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Ukraine negotiator: ‘We have the upper hand’
Sergiy Kyslytsya, a senior aide to President Zelenskyy and one of Ukraine’s key negotiators, has told NPR that Ukraine currently holds the advantage in its war with Russia, describing it as “a war of the 21st century” in which long-range drone strikes on Russian energy infrastructure are causing fuel shortages and eroding Moscow’s military capacity.…
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Blackburn unveils bill to keep biological men out of Daughters of the American Revolution
Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, has introduced legislation that would prohibit biological men from joining the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), a historic lineage-based women’s organisation. The bill follows a vote by the DAR itself in which members rejected a proposal to formally ban transgender members, prompting Blackburn to pursue the restriction through…
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War machines can run amok with AI in control
A not-for-profit transparency watchdog, Airwars, has published a detailed report titled “Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain” that maps out how artificial intelligence is used across modern military targeting and strikes. The investigation walks through a fictitious but representative kill chain to show how machine learning now shapes decisions on the battlefield, with the authors…
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DeSantis says ‘basically zero’ chance SAVE Act passes Senate before August recess
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said there is “basically zero” chance the Senate will pass the SAVE Act before lawmakers break for their August recess, casting doubt on President Trump’s top legislative priority. DeSantis made the comments on X on Monday, adding to growing scepticism that the bill — which would require voters to prove…
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AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development – or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. “Al could help create a dramatically better…
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Former aide shares details of decades-old affair with Newsom in Vanity Fair essay
Former San Francisco City Hall aide Ruby Rippey has described her affair with Gavin Newsom in a Vanity Fair essay, revisiting a scandal that damaged his political circle when he was the city’s mayor. The account matters because it offers Rippey’s most detailed public perspective nearly two decades later and disputes aspects of how Newsom…
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Trump remembers Graham as ‘giant of the Senate’ in eulogy
The article’s full text was unavailable because access to the page was denied, so its specific claims and details cannot be independently summarised. Based on the headline alone, it concerns Donald Trump delivering a eulogy for Graham, whom he described as a “giant of the Senate”. The headline suggests the event was a funeral held…
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Is it illegal to trick the US government into wiping your phone during a questionably legal search?
A Georgia man, Samuel Tunick, has been charged with a felony after allegedly using a “duress password” to wipe his phone while it was being searched by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). CBP told Tunick, an activist connected to the Stop Cop City protests in Atlanta, that his device needed to be searched for…
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The Supreme Court Gets a Narrow Look at Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Order
The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to allow enforcement of an executive order that would tighten rules for postal voting before the November midterm elections. The case matters because it concerns how far a president may go in shaping election administration, an area where states and Congress traditionally hold primary authority, and…
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Why fixing social care is personal and unfinished business for new prime minister
The article argues that reforming England’s social-care system is both a personal priority and unresolved political task for the new prime minister. It matters because inadequate care affects older and disabled people, their families, care workers and the NHS, where delays in arranging support can leave patients unable to leave hospital. Successive governments have promised…