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How Google Is Attempting to Silence Independent News Sites
Part I: The Silent Wall The internet was supposed to be the great equalizer. It promised that anyone with conviction and a keyboard could publish, and the world could read. For a time, that promise felt real. Independent voices flourished, blogs became movements, and small publishers carved out spaces where truth could breathe. But today, that promise is collapsing. Small publishers are running headlong into a wall they cannot see. This wall is not built of stone or law. It is built of code. Invisible filters decide what is “safe,” what is “indexable,” what is “fetchable.” And when those filters misfire—or when they are designed to favor the giants—small publishers vanish. Consider the lived… |
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From Seconds to Minutes As Fusion Energy Takes a Historic Step
Nearly unlimited fusion power on a global scale is the objective. It will be the highest achievement in human history. And it's moving ahead at a fast pacde. Humanity has always been defined by its relationship with fire. The first spark struck from stone gave us warmth, protection, and the power to cook food. Centuries later, coal and oil lit the furnaces of industry, driving trains, ships, and factories. But those fuels came with a cost: smoke in the skies, carbon in the air, and wars fought over pipelines and reserves. For decades, scientists dreamed of a different fire—the fire of the stars themselves. Fusion, the reaction that powers the sun, was the ultimate prize. If we could hold it,… |
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Trump and US officials targeted by accused shooter
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities are investigating what they describe as a targeted attack near the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner after a man opened fire Saturday evening outside the secured perimeter of the event, prompting a rapid response from Secret Service agents and other law enforcement. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that investigators believe the suspect intended to target President Donald Trump and members of his administration who were attending the annual dinner, one of Washington’s highest-profile political gatherings. According to Blanche, the suspect traveled from California to Washington, D.C., by train, passing through Chicago along the way… |
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US Embassy in Baghdad attacked with missile that hits helipad
The United States Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has been hit by a missile attack that caused smoke to rise from the building. An Iraqi security source told Al Jazeera on Saturday that the attack destroyed part of its air defence system, without giving further details. A missile struck a helipad inside the US Embassy in Baghdad, two security officials told The Associated Press news agency. The projectile landed within the embassy’s boundaries in the Green Zone, the heavily fortified district in central Baghdad that houses Iraqi government institutions and foreign embassies, added the security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they are not authorised to speak with the pr… |
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Danger Lurks In The Bedroom
Danger lingers as a senior couple lie together in an overly warm bedroom. The air does not feel oppressive, only still, the kind of warmth that settles into fabric and skin without protest. He sleeps lightly now, age having thinned the distance between rest and vigilance. She sleeps deeper — until she does not. Her seizures arrive only at night. Grand mal, sudden, violent, disorienting in their aftermath. Daytime offers no clues. Medication remains stable. Diet unchanged. Tests return the quiet ambiguity medicine often delivers: nothing obvious, nothing solved. What remains is pattern. Always sleep. Always night. He has begun noticing the temperature. Seventy-eight degrees. Comfortable, peop… |
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ICE Murders Unarmed Woman in Minnesota
Feature Editorial An ICE agent stepped in front of a slowly moving vehicle, raised his firearm, issued a command, and then fired multiple rounds through the windshield. One of those bullets struck Renee Nicole Good in the face. She died at the scene. She was a mother of two. She was unarmed. She was not advancing. She was moving away. Everything that follows must begin there, because everything else—press statements, procedural language, institutional reflexes—exists to blur that moment until it disappears. This editorial is not about whether law enforcement work is dangerous. It is. It is not about whether officers must sometimes make split-second decisions. They do. It is not about whether… |
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Trump calls justices fools and announces new global tariff after Supreme Court setback
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday lashed out at Supreme Court justices who struck down a key part of his tariffs agenda, calling them “fools” who made a “terrible, defective decision” that he plans to circumvent by imposing new levies in a different way. In a defiant appearance at the White House, Trump told reporters that his administration will impose new tariffs by using alternative legal means. He cast the ruling as a technical, not permanent, setback for his trade policy, insisting that the “end result is going to get us more money.” The president late Friday signed an executive order imposing a n… |
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Stanford Godmother of AI Launches Spatial Intelligence MasterClass
MasterClass, the personalized learning platform, has announced the launch of Dr. Fei-Fei Li: AI’s Future – and Yours, a class that covers the current state of AI development, its real-world applications and the role individuals can play in influencing how the technology evolves. Known as the “Godmother of AI,” Li is a Stanford professor, cofounder and CEO of World Labs and founding director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. Her foundational research on ImageNet helped spark the deep learning revolution behind every AI product in use today. The class is available now on MasterClass, where members have unlimited access to 200+ instructors with an annual membership. The class begins wh… |
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Gulf strikes stoke concerns of new conflict with Iran
Uncertainty hung over the survival of a fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran on Monday as a new wave of strikes on the United Arab Emirates and Oman and rumors of attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz undercut trust in the truce. The drone and missile attacks, the first since a truce ended combat earlier in April, came after the Trump administration started a wide-scale naval operation Monday to “guide” trapped maritime vessels out of the critical channel. However, concerns of a resumption of warfare have sparked yet another rise in the price of oil, which has shot up to above $114 a barrel, a level not seen since the truce over a month ago. The Gulf has trapped hundreds o… |
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The Needless Murder of Over 150 Girls in Minab Iran
We remember the small rituals that made the day feel ordinary, because ordinary is what a school is supposed to be. A braid tightened with quick fingers. A scarf adjusted in a hallway mirror. The paper smell inside a notebook when you open it too fast. The soft ache of a backpack strap on a shoulder that’s still growing. We remember the way our teachers tried to make us brave about quizzes, the way we pretended not to care and then cared anyway. We remember laughter spilling down a corridor like marbles—impossible to gather once it’s loose. We walked into Shajareh Tayyebeh believing, with the stubborn faith children are allowed to have, that a classroom is a kind of sanctuary. Not holy, not … |
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Will Marco Rubio Last As Secretary Of State
Editorial A cabinet room is not built for silence. Cameras hum, chairs shift, the choreography of agreement unfolds before anyone speaks. Praise is currency there, but it is never free. When Donald Trump turned toward Marco Rubio after the Munich speech, smiling, approving, and joking that he was doing so well he might be fired, the line landed the way these lines always do—laughter first, interpretation later. The remark lived in that peculiar space Trump has mastered, where humor is both shield and message, where admiration carries a reminder about gravity: the center must remain the center. Rubio smiled. Politicians learn that smile early, the one that acknowledges the joke while absorbin… |
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A NATION THAT KILLS ITS OWN
Americans kill their citizens with guns at a rate no other developed nation would accept. Long ago, we should have settled the debate and silenced opposition. Instead, it became mere background noise. Twenty-six children in one classroom, six-year-olds, were slaughtered, shot to death while hiding from a gunman. There was no battlefield, no riot, no civil war. There was only a young man with a gun in a country that had come to accept death as an inevitable risk. As a nation, many of us declared “never again,” yet Americans have consistently overlooked the lives of children in favor of guns, barroom cowboys, road rage, bloodshed, and death. This preference has fostered an environment where th… |
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Typhoon forces Japan to evacuate over two million people while heavy rain shuts down parts of Taiwan
Authorities in Japan are evacuating more than two million people and issuing warnings for floods and landslides as Typhoon Mekhhala approaches the region. Torrential rains and strong winds from the typhoon, which is currently a tropical storm, are also battering Taiwan, forcing authorities to shut down parts of the island. Japan is bracing for at least two typhoons from the Pacific Ocean and the stronger one, Mekkhala, is expected to make landfall over the weekend, according to the national weather agency. A stationary seasonal rain front was being fed with warm and moist air, it noted, causing intense rainfall, particularly in western regions. Mekkhala was located off the coast of Okinawa’s… |
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At least three dead with a dozen injured in prison riot in Georgia
Early Sunday afternoon, Sheriff Joel Cochran told local station WRDW that several fights broke out inside the facility in Davisboro in Washington County, Georgia, which resulted in 13 inmates being taken to the hospital. The prison is located around 50 miles southeast of Augusta. While the fight was between inmates, one guard was potentially injured, according to Cochran. The Washington County Coroner confirmed two deaths had occurred initially from the fight, and a third individual died later on Sunday evening. “It’s not uncommon for these things to happen at correctional facilities; however, I think it has been quite some time since we’ve had to come to an incident this large,” Cochran sai… |
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Laura Lynch of the Dixie Chicks killed
Laura Lynch, one of the original members of the singing group that would become famous as the Dixie Chicks, died in an automobile accident in West Texas. She was 65 years old. The Texas Department of Public Safety said that Lynch was in a head-on crash near El Paso on Friday. The trio, now known as the Chicks, announced on Instagram about Lynch's passing. Musical They've taken "Dixie" out of their name and are about to put out their first album in 14 years. It may be the finest record of the Chicks' troubled history. The band announced in a statement, "We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Chicks." "We have a special place in our hearts … |
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Rebecca Grossman murdered 2 boys when she sped through a crosswalk
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Rebecca Grossman murdered two young brothers when she sped through a Westlake Village crosswalk, a jury found two years ago. Now, a state appeals court has upheld that verdict. Grossman, the co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation, is serving 15 years to life in state prison for the second-degree murders of 11-year-old Mark Iskander and 8-year-old Jacob Iskander. On Tuesday, the California 2nd District Court of Appeal upheld the Feb. 23, 2024, conviction of the wife of renowned surgeon Peter Grossman. Rebecca Grossman’s six-week trial was filled with dramatic testimony and evidence that she struck the bo… |
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They Married When He Was Supposed to Die
Human Interest He was dying, and it was the saddest thing for their relatives, friends, and even the hospital staff. Most of all, Arlaine, his longtime girlfriend, was with him in the hospital. They'd been together for decades before the illness. Now, the room smelled of antiseptic and overripe flowers—the kind people buy when they’re afraid they’ve waited too long. The lights were too bright, and the machines emitted steady, monotonous noises. Bendigo Davies lay flat on his back, staring at a ceiling he hadn’t chosen, while Arlaine stood beside him, holding his hand like it was the last solid thing in the room. But they looked and admired each other, the smiles hiding dreadful worry. They h… |
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Students killed in mass attack the second school shooting in 2 days
On Wednesday, a student at a middle school in southeast Turkey opened fire on two classes, killing four people and injuring 20 others, according to an official. This was the second shooting in the nation in two days. Kahramanmaras province Gov. Mukerrem Unluer added that the gunman, who was also murdered, came to the school with firearms that are thought to have belonged to their father, who was a former police officer. The assailant had five guns and seven magazines with him. Unluer reported that the victims were a teacher and three pupils. At least four of the injured were in bad shape. It wasn't clear right away what the attack was about. The attack happened the day after a former student… |
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Why is Iran bombing Gulf states while avoiding US naval assets and Israel
As the United States escalates its strikes on Iran, Tehran is hitting back, targeting military and civilian infrastructure across the Gulf states and Jordan while avoiding attacks on US naval assets deployed near its coast and on Israel – a strategy that analysts say is intended to pressure US President Donald Trump without expanding the scope of the war. While Washington has struck railway stations, power facilities, telecommunications networks and drinking-water infrastructure in Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has responded by attacking civilian airports and water and power stations in Kuwait and Bahrain. Military analysts said there’s a logic to this strategy. Targetin… |
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US Secret Service opens fire on shooter near White House
The US Secret Service fired fire at a shooter near the White House, injuring him and causing a short lockdown. The incident occurred on Monday and the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department has initiated an investigation. The incident follows an alleged attempt to assassinate United States President Donald Trump at the White House journalists' luncheon last month. Secret Service Deputy Director Matthew Quinn said the incident happened after plainclothes officers recognized a “suspicious individual” they suspected was armed. Agents chased the man a short distance and asked for assistance. When uniformed Secret Service personnel showed up there, the suspect tried to run, and they shot. A… |