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Senate strikes bipartisan deal as shutdown deadline looms: live updates
Senate leaders have reached a bipartisan agreement to keep the government funded, but the clock is still ticking toward Friday’s midnight…
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Have You Ever Seen a Blue Bee?
The post Have You Ever Seen a Blue Bee? appeared first on A-Z Animals. Quick Take Reaching only 0.5 inches, these pollinators are crucial…
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Transcript: Trump Is Losing a Lot. We Must Celebrate Our Victories
This is a lightly edited transcript of the January 29 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following…
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Hong Kong regulator ramps up warnings over poor IPO filings
Securities and Futures Commission flags that teams are unfamiliar with regulatory requirements and lack the experience to handle…
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Turkey’s STM lays the keel of the first ship for the Portuguese navy
ANKARA — The keel of the first naval support vessel for the Portuguese sea service was laid in Ada Shipyard in Istanbul this week. Turkish…
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Transcript: Trumpworld at War over ICE as MAGA Erupts: “Race Traitor!”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 30 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. A clip on Trumpworld…
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“An Ark” Imagines the Afterlife; “Data” Imagines a Corporate Hell
There will be future applications of “mixed reality,” I’m sure, and I hope they work with funkier material. Personally, I’d rather get…
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Dream of owning a flying car? This California company is already selling them
A future with flying cars is no longer science fiction — all you need to order your own is about $200,000 and some hope and patience. The…
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In “Pillion,” Gay B.D.S.M. Passions Edge Toward Dom-Com
Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the…
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Firmness, flattery and phone calls: How Mexico's president won over Trump
MEXICO CITY — He has called Colombian President Gustavo Petro “a sick man” and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator.” He…
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A Century of Life in the City, at the Movies
The Australian singer-songwriter Hatchie has steadily built a little dream-pop world suspended between the synth music of Kylie Minogue…
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What Bari Weiss Doesn’t Get About CBS News
The Free Press, the site she soon built in her own image, catered to people who agreed with her and who believed, preposterously, that the…
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Trump’s First National Bank of Scams Is Coming
Why does World Liberty Financial want a trust bank? Because the GENIUS Act passed last July subjected fintech to various options for…
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Netflix’s Conquest of Hollywood is Complete
As is the case with so many tech platforms, Netflix has simply re-created twentieth-century technology for the digital age, and made it…
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Jane Birkin and the Art of Authenticity
She was refreshingly unique, in a way that’s difficult to approximate today. She did not formulate her image to maximize clicks and likes…
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Ethiopia's national carrier cancels flights to Tigray region as fears grow of renewed fighting
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s national carrier canceled flights to and from the troubled northern region of Tigray, as fears…
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Mota-Engil finalises $1.5bn concession for Brazilian underwater tunnel
Mota-Engil Latam Portugal has finalised a concession contract for the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project to construct, operate, and…
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France changes national qualification for hotel and tourism management roles
The French government has revised the national professional qualification for hotel and tourism management, updating the titre…
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South-east Asia seeks data centre investments – but must reckon with their thirst
With rapid data centre growth straining the region’s water supply, the race is on for alternative water sources and cooling technologies.…
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Immigration raids, election office search stir midterm concerns for Democratic election officials
Aggressive immigration enforcement in Minnesota, which resulted in the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens by federal agents, and this…
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Democrats’ Destructive Deportation Proposal
Requiring federal agencies to obtain a judicial warrant for immigration arrests would kneecap enforcement and overburden district judges.…
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California Democrats help lead counter-offensive against Trump immigration crackdown
California Democrats have assumed leading roles in their party’s counter-offensive to the Trump administration’s massive immigration…
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DOJ in Uproar Over Official Response to Alex Pretti
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are floating the possibility of a mass resignation in protest of the Justice Department’s response to the…
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Here’s Why Tulsi Gabbard Was at FBI’s Georgia Election Office Raid
“Fulton County has been targeted for years ... because I refused to bend to pressure,” Pitts said, referring to years of Trump-perpetuated…