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A federal appeals court sided with Republicans seeking to use district boundaries redrawn last year to give the G.O.P. an advantage in the upcoming midterms.
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The lack of air-conditioning in most of the state’s prisons violates the U.S. Constitution, the judge ruled. He ordered the state to cool all of its lockups by the end of 2029.
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Japan offered Italian Fascists a powerful example of how ancient traditions could serve modern nationalism. The post Why Italian Fascists Loved Samurai appeared first on JSTOR Daily .
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A decade ago, Xi Jinping asked if China could master A.I. His push is remaking the economy, challenging the United States and keeping society under control.
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A half-century ago, scientists and lawyers agreed to strict self-regulation in DNA research to avoid catastrophe. But it took enforcement to really stop them.
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The railroads were once the octopus that A.I. is now.
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Neither the United States nor China can bend the other to its will, and it’s time for them to settle for a durable détente.
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A lengthy conflict in the Middle East in combination with other headwinds could take a big toll on activity around the world, the Paris-based research body said.
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Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The finding pushes this selective planet-building process back to within the Solar System’s first million years.
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Lake Powell has fallen to its lowest level on record after an exceptionally dry and warm winter left the Colorado River Basin with little mountain snow to melt. Lake Mead also reached record lows, raising concerns for a river system that supplies water and power to more than 40 million people. Federal officials have taken emergency steps to stabilize Lake Powell, including sending in water from another reservoir and reducing releases downstream.
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Leopardus tilcayo. (Juan Karita/AP Photo) A once-in-a-lifetime discovery. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
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A male Anchiale mabiensis. (Jones et al., Austral Entomology, 2026) Like finding needles in a haystack. ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
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GENERAL25
The wall dating from the Gallo-Roman period was discovered beneath a hotel on the Ile de la Cite, a stone's throw from Notre Dame Cathedral.
CBS News1h⊕27
Defence secretary places annual payments to Mauritius on hold as UK government reviews deal over Diego Garcia base UK politics live – latest updates Wes Streeting has said annual payments worth at least £120m to Mauritius are on hold as the government reconsiders its deal over the Chagos Islands , after Donald Trump refused to back the agreement. The defence secretary said the payments would not be made “at this stage” and confirmed the deal “can’t go ahead without US support”. Continue reading...
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A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds President Trump — and his unpopularity — is an outsize factor in why most voters say they want Democrats to win the midterms.
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Lawyers for James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, wanted over alleged support for Hamas, say client is being persecuted The Spanish government has decided to allow the Trump administration’s controversial extradition request to extradite wealthy activist James “Fergie” Chambers to continue in the country’s courts. Chambers, a US citizen and wealthy donor to leftwing and humanitarian projects, is currently imprisoned in Madrid. It is the first known case of the US seeking to extradite a citizen over alleged support for Hamas, an accusation tied to money Chambers has donated to support Palestinians, including the Sameer Project, in Gaza. Continue reading...
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The defence deal signed at the UN General Assembly also re-affirms Denmark's sovereignty over its semi-autonomous Arctic territory.
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Young voters are being courted with football slogans, promises of jobs and anti-Israel rallying calls.
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Sources tell CBS News that Ukraine is ready to sign a landmark drone defense deal with the U.S., as new details of Ukrainian technology helping defend U.S. bases in the Middle East come to light.
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Interim president, who agreed a 65bn-barrel oil deal with the US, did not say whether she would visit her snatched predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, in jail Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has celebrated a “historic” meeting with Donald Trump in New York, posing for a smiley photo with the US president less than nine months after he ordered the abduction of her boss, Nicolás Maduro. The former foes met at a five-star hotel in Manhattan a few blocks from Trump Tower late on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly. The hotel is about 7 miles from the Brooklyn prison where Maduro has been held since he was snatched during a special forces raid on Caracas. Continue reading...
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President Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the war with Russia in a meeting at the United Nations General Assembly. Zelenskyy is seeking an energy truce with Russia, and there are new details on a drone defense deal with the U.S. CBS News international reporter Aidan Stretch has more details.
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The wife of a U.S. citizen wrongfully detained in China has not spoken with him for more than 100 days. Sylvia Zin spoke with Margaret Brennan, saying she hopes President Trump pushes Chinese President Xi Jinping to release her husband.
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Second day of UNGA in New York will feature speeches by the presidents of Ukraine and Iran, as well as other European leaders These latest attacks come just hours before Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to the UN general assembly, so he is likely to reflect on them during his UN speech later. So far, we have had no public comment from Zelenskyy or Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha. Continue reading...
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Congress has so far done little to rein in the AI industry even as some of its most prominent leaders warn about potentially catastrophic risks Sign up for US Breaking News emails In a new legal filing in the case over a trio of new outlets barred entry to the White House, the Trump administration’s Department of Justice repeatedly defended the president’s ban by saying journalists were not entitled to access to the building. “Access to the White House is a privilege, not a right,” the filing stated. Continue reading...
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Higher energy prices due to the conflict in the Middle East and climate change could hit growth.
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U.S. and Iranian delegations met on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, rekindling diplomacy amid Trump's threat to "annihilate" the regime.
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Trade war has been central to Trump's presidency, but it didn't slash US deficits. Meanwhile, China recorded a surplus.
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Ukraine will get access to OpenAI's advanced GPT 5.6 Sol model under the deal - a rival to Anthropic's Mythos and Fable
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Second day of UN General Assembly kicks off with speeches from world leaders, including from Syria, Iran and Ukraine.
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Ofcom says site’s age-checking regime may not be ‘highly effective’, as required by the Online Safety Act One of the world’s most visited pornography websites is being investigated by the UK’s communications watchdog over concerns it can still be accessed by children. Pornhub’s age checking regime may not be “highly effective”, according to Ofcom, and could be in breach of online safety laws requiring strict measures to prevent under-18s from accessing sexually explicit content. Continue reading...
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Building dams and hydropower plants in the Himalayas holds great promise for providing electricity. In the wake of the Nepal disaster, experts are asking about the risks of such construction.
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There are fears of a return to war in the northern region as tensions between the government and TPLF escalate.
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UEFA president speaks for the first time since FIFA said it would review its decision-making, says trust still broken.
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Qatar’s Majed al-Ansari says Doha is determined to make diplomacy work to end the US-Iran conflict.
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The figure rose by 11% last year, bringing the total deaths in a decade to more than 11,000.
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The BBC’s China correspondent and US editor explain everything you need to know ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting in Washington DC.
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In the latest episode of "Healthful," Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein, an orthopedic surgeon at Duke University School of Medicine, discusses what women should know about protecting their bones.
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POLICY ACADEMIA25
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Plus, El Niño is scrambling hurricane season.
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We look at how voters feel about government.
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Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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President Trump signed a Greenland security deal that falls well short of his demands to turn the island into a U.S. territory.
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President Trump determined that CNN, MS NOW and Politico were in ‘violation of the standards of professionalism and decorum’ expected at the White House.
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The president is increasingly invoking the rationale while facing legal challenges to his plans, even in more curious cases like his triumphal arch, which he says will now include snipers and drones.
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The tax cuts in President Trump’s signature achievement were the Republicans’ answer to voters’ economic struggles, but its health care and food assistance cuts are taking a toll.
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China has used language in the United Nations charter to attack Japan as part of a broad pressure campaign that Tokyo wants Washington to help bring to an end.
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President Ahmed al-Sharaa has improved his diplomatic standing since he last addressed the U.N. General Assembly but faces mounting domestic economic and security challenges.
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Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, said the world is now at a point ‘that comes once or twice a century.’
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The new models can prove expensive and unreliable and lack the range to fully replace older buses, stalling a transition from fossil fuels.
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President Trump’s decision to ban three news outlets from the White House escalated tensions between the president and the journalists who cover him.
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Plus, a GOP senator calls for a Don Jr. probe and higher education looks to adapt.
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Texas and even Florida are the places to watch in November if a polling pattern holds.
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My father dedicated his life to studying the Indigenous group, and they may soon allow unprecedented development through their land. I went on a trek through the jungle to find out why.
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The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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A veterans benefits bill that Republicans had hoped to pass ahead of the midterm elections is falling apart amid a battle over its cost.
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President Trump built his political brand in part on bashing Mexico. Now his second presidency depends on deepening partnerships with the country.
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President Masoud Pezeshkian had combative words for the United States before he departed Iran to attend the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly.
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The U.S. Embassy said a draft law allowing users to opt out of systems that choose what they can see in their feeds could amount to censorship.
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Calls to ban U.S. exports of the fuel are dividing Republicans. The energy crisis is also dominating discussions at the United Nations.
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Millions who use online pharmacies from Canada and other countries could get cut off in October.
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The lawsuit, filed by Michigan, claimed oil companies colluded to obstruct solar power and to misrepresent climate risks, making energy costlier.
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Paramount-Warner shows that pseudo-news no longer works for its purveyors.
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The bulk of the settlement concerns the law’s requirement that drivers are paid for time spent on the app between deliveries, known as “on-call time.”
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It’s the first time in recorded history that a sea turtle has nested on the West Coast. Scientists say it is the latest sign of warming ocean waters.
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Suicide deaths have often fluctuated over the years but a sustained downward trend remains elusive.
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Toxoplasma gondii can roam the field in its youth, but if it wants to have babies it needs to find a nice cat and settle down. (Jena Ardell/Moment/Getty Images) What if we had this totally wrong? ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.
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A new experimental drug called CS18 may help break through cancer drug resistance by disabling several of the defenses tumors use to survive treatment. It strengthened existing therapies, restored drug sensitivity in resistant lung cancer cells, and slowed tumor growth in animal models.
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Physics cosmology1
Physicists searching through Large Hadron Collider data found no evidence that the machine has been producing microscopic quantum black holes, but the result sharply narrows where such exotic physics could still be hiding. These hypothetical black holes could form if extra spatial dimensions make gravity much stronger at extremely tiny scales, potentially offering clues toward the long-sought theory of quantum gravity.
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Ancient history archaeology1
Plus Big Bird in space and other weird things we learned this week. The post This man died more than 700 years ago—so why does he look like he got hit by a car? appeared first on Popular Science .
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MARKETS FINANCE18
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S&P raised its baseline projection for Asia’s 2026 gross domestic product growth to 4.6%, but noted that projections for strong growth this year and next don’t mask the challenges.
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Plus, Mr. Xi Goes to Washington
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Gold fell and continued to trade in a tight range, as prospects of higher interest rates to curb persistent inflation weighed on prices.
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Eurozone business activity rose in September at its fastest pace in almost three-and-a-half years.
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Indonesia’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged Wednesday, assessing the impact of rupiah-support measures as currency risks flared again.
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A high-stakes week unfolds among Trump, Xi, and other global leaders.
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U.S. stock futures slipped and Treasury yields nudged higher after oil prices rose back above $100 a barrel.
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Commodities energy3
Oil prices fell in early European trading on hopes for a diplomatic solution to the Middle East war and as Saudi Arabia began efforts to restart a critical pipeline.
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American oil companies are fiercely opposed to the president’s nascent plan to ban exports of diesel, but vulnerable Republicans are putting pressure on him.
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Saudi Arabia has begun testing its East-West pipeline for structural integrity and pressure, and American officials engaged in talks with Iranian peers on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
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Equities earnings6
The African digital financial services platform plans to list existing shares on the London Stock Exchange but won’t raise new capital.
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The Nasdaq Composite Index was poised for a second straight record high as falling oil prices helped U.S. tech stocks stay buoyant.
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WSP said late Tuesday it was unable to advance a transaction without engagement with the Dutch engineering consultancy’s board.
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The theme-park company faces pressure following disappointing earnings amid a turnaround effort.
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The retailer reported lower profit as it continues to deal with a difficult market backdrop, though result came ahead of analysts’ views according to a poll provided by the company.
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One of the largest Wendy’s franchisees in the U.S. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following a high-stakes dispute with the fast-food chain's corporate parent.
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The bank has recently explored finding partners to underwrite rejected applications for its co-branded credit cards.
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Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I.
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Ai governance1
A Gallup poll found that a majority of people surveyed across 37 countries said they were curious or excited about artificial intelligence, more than scared or worried.
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CULTURE LIFE1
Parents are increasingly willing to embrace tracking and analytics for their children — part of a broader cultural obsession with health data and optimization.
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INCERTA ENVIRONMENTAL1
Can the energy giants be held responsible for extreme weather?
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FILM MEDIA1
A suspension of pool coverage remains in effect. But the in-house United Nations broadcaster provided a feed of the president’s remarks.
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STRATEGY BUSINESS4
The venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is spending $35 million to back the two-year academy, with other Bay Area tech giants on board.
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Plus, DTC caviar puts the sector’s premium prices in question and Gap partners with a rookie boy band for a nostalgic mall tour.
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Higher prices and lower volumes appear here to stay, shaking up the device industry.
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MISC2
A nor’easter in September is unusual. As its forecast took shape, there was still uncertainty over what it would do.
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For people living along the East Coast, the word nor’easter can immediately bring to mind howling winds, pounding surf, coastal flooding and, during the colder months, heavy snow. But what exactly makes a storm a nor’easter?
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