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Politics
Trump Official Says Americans Saying 'I'm Good' With Surging Beef Prices
The cost of uncooked ground beef hit $7.16 per pound in August as the Trump admin faces heat over high grocery bills.
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Politics
5 Signs Iran’s Defeat Is Finally Arriving
Donald Trump's victory in Iran, long promised but never fulfilled, is taking shape. Can he deliver it once and for all?
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Journal
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."
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Politics
War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
The military and government say the risk of conflict is growing, but we may not be mentally ready for it
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World
Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump’s 2026 Interview With TIME
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Health
How the bare nails trend became a class issue
Bare nails - or nails that appear that way - are a growing trend. But is it as innocent as it seems?
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Politics
Talarico hit with ‘blatant corruption’ allegation over hefty salary from consulting firm, campaign pushes back
James Talarico drew a hefty salary from MAYA Consulting while overseeing the Texas Education Agency that awarded the firm millions in contracts.
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Politics
Map Shows Countries Hit By Plague As Russian Lab Worker Dies
A laboratory worker in Irkutsk, Russia has died from the disease, according to reports.
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Politics
Are Truckers Going on Strike October 1? What Diesel Prices Say
Rumors of a trucker strike have spread online. Whether it happens or not, rising fuel costs are putting real pressure on drivers.
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Politics
Disney Adults, Take Off the Mickey Ears, Go Home and Grow Up
If you want to excitedly gawp at people dressed as dogs, then have some decorum and do it in privacy.
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World
Unusual Rest Breaks for Xi Jinping Sucked Hours Out of Summit With Trump
Beijing pared back the schedule and insisted on private downtime for China’s 73-year-old leader.
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Science
Habit-formation strategies enhance long-term outcomes of a self-compassionate touch micropractice: a randomized controlled trial
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Azerbaijan
AI chatbots serve up content from Russia's sanctioned state-run outlets, RSF finds
Reporters Without Borders tested six AI chatbots by requesting news from RT, Sputnik, and other EU-sanctioned Russian outlets, and found that three produced full summaries with links and quo
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World
The Death of the Old Middle East—and the Dangerous New World Replacing It
Simon Sebag-Montefiore on how traditional rivalries are receding as regional conflicts lead to powerful new alliances.
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Finance
Google releases most advanced Gemini AI model
Tech giant hopes ‘Argon’ will help it re-establish itself at the frontier of artificial intelligence
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Finance
Joining the dots between big AI
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World
Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University over years of alleged anti-Palestinian discrimination
Lawsuit accuses university of ‘deliberate indifference’ and failure to respond to ‘persistent and coordinated harassment’Mahmoud Khalil announced on Monday that he’s sued Columbia University
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Finance
Masayoshi Son’s AI ambitions outgrow SoftBank’s balance sheet
DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data centre investment group will be SoftBank’s ‘third-party infrastructure arm’ after $4bn takeover
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Culture
‘Crystal Lake’ Trailer: Linda Cardellini Stars in Peacock’s Spooky ‘Friday the 13th’ Prequel Series
Peacock has released a full trailer for the new Linda Cardellini-led series “Crystal Lake.” The show, a prequel to the events of “Friday the 13th,” is set to premiere on the streamer on Oct.
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Politics
My Daughter Was Returning to College in 8 Days—Then Police Cars Arrived
My daughter Elana was identified by her teeth after a fatal crash, I don't want another family to endure this.
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World
Opinion | Revenge Is a Central Pillar of Iranian Foreign Policy
A diplomatic agreement can’t bring real peace with a regime that has a long history of terrorism.
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World
The Reply-All Email After Oct. 7 That Tore a Business Apart
The Israel-Gaza conflict remains a third rail in workplaces and beyond. At a Dallas therapy practice, it divided in-laws and escalated into firings and lawsuits.
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Science
Scandium's electrons may explain predicted room-temperature superconductivity
Scientists have confirmed the existence of a predicted room temperature superconductor, while explaining the microscopic mechanism that distinguishes it from a similar one discovered several
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Sport
Calvert-Lewin stars but Botman struggles - player ratings for Leeds v Newcastle
How Leeds United and Newcastle United's players rated following their Premier League match.
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World
Turkey's stock market scandal affects nearly half a million investors. Police have made several arrests and an AKP politician has resigned.
Nearly half a million investors are affected, arrests have been made, and a female politician from the ruling party has resigned. What is behind the stock market manipulation scandal in Turk
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Finance
Nvidia turns to insurers to spread the risk of AI build-out
World’s largest listed company looks for new ways to draw Wall Street deeper into the financing of the AI boom
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Finance
The cheap new AI model taking aim at OpenAI and Anthropic
Start-up TypeSafe AI’s ‘Jev’ model promises faster, more efficient AI for developers
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Culture
Fan Bingbing on Toronto and Busan Selection ‘Diary of a Mad Old Man’ and Her International Ambitions: ‘Cinema Should Be Able to Cross Borders’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Chinese superstar Fan Bingbing’s latest role puts her at the center of an unusual dynamic: a Chinese caregiver drawn into the fixation of an aging, stroke-paralyzed Japanese widower. “Diary
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Politics
Germany’s Merz visits Kyiv amid fears of ‘hardest’ winter in war
The visit is overshadowed by heavy Russian attacks on Kyiv as well as tensions over Ukraine's EU membership prospects
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Finance
Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks
Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
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Finance
Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian leader tells FT his Russian counterpart has given the order that ‘there are no rules now’
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Culture
Fugitive Films Co-Founder, Former MTV Scripted Boss Launch Romance-Focused Vertical Content Studio, Rommi (EXCLUSIVE)
Fugitive Films co-founder Jamie Gordon and former MTV scripted chief Maggie Malina have launched Rommi, a new romance genre-focused, vertical content production studio. Per the team, Rommi’s
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World
Unusual Rest Breaks for Xi Jinping Sucked Hours Out of Summit With Trump
Beijing pared back the schedule and insisted on private downtime for China’s 73-year-old leader.
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World
FamilyMart’s sock became a prized souvenir. Now there are 47.
Modeled after each region's official flower, the commemorative socks expand on the convenience store chain's popular line of casual wear.
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Science
Global pollination analysis reveals climate explains specialized partnerships better than latitude
An international study led by researchers from Charles University in Prague (CUNI) and the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BC CAS) has mapped how closely flowering plants an
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World
The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Finance
To win the humanoid-robots race, the U.S. needs this critical machine component that’s hard to find
Humanoid robots have the potential to revolutionize life as we know it — but the U.S. does not have a supply chain that can produce key parts.
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World
Egypt warned Israel of 'major' Hamas attack: 'No world' where Netanyahu's not aware (Vivian Salama)
François Picard is pleased to welcome Vivian Salama from Washington. An attorney and staff writer at The Atlantic, Salama has reported from more than 85 countries. Her latest investigation t
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Politics
Eagles' Jalen Hurts Bracing to Be Without Top Receiving Threat for Rams Clash
The Philadelphia Eagles get worrying news on the status of star wide receiver DeVonta Smith ahead of the team's Week 4 game.
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Science
Neural dynamics of reconstructing knowledge structure from temporally disordered inputs
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Finance
Governments want to hold America’s shares more than its debts
When countries switch towards riskier assets, the global economy feels the consequences
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Politics
Map Shows Trump’s Approval Rating in Every State 1 Month Until Midterms
New polling shows that Trump is underwater in 39 states and every major battleground one month before the midterms.
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Politics
Karl Rove Questions If Ken Paxton Has 'the Guts' to Debate James Talarico
Could the Texas U.S. Senate race come down to a debate between James Talarico and Ken Paxton? Karl Rove says it might.
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Politics
Europe’s diesel counterpunch
Want to receive this newsletter straight to your inbox? Sign up here to receive the reporting and intel from the Gastein Health Forum. SNEAK PEEK — EU members meet today to decide how to res
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Azerbaijan
Zelensky: Good results on EU 2026, 2027 support
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that talks with the European Union had produced "good results" in addressing Ukraine's financial and defense needs for 2026 and 2027.
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World
Fires break out at French schools as students protest nationwide
The French government holds a crisis meeting as demonstrations grow and become violent in places.
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Finance
Auditor RSM explores IPO to ward off private equity-backed rivals
Accounting firm has been sounding out bankers and revamping internal systems to give itself the option of a stock market flotation
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World
Influencers filed ethics complaint against Raman campaign — with help from Bass lawyers
Two influencers have accused Nithya Raman's mayoral campaign of paying social media influencers who improperly disclosed the payments. The legal fees for their complaint are being covered by
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World
Trump warning on diesel forces EU emergency talks as prices hit record highs
Donald Trump has said he may call on European countries to release diesel reserves as the UK joined crisis talks with Brussels to discuss emergency stocks.
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Azerbaijan
Trump vows to hit Iran 'very hard' if linked to flydubai pilot stabbing attack
Passengers described rushing the cockpit and a fight for control after the plane suddenly plummeted, losing around 17,000 feet of altitude in the span of a minute, according to the Flightrad
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Finance
AI got smarter. The bills got harder to control
Powerful AI tools are burning through budgets, prompting a rethink of how the technology is priced ahead of frontier lab IPOs
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Finance
China launches anti-dumping probe into European chemical exports
Latest tit-for-tat move follows three similar investigations launched by the EU last week
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Science
Scientists discover first type I superconductor that breaks time-reversal symmetry
Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity with no resistance and expel magnetic fields when cooled to ultralow temperatures. And depending on their quantum structure, they can a
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Politics
Tories aim to be election-ready ahead of party conference
The party will focus on the economy and welfare, as Kemi Badenoch tells her team to prepare for a possible early election.
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Science
Embeddedness under psilocybin
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World
OpenAI’s Medicare attack has exposed Australia’s ‘tech debt’. Fixing it could bring a big bill for taxpayers
Home affairs department orders all federal government agencies to conduct review of ‘legacy technology’ amid fallout from AI agent hacks
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Politics
Trail Blazers Make Stunning Broadcaster Decision Hours After Announcement
Portland Trail Blazers make a sudden broadcaster change just hours after announcing their new voice for the upcoming season.
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World
Seoul warns 'further action' if Ukraine does not apologise over prisoner-of-war row
President Lee Jae Myung also accused Kyiv of "attempting to provoke a war on the Korean Peninsula".
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Finance
Meta, ServiceNow and these 7 other tech stocks could lead the next leg of the AI trade
Deutsche Bank analysts just shared their top stock picks in the tech sector for the remainder of the year.
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Politics
Heavy Metals in Cat Food: Safer Brands as Study Examines Toxic Materials
A new study found heavy metals in nearly all cat foods.
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Politics
Stephen A Smith Unloads on Steelers After 'TNF' Loss: 'I'm Just So Disgusted'
An incensed Stephen A. Smith ripped the Pittsburgh Steelers after their Week 4 loss to the Cleveland Browns.
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Finance
Today’s youth would like to give back modernity, thank you very much
Has any previous generation been so down on the present?
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Finance
Investors seek refuge from bond rout in haven German debt
Bund yields have fallen this week even as US, French and other governments’ bonds have sold off sharply over inflation fears
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Science
Identification of novel autoantibodies in Parkinson’s disease using a functional protein array platform
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Finance
The wealthy Cuban Americans ready and waiting for Havana to fall
Cuban exiles in Florida are increasingly hopeful that regime change in Cuba is now on the horizon.
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Sport
AJ returns to trainer who is branded a 'traitor' by Fury
Anthony Joshua has returned to trainer Ben Davison for his heavyweight super-fight with Tyson Fury in December.
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World
Latest news bulletin | October 3rd, 2026 – Morning
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this October 3rd, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
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World
Latest news bulletin | October 2nd, 2026 – Morning
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this October 2nd, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
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Politics
How a failed attack in Leipzig revealed a wider Russian campaign of attacks
Documents obtained by the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network trace drone bombs, incendiary parcels and arson attacks to Russian intelligence.
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Science
Mining fragmented microbial DNA identifies candidates for anticancer testing
Researchers have developed a practical strategy for recovering biosynthetic information from fragmented metagenomic data. Through this work, the researchers identified and prioritized promis
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Sport
Fever vs. Aces WNBA Game 3 picks: Caitlin Clark likely ousted by A'ja Wilson in winner-take-all matchup
How is this for WNBA drama on Thursday: Caitlin Clark and the Fever vs. A'ja Wilson and the Aces in an elimination game
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Politics
Canada’s Carney Has Higher Nobel Peace Odds Than Trump
Trump lost the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who gave her medal to him.
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Finance
Wall Street’s IPO fervour cools on tepid demand and valuation worries
Several listings have been paused in recent weeks as delay in Anthropic’s public debut sends a chill through markets
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Finance
China closes hundreds of banks to bolster financial system
More than 670 lenders, a record, shut down last year as Fitch says smaller players remain sector’s weakest part
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World
How the Banco Master scandal injected chaos into Brazil’s presidential race
Figures across Brazil's political spectrum have been linked to the scandal in the midst of a key election.
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Politics
Twilio Product Chief Warns AI Could Break the Engineering Career Ladder
AI Impact tracks engineering expertise, smarter use of existing power capacity and what failed agents can teach companies.
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Culture
‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring
Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about difficult recent years, being happily uncool and battling resurgent homophobiaAndy Bell is rabbiting away
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Politics
It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel an investment opportunity coming on)
AI might kill us all, but is it worth buying shares in?
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Politics
Europe war-games life after Merz
The German chancellor's foes at home are rejoicing at his political downturn. But those in Brussels aren't.
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Politics
Renewable Energy Super PAC Targets 7 Republicans With $15 Million War Chest
Most of the Republicans, such as Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Victoria Spartz of Indiana, are incumbents in districts that President Trump won comfortably in 2024.
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Finance
The right and wrong lessons to learn from Spain’s housing crisis
Evictions and spiralling rents are the symptom, not the underlying disease
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Finance
John Maynard Keynes and the search for the good life
Playwright James Graham on an economist who asked the right questions in bad times — and why he matters so much today
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Science
Marine biologists discover new plankton off Oregon coast
Nearly every morning when she was a doctoral student in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Nicole Nakata, Ph.D. '23 (biology), would cross the street from the Oregon Institute of Marine
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Politics
Speed up EU health security prep, says NATO chief medic
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Sport
Flex your football brain with our daily quizzes
Test your ball knowledge against today's Who Am I?, Five in Five and Brainteaser.
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World
Latest news bulletin | October 1st, 2026 – Morning
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this October 1st, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
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Tech
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multi-
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Culture
Victoria Monét Returns: The R&B Star on How She Overcame Vocal Issues and Embraced Motherhood for Her New Album ‘Frequency of Love’
At her Los Angeles home, Victoria Monét sits perched on the edge of her off-white couch, enjoying the stillness in the moments leading up to her sophomore album, “Frequency of Love,” droppin
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Politics
As Gas Prices Rose, Sales of Larger Vehicles Slid
Sales of big pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles have dipped as more Americans buy hybrids and smaller cars.
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Sport
Pride of Wales up for grabs as Price battles Clayton at World Grand Prix
Welsh bragging rights and a place in the World Grand Prix semi-finals will be up for grabs when Gerwyn Price and Jonny Clayton meet in Leicester on Friday night.
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Politics
Russia’s not-quite-war on Europe
Europe’s gray-zone war with Russia is getting harder to ignore. Sarah Wheaton speaks to security expert and author Elisabeth Braw about how Europe should respond as sabotage, arson, cyberatt
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World
Iran offers to allow nuclear inspectors if sanctions are eased
Inflation in Iran is now almost 90% year over year, and the rial has weakened 30% against the dollar as sanctions begin to bite.
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World
Opinion | Religious Persecution and Financial ‘Crimes’
China’s techniques against Christian pastors should be a warning to business.
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Science
Understanding and supporting university students’ use of distributed practice via implementation intentions
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Science
I am a top drone pilot in the Ukrainian Army – this is what it is really like
Kratos is the call sign of one of the leading drone pilots in Ukraine. As part of the Aquila regiment, 3rd Army Corps, he has taken down almost 1000 enemy drones
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Science
Will the backlash against AI data centres hit quantum computing too?
To succeed at scale, quantum computing must differentiate itself from AI, says columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan. But the two technologies are already mixed up in the eyes of the public
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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, Georgia discuss expanding joint military exercises in Shusha
Azerbaijan and Georgia have discussed the expansion of joint military exercises and future areas of defense cooperation during talks between the two countries’ defense ministers in Shusha.
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Azerbaijan
How the Middle Corridor meets North-South in Azerbaijan’s new trade strategy
A few years ago, talk about Eurasian transport corridors mostly came down to finding the shortest route between Asia and Europe. Today, with global trade being reshaped, with higher demands
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Politics
Cheryl Reeve Comments on Possibility of Napheesa Collier Leaving Lynx
Napheesa Collier is set to be a free agent this offseason after spending her entire WNBA career with the Lynx.
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Culture
Atlas Entertainment and Culture Genesis Strike Creator Content Development Pact for TV, Film and Short Form
Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment has struck a development deal with Culture Genesis, a leading-edge representation firm that packages the content of creator economy stars for sale at scal
