oil tanks at a refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region, the region’s crisis administration said on Thursday.

About six drones were destroyed, but debris fell on the refinery near the village of Yurovka, sparking fire, the administration said on the Telegram messaging app, Reuters reported.

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Judges with machine guns: the part-time drone hunters defending Kyiv
Thu, 09 May 2024 04:00:42 GMT

The ‘Mriya’ unit made up of members of the legal profession patrols the capital region’s skies with antique weapons

In a small wood in the Kyiv region Anatoliy Shyshak stared at the night sky. Dusk was falling. The only sounds came from a thrush nightingale and a faraway yapping dog. Shyshak – a sergeant in Ukraine’s territorial army – was listening for something else: an enemy drone. “It sounds like a moped. Not a classy Italian one, but something cheap and horrible,” he said. “They fly between 100 and 300 metres above the ground. You hear a rattling.”

For the past year Shyshak’s brigade, the 241st, has scoured the heavens for Russian flying objects. Its task is to shoot them down before they can reach the capital. He and his territorial defence colleagues are based about 100km east of Kyiv, along one of several drone flight paths. “I like my job. We are pretty successful. We stop death here. Our families are in Kyiv so we are protecting our wives and children,” he said.

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Congress hears testimony on Russia’s sonic attacks on US officials in Havana
Wed, 08 May 2024 21:57:01 GMT

Panel heard from expert witnesses how Russia had ‘means, motive and opportunity’ for covert targeting of intelligence officers

Russia has “targeted and neutralized” dozens of US intelligence agents in recent years in a covert worldwide operation using sonic weapons, a House committee heard on Wednesday as it looked into the mystery phenomenon known as Havana syndrome.

The panel heard from expert witnesses that Russia had “the motive, the means and the opportunity” to enact the attacks on US diplomats and other government employees at embassies and other government outposts that left many with debilitating or career-ending brain injuries and hearing loss.

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A Russian Influence Campaign Is Exploiting College Campus Protests
Wed, 08 May 2024 17:08:53 +0000
A Kremlin-aligned network called Doppelganger has used faked versions of real news sites to push both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel disinformation.
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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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Model seeks legal advice after Salvini’s party uses image for anti-Islam poster
Wed, 08 May 2024 16:43:28 GMT

Anna Haholkina tells of shock and says no one from deputy Italian PM’s League sought her permission

A woman whose photograph was used in a poster campaign by Italy’s far-right League, a member of Giorgia Meloni’s ruling coalition, has said she will consult lawyers, describing the images as “racist”.

Anna Haholkina, a Ukrainian-Italian model who lives in Rimini, said she was shocked to see her face on the posters that have sprung up in Milan in recent weeks as the League, which is led by the deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, intensifies its anti-Islam stance in the run-up to next month’s European elections.

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Fact Checker: RFK Jr.’s ‘history lesson’ on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine flunks the fact test
Wed, 08 May 2024 12:59:43 +0000

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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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RFK Jr’s ‘history lesson’ on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine flunks the fact test
Wed, 08 May 2024 09:00:57 +0000
The independent presidential candidate’s claims are not backed up by the historical record.
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Castoffs to catwalk: fashion show shines light on vast Chile clothes dump visible from space
Wed, 08 May 2024 09:00:38 GMT

The Atacama desert has become a ‘global sacrifice zone’ of used fast fashion. Activists and designers organised an event to raise awareness of the devastation to the land and people

Draped in layers of denim, Sadlin Charles walks the catwalk of sand between piles of discarded clothes and tyres in Chile’s Atacama desert. His outfit has been made from items found in the surrounding heaps of rubbish, which are so vast they can be seen from space. Almost all of this waste has come from countries thousands of miles away, including the US, China, South Korea and the UK.

A staggering 60,000 tonnes of used clothing is shipped to Chile each year. According to the latest UN figures, Chile is the third largest importer of secondhand clothes in the world. Some of these clothes are resold in secondhand markets, but at least 39,000 tonnes ends up being illegally dumped in the Atacama desert. The desert is one of the country’s most popular tourism destinations, famed for its otherworldly beauty and stargazing, but for those living near the dump sites it has become a place of devastation.

Sadlin Charles models denim salvaged from discarded garments at Atacama fashion week

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Kim Ki-nam, North Korean propaganda chief who shaped dynasty’s personality cult, dies aged 94
Wed, 08 May 2024 05:26:32 GMT

Kim Ki-nam was known as ‘the North Korean Goebbels’ in the South due to his role as head of propaganda department

Kim Ki-nam, the propaganda chief who served all three generations of North Korean leaders and cemented their political legitimacy, has died, official media have said.

Kim Ki-nam died on Tuesday aged 94 from multiple organ failure, official KCNA news agency reported.

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Ukraine arrests two colonels in protective service in plot to kill Zelensky
Tue, 07 May 2024 19:49:52 +0000
Ukrainian authorities said Russia planned to kill President Volodymyr Zelensky and top Ukrainian security officials as a gift for Vladimir Putin on the occasion of his inauguration.
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Ransomware mastermind LockBitSupp reveled in his anonymity—now he’s been ID’d
Tue, 07 May 2024 19:34:00 +0000
The US places a $10 million bounty for the arrest of Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.
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Triumphal Putin is inaugurated for fifth term as Russian president
Tue, 07 May 2024 17:01:59 +0000
Vladimir Putin was inaugurated on Tuesday for a fifth term as president in a ceremony that highlighted his quarter-century grip on power in Russia.
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To please Putin, universities purge liberals and embrace patriots
Tue, 07 May 2024 10:35:25 +0000
Russian university leaders are imbuing the country’s education system with patriotism to favor Putin, quashing Western influences and dissent.
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What Is Hope Hicks Crying About?
Sat, 04 May 2024 19:14:12 +0000
During Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the inscrutable former White House aide was equally inscrutable on the witness stand, despite breaking out into tears while testifying.
Match ID: 73 Score: 17.86 source: www.newyorker.com age: 4 days
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Who Should Be More Worried about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—Biden or Trump?
Sat, 04 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
“He’s not a serious threat in terms of being able to win,” Jane Mayer says, “but he is potentially a serious threat in being able to spoil this election for one side or the other.”
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Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide
Wed, 01 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The famed scholar on why reducing Hamas to a terrorist label sanctions Israel’s war on Palestinians.

The post Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign Israel’s Alibi for Genocide appeared first on The Intercept.

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I discovered hydrothermal vents, but I’m only known for finding the Titanic
Thu, 09 May 2024 07:00:44 GMT

The discovery of these underwater hot springs in 1977 solved the mystery of how life first began on Earth, but it was locating the world’s most famous shipwreck that made me a celebrity

The mid-ocean ridge is where the Earth creates its outer skin. It’s called the boundary of creation. We knew there was life on the bottom of the ocean but not entire ecosystems supporting large animals until our expedition went down there in 1977.

First, we sent down an unmanned vehicle called Angus, which was essentially a camera system and strobe lights within a two-tonne steel cage. It was going down in the eternal darkness, slaloming back and forth like a skier down a mountain.

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NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet
Wed, 08 May 2024 23:22:45 +0000
While the planet is too hot to be habitable, detecting its atmosphere could provide insights into the early conditions of Earth, Venus, and Mars. Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date […]
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Oil services company John Wood Group rejects £1.4bn takeover offer
Wed, 08 May 2024 14:34:09 GMT

Aberdeen-based firm listed on FTSE 250 knocked back unsolicited approach from Dubai-based Sidara

The British oil services company John Wood Group has rejected a £1.4bn takeover offer from a Dubai-based rival, Sidara, which “fundamentally undervalued” the company.

Aberdeen-based Wood is the latest British company on the London Stock Exchange to face takeover speculation amid deepening concerns that UK-listed stocks are undervalued compared with other markets.

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The US is propping up gas while the world moves to renewable energy
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Inside the Climate Protests Hell-Bent on Stopping Tesla
Tue, 07 May 2024 20:10:45 +0000
Tesla’s gigafactory in Germany has temporarily paused production as protests ramp up.
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The One Thing Holding Back Heat Pumps
Mon, 06 May 2024 11:00:00 +0000
It’s not the technology itself. It’s that we don’t yet have enough trained workers to install heat pumps for full-tilt decarbonization.
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Trump Is Turning Victimhood Into His Legal Strategy
Fri, 03 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
In the early days of the trial, lawyers on both sides have started to reveal their strategies. Will the jury believe that Trump’s sordid acquisition of the White House was political business as usual?
Match ID: 82 Score: 14.29 source: www.newyorker.com age: 5 days
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AIPAC’s Next Top Target? Rep. Jamaal Bowman
Fri, 03 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The Israel lobby is expected to start a $20 million ad blitz backing its handpicked candidate against the incumbent Squad member.

The post AIPAC’s Next Top Target? Rep. Jamaal Bowman appeared first on The Intercept.

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Is 2024 Doomed to Repeat 1968 or 2020—or Both?
Thu, 02 May 2024 23:50:45 +0000
Donald Trump has now made clear that he won’t concede if he loses the election. Believe him.
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From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack
Thu, 02 May 2024 21:15:55 +0000

University faculty have put their bodies and livelihoods on the line amid a brutal, violent response to student protests for Gaza.

The post From UCLA to Columbia, Professors Nationwide Defend Students as Politicians and Police Attack appeared first on The Intercept.

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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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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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I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.
Wed, 01 May 2024 20:14:34 +0000

When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.

The post I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged. appeared first on The Intercept.

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Cable News Viewers Have a Skewed Attitude Toward Gaza War, Survey Finds
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:45:45 +0000

A tale of two Americas.

The post Cable News Viewers Have a Skewed Attitude Toward Gaza War, Survey Finds appeared first on The Intercept.

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qualifiers: 3.57 trump, 2.86 russia

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.
Match ID: 90 Score: 5.71 source: www.wired.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 5.71 russia

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
Match ID: 91 Score: 5.00 source: www.economist.com age: 28 days
qualifiers: 5.00 sanctions

Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services From Google and Amazon
Wed, 01 May 2024 19:58:49 +0000

Google downplays its military work with Israel, but “Project Nimbus” documents tie the American tech giants to Israel’s deadly military capabilities.

The post Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services From Google and Amazon appeared first on The Intercept.

Match ID: 92 Score: 4.29 source: theintercept.com age: 7 days
qualifiers: 4.29 energy

Russia Vetoed a UN Resolution to Ban Space Nukes
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000
A ban on weapons of mass destruction in orbit has stood since 1967. Russia apparently has other ideas.
Match ID: 93 Score: 4.29 source: www.wired.com age: 11 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia, 1.43 nuclear

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
Match ID: 94 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 15 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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.
Match ID: 95 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 96 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 21 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:00:46 +0000
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
Match ID: 97 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 43 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 98 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 62 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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
Match ID: 99 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 71 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:41:31 +0000
History provides a guide
Match ID: 100 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 76 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:06:55 +0000
Will they now spend big on his campaign?
Match ID: 101 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 90 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

What Donald Trump can learn from the Big Mac index
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 11:01:35 +0000
Should the presidential candidate go on another crusade against the yuan?
Match ID: 102 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 104 days
qualifiers: 3.57 trump

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.
Match ID: 103 Score: 2.86 source: www.wired.com age: 8 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 104 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 20 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 105 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 27 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 106 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 51 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 107 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 59 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

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
Match ID: 108 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 70 days
qualifiers: 2.86 russia

What can I do if I can't pay my energy bill?
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:03:18 GMT
If you're struggling to afford your gas and electricity bills, what options are available?
Match ID: 109 Score: 2.14 source: www.bbc.co.uk age: 35 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:15:12 +0000
It also provides a glimpse at the future of European gas supplies
Match ID: 110 Score: 2.14 source: www.economist.com age: 83 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

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: 111 Score: 2.14 source: www.wired.com age: 112 days
qualifiers: 2.14 energy

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
Match ID: 112 Score: 1.43 source: www.economist.com age: 38 days
qualifiers: 1.43 nuclear

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