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Your morning briefing: a short audio round-up of 6 top stories, drawing on Engadget, The Guardian, Fox News, Daily Mail.
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US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
US lawmakers have asked the Defense Department’s Inspector General to investigate why commercially available location data can still be used to track American military personnel, despite policies meant to stop it. Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Pat Harrigan raised concerns that troops’ movements remain identifiable through data sold by brokers, even though several military branches…
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Trump-linked MAGA Inc pours $10M into Ken Paxton’s Texas Senate race against James Talarico
MAGA Inc, the pro-Trump super PAC, has committed $10 million in digital and television advertising to back Republican Ken Paxton in Texas’s tightly contested Senate race against Democrat state Representative James Talarico, according to a Federal Election Commission filing. The spending, the group’s first major midterm intervention, followed weeks of speculation about whether it would…
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Green Party deputy whose policy is to ‘abolish landlords’ is a landlord
Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Green Party in England and Wales and a Leeds city councillor, has reportedly been letting out two rental properties despite his party adopting a policy to “abolish landlords”. The revelation, first reported by The Sunday Times, is awkward for the Greens given the policy’s stated aim of ending “the…
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Nadine Dorries says she is ‘mortified’ that people she knows could see vile ‘deepfake’ pornographic clips of former politician as police make arrest
Former culture secretary Nadine Dorries has spoken of her “deep distress” after Thames Valley Police told her that a man had been arrested over ‘deepfake’ pornographic videos depicting her. The 36-year-old, from Reading, was arrested and had thousands of images and videos seized from his devices after AI-generated content of Dorries, three other female Westminster…
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Ministers plan to slash paperwork rules for small UK businesses
The UK business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has announced plans to cut the volume of paperwork companies must complete, simplifying corporate reporting rules and exempting some small and medium-sized enterprises from certain form-filling requirements altogether. The move matters because ministers argue that excessive bureaucracy diverts time and money away from day-to-day trading, particularly for smaller firms…
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Bayeux Tapestry lands in UK, Baltic hybrid-threat force, GOP convention turmoil
The Bayeux Tapestry has gone on display in Britain for the first time, unveiled by King Charles and President Macron, while Germany proposes a Baltic rapid-response force against Russian threats and the Republican Dallas convention descends into disarray amid fake-website claims; also: OpenAI’s wiki mishap, Newcastl…
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REVEALED: Rare agreement between FF and FG Cabinet ministers ahead of next month’s Budget will be welcome news for cash-strapped households as winter closes in… but environmental lobby won’t be pleased
The Irish Cabinet has reportedly agreed that planned carbon tax increases due after next month’s Budget are now “politically impossible”, with ministers confirming there will be no government-initiated rises to home heating fuel, petrol or diesel while oil prices remain volatile amid the escalating conflict with Iran. This marks a rare point of agreement between…
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Trump envoys meet Putin before Kyiv peace mission
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff spent over three hours in closed-door talks with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday, as part of the Trump administration’s renewed push to end the four-year war in Ukraine. Putin called the conflict a “complicated situation” but praised Trump for persisting with efforts towards a settlement, and both he…
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North Carolina Dem Senate candidate added former Bloods gang member to criminal justice task force: report
Roy Cooper, the former North Carolina Democratic governor now running for the US Senate, appointed a former Bloods gang member with a serious violent-crime conviction to a state criminal justice reform panel he created in 2020, according to a report by The Washington Free Beacon. Cooper set up the “Racial Equity in Criminal Justice” task…