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Summary of the Ninth DSCOVR EPIC and NISTAR Science Team Meeting
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:50:16 +0000
Introduction The ninth Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) Earth Polychromatic Camera (EPIC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Advanced Radiometer [NISTAR] Science Team Meeting (STM) was held virtually October 16–17, 2023. Over 35 scientists attended, most of whom were from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), with several participating from other NASA field […]
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Ukrainian Sailors Are Using Telegram to Avoid Being Tricked Into Smuggling Oil for Russia
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Contract seafarers in Ukraine are turning to online whisper networks to keep themselves from being hired into Russia’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet.
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US imposes sanctions on ‘extremist Israeli group’ for blocking Gaza aid
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:49:46 GMT
US says Tsav 9 activists have blockaded key crossing, set trucks on fire and injured drivers as hunger spreads inside Gaza
The US state department has imposed sanctions on Tsav 9, “a violent, extremist Israeli group”, for blocking convoys taking humanitarian aid to Gaza, and attacking trucks.
The US said Tsav 9 activists began blockading a key crossing, Kerem Shalom, at the start of the year, and later set trucks on fire and injured drivers and Israel Defense Forces soldiers, as hunger spread inside Gaza.
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Russian warship visit brings cold war frisson to sweltering Havana
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:18:22 GMT
Hundreds of Cubans queue for hours to visit naval vessel as tensions rise between Russia and United States
Where once vast American cruise ships disgorged mojito-thirsty holidaymakers into the crumbling streets of old Havana, now lurks the eerie darkness of the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kazan.
“It looks like a dead whale,” says Adolfo García, as he queues under the scorching sun. The Kazan is off-limits, but García is hoping for a tour of the second of the four Russian naval vessels that have just docked in the Cuban capital, the frigate Admiral Gorshkov.
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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 17:48:56 +0000
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
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Trump gets name of his doctor wrong as he challenges Biden to cognitive test
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 04:06:07 GMT
Gaffe came as 78-year-old Republican presidential candidate sought to bolster his support among Black and Latino voters in Michigan
Donald Trump has made a point in recent months of deriding his rival Joe Biden as being cognitively impaired, mocking the 81-year-old US president for his verbal stumbles and accusing him of falling both up and down stairs.
But people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
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Peter Dutton’s plan to ditch 2030 emissions target would drive up power bills, Penny Wong says
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 02:55:30 GMT
Comments come after opposition leader claims higher grocery prices are result of Labor ‘not taking into account gas and nuclear’
Penny Wong has warned that ditching 2030 greenhouse gas reduction targets would lead to higher electricity prices as Peter Dutton foreshadowed an election campaign fought on energy policy.
The opposition leader told Sky News on Sunday that energy would be a “big difference between the two parties as we head into the next election”, a week after backing away from Australia’s legislated 2030 emissions target of a 43% cut compared with 2005 levels.
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Trump portrays rampant crime in speech at Black church in Detroit
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:37:29 +0000
The presumptive Republican nominee, who hopes to dent Biden’s advantage among Black voters, has often disparaged communities where many African Americans live
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Former White House staffer says Trump called for leaker to be executed
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:53:24 GMT
Trump’s demand that 2020 leaker be punished with death raises questions about retribution if he is re-elected
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin has disclosed that Donald Trump repeatedly mused out loud about executing people at several meetings while she worked for him during his presidency.
Griffin’s claim, which she made in a podcast recording with Mediaite released on Friday, is likely to add to concerns that a return for Trump to the Oval Office could be characterized primarily by political retribution.
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Hunter Biden’s Conviction and Trump’s Risk to the Justice Department in 2024
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
“It defies imagination to think that this is a case that would have existed in any other context than the context of Biden being in the White House,” Susan B. Glasser says.
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How the US supreme court could be a key election issue: ‘They’ve grown too powerful’
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 10:00:17 GMT
Grassroots Democrats seek to make ‘judicial activism’ a driving voting issue, but swing voters have other priorities
“Look at me, look at me,” said Martha-Ann Alito. “I’m German, from Germany. My heritage is German. You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you.”
It was a bizarre outburst from the wife of a justice on America’s highest court. Secretly recorded by a liberal activist, Martha-Ann Alito complained about a neighbour’s gay pride flag and expressed a desire to fly a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag in protest.
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Donald Trump, potential future oldest president, turns 78
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 01:09:35 +0000
Trump’s septuagenarian status has also drawn notice from some voters and experts on aging.
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Trump celebrated 78th birthday with fan group in Florida
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 23:59:25 +0000
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era federal ban on bump stock devices
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:39:13 +0000
The case focused on whether bump stocks qualify as machine guns under a 1986 law that barred civilians from owning such rapid-fire weapons.
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Democrats seize on disputed report that Trump called Milwaukee ‘horrible’
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:26:26 +0000
The former president’s campaign contends that his words about the host city of the Republican National Convention were misreported.
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Trump’s endorsement of Florida Republican causes primary foe to drop out
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:36:25 +0000
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Trump pledged to pardon Jan. 6 rioters. He faces pressure to name names.
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:23:01 +0000
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s campaign said he will decide pardons on a “case by case” basis without specifying factors.
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The biggest 2024 Supreme Court rulings so far, and what’s still to come
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:45:55 +0000
We’re tracking decisions in the biggest cases before the Supreme Court in 2024. See the latest.
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Trump endorses Fla. Republican whom he targeted for primary challenge
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:42:43 +0000
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President Biden’s campaign published a sarcastic greeting for Donald Trump’s 78th birthday Friday, compiling a list...
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:21:54 +0000
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On immunity, too, Republicans grant Trump a different standard
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:51:41 +0000
Most Republicans oppose broad immunity for presidents — except Trump. They wouldn’t vote for someone convicted of a felony — until Trump. And on it goes.
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Democrats are seizing on a report — disputed by Donald Trump — that he insulted Milwaukee...
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:27:50 +0000
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We spoke to former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) about Donald Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill...
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:10:14 +0000
Match ID: 22 Score: 25.00 source: www.washingtonpost.com age: 1 day
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Republicans struggle to respond to Hunter Biden’s conviction - podcast
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 04:00:40 GMT
On Tuesday, Hunter Biden was found guilty on all three criminal charges relating to buying a handgun while being a user of crack cocaine. His father – the president – was firm in his support for his son, but also in his belief in the justice system.
After Donald Trump was convicted in a New York court last month, rightwing pundits and Republican politicians were lining up to accuse the Biden administration of rigging the justice system for political advantage. Yet now the courts have convicted Biden’s own son.
Jonathan Freedland is joined by Susan Glasser of the New Yorker to look at how the right has decided to spin this latest historical conviction.
Archive: ABC News, CBS Chicago, CNN, C-SPAN, NBC, Reuters
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Happy Seventy-eighth Birthday, Mr. Ex-President
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 23:34:56 +0000
If ever there were a case for age-related diminishment of a candidate, Donald Trump is it.
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Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 12th
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:35:00 +0000
“Team Trump is up by thirty-one in felonies, but it’s still anyone’s game.”
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Russia-Ukraine war: peace summit enters second day as west looks to put pressure on Russia
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:30:15 GMT
Western countries and powers gather in Switzerland to pursue consensus on condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy has thanked leaders and officials for attending this weekend’s peace summit as today’s talks get under way.
“A united world is a world of peace, a world that knows how to do the right thing. I thank everyone who worked for this day – every leader, all the teams and advisors of the leaders, all the countries. Our unity here proves that the very idea of international law remains alive and effective,” Zelenskiy said in a tweet.
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Russian special forces kill Islamic State-linked hostage-takers
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:10:06 GMT
Men linked to militant group took two guards hostage at facility in southern city of Rostov
Russian special forces have freed two guards and killed several men linked to Islamic State who had taken them hostage at a detention centre in the southern city of Rostov, the prison service said.
Automatic gunfire could be heard in footage published on Russian Telegram channels.
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Far-right policies don’t become palatable just because mainstream politicians adopt them | Kenan Malik
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 07:00:44 GMT
The normalisation of ideas once confined to the fringes is cause for concern, not complacency
Far right? Hard right? Radical right? Or just plain right? The success in the recent EU elections of parties such as Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National, or RN, (the rebadged Front National), and Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), has generated a debate about whether the label “far right” should be retired because, as Spectator editor Fraser Nelson argues, many parties that carry that moniker are “now mainstream in a way that wasn’t the case 15 years ago”.
Such parties are, for Nelson, better categorised as “new right”. Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, whose party the Brothers of Italy is descended from a fascist organisation, has shown in practice that “she is centre-right, not radical”. It is “nonsense”, Nelson insists, “to call Meloni’s party ‘post-fascist’ ” or to suggest that the disparate “new right” parties all belong to a single “ ‘far-right’ or radical-right lump”.
Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk
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‘Know how loved you were’: fathers write to their children from the frontline
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 06:00:43 GMT
As many countries celebrate Father’s Day, four men share their love, fears and dreams for their children in Gaza, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Sudan
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Korea's KTX makes first overseas export deal with Uzbekistan
2024-06-16T02:36:59+00:00
Match ID: 30 Score: 20.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 0 days
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Italy rally to beat Albania and are Spain the real deal? – Football Daily
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:10:54 GMT
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Nicky Bandini, Dan Bardell and Nick Ames as day two of Euro 2024 provides goals, goals, goals
On the podcast today: Albania provide an early scare against Italy, with Nedim Bajrami scoring after just 23 seconds and setting a record for the quickest ever goal at the Euros. But the defending champions rallied straight away to secure a deserved victory.
Elsewhere in Group B, can we finally say it … are Croatia tired? Spain beat them 3-0 and already look a team to be taken seriously at this tournament.
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Match ID: 31 Score: 20.00 source: www.theguardian.com age: 0 days
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Highlights: Holders Italy recover to win after early Albania goal
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 20:55:14 GMT
Holders Italy come from behind to win 2-1 after Albania score the fastest goal in Euros history at Euro 2024 in Dortmund.
Match ID: 32 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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Albania score after 23 seconds against Italy
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:16:16 GMT
Watch as Albania's Nedim Bajrami strikes fast to put them ahead against Italy at the Uefa Euro 2024.
Match ID: 33 Score: 20.00 source: www.bbc.com age: 0 days
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Biden meets Pope Francis as G-7 wraps up strongly pro-Ukraine summit
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 21:45:24 +0000
Meloni and Biden will discuss Ukraine, as well as China’s supply of materiel that is aiding Russia’s war effort.
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Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia
2024-06-14T21:18:22+00:00
Match ID: 35 Score: 20.00 source: www.reddit.com age: 1 day
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The week around the world in 20 pictures
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:56:47 GMT
War in Gaza, protests in Buenos Aires, a thunderstorm in Omaha and high temperatures in Athens: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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Russian ties and cheap tech: G7 leaders unequivocal in criticism of China
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:51:38 GMT
Concerns set out over supply of materials with military applications, and impact of subsidies on global market
China’s role in providing assistance to Russia in its war against Ukraine, and its “harmful overcapacity” in the production of cheap goods, have been targeted by G7 leaders despite misgivings from Germany.
On the second day of the annual summit, being held in Puglia under the Italian chair, the US drove home a 36-page communique that condemned Chinese subsidies for products such as solar panels and electric cars which it said were leading to “global spillovers, market distortions and harmful overcapacity … undermining our workers, industries, and economic resilience and security”.
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Putin demands Ukraine surrender four regions to stop war
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:37:00 +0000
The Russian leader, seeking to preempt calls by Ukraine for a full withdrawal of Moscow’s forces, effectively demanded Kyiv’s total capitulation; Zelensky quicky refused.
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NASA’s LRO Spots China’s Chang’e 6 Spacecraft on Lunar Far Side
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:05:58 +0000
NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged China’s Chang’e 6 sample return spacecraft on the far side of the Moon on June 7. Chang’e 6 landed on June 1, and when LRO passed over the landing site almost a week later, it acquired an image showing the lander on the rim of an eroded, 55-yard-diameter (about […]
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On Friday night in Italy, President Biden will meet with Pope Francis, with whom he has...
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:53:01 +0000
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio
Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:35:30 +0000
“One side or the other is going to win,” Alito told a person he thought was a right-wing activist.
The post Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio appeared first on The Intercept.
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UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator
Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:17:35 +0000
Dan Osborn, running as an independent, has racked up endorsements in a race that could help determine Senate control in 2024.
The post UAW Endorses Nebraska Underdog Threatening to Unseat a Republican Senator appeared first on The Intercept.
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Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:38:15 +0000
Mozilla, the maker of the popular web browser Firefox, said it received government demands to block add-ons that circumvent censorship.
The post Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request appeared first on The Intercept.
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Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI's Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.
Match ID: 44 Score: 15.00 source: www.wired.com age: 0 days
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Minns ‘really sorry’ final Vivid drone show cancelled with 20 minutes notice – as it happened
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 06:10:57 GMT
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Labor ‘continuing to consult’ on Makarrata commission, Albanese says
Anthony Albanese says he will attend Arnhem Land’s Garma festival in August to “talk about a way forward” on Indigenous policy after the defeat of the voice referendum, keeping open the prospect of setting up a Makarrata commission to advance truth and treaty processes.
Treaty process is undergoing at the various states and that’s appropriate. With regard to Makarrata, we’re continuing to consult on those issues. said.
Indigenous leaders, of course, were very disappointed by the referendum result. I’ll attend Garma once again this year and sit down with people and talk about a way forward.
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Renewables Could Make Japan Energy Independent by 2060
2024-06-15T14:47:07+00:00
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Using AI for Political Polling
2024-06-12T11:02:27Z
Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the successes and the flaws of public polling. There are two main reasons polling fails.
First, nonresponse has skyrocketed. It’s radically harder to reach people than it used to be. Few people fill out surveys that come in the mail anymore. Few people answer their phone when a stranger calls. Pew Research reported that 36% of the people they called in 1997 would talk to them, but only 6% by 2018. Pollsters worldwide have faced similar challenges...
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Ugandan oil pipeline protester allegedly beaten as part of ‘alarming crackdown’
Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:02:50 GMT
Stephen Kwikiriza is one of 11 campaigners against EACOP targeted by authorities in past two weeks, rights group says
A man campaigning against the controversial $5bn (£4bn) east African crude oil pipeline (EACOP) is recovering in hospital after an alleged beating by the Ugandan armed forces in the latest incident in what has been called an “alarming crackdown” on the country’s environmentalists.
Stephen Kwikiriza, who works for Uganda’s Environment Governance Institute (EGI), a non-profit organisation, was abducted in Kampala on 4 June, according to his employer. He was beaten, questioned and then abandoned hundreds of miles from the capital on Sunday evening.
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Major summit to flesh out Ukraine peace proposal
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:39:27 GMT
More than 90 countries and global institutions hope to reach agreement on nuclear security and food exports.
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Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:00:26 +0000
The draconian restrictions on asylum-seekers owe a lot to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, but the path was paved by Democrats.
The post Joe Biden’s Cruel Border Shutdown Follows in Clinton and Obama’s Footsteps Too appeared first on The Intercept.
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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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A Federal Judge Visited Israel on a Junket Designed to Sway Public Opinion. Now He’s Hearing a Gaza Case.
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:24:04 +0000
Activists suing the Biden administration over Gaza policy are demanding the judge recuse himself over the sponsored trip.
The post A Federal Judge Visited Israel on a Junket Designed to Sway Public Opinion. Now He’s Hearing a Gaza Case. appeared first on The Intercept.
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Inside Donald Trump’s hush-money trial: three key testimonies – video
Fri, 31 May 2024 02:35:05 GMT
Twelve jurors in New York have presented their fellow Americans with a simple question: are you willing to elect a convicted criminal to the White House?
On Thursday, Donald Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a criminal hush-money scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. The verdict makes him the first president, current or former, to be found guilty of felony crimes in the US's near 250-year history. Regardless, the conviction does not disqualify Trump as a presidential candidate or bar him from again sitting in the Oval Office.
Trump, who opted not to take the stand during the trial, has denied wrongdoing, railed against the proceedings and ahead of the verdict compared himself to a saint: “Mother Teresa could not beat these charges. The charges are rigged,” he said on Wednesday. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is expected to appeal the verdict.
The Guardian’s Sam Levine has been in court over the last several weeks covering all the developments – here are three testimonies he found most memorable.
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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Tue, 14 May 2024 16:23:33 +0000
The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost
Match ID: 54 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 32 days
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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.
Match ID: 56 Score: 3.57 source: www.politico.com age: 58 days
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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
Match ID: 57 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 59 days
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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?
Match ID: 58 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 81 days
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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
Match ID: 59 Score: 3.57 source: www.economist.com age: 101 days
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Apple Is Coming for Your Password Manager
Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A media executive is charged in an alleged money-laundering scheme, a ransomware attack disrupts care at London hospitals, and Google’s former CEO has a secretive drone project up his sleeve.
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After Training African Coup Leaders, Pentagon Blames Russia for African Coups
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:03:42 +0000
The U.S. has trained 15 coup leaders in recent decades — and U.S. counterterrorism policies in the region have failed.
The post After Training African Coup Leaders, Pentagon Blames Russia for African Coups appeared first on The Intercept.
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European banks are making heady profits in Russia
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 09:56:28 +0000
But for how much longer?
Match ID: 62 Score: 2.86 source: www.economist.com age: 10 days
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Rafah Clash Exposes Roots of Egypt and Israel Tension
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000
H. A. Hellyer and Murtaza Hussain discuss the current discord and complex history between the Israeli government and Egyptian military.
The post Rafah Clash Exposes Roots of Egypt and Israel Tension appeared first on The Intercept.
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Exclusive: The Guardian interviews President Zelenskiy
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:48:04 GMT
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, revealed the tactics and traits that help him face the daily frustrations of leading a country at war for more than two years.
Within a ceremonial room inside Kyiv’s presidential compound, Zelenskiy spoke for nearly an hour with a Guardian team, including the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. The interview took place during perhaps the toughest time for Ukraine since the early days of the war. Russia is on the offensive in Kharkiv, an advance that follows months of delay in the US Congress over the passing of a major support package, limiting Ukraine’s battlefield capabilities
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A US Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:30:00 +0000
Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure.
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Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin
Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000
YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It’s become "indispensable" to everyday people, making a ban tricky. Journalists and dissidents are taking advantage.
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US says Russia likely launched anti-satellite weapon
Wed, 22 May 2024 04:22:18 GMT
The Russian satellite launched last week may be capable of attacking other satellites, the Pentagon says.
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Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:04:48 +0000
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
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Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:54:20 +0000
And America now hopes to convince others to make better use of the stash
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Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:51:54 +0000
The world’s third-largest producer is now an importer of petrol
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How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:52:43 +0000
Assessing the economic threat posed by the anti-Western axis
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Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Sun, 10 Mar 2024 14:39:48 +0000
As an election nears, Vladimir Putin now looks to have inflation under control
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Missouri’s Attorney General Is Waging War to Keep the Wrongly Convicted Locked Up
Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0000
Andrew Bailey’s office has a losing record of fighting against exonerations recommended by local prosecutors — but it’s not giving up.
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NASA Teammates Recall Favorite Memories Aboard Flying Laboratory
Tue, 14 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000
After flying more than three decades and 158 science campaigns, just one flight remains. NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory will make its final flight May 15 to Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, where it will be used to train future aircraft technicians by providing real-world experience in the college’s Aircraft Maintenance Technology Program. Before […]
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What can I do if I can't pay my energy bill?
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:03:18 GMT
If you're struggling to afford your gas and electricity bills, what options are available?
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Global Emissions Could Peak Sooner Than You Think
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Global deployment of solar and wind power, plus a surge in EV sales, means emissions from fossil-fuel-derived energy will finally hit the downward slope.
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How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:31:35 +0000
Digital twins, nuclear fusion and the small matter of fixing China’s economy
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Time may be up for the Tories, but their legacy of lies will live on | Stewart Lee
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 09:00:45 GMT
Rishi Sunak and his cronies have helped spread an epidemic of disinformation in this campaign – it’s a political way of life for the right
“It’s the lying I can’t stand.” That’s the close of the affair cliche isn’t it? We can forgive so much – incompetence, petulance, flatulence – but in the end dishonesty derails things. I suppose that’s why the nation’s 14-year abusive relationship with the Conservative party is finally finished. That’s all folks, bar an argument about who gets Natalie Elphicke, the political equivalent of a smelly pet dog with dangly yellowing genitals and incontinence that the most compassionate partner will, ultimately, come to regret taking.
Yes. It’s the lying we can’t stand. Some of Rishi Sunak’s faults are excusable. It is understandable that he would not consider the sacrifice of the soldiers of D-day especially significant when his own parents had so nobly sacrificed his family’s Sky TV subscription to pay his Winchester College school fees. But it was on Tuesday of the week before last that, unforgivably, lying Sunak vomited out his instantly discredited lie about Labour’s £2,000 tax plans, live in an ITV debate against the lightning-reflexed Keir Starmer. Luckily Starmer shut Sunak’s false claims down with all the speed of an arthritic slug lurching towards a distant cabbage (though to compare lying Sunak to a vegetable at this stage in the Conservatives’ election campaign is perhaps to exaggerate his gifts as a communicator and electoral asset and is, moreover, unfair to cabbages).
Stewart Lee introduces the garage punk greats at the Lexington, London N1, performing a 45-minute standup set before the Primevals (1 July), The Shadracks (2 July) and the Fallen Leaves (3 July)
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NASA Announces Winners of 2024 Student Launch Competition
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:20:35 +0000
Over 1,000 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched high-powered, amateur rockets on April 13, just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the agency’s annual Student Launch competition. Teams of middle school, high school, college, and university students were tasked to design, build, and launch a […]
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The phone-free, 12-hour school-day experiment
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 02:00:37 GMT
A school in west London is trying to give children their childhood back – by extending its hours from 7am to 7pm. Will it work? Helen Pidd reports
From the isolating effect of the Covid pandemic, to austerity and the cost of living crisis, schools are on the front line of the problems facing the communities that surround them. And on top of those challenges in recent years worries have been going of the effect that mobile phones and social media are having on the mental health of pupils. Now, one school has decided to take drastic action.
For the last seven weeks, All Saints Catholic college in Ladbroke Grove has been opening its doors to children from 7am to 7pm. It’s part of a pilot scheme running for 10 weeks with the aim of addressing some of the problems teachers have seen grow over the past few years. The school is in the shadow of Grenfell Tower, many children are eligible for free school meals – and it is thriving. Now it wants to help parents ensure their children do their homework, play games and socialise face to face.
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Using AI for Political Polling
2024-06-12T11:02:27Z
Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the successes and the flaws of public polling. There are two main reasons polling fails.
First, nonresponse has skyrocketed. It’s radically harder to reach people than it used to be. Few people fill out surveys that come in the mail anymore. Few people answer their phone when a stranger calls. Pew Research reported that 36% of the people they called in 1997 would talk to them, but only 6% by 2018. Pollsters worldwide have faced similar challenges...
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Columbia Law Review Is Back Online After Students Threatened Work Stoppage Over Palestine Censorship
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 04:09:26 +0000
The board had proposed appending a statement that would have undermined a Palestinian scholar’s article. The students rejected it.
The post Columbia Law Review Is Back Online After Students Threatened Work Stoppage Over Palestine Censorship appeared first on The Intercept.
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