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Italy withdraws support for Infantino, but Cannavaro backs FI...
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Italys football federation (FIGC) has withdrawn its support for embattled FIFA President Gianni Infantino over his failed attempt to sell off stakes in the World Cup. This decision is intended to cl
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The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting a Major Upgrade. But Wha...
Gayoung Lee
As the old physics wisdom goes, to answer big questions, build big machines. To that idea, CERNs Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has really delivered on all fronts in its last 16 years of operations. As

Gizmodo.com
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Theyve Been Screwed Over for 160 Years. Trump Is Screwing The...
Kali Holloway
White farmers insisted they dont want handouts, ever. An Iowa farmersWall Street Journalop-ed from late last year was headlined, AMERICAN FARMERS WANT FAIR TRADE, NOT HANDOUTS. They wont like it, J

The New Republic
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Why Dolly Parton declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom 3...
Nur Ibrahim
Claim: Singer Dolly Parton declined receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom three times, twice from U.S. President Donald Trump and once from former President Joe Biden. On Aug. 25, 2026, Doll

Snopes.com
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Federal Presence at US Polls Could Intimidate Voters
Human Rights Watch
The United States Justice Department announced plans earlier this month to deploy at least 1,000 federal officers to polling places during the upcoming midterm elections. While such deployments are

Human Rights Watch
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Workweek Raises $17 Million, Debuts B2B Newsletter Platform
Mark Stenberg
The business-to-business media company Workweek has raised an additional $17 million to fund the expansion of its newsletter platform, founder and chief executive Adam Ryan tells ADWEEK. The raise,

Adweek
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South Koreas regulator says Metas teen limits should apply ev...
Alina Maria Stan
South Koreas media regulator has said that Metas new protections for young users should ideally apply worldwide rather than only in the markets that forced them, which is a modest-sounding statement

The Next Web
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Russia bombards 9 Ukrainian cities overnight, calling the str...
HANNA ARHIROVA
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) Russia bombarded cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones in an overnight onslaught that ran into the daylight of hours Thursday, when explosions echoed around Kyiv through t

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Brazil sues Discord for R$500M and wants an office in the cou...
Ana-Maria Stanciuc
Brazils federal government has sued Discord for R$500M, about $97M, over what it describes as severe gaps in the platforms age verification and user safety protections. It lands three days after Dis

The Next Web
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What Does a BMI Chart Actually Tell You?
Johannes Gottwald
27.08.2026Johannes Gottwald (Senior Editor) Most of us have looked at a BMI chart at some point, usually during a routine checkup, nodded at whatever category we landed in, and moved on with our

The-digital-reader.com
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The Chinese diaspora is the largest in the world, with an est...
Daniel Moran
Ask someone in Lima what they want for dinner and the answer might contain a Cantonese verb. Vamos al chifa means lets get Chinese food, and chifa comes from ch fn, to eat rice. That phrase has bee

Space Daily
1 day ago
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Why Cherry MX ULP Keyboard Switches Deserve a Desktop Comeback
Robert Anderson
MX ULP remains one of the most interesting mechanical keyboard innovations I've used, yet it's baffling why the industry never ran with it.Back in 2022, I reviewed a keyboard that I still think about

IGN
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How a 95 percent drop in Hormuz traffic changed global shipping
Hanna Duggal, Marium Ali, Mohamed Hussein
Six months into the United States-Israel war on Iran, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continues to drive one of the worst maritime shipping disruptions in decades. Traffic through the 33km (21-m

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Photos: More than 1,300 missing in Nepal and Tibet after dead...
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Rescue teams are searching for hundreds of missing people on the border between Nepal and China after a catastrophic torrent of floodwater and mud swept through several communities following a glacie

Al Jazeera English
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How do we describe smells?
BBC Radio
What is the worst smell in the world? And what is the best smell? Are there any smells that you like, but that your friends or family hate? Smells are all around us all the time, but the English lang

BBC News
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An end-of-life caregiver spent eight years with people in the...
Human Element
Nobody in their final fortnight wishes they had done more bungee jumping. Bronnie Ware worked that out early. She spent eight years in palliative care in Australia, looking after people who had gone

Space Daily
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Iran War: Bloomberg Claims High Oil Flows Through Hormuz as I...
Yves Smith
[Todays Iran war post launched largely done but I had to go out. Please return at 8:30 AM EDT for the final version] We now have a somewhat more credible claim than those from the Administration, a

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Satyajit Das: Political Films Part 2 Probably!
Yves Smith
Yves here. In a recent article, Satyajit Das looked at the question of what exactly is a political film, beyond those that are explicitly about political practice. His first discussion focused of mov

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How to Check In on Your 401(k) Fees
Teddy Amenabar, Maya Miller, Paul Kiel
The rules governing your retirement plan may be changing. As we reported in July, President Donald Trump wants to encourage 401(k) plans to invest more in private equity, real estate and cryptocurre

ProPublica
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A Giant Grandmother Tree Sparked a New Struggle to Block Trum...
Natasha Lennard
A view of the sunrise over a cottonwood tree where locals are protesting Trumps border wall in Lochiel, Ariz., on Aug. 10, 2026.Photo: John Washington Of the more than $170 billion that President D

The Intercept
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Here are 5 ChatGPT plugins that I actually use, and you shoul...
ESchwartzwrites@gmail.com (Eric Hal Schwartz) , Eric Hal Schwartz
ChatGPTs growing collection of plugins has always sounded more useful than it sometimes felt. A long directory can make every integration look equally promising, even though some become regular tool

TechRadar
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Nepal and China step up rescue efforts day after catastrophic...
RT
Nepal has ramped up rescue efforts as it searches for thousands of people missing along its northern border with China, where a catastrophic flash flood wiped out towns and villages on Wednesday morn

RT
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Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures rise as Nvid...
Grace O'Donnell
US stock futures climbed on Thursday after earnings from Nvidia (NVDA), Salesforce (CRM), and CrowdStrike (CRWD) lifted the tech trade and investors awaited the Fed's Jackson Hole gathering. Futures

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