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Isle of Rum's Kinloch Castle on sale for offers over £750,000
A castle on a Hebridean island has gone back on the market after a previous potential sale collapsed in a row between a millionaire…
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Democrats Flip Key Seat in District Trump Won by Double Digits
In 2024, Donald Trump won Iowa’s first state Senate District handily, by 11 points. In a Tuesday special election, Democratic candidate…
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Susan Collins Drowned Out in Boos as Protesters Disrupt Ceremony
Republican Senator Susan Collins’s ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday turned into a public shaming as more than 200 protestors gathered to…
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Spotify and the problem with our ‘everything app’ era
How many apps do you use to chat with other people? I don’t mean tweeting out into the ether. I mean actually interacting with a fellow…
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The Download: introducing: the Security issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.…
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Transcript: GOP Senator Shocked at How Badly Trump Screwing His Voters
Thorne: Stunned that someone like Senator Murkowski is surprised by this, but also it makes sense. This is actually what we’re seeing from…
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Alexander Payne Dodges Gaza Conversation at Venice Jury Press Conference: ‘I’m Unprepared for That Question’
The ongoing war in Gaza was the main topic of conversation at this year’s Venice Film Festival jury press conference, although director…
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The New Medicine Tariffs Are a Prescription for Disaster
They’ll make Americans sicker, poorer, and less innovative. Source link
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Social Security Is No Longer the Third Rail of American Politics
It’s proximate cause for a shotgun wedding. Source link
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The Cure for Racial Discrimination in Medical Education
If colleges and universities want the American taxpayer’s support, they should be forced to focus on merit alone. Source link
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How large language models can reconstruct forbidden knowledge
In the late 1970s, a Princeton undergraduate named John Aristotle Phillips made headlines by designing an atomic bomb using only publicly…
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Trump Is Calling the Supreme Court’s Bluff on the Fed
Cook, for her part, said that she would not step down. “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the…
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The Democrats’ Self-Destructive Fear of the Swing Voter
Democratic leaders who want a winning message against Donald Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D.C., should accuse the president…
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Bananas, champagne, and robots: Why automation still needs humans
Watching robots awkwardly flop around, cause robot body pile-ups on the soccer field, and accidentally lose their heads while taking part…
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Trump Is Screwing His Voters So Badly that It Shocked This GOP Senator
Thanks to President Trump’s big budget bill, funding has been canceled for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This is cutting…
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Energy price cap: Typical annual household bill to rise by £35 in October
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent, BBC News Gas and electricity prices will rise by 2% for millions of households under the…
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Thames Water, battling to avoid administration, agrees to fine payment plan
Under the deal, almost £100 million of what Thames Water owes could be delayed until 2030 Britain’s Thames Water said on Wednesday (Aug…
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Ukraine admits Russia has entered key region of Dnipropetrovsk
Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Ukrainian forces have acknowledged that Russia's military has crossed into the eastern industrial region…
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China’s soy crushers may be facing a winter without US beans
Just days before the start of the US export season for soybeans, the world’s top importer does not appear to have bought a single American…
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Some FEMA staffers put on administrative leave after signing dissent letter
Some employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who signed a public letter of dissent earlier this week were put on…
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Gaza hospital attack: UN demands justice over Israeli double strike that killed 20
André Rhoden-Paul BBC News How the double strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital unfolded The UN has said "there needs to be justice" following…
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Cracker Barrel sticks to old logo after social media backlash
Cracker Barrel said on Tuesday that it will stick with its decades-old logo, scrapping plans for a new one following social media…