Looming trade wars with China and Europe, tariff disputes with neighbors Canada and Mexico, the war in Gaza, plummeting stock markets and protests against mass layoffs: US President Donald Trump is currently fighting on many fronts.
Amid these…
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Here’s how a false memory could be planted in your brain
What is Darth Vader’s most iconic line in The Empire Strikes Back? And how doe the Evil Queen address her mirror in Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Unfortunately, there are no points for the answers “Luke, I am your father” and “Mirror, mirror on the wall.”
The actual lines are “No, I…
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Trump silences Voice of America and RFE/RL
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting funding for Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), and five other federal agencies, effectively shutting down America’s international broadcasting networks after decades of operation.
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Frontline report: 50% of Moscow’s fuel supply at risk after Ukrainian drone strike on its largest oil refinery
Today, there are a lot of interesting updates from the Russian Federation.
Ukrainian drones penetrated deep into Russian territory, and explosions lit up the skies over Moscow and several key cities. While strikes on oil refineries and military targets were significant, one attack stood…
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Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table
In a 1985 paper, the computer scientist Andrew Yao, who would go on to win the A.M. Turing Award, asserted that among hash tables with a specific set of properties, the best way to find an individual element or an empty spot is to just go through potential spots randomly—an approach known as…
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How Ukraine’s Offensive in Russia’s Kursk Region Unraveled
Ukrainian forces have pulled almost entirely out of the Kursk region of Russia, ending an offensive that had stunned the Kremlin last summer with its speed and audacity.
Ukrainian soldiers at the front described a retreat that was organized in…
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Stop buying American, buy European – POLITICO
“Those who buy Patriot should be offered the new-generation Franco-Italian SAMP/T. Those who buy the F-35, should be offered the Rafale. That’s the way to increase the rate of production,” he said.
Macron’s comments come as European NATO…
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How we’re about to solve the world’s greatest archaeological puzzle
For more than a century, giant patterns and pictures sketched into the plains south of Lima, Peru, have mystified archaeologists. Named for their makers, the Nazca people who lived between 200 BC and 650 AD, the ‘Nazca lines’ remain one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries.
With the arid…
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‘Sooner or later’ Russia must yield to peace
Britain’s leader encouraged his global counterparts to continue pushing for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine at the start of a virtual meeting Saturday intended to end the fighting between the two countries.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told a virtual meeting of mostly European…
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A Tanker Collision Threatens One of the UK’s Most Important Coastlines
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
An oil tanker carrying jet fuel was recently hit by a cargo ship while at anchor 13 miles off the east coast of England. This set off a series of large explosions and a huge plume of black smoke, while a still…
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