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Bella Culley tells court she was tortured into smuggling drugs
Tom Burgess BBC News, North East and Cumbria Rayhan Demytrie Caucasus correspondent Reporting from Tbilisi, Georgia A British teenager…
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The Download: tripping with AI, and blocking crawler bots
A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters”—a phrase that traditionally refers to a sober person tasked with…
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Three ex-bosses of Lucy Letby arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter
Jonny Humphries BBC News, Liverpool Three former senior staff at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and attempted…
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Transcript: Trump’s Rage at Thom Tillis Backfires, Wrecking a GOP Scam
Noah: Right. They don’t actually give a damn whether anybody actually gets a job. They just want to get people off the rolls, and throwing…
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The danger of American oligarchs
New Yorker staff writer and author Evan Osnos spent decades chronicling the social, economic, and political changes in China and currently…
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Trump is ‘fast forwarding’ the inevitable future of a multipolar world: George Yeo
US President Donald Trump may be at the centre of several global events today, but he did not create the increasingly multipolar world –…
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Danish women to face conscription by lottery
Danish women now face being called up for 11 months of military service when they turn 18, after a change in the law came into effect.…
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Trump’s Undiplomatic Diplomacy
He persuades by pressuring. He coaxes by threatening. He de-escalates by escalating. Source link
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Thom Tillis Defends a Medicaid Scam
North Carolina’s senator pledges not to vote for any budget unless it allows his state to keep fleecing you. Source link
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The Supreme Court Deals a Blow to Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid Lawfare
No longer can Planned Parenthood rely on legal activism to preserve its taxpayer revenue. The responsibility now shifts to Congress to do…
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Josh Hawley, Friend of a Friend of the Working Man
His mistake is thinking that the way to win over working-class voters is by supporting policies favored by union leaders. Source link
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Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites
However, such systems don’t provide the same opportunities for monetization and credit as search engines historically have. AI models draw…
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The war in Ukraine has sparked a revolution in off-the-grid clean energy
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia has persistently targeted attacks on power grids and energy infrastructure, often leaving…
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How Religious Pluralism Lost at the Supreme Court
The court’s conservative justices went out of their way to emphasize that Montgomery County, where some of them reside, is a bastion of…
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Is This How ICE Barbie Got Her $50,000 Rolex?
Competition is fierce to be the dumbest Trump Cabinet secretary. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is no rocket…
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People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics
Peter—who asked to have his last name omitted from this story for privacy reasons—is far from alone. A growing number of people are using…
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Trump’s Fury at Thom Tillis Backfires, Wrecking His Vile Medicaid Scam
President Trump is raging at GOP Senator Thom Tillis for telling the truth about the Senate version of his budget bill, which could knock…
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‘Europe is not the US’: Tech insiders call for smarter AI rules
The EU AI Act is expected to introduce its key rules for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models on August 2. However, amid growing concerns that…
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How universal rental subsidies could help the housing crisis
If there’s one thing that U.S. politicians and activists from across the political spectrum can agree on, it’s that rents are far too…
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Parental leave and pay for new parents to be reviewed by ministers
The amount of time off and pay new parents can get after the birth of a child will be looked at in a "landmark" review, the government…
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US Senate holds marathon vote on Trump's 'big beautiful bill'
Brandon Drenon BBC News Reporting from Capitol Hill The US Senate is holding a marathon vote on a sprawling budget that is critical to…
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Israeli, US-backed Gaza aid group must end, say 130 charities
More than 130 charities and other NGOs are calling for the controversial Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to be…
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MPs to vote on welfare bill as unrest rumbles on
MPs will vote on the government's planned reforms to welfare later - with dozens of Labour MPs still planning to vote against them,…
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Meet Picastro, the Instagram alternative for astrophotographers
For those who’ve had enough of scrolling AI slop, meet Picastro: an Instagram app for astrophotography. Picastro is a dedicated,…